Quiet Isn't Empty

[Verse 1] When the room goes still My body still waits For the old machine To kick back awake A door in the distance A shift in the frame Some little tremor To give fear a name But nothing is coming Just radiator hum And light on the table And the slow afternoon [Pre-Chorus] I’m learning A quiet room Is not a trap Just because I can hear myself in it [Chorus] Quiet isn’t empty Stillness isn’t loss The sky doesn’t owe me thunder To prove I haven’t been forgot Quiet isn’t lonely Peace is not the end Maybe all this space around me Is where I start again [Verse 2] There were years I trusted Only what cut sharp Only what arrived With its hands on my heart Anything gentle Felt paper-thin Like one good breath Could tear right through it But the day stayed open And nothing collapsed No hidden teeth waiting No swing of the past [Pre-Chorus] I’m learning A steady floor Can feel strange When you grew up measuring the cracks [Chorus] Quiet isn’t empty Stillness isn’t loss The sky doesn’t owe me thunder To prove I haven’t been forgot Quiet isn’t lonely Peace is not the end Maybe all this space around me Is where I start again [Bridge] No warning light No sudden turn No pain required For me to learn No falling glass No slammed front door Just breath returning What it was for [Final Chorus] Quiet isn’t empty Stillness isn’t loss I don’t need the storm to tell me What my life is worth now Quiet isn’t lonely Peace can let me in Maybe all this room around me Is where I finally begin [Outro] Used to think silence meant Something was wrong Now it sounds a little like home