Stone Quiet

The room learned how to hold its breath
When your name crossed my mind
Some truths don’t make a sound
They just settle over time (over time)

You spoke in careful symmetry
Every word a polished key
Turned my doubts into devotion
Called control “protecting me”
They warned me with borrowed voices
But your echo lived inside
I mistook the cage for shelter
And the dark for being kind

I used to doubt my own reflection
Asked the mirror who I was
Now I don’t ask questions
I don’t need to trust (don’t need… don’t need)

Now there’s frost behind my smile
Like a winter learned to stare
Every glance is calculated
Every truth is handled with care
If you search for something tender
You’ll get silence dressed in class
What was warm turned into armor
Nothing fragile ever last

I learned the art of standing still (stand still)
Of answering with eyes (oh)
Every feeling kept in order
Every wound neatly disguised (oh yeaah)

I don’t flinch at certain names (names)
I don’t trip on certain sounds (don't hear them)
But the ground feels less forgiving
Since you rearranged it round (oohhh yeeahh)

I stopped asking what was real (what's real?)
Stopped thinking how I feel (how I feel)
If you bend the truth enough
It starts to look like mine (like mine ooh yeaah)

Now there’s frost behind my smile (my smile)
Like a winter learned to stare (noo)
Every glance is calculated
Every truth is handled with care (care)
If you search for something tender (yeah)
You’ll get silence dressed in class (ohh)
What was warm turned into armor (armos)
Nothing fragile ever lasts (ever lasts)

la la la lalalala la la
la la la lalalala la la

You spoke like you owned the truth (don't know the truth)
From a distance, clean and calm (don't touch me)
Turned my balance into instinct
And my instincts into doubt (who am i?)
I watched myself unravel (poor mee)
Under sentences you threw (you're not sorry)
A voice that learned my fractures (oohhh)
Better than my hands do (than my hands doooo)

Better than my hands dooooo oohhhhhuuu
Better than my hands dooooo oohhhh yeaaahh

Every truth is self-aware (la la la lalalala la la)
What you twisted into weakness (la la la lalalala la la)
I walked through the wreckage standing (la la la lalalala la la)
Different but still within (Better than my hands do)

la la la lalalala la la
la la la lalalala la la
la la la lalalala la la
la la la lalalala la la
la la la lalalala la la