The Quiet Is All I Knew

Intro

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Verse 1

The sun went down and it never came back

I counted the years on my cracked window pane

Ash on the sill like a blanket of gray

The birds all left and they took the sky away

Chorus

Oh the white snow falls on the bones of home

Every heart that burned is a stone on stone

I sit by the stove but the cold stays true

Lord the quiet is all that got me through

Verse 2

I dug in the yard till my hands went numb

Found the rusted bell from the old schoolhouse

No voice to ring for the catechism

Just the wind licking the ruined windows

Pre-Chorus

And I pray to a heaven gone to smoke

For one last breath of the world I broke

Chorus

Oh the white snow falls on the bones of home

Every heart that burned is a stone on stone

I sit by the stove but the cold stays true

Lord the quiet is all that got me through

Bridge

Hush now the needle

My record spins slow

One crackly soul song

For the fires below

Chorus

Oh the white snow falls on the bones of home

Every heart that burned is a stone on stone

I sit by the stove but the cold stays true

Lord the quiet is all that got me through

Outro

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The quiet is all I knew