Empty Apartment Rehearsal

Verse 1

I say the quiet part loud in an empty apartment

Rehearse the whole conversation, never start it

Twelve years of almost, one year of maybe

One night of finally, three days of crazy

I don't perform the pain, I just report it

Everything I couldn't say, I recorded

You can hear the chair creak, that's on purpose

That's the sound of a man who stopped rehearsing

Chorus

Say the quiet part loud

Say the quiet part loud

Nobody in the room but it's still a crowd

Say the quiet part loud

Verse 2

I called my old self, he ain't pick up

Left a message like, we made it, kid, sit up

Ain't no drums 'cause there ain't nothing chasing

Just a slow piano and the shape of the patience

I used to need the volume to feel like I mattered

Now the quietest bar is the one that hit hardest

If it's just you and the headphones and the ceiling

Then it worked, then that's the feeling

Chorus

Say the quiet part loud

Say the quiet part loud

Nobody in the room but it's still a crowd

Say the quiet part loud

Outro

Still a crowd...