The Quiet Starts to Burn

Verse 1 | (dirty guitar, loose groove)

Said I’m doing fine, yeah I said it twice

Lit another smoke just to blur the night

You slipped away like a passing train

Now your echo’s scratching at my brain

Every neon sign hums your name

Every street feels just the same

Laugh too loud just to kill the sound

Of something breaking underground

Pre-Chorus | (tightening, drums building)

Tell myself it’s under control

But the silence starts to take its toll

All the shadows I outran

Turn and take me by the hand

Chorus | (explosive, anthemic but less literal)

I hold steady ’til the hour turns

Then the quiet starts to burn

Every flicker, every spark

Pulls me deeper in the dark

Say your name don’t mean a thing

Like it lost its gravity

But when the last light disappears

You come back to me

Instrumental Break | (fuzzy riff, messy solo)

(Yeah!)

(Oh-oh!)

(Guitar screaming, loose and wild)

Verse 2 | (bigger, more chaotic)

Voices blur into a haze

But I hear you through the noise they make

You moved on like a passing storm

I’m still stuck where it was warm

Digging through what’s left behind

Like it’s frozen somewhere in time

Say it’s done, say it’s erased

But I still taste it in the space

Pre-Chorus | (louder, more desperate)

Thought I cut you out for good

Like a ghost trapped in the wood

Every story I rewrite

Leads me back into the night

Chorus | (full band, shouting)

I hold steady ’til the hour turns

Then the quiet starts to burn

Every flicker, every spark

Pulls me deeper in the dark

Say your name don’t mean a thing

Like it lost its gravity

But when the last light disappears

You come back to me

Bridge | (stripped, gritty, almost spoken)

3AM, no oxygen

Walls are closing in again

Truth is buried in the floor

But it’s scratching at the door

Tried to leave it all behind

But it lingers in the wires

Cut the power, kill the proof

Still it’s running through

Build-Up | (drums + feedback swell)

It won’t fade…

It won’t fade…

It won’t fade…

When the dark stays—

Final Chorus | (loudest, raw shouting)

I hold steady ’til the hour turns

Then the quiet starts to burn

Every flicker, every spark

Pulls me deeper in the dark

Say your name don’t mean a thing

Like it lost its gravity

But when the last light disappears

You come back to me

Outro | (feedback, slowing down, fading)

After the last light… I still hear the sound…

Something in the dark… keeps you hanging around…

(Guitar feedback fades)