Louder Than Your Shush

Verse 1

You told me to shut up

So now I'm screaming louder

Every word you tried to bury

Flying up like powder

Your hand raised like a stop sign

I was small I was quiet

But the quiet built a river

Now it's spilling in a riot

Pre-Chorus

Can't hold me down

Can't take the sound

It's too big now

Chorus

You told me to shut up

So now I'm screaming

Every syllable a thunder

Every breath a war beginning

You told me to shut up

So now I'm screaming

And I won't go back to silent

No I won't go back to silent

Post-Chorus

Screaming screaming

Can't stop me now

Screaming screaming

Hear me out loud

Verse 2

I practiced in the mirror

Soft voice behind a door

But the locked-up little whisper

Isn't small anymore

You wanted my agreement

You wanted empty walls

But the echo I've been saving

Is about to make you crawl

Pre-Chorus

Can't hold me down

Can't take the sound

It's too big now

Chorus

You told me to shut up

So now I'm screaming

Every syllable a thunder

Every breath a war beginning

You told me to shut up

So now I'm screaming

And I won't go back to silent

No I won't go back to silent

Bridge

Hush hush hush

That's all you ever knew

But the louder that you shushed me

The louder that I grew

Chorus

You told me to shut up

So now I'm screaming

Every syllable a thunder

Every breath a war beginning

You told me to shut up

So now I'm screaming

And I won't go back to silent

No I won't go back to silent