Quiet Quit

Lyrics

We don’t speak here
Words wake the weight
Be still
Be small
Be quiet or quit

Let it go
You’ve said enough
Let it go
But hold your breath
Let it go
It’s loud in here
Let it go
There’s nothing left

Come lie down
You’ve earned the ache
Let the world keep spinning
Let the mourning break
No one's watching
No one asks
Just fold the script
Remove the mask
No more proving
No more show
No more stairs with nowhere to go
Just quiet now beneath the din
A silence shaped to let you in

No, not this time
I bite the dark
Spit your comfort back in sparks
You soothe like sugar twisting the gut
You’re silent like a power cut
I've buried you in busyness
Starved you with a to-do list
You sharpen every choice I've shamed
But I’ve got scars I never named

Let it go
You’ve said enough
Let it go
But hold your breath
Let it go
It’s loud in here
Let it go
There’s nothing left
Just quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Not like this
Quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Not like this

You nest inside the words I spit
A parasite that waits to commit
You count my steps like unpaid debt
Then hang the debt like a vignette
You pose as calm in dim disguise
But turn the hands anticlockwise
You blur the thoughts before they form
And hide within the brewing storm

Let it go
You’ve said enough
Let it go
But hold your breath
Let it go
It’s loud in here
Let it go
There’s nothing left
Just quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Not like this
Quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Still I resist
Quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Not like this
Quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Still I resist

We don’t speak here
Be quiet or quit

I can’t hold all these voices
They hum like wires
Snap like branches
Mock the silence when it answers
Spurn every pact before it dances

I blink too loud
I breathe too late
My name stings wrong
My spine won't wait
The light stutters
The floor recedes
The tongue forgets
The mouth still bleeds

I’m here
I’m here
I’m here
I’m here
But nothing holds me
Colour smears
I tried the mask
I tried the scream
I carved a cradle out of routine
I spun the room and called it truth
Cracked the body
Splintered the tooth
I hosted pain
I drank its cost
I kissed the mirror and called it lost
I’m here
I’m here
I’m here
I’m here
But nothing holds me
Colour smears
I tried the mask
I tried the scream
I carved a cradle out of routine
I spun the room and called it truth
Cracked the body
Splintered the tooth
I hosted pain
I drank its cost
I kissed the mirror and called it lost

Let it go
You’ve said enough
Let it go
But hold your breath
Let it go
It’s loud in here
Let it go
There’s nothing left
Just quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Not like this
Just quit
Quit
Quit
Quit
Still I resist