Lyrics: Niko Jarell
Music: Niko Jarell
The room still holds your breathing
Like you never left at all
Your coffee cup is waiting
By the shadows on the wall
I talk to empty spaces
Like they mightn't serve back
Every word I never said
Still living in the cracks
I thought love was louder
But I was wrong somehow
You taught me all the quiet
I'm living in right now
I learned silence from you
From the way you walked away
From the nights you chose the distance
Over words you couldn't say
Now my heart speaks softly
Even when it's breaking through
I didn't choose this quiet
I learned silence from you
Names sit on my tongue
But I never let it fall
I'm afraid if I say it
I feel everything that wants
The eye goes in my chest
They move slow they move deep
Like a love that fell asleep
But still refuses sleep
You closed every window
Iet the cold settle in
I started calling emptiness
My closest friend
I learned silence from you
From your half-finished truth
From the way your eyes avoided
Every part that still felt true
Now my heart speaks softly
Like it scared to make us sound
I didn't lose my voice
You taught me how to drown
If love is a language
Then you change the tone
Turned all my confessions
Into words never shown
I screamed in my thoughts for
My lips never moved
Every quiet moment still shaped by you
I learned silence from you
From the goodbye that never came
From the space between forever
And a love without a name
Now I carry quiet like it's something I must prove
I didn't choose this ending
I learned silence from you
The room still holds you breathing
But I'm learning how to breathe too