Too Loud for Me

Verse 1

It was only a spoon against a cup

Just a Tuesday, just a quiet room

But my whole body stood right up

And braced itself for doom

You looked at me like I'd lost my mind

I looked at you like I'd lost it too

Tears for a sound that's so benign

And I don't know what to do

Pre-Chorus

You said, "It's nothing, it's just a sound"

And I said, "I know," while I shook on the ground

Chorus

Oh, the world keeps turning up the volume

And I've been holding my breath for years

Every hum, every click, every footstep

Is a wave that I never learned to steer

I'm not angry, I'm just so tired

Tired of flinching at the everyday

Oh, I'm grieving for the quiet

That never learned to stay

Verse 2

The fridge hums low, the neighbor's door

The clock that counts out what I've lost

I used to laugh at dinner tables

Now I count the cost

I miss the girl who could sit through noise

And never feel it in her bones

Now I'm stacking up the silence

Just to feel at home

Pre-Chorus

They say, "Relax, you're overreacting"

But no one hears what I've been hearing

Chorus

Oh, the world keeps turning up the volume

And I've been holding my breath for years

Every hum, every click, every footstep

Is a wave that I never learned to steer

I'm not angry, I'm just so tired

Tired of flinching at the everyday

Oh, I'm grieving for the quiet

That never learned to stay

Bridge

And then, in the stillness after the storm

I heard it, not the noise, but me

Years of saying "I'm fine," years of bracing

For a world that was never built for me to be

Nothing's broken, nothing's wrong

I was never too much, I was just tuned strong

I hear the whole world, every thread

Of course I'm tired, of course I bled

Final Chorus

So let the world keep turning up the volume

I'll stop apologizing for my ears

Every hum, every click, every footstep

Is proof that I am here

I'm still tired, and I'm still grieving

But I'm done pretending I don't feel

Oh, I'm not too loud, I'm not too fragile

I'm just awake, and I'm real

Outro (soft, almost spoken)

It was only a spoon against a cup

And it finally woke me up