Words Never Said

Pre-Chorus

My ears were wide open

My mouth was sewn

Chorus

I'm the girl who hears it all

And I'm the girl who never spoke

A heart with every window open

And a door I couldn't unlock

"How are you?" was such a small thing

Three words, a breath, a sound

But it sat inside my throat like a stone

And I couldn't pass it round

Verse 2

You were never a man of big words

And I learned silence somewhere, too

In a house that leaned toward one sickbed

While the rest of us learned to stand very still

They taught me: be gentle, be small

Don't ask for room, don't make a sound

Too sensitive not to know

And too afraid to say it out loud

Pre-Chorus

I watched you from the doorway

I rehearsed it in my head

And the words stayed where they started

Unsaid, unsaid, unsaid

Chorus

I'm the girl who hears it all

And I'm the girl who never spoke

A heart with every window open

And a door I couldn't unlock

"How are you?" was such a small thing

Three words, a breath, a sound

But it sat inside my throat like a stone

And I couldn't pass it round

Bridge

You wrote that we are more alike

Than I might ever think

Two people who feel too much

At either end of a silence

Each one waiting for the other

To be the first to speak

And the quiet wasn't coldness

It was love without a voice

Final Chorus

Be stronger, you wrote

Maybe stronger is a voice

Saying it out loud

Even when it shakes

I hear every sound in this world

And I'm done swallowing the words

I'll ask the ones who are still here

"How are you?" and mean it, and be heard

Outro (soft, almost spoken)

I can't ask you now

But I can ask the living

And I can ask myself