Track · Apr 28, 2026 · English

Quiet For Survival

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4:08

Language

English

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

I learned the room too well

How a smile could hide a knife

How the hand that held me close

Could leave me out in the night

I kept my stories in my chest

Like coins under loose floorboards

Every time I reached to speak

I heard the door slam more and more

They said, "Tell me what's inside"

But I seen what truth can cost

One bad promise, one cold stare

And a little kid gets lost

So I nodded, kept my mouth shut

Held my breath till it turned stone

If I ever looked too hurt

They would leave me all alone

[Pre-Chorus]

So I folded up my voice

Like a letter never sent

And the fear sat on my tongue

Till the words all bent

[Chorus]

I went quiet to survive

(quiet to survive)

I went quiet to survive

(tried to keep my mind alive)

Too much pain, too many lies

(too many lies)

Now I flinch before I try

I went quiet to survive

[Verse 2]

Every betrayal left a mark

Not on skin, but in my trust

Now I read a passing face

Like a threat behind the dust

In the backseat, in the kitchen

In the hall with the cracked lamp glow

I had questions on my lips

But I buried them below

I was once the kid who ran

Into arms with open hands

Now I watch before I move

Trying hard to understand

If I open up too fast

Will you use it like a blade?

So I keep my whole heart locked

And I hate the cage I made

[Pre-Chorus]

I keep saying I'm okay

But my voice don't cross the line

It's a house with all the doors

Boarded up from time to time

[Chorus]

I went quiet to survive

(quiet to survive)

I went quiet to survive

(tried to keep my mind alive)

Too much pain, too many lies

(too many lies)

Now I flinch before I try

I went quiet to survive

[Bridge]

If you hear me sound far away

That's the scar, not who I am

I'm still here beneath the hurt

Trying to become a man

But the past keeps pulling hard

Like a chain around my name

And I miss the way I used to trust

Before I learned the shape of pain

[Chorus]

I went quiet to survive

(quiet to survive)

I went quiet to survive

(tried to keep my mind alive)

Too much pain, too many lies

(too many lies)

Now I flinch before I try

I went quiet to survive

[Outro]

If I whisper, let me

If I fall apart, stay near

I got lost inside the hurt

But I'm still fighting fear

(I'm still fighting fear)

Style

hip-hop with a slow head-nod groovemournful piano motifand keening violin lines; verse one rides sparse kick and rim clickspre-chorus lifts with stacked stringschorus opens wider with doubled vocals and short gang responsesbridge drops to near-silence then returns with fuller piano and violin swells. close-mic lead rapoccasional strained harmony on the hooktape-echo throws on key wordsintimate and glossy-dark mix.raphip hopviolinsadenglish

Prompt

A sad and heartbreaking and tragic song about how all the pain and trauma and betrayal I experienced made me go quiet made me stop trying to open up because I was too scared, rap, hip hop,violin,piano

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GeneratedApr 28, 2026

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