Too Close to Quiet

Verse 1
I’ve been staying up past sunrise
Talking to the walls again
Got your name in my phone still
But I won’t press send

I tell everyone I’m good now
Yeah, I play it off just right
But it gets a little louder
In the middle of the night

Pre-Chorus
I thought I needed space to breathe
Now I’m choking on the space you left in me

Chorus
It’s getting too close to quiet
I can hear every thought
Every word I never said
Every line that I crossed

I used to run from the silence
Now it’s all that I’ve got
And I’d take all the noise back
If it meant you’d call

It’s getting too close to quiet
Without you at all

Verse 2
There’s a jacket on the chair still
That you never came to claim
I should probably move it somewhere
But I like the pain

I’ve been trying to forget you
In the ways I said I wouldn’t
Yeah, I’m doing everything
That I told you I couldn’t

Pre-Chorus
I thought I’d be better on my own
Now I’m just another echo in this home

Chorus
It’s getting too close to quiet
I can hear every thought
Every word I never said
Every line that I crossed

I used to run from the silence
Now it’s all that I’ve got
And I’d take all the noise back
If it meant you’d call

It’s getting too close to quiet
Without you at all

Bridge (minimal, falsetto + piano)
If I could take it back
I wouldn’t let you go like that
Wouldn’t act like I was fine
Wouldn’t leave you every time

Yeah I thought I had control
But I was just letting go
Of the only thing that felt like home

Final Chorus (bigger, layered vocals)
It’s getting too close to quiet
And I can’t shut it off
Every memory’s a weight
Every second you’re gone

I used to run from the silence
Now it’s all that I’ve got
And I’d give every part of me
Just to hear you talk

It’s getting too close to quiet
Without you at all

Outro (soft, fading)
Yeah, it’s too close to quiet now
And I don’t know how to drown it out

Emotional pop/R&B with minimal production, piano-driven verses, atmospheric synths, and layered falsetto vocals