Quiet Lyrics

I've sewn my lips together

With invisible thread

Let them loose when it's been convenient

Faked my way at doing better

Beared witness to death

Stayed quiet like I haven't seen it

I've been absent about my brother

And silent about my sister

Had the tightest grip on my power

On my power

I stay quiet

I stay lying that it's

Not the most violent move

I stay hiding

Here inside my

Padded, white, easier truth

I stay pretending

It's a forest fire

And I just don't wanna add fuel

So

I stay quiet

Here inside my

Padded, white, easier truth

I did not bring in the rope

To the lynching scene

Ignored where the mob would go

And I step aside when I know

If I don't say a thing

There'll be another one tomorrow

It may not have been me kneeling

Stealing all your oxygen but

I'm the reason you're not breathing

Cause even though I've seen it before

I stay quiet

I stay lying that

It's not the most violent move

I stay hiding

Here inside my

Padded, white, easier truth

I stay believing

Lack of noise means peace

Then turn the volume down

So

I stay quiet

Pretend kindness

And no one can hear you now