Weight Of The Silence

City lights flicker in a broken line
Everybody running out of borrowed time
Faces in the crowd but they don't see me
Shouting in the noise but nobody hears me

It's building up, I'm losing ground
Heartbeat racing, no way out

We're under the weight of the silence
Screaming but nobody hears
Dancing on wires of violence
Drowning in invisible fears

Can we break before we bend?
Can we breathe again?
Or are we just pretending
This is not the end?

Cold sweat dripping like a ticking bomb
Every second saying something's wrong
We trade love just to feel alive
But we lose ourselves just to survive

It's closing in, no place to run
Too many voices, I'm undone

We're under the weight of the silence
Screaming but nobody hears
Dancing on wires of violence
Drowning in invisible fears

Can we break before we bend?
Can we breathe again?
Or are we just pretending
This is not the end?

Why can't we give love?
(Why can't we try?)
Why do we shut down?
(And live a lie?)

One voice calling in the dark
One spark can light a heart

Love
Is the answer we deny
Love
Is the reason we survive

We're breaking out of the silence
Finally learning to hear
Turning the fear into defiance
Wiping away every tear

Now we bend but we don't break
Now we rise, we awake
No more pretending
This is not the end

Pressure fading
We're still breathing