When the World Goes Quiet

When the World Goes Quiet The room is dark, the night is still But something keeps me wide awake A little thought I should forget Becomes a mountain in my head I tell myself, “It’s nothing real” There’s nothing here I need to fear But then my mind begins to twist Every little “what if” into this And there he is, behind my eyes That little voice that never lies— Or maybe that’s exactly what he does He takes the smallest things And tells me they are more than enough When the world goes quiet My mind gets loud Turning little worries Into something I can’t shut out It tells me stories That I know aren’t true But at three in the morning They feel real enough to hurt me too And I wish I could turn it off Just for one night, just let me breathe But the louder that I fight him The deeper he gets inside of me A word you said, a look away Something that meant nothing in the day But now my mind rewrites it all And builds a reason for the fall What if I missed something? What if I did something wrong? What if the things I’m scared of Have been waiting here all along? I know these thoughts are only thoughts I know my fear can make them grow But knowing doesn’t make them stop When there’s nowhere else for them to go And there he is, so soft and sweet Whispering lies I almost believe He wears my voice, he knows my fears And waits until the world disappears When the world goes quiet My mind gets loud Turning little worries Into something I can’t shut out It tells me stories That I know aren’t true But at three in the morning They feel real enough to hurt me too And I wish I could turn it off Just for one night, just let me breathe But the louder that I fight him The deeper he gets inside of me Maybe nothing happened Maybe nothing’s wrong Maybe I don’t have to solve Every thought before the dawn Maybe fear is just a shadow That looks bigger in the dark Maybe all these little monsters Only live inside my heart So I’ll let the questions stay unanswered I don’t have to know tonight I can leave tomorrow’s worries Somewhere outside this light When the world goes quiet My mind still screams But maybe I don’t have to listen To every word it feeds to me It tells me stories And I know they’re lies Even if they feel like truth In the middle of the night So I’ll close my eyes And let the darkness be I don’t have to fight my mind I just have to let it pass through me And when the morning finds me Maybe things won’t look so big Maybe all those ghosts I feared Were never really there at all When the world goes quiet I’ll try to be quiet too And if my mind starts whispering I’ll remember... Not every thought is true.