Silent Cry

"Can you hear it?" "I wish you could…" Oh-four, two-zero… Numbers start to blur… I reach for my pillow… Trace its stitches for hours… And they seem tighter… Than the ones holding my skin… Every feather knows The salty taste of my tears… It's a silent cryyyy-mmmh… Yet I'm wailing tonight… (tonight…) Just a silent cryyy-aaah… Lost in the cold night… (cold night…) [Verse 2 - soft-spoken, fragile, slightly more haunted] On the walls, old photos… Can't stop looking at me… The smiles on their faces… Now seem to laugh at me… Like all my words… Never reached the door… Even with all the weight I gave them… No one heard them fall… [Chorus 2 - wider than first chorus, restrained but more emotional, layered distant harmonies] It's a silent cryyyy-mmmh… Yet I'm wailing tonight… (tonight…) A single silent cryyy-aaah… Lost in the cold night… (cold night…) [Chorused Guitar Solo - melodic, soaked in chorus and reverb, slow bends, floating feedback] [Bridge - exposed, trembling, intimate; guitars pull back slightly] Ooohh-oooh… (oooh…) Somehow… I thought… That you could hear me… (Ooohh-oooh…) Even then… I hoped… That you could hear meeee… Just for a moment… I wish you'd come to the door, Pick up every single word That I've dropped… I've dropped… (That I've dropped…) (I've dropped…) That I've dropped… I've dropped… (That I've dropped…) (I've dropped…) [Final Chorus - fullest section, dense emotional haze, controlled catharsis, no belting] It's a silent cryyyy-mmmh… Yet I keep wailing tonight… (tonight…) Just a silent cryyy-aaah… Lost in the cold night… (cold night…) A single silent cryyyy-oooh… No one hears it tonight… (tonight…) A final silent cryyy-aaah… Dissolving slowly in the night… (the night…) [Outro - dissolving, returning to filtered phone vox, fading into silence] Can you hear it? (mmmmh…) (can you?) (can you?) Can you hear me? (oooh…) [Filtered phone vox] (can you?) (hear me) (can you?) (can't you?) [End]