After the Noise

(ooh,

after the noise)

{lonely haunted piano, clean guitar harmonics,

distant rain ambience, low

choir

pad, soft sub-bass, fragmented vocal chops}

The rain let up,

the signs still glow I walk the streets we used to know

The windows blur, the traffic hums Like every place we were still

comes undone I thought the silence would be kind But silence only

turns the knife It leaves a space inside my chest Where every

word you never said still rests

I don’t need a reason I don’t need a sign

Some things leave forever And still stay alive

{orchestral strings swell, snare rises} After the noise,

I still hear you After the dark,

I still feel you

Every empty room turns into proof After the noise,

I still hear you I don’t know where the ending starts I

only know

you changed my heart The whole world moved,

but I stayed true After the noise,

I still hear you I kept the ache beneath my skin A

private storm I lived within But now the thunder sounds like breath

Not every love survives,

but not all love is death

The city shakes, the sky turns pale I let the memory tell

its tale I don’t erase you to move on

I carry what was real when everything is gone

Let the skyline lose its color

Let the floodlights all burn out

I was never looking for a way To live without you

I was learning how to hold it Without letting it pull me

through The love, the loss,

the aftershock The part of me that sounds like you {massive build,

heavy drums pounding} After the noise,

I still hear you After the dark,

I still feel you Every empty room turns into proof After the

noise, I still hear you

And when the world forgets our names I’ll keep the fire,

not the flame I won’t disappear to make it through

After the noise—

After the noise— I still hear

you (hear you) {heart-tightening final held vocal note,

soaring guitar feedback} {haunted piano chords fade,

distant city rain ambience,

soft sub-bass hum}