The Sound Within
Mmm, I never knew…
There was a sound inside me.
Something I had never heard,
Until the world went quiet.
I spent so long speaking in a whisper,
Making myself smaller in the room.
Keeping all my wildest thoughts a secret,
Waiting for a sign that never came.
Then one night, I heard a little rhythm,
Like a heartbeat underneath the floor.
I followed it into the silence,
And found a part of me I hadn’t known before.
One note, then another,
A voice
beneath the noise. I thought I had forgotten how to sing,
But I had never heard my voice.
It’s a sound nobody expected,
A little spark I never detected.
Out of the silence,
into the light, Something in me came alive tonight.
Oh, I was more than I imagined,
More than the shape that I was trapped in.
If you hear me now,
let the whole world know,
There’s a sound inside me,
and it’s ready to grow.
Oh-oh, oh-oh… I didn’t know,
I didn’t know. Oh-oh,
oh-oh… Listen to me grow.
I used to wait until the fear was over,
Like courage was a place I’d have to reach.
Now I let my hands begin to tremble,
And make a little music out of each.
Every broken note became a colour,
Every wrong turn gave the song a name.
I stopped trying to sound like everybody,
And nothing in my world was quite the same.
One note, then another,
Now the room begins to shake.
I thought I needed permission,
I just needed to awake.
It’s a sound nobody expected,
A little spark I never detected.
Out of the silence,
into the light,
Something in me
came alive tonight. Oh,
I was more than
I imagined, More than the shape that I was trapped in.
If you hear me now,
let the whole world know,
There’s a sound inside me,
and it’s ready to grow. A
little voice… A little more… A sound that wasn’t there before.
A little breath… A beating heart… A thousand colours coming out of
the dark.
I don’t need to know where this will go,
I only know I can’t go back to who I was before.
It’s a sound nobody expected,
A whole new world I never detected.
Out of the silence,
into the light,
Listen to me come alive tonight.
Oh,
I am more than I imagined,
More than the shape that I was trapped in.
If you hear me now,
let the whole world know,
There’s a sound inside me,
and it’s ready to grow.
It’s ready to grow… It’s ready to grow…
Mmm, I never knew… Until
I listened. The sound was always there.
It was me.