The Quiet Place

About the song

Complete lyrics

(Spoken Intro)
There is a place inside every one
where the voices finally stop

A room no one freely enters in.
It doesn't open. From the top 

when the voice that's calling
sounds enough like love.

And that is where she went.

Verse 1
They knew me by the weight I carried
By the silence I could command
I could make a crowded room step backward
With nothing but an open hand

But you never came to challenge me
You came asking where it hurt
You spoke in lowered questions
Like you were praying over dirt

You made safety sound like surrender
Made my caution feel unkind
Then sat beside my guarded thoughts
And started touching up my mind

Pre-Chorus
You learned the hinges
You learned the walls
You learned what name
Made my defenses fall

You didn’t enter
With a violent face
You smiled at the door
Of the quiet place

Chorus
The quiet place
That room beneath my breathing
The quiet place
Where I stopped pretending I was strong

The quiet place
Where I laid down all my reasons
You made it feel like shelter
Then you stayed there too long

You found the quiet place
And whispered through the ceiling
Moved the furniture around
Till I didn’t know myself

You found the quiet place
Where no one else could reach me
Then turned my peace against me
And handed me to hell

Verse 2
You asked me what I never answered
Then praised me when I came undone
You called my fear a lack of faith
And made your hunger sound like love

You knew when to lean in closer
You knew when to pull away
You fed me little disappearances
So I would beg for you to stay

You made my mind your little chapel
Lit your candles in my head
By the time I saw the altar
I had already been led

Pre-Chorus
You learned the pattern
You learned the thread
You learned what lived
Under what I never said

You didn’t take me
With a stranger’s face
You wore my trust
Into the quiet place

Chorus
The quiet place
That room beneath my breathing
The quiet place
Where I stopped pretending I was strong

The quiet place
Where I laid down all my reasons
You made it feel like shelter
Then you stayed there too long

You found the quiet place
And whispered through the ceiling
Moved the furniture around
Till I didn’t know myself

You found the quiet place
Where no one else could reach me
Then turned my peace against me
And handed me to hell

Bridge
You did not break me open
You convinced me I was closed
You did not steal the answer
You made me need to be exposed

You did not call it power
You called it intimacy
You did not ask for weakness
You asked for honesty

And I gave you the small room
Where my real name used to live
And you smiled like a savior
At what I should not give

Breakdown
In the quiet place
You changed the meaning of my thoughts

In the quiet place
You made my no feel like a fault

In the quiet place
You made your will sound like my choice

In the quiet place
You put your hands inside my voice

In the quiet place
You made the door look like a wound

In the quiet place
You taught my strength to call you home

You were not the war outside
You were the hush beneath my skin

You were not the enemy at the gate
You were the reason I let them in

Final Chorus
The quiet place
That room beneath my breathing
The quiet place
Where I stopped pretending I was strong

The quiet place
Where I laid down all my reasons
You made it feel like shelter
Then you stayed there too long

You found the quiet place
And whispered through the ceiling
Moved the furniture around
Till I didn’t know myself

You found the quiet place
Where God had left a warning
Then kissed me in the morning
While they dragged me down to hell