Silence After Noise
Akaki
A song about removing the mask you wore for too long and finding something alive beneath it. The image came from static, city noise, and the first honest pulse after everything fake finally breaks.
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Borrowed face, borrowed air,
Neon halo, empty stare.
Played it cool, played it right,
Smiled on cue every night.
Every room would bend my voice,
Every calm was someone’s choice.
I moved like a ghost through the same old poise,
Then my heart cut through the static noise.
Ah-ah... under the skin
Oh-oh... something begins
Ah-ah... under the wire
Oh-oh... a buried fire
In the silence after noise
I heard something break
Not the city, not the glass—
Just the shape I used to fake
In the silence after noise
My blood began to move
Like a name beneath the floor
Like a truth I couldn’t lose
Ah-ah...
Oh-oh...
Break the shape
Break the shape
Streetlights leaned like they knew my weight,
Same cold script, same second-rate.
Everybody wore a safer gray,
Gave their fire just to last the day.
Then the current thinned, the masks fell fast,
Ash in my hands from a burned-out past.
What stayed behind was small, but true—
A live pulse saying, this is you.
They called it peace to not feel much
To never crack, to never rush
But something ancient in my chest
Would not lie down, would not rest
If I let the dark come near
Will it take me—or make me clear?
Ah-ah... I was never empty
Oh-oh... I was hidden underneath
Ah-ah... let the silence open me
Oh-oh... let it show me what I keep
In the silence after noise
I heard something break
Not the city, not the glass—
Just the shape I used to fake
In the silence after noise
My blood began to move
Like a name beneath the floor
Like a truth I couldn’t lose
Like a fire that pulled me through
Ah-ah...
Oh-oh...
Break the shape
Break the shape