Rejection

[Verse 1] There’s a word that hangs in the back of my mind, Silent and heavy, cruelly unkind. It whispers of chances I’m too scared to take, For fear of the echo left in its wake. [Chorus] Rejection, it haunts me, steals my voice, In the shadows of doubt, I hide my choice. If I speak and you turn away, Will the night swallow what I meant to say? [Verse 2] Every smile, a story I want to share, But I stall at the edge, caught in my snare. Your laughter rings, a melody so sweet, Yet I mute my heart before our eyes can meet. [Chorus] Rejection, it haunts me, steals my voice, In the shadows of doubt, I hide my choice. If I speak and you turn away, Will the night swallow what I meant to say? [Bridge] What if I’m just a whisper in your day? Another face, easily turned away. Is it safer in the silence I’ve spun, Than to risk the fall, to possibly come undone? [Chorus] Rejection, it haunts me, steals my voice, In the shadows of doubt, I hide my choice. If I speak and you turn away, Will the night swallow what I meant to say? [Chorus - Variation] Rejection, a specter, cold and stark, In its gaze, my hopes dim and dark. But silence is a lonely road to choose, Haunted forever by the words I never used. [Chorus - Variation] Rejection, a specter, cold and stark, In its gaze, my hopes dim and dark. But silence is a lonely road to choose, Haunted forever by the words I never used. [Outro] So here I stand, with a truth I’ve concealed, A heart afraid of the field it must yield. Yet the greatest rejection I might face each day, Is the one where I simply walk away.