Lyrics by Jude Anderson

You keep digging up sadness

Genres: Indie

You walk in smiling like it's second nature
Like nothing ever cuts through the surface layer
But I notice how your eyes don't stay too long
Like you're counting exits when the room feels wrong

You gather attention like it keeps you steady
Phone glow in a dark, lonely room
But it's flickering fast, never quite ready
And every line you throw into the air
Sounds rehearsed, like you're not really there

And it turns, and it twists in your hands
What you break, you don't understand

You keep digging up sadness with your bare hands at night
Like something buried that still breathes
Turning silence into static in your teeth
Every time you reach underneath

You keep digging up sadness like it calls you back
Like a mirror you can't turn away from
And it never gives anything back
Just what you thought was gone

You stop talking when the room gets honest
Like silence is something you can promise
And every laugh you throw to the floor
Sounds like you've used it all before

You move like a memory trying to behave
Like nothing ever got in the way
But I saw you cross that invisible line
And leave something behind in your own design

You ran over your wedding cake until it stopped being white
Spinning circles in the headlights at night
Like if you flatten what you don't understand
It won't keep slipping out of your hands

You don't have to keep this fight
You don't have to prove you're right
There's more than this cycle you defend
You can still change how it ends

You keep digging up sadness with your bare hands at night
Like something buried that still breathes
Turning silence into static in your teeth
Every time you reach underneath

You keep digging up sadness like it calls you back
Like a mirror you can't turn away from
And it never gives anything back
Just what you thought was gone

You keep digging up sadness with your bare hands at night
Maybe it's time to turn around
Let it settle, let it fade
Let the past stay unmade

Let the past stay unmade
Let the past stay unmade

Own the sound

Genres: Indie

Knowing a chord don't mean you own the sound

I learned to go quiet when the line shut me down

But I'm not just a shadow in the choir line

I was always more than background lines

Short in the choir line, I was the spare

A filler note they pulled out when it's bare"Sing with the others, don't let it show"

Mouth the words, keep it low

The shift was discreet, but I felt the sting

Still I stood there, swallowing everything

Knowing a chord don't mean you own the sound

I learned to go quiet when the line shut me down

But I'm not just a shadow in the choir line

I was always more than background lines

No one knew the words I'd hold

Front row face with a voice on hold

Kept it caged, held out of sight

But something in me burned to rise

Knowing a chord don't mean you own the sound

I'm done staying quiet when the line shut me down

The lights shine straight on me, no place to hide

My toes keep tapping, I own my beat inside

I'm not just a shadow in the choir line

I was always more than background noise

Masks don’t stay

Genres: Indie

What's a song without a soul
Just a ghost with nowhere to go
Hollow breath drifting slow
Reaching past what I don't know

Grief and fire twist and fold
I trace the stories left untold



Lost souls rising coals in hand
Carrying weight they don't understand
Every heartbeat every scar
Pulls me back to who we are



From the deep where silence lives
Something breaks something gives
Every scar every breath every call
I feel it all before I fall

Don't hold back what you came to feel
Let it cut let it heal
Let the weight turn into sound
Let it shake the ground

Masks don't stay where they begin
They crack and split from within
Everything I tried to hide
Is standing here on the other side


We are forced to fit what they demand
And something breaks in what we understand

Too many decisions
Stacked in front of me
Phase one I can't even read

They keep talking
Like it's already done
Like I'm already under it

No one here
To slow it down
No one here
For me

Words I don't catch in time
And I'm supposed to choose
Anyway

Serious words
Said too calm
Like they belong to someone else


Mask number one to key number five
Why hide the truth that keeps it alive
Truth stays silent for power instead

Mask number one you did no wrong
Until the moment the words came along

I am mask number one and so are you
Caught in a system that bends what's true



And I remember standing still
While everything kept moving

No one named it
No one stopped it
It just kept becoming

From the deep where silence lives
Something breaks something gives
Every scar every breath every call
I feel it all before it falls

Don't hold back what you came to feel
Let it cut let it heal
Let the weight turn into sound
Let it shake the ground

Masks don't stay where they begin
They crack and split from within
Everything I tried to hide
Is standing here on the other side

No clean line
No perfect end
Just what survives
And what won't bend

I'm still here
Not unchanged
But not erased
By what they named