Who I Stayed Silent For

Quiet kept them safe, until it started costing him everything.

New Single – Out December 22, 2025

Lyrics by Dane DeValcourt · Music by Suno AI

Listen on

Apple Music ♫Spotify ▶YouTube Music

Links go live on December 22, 2025.

About the Song

“Who I Stayed Silent For” is about learning to protect the people around you by keeping things to yourself and carrying that habit long after it stops being useful.

The song reflects on growing up too early, taking on responsibility before knowing the cost, and mistaking silence for strength. It’s not about blame or confession, but about the long shadow that quiet choices can cast on the rest of your life.

Written from a place of distance rather than anger, the song looks at what happens when the role of protector finally ends and you’re left figuring out who you are without it.

Lyrics

Who I Stayed Silent For I learned early how to keep a room calm How to read a face, how to bite my tongue What I knew stayed where it couldn’t do harm So the people I loved could keep holdin’ on I stayed quiet for the sake of peace For a faith that mattered more than me For a temper I didn’t dare let loose I learned how to carry, not how to lose I didn’t learn how to ask for help I learned how to hold it in I didn’t learn how to speak my hurt Just how to bury it deep and then Wonder why it comes out wrong When it finally gets a voice Yeah, silence kept them safe back then But it cost me every choice I took that quiet into every love Called it strength, called it holdin’ on But pain don’t fade when you leave it alone It finds its way back when it wants to be known There’s no one left to protect now But I don’t know how to stop I didn’t learn how to ask for help I learned how to hold it in I didn’t learn how to speak my hurt Just how to bury it deep and then Wonder why it comes out wrong When it finally gets a voice Yeah, silence kept them safe back then But it cost me every choice Yeah, silence kept them safe back then But it cost me every choice