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The Quiet Between Heartbeats

Serene CorpseEnglish0:48Track 2 on the album

A meditation on the small silence inside every heartbeat, and the courage it takes to listen to it.

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Lyrics

Verse 1

There's a hush inside the drumline of my chest,
a single breath the body never names,
the clock forgets to tick, the room forgets to rest,
and nothing, for a moment, stays the same.

Chorus

In the quiet between heartbeats
I can hear the whole world wait,
every ending, every greeting,
balanced on a silent weight.
If I'm only ever passing,
let me pass with open eyes,
in the quiet between heartbeats
where the living learn to fly.

Verse 2

They told me time is something you can spend,
as if the hours wore a price upon their skin,
but every coin I counted in the end
was just a door I never wandered in.

Bridge

Hold still,
hold still,
the dark is only distance,
and distance is a kind of will.

Outro

In the quiet between heartbeats,
I am still.

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Meaning & interpretation

Between every heartbeat there is a moment of perfect stillness. The song treats that pause as a tiny rehearsal for endings, and asks whether we can learn to live inside it without fear.

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The feeling

What it feels like

Lying awake at three in the morning and realising the silence is listening back.

In summary

A philosophical song about mortality, presence and the pause between one moment and the next.

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