When The House Goes Quiet Babylon Grace

All day long he's laughing
Working underneath the sun
Talking with the neighbors
Like nothing ever went wrong

He comes home to his family
Kisses everybody goodnight
But something always finds him
When they turn out all the lights

When the house goes quiet
That's when he hears it all
Every voice, every name
Every brother he saw fall

When the house goes quiet
There's nowhere left to run
The world says it's all over
But for him it's never done

His wife can feel him shaking
Though he never makes a sound
She reaches through the darkness
And puts her arms around him

He says, I'm sorry, wake you?
She says, I wasn't asleep
You don't have to tell me everything
You don't have to hide from me

When the house goes quiet
That's when he hears it all
Every voice, every name
Every brother he saw fall

When the house goes quiet
There's nowhere left to run
The world says it's all over
But for him it's never done

He remembers one young soldier
Who talked about his girl
Said when this is finally over
I'm gonna show her the whole world

He remembers that last morning
The smoke, the dust, the rain
Twenty years have passed now
He still remembers his name

Some nights are getting better
Some nights still pull him back
Healing ain't a straight road
And time don't change the past

But now when darkness finds him
He doesn't hide away
He reaches for her hand
And waits with her for day

When the house goes quiet
The memories still come
But now he has somebody
Who won't let him face them alone

When the house goes quiet
She holds him through the night
And sometimes that's enough

To make it

To morning light