Quiet

Quiet - Alisha Weir/The Cast of Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical

Lyrics by：Tim Minchin

Composed by：Tim Minchin

Produced by：Christopher Nightingale

Have you ever wondered

Well I have

About how when

I say say red

For example

There's no way of knowing

If red means the same

Thing in your head

As red means in my head

When someone says red

And how if we are travelling

At almost the speed of light

And we're holding a light

That light would still travel

Away from us

At the full speed of light

Which seems right in a way

But I'm trying to say

I'm not sure but I wonder

If inside my head

I'm not just a bit different

From some of my friends

These answers that come

Into my mind unbidden

These stories delivered

To me fully written

And when everyone shouts

Like they seem to like shouting

The noise in my head

Is incredibly loud

And I just wish they'd stop

My dad and my mom

And the telly and stories

Would stop for just once

And I'm sorry I'm not quite

Explaining it right

But this noise becomes anger

And the anger is light

And it's burning inside

Me would usually fade

But it isn't today

And the heat and the shouting

And my heart is pounding

And my eyes are burning

And suddenly everything

Everything is

Quiet

Like silence but not really silent

Just that still sort of quiet

Like the sound of a page

Being turned in a book

Or a pause in a walk in the woods

Quiet

Like silence but not really silent

Just that nice kind of quiet

Like the sound when

You lie upside down in your bed

Just the sound of

Your heart in your head

And though the people around me

Their mouths are still moving

The words they are forming

Cannot reach me anymore

And it is quiet

And I am warm

Like I've sailed

Into the eye of the storm