The Price Of Silence

Lyrics

Verse 1
She was told to keep quiet.
"It's not worth it," they said.
"He's too powerful. You'll destroy your career."
She spoke anyway.
And her career was destroyed.
The letters stopped coming.
The invitations stopped.
Her name became something whispered in hallways,
A warning to the next woman who might consider telling the truth.
Chorus
But here is what they did not expect: the silence broke.
Other voices found each other in the space she made.
A current formed beneath the surface of the industry,
The institution, the world that had told them to be quiet.
Verse 2
She lost her job. She lost her friends.
She lost the life she had built over decades.
But she did not lose the truth.
And the truth, it turns out, is patient.
It waits for the right moment to become unignorable.
Chorus
But here is what they did not expect: the silence broke.
Other voices found each other in the space she made.
A current formed beneath the surface of the industry,
The institution, the world that had told them to be quiet.
Bridge
Now they call her "brave."
They give her awards for courage.
They ask her to speak at conferences about her journey.
And she does.
Outro
She tells them the cost.
She tells them the price of silence was never hers alone.
She tells them she would do it again.
And she would.
And she would.