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FLAUNT

This song was born from watching from afar someone I care about more than words can say struggle through years of heartbreak, injustice, and loneliness. I wrote “Where the Quiet Knows Your Name” for my dear friend @DJShAnkAri, who has been carrying battles no one should ever have to face alone. Her strength, her pain, and her courage inspired every line of this song.

But somewhere along the way, the meaning grew bigger than just one person.

This song is about those moments when the world feels too heavy to hold—when fear or darkness creeps in and you can’t quite find your way back to yourself. It’s the voice that sits beside you in the quiet—whether it’s someone you love, someone you’ve lost, a higher presence, or even that tiny piece of strength inside you that refuses to disappear.

It’s a reminder that you don’t have to be strong every second. You don’t have to fight every battle alone. You don’t even have to move. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is stop, breathe, and let someone—or something—stay with you in the dark until the light comes back.

“Where the Quiet Knows Your Name” is my way of saying that no matter how lost you feel, you are not abandoned, forgotten, or unseen. Even in the stillness, even in the fear, even when you think no one could possibly understand… there is a presence that stays with you. A voice that knows your name. A quiet that holds you instead of hurting you.

Because this song was written for ShAnkAri, I also wanted to do something tangible to help her step out of the nightmare she’s been living through. I’ve started a GoFundMe to help her secure legal support and protect her and her family during this critical moment.
If you feel moved and are able to help — even a little — it truly means more than words. 🙏💜

👉 GoFundMe:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-shankaris-homeone-last-chance-for-justice

This song is for anyone who has ever felt alone in the shadows. I hope it wraps around you the way it wrapped around me while I wrote it… and the way I hope it wrapped around her. 🫂


LYRICS:

[Verse 1]
When the night hangs heavy on your window
And the air won’t let you breathe
When the world is loud with shadows
Sit down here… right next to me
Let the trembling have its moment
Let the weight do what it must
You don’t have to rise above it
Just be still… right where you trust

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m the whisper in the doorway
I’m the hand that doesn’t shake
When you can’t find where you’re going
I’m the place your fears can break

[Chorus]
Be still, and know you’re not forsaken
Be still… you don’t have to say a thing
When you’re lost and every light is taken
I’ll be where the quiet knows your name
Where the quiet knows your name

[Verse 2]
If the dark drips down your heartbeat
And your memories feel unkind
If the past crawls in beside you
Pulls your breath out of your mind
Let the hurt sit in its corner
Let the tears fall how they fall
Every storm you’ve carried inward
You don’t have to carry all

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m the echo when you’re hollow
I’m the anchor in the rain
When the path forgets to show you
I’ll remind you where you’ve been

[Chorus]
Be still, and know you’re not forsaken
Be still… you don’t have to say a thing
When you’re lost and every light is taken
I’ll be where the quiet knows your name
Where the quiet knows your name

[Bridge]
If the morning… never finds you
I’ll sit with you… in the night
If your hope… loses its color
I’ll stay until it’s bright
If you feel yourself unravel
Or forget your way again
I’ll be here… in every shadow
‘Til the shadows start to bend

[Final Chorus]
Be still, there’s nothing you must carry
Be still… you’re safe inside this flame
When the world feels far too dark to bear it
I’ll be where the quiet knows your name
Where the quiet knows your name

Where the Quiet Knows Your Name

A little song I wrote the other day .....  the whole thing just came to me in a flash!

I played and sung all the parts .... and its all put down in just one take .... the drums, the guitars, the bass, the vocals ....one take!

Call you back

[Verse 1]

Sinking deeper into her darkness,
where the water should be cold,
but deeper down into the undertow,
the ocean’s furnace glowed.

The light grew thin above me,
pressure tightening its hold;
I learned too late that some
waters burn below.

[Pre Chorus]

A whisper from the surface
cut through the heat below;
Fire can free the heart again
or finish what we won’t let go.

[Chorus]

Pulled down to the furnace,
the Furnace of the Burning Deep;
Either burn what’s killing me,
or let the flames take what I keep.

I’m breaking in the tension,
something false can’t stay alive;
In the Furnace of the Burning Deep,
only truth survives.

[Verse 2]

My heart was in her trance,
Your gentle voice reached near;
“Come back… it’s still your choice,
I’m waiting here, no need to fear.”

I looked into the deep,
Where others burned and cried;
That spark became my turning,
and I fought hard against the tide.

[Pre Chorus]

A whisper from the surface
cut through the heat below;
Fire can free the heart again
or finish what we won’t let go.

[Chorus]

Pulled down to the furnace,
the Furnace of the Burning Deep;
Either burn what’s killing me,
or let the flames take what I keep.

I’m breaking in the tension,
something false can’t stay alive;
In the Furnace of the Burning Deep,
only truth survives.

[Verse 3]

I came back to life,
hit the surface, gasping air;
Pulled ashore by gentle hands,
a touch I once knew there.

I crawled along the shoreline
toward the home I used to know;
Found ashes where it stood,
from wreckage new life can grow.

[Pre Chorus]

A whisper from the surface
cut through the heat below;
Fire can free the heart again
or finish what we won’t let go.

[Chorus]

Pulled down to the furnace,
the Furnace of the Burning Deep;
Either burn what’s killing me,
or let the flames take what I keep.

I’m breaking in the tension,
something false can’t stay alive;
In the Furnace of the Burning Deep,
only truth survives.

[Outro]

Rising from the darkness,
the daylight met my eyes;
The night that almost claimed me,
You took my hand and helped me rise.

Walking up the shoreline,
where familiar faces shone;
And You embraced me with them,
not finished yet… but finally home.

4. the fire // furnace of the burning deep

[Verse 1]
I walked out of the furnace,
but the undertow still called;
Old shadows tried to pull me back,
like I’d never turned at all.

The soul-ties wrapped around me,
ghostly weights I couldn’t shake;
Freedom’s first step wasn’t flying—
it was learning not to break.

[Pre-Chorus]
I thought the fire fixed me,
but the desert tells me why:
Healing is the slow unmaking
the place my old self dies.

[Chorus]
In the Desert of the Unbecoming,
where the old self fights to live,
every step feels like I’m breaking,
every breath a choice to give.

I’m not who I was or who I’m becoming,
caught between the lost and the undone…
But in the Desert of the Unbecoming,
You whisper that I’m not done.

[Verse 2]
The rebuilding felt like splinters,
every step a hidden ache;
They said, “we’ve chosen to forgive,”
but must choose it every day.

And secrets I’d kept buried
rose like bones into the light;
Truth stung more than the furnace—
but it taught me how to fight.

[Pre-Chorus]
I thought the fire fixed me,
but the desert tells me why:
Healing is the slow unmaking
the place my old self dies.

[Chorus]
In the Desert of the Unbecoming,
where the old self fights to live,
every step feels like I’m breaking,
every breath a choice to give.

I’m not who I was or who I’m becoming,
caught between the lost and the undone…
But in the Desert of the Unbecoming,
You whisper that I’m not done.

[Verse 3]
Some friends turned into strangers
when the truth cut through my lies;
They left before the rebuilding—
but You stayed to hear my cries.

And patience felt like hunger,
as the days burned slow and dry;
But even when I couldn’t see it,
You were working in the sky.

[Pre-Chorus]
I thought the fire fixed me,
but the desert tells me why:
Healing is the slow unmaking
the place my old self dies.

[Chorus]
In the Desert of the Unbecoming,
where the old self fights to live,
every step feels like I’m breaking,
every breath a choice to give.

I’m not who I was or who I’m becoming,
caught between the lost and the undone…
But in the Desert of the Unbecoming,
You whisper that I’m not done.

[Outro]

The road is long and empty,
with the sun on every shame;
I keep walking through the silence,
though I’m tired of the pain.

If the desert is the doorway
to the life I’m rising from—
then I trust what I can’t see yet…
You are teaching me who to become.


5. the desert // desert of the unbecoming

[Verse 1]
I knew the rules—
in perfection I felt safe;
it cost me half my heart
to live inside the fear I’d made.

The hopes I’d tried to nurture
fell like dust to desert sand.
And the voice that once deceived me
told me shame was all I am.

[Pre chorus]
I hid from You for failing,
now I hide for who I am;
The ruins after healing
say my soul is stained again.

[Chorus]
Broken and imperfect,
maybe I should disappear;
Too unworthy to be wanted,
too ashamed to let You near.

Every hope becomes a question,
every truth slips through my hands…
So I whisper in the shadows:
What if this is what I am?

[Verse 2]
The siren once seduced me,
now she whispers who I am:
“You’re the scarlet of your choices,
you’re the wound that never mends.”

Her voice replaced my confidence
with shame I couldn’t shake;
I hid from every calling—
from the love I feared was fake.

[Pre chorus]
I hid from You for failing,
now I hide for who I am;
The ruins after healing
say my soul is stained again.

[Chorus]
Broken and imperfect,
maybe I should disappear;
Too unworthy to be wanted,
too ashamed to let You near.

Every hope becomes a question,
every truth slips through my hands…
So I whisper in the shadows:
What if this is what I am?

[Verse 3]
Some called it humble sorrow,
but it was pride dressed as pain;
Thinking I must fix the fallout
before I dared say Your name.

I felt too far to reach You,
too unclean to hope again—
So I banished my own heart first,
to save You from my shame.

[Pre chorus]
I hid from You for failing,
now I hide for who I am;
The ruins after healing
say my soul is stained again.

[Chorus]
Broken and imperfect,
maybe I should disappear;
Too unworthy to be wanted,
too ashamed to let You near.

Every hope becomes a question,
every truth slips through my hands…
So I whisper in the shadows:
What if this is what I am?

[Outro]
In the quiet moments,
with my back against the night,
rose the question I kept burying
but could no longer fight:

If I’m the one who’s hiding,
why do I still ache for Your sight?
And if this is what I am… then tell me—
why don’t I see Your light cutting through the dark I’ve made?
What if this is what I am?

6. the exile // if this is what i am

REFUGEE 

We heard the guns
Rolling over the hill
We saw the greed
Moving in for the kill
And just like the wolf
In a little straw town
It would not stop
Until they blew our door down

We all pray for the day
We no longer need to run

We Couldn't stay
Couldn't stay there one more day
Couldn't stay
Couldn't stay there one more day
We couldn't stay

Kicking up dust
On the side of the road
And we fled our homes
While we watched them explode
Our legs were so tired
Our lungs out of breath
But you'll run till you're ragged
While you're avoiding your death

We all pray for the day
We no longer need to run

We Couldn't stay
Couldn't stay there one more day
Couldn't stay
Couldn't stay there one more day
We couldn't stay


Our children are hungry
Our clothes smell of fear
No one can blame you thinking
God isn't here

We all pray for the day
We no longer need to run

We Couldn't stay
Couldn't stay there one more day
Couldn't stay
Couldn't stay there one more day
We couldn't stay
Couldn't stay
Couldn't stay there one more day
Couldn't stay
Couldn't stay there one more day
We couldn't stay

Music and Lyrics by Tom Hall (c) 2004

REFUGEE

Distant Memories


[Verse 1]

I ran out of strength
trying to carry my name,
every door I forced open,
fell apart all the same.

I built myself towers
with my own shaking hands,
The kingdom I built
Like castles in the sand.

[Pre-Chorus]

So here I am empty,
no defense left to bring—
If this breaking is mercy,
then let it finish me.

[Chorus]

I’m down on my knees in the garden,
no hiding, no fight left in me.
I can’t save myself—
I surrender…
If You want me,
here’s all of me.

[Verse 2]

I thought surrender meant losing
the last thing I could defend,
but everything I was holding
was killing me instead.

I was scared You’d confirm
every lie that I feared—
that if I wasn’t perfect,
You wouldn’t want me near.

[Pre-Chorus]

But You stepped through the wreckage,
didn’t flinch at the sight—
You called me by name
in the middle of night.

[Chorus]

I’m down on my knees in the garden,
no hiding, no fight left in me.
I can’t save myself—
I surrender…
If You want me,
here’s all of me.

[Verse 3]

I learned exile slowly,
one lie at a time—
thought I had to be spotless
just to survive.

I banished my own heart
to keep shame away,
but You never left the garden—
I turned my face away.

[Bridge]

You never asked for strength,
You just asked me to trust.
So I let go of control
Turned my old self to dust.

Grace doesn’t feel like rescue,
it feels like letting go—
a free fall of my defenses
to the mercy below. 

[Final Chorus]

I’m down on my knees in the garden,
tears in the dirt, no mask on me.
I can’t save myself—
I surrender…
And You’re pulling me close,
saying, “You belong to Me.”

[Outro]

So I rest where I fell,
finally done being strong.
If this is what surrender is—
then this is where I belong.



7. the surrender // on my knees in the garden

Seven Echo is an anonymous project releasing emotionally raw, cinematic ballads built from the echoes of childhood, faith, grief, and the parts of ourselves we learned to hide.

No face. No identity. Just a voice trying to tell the truth.

Seven Echo exists for the ones who feel too much and say too little.

5. the desert // desert of the unbecoming

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