They stayed silent to save the friendship… but the silence is what destroyed it.
The second single off the album Paris of the East.
Two best friends, stuck between what they feel and what they’re too afraid to admit.
In trying to protect what they have, they say nothing — dodging the truth, playing it safe, and slowly falling apart anyway. “Charades” is the realization that silence doesn’t save you. It just breaks you more quietly.
I wrote ‘Charades’ the moment I realized that staying silent wasn’t protecting anything, it was slowly breaking us. We kept dancing around the truth, convincing ourselves that if we didn’t say it out loud, we could keep what we had. But the tension, the almost-moments, the things sitting on the tip of our tongues started to eat away at the friendship anyway.
“At some point, I understood we were going to lose it either way, and I’d rather lose it by being honest than lose it pretending I didn’t feel anything. So if you like someone, tell them. Don’t be afraid. Don’t shrink yourself to make the outcome easier to swallow. The reward wasn’t the outcome I thought it might be. But it became this song, this growth, and this new chapter, and I wouldn’t change that for the world. So don’t be afraid to say how you feel.”
Mia Blank · Keyshawn Chism · Dallas Jack · Conner Fisher · Vivian Blank · Bobby Riesco · Tomi · Mak Blank · Maggie Kight · Wilder Teem · Captain Larry · Lisa Teem
Honesty over silence.
