Quiet Deceiver — Selah Sound Collective (Jeremiah 17:9)

Lyrics [Verse 1] There’s a mirror in my chest, Silvered over with old sins— Every breath I take reopens Cracks the light keeps slipping in. I walk corridors within me, Dust rising at each quiet step, Finding carvings I don’t claim, Truths I lost and lies I kept. [Pre-Chorus] I’m the witness and the culprit, I’m the wound and I’m the thread— My intentions bloom like roses, But the thorns speak first instead. [Chorus] Who can know this heart of mine— So crooked in its shadowed ways? You search the hollows, line by line, You weigh the secrets that I raise. You test the marrow, read the ache, Judge every harvest that I sow… For my own heart deceives me first, And you see deeper than I know. [Verse 2] Sometimes I feel like I’m noble, A lantern on a tired shore— But when I hold the flame up higher, I see wreckage I ignore. There’s a stranger in my silence, Wears my face but shifts my past— Rearranges all my memories, Turns my mercy into ash. [Pre-Chorus] So I beg for honest shadows— Ones that match the shape I cast; But the heart builds hidden hallways Echoing motives from the past. [Chorus] Who can know this heart of mine— So crooked in its shadowed ways? You search the hollows, line by line, You weigh the secrets that I raise. You test the marrow, read the ache, Judge every harvest that I sow… For my own heart deceives me first, And you see deeper than I know. [Bridge] Strip me down to raw intention, Write my truth in open flame— If I rise from all these ashes, Let me answer to my name. Teach my trembling hands to honor Every shadow they conceal— Let the silence bear its witness, Let the quiet turn me real. [Final Chorus] Who can know this heart of mine— Still crooked in its shadowed ways? You search the hollows, line by line, Tender in the truth you weigh. You test the marrow, read the ache, Judge every harvest that I sow… For my own heart deceives me still, But you see deeper than I know.