Where Does It Go (Song About Suppressed Anger and Silence) — Savage Thunder
Quick Summary
Where Does It Go (Song About Suppressed Anger and Silence)
What if anger isn’t the enemy—but the part of us still waiting to be heard?
“Where Does It Go” doesn’t scream for attention—it seethes with quiet honesty. The songwriter transforms emotional paralysis into poetry, capturing the crushing weight of unshed rage with devastating clarity.
This isn’t a rage anthem. It’s a compassionate confrontation with our own silence. It dares to ask what most people only feel—and it does so without shame, only sincerity. The power of this song lies in its restraint. In its raw questioning. In its unwillingness to look away.
“Where Does It Go” is a slow-burning emotional reckoning, a haunting exploration of what happens to unexpressed rage when there’s no space to release it. It’s not aggressive—it’s aching. It doesn’t offer a solution—it offers solidarity.
This is a song for trauma-informed playlists, mental health narratives, and visual storytelling. Its emotional complexity is its power.
Behind the Song
“Where Does It Go” was the question I couldn’t stop asking myself. Not because I didn’t feel anger—but because I did, deeply, and didn’t know what to do with it. We’re taught to manage it, hide it, silence it—but never to understand it. That silence? It turns emotional bruises into generational wounds.
The song started with a single image:
“It builds like thunder, waiting to break.”
That’s how it felt—internal storms without outlets. Every verse is an unraveling of what it means to live with anger that has no safe place to go—how it festers, how it masks itself, and how it begs to be transformed.
I didn’t want the song to be rage-filled. I wanted it to be honest. Raw. Reflective. The choruses aren’t answers—they’re the question echoing through millions of unspoken stories. The bridge cracks open possibility: maybe anger is trying to tell us something. Maybe it’s not the enemy—maybe it’s the message.
I wrote this for the quiet fighters. For the ones holding it in. For the ones who feel like exploding—and need to know they’re not alone.
Song Credits
Artist: Savage Thunder
Songwriters: Taf and CC
Producers: Taf and CC
Genre: Dark Pop / Alt-Electronic
Release Date: May 1, 2025
Duration: 5:13
Publisher: Savage Thunder Music
Lyrics Preview
The lyrics masterfully build tension:
- “Swallowed rage turning my heart black.”
- “A mother cries but swallows the sound.”
- “Push it down, lock the door, still it’s crawling through the floor.”
These lines create visceral imagery of inner conflict and the quiet devastation of emotional suppression. The chorus—“There’s lots of anger with no place to put it…”—is almost chant-like. It acts as both confession and chorus, unifying personal pain into a shared truth.
See full lyrics below ↓
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
It builds like thunder, waiting to break,
A restless ghost I can’t escape.
I bite my tongue, but it bites back,
Swallowed rage turning my heart black.
[Pre-Chorus]
Where do I put it when there’s no way out?
When the fire inside me, causes doubt?
[Chorus]
There’s lots of anger with no place to put it,
Nowhere to run, no way to lose it.
Screaming inside cause nobody knew it.
We bury it deep, pretend we outgrew it
Where does it go when we push it down?
Does it turn into silence, or come around?
We keep it inside, but it’s breaking through,
Somebody tell me—what do you do?
[Verse 2]
A mother cries but swallows the sound,
A father drowns in a bottle he found.
Children learn from the silence they see,
That pain has a home where no one can breathe.
[Pre-Chorus]
But where does it go when the tears turn to stone?
When the voices we need get buried alone?
[Chorus]
There’s lots of anger with no place to put it,
Nowhere to run, no way to lose it.
Screaming inside cause nobody saw it.
We bury it deep, pretend we outgrew it
Where does it go when we push it down?
Does it turn into silence, and come around?
We keep it inside, but it’s breaking through,
Somebody tell me—what do you do?
[Verse 3]
I keep it quiet, I keep it small,
A spark behind a prison wall.
Smile so easy, nod my head,
But there’s a storm behind what’s left unsaid.
[Pre-Chorus]
Does it turn into thunder, does it turn into rain?
Does it carve out a canyon or drown in the pain?
[Chorus]
There’s lots of anger with no place to put it,
Nowhere to run, no way to lose it.
Screaming inside cause nobody saw it.
We bury it deep, pretend we outgrew it
Where does it go when we push it down?
Does it turn into silence, and come around?
We keep it inside, but it’s breaking through,
Somebody tell me—what do you do?
[Verse 4]
I see it in you, I feel it in me,
A slow-burning fire, a restless sea.
Words left unspoken, fists held tight,
Holding back hurricanes deep in the night.
[Pre-Chorus]
But where does it go when there’s no one to hear?
When the weight of the fire just burns in the mirror?
[Chorus]
There’s lots of anger with no place to put it,
Nowhere to run, no way to lose it.
Screaming inside cause nobody saw it.
We bury it deep, pretend we outgrew it
Where does it go when we push it down?
Does it turn into silence, and come around?
We keep it inside, but it’s breaking through,
Somebody tell me—what do you do?
[Verse 5]
Push it down, lock the door,
Still it’s crawling through the floor.
Hold my breath, count to ten,
But here it comes back again.
[Pre-Chorus]
I hear it whisper, I feel it shake,
Like a fault line ready to break.
[Bridge]
Maybe it waits for a voice to be found,
For someone to scream, or make a sound—
But if we keep hiding what should be set free,
Who do we become? Who will we be?
What if I scream, what if I fight?
Would I be wrong or would I be right?
What if this anger is trying to show,
That some things are meant to explode?
[Outro]
There’s lots of anger, I won’t let it win,
But it’s still living beneath my skin.
We’ll set it free where the truth can be spoken,
Turn it to love before we are broken.
[Chorus]
There’s lots of anger with no place to put it,
Nowhere to run, no way to lose it.
Screaming inside cause nobody saw it.
We bury it deep, pretend we outgrew it
Where does it go when we push it down?
Does it turn into silence, and come around?
We keep it inside, but it’s breaking through,
Somebody tell me—what do you do?
[Final Line]
What do you do? What do you do?
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