whisper

A whisper yelled is a whisper heard."

It says, "Why whisper when a yell can travel just as far?

And in my office, she whispered, "I feel nothing."

They start to whisper to each other before closing the door and she says like what you would say before like saying goodbye to someone like without the song.

On the narrator’s seventh birthday, Ma implores her son never to grow up: “She whispered it all to me, her need so big, no softness anywhere, only Paps and boys turning into Paps.”