Not the World We Were Promised

Empty pockets, broken dreams, shadows on the wall

Watching pretty curtains fall, as we hear the midnight call

Running in a world that's shifting, lost amidst the crowd

Trying to hold on to the voice that once was loud

Jobs are slipping through our hands like sand beneath our feet

Promises of better days, lie there broken in the street

Can you hear the silent cry? Through the ache and through the lie

All we wanted was to fly, now we’re just trying to get by

And life keeps knocking us around and beats us to the ground

We gotta keep on rising up and hang in another round.

If we do maybe we can make it safe and sound.

Oh, I want the life they said was mine, when I was just a child

Dreams as big as galaxies, but all I see is decline

The world’s grown cold and cruel, our hopes caught in the rain

A song for the lost, a prayer for the pain

Groceries are rising high, like mountains I can't climb

Evil hands are pulling strings, stealing cause and stealing every dime

They don’t see the tears we hide, behind the weary eyes

Living in a nightmare, surviving under broken skies

Can you hear the silent cry? Through the ache and through the lie

All we wanted was to fly, now we’re just trying to get by

And life keeps knocking us around and beats us to the ground

We gotta keep on rising up and hang in another round.

If we do maybe we can make it safe and sound.

Oh, I want the life they said was mine, when I was just a child

Dreams as big as galaxies, but all I see is decline

The world’s grown cold and cruel, our hopes caught in the rain

A song for the lost, a prayer for the pain

Is there hope beyond this storm? Will the dawn bring something new?

Or are we doomed to wander through the gray and blue?

Searching for a promise kept, in the ashes of our youth

Fighting just to breathe, just to hold onto the truth

All I want is to believe, in the dawn, in the light

Hold on to the dreams we hold, through the endless night

Living in this hell, with a silent wish to mend

One day we’ll find our way, and this song will end