(Intro — crowd chants / pounding drums)
Hey! Hey!
We don’t die easy!
(Verse 1)
Streetlights flicker over broken dreams
Concrete veins and gasoline
Every alley tells a story
Of kids who chased a little glory
Black boots hitting cracked asphalt
Living fast because we thought
Tomorrow might not come at all
So we screamed louder than the fall
(Pre-Chorus)
They called us reckless
They called us lost
But we survived
No matter the cost
(Chorus)
We are the dead city saints
Born from the fire and the rain
Hands to the sky, screaming our names
Laughing while the whole world breaks
No kings, no gods, no saving grace
Just broken hearts we couldn’t replace
If this city burns tonight
We’ll light it up before we die
(Verse 2)
Bathroom stalls and neon bars
Cheap tattoos and stolen cars
Every scar became a map
Leading us through the collapse
Sirens echo down the block
Old friends frozen on the clock
But every soul we lost remains
Inside the music and the pain
(Pre-Chorus)
We carried each other through hell
When nobody else could tell
(Chorus)
We are the dead city saints
Born from the fire and the rain
Hands to the sky, screaming our names
Laughing while the whole world breaks
No kings, no gods, no saving grace
Just broken hearts we couldn’t replace
If this city burns tonight
We’ll light it up before we die
(Breakdown)
HEY!
FOR THE KIDS WHO NEVER FIT IN
HEY!
FOR THE ONES STILL FIGHTING
WE ARE THE NOISE
THE BLACKOUT YOUTH
THE LAST ONES STANDING
TELL ME THE TRUTH
IF THE WORLD WANTS WAR
THEN TURN IT LOUD
WE’LL MAKE A CHURCH
OUT OF THE CROWD
(Bridge — melodic)
Maybe we were never hopeless
Maybe we were just unheard
Every outcast has a heartbeat
Every silence has a word
(Final Chorus)
We are the dead city saints
Still dancing in the acid rain
Still alive against the odds
Still too loud to be forgotten
Now the skyline shakes below
As the amplifiers glow
And even when the lights all fade
The city will remember our names
(Outro — gang vocals fading out)
Dead city saints…
Dead city saints…
Forever loud…
Forever alive…
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