(Intro — distant synth + heavy guitar)
We are the hearts they couldn’t kill…
(Verse 1)
Downtown ghosts under neon skies
Dead-end dreams and tired eyes
Every billboard screams a lie
“Be happy while your soul dies”
Running hard through midnight streets
Concrete shaking under me
Lost kids dressed in black and gold
Trying not to lose control
(Pre-Chorus)
We were born inside the fallout
Raised by silence and self-doubt
(Chorus)
So light the fires in the dark
We are the broken, we are the sparks
Every scar is proof we lived
Every wound’s a war we didn’t quit
Singing loud enough to wake the dead
Middle fingers high above our heads
If the world wants us erased
We’ll dance across these neon graves
(Verse 2)
Bathroom mirrors, bloodshot eyes
Smiling while the inside dies
Every night a battlefield
Every secret half concealed
But there’s a pulse beneath the pain
Like thunder begging for the rain
And every outcast in this town
Knows what it means to almost drown
(Pre-Chorus)
But we’re still breathing through the static
Still alive and automatic
(Chorus)
So light the fires in the dark
We are the broken, we are the sparks
Every scar is proof we lived
Every wound’s a war we didn’t quit
Singing loud enough to wake the dead
Middle fingers high above our heads
If the world wants us erased
We’ll dance across these neon graves
(Breakdown — crushing)
WE ARE NOT YOUR TRAGEDY
WE ARE NOT YOUR SILENT SCENE
EVERY KID THEY LEFT BEHIND
IS A STORM THEY’LL NEVER HIDE
BLACK HEARTS
LOUD CROWDS
SCREAM IT ‘TIL THE SKY BREAKS DOWN
(Bridge — emotional melodic section)
Maybe heaven never heard us
Maybe angels never came
But we found each other in the wreckage
And that was enough to stay
(Final Chorus)
So light the fires in the dark
We are the broken, we are the sparks
No more shame and no more chains
We found beauty in the pain
Now the whole world hears us sing
From the edge of everything
If tomorrow fades away
We’ll live forever on these neon graves
(Outro)
Alive tonight…
Under ruined lights…
Forever burning…
On neon graves.
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