Paper Badage

Verse 1

You sat behind that office desk

Reading words you never checked

Ink on paper sealed my fate

Before I even reached the gate

Pre-Chorus

Policies stacked up to the ceiling high

Chorus

You hid behind a paper badge

Signed my name in black ink rage

Truth don’t live in a file somewhere

It’s the silence when nobody cares

One signature changed my path

Just a line on a photograph

You hid behind a paper badge

Verse 2

Another case you closed that day

While my whole world slipped away

Just another file in a stack

While I’m trying to get my life back

Pre-Chorus

You never saw the man inside

Chorus

Bridge

One day the ink will fade away

But the truth will still remain

You can bury it deep in a file somewhere

But the truth always finds the air

Final Chorus

You hid behind a paper badge

But truth don’t stay locked in the past

Ink fades but the truth remains

Even through the deepest pain