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

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