[Intro]
Low sky
Stained red
Smoke claws the sun
Children count the distance
Between one blast and the next
[Verse 1]
Boot prints in the chapel dust
Pews split open like ribs
Icon on the broken floor
Cracked glass in its lips
I taste iron in my breathing
Hear the mortar scream above
Every prayer I ever mumbled
Drowns in rubble
Dust
And mud
[Chorus]
Where are You in the fire?
While we burn
While we break
While we bleed
Wasn’t heaven supposed to hold us?
All I see are teeth and steel and greed
If there’s a hand behind the thunder
Let it strike me if it’s real
Where are You in the fire?
Or is this all we ever feel
[Verse 2]
Street names lost in melted signs
Faces smudged with ash and fear
He drags his brother by the shoulders
Still warm
But no one hears
Choir robes turned bandage strips
Siren wails replace the hymns
Every halo in the paintings
Looks like shrapnel in my skin
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
If this is some design
It’s written in bone
If someone drew this plan
They carved it in stone and smoke
So I stand in the glow of the crater
Raise my voice into the roar
If You’re more than empty silence
Say one word above this war
[guitar solo]
[Chorus]