[Verse 1]
You fold my hands
Like you’re packing them in your coat
Kitchen clock ticking
Radio fighting the thunder of the world
Your suitcase waits
By the chair where your father used to read
You say
“I’ll be gone a while”
I say
“You stay with me”
[Chorus]
Our love could walk through sirens
Sleep under broken skies
Run across burning borders
And still look in each other’s eyes
If every wall came falling
If every town turned scarred
We’d write our names in the ashes
A love that outlives the war
[Verse 2]
Letters in ink
Smudged where my tears wouldn’t dry
Mud on your boots
Pressed in the paper like a pressed July
You draw the farm
The crooked fence
The neighbor’s dog
You say
“If I don’t come home”
I write
“Don’t finish that thought”
[Chorus]
Our love could walk through sirens
Sleep under broken skies
Run across burning borders
And still look in each other’s eyes
If every wall came falling
If every town turned scarred
We’d write our names in the ashes
A love that outlives the war
[Bridge]
Someday the brass stops screaming
Someday the guns grow cold (oh)
Someone will sweep these streets again
Hang curtains
Hang hope
And when you step from that platform
Shaking
Alive
Unsure
I’ll hold you like a medal
You survived for something more
[Chorus]
Our love could walk through sirens
Sleep under broken skies
Run across burning borders
And still look in each other’s eyes
If every wall came falling
If every town turned scarred
We’d write our names in the ashes
A love that outlives the war
We’d write our names in the ashes
Our love outlives the war