Why Don’t You Do Something?

[Verse 1]
Hands up to a quiet sky
Crowd around me
But I feel alone
Headlines flicker in my phone light
Another siren in a stranger’s home
I’m shouting questions in my mind
Why are children learning fear so young?
If you’re out there
Are you watching?
Why is mercy always left unsung?
[Pre-Chorus]
I’ve been running in a circle
Chasing halos in the smoke
If you’re love
Then where’s the healing?
Are we just a cosmic joke?
[Chorus]
Why don’t you do something?
While we’re breaking on the floor
Every tear keeps flooding
All the corners of this world
Are you quiet or are we distant?
Are you gone or in the hurt?
Why don’t you do something?
Or show me what your silence’s worth
[Verse 2]
I saw a stranger on the platform
Share his jacket with a shivering kid
He missed his train
Just smiled
“It’s nothing”
But something in my chest unhid
An old nurse humming in the ward light
Stayed past hours for a trembling hand
No bright halo
Just a bad back
Still she stayed
Said
“I can stand”
[Pre-Chorus]
Little flickers in the darkness
Tiny candles in the smoke
Maybe you’re not in the thunder
Maybe you’re inside the hope
[Chorus]
Why don’t you do something?
While we’re breaking on the floor
Every tear keeps flooding
All the corners of this world
Are you quiet or are we distant?
Are you gone or in the hurt?
Why don’t you do something?
Or show me what your silence’s worth
[Bridge]
Maybe you’re the breath in our lungs when we’re screaming
The strength in our legs when we run into flames
Maybe every time that we choose to be kinder
You’re whispering softly
“I gave you my name”
Maybe you’re the ache that won’t let me grow colder
The crack in my doubt where the daylight gets through
If you gave us hands
Then we’re part of the answer
Maybe what I’m waiting for
Is you moving me too (hey!)
[Chorus]
Now I will do something
With these two hands
With this heart
If your love is beating
Let it beat through what we start
In the rubble
In the sirens
In the ashes
In the dirt
Now I will do something
And maybe that’s your quiet work
[Chorus]
Why don’t you do something?
I still ask it when I ache
But I feel you in the choosing
Every risk of love we take
If you’re speaking through our courage
Then your echo’s in my chest
Now I will do something
And trust you to do all the rest

dance, Uplifting trance build with warm analog synth arps, sidechained pads, and a pulsing four-on-the-floor kick; first half darker and minimal, then bright supersaw chords and airy plucks as the understanding arrives. Big, emotional male vocals with stacked harmonies in the final chorus and a soaring, reverbed lead in the drop., world, trance