[Verse 1]
Ash on the playground sand
Names carved deep in the rusted swings
Billboards slashed and leaning
Glass in the cracks where the seedlings cling
We walk through burned-out malls
Shopping carts
Skeletons of our needs
Scavenging wires and stories
Trading old ghosts for seeds
[Chorus]
Green after the end
We rise from the smoke again
Bare hands in the dirt
Turn ruins into roots
My friend
Green after the end
Bare feet on the bones we mend
Where everything was broken
We grow what they condemned
[Verse 2]
Graffiti maps on concrete
"Safe if you make it past the rails"
Kids draw suns on the bunker walls
Laughing loud in the siren tales
We build our homes from billboards
Rain in the barrels
Sparks in the dark
Plug in hope to a cracked-out grid
Light up a forest from one small spark
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Sirens fade
The night stands still
We breathe
We bleed
But we rebuild
[whispered vocals] Steel and ivy
Hand in hand
New law written in living land
[crescendo] Hear that hum in the hills
It’s us
Turning fallout into trust
If this is all we get again
Let the wreckage bloom
Amen
[Chorus]