Graveyard on the Hill

[Verse 1]
Pulling up that moving van
One stoplight
Same gas station
Fresh white coat
Small-town man
Trying to fix a broken nation
Wife in the doorway
Boxes everywhere
Kids chasing crows through the autumn air
Old man pointing up past the pinewood mill
Says
"Some things stay buried
Up on that hill"
[Chorus]
Graveyard on the hill
Where the dark don't sleep
You can trade your soul
For the ones you keep
Every heartbeat screams
But the world stands still
When you walk alone
To the graveyard on the hill
[Verse 2]
Dirt road dust and a baseball cap
Laugh too loud
Then the tires snap
Headlights spin
Steel and glass
One red shoe in the roadside grass
Hospital room
Fluorescent sky
"Doc
You did all you could
" they lie
He stares at the bed where his best friend lay
Feels his own pulse pounding
Like it's slipping away
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] Shovel hits the frozen ground
Each dull thud a thunder sound
Praying
Cursing
Shaking hands
Crossing lines he used to stand
[drums build
Guitars swell]
Lightning cracks across his face
As he lays his boy in that cursed place
Whispers
"Breathe
Just breathe again"
Not knowing what comes back
Isn't what went in
[Chorus]
[Outro]
[guitar solo over held chords]
On his knees by the windowsill
Footsteps scrape
And the night grows still
He got his miracle
He got his thrill
But something's walking home
From the graveyard on the hill

rock, Big 80s arena-rock power ballad: clean guitar arpeggios and toms in the verses, exploding into overdriven power chords and soaring leads in the chorus. Male vocals with reverb, stacked gang shouts on the hook. Key change and wailing guitar solo in the bridge, drums riding the crash for the final chorus and a held vocal note on the outro.