[Verse 1]
Black rain on the headlines
Cracked screens
Dead eyes
Another siren on the freeway
Another name we memorize
But in a quiet ward at midnight
Someone takes their first small breath
Tiny fingers grab a thumb
Defying every threat
[Chorus]
However ruined this world has become
Life endures
Life endures
In the ruins
In the rust
In the smoke in our lungs
Life endures
Life endures
Mired in torment
Drowning in fear
Still
Births continue here
However ruined this world has become
Life endures
Life endures
[Verse 2]
Graffiti on a boarded window
"Still here" in dripping red
A garden forced through broken concrete
Green veins where the rubble bled
Old man feeding stray dogs
With hands that shake from loss
Kids chase sparks from a burned-out car
Like stars they almost caught
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register
Piano and strings only]
Tell me
Is there beauty
In a flower on a mass grave
In a joke shared at a bedside
When you know you cannot stay
Is there grace in every heartbeat
That refuses to give in
In the choice to bring a child here
When the dark keeps closing in
[crescendo
Full band slams in]
I scream because I’m terrified
I sing because I care
I bleed my voice into the sky
And still
There’s something there
[Chorus]