[Intro]
A meteor split the quiet field
And something ancient learned to breathe
A boy stepped out beneath the blue
While thunder counted down the leaves
[Verse 1]
A neighbor's house was burning bright
The night had teeth, the town was still
A bat became a broken sword
A borrowed cap became his will
A girl with roses in her hair
A boy who carried thunder's spark
A runaway with loaded fear
Four small names against the dark
[Pre-Chorus]
Through caves where hungry statues watched
Through rivers black with stolen dreams
They followed signs the future left
And woke the world from underneath
[Chorus]
Run, little heroes, run through the nightmare
Past every face that the evil remade
Mother is calling from under the nowhere
Time is a wound that refuses to fade
Hold to the promise, hold to each other
Even when reason is torn from the sky
Four hearts are louder than armies of darkness
Four hearts can teach the dead world to die
[Verse 2]
A desert swallowed roads and bones
A haunted town forgot the sun
A monastery hid its gold
A sea kept secrets from everyone
The bee arrived with borrowed time
A message carved in honeyed light
He saw the future's final mouth
And sent them searching through the night
[Verse 3]
A prince in red crossed broken fields
With rockets stitched beneath his fear
A woman from a distant age
Returned to make the ending near
The sea gave up a sleeping door
The stone gave up a yellow road
They climbed beyond the human world
Toward where the oldest hatred flowed
[Chorus]
Run, little heroes, run through the nightmare
Past every face that the evil remade
Mother is calling from under the nowhere
Time is a wound that refuses to fade
Hold to the promise, hold to each other
Even when reason is torn from the sky
Four hearts are louder than armies of darkness
Four hearts can teach the dead world to die
[Bridge]
The enemy was not a king
Not flesh, not blood, not born at all
A red and limitless hunger
Behind a thousand screaming walls
It wore the shape of every terror
It bent the years, it ate the name
It turned the prayers of living children
Into a furnace without flame
[Breakdown]
No weapon reaches where it hides
No ordinary hand can win
The voice of every distant stranger
Must be invited in
[Final Chorus]
Rise, little heroes, rise through the nightmare
Call every promise from every far shore
Mother is singing beneath the disaster
Love is the door that the darkness ignored
Hold to the promise, hold to each other
Let every frightened soul testify
Four hearts are louder than armies of darkness
Four hearts can teach the dead world to die
[Outro]
The morning returned to the ruined ground
The silence remembered each name
A child looked up at the ordinary sky
And nothing was ever the same
Somewhere beyond the last broken star
The hunger still waited alone
But the world kept breathing because four small hearts
Had carried it home