(Intro — soft ambient guitar / distant thunder)
Turn it up loud enough…
Maybe the ghosts will sing with us.
(Verse 1)
Old tattoos and tired eyes
Broken hearts we glamorized
Every venue smelled like smoke
Every laugh hid something broke
We were kids with loaded minds
Searching for a place to hide
Found religion in the sound
When the whole world let us down
(Pre-Chorus)
Every chord became a lifeline
Every crowd a reason not to die
(Chorus)
There are ghosts in the amplifiers
Singing through the midnight wires
Every lost soul we once knew
Still echoes when the speakers bloom
And if heaven never calls my name
I’ll still burn inside these flames
With every anthem, every scar
We keep alive who we are
(Verse 2)
Blue lights flash across the rain
Another friend lost to the pain
Too young to become a memory
Too hurt to ever feel free
So we scream until our lungs collapse
To drown out every panic attack
Turning sorrow into noise
Giving silence no more choice
(Pre-Chorus)
And somewhere in the feedback storm
We became something reborn
(Chorus)
There are ghosts in the amplifiers
Singing through the midnight wires
Every lost soul we once knew
Still echoes when the speakers bloom
And if heaven never calls my name
I’ll still burn inside these flames
With every anthem, every scar
We keep alive who we are
(Breakdown — crushing and emotional)
FOR EVERY NAME WRITTEN ON A GRAVE
FOR EVERY KID THEY COULDN’T SAVE
FOR EVERY NIGHT WE ALMOST LEFT
THIS SONG BREATHES WITH WHAT REMAINS
WE ARE THE SOUND OF SURVIVAL
THE LAST CHORD OF REVIVAL
(Bridge — softer, emotional)
Maybe we were never hopeless
Maybe we were just unheard
And every voice lost in the darkness
Still deserves another verse
(Final Chorus)
There are ghosts in the amplifiers
But tonight they sing beside us
Every shattered soul alive
Raising hell beneath the lights
And if tomorrow never comes
At least we turned our pain into songs
Now the whole damn world will hear
We were here…
We were here.
(Outro — fading)
Static hum…
Crowd noise…
One final guitar ringing out…
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