Before The End, Comes Flashing Lights.

Scene: The city before the crackdown. People feel something wrong but can’t name it yet.

Verse

Streetlights flicker like they’re trying to warn us,

But we walk on, pretending not to see.

Every billboard smiles with perfect teeth,

Selling peace we never get for free.

Chorus

This is the quiet before the sirens,

The breath before the break.

A calm so thin and fragile

You can hear the city shake.