Backwards in Flames

[Verse 1]
You smiled in the line
Pen on the page like it meant something
Said "it can't get worse"
Guess you never met a crowned nothing
Black cars in the dawn
Blue tape on a neighbor’s door
Kids wake up to silence
That’s not cartoons on the floor
[Chorus]
You voted for a devil
Now the sky’s on fire
He’s tearing all our little worlds apart
Innocent hearts in the back of a armored car
Tell me when
When does it stop?
We are going backwards
Dragging through the past
Hands up
Still they call it peace
How many names
How many faces
Till somebody screams "it’s me"?
[Verse 2]
Screens glow with the spin
They call it order while the streets bleed
Red stains on a sign
Where they wrote "hope" over last week
Old men in their suits
Toast to the chaos they designed
We’re standing in the ruins
Of a future we were owed in time
[Chorus]
You voted for a devil
Now the sky’s on fire
He’s tearing all our little worlds apart
Innocent hearts in the back of a armored car
Tell me when
When does it stop?
We are going backwards
Dragging through the past
Hands up
Still they call it peace
How many names
How many faces
Till somebody screams "it’s me"?
[Bridge]
Is this the ending
Or the start of something worse? (hey!)
Are we just extras
In their well-rehearsed curse?
I’m tired of candles
Tired of thoughts
Tired of prayers
I want the guilty
Staring straight into our stares
[Chorus]
You voted for a devil
Now the sky’s on fire
He’s tearing all our little worlds apart
Innocent hearts in the back of a armored car
Tell me when
When does it stop?
We are going backwards
Screaming through the past
But I won’t let you quiet me
If we are the targets
If we are the lost ones
Then I’ll be the last to leave (oh)
I’ll be the last to leave

pop, Dark electro-pop with emo edge, female vocals. Cold, pulsing bass arpeggios under tense, clipped verses; kick and snare hit like punches. Chorus explodes with wide synth pads, distorted sub, and stacked, slightly detuned harmonies for a wounded, anthemic feel. Bridge strips to filtered keys and vocal, then slams back in with glitchy fills and a final, raw chorus ad-libbed over a rising synth lead., emo, electro