INTRO - [CHOIR LEAD IN 8 BARS
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VERSE 1 – [HIP HOP]
Loud nation living, most people stay quiet
Screens sell division, real hearts don’t buy it
We fight in headlines, heal in the kitchen
Truth never trends, so it slips the system
Different flags hanging over our doors
Same worn soles on the same hard floors
Most fights ain’t hate, they hunger and fear
Same reason breathing, different way here
Noise makes us pick a side to defend
Life makes us pray that the week might bend
We wear our past like it’s stitched in our name
Different starts, but identical pain
We speak in beliefs but we bleed the same
Love and protection is how we were trained
Before right or wrong got a voice or a song
We just tried surviving this long
PRE-CHORUS
When the noise steps back
You can hear it clear
Every voice shaking
From the same old fear
Strip the words down slow
Let the truth appear
Under every shout
Is a heart right here
CHORUS – [SOULFUL]
Different roads, same reason we walk
Same hope keeping tired hearts awake
Different words, same prayers in the dark
Same love for the ones that we save
Under the noise, under all that talk
Truth don’t need a face or name
We ain’t strangers underneath it all
Just taught different frames
VERSE 2 – [HIP HOP]
Nobody chose the pain that raised them
Nobody chose the rules that shaped them
Faith or fists or staying small
Every belief built a wall
Some learned trust from a church or book
Some learned fast from the looks they took
We don’t argue from evil or spite
We argue from wounds not healed right
Different streets taught different math
What to keep, what to give, what lasts
Survival don’t speak one tongue
Same old story, different lungs
We protect what we learned to defend
We reflect what we never forget
Peel it back, get close, you’ll find
The same fear in every mind
PRE-CHORUS 2
Listen long, the anger breaks
Every shout got fear in shape
Armor off, no role to play
Same heartbeat under rage
Lay the labels on the ground
Let the silence make a sound
What we are is showing plain
Different lives, same pain
CHORUS – [FULL]
Different roads, same reason we walk
Same hope keeping tired hearts awake
Different words, same prayers in the dark
Same love for the ones that we save
Under the noise, under all that talk
Truth don’t need a face or name
We ain’t strangers underneath it all
Just taught different frames
BRIDGE – [HALF TIME]
Before the labels
Before the lines
Before the numbers
Or the sides
Hands reaching out
Trying belong
Trying feel safe
Trying stay strong
FINAL CHORUS –[CHOIR]
Different roads, same reason we walk
Same breath when we pray at night
Different skin, same tears when it’s over
Same love when we get it right
Turn the noise down, hear what’s true
From the start, from me and you
Different stories, one human heart
We were never far apart
Same fear, same hope, same breath
Same fight to matter here
Strip it back, we still remain
Just people living the same year
OUTRO
When the noise fades
We still here
Same people
Same breath
GrooveKernel
