Verse 1
We built a cathedral from cassette tape hiss
Stained glass made of shattered picks
Lit candles with the sparks from your mouth
Watched them tremble in the Pacific mist
They said the storm was self inflicted
That lightning chose its tree
But I’ve stood in forests long enough
To know when roots don’t leave
Pre Chorus
There was a bruise beneath the halo
A tremor in the choir
Somebody cupped their hands around
The smallest hidden fire
Chorus
You were a lighthouse in a blackout sea
Salt in the wound of a broken dream
But lighthouses don’t drown alone
They’re swallowed by the tide
There’s fingerprints in the undertow
Where the truth went down to hide
Verse 2
They folded you in paper wingsAnd called it gravity
Hung your silence on a hook
For all the world to see
But angels don’t just drop like that
Mid sentence, mid refrain
Sometimes the puppet loses breath
When someone pulls the chain
Pre Chorus
There was sugar in the poison
Perfume in the flame
A kiss that tasted copper
Wrapped in borrowed shame
Chorus
You were a lighthouse in a blackout sea
Salt in the wound of a broken dream
But lighthouses don’t drown alone
They’re dragged beneath the foam
There’s shadows stitched in velvet ropes
Around the broken throne
Bridge
If truth is just a mirror
Why’s it covered up in smoke
Why does every answer
Feel carefully bespoke
I hear you in the feedback
Between the chord and scream
Like a ghost caught in the raftersOf the American dream
Soft Break
Maybe pain can pull a trigger
Maybe ghosts can hold a gun
Maybe crowns are forged in darkness
Long before the damage done
But something in the echo
Something in the grain
Says roses don’t just wilt like that
Without a little rain
Final Chorus
You were a lighthouse in a blackout sea
A spark in the machinery
And sparks don’t simply vanish
When the engine’s running cold
They’re buried under concrete
And sold as something told
Outro
The tide keeps all its secrets
The shoreline keeps the scar
We still kneel in your distortion
Like a fallen star
And the static…
Still hums in every bar.
