Still Beside It

[Intro] You keep your coat on in the kitchen I keep the radio low A map curls up beside the window Like it already knows [Verse 1] We watched the county line crawl past From the back seat of a bus Your thumb traced every faded town While the driver counted us The diner shut its doors at supper A flag hung tired above the square You said, “Tell me what we’re saving” I said, “The fact that we’re still here” [Build] Hold my hand, don’t turn away We can name what they took today One small vow, one open door We are not afraid to ask for more [Drop / Chorus] America, what happened to your promise? We loved you with our windows down Now every county keeps its silence And every siren shakes this town But you and I are still beside it Two hearts refusing to bow If the whole wide country’s breaking We’ll stand together now [DJ Switch] Hey—hey! Stay close, stay close! Hey—hey! We won’t let go! [Verse 2] You read the names outside the courthouse I brought coffee in the rain A child drew a house with no fence Then colored in the plain We passed the mill with busted windows Past the school with lights gone dim You leaned your forehead into mine And asked if hope was still a hymn [Build 2] Not a flag above a fault line Not a slogan on a wall Just your shoulder next to mine When the old certainties fall [Drop / Chorus] America, what happened to your promise? We loved you with our windows down Now every county keeps its silence And every siren shakes this town But you and I are still beside it Two hearts refusing to bow If the whole wide country’s breaking We’ll stand together now [Tribal Break] Hands open, voices rising No more living by the lie We are neighbors, we are witnesses We are looking eye to eye [Bridge] I don’t need you to say it’s fine I need you here when the answers fail We can make a little shelter From a kitchen light and a paper trail And when the morning asks us who we are Say the ones who stayed, the ones who tried Say the ones who loved each other With the whole hard truth in sight [Final Megamix Drop] America, we saw the promise We saw the seams, we saw the cost We loved you through the long division We loved each other through the loss And you and I are still beside it Two hearts refusing to bow If the whole wide country’s breaking We’ll stand together now [Outro] Stay close, stay close The road is long, the door is ours Stay close, stay close We’ll meet the morning where we are