Verse 1 The hangar lights are dying Paint peels from yesterday Your name’s still on the comms line But no one answers anyway Medals rust in silence Orders blur and bend We were taught to call it victory I still call it the end Pre-Chorus They said the war was necessary They said we’d be reborn But every orbit looks the same When you’re drifting alone Chorus If history forgives us It won’t remember how Your shadow crossed my cockpit glass The moment we broke the vow I’d trade the whole damn galaxy For one unbroken night But heroes only live in files And love dies in the light Verse 2 Blue Earth through shattered glass A promise half-fulfilled We aimed for something permanent But learned how easy it kills Your voice was calm and steady Like you already knew Somewhere between the trigger pull I was losing you Pre-Chorus The flags keep rearranging The truth stays classified We survive just long enough To wish we hadn’t tried Chorus If history forgives us It won’t remember how Your shadow crossed my cockpit glass The moment we broke the vow I’d trade the whole damn galaxy For one unbroken night But heroes only live in files And love dies in the light Bridge (instrumental → half-spoken) (Strings swell, drums drop out) They’ll call this era “necessary” They’ll call us “brave” But no one writes about the hands That couldn’t be saved Final Chorus If history forgives us Let it start right here Not in speeches or parade lines Just surviving the fear I don’t need a monument I don’t need the lie Just meet me in the afterglow Where we almost survived Outro (Synth pad holds, guitar harmonics fade) After the colony falls We’re still drifting on
