[Stereo Widening] [Warm Room Reverb] [Start] [Acoustic Guitar & Slide Intro – slow blues tempo, brooding Americana mood, harmonica accents] [Verse 1] There’s a hole in the heart of America, And the hate keeps spilling through. Red and blue blood flow together, They beat in both me and you. We don’t talk it out no more, We let the trigger be our tongue. Every headline a funeral song, Every silence broken... ..By the sound of a gun [Emotional Chorus] Bridge the divide... Before we burn our house down, Bridge the divide... Before it crumbles to the ground. It’s not black It’s not white, It’s the faces we all know. Bridge the divide... Before there’s nowhere left to go. [Verse 2] We’ve traded family for strangers, Voices we scroll by... but never meet... We’ll believe a man on our tiny screens, But not the brother... standing at our feet..... Tear down those we don’t agree with, Like freedom’s... just a game to lose.... We don’t talk it out We shoot it out... And the truth... ...gets strangled by the news. [Chorus] Bridge the divide... Before we burn our house down, Bridge the divide... Before it crumbles to the ground. It’s not left It’s not right, It's every woman, child and man, Bridge the divide... Before our bedrock... ...crumbles to sand [Musical Interlude – slide guitar and harmonica break, slow groove, mournful blues tone] [Bridge] We don’t sit down at the table, We just turn and walk away. Every word becomes a weapon, Every fight, just digs a grave. But the truth ain’t draped in colors, It don’t bend It don’t take sides... It’s the thing that can unite us, If we’d only pick up that mic... [Final Chorus] Bridge the divide... Before we burn our house down, Bridge the divide... Before it crumbles to the ground. Call it yours Or call it mine But it's the land we all share. Bridge the divide Before there’s no one left... ...to care. [Outro – stripped acoustic, somber, let final words echo, slow fade] This house is still standing, But evil’s at our door.... We can drown inside our anger, And be the reason we’re no more.... No outside hand will break us, The Greatest Nation ever known... Will go down in history, ...Defeated by its own.... [End]
