We counted breaths in the blackout glow Dust in our teeth, nowhere to go Windows gone, just the frame of sky We learned how not to ask why Bootsteps fading into the night Names we held just out of sight We wrote them down in broken lines So they wouldn’t disappear with time Every warning cut through bone Every echo said “you’re alone” But we stayed when the signal died We stayed, we stayed— We outlived the sirens When the warning never came Through the fire and the silence We were calling out our names We outlived the sirens Let the empty skyline ring If there’s nothing left to follow We’ll be louder than everything Ash fell soft like a second skin Every loss we were living in Streetlights flickered, then went blind Still we moved like we had time Hands still shaking, we held on To the rhythm of what was gone Every step was a fragile proof We were more than the breaking truth No horizon, no release Just the sound of refusing defeat If the world wouldn’t let us through We’d become something new— We outlived the sirens When the warning never came Through the fire and the silence We were calling out our names We outlived the sirens Let the empty skyline ring If there’s nothing left to follow We’ll be louder than everything No signal, no sign Just your hand in mine If this is all we get— We’re not done yet We’re not done yet We’re not done yet— We outlived the sirens Heard the world fall out of phase Through the fire and the silence We were still calling our names We outlived the sirens Now the quiet has to sing From the ruins, from the distance We are louder than everything We outlived the sirens…
