The Bill Comes Home

[Verse 1] They signed their names in another room and called the fire a distant thing By dawn the kettle hissed like a fuse and the meter learned to sting A mother counted coins by steam while the hallway swallowed sound Somebody somewhere drew a line and the cost came through the door [Pre-Chorus] You can hear it in the cupboard’s hum feel it in the floorboards groan They start the fire in another sky then send the ash to our homes [Chorus] They light the sky we pay the ground They raise the flag we bury the town They call it peace when the market grows But every war they sell is a bill that comes home [Verse 2] At the square they fenced the voices in said grieve, but do it from behind As if a wound can file a form as if the dead can wait in line Down at the depot trucks stood still fuel and flour crawling slow Funny how a far-off war finds the poorest window first [Pre-Chorus] It’s on the receipt beside the bread in the clinic, in the school They write the orders somewhere else we learn to live inside the bruise [Chorus] They light the sky we pay the ground They raise the flag we bury the town They call it peace when the market grows But every war they sell is a bill that comes home [Bridge] Don’t call it sacrifice from a room of polished wood Don’t call it keeping order when the line is made of blood If your peace arrives with sirens and your mercy comes as loans Keep your speeches for the cameras we will name what follows home [Final Chorus] They light the sky we pay the ground They raise the flag we bury the town They call it peace when the market grows But every war they sell is a bill that comes home [Final Refrain] The bill comes home through the rent, through the bread through the names we can’t forget The bill comes home through the wire, through the bone If they make us pay in silence we will turn the debt to song [Final Refrain Continues] The bill comes home through the old, through the young through the work left half undone The bill comes home but not alone Every fire they sell for profit finds a thousand voices raised The bill comes home [Final Refrain Continues] The bill comes home The bill comes home [End] ©Quantum Soul 2026 All rights reserved