[Intro – instrumental] [Verse 1] Tree-lined road by the lakeside curve, Headlights cutting through the dark. The fifth of July still burns behind me, A cold blue flame in the rear-view spark. Nobody knows. Nobody can know, If I ever want the truth to stay real. [Pre-Chorus] I keep my hands clean, But the stain still shows. [Chorus] Nobody knows, nobody can know, I built my life from silence and smoke. Freedom ended where the waterline broke, And the night keeps everything close. Nobody knows—nobody can know. [Verse 2] The road bends west where the moon hangs low, My shadow rides the passing fence. The only one who saw it happen Lies beyond forgiveness or defence. The radio hums a hymn of forgetting, But it can’t drown the evidence. [Pre-Chorus] I keep my hands clean, But the stain still shows. [Chorus] Nobody knows, nobody can know, I built my life from silence and smoke. Freedom ended where the waterline broke, And the night keeps everything close. Nobody knows—nobody can know. [Breakdown ] Whisper in the dark, hold your breath. Truth is a ghost that won’t rest yet. [Bridge] If I ever told the story, It would crumble in my hands. Each word a chisel’s echo On a face I cannot stand. Whose dream am I? Whose ruin did I create? I carved myself from mercy, And learned how love forgave. [Final Chorus] Nobody knows, nobody can know, I built my life from silence and smoke. Freedom ended where the waterline broke, And the night keeps everything close. Nobody knows—nobody can know, (And maybe that’s how mercy grows.) [Outro – instrumental fade]
