[Verse, minor piano motif, soft female voice, distant strings] The infirmary was breathing through the lantern’s fading glow voices drifting past my pillow telling things I should not know Names disguised in careful phrases plans exchanged in quiet breath someone whispered of an uprising someone whispered waiting’s death And beyond the outer fences where the watchlights never roam lies a silent field of iron meant to keep us from our home [Chorus, orchestral swell, soaring female vocal] If the night breaks open pathways through the wire and frozen ground past the buried teeth of thunder sleeping just beyond the town Would we dare to cross that danger hand in trembling hand again for a life beyond the forest waiting somewhere past the pain If love is strong enough to guide us through that silent killing land [Verse 2, piano and strings rising] When I found you near the barracks I could barely form the words every rumor from the infirmary felt too dangerous to be heard You just listened in the silence like you’d known it all along as if something in the air here had been changing all along Past the towers waits the minefield cold and patient in the sand [Chorus, larger orchestral lift] If the night breaks open pathways through the towers and the rain we must cross the field of thunder where so many fear the plain If one moment of survival waits beyond that silent line maybe hope is not forbidden maybe fate could still be kind If love leads us through the darkness we will follow every sign [Bridge, soft piano and choir] I know the ground itself may claim us before the forest meets our feet but a life that waits for nothing is a slower kind of defeat So if death hides in the earth below us let it take me running free for a breath beyond the fences is the only life for me [Final Chorus, full symphonic lift] If the night breaks open pathways through the fire and through the flame I will cross the sleeping thunder calling softly out your name If I fall beneath the forest where the broken wires begin still I ran toward one small freedom with your hand held tight in mine And if death forgot me once before maybe it will once again
