ElevenLabs_audio_elevenlabs-music… x We Dragged It In. (Mashup)

Intro] [Instrumental] [Verse 1 - Male] We built it out of every grudge we carried, out of everyone who'd told us we were small. He said climb inside, it's yours now, take it, so we roped it to our backs and pulled it through the wall. [Pre-Chorus - Male] He said the ones who warned us were the enemy, said the danger was outside, never in. We wanted so bad to be the ones who won for once, we didn't stop to ask what waited underneath. [Chorus] [Male Vocal] We dragged it in, we dragged it in singing, torches high, we pulled it through the gate ourselves. [Female Vocal - Claudette, answering underneath] I told you, I told you, and nobody listened, I told you, and the telling was the curse. [Both] Now the gates are shut and something's loose behind the walls, we hear it moving, and it isn't a rescue after all. [Instrumental Break] [Verse 2 - Male] Now the street don't feel like it used to, now the neighbours eye the neighbours down the line. He's still selling tickets to the fire he started, counting profit while the whole block burns on time. [Bridge - Female, Claudette alone] I saw the wood before they carved the smile on it, I saw the shape of what was hollow underneath. I'm not the villain for the seeing - I just learned too young that being right doesn't mean you're believed. [Instrumental Break] [Chorus] [Male Vocal] We dragged it in, and now we're the ones who carry it, torches gone, just ash where the gate used to be. [Female Vocal] I'm not saying I told you so - I'm saying open your eyes and see. [Both] So if it comes again wearing a gift, we open our eyes before we open the gate. We're not dragging another one in singing - not this time, not again, not too late. [Outro] [Instrumental]