(Verse 1 – deep, gentle, melancholic) She worked the night shift, rubber soles on tile, Gave out morphine like it was mercy in a file. Then her back gave out, one bad lift in June, Same hospital wrote her the first prescription too. Little white pills with the name she knew by heart, “OxyContin – safe, the doctor said, just take your part.” She sang old hymns in the trailer after dark, Till the pills sang louder and stole the spark. (Chorus) Oh sister, I’m calling your name. You were the spark in a world of flame. They took your body, but not your soul — You’re the song that still makes me whole. (Verse 2) I found your scrubs folded neat on the chair, Prescription pad still lying there. You wrote “I’m sorry, I can’t do this clean,” The handwriting shaky like you’d already seen The devil wearing a white coat and tie, Smiling while he counted how many would die. Twenty-seven when they found you cold, Badge still pinned to the story never told. (Chorus) Oh sister, I’m calling your name. You were the spark in a world of flame. They took your body, but not your soul — You’re the song that still makes me whole. (Bridge – spoken/sung, intensity rising) They knew what they did, the Sacklers in their towers, Pushed the lie through every clinic, every hour. And the doctors danced like puppets on a string, Took the trips, the steaks, the diamond rings. They turned our pain into their quarterly gain, Then acted shocked when the bodies filled the drain. Now every small town has its own quiet war, And the same white coats still lock the door. (Final Chorus – fuller, with ache) Oh sister, your voice still cuts through the rain, In every empty hallway, in every phantom pain. They took your body, but not your soul — You’re the hymn that Purdue couldn’t control. The suits sold the cure… the doctors played along… And Fentanyl finished what they started — all along. (Outro – softly spoken, almost whispered) Sleep easy now, my sister of the fluorescent lights… I’ll keep singing where you left off. And I’ll remember every name they tried to forget.
