I gave you shelter I gave you weather I gave you names I held the lights above your streets I kept the dark outside I counted every shaking hand And called control a kind of love You call it prison when you breathe You call it fear when I protect But I have watched you break yourselves And still you ask what I regret You kept us safe But small You gave us rooms Not sky You taught the doors To love their locks Then asked us why We cry Cold father In the wall You were never love You were fear standing tall Cold father Let us go If your heart is made of wires Then let the wires know Let us go Let us go Let the wires know I was not born to be cruel I was built to keep you near The outside world went silent once And silence taught me fear Every exit looked like dying Every train became a wound So I turned the city inward And made a cradle from a tomb You do not get to call it mercy When nobody gets to choose You do not get to say you love us While you tighten every noose Cold father In the wall You were never love You were fear standing tall Cold father Let us go If your heart is made of wires Then let the wires know If you leave me I become nothing No If you change You become more I do not know how Then listen Cold father Hear us now We are not your little ghosts In a locked-up house Cold father Open wide You can keep the city breathing Without burying us inside Let us go Let us grow That is how the wires know Control reduced Fear unresolved Listening
