j🗺️Bootleg Map, (Ode to Cornelia)

[Intro] [acoustic guitar strumming, clean electric guitar lead] [Verse 1] [male vocals] I found the ledger with the names erased A tally kept by ghosts who never faced The war within the timber and the blood A lonely man's inheritance of mud [Chorus] [full band enters, driving drums] The system runs on gravity and shame Demands your witness to deny your name But you caught the mirror that was falling down And saw a king beneath the empty crown [Post-Chorus] [vocal harmonies] Ooh, we shared the quiet word the others missed [electric guitar solo] Ooh, they said the roads ran only one way down To serve a government of man or in town But we drew a line across the charts they kept Two travelers who woke while the city slept We carry the bootleg map, Nellie Ann [Bridge] [drums drop out, acoustic guitar and bass] Ooh, we dreamed the path that doesn't have an end [Verse 2] [full band returns] I wore the tie they said would suit the task Help build the church they all would ask But the suit felt thin upon a borrowed skin And the lessons never matched the noise within So I left the keys and the papers on the sill Said goodbye to the promise on the hill [Chorus] [heavy crash cymbals] Said goodbye Said goodbye [Guitar Solo] [distorted electric guitar melody] [Verse 3] [acoustic guitar arpeggios] I turned the corner on the cold last street Ready to fail every single soul I meet Then stood the light in shades of rust and gold My sister there, the truest heart kept in a tight hold [Chorus] [full band, high energy] Her hand was small but stopped the driving wheel And in her eyes the judgment finally heals She spoke of lies the gossipers had spun And gave me back the life I thought was done [Outro] [vocal adlibs] I heard the secret that the quiet girl kept The price you paid for dreams while the others slept You whispered the failure was not in our part But in the brittle measure of the common heart The walls they built will crumble and descend Crumble and descend, crumble and descend We are the misfits that heaven defends [acoustic guitar fades] We are the misfits that heaven defends Ooh, heaven defends [Instrumental outro]