[Verse 1 — Vix, sharp/cold] Chrome and rust, city holds its breath counting down the wires like a countdown to our debt but we already spent it, we already burned the check we don't owe the skyline, we're the flare it can't forget [Pre-Chorus — building, layered] Every window shaking, every siren singing our name this city thought it built us small — watch it try to say that again [Chorus] Not your background, not your noise we're the static with a voice city, count your wires twice we don't flicker, we IGNITE (gang vocal: WE IGNITE) [Verse 2 — Saffra/Juniper, warmer but harder] You paved us into sidewalks, thought we'd stay down there but foxfire doesn't ask the concrete's permission to flare every scar's a circuit now, every ache's a live wire you built a city of glass and forgot girls can start fires [Pre-Chorus] Every window shaking, every siren singing our name this city thought it built us small — watch it try to say that again [Chorus] Not your background, not your noise we're the static with a voice city, count your wires twice we don't flicker, we IGNITE (WE IGNITE) [Bridge — Nyx, dark/spoken, temperature drops] (half-spoken, low) You can dim the streetlights… you can cut the power… but you can't unmake a flare once it's already found the hour— [Cinder ad-libs building underneath, chaotic] (spark— spark— we don't stop—) [Final Chorus — full wall of sound, all five voices] Not your background, not your noise we're the static with a voice city, count your wires twice we don't flicker, we IGNITE (WE IGNITE — WE IGNITE) [Outro — cinematic fade] Skyline's ours now count the wires twice we don't flicker we ignite
