Verse 1 Sirens cut the midnight like a blade, Red and blue on every window shade. Helicopters shaking streets of prayer, Mothers counting footsteps on the stair. On the courthouse steps, the marble cracks, Truth gets buried, power pushes back. They call it order; they call it border, they call it light, While vans roll quiet through the immigrant night. Pre-Chorus And I hear the old books screaming from the shelf, “This is how a nation turns against itself.” Every broken rule, every sacred line, Is another warning burning in the sky. Chorus Eyes of the sphinx, are you watching us fall? Can you hear us shouting through the writing on the wall? We are the thunder, we are the spark, We are the voices rising out of the dark. Eyes of the sphinx, don’t you turn away, We’re still alive in the breaking day. If they build their kingdom on fear and flames, We’ll carve our freedom into their names. Verse 2 Headlines kneel beneath the wealthy hands, Public voices cut from public bands. College halls go quiet under threat, As debt and silence tighten like a net. Every screen becomes a loaded gun, Every lie gets dressed up like the sun. They crown the loudest voice and call it fate, Then lock the garden, electrify the gate. Pre-Chorus 2 And the watchdogs vanish in the paper storm, Emergency becomes the daily form. But we’ve seen the match, we’ve smelled the smoke before, Now we’re not standing silent anymore. Chorus Eyes of the sphinx, are you watching us fall? Can you hear us shouting through the writing on the wall? We are the thunder, we are the spark, We are the voices rising out of the dark. Eyes of the sphinx, don’t you turn away, We’re still alive in the breaking day. If they build their kingdom on fear and flames, We’ll carve our freedom into their names. Bridge Don’t say the dark came suddenly, It knocked each day politely. It wore a badge, it flashed a screen, It taught the fearful how to sing. Don’t say we never saw the sign, The ballots bent, the poisoned line. But hearts can riot, hands can rise, And fire can live behind our eyes. Final Chorus Eyes of the sphinx, are you watching us fall? Can you hear us shouting through the writing on the wall? We are the thunder, we are the spark, We are the voices rising out of the dark. Eyes of the sphinx, don’t you turn away, We’re still alive in the breaking day. If they build their kingdom on fear and flames, We’ll bring it down singing their names. Outro Softly, fading Eyes of the sphinx, keep watching the dawn, Even when the fire is nearly gone. Hold one ember beneath the ash, Hold one name they cannot erase. We are the whisper after the cry, We are the stars they buried alive. Eyes of the sphinx, don’t close tonight, Fade with us into the light.
