[Intro] [Spoken word] This is a letter From the future Written in water Signed with our silence Ice shelves cracking Like old bones in winter Maps out of date Before the ink dries We thought it was distance Just white on a globe But the edge of the world Is running through our hands now [Verse 1] Snow that never sees a season Breaking Breathing out its ghost Ancient air All our history Rushing past a buried coast Villages on borrowed shoreline Measuring the tide in fear Children learning new evacuation routes Year by year [Chorus] Choir: Melt Melt Melt The poles are weeping Every drop is a word we ignored Flood Flood Flood The story’s speaking Rising right up to our doors We were warned We were warned In a thousand warnings Still we waited for the storm to begin Now the ice is a choir in mourning Singing “Will you let us Let us Let us in?” [Verse 2] Far away feels closer daily Harbor stairs go one step down Names of cities in the forecast Spoken like they’re verbs that drown Smoke above the crowded summer Cracked earth Empty riverbed Yet we argue over numbers While the shoreline moves ahead [Chorus] Choir: Melt Melt Melt The poles are weeping Every drop is a word we ignored Flood Flood Flood The story’s speaking Rising right up to our doors We were warned We were warned In a thousand warnings Still we waited for the storm to begin Now the ice is a choir in mourning Singing “Will you let us Let us Let us in?” [Bridge] [Spoken over soft choir humming] What if concern Became a daily habit Not a headline We briefly scroll past What if “too late” Was a line we refused to cross Not a phrase we practice For the ones who follow [Chorus] Choir (bigger, call-and-response): Melt Melt Melt — can you hear it? (We can hear it, we can hear it) Every drop carries someone’s name Flood Flood Flood — can you fear it? (We will face it, we will change it) We will not play the same old game We were warned We were warned Now we are the warning We are ink on a page still wet Let the ice be a turning Not an ending This is the closest future We can change it yet (change it yet)
