Silent Burdens (Remastered)

[Verse 1] We stand as the children running wild through the yard laughing like the world hasn’t taught us to guard our hearts and we’re wondering what will happen when we finally face the pain will we carry all your sorrow or build something that can change? ⸻ [Verse 2] Because we grew up learning how to hide and how to fear how to carry silent burdens year after year after year but maybe we can grow up different maybe we can choose to see that strength is gentle courage and love is what makes us free ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Maybe all this healing is bigger than ourselves maybe every broken thing repaired becomes a gift for someone else ⸻ [Chorus] We are now tomorrow you were trying to clear the way standing in the shelters where your light still softly stays and maybe we won’t have to carry all the loneliness you knew maybe we’ll keep on believing good things can still be true ⸻ [Verse 3] So you plant trees you won’t sit under you mend things we may never see because somebody once kept going long enough for us to breathe and every table you keep open every hand you choose to hold becomes another piece of future stronger than the world of old ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] The smallest acts of kindness echo farther than you know because generations change slowly like rivers shaping stone ⸻ [Chorus] We are now tomorrow and we’re singing out this song we’re the proof you came together when the whole world felt so wrong and even in the darkness ordinary people tried to leave behind a world where our spirits could survive ⸻ [Bridge] No perfect generation no perfect path ahead just people learning slowly how to love instead and maybe that’s enough maybe that’s the start people brave enough to leave more hope than hurt inside our hearts ⸻ [Final Chorus] We are now tomorrow we will laugh more than you did we will try to not feel forgotten we will hold on to the kid and when the world grows heavy like sometimes it surely will we’ll remember how you fought to keep that small light living still ⸻ [Outro] For the ones who came before us we keep building