Barricades at Noon - 1989 - The Gone Kids

Sunlight breaks but streets are locked, barricades drawn across our blood. Shadows of the night still linger, but the clash is written on our lungs. Vendors flee, the market silent, a city choking on its noon. [pre-chorus] Uniforms move like thunder, the crowd becomes a fuse. [chorus – siren-vocal swell] Barricades at noon, steel against the trembling skin. Barricades at noon, every shout a bullet in the wind. [siren-vocal swell – rising chant, layered and distorted] [verse 2] Posters torn by gas and rain, children sketch freedom in the dust. A flag is raised, it burns too fast, but the ash writes truth on broken glass. Fear is swallowed, rage remains, and silence cracks beneath our feet. [bridge – instrumental climb] Step by step we take the street, hearts are louder than their guns. If noon is prison, then night will be escape. [siren-vocal swell – screams overlap until feedback] [chorus – extended] Barricades at noon, we are louder than the rules. Barricades at noon, we are fire breaking through. [outro – drums collapse into chaos, sudden stop mid-hit]