[Intro] [Heavy tense guitar riff] [Verse 1] Twilight called us in on Tuesday. Said, "We really need to talk." Seven stars on half the windows, arguments on every block. Rainbow came in already angry. Rarity looked half awake. Applejack stood by the doorway. Pinkie didn't bring a cake. Fluttershy sat near the window. That worried me somehow. Twilight cleared her throat and told us, "We need each other now." [Pre-Chorus] Six friends around one table. Should've been an easy thing. Then somepony asked the question nopony wanted answering. [Chorus] There's a fault line underneath us, running deeper every day. We keep calling this our freedom while we're pulling us away. Every word becomes a boundary. Every compromise, defeat. There's a fault line underneath us— and it's moving under our hooves. [Verse 2] Rainbow said, "You call it Loyalty when I'm the one who has to stay. Why does being there for everypony mean my dreams can always wait?" Rarity said, "Try Generosity when they never stop taking. Give enough and pretty soon they call your giving an obligation." Applejack said, "I don't need help. Never did. I'll be just fine." Twilight said, "That's not the point." AJ snapped, "Then don't make it thine." Pinkie laughed. But not like Pinkie. She just stared down at the floor. "What if I don't want to make you smile? What am I then good for?" [Pre-Chorus] Every question had an answer. Every answer had a scar. And the friends I've known for years suddenly felt miles apart. [Chorus] There's a fault line underneath us, running deeper every day. We keep calling this our freedom while we're pulling us away. Every word becomes a boundary. Every compromise, defeat. There's a fault line underneath us— and it's moving under our hooves. [Verse 3] Then Twilight turned to Fluttershy. "You've barely said a word." Fluttershy looked right back at her. "I don't have to." That hurt. Twilight tried to hide it. Rainbow muttered, "She's got a point." And somewhere underneath the arguing, four notes slipped between the noise. Then the question came so softly I don't know who heard it first: "Why should you be the one who gives in just to make this friendship work?" [Instrumental] [Heavy guitars, clashing motifs] [Bridge] [Overlapping voices, building] "I'm tired of being loyal when it only means I lose." "I'm tired of giving pieces nopony asked if I could use." "I'm tired of needing help." "I'm tired of being nice." "I'm tired of making everypony laugh when I'm not doing fine." Twilight shouted, "STOP!" [Drop] Silence. Then she said— "This isn't us." Fluttershy answered, "Maybe you don't know us as well as you thought." [Heavy guitars return] [Final Chorus] There's a fault line underneath us! Now it's splitting through the floor! Every truth we kept inside us isn't staying buried anymore! We say nopony gets to own us. We say nopony gets to choose. But if friendship means we're always giving— what exactly do we lose? There's a fault line underneath us! Six hearts pulling six different ways! And nopony wants to be the first to bend enough to make us stay! [Post-Chorus] My life! My voice! My road! My choice! [Distorted] My life. My voice. My road. My choice. [Outro] [Feedback, low guitar] One chair scraped across the floor. Then another. Then another. Twilight didn't ask us to stay. Maybe she knew we wouldn't.
