Static in the Garden

**“Static in the Garden”** (Verse 1) We built a quiet out of borrowed light Hung our hopes on a satellite sky Porch swings creaked like a lullaby lie While the news bled through the blinds at night Ash in the roses, glass in the rain Every promise tasted faintly of pain You said, “hush now, it’s only a phase” But the sirens learned our names (Pre-Chorus) And I heard the wires hum beneath the street Like a warning we refused to meet (Chorus) Peace was a paper crown Burning as it hit the ground We were kings of a cardboard town Till the fire came around Now the silence screams out loud Through the smoke and the fallout cloud We tried to hold it, but it slipped somehow Peace was a paper crown (Verse 2) Graffiti prayers on a concrete wall Every color just a curtain call We were dancing as the ceiling cracked With a rhythm we could never take back You wore doubt like a second skin I wore faith like a sinking ship We kept kissing through the static hiss Like it wasn’t ending like this (Pre-Chorus) And the TV flickered truths we’d hide In the glow, something in us died (Chorus) Peace was a paper crown Burning as it hit the ground We were kings of a cardboard town Till the fire came around Now the silence screams out loud Through the smoke and the fallout cloud We tried to hold it, but it slipped somehow Peace was a paper crown (Bridge) Tear it down, tear it down All the lies we built around Every whisper, every sound Turns to thunder when it comes unwound We were young, we were blind Left the warning signs behind Now the wreckage fills our minds Like a hymn we can’t rewind (Soft Breakdown) And I still see you in the afterglow Of a world we swore we’d never know (Final Chorus) Peace was a paper crown Floating as it tumbled down We were lost but never found When the truth finally came around Now the silence screams out loud Through the ashes of what we allowed We tried to save it, but we don’t know how Peace was a paper crown (Outro) Static in the garden grows Where it ends, nobody knows…