[Intro] After midnight The school went dark After midnight They missed our hearts [Verse 1] School bags, notebooks, shoes by the wall Morning drawings, names in the hall Little voices, now none at all One loud flash, then the sky fell down They were children That should be enough Not soldiers, not targets Just small and loved Now the dust sits where the laughter was And the world still talks like this was war [Chorus] [Female Vocal, Haunting] After midnight Say their names After midnight Nothing’s changed They were children They were here Now there’s smoke Where they disappeared [Verse 2] [Male Rap] Who explains that to a mother now Who tells a father to calm back down What kind of lie makes this make sense What kind of power calls this defense I see the desks and I see the flame I see dead children and no one shamed Big men talk while the small ones bleed And call it justice on a TV screen [Bridge] [Half-Sung, Heavy] No flag can hide it No speech can clean it A school was hit And children were in it No peace in this No honor found Just broken walls And the smallest graves in the ground [Final Chorus] [Female Vocal, Bigger] After midnight Say their names After midnight Nothing’s changed They were children They were here Now there’s smoke Where they disappeared
