[Intro β Male Vocal, low and controlled] Three floors down. Two guards left. One name on the file I hoped I'd never read. [Verse 1 β Male Vocal] Red lights bleeding through the hall Sirens wake behind the wall Thirty years of loyal lies Signed and sealed before my eyes Every name we lost was there Every ghost we left somewhere And at the bottom, black and clean The man who sent me on the scene [Pre-Chorus β Male Vocal] So that's the game So that's the cost We weren't betrayed We were meant to be lost [Chorus β Male Vocal] No country for ghosts No medals, no names We live in the margins We die in the flames But tonight every secret Goes out on the wire You built your empire I'll watch it catch fire [Instrumental Break β spy guitar, brass, organ] [Female Vocal β radio, urgent] Transmission at sixty percent They're closing the east corridor You have maybe ninety seconds [Male Vocal] Make it eighty. [Female Vocal] That's not how numbers work. [Male Vocal, dry] Tonight it is. [Verse 2 β Male Vocal] Footsteps thunder, bullets sing Broken glass and telephone rings I pull the drive, the lights go white She cuts the power β perfect timing tonight Seventy, eighty, closing fast Every secret flooding past Then through the smoke I hear her sayβ [Female Vocal β radio, tense] They're between us. Don't come back this way. [Male Vocal] Negative. [Female Vocal] That's an order. [Male Vocal] You don't outrank me. [Female Vocal] I do now. Move. [Male Vocal] [Pre-Chorus β Male Vocal] The final file The final door The truth is out We owe them nothing anymore [Chorus β Male Vocal] No country for ghosts No medals, no names We live in the margins We dance through the flames And tonight every secret Is burning the wire You built your empire We lit the fire [Bridge β Male Vocal, rising] One stairwell One rooftop One helicopter gone One shadow on the opposite side Still moving through the dawn [Female Vocal β distant radio] Go. I'll find another way. [Male Vocal] You'd better. [Female Vocal] Was that concern? [Male Vocal] Static. Must be static. [Male Vocal] [Final Chorus β Male Vocal, triumphant] No country for ghosts No grave and no crown We carry the truth While the whole house comes down And if morning should find us On opposite sides Just follow the signal And stay alive No country for ghosts No reason to stay The mission is overβ But she's still miles away [Outro β Male Vocal, quieter] Transmission complete. ... No reply.
