[Intro – Piano only] (soft, imperfect chords) (glass clinks somewhere) [Spoken Verse 1] I grew up watching the world load. Not crash. Just… load. Every promise had a spinner. Every truth had a password. They told us, “Don’t worry, it’s being handled,” Like that meant something when the bridge still shook under the bus. I learned geography from places we send money, Not from roads I could safely drive on. [Piano fill] [Spoken Verse 2] They said the files were complicated. They said it takes time. Funny how urgency shows up when it’s overseas but not when it’s home. Epstein’s name drifts through the room like smoke nobody wants to admit they smell. Redacted. Reviewed. Deferred. Always tomorrow. Never tonight. [Piano – one low note, held] [Spoken Verse 3] We’re not angry. We’re exhausted. We learned how to budget before we learned how to vote. We learned how to doomscroll before we learned how to dream. They call us kids while we watch adults borrow against a future they won’t be around to explain. [Piano – soft repetition] [Spoken Chorus] I don’t need a speech. I don’t need a flag. I don’t need another reason why the answer’s late. I just want the truth without the velvet rope. I just want roads that don’t crumble like trust does. [Spoken Verse 4] They tell us transparency is dangerous. But secrecy feels worse. Because when nothing’s clear, everything becomes rumor, and rumor eats faith alive. If the record’s clean, let it breathe. If it’s not, stop asking us to carry the weight of the silence. [Piano – higher register, fragile] [Spoken Bridge] This isn’t left. This isn’t right. This is a generation raised on waiting rooms. Waiting for jobs. Waiting for housing. Waiting for answers that always seem classified until the moment passes. [Piano pause] [Spoken Final Chorus] We don’t need perfection. We don’t need saving. We need honesty before rust finishes the job. Open the files. Fix the ground. Stop calling delay a plan. [Outro – Piano only] (soft chord) (let it ring) [Spoken Outro – whisper] We’re still here. We’re still watching. Please don’t confuse our quiet for not noticing.
