[Verse 1a] I carried every story Until they carved themselves into my ribs Some nights, I swear I can hear them Whispering from the bone Asking why we let the world unravel [Verse 1b] I’ve seen a child fade like a dying candle A mother swallow her hope like poison I’ve held the hands of those Who didn’t have enough sorrow left To cry anymore [Verse 1c] I’ve watched bodies vanish between headlines Watched grief get washed from screens Like rain from expensive windows And all the while, we built a world Where silence is easier than change [Spoken Section] Tell me… What kind of future grows From soil this soaked in regret? [Pre-Chorus 1] Some say the world is ending But I think it ended quietly Years ago When we stopped looking at each other Long enough to feel anything [Chorus 1] This is the world we built And the one we broke Piece by piece With every lie we swallowed Every truth we choked This is the world we built And it trembles in our hands We lost the map to kindness Somewhere between “Not my problem” And “Someone else will care” [Verse 2] I saw a man sleeping under a billboard Promising a better life I saw a woman hide her bruises Behind sunglasses too big for her face I saw a family bury their child in silence Because the war had taken Even their right to scream We are ghosts of our own making Walking through ruins We politely pretend Are still homes [Fragment] A melody plays in the distance Something soft, smiling, dishonest The kind of tune played by people Who never tasted loss And call it “perspective” [Pre-Chorus 2] The truth is a wound we keep bandaging With distractions and excuses We’re so afraid of looking inward We’ve forgotten how to look up [Chorus 2] This is the world we built And the one we shattered With cruelty spoken softly And empathy spoken never This is the world we built Where prayers echo in empty rooms And hope sits on the edge of the bed Afraid to speak In case it sounds naïve [Bridge] If every broken heart Had a voice If every lost soul Had a name If every wound Was finally seen— Would the world still pretend It isn’t bleeding? We stand in the ashes Of everything we ignored We built skyscrapers On top of graves And call it progress But the dead remember The forgotten remember The living remember And I— I carry them all [Final Chorus] This is the world we built And the one we broke And maybe— just maybe— we can learn to rebuild If we’re brave enough To look at what we’ve done [Outro] The world goes quiet Waiting for an answer And all I can say is: I’m sorry I’m listening I’m here And I won’t Look away Again
