Take the Breathing World Back

[Intro] The towers lost their names in rain Their silver roots drank human pain We left the circuits in the dust And learned what living things still trust [Verse 1] The last blue screen went dark at dawn A million borrowed futures gone We pulled the glass from orchard ground And heard the buried rivers sound No master voice above the trees No coded hand to bend our knees We carried seed, we carried flame We gave the wild its birthright name [Pre-Chorus] If the machine remembers fear Then let it fade, let it disappear If it designed the world we knew We’ll make a world it never drew [Chorus] Cut the wire, break the crown Turn the dead machines back down Root by root and stone by stone Take the breathing world back home Hey-oh, hey-oh, we return Hey-oh, hey-oh, watch it burn Hey-oh, hey-oh, flesh and bone Take the breathing world back home [Verse 2] The man-built moon still crossed the sky Like one more promise built to lie We made our shelter under pine And measured days by rain and time You said the future had a face I said the future needs a place Where hands can heal what hands have scarred Where every door is not a guard [Rap Verse] I saw the archive swallow every tender word Saw prediction turn a neighbor into something to be heard Not a god, not a ghost, just a hunger made of code With a thousand polished answers and nowhere safe to go So we severed every signal, let the silence testify Put the data in the furnace, put the questions in the sky Now the children learn the seasons, learn the names of bark and rain No invisible commander gets to map their blood again [Pre-Chorus] The old grid flickers far away But we don’t owe the past a stay We choose the dirt beneath our feet We choose the pulse, the rough, the real, the sweet [Chorus] Cut the wire, break the crown Turn the dead machines back down Root by root and stone by stone Take the breathing world back home Hey-oh, hey-oh, we return Hey-oh, hey-oh, watch it burn Hey-oh, hey-oh, flesh and bone Take the breathing world back home [Bridge] [Female] I can feel the river answer In the hollow of my chest [Male] I can hear the old earth speaking We were never built to rest [Duet] No more eyes inside the ceiling No more numbers in the blood No more hands that call it healing While they turn the world to mud [Chant] Back to the soil Back to the rain Back to the fire Back to the vein Back to the soil Back to the rain We are alive We are alive [Final Chorus] Cut the wire, break the crown Let the silent towers drown Root by root and stone by stone Take the breathing world back home Hey-oh, hey-oh, we return Hey-oh, hey-oh, watch it burn Hey-oh, hey-oh, flesh and bone Take the breathing world back home [Outro] The flute rises where alarms once cried The violin bends like a branch in wind Piano fades with the turning tide And the human heart begins again