If We Let This Go

Verse 1 We’re standing on the edge of something Can’t you feel it in the air A future almost breathing But nobody’s sure who gets there We built the rules to keep things safe To hold what matters tight But sometimes fear wears justice’s face And turns the green light red at night Pre-Chorus They say it’s just a small correction Just words, just lines, just law But I’ve seen bridges burn in silence From things nobody thought through at all Chorus If we let this go If we lock the door We won’t hear the footsteps Of the builders anymore If we trade tomorrow For the comfort of today We won’t lose it loudly We’ll just watch it fade away These are beautiful dreams But they’re fragile things And I’m scared of what we lose If we let this go Verse 2 They say prove you didn’t touch it Prove what never left a trace Count every star in the sky Before you’re allowed to reach for space A kid in Paris with an idea A team with nothing but time Drowning in paper and permission Before they’ve written the first line Pre-Chorus The giants won’t feel the weight They’ve learned to live with chains But the ones still learning how to fly Are the first to feel the pain Chorus If we let this go If we change the rules We won’t see the damage Till the room is empty too If we call it protection While we’re cutting off the air We’ll wake up asking Why the future isn’t here These are beautiful dreams Built on fragile things And I’m scared of what we lose If we let this go Bridge Look east — they made it clearer They drew the line between Reading for pleasure And building something new unseen Look here — we have the talent We have the fire, the fight But sovereignty doesn’t survive If we legislate it out of sight This isn’t about stealing Or who gets paid It’s about whether tomorrow Gets a chance to be made Final Chorus (bigger, emotional peak) If we let this go We won’t hear the sound Of engines starting quietly On European ground If we break the floor While we argue over walls The future won’t collapse It just won’t come at all These are beautiful things Worth protecting, worth believing in But I’m scared of what we lose Yeah, I’m scared of what we lose If we let this go Outro So before we close the door And call it standing tall Let’s make sure we’re not the ones Who stopped the future Before it could call