[Verse 1] we sign the signs on silent sheets smooth, remote laws lead-lined beats forged frontiers, fragile fiction reason recedes, decisions un-questioned it cuts in quiet, it carves in shade skinless sentences none can evade [Verse 2] but in rust-red streets, in rattling sound it screams to the sky, then sinks, then drowns faces flicker storefront lives shattered, scattered where void survives and back it comes the rumor of reason: “can we take pleasure in this kind of treason?” [Chorus] is it legal, is it lethal? logical… or normalized evil? cold law / straight law / law gone astray drowned in the ash of voiceless say who grants the right to disarray? who makes truth fade and drift away? nation / notion / negation spun all tangled tight in justification [Verse 3] they say: “necessary,” scripted, signed steel-set statutes, sealed and aligned but the real resists, it rasps, it writhes against polite phrases, diluted drives the streets stay stained with names erased no paragraph has re-embraced and in-between that weighted hush justice stutters, caught in the crush [Bridge] the law says “must” the heart says “rush?” the law says “allowed” the body says “shroud” and in that interval it wavers, it growls price / cry / crease of the real splitting the surface, cracking the seal [Chorus] is it legal, is it lethal? is this normal this brutal normal? when laws lay law to chaos crowned and chaos flies as flag unbound who signs the shadow of judgment cast? who names what’s just in the surging blast? reason / prison / collision’s tone in the roaring of nations [Outro] in the ashes sense without center the world now trembles, torn in its entrails and the question stands, still unbowed no lock, no answer spoken aloud can we call it “just” what breaks, then adjusts on the fault line of lives we erase as we write
