Verse 1

We laid the table with agreements

and called it shelter, called it ground

The handshake built on what you owe me

the gift that made the children sick

We trusted the architecture of the given

now the rafters list and tick

Chorus

Brace for the supersized season

brace for the compact that cracks

We are standing in the courtyard

of everything that won't come back

The alliances dissolve by morning

the leverage names itself the law

We are bracing, we are bracing

for what the calendar foresaw

Verse 2

The body finds a way to carry

what the doctors called impossible

271 days of borrowed living —

one quiet miracle holds still

But in the village, in the rubble

teenagers become a bill

Become a number, become a signal

that the powerful refuse to feel

Chorus

Brace for the supersized season

brace for the compact that cracks

We are standing in the courtyard

of everything that won't come back

The alliances dissolve by morning

the leverage names itself the law

We are bracing, we are bracing

for what the calendar foresaw

Bridge

She spent a lifetime at the threshold

prying the locked door with words

Now the threshold holds the same old fractures

and her voice still moves the air

We inherit what the calcified refused us

we inherit what she dared

Outro

Brace — the season's coming wide

Brace — there's nowhere left to hide

We are still here

we are still here

Instrumental Outro

How did it make you feel?

A new song arrives tomorrow.