Verse 1

We built the tables, set the chairs in rows,

Then watched the signatures dissolve like snow.

Somewhere a city lost its power in the night,

Purposefully taken — no accident in sight.

We learned the word for friendship from a man

Who spent it like a currency no one understands.

Chorus

What do we owe the ones across the water?

What do we name the cost when cities fall?

Five voices raised, and still the stone keeps rising,

We are contingent — all of us, or none at all.

Verse 2

A boat tips over somewhere we don't look,

The north-west dark, the story barely took.

A man they kept in rooms gets moved at last,

We calculate the present by the past.

A woman planned a rupture in a street,

The Friday traffic, ordinary, incomplete.

Chorus

What do we owe the ones across the water?

What do we name the cost when cities fall?

Five voices raised, and still the stone keeps rising,

We are contingent — all of us, or none at all.

Bridge

The summer weight sits heavy on the wire,

Not catastrophe — not yet — but close enough to feel.

We make our deals, we draft our condemnations,

Then wonder if the paper is the steel.

Outro

Five nations. One unsigned wall.

The water takes what the water takes.

We stand here anyway.

Instrumental Outro

How did it make you feel?

A new song arrives tomorrow.