Verse 1

We are standing at the edge of something vast

The river running dry beneath our feet

Missiles drawing maps into the past

And still we move through every fractured street

Agreements written in uncertain ink

The soil remembers what the papers don't

We lean across the wide and crumbling brink

And step because the staying means we won't

Chorus

We cross the cracking ground

We swim when there's no bridge

We count the ones who don't come back around

And rise again to this

Oh the world is loud tonight

With everything we cannot name

But we were always crossing something

We will cross it just the same

Verse 2

Hundreds swimming toward a distant shore

The Danube low, the power going out

Some call it peace, some call it something more

Some call it just the long way turning south

We watch the craters widen in the east

We watch the summits stall and then dissolve

The summer heat has not brought any peace

Just longer days in which to not resolve

Bridge

And still the families set a place

And still the borders hold their brutal line

And still the water finds its way

Through everything we thought was fine

We are turbulent, we are fractured at the seam

We are five million ordinary people mid-stream

Chorus

We cross the cracking ground

We swim when there's no bridge

We count the ones who don't come back around

And rise again to this

Oh the world is loud tonight

With everything we cannot name

But we were always crossing something

We will cross it just the same

Outro

We cross, we cross

The ground beneath us moves

We cross, we cross

Because we have to choose

Instrumental Outro

How did it make you feel?

A new song arrives tomorrow.