Ladder Out of Lightning (From the Odd Archive)

Verse 1

Cold transmission on the wire

Static carved a portrait of the sky

I watched the clock tower melt like wax

Felt the pavement breathing underneath my feet

Water rising in the stairwell

Every number shifting in my mind

I kept a map of all the exits

But the doors kept changing every time

Pre-Chorus

Counting down the flicker

Counting down the blame

Every system slips away

Chorus

We built a ladder out of lightning

Climbed until the thunder learned our names

Turned every fault line into music

Bent every bone until it sang

Post-Chorus

Sing it louder

Sing it wild

Sing it louder

Till the morning breaks

Verse 2

The mirror wore a second face

Half of me was fossil, half was flame

I wrote my name in permanent ink

Across the backs of breaking waves

The conductor raised his baton to the ceiling

Every string snapped into perfect time

I held your photograph against the window

Watched the colors twist and come undone

Pre-Chorus

Counting down the re-entry

Counting down the fall

Every orbit has its pull

Chorus

We built a ladder out of lightning

Climbed until the thunder learned our names

Turned every fault line into music

Bent every bone until it sang

Bridge

Seven angles of the same collapse

Seven versions of the same goodbye

I am the echo, I am the aftermath

I am the silence after the strike

Final Chorus

We built a ladder out of lightning

Climbed until the thunder learned our names

Turned every fault line into music

Bent every bone until it sang

We built a ladder out of lightning

Just to see how high the ruins climb

Turned every fault line into music

Till the whole world started singing back

Outro

Sing it louder

Sing it wild

Sing it now

Now

Till the morning breaks