Read Between the Lines

Instrumental Intro

Verse 1

They stood us in rows when we were small

Recited their gospel on a cinder block wall

Said "Here is the world, here is your place"

Delivered their truth with a chiseled out face

The map that they handed us was missing some roads

And the ones that were marked led to someone else's gold

Verse 2

I watched the news flash like a carnival light

Making sense of the nonsense from morning to night

The same mouths that warned us of the wolf at the gate

Were the ones turning keys in the wolf's estate

I was young, so I nodded, I swallowed it whole

Took me years just to notice the lack of control...

Pre-Chorus

But I've walked long enough now to know what I've seen

There's always something hiding in the space in between

Chorus

Read between the lines, lad, read between the lines

There's a story they're not telling you, buried in the signs

Listen to the silence where the loud voices stop

Connect the bloody dots, boy, watch 'em when they drop

Don't let them hand you a world ready-made

Every truth worth the knowing had to be hard-won and weighed

Read between the lines

Riff

Verse 3

I've seen honest men broken for saying what's plain

And the crooked ones dancing in the medals and the fame

I've seen borders redrawn like they're lines in the sand

And the hand that was writing it was never quite your hand

History's a story told by those who won the day -

So tell me, who was writing when your people walked away...

Pre-Chorus

But I've bled enough cobblestones to know what I mean

You wake up when you start to see the space in between

Chorus

Read between the lines, lad, read between the lines

There's a story they're not telling you, buried in the signs

Listen to the silence where the loud voices stop

Connect the bloody dots, boy, watch 'em when they drop

Don't let them hand you a world ready-made

Every truth worth the knowing had to be hard-won and weighed

Read between the lines

Riff

Bridge

I'm not asking you to rage against the dark alone

I'm asking you to notice - you're not made of stone

Find the ones who see it too, don't wander on your own

Even scattered seeds need soil before they're ever grown

Wake one, wake another, pass the lantern down the line -

This old fool's been burning his since 1989

Instrumental Solo

Final Chorus

Read between the lines, lad, read between the lines

There's a story they're not telling you, buried in the signs

Listen to the silence where the loud voices stop

Connect the bloody dots, boy, watch 'em when they drop

Don't let them hand you a world ready-made

Every truth worth the knowing had to be hard-won and weighed

Read between the lines!

Outro

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