The Red Stays

Verse 1

Iron

Tearing through the timber

Cold mud filling up my boots today

Steel rain

Falling on the garden

Where we used to plant the beets in May

Nobody moves

Nobody acts

Watching from the glass house

Safe across the border while we bleed

Chorus

You just watch us burn

You just watch us burn

Waiting for the wind to change

Counting up the cost of silence

You just watch us burn

I want the fire back

I want the fire back

Vengeance in the marrow of my bones

Verse 2

Dust

Choking out the morning

Four winters since the sky turned black

I scream

Louder than the sirens

But the cable news never screams back

Pathetic suit

Pathetic talk

Paper promises

Folded in a pocket out of sight

Chorus

You just watch us burn

You just watch us burn

Waiting for the wind to change

Counting up the cost of silence

You just watch us burn

I want the fire back

I want the fire back

Vengeance in the marrow of my bones

Bridge

Wash your hands

Wash your heart

Wash the stains away

But the red stays

The red stays

The red stays

I am coming for the debt you owe

Chorus

You just watch us burn

You just watch us burn

Waiting for the wind to change

Counting up the cost of silence

You just watch us burn

I want the fire back

I want the fire back

Vengeance in the marrow of my bones

Outro

Four years of ghost

Four years of hunger

Four years of nothing from you

I won't forget

I won't forgive

I won't stop

Burn burn burn

Burn burn burn