[Verse 1]
Sirens still ringing in my teeth
Street I knew
cracked in half
His shoe under rebar
her scarf in the ash
I shout their names into powdered glass
Breathing cement
breathing metal
breathing past
[Chorus]
I’m digging through the dust for you
Bare hands, bleeding in the ruins
If you can hear me
answer, love
The sky wrote fire on our roof
Turned our doorway into tombs
I’m digging through the dust for you
[Verse 2]
Walls fell sideways on the neighbors’ beds
Kitchen tiles
where they bowed their heads
Checkpoint men had marked this place
Maps and files
numbers on our face
History branded on a child’s wrist
Fences built
to make us myth
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
They caged our water
took our land
Stamped our hunger
changed our names
Locked our prayers behind a turnstile gate
Shot our marches
blamed our dead
Bombed the schools
the white-flag tents
Hospitals glowing red on their screens
Elders blindfolded
houses seized
Fields burned black
trees uprooted clean
Who counts the stolen years, the stolen sleep?
Who signs a border on a mother’s scream?
[Chorus]