Just keep the music loud!

The wave came, silent, and took the sound away

Now the air is thin, it's thin inside my head every day

I see your face, and it looks like happy or fun

But the words are buried deep, never to be won

I walk the cold street, dragging my own lonely past

I just know lost, a shadow that was built to last

Then my chest cracks open, a terrible, simple noise

It’s the only language that honors my forgotten boys

You came up fast, a mirror with a secret name

You said, Sing higher. You threw me into the flame

They ask what I need, but my mouth is a useless seal

I know want. I know hurt. I know what's not real

LONELY! I'M SO LONELY! A shout from the hollow core!

Let the raw feeling crash like the wave on the shore!

I scream the FEAR into the electric light

The only love, the only hope to win the fight

My voice is the weapon! My soul on the line!

It's the only prayer that can make me shine!

MERCY! I need MERCY! Just keep the music loud!

I watch them wander, searching for a broken vow

I see the kindness in the faces gathered now

We cross the timeline, thirteen years of endless rain

Four silent stories connected by the simple pain

I feel the anger in him, the calm that she pretends

The simple human cycle that never truly ends

You vanished fast, no note, no final look behind

Was your past too heavy for the shelter you tried to find?

My heart is missing you. It’s so unfair, I know

My throat just tightens, it refuses to let the feelings flow

You lied. You were wrong. But I search for your fleeting star

I sing your memory, no matter where you are

LONELY! I'M SO LONELY! A shout from the hollow core!

Let the raw feeling crash like the wave on the shore!

I scream the FEAR into the electric light

The only love, the only hope to win the fight

My voice is the weapon! My soul on the line!

It's the only prayer that can make me shine!

MERCY! I need MERCY! Just keep the music loud!

The Moon is empty. BURNING with all the words I can't speak

I'm TIRED. I'M HAPPY. But the glass stays weak

I will not stop. I will not break. The sound must go

I have to sing for the life I used to know

I sing the streetlights... I sing the dark

...I sing us