We Can Still Make Peace

[Verse 1]
The map keeps changing shape
where the river used to stay
Hotter summers on the porch
and the windows won't close right

The corner store feels farther now
every week something bends
The old routines are slipping
through our hands again

[Pre-Chorus]
I hear the sirens in the distance
I hear the news on repeat
And I keep asking who gets left behind
when the ground won't stay beneath

[Chorus]
Hold the line, hold the line
when the fear gets loud tonight
Hold the line, hold the line
we don't have to shut our eyes

Hold the line, hold the line
for the ones who need a place
Hold the line, hold the line
we can still make space

[Verse 2]
There are places shaking open
with smoke and shattered glass
Mothers counting missing names
that should have never had to last

And every time I look away
I feel the guilt come back
like a door that will not lock
when the pressure snaps

[Pre-Chorus]
I hear the sirens in the distance
I hear the news on repeat
And I keep asking who gets left behind
when the ground won't stay beneath

[Chorus]
Hold the line, hold the line
when the fear gets loud tonight
Hold the line, hold the line
we don't have to shut our eyes

Hold the line, hold the line
for the ones who need a place
Hold the line, hold the line
we can still make space

[Bridge]
If your voice shakes, speak anyway
if your hands shake, stay
No one gets to write the ending
with our names erased

If the crowd turns hard and bitter
we can still choose care
One by one, we make a shelter
by the way we stand there

[Final Chorus]
Hold the line, hold the line
when the fear gets loud tonight
Hold the line, hold the line
we don't have to shut our eyes

Hold the line, hold the line
for the ones who need a place
Hold the line, hold the line
we can still make space

Hold the line, hold the line
we can still make space