Still It's All Real

(Heavy rain...) (Footsteps through broken glass...) (Police radio full of static...) "They're gone..." "...everybody's gone..." "If anybody hears this..." "...don't come back to the city." ------------------------------------------------

Yesterday I had a home... Today I got ashes. Yesterday we argued over dumb shit... Today we'd trade everything just to hear one familiar voice again. The skyline don't even look the same. Smoke covering every damn memory I ever made. Streetlights hanging sideways. Cars still burning. The silence somehow louder than the explosions. Everybody I pass... Got the same empty look. Like we're breathing... But none of us are really living anymore. ------------------------------------------------

Still... It's all real. Ain't no waking up. Ain't no second chance. Still... It's all real. Every scar... Every tear... Every name we lost... Still... It's all real. ------------------------------------------------

The stores are empty. The banks don't matter. Money ain't worth a damn when the whole world's collapsing. Neighbors became strangers. Strangers became family. Funny how disaster changes what really matters. Saw an old man give his last bottle of water to a little girl. Didn't even know her name. That's the kind of courage they never put on the damn news. I don't know if tomorrow exists. I just know... If I'm still breathing today... I'm gonna help somebody else make it through tonight. ------------------------------------------------

Fear don't disappear. You just learn how to carry it. Hope ain't loud. Sometimes... Hope is just refusing to quit. ------------------------------------------------

Still... It's all real. The sky still belongs to them. But this ground... This ground is still ours. And as long as somebody's standing... The story ain't over. ------------------------------------------------

(Radio static...) "...Attention all survivors..." "...Military Command has established a temporary safe zone..." "...Coordinates incoming..." "...Move before sunrise..." (Alien horn echoes...) (Fade directly into Track 4)