Nightfire | "Scorched Earth" [Hi-Tech AOR]

LYRICS:

[Verse]
Morning goes white like a false new sun
Windows bloom inward; streets come undone
Sirens like wire through marrow and bone
Mothers hold children, nowhere to run

[Pre-Chorus]
Up in the towers they balance the ledgers
Counting returns while the world turns to embers

[Chorus]
Scorched earth, scorched sky, who cashes the worth?
Fallout drifts down on the poorest first
You sign the orders, we bury the hurt
We see your profit on our scorched earth

[Verse]
Hospitals dark, grain stores ablaze
Convoys of hunger roll through the haze
They rename a slaughter “keeping the peace”
Stock ticks up while the heartbeats cease

[Pre-Chorus]
Numbers and yield on immaculate screens
Cold calculations erase human beings

[Chorus]
Scorched earth, scorched sky, who cashes the worth?
Fallout drifts down on the poorest first
You sign the orders, we bury the hurt
We see your profit on our scorched earth

[Bridge]
Ground the warheads, feed the mouths
Turn those budgets where healing counts
Not in our name, not for a throne
Endless wars don’t build a home

[Chorus]
Scorched earth, scorched sky, who cashes the worth?
Fallout drifts down on the poorest first
You light the fuses, we carry the dirt
We’ll end your empire on this scorched earth

[Outro]
From ash we rise, from ash we learn
People before profit, the future returns
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Written by Chelsea Aerys.
Performed by Shaun Wilson.

Made with the help of Suno.