Small Town Secrets

Two boys trapped in concrete and steel Counting days like prison sentences Where every day bleeds into the next Until time loses all its consequence Marcus at his window, staring at empty chairs His father's ghost still lingers there While Theo drowns in ledger books and debt Inheriting a legacy of despair In this town of dead-end streets And dying dreams Where hope goes to suffocate Where nothing's what it seems The adults wear their defeat Like medals on their chests Teaching kids to settle Teaching kids to rest This town holds secrets in its bones Whispers echo through the cracks Of everything we've known Two separate lives, one shared disease The hunger for something more than what we see When the streetlights flicker like dying stars We'll find the truth in this town's scars Behind these walls, there's something more A darkness calling through, and through an ancient door Streets like prison bars stretch on forever Marking time in rust and decay In shadows of closed factories and broken signs We're learning how to fade away Every adult has become a guard of mediocrity Keeping dreams locked tight Trading wonder for security Teaching us that survival means giving up the fight But underneath these crumbling foundations There's a map to our salvation In the dust of forgotten stories Lies a key to all these mysteries They don't know it yet But the darkness is calling We hear it calling Maps hidden in dust And a father's ghost still haunting us Every page turned is a door unlocked We'll break these chains Every secret found is a truth we've lost We'll find our way In this suffocating small town air We'll find the answers waiting there Tell me what's real anymore When every street leads back to nowhere Beneath this town's decaying skin The secrets writhe and breed within Dig down, they break harder The truth is buried in the dark We're not lost causes We're not their failures We're the ones who'll tear this place apart This town holds secrets in its bones Behind these walls we've built Beneath the streets we've known Two separate lives About to collide In the boundless dark Where truth and dreams reside When we finally break These small town chains We'll never see this place the same The darkness calls with promise sweet Of mysteries beneath these empty streets We'll find the truth Break these chains The darkness calls