The Name I Keep Inside

the signs are fading on every wall we walk these roads believe in it all they sold us futures wrapped in bright lights we chased the voices that promised this time i remember the fire we carried so high it burned out quiet when no one replied we were told the world would open its hands but the doors stayed locked and the light turned cold the stories untold disillusioned pulls the curtain aside and the truth looks nothing like what they described i still feel the pull of those younger days when hope felt endless and never betrayed but the mirror keeps showing the cracks in the frame and i'm learning to walk with the weight of the same we were told the world would open its hands but the doors stayed locked and the light turned cold every vow we trusted slipped through the sand now we're standing here with stories untold disillusioned pulls the curtain aside and the truth looks nothing like what they described so we turn from the towers and find our own way through the silence that follows but no one will say so we turn from the towers and find our own way through the silence that follows but no one will say