Burning at the Border (Version 2)

Verse

Neon hums a language we don't know

Your hand on my hip where the light cuts through

Four a.m. and the whole block's gold

Streetlights stutter like they're calling home

Every window down three floors below

A stranger's shadow learning how to go

I count steps in time with yours by mine

Nothing left of who I was before the shine

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it climbing from our chest to the sky?

We don't need a reason, we just need to try

Something's breaking free at this exact hour

Tell me if you're ready for one more power

Chorus

We're burning at the border of the night

Hands up like we're chasing out the light

Feet on fire where the speakers never stop

Dancing till the whole city opens up

We're burning at the border, wide awake and gold

Nothing left to lose when every wall is told to fold

This is our anthem written in the glow of every headlight

Burning at the border, chasing the sunrise tonight

Verse

Taxi horns become a chorus we repeat

Your voice cuts through the static that I keep

Seventy-two floors above the traffic haze

We're the only ones who know this secret way

Every face becomes a reflection of you

A hundred strangers turning into family crew

The lights don't ask permission when they spill and rise

They just take over the whole city sky

Pre-Chorus

Can you feel it climbing from our chest to the sky?

We don't need a reason, we just need to try

Something's breaking free at this exact hour

Tell me if you're ready for one more power

Chorus

We're burning at the border of the night

Hands up like we're chasing out the light

Feet on fire where the speakers never stop

Dancing till the whole city opens up

We're burning at the border, wide awake and gold

Nothing left to lose when every wall is told to fold

This is our anthem written in the glow of every headlight

Burning at the border, chasing the sunrise tonight

Bridge

No passport needed for this kind of freedom

The whole skyline's ours just for tonight's decision

Not a single light will ever turn us back

We're not leaving till we see the first black line on the map

Chorus

We're burning at the border of the night

Hands up like we're chasing out the light

Feet on fire where the speakers never stop

Dancing till the whole city opens up

We're burning at the border, wide awake and gold

Nothing left to lose when every wall is told to fold

This is our anthem written in the glow of every headlight

Burning at the border, chasing the sunrise tonight