Six feet deeper

(Intro) (Slow, haunting acoustic guitar pluck—low, reverb-heavy notes) (A faint, rhythmic heartbeat begins to thump) (Whispered) The church bells were ringing... But they weren't ringing for a Sunday. They were ringing for us. Just a hole in the dirt... deeper than they told us. (The guitar intensifies, adding a steady, driving beat) (Verse 1) He led us past the steeple, down to where the grass was dead, With shadows in his eyes and all those hollow words he said. He dug a space for two of us, a silence dark and steep, And dropped us in a darkness that was more than six foot deep. (Build-Up) (Drum kick starts, volume rising with every line) The air was getting thin, I couldn't see your face, Just the cold, hard walls of that lonely place. He thought he left us broken, he thought the job was done, But he forgot that two is always stronger than just one. (Voice getting grittier) I’m reaching through the black, I’m clawing at the clay, I won’t let the silence take your soul away! (Crescendo – drums crash) (Chorus) But when the dirt began to fall and no one was around, I reached out through the heavy air and felt you on the ground. I grabbed your hand so tightly when the world had turned to stone, I pulled you from the hollow ‘cause I couldn’t leave you prone. Yeah, you’re alive through all the hell and every bitter snare, Because nobody in this world will ever truly care... As much as I do. (Verse 2) They looked the other way while we were gasping for our breath, They walked on by the graveyard like they didn't smell the death. But I’m the one who stayed to fight, the one who heard your plea, I dragged us from the bottom just so you could finally see. (Bridge) There’s no love in this burning world that ever could compare, To the shadow of a brother who was always standing there. Through the wreckage and the ruins and the weight of what he did, I’m the keeper of the secrets that the heavy shovel hid. (Outro) You’re breathing now, you’re standing tall, you made it through the night, I’ll always be the hand that pulls you back into the light. As a brother, I’ll be there. As a brother, I’ll always be there. (Final heavy drum hit, followed by a long, fading feedback ring)