After the Sirens Fade- PowerFlower

Emotional song about what war means to people. Lyrics: The sky went quiet in a way I’d never known No engines screaming, no fire over stone Just drifting ash where the rooftops used to be And broken windows staring back at me You said, “Stay close,” but the night tore us apart A thousand echoes ringing in my heart Now every step feels heavier than before Like I’m walking through the ghost of what we were And the silence isn’t peace, it’s just the end of sound Where do I go now you’re not around? After the sirens fade And the smoke clears away There’s a hollow in the air where your voice used to stay I call out your name But it falls like the rain On the ruins of a life we can’t remake After the sirens fade There’s a photograph half-buried in the dust Two smiling faces, untouched by all of us I trace the lines like they might lead me home But every road I knew is overthrown A child’s toy lies shattered in the street A lullaby cut short in its heartbeat And I would give every breath I have to spare Just to know that you were somewhere out there But the silence answers nothing when I cry Just empty skies where the fires used to rise After the sirens fade And the smoke clears away There’s a hollow in the air where your voice used to stay I call out your name But it falls like the rain On the ruins of a life we can’t remake After the sirens fade “Can you hear me?” I whisper to the wind “Did you make it out? Are you safe somewhere within?” But the only thing that answers is the cold And the story that the silence always told That some goodbyes don’t get a final word Just a fading echo no one ever heard After the sirens fade And the night turns to gray I’m still searching through the shadows of yesterday If you’re out there somewhere If you’re breathing my air Then I’ll follow every memory we made After the sirens fade So I’ll sit in the quiet where your laughter once lived Holding on to the pieces that the darkness didn’t give And if hope is a flame, I’ll guard what remains Long after the sirens… fade