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FAULT LINE lyrics
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Intro
You feel that? Ground's splitting open
Verse 1
Thirteen floors up and the plaster won't quit shaking Cracks where my grandfather hung his degrees They said build permanent, we built on rented servers Every password a prayer, every login a lease My son asked what I own, I scrolled my whole phone Nothing solid, just a cloud full of loans The bedrock shifted Tuesday, nobody felt it move We just kept refreshing like the algorithm cared
Pre-chorus
Something fracturing beneath us, I can hear it in the walls Whole foundation whispering before it falls
Chorus
Fault line, fault line - who you blaming now? Fault line - feel the new ground Everything you built was sitting on a crack Fault line hit and it ain't coming back
Verse 2
Twenty-six and your 401k is a screenshot Therapist got a therapist and she ghosting too Split-screen living, Tesla lease, ramen in the cupholder Pitching your landlord while you conference-call investors The fracture isn't sudden, been hairline since the jump Covered it with filters, called the damage aesthetic
Pre-chorus
Every crack connected now, you can trace it with your finger One more tremor and the whole thing shatters
Chorus
Fault line, fault line - who you blaming now? Fault line - feel the new ground Everything you built was sitting on a crack Fault line hit and it ain't coming back
Verse 3
Tectonic money moving different underneath the surface Corporate served us pizza while they shredded every pension My grandmother kept fifties in a coffee can, sink cabinet Smartest investment strategy I've witnessed in three decades Rupture comes in real time and we're all streaming it live Comment section arguing while the ceiling starts to buckle
Bridge
I watched my father build a house with his actual hands And I can't keep one subscription running twelve months straight Nah, what are we? What did we actually make?
Verse 4
When it fell it wasn't loud, just a settling sound Like your chest when you finally quit pretending Generation held together with notification badges And the tragic part, we knew, we always knew Deductible bigger than the rent, savings shaped like a prayer The collapse was just the silence after the performance
Chorus
Fault line, fault line - who you blaming now? Fault line - feel the new ground Everything you built was sitting on a crack Fault line hit and it ain't coming back
Verse 5
Here's what they never write about - what grows inside the gap New soil don't ask permission from the concrete it replaced I'm building different now, every foundation line visible Every nail accounted for, every dollar with a name My kids won't scroll for shelter or subscribe to feel secure Won't rent their dignity on some month-to-month arrangement New ground shakes different, not collapsing, just alive This the era where we build with our hands again, period
Outro
Fault line, new ground We build with our hands
Inside the recording
You feel that? Ground's splitting open
Something fracturing beneath us, I can hear it in the walls Whole foundation whispering before it falls
Fault line, new ground We build with our hands
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