Ethereal Echoes - Concrete Prayers Lyrics

[Intro]
Ashes on my father's sleeve
Newark's crying, can't you see?
Silent streets and sirens scream
Nothing's what it used to be

[Verse 1]
Coffee trembles in his hands
Postal blues and wedding bands
Can't wash off that concrete gray
From the hell he saw today
Working class and working proud
Till the sky turned into shroud

[Chorus]
Some wounds don't show on the surface
Some pain runs deeper than bone
The city's heart keeps on beating
While fathers walk themselves home
Through the ash and through the sorrow
Through the weight of yesterday
Newark's sons keep marching forward
Even when there's hell to pay

[Verse 2]
Portuguese prayers in the night
Candles burning, burning bright
Mama's cooking smells like home
While daddy's sitting there alone
Staring at his uniform
In this perfect f*cking storm

[Bridge]
The city breathes, the city bleeds
Through concrete veins and broken dreams
But we survive, we're still alive
Though nothing's what it seems

[Chorus]
Some wounds don't show on the surface
Some pain runs deeper than bone
The city's heart keeps on beating
While fathers walk themselves home
Through the ash and through the sorrow
Through the weight of yesterday
Newark's sons keep marching forward
Even when there's hell to pay

[Outro]
Ashes on my father's sleeve
Newark's crying, can't you see?
But we rise, and we believe
In what we still can be