ON THE WAY TO KINGDOM COME

ON THE WAY TO KINGDOM  COME

[Verse 1] 

The neon prophets flicker on a twenty-dollar screen 

Selling cures for heartaches that medicine hasn’t seen 

They’re building you an armor, plate by plate and piece by piece 

So you can run their treadmill while it’s they who hold the lease 

An American Dream that’s coughing up a cloud of dying dust 

You trade your soul on credit and it’s filed under rust 

The doctor writes a scripture for prescription-level pain 

To wash away the ghosts of shrapnel, fear and rain 

You're disconnected from the dirt and brother at your side 

With no safe place to run to and no corner left to hide 

From the rumble in your spirit and the war behind your eyes 

It’s a silence full of symptoms, in a truth that’s full of lies.

[Chorus] 

But the wind that rattles rulers and then whispers through the grain 

Is the breath you've always held and it can break the system's chain 

It ain't in holy rulebook or a pill to make you numb 

It's the kingdom you discover on the way to kingdom come.

[Verse 2] 

See the firefighter walking with a face of smoke and ash 

Haunted by the memory of a window he couldn’t crash 

See the soldier at the border of the man he used to be 

Counting all the brothers that the history books won't see 

See the architect of markets in his tower of steel and doubt 

Who bought the whole damn world and now can't buy his way out 

They carry universal wounds, these silent, heavy things 

The weight of what you couldn't save, the song that silence sings 

They thought the battle was outside, in the siren or the deal 

But the real war isn't winning, it's in what you dare to feel.

[Chorus] 

But the wind that rattles rulers and then whispers through the grain 

Is the breath you've always held and can break the system's chain 

It ain't in holy rulebook or a pill to make you numb 

It's the kingdom you discover on the way to kingdom come.

[Bridge] 

There's a canyon-wide difference 'tween a prayer and a demand 

'Tween a borrowed set of rules and a truth you understand 

They'll sell you stained-glass windows, they'll sell you golden thrones 

But they cannot sell the stillness living deep inside your bones 

they cannot sell the stillness living deep inside your bones 

The God they teach in buildings ain't the one that's in the dust 

The one that breathes you when you're broken, the one that you can trust 

When you're standing at the breaking point with nothing left to lose 

You find the only gospel is the quiet breath you choose.

You find the only gospel is the quiet breath you choose.

[Instrumental]

[Verse 3] 

And so the healing starts not with a hum, but with a choice 

To listen for a signal buried underneath the noise 

The firefighter,  soldier, yeah, the man up in the glass tower 

Are walking out together to reclaim their stolen power 

They ain't escaping from this world, they are learning to inhabit 

Every scar and every heartbeat, every single broken habit 

What started as a whisper now is turning to a call 

You can't build a conscious world 'til you tear down your own wall.

You can't build a conscious world 'til you tear down your own wall.

[Chorus] 

But the wind that rattles rulers and then whispers through the grain 

Is the breath you've always held and can break the system's chain 

It ain't in holy rulebook or a pill to make you numb 

It's the kingdom you discover on the way to kingdom come.

[Outro] 

So what if your next exhale is a revolution's sound? 

What if everything you ran from is just waiting to be found? 

The real war is inside you now, the real work is to feel 

And the breath you’ve always had is the only thing that's real. 

Yeah, the breath you’ve always had… Is the only thing that’s real.