Let the Sunset

The bread line wraps the block

By the boarded-up train

Kids learn names from screens

And nobody looks the same

The shop glass holds our faces

Like a cracked-up lake

We pass each other twice

And call it a day

So keep the curtains open

Let the last glow in

If the ground is shaking

Maybe it starts to bend

Let the sunset burn it down

Let the sunset slow this town

Let the sunset paint our hands

With the gold we still can't keep

Let the sunset, let it go

Let the sunset take the slow

Every promise on the street

Fading clean into the deep

(let the sunset)

The loudmouths own the air

And the truth gets thin

A child counts broken fences

Where the orchard used to bend

Mothers hide the bills

Under soup-stained plates

Fathers wear their rage

Like a coat they can't escape

Still, the sky keeps giving

One more burning line

Even a ruined kingdom

Gets a final sign

Let the sunset burn it down

Let the sunset slow this town

Let the sunset paint our hands

With the gold we still can't keep

Let the sunset, let it go

Let the sunset take the slow

Every promise on the street

Fading clean into the deep

(let the sunset)

I watched the towers lean

In the smoke of my own name

We built these crooked ladders

Then we blamed the flame

But when the evening comes

It tells the hard truth first

What we fed the daylight

We will have to unlearn

Let the sunset burn it down

Let the sunset slow this town

Let the sunset paint our hands

With the gold we still can't keep

Let the sunset, let it go

Let the sunset take the slow

Every promise on the street

Fading clean into the deep

(let the sunset)

Let it lower

Let it show

What we were

Before the glow