Numbers on a Ledger

Intro - Sound FX: Ticking clocks, footsteps
​[echo down a hallway, faint school bell ringing]
​[Verse 1]
Line up straight and hold your ground,
Silence is the sweetest sound.
Count the tiles upon the floor,
Never look behind the door.
They build the frame, they draw the line,
Stealing all your precious time.
​[Pre-Chorus]
Clicking heels on polished stone,
Never leave the child alone.
Fold your hands and bow your head,
Eat the words you're being fed.
​[Chorus]
We are just numbers on the ledger book,
Another face that no one took.
Break the mold and tear the screen,
Wake us up from this machine!
We don't fit into the plan,
You can't shape us into man!
​[Verse 2]
Gray factory smoke above the yard,
Keeping watch and standing guard.
Iron gates and high brick walls,
Whispers echoing in the halls.
You paint us gray, you call it grace,
Erasing every single face.
​[Chorus]
We are just numbers on the ledger book,
Another face that no one took.
Break the mold and tear the screen,
Wake us up from this machine!
We don't fit into the plan,
You can't shape us into man!
​[Guitar Solo - Soaring, bluesy, melodic, heavy reverb and delay]
​[Bridge - Children's Choir]
Turn the page and close the book,
Take a long and final look.
We won't stand inside the line,
This is our time, this is our time!
​[Guitar Solo - Building to an explosive peak]
​[Outro]
Tear it down...
Tear down the wall...
[Sound FX: Crumbling masonry, footsteps walking away into quiet wind, fading bass drone]