Ink and Signal

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Morning ink on your hands Black type, folded twice A verdict on the doorstep By the time it arrives Two paragraphs decide it What stays and what gets cut You learn the shape of the country From a headline and a shrug [Pre-Chorus] Then the dial lights up And you hear a human breath A voice between the weather Saying what comes next [Chorus] Gatekeepers of truth Hold the frame, hold the proof Gatekeepers of truth Make one story sound true Gatekeepers of truth What gets in, what gets through Gatekeepers of truth We all drank from the same view [Verse 2] At six, the radio wakes you With a voice you almost know Kitchen table, plastic speaker Everybody leans in slow The sentence lands in real time No page to turn back through Soft as a hand on your shoulder Hard as a town hall cue [Pre-Chorus] Then the national voices Come in clean and close One flag, one tone, one version Steady as a pulse [Chorus] Gatekeepers of truth Hold the frame, hold the proof Gatekeepers of truth Make one story sound true Gatekeepers of truth What gets in, what gets through Gatekeepers of truth We all drank from the same view [Bridge] Now the paper sits unopened And the signal fragments fast Too many mouths, too many angles Too much history in the glass But I still hear the old cadence In the crackle, in the ring When one shared horizon Was the thing we called a thing [Final Chorus] Gatekeepers of truth Hold the frame, hold the proof Gatekeepers of truth Make one story sound true Gatekeepers of truth What gets in, what gets through Gatekeepers of truth We all drank from the same view