What If

WHAT IF? (The Day the Silence Came) Verse 1 The coffee was still hot when the world went away No thunder in the distance, no warning that day The anchor kept talking till the screen faded black And the ticking of the clock was the only thing left I laughed and shook my head, said, "They'll fix it soon" Watched shadows gather slowly in the middle of June The traffic lights were lifeless, every signal was gone And my neighbor stood staring at a dead cellphone Pre-Chorus Just another outage... that's what I believed Till the silence started whispering things I couldn't leave Chorus What if... this isn't a power outage? What if... the world we knew has fallen down? What if... every switch stays empty? Every road leads nowhere now? What if the darkness isn't passing? What if tomorrow never comes? What if civilization vanished Without a shot... without a gun? What if? Verse 2 My truck wouldn't turn over, not a click, not a sound Just a reflection in the windshield looking nervous now Radios were useless, internet was gone And every answer disappeared before the dawn People gathered in their driveways underneath the stars A thousand frightened theories drifting through the dark EMP, cyberattack, solar fire from the sky But nobody knew the truth behind the dying lights Pre-Chorus And every empty hour felt a little more real Like the world had drawn a curtain no one else could feel Chorus What if... this isn't a power outage? What if... nobody's coming to explain? What if... all the rules were written For a world that won't exist again? What if the darkness has a purpose? What if we're all that's left to see? What if the end of modern living Starts with coffee and a TV? What if? Bridge (spoken/whispered) Day three... The stores were empty. Gas pumps silent. No broadcasts. No news. Just questions... How much food do you have? How much water? Can you trust your neighbors? Will they save you... Or watch you starve? Instrumental Rise Final Verse By the seventh night I counted cans by flashlight glow Listening to the crickets where the city used to hum below Some shared what little they had left, some locked every door And I learned that fear can make a stranger of us all The mystery wasn't what had happened to the earth The mystery was what remained inside the human heart Final Chorus What if... we stand together through it? What if... we're stronger than our fear? What if... the only thing surviving Is the reason we are here? What if the silence is a mirror Showing who we really are? What if the end of everything Is only where the stories start? What if... What if... (whispered) The coffee was still hot... When the world went silent.