[Intro]
No music from the jukebox
No glasses on the shelf
Only paper, pens and silence
And people counting heads

[Verse 1]
Mara reads the hospital list
Seven treated, two still missed
Jonah holds an ice pack tight
Against the bruise beneath his eye
Nadia calls each holding cell
No one there will say who fell
Eli writes in careful lines
The time, the street, the witness names

[Chorus]
Names under the sirens
Names beneath the noise
Write them where the cameras failed
Remember every voice
Names under the sirens
Not numbers for the state
We will say them through the night
Until they cross the gate

[Verse 2]
Samir taken near the bridge
Leah struck beside the clinic
Old Frank missing from his bed
A rumour says that someone’s dead
Tom stares at the empty chair
Where nineteen-year-old Lucas sat
He wants to smash the window through
But Mara puts the pen in his hand

[Pre-Chorus]
“Write what happened, write it plain
Who was standing, where they came
Anger needs a memory
Or anger serves the ones we blame”

[Chorus]
Names under the sirens
Names beneath the noise
Write them where the cameras failed
Remember every voice
Names under the sirens
Not numbers for the state
We will say them through the night
Until they cross the gate

[Guitar Solo]
A restrained melodic solo rises from clean notes into controlled distortion

[Bridge]
At four, the old bar telephone
Rings so loud the whole room stops
Lucas speaks through broken breath:
“I am alive. They took my coat.”
No cheer comes quickly from the room
Relief hurts when the rest remain
Then every chair moves back at once
To call the lawyers once again

[Build-up]
Samir
Leah
Frank
Lucas
Names carried louder than commands

[Final Chorus]
Names under the sirens
Names they cannot erase
Write them on the factory gate
And every boarded place
Names under the sirens
For the missing and detained
We will keep the lights awake
Until they walk these streets again
Names under the sirens
No one disappears alone

[Outro]
At sunrise Tom tapes every page
Across the bar’s front window
The city reads the names at work
As police vans pass below