**(Intro Hook)**

Shadows falling, borders breaking,
How much more can the foundation take?
Shadows falling, borders breaking,
How much more can the foundation take?

**(Verse 1)**
The wind is blowing cold across the great divide
There's a heavy kind of silence where the shadows hide
From the eastern seaboard to the western shore
Nobody's talking like they did before
The telegraph wires are humming with a bitter sound
As the lines get drawn across the broken ground

**(Chorus)**
Oh, the stars and the stripes are looking through the glass
While the maple leaves are falling in the tall, wild grass
From the northern timber down to the desert sand
It’s a heavy kind of twilight on a fractured land
Yeah, the fault lines are cracking in the dirt and the stone
Praying to the heavens we don't face it alone

**(Post-Chorus Hook)**

Yeah, the gears are grinding, the cables fray!
Watch the whole damn system give way!
Hold the line, watch it snap!
There ain't no way to turn it back!
No, there ain't no way to turn it back!

**(Verse 2)**
The highway signs are rusting in the pouring rain
And the midnight trains are running through the fog again
Brothers turning strangers at the county line
Trading in the future for a bygone time
The radio is crackling with a static ghost
Broadcasting the warnings from the east to the west coast

**(Chorus)**
Oh, the stars and the stripes are looking through the glass
While the maple leaves are falling in the tall, wild grass
From the northern timber down to the desert sand
It’s a heavy kind of twilight on a fractured land
Yeah, the fault lines are cracking in the dirt and the stone
Praying to the heavens we don't face it alone

**(Post-Chorus Hook)*

Yeah, the gears are grinding, the cables fray!
Watch the whole damn system give way!
Hold the line, watch it snap!
There ain't no way to turn it back!
No, there ain't no way to turn it back!

**(Outro)**
So keep the lantern burning when the sun goes down
There's a restless kind of feeling in this divided town

Shadows falling, borders breaking...
How much more can the foundation take?