4 - Three Ways to be right
Verse 1
We all walked in with different scars
Same dark eyes, different wars
One still believes in open hands
One believes in loaded plans
One keeps files, names, and dates
Dreams of truth that detonates
One keeps silence, keeps it clean
Makes a choice you’ll never see
And there’s a woman dressed in white
Who never asks who’s wrong or right
Pre-Chorus
Same wound
Different cures
Same night
Three doors
Chorus
There are three ways to be right
When the system’s wrong
One sings it loud into the light
One waits too long
One pulls the truth into the street
One pulls the trigger out of sight
And one just watches hearts collapse
Every night
Verse 2
He says, “Justice needs a face
Names, headlines, a public place”
He still trusts words like they’re a shield
Bleeding, but refusing to kneel
The other says, “The law is slow
Monsters learn where shadows go”
He doesn’t speak, he doesn’t pray
He just makes sure they don’t stay
She pours a drink, she lights the room
Like she’s seen every ending bloom
Pre-Chorus
Same faith
Burned thin
Different sins
Same skin
Chorus
There are three ways to be right
When the rules decay
One keeps knocking every night
One walks away
One still believes the truth will save
One knows the truth just makes you bleed
And one turns damage into songs
No need to lead
Bridge
They don’t touch
They don’t plan
But they orbit the same damned man
She knows what breaks them when they speak
She knows who’s strong, she knows who’s weak
She never asks who crossed the line
She just pours time
Break (spoken / low)
Justice isn’t pure.
It’s just chosen.
Final Chorus (slower, heavier)
Three ways to be right
None of them clean
One dies inside for what he knows
One dies for what he’s seen
If angels came, they’d look away
If God showed up, he’d hesitate
And she’d still sing, soft and polite
Every night
Outro
Same city
Same smoke
Three broken vows
One silent note
Ask me who’s wrong
Ask me who’s right
I just sing
While they decide
How justice sounds
At night.

Annotations
Versions