Lyrics

Verse 1
Morning breaks on a marble lawn,
Flags awake in the winter dawn,
Footsteps echo on the granite way,
Breath hangs white as a vow we’ll say.
Hands in pockets, hope in line,
Old chapters close, new headlines shine,
A bell inside the chest will ring,
As voices rise and choirs sing.

Pre-Chorus
We’ve carried years across the night,
Through the ash and through the light,
Now the oath is inked in clay,
We turn the page today.

Chorus
It’s Inauguration Day,
Let the thunder of the people pave the way,
Raise a hand and lift a heart,
Every ending finds a start.
On Inauguration Day,
Where the promise meets the proof we’ll make,
We are more than what we were,
Say the words and make them sure.

Verse 2
Pillars watch with patient eyes,
History breathing in their sighs,
Every scar in the nation’s bark
Marks the place we found our spark.
From the farm roads to the crowded trains,
From the coastlines to the winter plains,
We arrive, a river wide,
Folding into one great tide.

Pre-Chorus
We’ve been broken, we’ve been brave,
We’ve learned how to bend and not to break,
Now the oath is on our tongue,
A country old, forever young.

Chorus
It’s Inauguration Day,
Let the thunder of the people pave the way,
Raise a hand and lift a heart,
Every ending finds a start.
On Inauguration Day,
Where the promise meets the proof we’ll make,
We are more than what we were,
Say the words and make them sure.

Bridge
Let the pens scratch quiet thunder,
Sign the sky with vow and wonder,
Hear the cold brass trumpets bloom,
Chase the winter out the room.
May the power serve the tender,
May the loud learn how to listen,
Turn the mirrors into windows,
Trade our fear for honest vision.

Breakdown
We are the proof, we are the plea,
We are the hands-on history,
We are the choir, flawed and true,
We are the many making new.

Chorus
It’s Inauguration Day,
Let the thunder of the people pave the way,
Raise a hand and lift a heart,
Every ending finds a start.
On Inauguration Day,
Where the promise meets the proof we’ll make,
We are more than what we were,
Say the words and make them sure.

Outro
Snow or sun on the Capitol stone,
Every voice finds a microphone,
In the hush after the cheers,
We begin the work of years.
Keep the lantern in the gray—
Light the road beyond today—
On Inauguration Day.