Two Doors · Album · Track 4
8 Aug 2026 · 3:29 · Alternative Rock · 186 plays
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It was temporary. They said temporary.
It had a sunset written in.
Extraordinary times, they said,
and the times were extraordinary.
So we handed over something
that we'd never hand over calm,
and we all agreed to give it back
the moment it was over.
It's been over for years.
Check your pocket. Check the law —
Emergency forever! (emergency!)
The crisis ends. The powers stay.
Nobody gives a lever back.
It was temporary, it was temporary —
and it's older than my children now.
Emergency forever.
Every generation gets one:
a fire, a plague, a threat, a war.
And each one leaves a residue
in the statute, in the habit.
Nobody repeals a comfort.
Nobody hands back a key.
And the powers pile like sediment
until they're just called normal.
Ask a child what's always been true.
They'll describe the last emergency —
The fear expires. The clause does not.
It gets renewed without a vote.
that's the most expensive word we own.
The checkpoint stayed.
The database stayed.
The powers of the office stayed.
The word "temporary" stayed as well.
EMERGENCY FOREVER! (emergency!)
GIVE IT BACK! GIVE IT BACK!
THE FIRE IS OUT — THE HOSES STAY —
WHO IS HOLDING WHAT WE LENT?
Emergency forever. (emergency)
Take the roll call of the powers.
Ask which ones we voted for.
Ask.
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