Lyrics
(A cappella) Oh, Sarajevo, did you hear the pen scratch?
(A cappella) On the paper that promised you'd never unlatch?
(Guitar enters)
The Zenith TV hums with the Ohio snow
Dad traces the border on the glass, soft and slow.
[Chorus]
And they're signing our name for a peace we can't feel
The house is still standing, but the damage is real
It’s a win on the news, a line in a book
The Dayton quiet has the emptiest look.
[Verse 2]
Mom pours the coffee, so thick and so black
The steam is a ghost you can never give back
"They call that a country," he says, turning his head
A truce is the last word the living tell the dead.
[Chorus]
And they're signing our name for a peace we can't feel
The house is still standing, but the damage is real
It’s a win on the news, a line in a book
The Dayton quiet has the emptiest look.
[Bridge]
The lawn chairs on Chippewa are sleeping in frost
A silence so different from the silence we lost.
[Outro]
November '95, on a red-brick street
The war is over. A bitter defeat.
About Alma Voda
Alma Voda's parents fled the Bosnian War and settled in St. Louis, where they raised their daughter in a house filled with love and a silence too heavy to break. She inherited their unspoken history and her father's old Zastava guitar, teaching herself to play when he no longer could. Her songs are what grew in that quiet: intimate folk dispatches from the heart of an American city, haunted by…
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