Highest Hall

[Verse 1]
The General shelved his bold uniform
Hung it up by the door
Put on that fancy presidential suit
Like a promise, like a war
He shook a hand in the marble light
Smiled like he owned the rain
But the boots beneath that polished shine
Still knew the same old game

[Pre-Chorus]
Now the bells up in the capital
Don’t ring for us no more
He’s counting laws like bullets
At the sanctuary door

[Chorus]
Highest hall, highest hall
He makes his will stand tall
Highest hall, highest hall
He won’t hear us at all
(At all)
He speaks and the columns lean
He speaks and the silence falls
Highest hall, highest hall
He makes his will stand tall

[Verse 2]
Mothers wait in the market square
With their hands on empty pails
Old men read the ash in the wind
And shake their heads like scales
The clerk with the torn-up ledger
Won’t meet nobody’s eyes
Truth got locked in a golden room
Where the same old power hides

[Pre-Chorus]
Now the bells up in the capital
Don’t ring for us no more
He’s counting laws like bullets
At the sanctuary door

[Chorus]
Highest hall, highest hall
He makes his will stand tall
Highest hall, highest hall
He won’t hear us at all
(At all)
He speaks and the columns lean
He speaks and the silence falls
Highest hall, highest hall
He makes his will stand tall

[Bridge]
But the road goes out past the river
Past the fences and the dust
Where the hands that built this shelter
Still know what to trust
One day that hall goes quiet
One day that crown slips low
And the ones he tried to bend
Will be the ones who say no

[Chorus]
Highest hall, highest hall
He makes his will stand tall
Highest hall, highest hall
He won’t hear us at all
(At all)
He speaks and the columns lean
He speaks and the silence falls
Highest hall, highest hall
We’ll outlast him after all