Never Forget

[Verse 1]
Twenty-five candles would not stay lit
The September wind kept worrying them
Names rise in bronze beneath my fingertips
A city remembers every one of them

[Pre-Chorus]
I was younger when the towers fell
Still I hear the bells, still I hear them tell

[Chorus]
Never forget, never forgotten
Names on a wall where the flowers are laid
Heroes continue to fall, but their courage
Keeps walking beside us through each passing day
Life goes on, though the missing remain
We carry their stories through sorrow and rain
Never forget, never forgotten
Love is the promise that time cannot break

[Verse 2]
A mother folds a flag in a quiet room
A brother keeps a photograph near
Some wounds learn the shape of an afternoon
Some losses sit patiently year after year

[Pre-Chorus]
And the children who were born that fall
Know the names, know the cost, know them all

[Chorus]
Never forget, never forgotten
Names on a wall where the flowers are laid
Heroes continue to fall, but their courage
Keeps walking beside us through each passing day
Life goes on, though the missing remain
We carry their stories through sorrow and rain
Never forget, never forgotten
Love is the promise that time cannot break

[Bridge]
If you pass that memorial, say their names
Not as ashes, not as numbers, not as flames
Say them softly, let the silence hear
A quarter century, and still they’re here

[Final Chorus]
Never forget, never forgotten
Names on a wall, and a hand on a heart
Life goes on, but the thread they gave us
Still binds every stranger and keeps us from apart
Heroes continue to fall, yet we stand
With the past in our hearts and tomorrow in hand
Never forget, never forgotten
Their names are alive wherever we are

[Outro]
Twenty-five years, and the morning arrives
We remember the lost by the way that we live