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Bridge the Divide is an original Americana country storytelling song about the strain of division in families, friendships, and communities — and the hope that listening, humility, and shared humanity can still matter before the damage becomes permanent. It doesn’t preach sides or solutions. It just lays out the weight of a fractured nation and asks whether we’re willing to build bridges before the house burns down.

If you’ve felt this tension in your own circles, what part of this story rang true?

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Lyrics — Bridge the Divide
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There’s a hole in the heart of America,
And the hate keeps spilling through.
Red and blue blood flow together,
They beat in both me and you.
We don’t talk it out no more,
We let the trigger be our tongue.
Every headline a funeral song,
Every silence broken
By the sound of a gun.

Bridge the divide,
Before we burn our house down.
Bridge the divide,
Before it crumbles to the ground.
It’s not black,
It’s not white,
It’s the faces we all know.
Bridge the divide,
Before there’s nowhere left to go.

We’ve traded family for strangers,
Voices we scroll by but never meet.
We’ll believe a man on our tiny screens,
But not the brother standing at our feet.
Tear down those we don’t agree with,
Like freedom’s just a game to lose.
We don’t talk it out,
We shoot it out,
And the truth gets strangled by the news.

Bridge the divide,
Before we burn our house down.
Bridge the divide,
Before it crumbles to the ground.
It’s not left,
It’s not right,
It’s every woman, child, and man.
Bridge the divide,
Before our bedrock
Crumbles to sand.

We don’t sit down at the table,
We just turn and walk away.
Every word becomes a weapon,
Every fight just digs a grave.
But the truth ain’t draped in colors,
It don’t bend,
It don’t take sides.
It’s the thing that can unite us,
If we’d only pick up that mic.

Bridge the divide,
Before we burn our house down.
Bridge the divide,
Before it crumbles to the ground.
Call it yours,
Or call it mine,
But it’s the land we all share.
Bridge the divide,
Before there’s no one left
To care.

This house is still standing,
But evil’s at our door.
We can drown inside our anger,
And be the reason we’re no more.
No outside hand will break us,
The greatest nation ever known
Will go down in history,
Defeated by its own.

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