Lyrics
The bigger they are The harder they fall (Fall) Thirty years of ribbon-cuts and courthouse halls The bigger they are The harder they fall (Fall) Same five names behind every closed-door call Father held the seat eighteen years, then handed it to his wife She ran it twelve, that's thirty years of one name running our life Now the son's up on the ballot and the sister's on it too Cousin's on the council, uncle signs the contracts, that's the crew Five names, three seats, one bloodline, and the ballot's just a stage Same five faces in the frame, same five signatures on the page Nobody calls it a dynasty, they call it just how it's done Pass the seat like a wedding ring, from the mother to the son Every fiesta that they throw, they cut the ribbon and the check Every truck of flood relief got a sticker round its neck Every scholarship, every road, every barangay hall Got the surname on the tarp, grinning bigger than us all Flood wall built on paper, then the real flood took the town Same hands that skimmed the budget smile for cameras, handing rice around Say thank you for the favor, say thank you for the fear Every favor is a debt, and they collect it every year We grew up knowing how the count goes, who gets paid to look away Whose signature clears the ledger when the numbers start to stray Ask about the budget and you're a troublemaker with a mouth Ask about the cement, ask which way the money went south Small-town math, small-town silence, this is how it's always been Till the ledger goes missing and it never comes back again A reporter asks a question twice, somebody screenshots a receipt By morning half the town's already talking in the street First they call it fake news, then they say it's paid by the rival clan Then a polite man at your gate asks what you know, and where you stand The ones who never questioned start to whisper, start to shout The ones who took the sticker start to ask what it's about No saints, no masters, no surname on the door Every back they've ridden on is straightening up off the floor The tarps are thinning, the grins are tight Everybody's talking, nobody's polite Thirty years of quiet's coming due tonight Something's cracking in the paint, something's catching in the light The bigger they are The harder they fall (Fall) Thirty years of ribbon-cuts and courthouse halls The bigger they are The harder they fall (Fall) Same five names behind every closed-door call Somebody caught it on a phone, cold and calm and clear Not a threat, just a fact he's carried thirty year "If you destroy my legacy, I will kill you" We ain't the heroes of this story, we just said it out loud We ain't the ones who knocked it down, we just stood up in the crowd The bigger they are The harder they fall (Fall) Thirty years came down in one bad week, that's all The bigger they are The harder they fall (Fall) Watch the name peel off the building, off the wall No saints, no masters, no name on the door (No name on the door)