Hands Beneath the Window — A Song Inspired by A viral rescue video from Ilford High Road showed a young child hanging from a second-story window ledge until a passerby and police officer positioned themselves below and caught her safely.

[Verse 1]
Pink jacket, high ledge, everyone staring
The afternoon split at the seam
A mother below with a voice full of lightning
A child in the teeth of a dream

[Pre-Chorus]
Then panic found muscles
And fear found feet
A man and a badge
Made a net in the street

[Chorus]
Hold on, little thunder
Hold on, little flame
The ground has grown arms
And it knows your name
Hold on, little thunder
Let the whole block rise
Hands beneath the window
Hands beneath the sky

[Verse 2]
No choir came down from the rooftops
No lesson arrived dressed in gold
Just strangers refusing the ending
Just mercy with skin and bone

[Bridge]
For every ledge we are living on
For every grip wearing thin
May somebody stand underneath us
Before the falling begins

[Final Chorus]
Hold on, little thunder
Hold on, little flame
The ground has grown arms
And it knows your name
Hold on, little thunder
Let the whole block rise
Hands beneath the window
Hands beneath the sky