[Verse 1] Carney walked into the room with cards held to his chest Seventy-two hours grinding hard, the table put to test Trump laid down his offer and the numbers didn't hold The whole negotiation cracked like clay left out in cold A miscalculation, Carney said, when tariffs hit the wire The deal went off the cliff edge and nobody pulled from prior [Chorus] The US and Canada, they're standing on a fault Trade talks cratered hard and fast, everything ground to halt Carney called it war — yeah, war — when tariffs crossed the line Collins warned the White House 'bout the damage by design Seventy-two hours that shook the northern border wide And nobody steered it back when both sides let it slide [Verse 2] Collins sent her letter up, asked them to consider well The negative impact bleeding through, the numbers start to tell Canada's not flinching though, Carney said attacked A sovereign nation digs its heels when dignity gets cracked While senators and prime ministers argued on the floor Trump was out back in the garden, laying down a new stone floor [Chorus] The US and Canada, they're standing on a fault Trade talks cratered hard and fast, everything ground to halt Carney called it war — yeah, war — when tariffs crossed the line Collins warned the White House 'bout the damage by design Seventy-two hours that shook the northern border wide And nobody steered it back when both sides let it slide [Verse 3] The lumber and the auto plants were watching from the side Supply chains started buckling underneath the rising tide Farmers on the border towns were calculating loss Every empty handshake only underlined the cost Two economies so tangled that the cutting would cut both And the men who drew the battle lines were breaking every oath [Bridge] Statues going up where roses used to grow A patio of marble where the diplomacy goes slow The Rose Garden's getting remade, stone and new bronze faces While the trade deal's getting buried in the most unlikely places [Chorus] The US and Canada, they're standing on a fault Trade talks cratered hard and fast, everything ground to halt Carney called it war — yeah, war — when tariffs crossed the line Collins warned the White House 'bout the damage by design Seventy-two hours that shook the northern border wide And nobody steered it back when both sides let it slide [Outro] August twenty-third, the headlines burned like gravel on a wound Canada and America, the reckoning loomed Carney said miscalculation, Trump said not my fault And seventy-two hours sealed it all inside a vault
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