From the factories to the fields to darkness wields its knife To the of freedom beating For those who have a burning deep down inside that scares them to but keeps them alive In the of the battlezone surrounding
No matter how many are won, the war will continue to rage on With their unlimited weapons of media, power and And just when you feel all hope is lost, you hear of someone with their life they've the cost You return to the fight a little more scarred, a more determined
Everyone else around you wallows in the of mediocrity But you're all consumed with the altruistic that every person should be free
But every cloudy night, your only driving force is to do what's right You give in, you keep fighting the good fight
You for one person to get a second chance and you fight for the masses to be able to dance In a drenched field of dignity and justice heart well it must be strong, and your soul true enough to carry on As you lose your mind in the of all the shambles
The odds are stacked so high, its so much to resign Yourself to your life the way they told you
We know we're strong enough to survive, but we'll be damned if our kids have to live their the same kind of hopelessness and utter despair We can't them from every evil they see but we can fight for them to live free With a self worth and liberty screaming
And those that came before us and all their lives Never it ahead, let alone, couldn't even get by got to enjoy what they worked so hard for For our children who have yet to come, and our parents and who fought on and on and on That the unyielding passion for the fight of freedom
They're gonna we're crazy and look down on us We may be poor, but our souls are And I'd be damned than live how they told me to