We Won’t Buy the Divide (Your Way)

[Verse 1] They drew a line Through the center of the street Held up your fear Like a weapon over me But I know your hands I know the work they do You are not my enemy Whatever they keep shouting about you [Verse 2] They print a name Then they print the blame Change the face But the scheme stays the same Point across the border Point across the hall Keep us watching one another So we never watch them at all [Pre-Chorus] A child is not a threat A family is not a flood No document can alter The color of our blood They whisper fear They sharpen every side Then ask us to believe We were born to be divided [Chorus] We already know the truth Every mask will fall in time You can keep on twisting stories But your shadow stains your every line You can try to split our hearts With every whispered, poisoned word But the love between us holds Stronger than the lies we’ve heard [Refrain] Same blood Same sky No wall can touch What lives inside They sell us fear But love survives We won’t buy We won’t buy the divide We won’t buy the divide [Verse 3] A mother waits Beneath the courthouse light Her little boy Sleeps softly through the night A young man hears His name turned into blame Like dignity belongs To only certain names [Verse 4] Two neighbors clear the snow From either door Then the television tells them They are suddenly at war I have seen the trick I recognize the design Keep us facing one another While they quietly move the line [Pre-Chorus] They can sort us They can score us They can tell us who belongs But a law without compassion Turns every justice into wrong [Chorus] We already know the truth And your tales can’t make the divide Every time you push your terror You reveal what you’re trying to hide You can play the great divider But the mirror shows you more Every cruel and careless promise Shows the liar at your core [Refrain] Same blood Same sky No wall can touch What lives inside They sell us fear But love survives We won’t buy We won’t buy the divide We won’t buy the divide [Verse 5] They take a life And twist it into debate Turn a private truth Into fuel for louder hate Pick a body Pick a name Pick somebody new To carry all the blame [Verse 6] Freedom isn’t freedom With a footnote for a few And rights are only rights When they shelter me and you You do not need my prayer I do not need your creed To recognize a person Standing here in need [Bridge] I don’t need your story To know that you belong I don’t need your prayer To hear the same song Different roads Under one burning sky Love is still the answer When fear keeps asking why They dream a wall Between your heart and mine But we already see the line And we step across in time [Breakdown] We already know the truth No more room for hidden lies Every mask that you hold up Only shows your thin disguise You keep reaching for division But our hands reach out instead You reveal your heart with every Cruel and calculated thread [Verse 7] Here is the oldest trick In the power-play book Fix your eyes on your neighbor So you never take a look At the doors closing softly At the rules being changed While we fight over labels And the powerful remain [Verse 8] But fear is not a future And hatred isn’t strength Love can cross a distance Past any measured length We will not fight the people Standing with us in the line We will fight the lie That says their life threatens mine [Refrain] Same blood Same sky No paper measures The light inside No name can make you Less alive We won’t buy We won’t buy the divide [Chorus] We already know the truth So your power starts to fade Every time you draw a border We remember what we’re made You can posture as the savior While you tear our worlds apart But your lies can’t hold forever When we read your broken heart [Outro] Neighbor to neighbor Side by side They sell us fear But love survives We won’t buy the divide Love survives Keep your name Keep your rights Keep your place Within the light We can disagree And still decide We won’t buy The divide We won’t buy the divide