World Wide Won’t Back Down

rap, Stadium rock anthem fused with hip-hop cypher energy; gang vocals and male/female call-and-response, Crunchy guitars over a heavy halftime drum groove, sub-backed bass, and chantable tom builds, Verses ride stripped beat and riff stabs; chorus explodes with wide power chords, stacked crowd shouts, and octave vocals, Middle-eight drops to drums and claps for global chant moment before a final, full-band outro, hip-hop, world, rock

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[Intro]
Hands up
Head high
We were blind
Now we got eyes

[Verse 1]
You fed us headlines
Tried to sell us our own sky
Signed our names in small print
Thought we’d never read the fine lines
We were working two shifts
You were buying up the sunrise
Now we’re standing front row
Every seat is the bright side

[Pre-Chorus]
You can spin every story
Paint the villains as saints
But we carved our own memory
And it don’t wash off with paint (hey!)

[Chorus]
Now we’ve seen the truth, there’s no going back
Every voice, every roof screaming out this fact
Nothing you can say, nothing you can do now
Our lives can’t be bought, we won’t bow
World wide, world wide, won’t back down
World wide, world wide, won’t back down

[Verse 2]
From the block to the back road
Same fight, different zip code
Same boots on our necks
Same hands on the billfold
We were scrolling in silence
Now the comments turn to riot
Thought we’d argue in islands
Now the whole world’s aligned, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]
You can count every dollar
You can count every vote
But you can’t count a heartbeat
When it rises in its throat (woah)

[Bridge]
[Drums and claps only, crowd chant]
From the front line (we won’t back down)
To the fault line (we won’t back down)
Every border (we won’t back down)
Every hometown (we won’t back down)
You can buy time
But you can’t buy us
You can build walls
But you won’t stop us (hey!)

1979/7500

[Intro] Hands up Head high We were blind Now we got eyes [Verse 1] You fed us headlines Tried to sell us our own sky Signed our names in small print Thought we’d never read the fine lines We were working two shifts You were buying up the sunrise Now we’re standing front row Every seat is the bright side [Pre-Chorus] You can spin every story Paint the villains as saints But we carved our own memory And it don’t wash off with paint (hey!) [Chorus] Now we’ve seen the truth, there’s no going back Every voice, every roof screaming out this fact Nothing you can say, nothing you can do now Our lives can’t be bought, we won’t bow World wide, world wide, won’t back down World wide, world wide, won’t back down [Verse 2] From the block to the back road Same fight, different zip code Same boots on our necks Same hands on the billfold We were scrolling in silence Now the comments turn to riot Thought we’d argue in islands Now the whole world’s aligned, yeah [Pre-Chorus] You can count every dollar You can count every vote But you can’t count a heartbeat When it rises in its throat (woah) [Chorus] Now we’ve seen the truth, there’s no going back Every voice, every roof screaming out this fact Nothing you can say, nothing you can do now Our lives can’t be bought, we won’t bow World wide, world wide, won’t back down World wide, world wide, won’t back down [Bridge] [Drums and claps only, crowd chant] From the front line (we won’t back down) To the fault line (we won’t back down) Every border (we won’t back down) Every hometown (we won’t back down) You can buy time But you can’t buy us You can build walls But you won’t stop us (hey!) [Chorus] Now we’ve seen the truth, there’s no going back Every voice, every roof screaming out this fact Nothing you can say, nothing you can do now Our lives can’t be bought, we won’t bow World wide, world wide, won’t back down World wide, world wide, won’t back down (We won’t back down) World wide, world wide, won’t back down

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