Nordic Discord Challenge Genre: Sovietwave Theme: Freedom Lyrics: Citizens are reminded That everything is normal There is nothing to fear There is nothing to question Please remain inside Please remain calm Every morning at six The loudspeakers wake us Every morning the same voice Tells us what to believe I walk beneath the speakers I keep my eyes ahead I know every word by heart Before the speaker has said it The factories start turning The trains arrive on time A thousand windows glowing A thousand lives in line Nobody asks the question Nobody says the word We learned to keep our voices low So nobody could hear But late at night When the city sleeps I turn the dial And something speaks When the loudspeakers stop Will we remember our names When the loudspeakers stop Will we step out of the frame We have lived behind the signal We have lived beneath the sound But when the loudspeakers stop We will finally hear the ground There is a frequency hidden Between the stations at night A voice beneath the static Burning quietly through the dark It doesn't give us orders It doesn't tell us where to go It only says one sentence Then disappears below You are not a number You are not a machine You are more than what they told you You are still alive I write the words on paper Then pass them door to door By morning every apartment Knows what they are waiting for And every night The signal grows From one small voice To thousands more A light behind a curtain A radio left on A whisper in the stairwell The silence won't last long When the loudspeakers stop We will remember our names When the loudspeakers stop We will step outside the frame They can fill the streets with orders They can fill the sky with sound But when the loudspeakers stop There will be millions standing ground Tonight the signal changes The voice is coming clear I hear it through the walls I hear it everywhere Someone opens up a window Someone switches off the screen Someone writes across a concrete wall WE ARE STILL FREE The factory gates are silent The morning shift won't start A hundred hands refuse the orders A thousand voices answer back No banners in the darkness No leader in the square Just people leaving doorways And finding each other there One street Then two Then every avenue One voice Then ten Then thousands speaking through The towers keep on calling But the city calls louder You are not a number You are not a machine You are not their shadow You are not unseen Turn off the screens Open the doors Step into the streets We have waited long enough No more silence No more fear No more silence No more fear We are still here When the loudspeakers stop We will remember our names When the loudspeakers stop We will tear apart the frame No more voices from the towers No more orders from above They can never stop a people Who have finally learned to love When the loudspeakers stop Every window becomes a light When the loudspeakers stop We will walk into the night We have lived beneath the signal We have lived beneath the sound Now the streets belong to everyone And the walls are coming down We are still here We are still here We are still here Not numbers Not machines Not shadows Not unseen We are still here We are still here Citizens are reminded Citizens are reminded Citizens are reminded No one is listening
