[Rhythmic Intro] [Instrumentation: Fast, heavy double-footed stomps on beats 1 and 3, hard syncopated hand-claps on 2 and 4. Aggressive beatbox with lip-rolls and mouth-snare snaps. Fast percussive strumming on nylon-string guitar with aggressive palm mutes.] (Female Vocalists 1 & 2 - Driving, Defiant Harmonies): We are not afraid... we stand in the light... Not afraid of you... not tonight... [Verse 1] (Gritty Male Lead - Fast, Driving Delivery): Golden name stamped on a crooked tower, Tiny hands gripping onto a bigger lie. Signing dirty deals in a gilded office, While another mother stands alone to cry. (Female Backing Vocals: Learn to cry... see through the lie...) Talking tough across a distant border, Tweeting out threats like a teenage king. Dropping heavy bombs on a crowded morning, Then posing for the camera and the golden ring! [Chorus] (Full Energy - Male Lead & Soulful Female Harmonies): I won’t pledge to paper walls, plastic flags! You sold my future for a photo and a brag! (Female Harmonies: Sold my future!) You cage our neighbors, call it law, call it right, But we are not afraid of you tonight! (Female Backing Vocals: Hey! We are not afraid tonight!) [Verse 2] (Gritty Male Lead): Black vans roll where the buses used to, Masks and badges at the factory gate. Clipboards out, but the hands are shaking, They know history is gonna spell their fate! (Female Backing Vocals: Spell their fate... feel the weight...) Desert sky, child in the crater, Dust on lungs that’ll never grow old. Oil burns bright in the evening briefing, Just another secret that was bought and sold! [Chorus] (Full Energy - Male Lead & Soulful Female Harmonies): I won’t pledge to paper walls, plastic flags! You sold my future for a photo and a brag! You cage our neighbors, call it law, call it right, But we are not afraid of you tonight! (Female Backing Vocals: Not afraid... not tonight!) [Beatbox & Stomp Breakdown] [Instrumentation: Guitar cuts to aggressive percussive slaps on the wood body. Heavy double-time beatbox drop with vocal bass, hard snare snaps, and rapid foot-stomps.] [Aggressive UK Street Rap Section - The Core Message] (Gritty Male Lead - Fast, Aggressive, Cutting Delivery): Yeah, look— Look at the posture, look at the ego, look at the greed on the podium stand, Buying up allegiance with a counterfeit promise, ruling the land with a heavy hand. You build up a fortress of paper and plastic, waving the flag while you hollow the core, Sending the sons of the poor off to war while you count up the profit behind closed doors! (Female Vocals: We see straight through it!) Nah, you raid on our ends, you tap on our lines, trying to smother the truth with spin, Stacking the courts with a crooked gavel, but look at the fire you're stepping in! You think that a badge and a blacked-out van gonna make the community bow and bend? Every suppression just fuels the reaction, this is the beginning and not the end. We ain't intimidated by the suit or the throne or the sound of the siren ring, You can't cage a spirit that's born to be free, no matter how hard you bite and sting. So keep your plastic patriotism, keep your propaganda and your cheap parade, We stand on the pavement unbroken, united—and we ain't afraid! (Female Vocals - Soaring & Defiant: WE ARE NOT AFRAID!) [Bridge] (Gritty Male Lead - Building Intensity over Driving Guitar Strums): You can raid our homes, you can tap our phones, You can stack your courts on your fragile thrones! (Female Backing Vocals: On your fragile thrones!) But every chant you try to drown in spin Comes back louder from the streets we’re in! (Female Vocalists 1 & 2 - High Soaring Belt): LOUDER FROM THE STREETS! [Chorus - Maximum Up-Tempo Energy] (Full Band & All Vocalists - Stomping Rhythm): I won’t pledge to paper walls, plastic flags! You sold my future for a photo and a brag! You cage our neighbors, call it law, call it right, But we are not afraid of you tonight! (All Vocalists): We are not afraid of you tonight! (Hey!) We are not afraid of you tonight! [Outro] [Instrumentation: Aggressive beatbox and fast guitar strumming decelerate into four heavy, resounding boot-stomps.] (Gritty Male Lead - Spoken sharply): Paper walls and plastic flags. We see right through 'em. (Female Vocalists 1 & 2 - Defiant Harmony): Not afraid... not tonight... [Final sharp hand-clap and loud floor stomp]
