Uprising

They told us keep our heads down And count the days like stones Smile when the room gets colder Pretend this house is home There’s bread on every table But some still go without And those who speak too loudly Are told to lower down But I hear it in the stairwells I hear it through the walls All the tired little voices Still trying to stand tall So raise the quiet Let it ring through the rain We are not broken We are not your shame Raise the quiet Let it burn without a flame If we stand together They will remember our names They painted gold on windows So we would not look in While mothers count the coins left And fathers hide their skin The news keeps changing faces But the story stays the same Someone sells the future Then tells us we’re to blame But I see it in the schoolyards I see it on the trains All the hearts that still keep beating Under all this weight So raise the quiet Let it ring through the rain We are not broken We are not your shame Raise the quiet Let it burn without a flame If we stand together They will remember our names We don’t need a crown We don’t need a throne We just need the light back In the streets we own We don’t need a saviour Speaking from the sky We just need each other Looking eye to eye Raise the quiet Let it ring through the rain We are not broken We are not your shame Raise the quiet Let it shake every chain If we stand together They will remember our names