[Verse] We came with pockets full of nails And maps drawn thin on paper trails We shared one roof, one fire, one vow To build a body larger now We patched our coats and split our bread Then marked the floor with lines of red Each lonely voice became a chord Each empty hand became a sword [Chorus] We are the hands that found the flame We are the blood that learned one name We press our backs against the storm And feel the many make one form No one alone, no one afraid We rise inside the shape we made [Verse] At first we marched with separate feet Then matched our lungs to one hard beat Our fingers locked, our shadows crossed We fed the dream with what it cost The walls bent out, the rafters shook Our faces blurred when people looked A hundred mouths began to sing One throat beneath a crown of skin [Chorus] We are the hands that found the flame We are the blood that learned one name We press our backs against the storm And feel the many make one form No one alone, no one afraid We rise inside the shape we made [Bridge] We only wanted room to rise A little hope, a little size But hunger has a holy sound When every root drinks from the ground Our bones made ladders to the sun Our veins tied tight until we’re one No hand can tell where it began No face can prove it once was man [Breakdown] Split the skin and seal the seam Feed the body, kill the dream Teeth in rows and ribs like gates Love turns thick and mutates Crawl as many, stand as one Block the moon and bite the sun Call us wrong, we call it birth We drag our shape across the earth [Final Chorus] We are the hands that found the flame We are the blood that learned one name We press our backs against the storm And feel the many make one form No one alone, no one afraid We rise inside the shape we made Every heart forgets its frame Every mouth repeats the same No one left to turn away We are the thing we made today
