[Verse 1 – Male] They show us fires on the TV screen, Pearl Harbor ghosts and a broken dream, From Beirut nights to the towers fall, Feels like we never learned nothin’ at all. [Verse 2 – Female] Borders wide and the people cry, Oklahoma smoke still in the sky, Haiti shakin’, can’t find the ground, But we keep on dancin’, can’t hold us down. [Chorus – Both] Are we debt-chained, soul-tamed, prisoners without walls? Clockin’ in for a dollar just to buy what steals it all. But I hear that banjo pickin’, I feel that fiddle sing, Invisible chains can’t stop the truth, We’re breakin’ free tonight, my friend. [Verse 3 – Male] They talk ’bout bankers, families of gold, Big ol’ names with a stranglehold, But I got a hammer, I got a song, Ain’t no illusion gonna keep me wrong. [Verse 4 – Female] Public schools try to clip our wings, Teach us lines, but forget to sing, We got our stories, we got our hands, We’ll build a life they can’t demand. [Chorus – Both] Are we debt-chained, soul-tamed, prisoners without walls? Clockin’ in for a dollar just to buy what steals it all. But I hear that banjo pickin’, I feel that fiddle sing, Invisible chains can’t stop the truth, We’re breakin’ free tonight, my friend. [Bridge – Call & Response] (Male) Are you awake? (Female) Oh, I’m alive. (Male) Can you still dream? (Female) Lord, we’ll survive. (Male) Shake off the trance. (Female) Don’t bow to kings. (Together) Freedom’s more than the gold they bring. [Final Chorus – Both] We ain’t debt-chained, soul-tamed, we’re breakin’ all those walls, Dancin’ wild in the moonlight, singin’ truth across the halls. With the banjo strummin’, the fiddle ridin’ high, Invisible chains can’t hold us down, We’re free beneath God’s sky.
