[Verse 1] You drew a line across the lunchroom floor With a borrowed rule and a guarded door But the names you feared were ordinary names And the hands you blamed were holding the same [Pre-Chorus] No one here was harmed by a different face No one lost their home to a stranger’s grace If your comfort needs a smaller world Who taught you that a heart can be controlled? [Chorus] We won’t make a cage from somebody’s skin We won’t call it peace when the harm begins Raise your voice, let the old lie crack If they build a wall, we answer back Not with hate, not with a borrowed crown With every quiet soul refusing to bow down [Verse 2] You keep a ledger of the lives you’ve judged Count every difference, call it too much But the bus still comes and the children laugh And the street grows wide when we share the path [Pre-Chorus] No one here was harmed by a different name No one became less when the neighbors came If your pride requires another’s shame We will leave that lesson in the dust again [Chorus] We won’t make a cage from somebody’s skin We won’t call it peace when the harm begins Raise your voice, let the old lie crack If they build a wall, we answer back Not with hate, not with a borrowed crown With every quiet soul refusing to bow down [Bridge] I know the feeling of being told to wait Of making yourself small to decorate their gate But tolerance is not a favor from above It is the floor beneath a livable love So take your place, and make the doorway wide Stand beside the ones they pushed outside [Final Chorus] We won’t make a cage from somebody’s skin We won’t call it peace when the harm begins Raise your voice, let the old lie crack If they build a wall, we answer back Not with hate, not with a borrowed crown With every quiet soul refusing to bow down [Outro] No one is asking you to lose your life Only stop mistaking difference for a knife Open the door, let the whole world in That is where our better days begin
