No plaque No statue No page with our names No song they'll sing when we're gone But we planted this ground and we built in this place And we brought our families along You won't find us in the marble that they hold Just the hands that did the carving, made the mold We were here, we were here In the stories no one keeps We loved loud We worked hard We disappeared Let the quiet of us speak We were here For the millions with no monument to claim The faces history let fall We worked, we played, we lived just the same And a small life is a life after all You won't find us in the stories written down Just the soil and the bricks that built this town We were here, we were here In the stories no one keeps We loved loud We worked hard We were erased Let our stories come to light We were here Say it for the unremembered names Say it for the ones who had no fame And if no one comes to mark the stone Let our voice be the proof we were known We were here, we were here In the stories no one keeps We loved loud We worked hard Kept our friends near Let them remember us now We were here We were here
