We were all shored up It was cut and dry And each one of us Would’ve been willing to die For the cause that we believe in The colour into life Not trudge to the grave As a man and wife But they caught us in the field As the sky turned back blue “Who dare refracts the sunlight We think that it is you” And he grabbed me by my collar Through me into a van Said a hundred metre sprint Would be an also ran And the courage dropped down low In the back of my throat As I thought about our history And the genius that I quote Are we just railroaded Into another station Will they call us out On all our conflagration And a blow to my face And another to my stomach The dread it lives in me Like a rollercoaster plummet And the drop may be expected But it is never willed It’s just there’s this void inside That is longing to be filled And if you have to crawl Make sure that you don’t stop I picked myself back up After a round in the parking lot And is the light extinguished Or does it live on Long after my beauty And my strength are long gone As I fail to lift a hand Til something pulls me to my feet And it’s been twenty years It’s like the first time that we meet In the battalion of the fearless That drown the silence out Stand up and be counted You don’t have to live without In this suffer and this burial You seemed condemned to bear But I know Truth by name Because I saw the lie tear And the fabric rip a thread Now it’s pulling a seam It seems a hole has pierced Through the density of dreams That send us aflourish Into the garden green It’s coming around again All that we have been