“We Rise Up (We Won't Build A Wall)”
By Christiana Athena
Verse 1:
Grey skies in November
Filter through our minds.
Drifting through time,
Like we’ve got no lifeline.
Cold in our bones
Sends us shivering home
To nestle and burrow and atone.
Pre Chorus:
You take the hard work and you burn it down,
But we won’t let you stamp it out.
As you can see we are all around,
And we’re rising up from the ground.
Chorus:
We won’t back down
We won’t let up
by day one
We were already fed up
We won’t build a wall
We won’t build a wall
We hold each other up
So we don’t fall
Verse 2:
Like seeds in the ground that you tried to bury,
We rise up with even more fury.
We honor the heroes that came before,
And over time we thrive even more.
Pre Chorus
Chorus
Verse 3:
You fuel new generations of warriors,
Guilded further, fighting like love soldiers.
With a message of peace and love,
With our hands we lift each other up above.
Pre Chorus
Bridge:
You can hear we are rising up
You can hear we rise up
Verse 4:
We rise above the fog, the lies,
the government ties,
your bought and sold allies.
We change the world
and we find the sunshine,
Because it’s our time
Chorus:
We won’t build a wall
We won’t build a wall
We hold each other up
So we don’t fall
credits
from Band Together: Songs of Protest,
released March 4, 2017
Written and Produced by Christiana Athena
Cover Art by Christiana Athena
Christiana Athena: Lead Vocals, Piano, Cajon
Thomas Hanslowe: Bass, Backup vox
Nikki Oder: Backup Vox
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