The Way We Lose

Look and see them taking the streets Demanding their dignity back Between gunshots and their heartbeats Revolution's their life soundtrack From shade to open air and light The nobodies with no future The people's ghosts they come to life Face them and prove you're a murderer Come on, down with ivory towers Come on, down with stolen powers The time to choose The way we lose Has come Come on, down with daily liars Come on, down with the oppressor Time to pretend This all will end For good For standing up as human beings They get killed for the right to die Should it be 'cause it's always been Guess that to smile we need to cry Learning to believe in something You weren't given readymade This noble fight is never ending Remember we're all meant to fade Come on, down with ivory towers Come on, down with stolen powers The time to choose The way we lose Has come Come on, down with daily liars Come on, down with the oppressor Time to pretend This all will end For good Let the people rule the power Maybe that would help discover How greedy, how pointless How useless, senseless it all is There's no point in wanting to rule upon humanity In the end it's all in vain It's haunting to see how much fear can destroy us Come on, down with ivory towers Come on, down with stolen powers The time to choose The way we lose Has come Come on, down with daily liars Come on, down with the oppressor Time to pretend This all will end For good