"First phase that takes place is in your mind.

You have to change your mind before you change the way you live and the way you move."

What started as a scroll turned into a deep dive

Now the stories on his feed just don't seem right

Dust everywhere rubble knee high

Protest happening tomorrow it's a weeknight

Steve wants to go marching for a ceasefire

But his boss is telling him he needs to keep quiet

"Do you want to earn his wages or a peace prize?

Do you want to be an activist or be fired?"

 

Blood money just bought him his breakfast

Cos the company has dodgy investments

He's an accountant heading up a hedge fund

But he's not sure this is something he can get past

In his new beliefs he remains steadfast

Keeps trying to diversify investments

"Nothing keep the money rolling in like death does"

So steve stepped down and let someone else to step up

Breath in my mother

In out in out

Breath in my mother

In out in out

Little Penny was seven when she went veggie

She changed her diet but her body wasn't ready

Poor little Penny couldn't keep her weight steady

"I couldn't fit enough veggies in my belly"

All of a sudden she cut out dairy

Teeth fell out out and her arms got hairy

Ate lot of bread but her diet never varied

Weight dropped so low it became scary

Penny saw so many horrors on the screen

She became a eco activist in her teens

She skipped school so she could yell "go green"

Went on hunger strike trying to keep the earth clean

That's when Penny was rushed to A&E

Dad couldn't remember the last time he saw her eat

"She looks so small and she's struggling to breath"

Who would have believed Penny's father was Steve

Breath in my mother

In out in out

Breath in my mother

In out in out

Penny's mother grew up in the 80s

When you made money until you make babies

What a waste of all the years she spent training

She resented penny for it daily

Penny knew this wasn't fair so she pushed back

Wanted mums sacrifice to have an impact

Neither of her parents understood that

History repeats itself the more we look back

Penny's Nan was a link in a chain

14 miles round a nuclear base

 greenham women got their name from the place

They occupied for 2 entire decades

As penny lies there in her hospital bed

Her mum can't get her own mother out her head

She remembers years ago something she said

"When we can't change the world it will change us instead"

Breath in my mother

In out in out

Breath in my mother

In out in out

Steve gifted penny a guitar

Pennys stitches faded into scars

She could turn blank pages into art

But the pain still invaded every vain in her heart

Every day was getting harder as the weeks pass by

Penny turned 18 in the blink of an eye

Therapist said "it's time to say goodbye"

Penny's an adult now has to wait in line

She's out with her friends waiting to buy drinks

The basslines boom, their glasses clink

She just wanna dance now she don't wanna think

"Why worry bout your health if all we're going extinct?"

Penny still believes she be better off dead

She remembers something a youth worker said

"When you can't right the world write about it instead"

So penny put down the blade and she picked up a pen

"So when we said that the revolution will not be televised We were saying that the thing that's going to change people is something that no one will ever be able to capture on film. It'll just be something that you can see and all of a sudden you realise I'm on the wrong page or I'm on the right page but I'm on the wrong note."