Let Freedom Ring 223

Verse 1

Why we gotta feel caged on the land

That our ancestors built with their hands?

Built with their blood, their scars, their pain

Chains on their bodies, hope in their veins

They stole the right just to read, to speak

Taught them to feel like they were weak

All because of the color of skin

Now we inherit the war they were in

We the future, the children of flame

Still feel shackles in a modern-day chain

Still labeled, still hunted in streets

Still judged before we even speak

Pre-Chorus

We fight twice as hard just to stand in position

Still die for a voice, still die for suspicion

They say we’re free, but freedom feels thin

When survival alone is the win

Chorus

We are killed for speaking

Killed for existing

Killed just for trying to breathe

We are dying to live

Dying to thrive

Dying to just be

Mothers cry for their sons in the night

Prayers fall through blue and red lights

Tell me—when will it end?

When freedom ain’t just a song we pretend?

Verse 2

They say “Let freedom ring,” but it echoes in fear

Every step got us looking behind us in here

We pledge to a flag that don’t always defend

The lives of the ones it’s sworn to protect

We claim the First, but we’re forced to stay quiet

Minds pleading the Fifth in a world built on riots

We’re told be calm, be still, don’t resist

While history repeats with a clenched iron fist

Pre-Chorus

We wear our pain in our skin every day

Carry our ancestors’ cries in our veins

We don’t want war, we don’t want a fight

We just want to make it home at night

Chorus

We are killed for speaking

Killed for existing

Killed just for trying to breathe

We are dying to live

Dying to thrive

Dying to just be

Mothers cry for their sons in the night

Heaven fills with broken lives

Tell me—when will it end?

When freedom ain’t just a dream we defend?

Bridge

Is it when every child feels safe in the street?

When justice don’t stutter, don’t skip a heartbeat?

When our skin ain’t a reason to die?

When our tears don’t fall from the sky?

We don’t ask for more than our share

Just equal ground, equal air

Let freedom ring from every soul

Not just words we’re taught to know

Final Chorus

We are done with the cages

Done with the pages

That keep rewriting our pain

We’re still here, still breathing

Still believing

We can break every chain

Let freedom ring in every home

Where fear once made its throne

Tell me—when will it end?

When we’re finally seen as human again

Outro

Let it ring in every street

Every heart, every beat

No more silence, no more fear—

Let freedom ring… right here.