[Verse 1]
They wrote the rules before we woke
Built the cage and sold the key
Drew the lines across the map
And said that this is what is free
Put our names in all their ledgers
Put our backs against their wheel
Told us silence was a virtue
Told us suffering was the deal
[Pre-Chorus]
But you can't bury what is living
You can't silence what is true
Every voice they tried to swallow
Just grew louder as it grew
[Chorus]
We are the voices in the wall
We were here before the fall
Every name they tried to erase
Still echoes round this place
Still echoes round this place
They never could contain us all
We are the voices in the wall
[Verse 2]
See them standing in their towers
Counting everything they own
While the children learn their hunger
And the mothers grieve alone
Every system built to keep us
Looking down instead of out
But the ones who have the least
Are always last to run from doubt
[Pre-Chorus]
Emancipate your own mind first
Before you break the outer chain
Every truth they tried to drown
Will always rise again
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
How long
How long must we carry this weight
How long
Before the powerful answer too late
We won't wait
We won't break
We won't fold
This story
Was never
Theirs to be told
[Solo]
[Verse 3]
There is something in the people
That no prison can contain
Call it spirit, call it fire
Call it standing in the rain
Every generation carries
What the one before began
Every chain they put upon us
Built a stronger kind of man
[Pre-Chorus]
So don't mourn for what was taken
Don't bow down to what remains
Pick the song up where they left it
And sing it through the pain
[Chorus]
We are the voices in the wall
We were here before the fall
Every name they tried to erase
Still echoes round this place
Still echoes round this place
They never could contain us all
We are the voices in the wall
We are the voices in the wall
We were always in the wall
[Outro]
Won't you help to sing
These songs of freedom
All we ever had
These songs of freedom
