Intro]
Same lessons written, different year
History’s loud, but no one hears
[Verse 1]
We built the system, called it secure
Borders, power, profit assured
Paper laws and quiet hands
Justice bends where money stands
Screens glow red with distant wars
Children running from foreign shores
We speak of order, draw the line
But look away when rules decline
[Pre-Chorus]
Who decides what’s justified?
Who pays the cost while leaders hide?
We wait our turn, we trust the claim
Still fed the same rehearsed refrain
[Chorus]
Stand up — don’t wave the white flag now
Truth doesn’t bend just because it’s loud
Break the loop, don’t look away
This is the price of what we say
Hold fast, don’t sell the lie
Freedom fades when fear decides
If we stay silent tonight
We choose the wrong side
[Verse 2]
Detention lights, no names, no clocks
Human lives reduced to blocks
Uniforms shielded by the state
“Just doing jobs” while families wait
Across the sea, a border burns
Cities fall while the world adjourns
Missiles speak what words won’t say
Power writes history day by day
[Pre-Chorus]
How many truths get classified?
How many deaths get justified?
We post our grief, then carry on
Outrage fades, the cycle’s strong
[Chorus]
Stand up — don’t wave the white flag now
Truth doesn’t bend just because it’s loud
Break the loop, don’t look away
This is the price of what we say
Hold fast, don’t sell the lie
Freedom fades when fear decides
If we stay silent tonight
We choose the wrong side
[Bridge]
This isn’t left, this isn’t right
It’s who sleeps safe and who survives
If law protects the powerful few
Then law’s a weapon, not the truth
The warning signs were always clear
We traded conscience for career
Now every mirror asks the same:
“What did you do when it came?”
[Final Chorus]
Stand up — this line is drawn in sand
History waits for where you stand
No more comfort bought with shame
No more silence in our name
Stand up — the cost is real
So is the weight of what we feel
If we don’t speak, if we comply
We don’t stay neutral — we decide
[Outro]
No anthem saves us in the end
Only the lines we won’t defend
The future isn’t fate or chance
It’s built by action — or inaction
VERAX
