[Verse 1]
Sirens stuck on repeat
Cheap flags fade on the freeway rail
Billboards selling us sleep
While the rent climbs higher than the jail
Coffee cold
Got a pink slip note
Scrolling through another crooked vote
Tired eyes on a midnight screen
First spark in a gasoline dream
[Chorus]
This is the start of a revolution
We are the match in a house of cards
Hands up high
Screaming for a new day
Turning our rage into battle scars
From every small forgotten town
To every cracked downtown station
We are the fault line under the crown
This is the start of a revolution
[Verse 2]
Street kids chalk on the courthouse stone
Names of the ones who never made it home
Black boots thud in a nervous line
Shields up
But the truth's behind
Grandma's marching with a homemade sign
"Fed my kids on coupons
Now it's time"
Office suits loosen blood-red ties
Join the roar in the traffic lights
[Chorus]
This is the start of a revolution
We are the match in a house of cards
Hands up high
Screaming for a new day
Turning our rage into battle scars
From every small forgotten town
To every cracked downtown station
We are the fault line under the crown
This is the start of a revolution
[Bridge]
[Drums drop to tom-heavy stomp
Crowd chant]
We won't sit down
(we won't sit down)
We won't shut up
(we won't shut up)
We are the wave
We are the flood
They built their thrones on our sweat and blood
[Chorus]
This is the start of a revolution
We are the match in a house of cards
Hands up high
Screaming for a new day
Turning our rage into battle scars
From every small forgotten town
To every cracked downtown station
We are the fault line under the crown
This is the start of a revolution