[Verse 1]
Boots in the dust
Calloused hands
Rust on the truck
Folded flag in a frame on the mantle
Old scars under Sunday shirts
Farm fields
Factory gates
Gravel roads
Steel interstates
We stand up when the trumpet cracks morning
Eyes bright
Shoulders hurt
[Chorus]
Blood
Sweat
Tears
And sacrifice
For the red
The blue
The stripes
Every name that paid the price
Raises up this star‑born sky
Blood
Sweat
Tears
We testify
From small towns to city lights
Hand on heart
We solemnize
We live and breathe America
[Verse 2]
Lunch pail
Double shift grind
Single mom
Overtime line
Kids pledge with their right hands shaking
Dreams big in a small desk row
Old vet at the corner store
Silver hair
Remembers war
Salutes when the parade starts moving
Says
"This is what we chose"
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
We’re the ones who never run
When the storm rolls
We stand as one
From the fallen to the unborn lives
All our stories
They survive
[crescendo
Gang vocals]
We rise
We rise
We rise
Under these united skies
[Chorus]