[Verse 1: Solo Voice]
The earth still heaves where truth was slain, Under flags that flapped in vain. We sang of peace, we danced for light— But dreams were buried out of sight.
[Chorus: Full Choir with Call and Response]
🎶 Call: Where the serpents sleep, will we awake? Response: We will rise, for justice’s sake. Call: Where silence breeds, will voices break? Response: We will rise, for freedom’s sake. 🎶 Let the shells break wide, let memory speak— We will not let the serpent sneak. We will not let the serpent sneak.
[Verse 2: Male & Female Harmonies]
They dress in songs of unity, While selling maps of destiny. They salt the womb, they blind the law, And hush the cries we can't ignore.
[Bridge: Solo Spoken Verse, Backed by Humming or Instrumental]
A child breathes tear gas with his dreams. A widow sings through broken seams. Yet in the dark, a mother speaks— She names her child, and hope still peaks.
[Chorus: Full Choir]
🎶 Where the serpents sleep, will we awake? We will rise, for justice’s sake. Where silence breeds, will voices break? We will rise, for freedom’s sake. Let the shells break wide, let memory speak— We will not let the serpent sneak. We will not let the serpent sneak. 🎶
[Verse 3: Layered Harmonies, Intensifying]
A fire lives in quiet hearts, In stories told in market carts. In every name whispered with care— Resistance grows in silent prayer.
[Final Chorus: A cappella, Spiritual Style]
🎶 We will not sleep while serpents grow, We will not bow to what we know. The dawn must rise in every hand, A people born to guard this land. 🎶
[Outro: Soft Refrain, Descending]
🎶 Where the serpents sleep... We shall not sleep... Where the serpents sleep... We shall not sleep... 🎶
