( piano, soft vocals)
Is this the price we pay
for living every day
They say the wine the air the sun
they’ll all take life away
Cigarettes and plastic dreams
poison hiding in the seams.
We breathe it in we swallow fear
and whisper softly
Cancer’s here
(acoustic + choir)
Supermarket aisles
with danger in disguise
Asbestos in the walls
while doctors close their eyes
They tell us science fight
but the cure’s still out of sight
So we pray through sleepless night
for answer
where’s the light
(slow build, then drums join)
Chemotherapy burns
radiation turns
strong hearts into ghosts that fade too soon
Losing hair
losing breast
losing limbs losing rest
every mirror screams the truth
no one is immune
[Bridge – Operatic section, full harmony]
Cancer cancer everywhere we go
Is it in the water is it in the snow
Cancer, cancer can’t escape your shadow
Running out of time
but no one seems to know
Believe Believe
They tell us to fight
But bleed Bleed
We’re fading in the night
Every cure’s a ghost every hope’s a prayer
And death is always there
(hard rock explosion)
Everything gives you cancer
That’s what they say
in every bite every breath every day
We built a world of fire and smoke
now we choke
and we choke
and we choke
No mercy no plan
it can strike any man
one month you’re fine
next month you’re gone
and life just moves on
[Guitar Solo – Epic, crying notes like Brian May]
(quiet again, emotional piano + choir)
Oh I’ve seen my friends fade away
their laughter turn to silence
their colors turn to gray
I’ve seen mothers lose their light
and lovers curse the night
and still we fight
we fight
we fight
Cancer you take, but we remain
We hold on through the pain
One day we’ll see the dawn
when your shadow’s gone.
[Finale – Hopeful choir & orchestra]
Let there be a cure
let there be a way
Let tomorrow say
We ended cancer today
Until that day
we stand, we love we cry
and shout your name
not in fear but defy
CANCER
You can break our bodies
but never our song
We will live
we will love
we will carry on and on and on
The rowan Tigers music love and cancer free
TheRoAnTigers
