Bombs and Banners

[Verse 1]
Highway dust in the rearview
Flags tied tight to a pickup bed
Old men talk on the front porch
Young ones scrolling what the headlines said
Voices barking through the static
Everybody sure that they’re right
But out here under this big sky
I just feel the fire for what’s mine
[Chorus]
We fight that fight for freedom
Even when it tears us apart
Raise that voice
Raise that question
What’s the truth in every heart?
Not for one man
Not for one flag
For the kids who come and go
We fight that fight for freedom
’Cause we can’t stop saying “no”
[Verse 2]
Leaders promise golden mornings
Point at strangers
Draw their lines
Say
“Over there is all your trouble”
While the cracks run through our own lives
Bombs fall far on a map screen
People running through the dark
Easy cheering from a barstool
Harder holding every lost spark
[Chorus]
We fight that fight for freedom
Even when it tears us apart
Raise that voice
Raise that question
What’s the truth in every heart?
Not for oil
Not for anger
For the faces we don’t know
We fight that fight for freedom
When we choose to let hate go
[Bridge]
Whose name are you chanting? (hey!)
Whose pain do you see?
Is it power you’re praising
Or the right to be free?
[Chorus]
We fight that fight for freedom
Even when it tears us apart
Raise that voice
Raise that question
What’s the truth in every heart?
Not for one man
Not for one flag
For the kids who’ll never know
We fight that fight for freedom
When we choose to let love grow

rock, Arena rock feel with urgent marching drums, overdriven guitars, and male vocals. Verse starts tight and gritty, opening into a big shout-along chorus with gang vocals on key phrases. Guitars double the vocal hook on the chorus, bass rides a simple, insistent pattern. Middle section pulls back to toms and low vocal before roaring back with higher harmonies and sustained lead guitar bends., country