We Shall Never Surrender

You pushed us to the edges

Thought we'd break

Then fade away

Counted all our bruises

Swore we'd bow our heads someday

But we stitched our ragged banners

From the pieces of our pride

Every scar a tiny lantern

Burning on the inside

We shall never surrender

You can't buy our breath

You can bury our bodies

You can't bargain with our depths

We shall never surrender

Write it in the storm and embers

Carve it in our bones forever

We shall never surrender

Your shadows crowd the doorway

But the lock is ours to hold

You can rattle every window

We won't trade our souls for gold

We are names you tried to silence

We are faces you misread

Now the quiet you abandoned

Is the choir in your head (oh)

We shall never surrender

You can't buy our breath

You can bury our bodies

You can't bargain with our depths

We shall never surrender

Write it in the storm and embers

Carve it in our bones forever

We shall never surrender

If we fall

We fall together

Hands linked tight through smoke and flame

If we crawl

We crawl together

Till we're standing up again (again)

You can take today from us

But tomorrow knows our name

We shall never surrender

You can't buy our breath

You can bury our bodies

You can't bargain with our depths

We shall never surrender

Shout it till the walls remember

Echo through the dark forever

We shall never surrender