[Intro]
Hands up
Teeth bared
From the back row
We’re already there
[Verse 1]
Born loud in a quiet town
Told “sit still” but we bit back
Ink-stained jeans and a busted crown
Turned every scar to a soundtrack
From Perth coast heat to Berlin rain
Tokyo nights
São Paulo trains
Same beat thumping in our veins
Same scream cutting through the chains
[Pre-Chorus]
Can you feel it in your ribs now? (hey)
Floor shaking like a heart attack
They tried to push us to the edge
We turned the edge into a pack
[Chorus]
One voice
All riot
We’re the ones who won’t stay quiet
From the pit to the back of the crowd
We bleed
We breathe out loud
One spark
All fire
Fuel the fury
Feed desire
From the last kid picked to the first to shout
We are the anthem now
[Verse 2]
Stage lights glare on a homemade flag
Names of friends that they wrote off
Every “too weird” that they ever tagged
Blares on a jacket we rip off
From desert dust to London grey
Hands up high
We’re all the same
Every border’s just some paint
We’re the sinners and the saints
[Pre-Chorus]
Can you feel it in your ribs now? (woah)
Boots pounding like a war drum
They built walls around our hearts
We tore ‘em down
Here we come
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
This is for the kid in the back of the class
For the name they mispronounce
Then laugh
For the ones told “you’re too much”
“Too loud
Too strange
Too rough”
[louder
Gang vocals]
Too loud?
Good
Too strange?
Good
Too much?
Good
We rise
We rise
We rise
[crescendo]
From the suburbs
From the high-rise
From the farmland
From the coastline
From the silence
From the shutdown
We’re the upstroke
We’re the breakdown
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Hands up
All riot
One world
Can’t quiet
Boots stomp
Hearts pound
We are
The anthem now