Raise Up the River

[Verse 1]

Steel in the sky

Smoke on the tongue

We were born in a factory of silence

Taught to turn the gears and bite our young

Hands full of rust

Shoes full of rain

Every billboard screaming “keep your head down”

Every clock hand carving out our names

[Verse 2]

They build their thrones

On unpaid hours

On backs bent double in the neon dawn

On broken mirrors

Selling borrowed power

But I hear a drum

Under the floor

It’s the rumble of a thousand tired footsteps

It’s a key already scratching at the door

[Chorus]

Raise up the river

Let it flood their gates

Tear down the walls they say we need for “safe”

We are the thunder under borrowed crowns

You can chain up a body

But the truth breaks out

Raise up the river

Let it find the sea

Every voice on fire

Singing “we are free”

[Verse 3]

Kids in the streets

Paint on their clothes

Turning every brick into a bright flag

Every cracked window into broken oaths

[Verse 3]

Kids in the streets

Paint on their clothes

Turning every brick into a bright flag

Every cracked window into broken oaths

Old men who swore

Change wouldn’t last

Now they’re staring at the rising color

Watching all their paper kingdoms wash to glass

[Chorus]

Raise up the river

Let it flood their gates

Tear down the walls they say we need for “safe”

We are the thunder under borrowed crowns

You can chain up a body

But the truth breaks out

Raise up the river

Let it find the sea

Every voice on fire

Singing “we are free”

[Bridge]

This is the spark in the gasoline rain (oh yeah)

This is the spark in the gasoline rain (oh yeah)

This is the choir in the hiss of the train

This is a fist turned into an open hand

Crowded hearts marching like a single band

[Chorus]

Raise up the river

Let it flood their gates

Tear down the walls they say we need for “safe”

We are the thunder under borrowed crowns

You can chain up a body

You can chain up a body

But the truth breaks out

Raise up the river

Let it drown their fear

Every step we’re taking makes the future near

Raise up the river

Let it find the sea

Every voice on fire

Singing “we are free”