We Shall Be Overcome

We will gather there in freedom square
and we will not leave until there's freedom there
in the end we'll stand hand in hand
as their machine guns rip us all in half

We shall be overcome

Those who refuse to fall locked in the dark
where they'll pull our minds and bodies apart
we know our coffins will be our clothes,
we will sing until they cut our throats

We shall be overcome

The agents hunt our families down and take them in the night
the leaders in their ballrooms feel no shame, they tell their lies
the newsmen check their hair and sip champagne as they transcribe
the history books recording only space between the lines
forgotten as we die

They will shut us up, they will have their way
our bodies ragdolls dumped in unmarked graves
they're free to roll ahead once we're brushed aside
they deserve the world we leave behind

We shall be overcome