You can see it in the eyes of a child You can feel it in the voice of the old The struggle for meaning, for reason, acceptance, completion The eyes of hope and the voice of reason The words of wisdom and the strength of a vision The truth is written in all of our eyes It's the strength and the weakness. The sheer act of choosing to live your own fucking life There is strength in this struggle and it's more than words and writing It's living and dying It's laughing and crying It's learning and teaching And striving and reaching To take back and rebuild our lives To take back and rebuild our lives And it's the voice of reason and the eyes of a vision that keep me moving on To remember those that came before, the ones I've loved, hated and adored For all that I've seen and felt Been given and been dealt And for all that has yet to come This is for our struggles, our lives, our troubles, our times For protest - resistance - action - persistence For life and love And those with the courage to say that enough is enough Yes, this is for you - my friend, my lover, my sister, my brother, my mother, my father, the one like no other, my past, my present, my hope for the future, my son and my daughter, grandmother, grandfather and all that I've seen exit life Let's take back and rebuild our lives So we can listen to reason and bask in this wisdom And finally have the strength to look in our children's eyes And KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT FEEDING THEM LIES! That we took back and rebuilt our lives