Pavement speaks too and it sings songs of tragedy Broken ground like the stripped sound of the songs we sing Under every crooked wave, asleep, deep in broken dreams Longing one day to wake up
But the sun never rises on an earth with the shade pulled down And death moves to silence the sound Of hearts beating like fists on the walls that enclose us Breaking out of the cells that hold us And so, stung by the light from the cracked door of tomorrow's life We are awake, we are alive
To the empty eyes at the surface of this solid ground We are voicing our statements now Screaming at the sun, I will not be broken No curse can kill me, no blade can spill my blood No cage can hold me, and no fear can make me run
And when they tell us we're dying, we'll just hold on tightly and remember what we're living for
they tried to steal your voice so you kept screaming from your window no curse can kill me, no curse can kill me they tried to steal your voice stung by the light from the cracked door of tomorrow's life we are awake, we are alive