We Want to Live Track

Kemaktun's Singles Volume 2

Intro
We’ve tilled the soil, we’ve built the stone,
We’ve raised the roofs we call our own,
But silver tongues have claimed the key,
And sold us back our liberty.
The fields we sow, the homes we make,
Now cost more breath than hearts can take,
They say, “It’s just the market’s way,”
But who can eat what they won’t pay?

Verse 1
They price the food, they sell the rain,
They count our hunger, count our pain,
They take the sun, they charge the air,
And call it order, just and fair.
But every child and every hand,
Deserves a place to make a stand,
And though the walls are high and grim,
We’ll climb them all and sing our hymn.

Pre-Chorus
The earth was never theirs to keep,
Nor dreams to sell, nor souls to reap,
We’re not their debt, we’re not their slaves,
We are the storm that breaks their graves!

Chorus
Stop the bleeding of the poor!
We can’t take this anymore!
Stop the pricing of the breath we give,
Stop the theft of the will to live!
You sell the food, you sell the rain,
You sell our hope, you sell our pain,
But we will rise, we will forgive,
If only you’d let us live!

Verse 2
You gild your gates with blood and gold,
While freezing hearts grow numb and cold,
You say it’s fair, you say it’s free,
But freedom’s lost in misery.
We work the days, we pay the toll,
And still you carve from every soul,
The world was made for all to share,
Not for the few who hoard despair.

Bridge
We want the right to breathe and dream,
Not drown beneath your greedy scheme,
The seed is ours, the ground is too,
The sky belongs to me and you!
And when the dawn breaks fierce and red,
The market kings will bow their head,
For life’s not theirs to weigh or give,
It’s ours, it’s ours, we want to live!

Chorus
Stop the bleeding of the poor!
We won’t take this anymore!
Stop the hunger, stop the lies,
Stop selling truth, stop selling skies!
You sell the breath, you sell the sun,
You call it progress when you’ve won,
But there’s a fire they can’t forgive,
It burns in all who dare to live!

Outro
We’ll mend the world, we’ll lift the weak,
We’ll take back all they tried to keep,
We don’t want gold, we don’t want war,
We just want life… and nothing more.