Can’t Hold Us Down

Can’t Hold Us Down

They build their towers high and cold,
While we bleed silver, they hoard gold.
But every chain they’ve thrown our way,
Is breaking piece by piece today.

You can crush the flower, not the seed,
You can’t silence what we need.

Can’t hold us down, can’t steal our song,
We’ve been waiting far too long.
From the shadows, we ignite,
Turning pain to holy light.
Can’t hold us down, won’t make us kneel,
We’ve got truth they can’t conceal.
Raise your hearts, shake the ground —
We can’t be held down!

They write the laws to fit their plan,
But power lives in common hands.
The more they take, the more we grow,
Like rivers rising after snow.

We are thunder, we are rain,
Born of struggle, born of pain.

Can’t hold us down, can’t steal our song,
We’ve been waiting far too long.
From the shadows, we ignite,
Turning pain to holy light.
Can’t hold us down, won’t make us kneel,
We’ve got truth they can’t conceal.
Raise your hearts, shake the ground —
We can’t be held down!

Every strike, every cry,
Writes our name across the sky.
You can chain the hands, not the will,
We are rising, rising still!

Can’t hold us down, hear us roar,
Freedom’s pounding at the door.
We are the crowd, we are the sound,
And we can’t be held down!
Can’t hold us down, now’s our turn,
Watch the old world crash and burn.
From the dust, from the wound,
We’ll bloom — unbound!