"They continue to wound me but I continue to bleed / And I will bleed out words and write these poems in my blood"

We Shall Be Free

At halfway through my mortal span I have once more begun
Speaking truth to power again till our lost freedom is won
And if I have to live a hundred years then I will do
Whatever it takes as long as it takes to fight for you
Against a protection-racket which counts our souls their cost

More than two hundred years of liberties in five years lost
While we stand stripped defenseless cowed to silence counting dead
They tell us to keep silent and do what they say instead
But I tell you I stand with you in solidarity
Dark the hour and the time has come for speaking truth to power

I remember reading how this happened in Germany
But never dreamed I would live to see it happen to me
And they try to silence me but they will never succeed
They continue to wound me but I continue to bleed
And I will bleed out words and write these poems in my blood

Although they tried they failed to wash us away in the flood
Of their slick lies and now they realize that we can see
Them for the fools they are so they make war on you and me
Dark the hour and the time has come for speaking truth to power
I stand by you and swear before the world: we shall be free

+Steven Curtis Lance



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