Kringsatt av fiender, gå inn i din tid
Under en blodig storm, vi deg til strid
Kanskje du spør i angst, udekket, åpen
Hva skal jeg kjempe med? Hva er mitt våpen?

You see us so young and yet surrounded by enemies
Coming of age in this age of atrocities
Your eyes full of questions resisting floodlights
Our heads bowed, bare but were ready to fight
Under the bloody sky trembling between
Barbed wire and water, the wall and the machine
We look to the hills as they come marching in
Arms linked, steadying our power within
Praying, how can we fight back?
Praying, how can we win?

And the only way that love can stop the wars
Is if we fight for each other
And the only power that we’ve got to win
We’ve got to build it together

Here are our weapons to fight hate and silence
Our true deep hope of ending this violence
Believe no human being belongs in a prison
Believe that they may cage us, but we’re more than these systems
That earth has abundance sufficient for everyone
That poverty’s decided by board rooms with hired guns
Repression by the state, oppression fueled by hate
Black prophets in the streets, they want her head on a plate!
And it’s up to us to stop this--remind those who forgot this:
That they’re ignoring our demands, supplying the greed
Slave labor still grows the food that we eat
Big oil trumping water that we need to survive
Modern-day plantations want to eat our kids alive
For all our futures sake, seek hope and tend it
Die if you have to, but strengthen and mend it
Put your hands together and shout to the steeples
“Sunshine and bread and breath belong to the people!”

See how their marking rounds target to kill
Shut down these death machines by force of will
War is contempt for life, peace is defiance
Join in resistance now, death will not triumph

And the only way that love can stop the wars
Is if we fight for each other
And the only power that we’ve got to win
We’ve got to build it together

He saw it in the air when they shot him over Germany
It’s faint but the hope and the boldness of it burn in me
I too have a vision of the guns falling powerless
Tanks standing empty, law and order meaningless
Cities sleeping quiet, the sirens all gone
Children play in gardens to resurrection songs
Men who understand that with babies in our hands
We can’t pull the empire’s trigger, we can’t kill on command
And instead we tell them stories
We share our people’s glories

That it’s the same old struggle that we’ve always fought
Following the paths that our grandmothers taught
Those who feed the fires that make our days bright
Strong birds singing in the sweetness of night
Disrupt the empire, resist this insanity
We’re struggling for love and we’re fighting for humanity
For wisdom, the light in our ancestors’ eyes
For future generations
for water
and for butterflies

And the only way that love can stop the wars
Is if we fight for each other
And the only power that we’ve got to win
We’ve got to build it together

This is our promise now, from heart to heart
We will be gentle with our mother Earth
We will take good care of wisdom and kindness
As though we held a child sleeping between us