The Losing Side (Explicit)

From common grief to Bristol up in flames

We came here begging justice, instead we got the blame

For peace disturbed, out on the streets tonight

And watching on the BBC you know something’s not right

When mourners come with candles and with flowers

Wrestled three on one, and pinned down by the state’s full powers

This is their world. And these have been the rules

We have come to break it down with bloody fingernails for tools

The threat of violence

This tightrope wire

We can no longer bear it, we are all too ****ing tired

No more minutes’ silence

We will sing hire

You tell us to light a candle we have come to start a fire

And if I spend my life the losing side

You can lay me down knowing that I tried

There’s a better world and on a quiet day

When I hold my breath

I can hear her say

She is on her way

Safe at home, you watch it on TV

And never think that one day you could be the enemy

That you might be one day under attack

From all that should protect you, hoping someone has your back

The history books are screaming from the shelves

No government who outlaws speaking to defend ourselves

Has good things planned. A storm ahead I see

And none of us will bear it without solidarity

They give us trouble

All our days

This ailing failing world sent signs

Of fire and flood and plague

But from the rubble

From the razed

The mightiest cathedral

From these ashes we will raise

So take heart my sisters

This fire will never die

Take heart my comrades

No one left behind