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-Alexandray "Ahlay" Blakely
Courage
is not the absence of fear
It is the feeling of this fear
Being afraid and *showing up anyway
*Variations: standing up / speaking out / singing out
-Coco Love Alcorn
Gather your courage into your heart
When we're together we can start (echo) (2x)
Everybody show up (echo)
Everybody rise up (echo)
Everybody shake it up (echo)
Everybody here (echo)
[Chorus]
Everybody speak out (echo)
Everybody reach out (echo)
Everybody shake it out (echo)
Everybody here (echo)
[Chorus]
Gather this power (echo)
into our hands (echo)
Care for each other (echo)
on these lands (echo)
[Chorus]
-Heidi Wilson
Hold on, hold on
my dear ones here comes the dawn
-Alex Noelle Music
If you've got a voice (echo)
Speak up for the silenced (echo)
If you've got a choice (echo)
Stand against the violence (echo)
Every hurting neighbor (echo)
Is human just like you (echo)
If you care about freedom (echo)
Care about theirs too (echo)
-Melanie DeMore
You gotta put one foot in front of the other and lead with love.
You gotta put one foot in front of the other and lead with love. (x2)
Don’t give up hope. (echo)
You’re not alone. (echo)
Don’t you give up. (echo)
Keep movin’ on. (echo)
[Chorus]
Lift up your eyes. (echo)
Don’t you despair. (echo)
Look up ahead. (echo)
The path is there. (echo)
[Chorus]
I know you’re scared (echo)
and I’m scared too. (echo)
But here I am, (echo)
right next to you. (echo)
[Chorus]
-Annie Schlaefer
Ooh it's okay to change your mind
Show us your courage
leave this behind
Ooh it's okay to change your mind
And you can join us
Join us here anytime
-Annie Schlaefer
We gotta do more than just talk about it
We're moving our feet (echo)
Getting out in the street (echo)
We gotta do more than just talk about it
We take a stand (echo)
We know we can (echo)
-Joshua Blaine
No one is getting left behind this time
No one is getting left behind
No one is getting left behind this time
We get there together, or never get there at all
We get there together, or never get there at all
We get there together, or never get there at all
-Lu Aya of the Peace Poets
This is for our *neighbors who are locked inside
Together, we will, Abolish ICE
*Variations: our children, our families, everyone
-Heather Mae
The night is long (echo)
But still we rise (echo)
No backing down (echo)
We won't be quiet (echo)
Though fear and pain (echo)
Are in our streets (echo)
Our voices roar (echo)
'til all are free (echo)
End with:
'til all are free, 'til all are free, 'til all are free.
-Sarina Partridge
We are here (echo)
With our *voices (echo)
Our love for each other will carry us through
*Variations: neighbors / courage / families / children
-Lu Aya of the Peace Poets
English:
We are not afraid, we are not afraid.
We will live for liberation
cuz we know why we were made
Spanish:
No tengo miedo, no tengo miedo.
Viviré por la libertad
porque yo se mi razon de ser
-Unknown
We *breathe together (x 3)
Stop the deportations
*Variations: sing / march / breathe
-The Peace Poets and SKOR
Who keeps us safe? (echo)
We keep us safe. (echo)
Our love for our people (echo)
will conquer hate! (echo)
(Repeat several times -then put it all together without echo)
Who keeps us safe?
We keep us safe.
Our love for our people
will conquer hate!
-Annie Schlaefer
We walk the same ground (echo)
But we've been torn apart (echo)
Put down your *weapons (echo)
Come sing your part (echo)
*Variations: hatred / anger /weapons