All Of It For All Of Us

I see a huddled mass
Each breath defiance deified
Stand tall with broken backs
Your will defines the battle lines

No compromise
When what we lose is not our lives
But our dignity
Their honeyed words try to deprive

I must demur
I must assume you're insincere
I'm not amused by their refusal to appear

Not
One
Step fucking backwards
Not
Now
Never again

No one's alone
So long as every throne
We see is fucking empty

I dream of better days
With their heads severed on display
So don't gamble it away
Don't gamble it away

My spine is an anvil
Where we forge our steel and our stolen luck
Each person a bellows
Bellowing that we don't give a fuck

Full hearts
Clear eyes
Sharp knives

Touch one
Touch all
Touch mine

We are the wave
We are the flood
We're biblical
Their reticence for recompense is cyclical

Not
One
Step fucking backwards
Not
Now
Never again

No one's alone
So long as every throne
We see is fucking empty

I dream of better days
With their heads severed on display
So don't gamble it away
Don't gamble it away

As we go marching, marching
In the beauty of the day
A million darkened kitchens
A thousand mill lofts gray

Are touched with all the radiance
That a sudden Sun discloses
For the people hear us singing
Bread and roses, bread and roses

No one's alone
So long as every throne
We see is fucking empty

I dream of better days
With their heads severed on display
But you gambled it away
You gambled it away