V. We’ve Been Through So Much

We've been through so much

Created futures from less than nothing

Stonewall paradise garage

Fires ballroom in the night

We've been through so much

Riot spit

Protest in the night

Fight to be, fight to be, fight to be

Fight to be free in the daylight

We've been through so much

Carry grief for those not accounted for

Bodies lost in the wind

Fighting, fighting, fighting all over again to be seen in the daylight

Fighting, fighting, fighting to be free in the daylight

In the daylight

For them lives cut short

Can't carry the weight of what humanity has become

No compassion, war brain syndrome

Go to war where they can't control

See they can't see that they lost control

Narrative run wild, hate passed down and learned

Communities become targets

Fires still burn

Look at us now all mourning

Young lives cut way too short

Gone way too soon

Away too soon coming one day

Overcoming hear our name hear our number

When the saints come marching in marching in

Not to kill us but help us create another way out of lostness

Fear [?] more often

Shift caution

We've been through so much

We've been through so much