You Are The Hero

If the heroes of old learned how we kept this place They would rise from the grave and they would spit in our faces The land and the sea is soaked with blood and their tears Maintaining our freedom for hundreds of years Every person on earth can be made corrupt But for the ones who are true there's no need to give up If we all come together we will show them what is due Not with weapons and words but with work we pursue The ones who caused change had to forfeit their lives So that we could make music for a planet that thrives On passion and courage, hope, heart, and prospect So give us your best to show them respect We were the best there ever were Once we learned how to work together It means more now than it ever did With no pretty words to frost the struggle We will embrace the wounds that make us brave, and remember the pain so we never lose hope again If ignorance is the only thing that gets us through alive Give us all the knowledge there is, and we will happily die to end the lies We will not freeze in this shadow We will burn until there is light We will not sink in this quicksand We will struggle until we earn the strength to swim Nothing is easy that makes us great The ones that prevail lift heavy weight We waste time waiting for a new dawn While the time that consumes us has a purpose which is never fulfilled Some say they're bitter. We say they hate Some say they're lost. We say they refuse to look straight If we pound enough effort into all that we do We will find what we love is not things we pursue We will find what we need is just your hand for me And my hand for you