Swing life away We get by just fine here on minimum wage I'll show you mine if you show me yours first Let's compare scars, I'll tell you whose is worse Let's unwrite these pages and replace them with our own words I won't cross these streets until you

Oh-oh-oh-oh When the sharpest words wanna cut me down I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out I'm not scared to be seen I make no apologies, this is me I know that there's a place for us For we are glorious I am brave, I am bruised I am who I'm

Ole ole ole ola And wave them side to side (Side to side) Put your flags up in the sky (Put 'em in the sky) Show the world where you're from (Show them where you're from) Show the world we are one (One love, life) It's your world, my world, our world

If we go down If we go down then we go down together Let's show them we are better We'll get away with everything Let's show them we are Show them we are We were staying in Paris (if we go down) They'll say you could do anything They'll say that I was

Hanging out when it's past time to go Though everyone tried to ignore us We'd scared them all off by the chorus There you stood looking proud What was left of the crowd at our show And I was twenty-two backwoods years old You were singing that night by

Silence is the enemy Scream it out loud You got to show them You are the chosen We are the broken We got to show them We never wanted it to be this way They never listen to a word we say So scream your heart out

Most of us are sad No one lets it show I've been shadows of myself How was i to know? Tell me scarlet sun What will time allow? We have brought our children Here who can save them now? Oh, weeping woman try to smile

I won't show my face here anymore But even if we won't admit it to ourselves We'll walk upon these streets and think of little else These streets are yours, you can keep them All that's left behind I don't want them They pull me back, and I surrender To

Ole ole ole ola And wave them side to side (Side to side) Put your flags up in the sky (Put 'em in the sky) Show the world where you're from (Show them where you're from) Show the world we are one (One love, life) It's your world, my world, our world

If someone said three years from now You'd be long gone I'd stand up and punch them out You took my hand, you showed me how You promised me you'd be around Uh huh, that's right I took your words, and I believed