Our Love is Marching On
OUR LOVE IS MARCHING ON
[Call]
They told us to lower our eyes
To live with the lie and call it wise
They told us to kneel to a man
To hand him the future, the law, the land
[Response]
But we know better
We’ve seen this before
From Selma to Montgomery
The idols of power fall
To the boots of the sore
[Crowd]
No kings!
No crowns!
Democracy
Belongs to us now!
[Crowd]
No kings!
No fear!
The people’s voice
Is loud and clear!
[Call]
From the Longest Walk to these streets now
From weathered hands to lifted brows
From every wound the brave passed through
A freedom song came breaking through
[Response]
Our feet are tired
But our souls stand tall
We came for justice
We came for all
[Crowd]
March on!
Our love, our love
Is marching on!
[Crowd]
March on!
Our love, our love
Is marching on!
[Call]
Our love is marching on!
[Crowd]
Marching on! Marching on!
[Call]
Through the long night toward the dawn
[Response]
Toward the dawn!
[Crowd]
Toward the dawn!
[All]
Our love is marching on
Through the lies and fear and through the fraud
Through the broken mask of power
Our love is marching on
[Crowd]
No kings!
No thrones!
This land was made
for the free and the brave!
[Crowd]
No kings!
No lies!
We see the truth
With open eyes!
[Crowd]
No kings!
No shame!
No man is bigger
Than the people’s name!
[Call]
March for the first peoples and the common good
March for the misunderstood
March for the workers underpaid
March for the promises betrayed
[Response]
March for the immigrants under attack
March for the rights they’re taking back
March for the children learning fear
March till a better way lives here
[Crowd]
For the ballot!
For the bread!
For the living!
For the dead!
[Crowd]
For the women!
For the indigenous!
For the poor!
[Call]
March for the planet, water, and soil
March for the hands that harvest and toil
March for the books they try to ban
March for the soul of the common man
[Response]
March for the truth no screen can drown
March till the walls come down, come down
March not to conquer, not to shame
But to call this nation to stand up right
To act with moral clarity
To erase the evil of this long dark night
[All]
Our love is marching on
Not to break the human bond
But to make the promise of justice strong
Our love is marching on
[Call]
They can flood the air with fear
They can try to disappear
Every fact, every vote, every sacred norm
They can dress up greed and call it form
[Response]
But disciplined love
With a spine of steel
Can outlast the tyrants
And let the people heal
[Crowd]
Love is strong!
Love is wise!
Love sees through
Their disguise!
[Call]
Our love is marching on
[Crowd]
Marching on! Marching on!
[Call]
Hand in hand and soul to soul
[Response]
Soul to soul
[Crowd]
Soul to soul! Soul to soul!
[All]
Our love is marching on
We are many, we are strong
We know what is right and what is wrong
Our love is marching on
[Crowd]
Whose streets?
Our streets!
[Crowd]
Whose vote?
Our vote!
[Crowd]
Whose future?
Our future!
[Crowd]
Whose hope?
Our hope!
[Crowd]
No kings!
Just us!
[Crowd]
No kings!
Justice!
[Crowd]
No kings!
Just us!
[Crowd]
No kings!
Justice!
[Call]
This is not the march of hate
This is not revenge made great
This is the march of conscience wide
With truth and mercy side by side
[Response]
Nonviolence in our hands
Justice in our feet
Dignity within our speech
We do not accept defeat
[Call]
We do not march to crush a man
We march to break the cruel machine
We do not march to seize a throne
We march to make the people seen
[Response]
Win the heart
Change the law
Lift the weak
Stand in awe
[Crowd]
No retreat!
No despair!
Love in public!
Everywhere!
[Call]
How long?
[Crowd]
Not long! Not long!
[Call]
How long till truth gets up again?
[Crowd]
Not long! Not long!
[Call]
How long till fear gives up its throne?
[Crowd]
Not long! Not long!
[All]
Truth crushed down still rises strong
And our love keeps marching on
[Crowd]
Tell the truth!
Count the vote!
[Crowd]
Lift the weak!
Keep hope afloat!
[Crowd]
Stand up now!
Don’t give in!
[Crowd]
Democracy
Has to win!
[Call]
Our love is marching on
[Response]
Marching on
[Crowd]
Marching on! Marching on!
[Call]
From every city, every town
[Response]
Every town
[Crowd]
Every town! Every town!
[All]
Our love is marching on
Our love is marching on
For the ballot and the bread
For the names of all our dead
For the children still unborn
For a republic bruised and torn
For a country that is yet to become
What it has promised again and again
We are better than this!
Our love is marching on
[Call]
No king above the common good
No crown above native peoples
No machine above the sacred land
No strongman over dignity
No throne above equality
[Response]
Glory, hallelujah
Truth is marching on
Glory, hallelujah
Love outlives the wrong
Glory, hallelujah
Hear the freedom song
[All]
Our love!
Our love is marching on!
Our love!
Our love is marching on!
Our love!
Our love is marching on!