Until the Last Brick Falls

Intro

Mm

Oh-oh

We were taught to build the walls

Verse 1

Grandmother's hands were never still

She worked a life she never chose

They looked at her and saw a color

Not a woman not a soul

I learned to walk with lowered eyes

To shrink myself to fit their frame

A thousand tiny doors kept closing

And no one ever said my name

Chorus

We are one blood one breath one beating heart

No line on a map can tear us apart

Stand up stand up

Let the silence fall away

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

One blood one breath

Verse 2

I sat beside a stranger's sorrow

Heard a story not my own

His mother crossed a burning border

She built a home from seeds and stone

I stopped defending my small island

Started listening to his pain

Every wound I never carried

Taught me how to hold the rain

Pre-Chorus

So I open up my hands

I will not look away

Chorus

We are one blood one breath one beating heart

No line on a map can tear us apart

Rise up rise up

Every voice a rising tide

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh oh-oh

Every voice a rising tide

Verse 3

Now I stand where hatred gathers

I will not move I will not bend

When they mock the ones who suffer

I will be a shelter friend

Every slur becomes a drumbeat

Every fist becomes a wall

I will guard your sacred dignity

Until the last brick falls

Chorus

We are one blood one breath one beating heart

No wall no fear can keep us far apart

March on march on

We are louder than the hate

Oh-oh oh-oh

We are louder than the hate

Bridge

Let the children run

Through a world we never knew

Let them see no stranger

Only family only truth

Verse 4

Strip it down to just a whisper

Just a bass and just a prayer

What if every hand that wounded

Learned to carry learned to share

I forgive what I was given

I release what I was told

Let the children taste a morning

Where no one is bought or sold

Chorus

We are one blood one breath one beating heart

No line no wall can tear us apart

Sing on sing on

Every nation every name

Oh-oh oh-oh

We are one and we remain

We are one and we remain

Outro

Mm

One blood

Oh-oh

One breath