歌詞

A border shifts a little on a map

And someone’s hometown disappears

A quiet nod in a meeting room

Breaks a distant night in tears

We march beneath the word “what’s right”

Our hearts pulled in before we think

No time left here for doubt to grow

We fall in line on history’s brink

Shouting “freedom” at the sky

While stepping on another’s ground

By the time we see the cost

We’re too deep to turn around

We are not

Pieces on a board

We won’t die

For a story alone

With these hands

We can choose

This is not the end

We are not starving in the cold

Still we search for wars to fight

It’s not that we don’t have enough

We just refuse to yield our pride

In the name of God or flag

Hearts ignite and banners rise

But in the middle of that fire

Tell me whose tomorrow dies

Saying this is all to “protect”

But those protected stay unseen

In the shadow of grand ideas

Small, quiet lives are crushed between

We are not

Pieces on a board

We can’t live

On meaning alone

With open eyes

We must ask

Whose justice we serve

If we paused before the first step

Just a moment, just a breath

We might see across the line

Another life that fears the same death

We know that we are capable

Of reaching out instead of blame

But every time we choose not to

The morning dawns in blood again

We are not

Pieces on a board

We are still

Free to choose

Lives are heavier than words

With these hands

We can stop

The cycle before it turns