Thousands of hands Reaching up to a red sky That will not hold them As the banners wave slogans faded From a time not yet seen Begging forgiveness And wearing beliefs Of righteous understanding Bloody boots tread city streets Riveted with iron And tracks of smoke She speaks but in her verse They speak but in verse No sound comes Thousands of hands Reaching up to a red sky That will not hold them As the banners wave slogans faded Suppress Silence Conceal Exalt Suppress Silence Conceal Exalt Suppress Silence Conceal Exalt Suppress Silence Conceal Exalt Raking flesh with cleansing fire Wounds that will never heal Students on a funeral pyre Driven by fanatic zeal A legacy enshrined in blood Forever in death Forever in death Crushed under the weight of intolerance On the dawn of a brave new world They twist the arm of fate Justice denied A throne escapes In purgatory A goddess of democracy Weeps Now