It was a ten year winter
Of falling in line
A land without freedom
Is no land of mine
It's a heavy fist that we took in the guts
Left a hazy memory of what used to be what and
When push comes to shove
True patriot love
My face didn't change
Through the blood and the pain
It's far and it's wide
There's no place to hide
It's been washed away
Who'd leave a man in a darkness that wasn't his own
Who'd lose a thousand daughters, starved from their home
Who feeds fear like a drug to a man with too much
While another's left dead at the doors that they shut and
When push comes to shove
True patriot love
My face didn't change
Through the blood and the pain
It's far and its wide
There's no place to hide
It's been washed away
By October rain
Hear me brother don't lose sight
What we lost in the dark we'll find come daylight
Help me sister, won't ya take my side
We're strong and free and we're far and wide
It's a coward's errand
Looking down on a man
Unless you're lifting him up
Unless your helping him stand
And it's a fool who believes
That he's too high to fall
He just stands there watching
Losing sight of it all and
When push comes to shove
True patriot love
My face didn't change
Through the blood and the pain
It's far and its wide
There's no place to hide
It's been washed away
By October rain
Hear me brother don't lose sight
What we lost in the dark we'll find come daylight
Help me sister, take my side
We're strong and free and we're far and wide
Live for the inch and I'll fight for the mile yeah we
Live for the inch I will fight for the mile
Hear me brother don't lose sight
What we lost in the dark we'll find come daylight
Help me sister take my side
We're strong and free and we're far and wide
Hear my brother don't lose sight
What we lost in the dark we'll find come daylight
Help my sister take my side
We're strong and free and we're far and wide
Hear me brother don't lose sight
What we lost in the dark we'll find come daylight
Help me sister take my side
Yeah we're strong and free and we're far and wide