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I want to wake up in a better place

A better world, not one that's falling on it's face

A slow decline - the sudden stop at the end

Sun's gonna rise - inshaallah in the east again

Rushing up, forming crowds and breaking lines

Is this the last act flashing before our eyes

or the starting of the rising tide?

I want to reach out

but not to break the fall, calling interference

This is not the time to cower in the shadow of doubt

This time we can clasp our hands around the world and

pave the streets by pounding the pavement, with our feet we'll

Stand together - all around the world

When the riot act is falling on deaf ears,

It's time to open your eyes

With one heart beating, back against the wall

No way to give up in a crack down

With everybody looking for the smoking gun

Can you ever go back home, now that this has begun?

Pay no mind, to the man behind the mirror - and all the lies

This is so much bigger than an election or a leader

If politics and fashion are the same thing

Then human rights are as real as what's in between

a you and a me

There's a fine line violence getting walked on

A united front in divided times

There a set amount of getting stepped on

Before it's time - it's time to rise up

I want to clasp our hands together

pave the streets by pounding the pavement with our feet

Stand united - all around the world

While there's a leaf blower blowing up the white house lawn

Millions of millions are getting dusted in down town Tehran

Paying in blood but taking baby steps forward

While the world watches on over youtube's shoulder

Just killing time, while they're killing themselves

In the name of freedom and for hope itself

Living in the nightmares

we use to get scared

of others just like ourselves...

If we ever wake up - this will be a better place

If we ever wake up - we can make a better world

not one falling on it's face

If we ever wake up...

Everybody wake up.