WE PAID IN BLOOD We paid in blood 🩸 Under fluorescent lights Middle seats on red-eye flights Coffee cups and tired eyes Trying just to stay alive Everybody saving pennies Everybody stretched too thin While the people at the top Burn billions with a grin And I know You feel it too That quiet pressure breaking through We gave them everything Every hour Every nerve Every dream And they still wanted more Now the whole sky’s glowing neon Everybody dancing through the fallout Hands up high like we survived Something they tried to kill inside us We were the workers We were the fuel They built empires On what we carried through Taxes on breathing Taxes on hope Everybody balancing survival on a rope Single mothers counting dollars Veterans choosing bills or food Teachers breaking down in silence Doing all they can do And the lights look beautiful tonight Like the end of the world learned how to shine I don’t wanna die inside a machine I don’t wanna spend my whole life numb I don’t wanna watch another rich man Set the future on fire for fun So scream it with me WE PAID IN BLOOD Now the bass is shaking through us Like a heartbeat coming back alive Eighty thousand people screaming Trying to remember what it feels like to survive No kings tonight No fear tonight No more pretending everything’s alright This belongs to us tonight The broken hearts The tired lives And for one moment under these lights We finally feel alive