At times it may seem like the world’s getting worse

We’re watching our planet ride off in a Hearse

Anathemas run rampant through the airwaves

Thorny spells ensorcell and add to the graves

Forests are burning and venom is spewing

The Klan celebrates civil rights’ undoing

We feel the fists of Hate and the plague of Greed

Fucking us over in our time of most need

As the tempest grows strong, we’ll take on the storm

When the pressure builds, we’ll pull in and transform

We’ve been through the fire and made love to the flame

Like the phoenix we’ll rise and end this con game

People are lying and crying and dying

Wars are now bought and our country’s supplying

Industry is valued over human life

Justice has been stabbed in the back with a knife

Our voices unheard as we scream from our souls

We know exactly for whom the bell tolls

They’re trying to build a pipeline through sacred land

It’s time, my people, we’ve gotta take a stand.

As the tempest grows strong, we’ll take on the storm

When the pressure builds, we’ll pull in and transform

We’ve been through the fire and made love to the flame

Like the phoenix we’ll rise and end this con game

There’s only one way, I gotta emphasize

Like a team, which we are, we must synchronize

Our efforts and dreams don’t just go down the drain

They collect and they grow and life they attain

I’ve experienced pains, heartbreaks, rapes, and deaths;

Many times I’ve thought of taking my last breaths.

But I’ve still got work in this world to tend to

People to love, songs to write, hope to send you

As the tempest grows strong, we’ll take on the storm

When the pressure builds, we’ll pull in and transform

We’ve been through the fire and made love to the flame

Like the phoenix we’ll rise and end this con game