Stand Down No More

(oh) Won't stand down You lean in close with your iron grin

Stacking the weight on my ribs again Cold hands counting what I

should be

Names and numbers, not the blood in me I keep my jaw

set, I keep it clean

No wasted fire, no broken scene

You want a bend,

you want a bow

I give you stillness,

I give you no Feel the pressure hit the frame Hear the

metal call my name I bite down hard,

I hold the line You don't get in,

you don't get mine Won't stand down

Won't stand down

Push all you want,

I'm rooted now Won't stand down

Won't stand down

I take the strike and turn it out

You dress it up like it's for my good

A cleaner chain carved out of wood

You map my steps,

you mark my skin

Try to make virtue out of giving in

But every shove makes the engine burn Every command makes the screws

all turn I hear the march,

I know the sound And I plant my feet into the ground

I was not built to live on my knees

Not for your fear,

not for your ease

If this room shakes,

let it shake around me I stay unbent,

I stay loud, I stay free Won't stand down

Won't stand down Push all you want,

I'm rooted now Won't stand down

Won't stand down Break your demand on this iron mouth Won't stand

down

Won't stand down

Won't stand down

Won't stand down

No, won't stand down