Who tells them no?

Lyrics

[INTRO | SPOKEN, CLOSE] you wouldn’t build it this way now a crown a parliament a court bit strange, really but somehow we learned to tell power— no [INSTRUMENTAL | PIANO, LOW SYNTH, 8 BARS] [VERSE 1] we were never a perfect country come on, nobody said we were but even those beside the crown can hear a knock upon the door no bloodline stops the question no title gets to hide that’s the point of all these checks someone can still say— no [INSTRUMENTAL | BEAT ENTERS, 8 BARS] [PRE-CHORUS] freedom isn’t who’s in power it’s who can tell them no [CHORUS] they won’t come through the harbour they won’t come through the sky they’ll point towards your neighbour and give you reasons why keep us fighting one another while the pieces move behind you don’t have to break a country you can change it one vote at a time [INSTRUMENTAL | HOUSE PIANO, VOCAL CHOPS, 16 BARS] [VERSE 2] find the man who’s looking for work tell us he’s the reason why find someone still finding themselves say they’re changing all our lives I mean— money crosses borders while we’re told to fear who does funny, isn’t it? [BREAKDOWN | SPOKEN] make us doubt the judge make us doubt the vote make us doubt each other then— give us somewhere else to go take us from the table tell us we’re better off alone and keep saying it and saying it until it feels like our idea [INSTRUMENTAL | STRIPPED PIANO → CHOIR BUILD, 16 BARS] [CHOIR:] who holds the power? [LEAD:] we do [CHOIR:] who tells them no? [LEAD:] we do [FINAL CHORUS] they won’t come through the harbour they won’t come through the sky they’ll point towards your neighbour and give you reasons why so don’t mistake division for the voice of everyone you don’t have to burn a country you just teach it to come undone [CHOIR:] who holds the power? [LEAD:] we do [CHOIR:] who tells them no? [LEAD:] we do [OUTRO | INSTRUMENTAL, 32 BARS] [CHOIR | DISTANT:] we do we do we do