Hold These Truths

Lyrics

[Verse 1] Morning on the courthouse steps Paper bright in summer air Names that shaped the road ahead Ink that asked us all to care A promise passed from hand to hand Across the fields, across the sea For every child, for every town A voice that says, “We still are free” [Pre-Chorus] Hear the drum Feel it rise One strong heart In open skies From each home To every shore We are more Than ever before [Chorus] We hold these truths to be self-evident (We hold these truths) We hold these truths to be self-evident (We hold these truths) Thomas Jefferson wrote the flame And it still burns in us the same We hold these truths to be self-evident We rise, we rise again [Verse 2] A steady frame for crowded hopes For debate and for repair Different voices, one clear path Learning how to meet and care Freedoms guarded, duties shared By the brave and by the young From one small desk to all these years That opening line is still our song [Pre-Chorus] Hear the drum Feel it rise One strong heart In open skies Side by side We stand as one Every voice Under the sun [Chorus] We hold these truths to be self-evident (We hold these truths) We hold these truths to be self-evident (We hold these truths) Thomas Jefferson wrote the flame And it still burns in us the same We hold these truths to be self-evident We rise, we rise again [Bridge] Let the flute sing softly first Let the snare mark every step Then the guitars lift the sky And the bass line shakes the deck Not for one, but all of us Not for now, but future days Every age can learn the words And carry them a thousand ways [Final Chorus] We hold these truths to be self-evident (We hold these truths) We hold these truths to be self-evident (We hold these truths) Thomas Jefferson wrote the flame And it still burns in us the same We hold these truths to be self-evident We rise, we rise again We rise, we rise again (We rise, we rise again) We rise, we rise again For the land we share as one