The Strength To Go On

Welcome home, while away

They have tampered with the locks

And your things they've rearranged

We propose a better way

Said the note they left behind

In their wake of disarray you fell in place

Don't fall asleep, they'll find us here

I know a place to disappear

As a voice proclaimed

What we are is the sum of a thousand lives

What we know is almost nothing at all

But we are what we are till the day we die

Or till we don't have the strength to go on

Till we don't have the strength to go on

Let us cry, let us be

Let us open up our hearts

Without fear of anything

Faith alone is all we need

To traverse this burning bridge

Now before it gets too late, you claim it's fine

But the heart reveals, what smiles betray

Your sad, sad eyes gave you away

And don't you know

What we are is the sum of a thousand lives

What we know is almost nothing at all

But we are what we are till the day we die

Or till we don't have the strength to go on

Till we don't have the strength to go on

Our shoulders bear an awful weight

But still we trudge on just the same

Our colors run then leave a stain

They blacken our once-honest name

But how can we argue, tell me, over the fury and the fire?

How many times can we tell you that we

Are not like you? We see right through

Your poor disguise that fails to fool

The wary eye that's trained on you

What we are is the sum of a thousand lives

What we know is almost nothin' at all

But we are what we are till the day we die

Or till we don't have the strength to go on

Till we don't have the strength to go on

What we are is the sum of a thousand lives

What we know is almost nothin' at all

But we are who we are till the day we die

Or till we don't have the strength to go on

Till we don't have the strength to go on

Yeah, we don't have the strength to go on