This is a song about remembering that we're more than the chaos that fills our lives.

We may have come here on different ships,
but we’re in the same boat now (2x)

Some of us came here for freedom
from hunger and from hate.
Some of us came here to make it rich
and some of us came in chains.
We gathered in the sweatshops, died on a new frontier.
We pulled the cotton from the land
we watered with our tears.

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Some grew rich by toil and trade. Some grew rich by vice.
Some grew rich in power, and all of us paid the price.
And in the name of progress,
how we ground each other down.
But no one is the winner when
you’re building on bloody ground.

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Women of many colors, from every walk of life.
We bore the hidden burden
as workers, daughters and wives.
Hired when we were needed,
sent home when jobs ran down.
They think we’re waiting on the shore,
but we’re turning this boat around.

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We’re a people born of many shores,
our journeys so entwined.
And we’ll be on a sinking ship if we leave anybody behind.
Don’t want to be no melting pot, we’re a rainbow family.
It’s gonna take every thing we’ve got to set each other free.

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