they sold our names into slavery with their silver tongues behind teeth like stars break and burst across their knees, they leave bruises and memories of their legacy are these small words really cutting deep? they are not tragedies i know we try, but lets not be so weak everything that has been before, is with us now As we try to see, but we don't know how everything that has been before, is with us now As we try to see, but we don't know how You were born delivered into blood and bone And it became you so When you face defeat, half of the path is shown and we all need that That there is life here at all, you know, you know, it must be a miracle This world will take as soon as you're born, by marking you as its own Escape is the miracle You peel the skin from your busted lips, when they hit you you can't feel that Now when you move your feet it is like they were cast in stone And there is nothing that moves that That there is life here at all, you know, you know, it must be a miracle This world will take you as soon as you're born by marking you as it's own Escape is the miracle This world moved and it chose you and me to fulfill its destiny Your life moved and it chose you and me to fulfill our destiny