No Nos Moveran
Joan Baez
They Shall Not Move Us
Rise to be born with me, brother
Give me your hand from the deep zone of your disseminated pain
You will not return from the depths of the rocks
You will not return from the underground time
Your hardened voice will not return
Your drilled eyes will not return
I come to speak for your dead mouth
Through the earth gather all the silent spilled lips
And from the depths speak to me all this long night
As if I were anchored with you
Tell me everything, link by link, chain by chain, and step by step
Sharpen the knives you kept
Put them on my chest and in my hand
Like a river of yellow rays
Like a river of buried tigers
And let me cry for hours, days, years, blind ages, stellar centuries
Give me silence, water, hope
Give me the struggle, iron, volcanoes
Attach our bodies like magnets
Come to my veins and my mouth
Speak through my words and my blood
No, no, they shall not move us! No, they shall not move us!
Like a strong tree by the river
They shall not move us
United in the fight, they shall not move us
United in the fight, they shall not move us
Like a strong tree by the river
They shall not move us
No, no, they shall not move us! No, they shall not move us!
Like a strong tree by the river
They shall not move us
United in the strike, no, they shall not move us!
United in the strike, no, they shall not move us!
Like a strong tree by the river
They shall not move us, they shall not move us!