Grace Petrie - The Losing Side lyrics

From common grief to Bristol up in flames
We came here begging justice and
Instead we got the blame
For peace disturbed
Out on the streets tonight
And watching on the BBC you
Know something's not right
When mourners come with candles
And with flowers are wrestled three on one
And pinned down by the state's full powers
This is their world and these
Have been the rules
But we have come to break it
Down with bloody fingernails for tools

This threat of violence, this tightrope wire
We can no longer bear it
We are all too fucking tired
No minutes' silence, we will sing higher
Don't tell us to light a candle when
We have come to start a fire

And if I spend my life on the losing side
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
There's a better world and on a quiet day
When I hold my breath I can hear her say
She's on her way she's on her way

Safe at home, you watch it on TV
And never think that one day
You could be the enemy
That you might be one day be under attack
From all that should protect you
Hoping someone has your back
The history books are screaming
From the shelves
That no government who outlaws
Speaking to defend ourselves
Has good things planned a storm ahead I see
And not one of us will
Bear it without solidarity

Oh, I see trouble all my days
This ailing failing world sends signs of
Fire and flood and plague
But from the rubble, from the razed
The mightiest cathedral from these
Ashes we will raise

And if I spend my life on the losing side
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
There's a better world and on a quiet day
When I hold my breath I can hear her say
Take heart my sisters
And this fire will never die
And take heart my comrades
And no one left behind

And if I spend my life on the losing side
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
There's a better world and on a quiet day
When I hold my breath I can hear her say

That if I spend my life on the losing side
(Take heart my sisters)
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
(This fire will never die)
There's a better world and on a quiet day
(And take heart my comrades)
When I hold my breath I can hear her say
(No one left behind)

That if I spend my life on the losing side
You can lay me down knowing that I tried
There's a better world and on a quiet day
When I hold my breath I can hear her say
She's on her way