Owen Jones, Paloma Faith - Politics of Hope lyrics

The rights and freedoms that we
Have today were won
By your mothers, your fathers
Your grandmothers, your grandfathers
Your ancestors before them

We stand on the shoulders of giants and
We owe it to our ancestors not
Just to defend the rights and freedoms
That they fought for at such
Cost and at such sacrifice
That continue their struggle that
A different sort of
Society, not a society run in the
Interests of a tiny elite
But a society run in the
Interests of the majority

Those who preach the politics of despair
They want us to believe that all
Injustice is like the weather: that you
Can complain about it raining
But there's nothing you can do about it but
The politics of hope tell us something else