They Came for Us: Song Lyrics of Silence, Fear, and Oppression

Have you ever had a time

When you saw the wrong, but closed your eyes?

Turned away, let silence reign,

When you should have drawn the line?

You didn’t.

You didn’t.

You let it slide.

“It’s not our fight,”

That’s the lie we breathe at night.

Standing still, just praying, waiting,

Hoping for the world to change;

But things just stay the same.

Yeah, things just stay the same.

So much hate, so much pain,

We let it grow, we made it reign.

Kept our mouths shut, played along,

When we should’ve screamed so loud it shook the Earth.

We can’t pretend; we saw it all.

Watched the free fall, said nothing at all.

They came for them, we let it slide,

’Til the knock hit home in the dead of night.

Hid the homeless, locked the doors,

Shut out the truth, ignored the war.

Beat the innocent, fed on fear,

Kept it quiet, year after year.

Never made a sound, never raised a fist;

Now the blade is here,

And we’re next on the list.

We didn’t raise our voice,

We didn’t make a fuss.

Before the night was out,

They came for us.

They came for us.

We can’t pretend; all this pain,

We let it grow, we made it reign.

Kept our mouths shut, played along,

When we should’ve screamed so loud it shook the Earth.

We can’t pretend; we saw it all.

Watched the free fall, said nothing at all.

They came for them, we let it slide,

’Til the knock hit home in the dead of night.