A Better Life For You

Verse 1

I tuck you in beneath a restless sky
Sirens screaming through the night
I trace the future in your sleeping eyes
And hope it won’t be bound so tight

Here in Iran they say "its the only way"
"Suffering silence survives the day"
But I have watched too many dreams
Be carried off in oppressive chains

Pre-Chorus

They call it sin to disobey
I call it love to clear your way

Chorus

I want a better life for you
Where fear is not the daily truth
Where no one strikes your dreams aside
In the name of holy pride

I want open books and open air
No watchful eyes inside your prayers
I’ll protest these streets and take a stand
So that one day freedom is in this land

I want a better life for you

Verse 2

I’ve seen much despair in neighbors’ faces
Heard the hush crush those in crowded places
Watched the brave be dragged away
For daring to speak a forbidden phrase

They weave their rules with sacred thread
Chador black souls, hijab tossed from my head
I wonder if we will ever survive this tyranny 
Or if you will ever be old enough to see

Pre-Chorus

If love is wrong, then let me sin
I choose your freedom over them

Repeat Chorus

Bridge

One day you’ll ask me where I stood
When fear was dressed as something good
I want to say I faced the flame
And called it out by its name
Not out of rage, not out of spite
But so that one day you wont have to fight this fight

Repeat Chorus