Backwards

sllah eht demra tub skoob eht dennab yeht
sllaw eht morf sthgir koot, ssalc ni reyarp tup
wef a rof ylno tub riaf s'modeerf dias
oot meht ekil kool dna meht ekil yarp uoy fi

Let's turn it around

They banned the books but armed the halls
Put prayer in class, took rights from the walls
Said freedom's fair but only for a few
If you pray like them and look like them too

The clocks are ticking backward fast
Like we're chasing ghosts in hooded masks

It's all backwards, laws made in reverse
Righting yesterday's wrongs into tomorrow's curse
They're painting over progress, stroke by stroke
Till justice is a punchline, and silence is the joke
But we won't be quiet, we won't pretend
This ain't the beginning of the end
It's the start of usrising again

You call science fiction, like the earth is flat
Someday you may want to fact check that
And since you're shipping crooks to distant nations
We've got one more for your consideration

The clocks are ticking backward fast
Think you're a king? You can ssik ym ssas

It's all backwards, laws made in reverse
Righting yesterday's wrongs into tomorrow's curse
They're painting over progress, stroke by stroke
Till justice is a punchline, and silence is the joke
But we won't be quiet, we won't pretend
This ain't the beginning of the end
It's the start of us rising again

You can ban our words and ignore us
But we'll rise like those that came before us
We've come to far to go back again
We're fighting for tomorrow, not way back when

It's all backwards, laws made in reverse
Righting yesterday's wrongs into tomorrow's curse
They're painting over progress, stroke by stroke
Till justice is a punchline, and silence is the joke
But we won't be quiet, we won't pretend
This ain't the beginning of the end
It's the start of us rising again

Let's turn it around