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