Songs to Stop a Coup and Support Democracy by The Peace Poets

Banner photo credit: Kelly Sikkema

These songs were all written by The Peace Poets. The recordings come from the presentation “Songs to Stop a Coup” by Lu Aya of The Peace Poets that was hosted by the East Point Peace Adcademy and can now be watched here. The Peace Poets will be creating lyric videos for these songs and posting them to their Youtube channel, Facebook and Instagram accounts. [@ThePeacePoets] As they come out, we have tried to post those YouTube videos below.

The lyric audios we have below are not polished, but they will give you the tune. If you can support Lu and East Point for helping create these songs and this training, please send them a donation here.

Here is a PDF of a lyric sheet with all of the song lyrics on it. Please feel free to download, print, and use.

*Song titles denoted with an asterisk may not reflect the actual names of the song. 

Humility and Gratitude*

Humility is filling me with power
The power to listen and love
And gratitude is giving me the courage
To remember that we are enough 

We Have Not Come Here Alone*

NOTE: I missed recording this song when Lu Aya sang it at the training, so this version has slightly different lyrics, but the same tune.

We have not come here alone
We carry our people in our bones
We have not come here alone
And if you listen we can hear them in our soul

Vote and Organize

We're gonna vote and organize
'Cuz freedom won't come
'Til the people rise 

Defenders of Democracy

We are the defenders of
We are the defenders of
We are the defenders of democracy
We will not surrender, no
We will not surrender, no
We will not surrender our democracy

Heal the Hate/We Choose Democracy

We gonna heal the hate in this nation
We gonna heal the hate
We choose democracy in this nation
We choose democracy

Down to the Ground

We go down to the ground
Where our power is found
With the earth, we rebirth
Liberation Now! 

Stop. This. Coup.

The people are peaceful
We know what to do
We risin' up together 'til we stop this coup.

Count Every Vote

Every person, every person, every person counts
So count, count, count every vote
Defendin’ our democracy is our only hope
So count, count, count every vote

A Force More Powerful

We have come with a force more powerful
Than the guns in our enemies hands
It's our love of all creation
That will liberate this land

We Are the Movement

We are the movement
Liberation movin'
For every single human
We have come to win