Ain’t Been Easy, But It’s Ours

Verse 1

Before the towns and county lines

Before the steel and neon signs

There were trails cut through the trees

And freedom blowin’ on the breeze

Thirteen broke away from kings

With loaded guns and broken dreams

They signed their names, they took a stand

For somethin’ bigger than this land

Pre-Chorus

They knew the price, still rolled the dice

For liberty and sacrifice

Chorus

It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours

Written in stripes and stitched in stars

From every mile of blood and dirt

To every promise, every hurt

Yeah we’ve bent, but we don’t break

Through every risk this country takes

It’s a long road paved in scars

It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours

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Verse 2

Cannon smoke and brother’s cries

Civil War split hearts in two sides

Chains fell down, but not overnight

Still fightin’ shadows of that fight

Trains rolled west through open plains

Gold and grit and outlaw names

Dreamers built with calloused hands

A future no one else had planned

Pre-Chorus

Through every storm, we carried on

Holdin’ tight to right and wrong

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Chorus

It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours

Written in stripes and stitched in stars

From every mile of blood and dirt

To every promise, every hurt

Yeah we’ve bent, but we don’t break

Through every risk this country takes

It’s a long road paved in scars

It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours

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Verse 3

Black and white photos fade to gray

But their stories never fade away

Boys in boots on foreign ground

Fightin’ wars we still talk about

Normandy to Vietnam

Names engraved in quiet stone

Desert heat and midnight skies

Still we answer when freedom cries

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Bridge

We don’t always get it right

We’ve got truth we still must face

But there’s a fire in that flag

No time could ever erase

It’s in the ones who stand up strong

And the ones we lost along the way

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Breakdown (soft)

Yeah, we’re still learnin’ who we are

Still reachin’ past the scars

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Final Chorus (big)

It ain’t been easy, but it’s ours

Through the fall and through the hard

From the fields to factory lines

To the frontlines through all time

Yeah we stand, yeah we rise

With every tear and sacrifice

It’s a long road paved in scars

It ain’t been easy… but it’s ours

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Outro

From the past to where we stand

It’s more than just a piece of land

It’s every soul, it’s every scar

Yeah it ain’t been easy… but it’s ours