Brave Lyrics

They silenced the poets with ink-stained hands

Buried their voices beneath the sands

A novel's weight could crack the state

So words were chained and truth met fate

Melodies outlawed, too wild to tame

Strummed in whispers, denied a name

A canvas of protest, the colors screamed

But the frame was shattered before it dreamed

So, raise a toast to the banned and the brave

The stories they told, the songs they gave

Through sacrifice, their light still streams

No regime can silence dreams

They censored the stars, erased the sky

But galaxies live in the mind's blind eye

Science forbidden, knowledge chained

Yet progress marches uncontained

Dissenters disappeared in the dead of night

But their shadows danced in the morning light

For every ban, a spark survives

Can't destroy what keeps hope alive

So, raise a toast to the banned and the brave

The stories they told, the songs they gave

Through sacrifice, their light still streams

No regime can silence dreams

Art unspoken still finds a way

In secret halls where the rebels play

The banned is a badge, the censor decreed

For freedom grows from the smallest seed

From Orwell's pen to Sakharov's plea

Icons of thought, defying decree

A dance of courage, a song of strife

Risking it all for a flicker of life

The tape smuggled in, the semizdat read

Ideas so alive, they refuse to be dead

Through broken bones and whispers of pain

The voices rise again and again

So, raise a toast to the banned and the brave

The stories they told, the songs they gave

Through sacrifice, their light still streams

No regime can silence dreams

So, here's to the artists, the thinkers, the bold

Who dared to defy the lies they were sold

Their legacies linger, their courage lives on

The banned and the brave, eternal and strong