The Day They Left the Common Ground

That’s the day they left the common ground,Built a kingdom in the sky so they’d never come down.

[Verse 1]
Up in the clouds on a private runway,
There’s a world that the rest of us never see.
No lines, no crowds, no towns in their way —
Just a velvet escape from democracy.

[Pre-Chorus]
And every mile they climb,
We fall a little more behind…

[Chorus]
That’s the day they left the common ground,
Built a kingdom in the sky so they’d never come down.
Where no stranger’s voice can reach their gates,
And the laws bend easy when you’re holdin’ all the weights.
Yeah, that’s the day the wealthy turned around —
And walked away from the common ground.

[Verse 2]
From the Robber Barons to the Gilded kings,
History’s warnin’ us loud and clear:
When the richest run from the world we’re in,
They leave the rest of us stranded here.

[Pre-Chorus]
But we’ve fought their iron heels before…
And we know what we’re fightin’ for.

[Chorus]
That’s the day they left the common ground,
Hidin’ their fortunes where we can’t make a sound.
Let the roads crack, let the wages fall —
They don’t see a nation when they’re buildin’ up their walls.
Yeah, that’s the day the powerful backed out —
Left the people on the common ground.

[Final Tag/Outro]
But we’ve risen every time they tried to take this land —
And we’ll rise again, hand in hand.
Tag — we’re it.
We stand.