We're gonna burn your cities
Gonna bring your systems down
I'm gonna drown my pity
Turn this to a ghost town

And when you know there's nothing
Your gonna run like all the rest
Pack your bags and turn your back on all the friends you had left

And it's time for us to live
Yeah!

Its my time, this is just a declaration
Of what I've felt (whoa!)
We won't back down
It's my time, this is just your resignation
From our lives (whoa!)
We won't back down!

We're gonna drown your ego
You're the legend no ones knows
You're an honest faker now (You re an honest faker now!)
So now I'll drown my pity
In a pool of sorrow and shame

And you've gotta let me live
Yeah!

Its my time, this is just a declaration
Of what I've felt (whoa!)
We won't back down
It's my time, this is just your resignation
From our lives (whoa!)
We won't back down!

We won't back down!

It's time to forget
What makes sick
Deep inside of me
It's time to forget
What makes sick
Deep inside of me
Yeah!

And you've gotta me let me live
Yeah!

Its my time, this is just a declaration
Of what I've felt (whoa!)
We won't back down
It's my time, this is just your resignation
From our lives (whoa!)
We won't back down!

We won't back down! [Repeat: x3]


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We Won't Back Down Lyrics as written by Craig Edward Mabbitt Max Green

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    haha. i know, right. i was like wtf. i even tried slowing the song down to decipher it. didn't work, tho.

    sparkle bb shineon October 18, 2008   Link

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