Verse 1
Mia
See things through the eyes of a child
one moment
Listen to the words I must say
Please hear me
Maeve
Arts are being labelled as not important
I respectfully disagree
Bridge
Eddie
I was born to sing
I was born to dance
I was born, I feel, to bring you story
Ella
Don’t hold back, shout it out
Let’s unite and tell the world
Chorus
everyone so far
The Arts must not be silenced
The Arts must not be silenced
Verse 2
Tana
Imagine waking to a new kind of silence
Everything you see comes to you through your screen,
Sabina
Actors, and musicians all but departed.
Comedians & singers denied
Bridge 2
Charlie
But they were born to sing
They were born to dance
They were born, I feel, to bring you story
Charlie, Sabina & Tana
Don’t hold back, shout it out
Let’s unite and tell the world
Chorus
The Arts must not be silenced
The Arts must not be silenced
Break
I fear a world, where no one performs live, all performances you see are on a screen
It’s been implied, the arts are not required, that there’s more important ways to spend our time
And yet you'll see, in history that all the greatest empires would unite the people through performing arts
arts bring us together, working as one entity, all of us with one big beating heart.
Chorus
The Arts must not be silenced
The Arts must not be silenced
The Arts must not be silenced
Everybody you’ve go to tell the world
The Arts must not be silenced
Don’t let them pull the rug from us
The Arts must not be silenced
It’s the thing that makes us feel alive
The Arts must not be silenced
We’ll end up yearning for the past
The Arts must not be silenced
Don’t take away our beating arts
The Arts must not be silenced
Music unites like nothing else
The Arts must not be silenced
Don’t let this silence engulf us
The Arts must not be silenced
Unite to bring it back to us
The Arts must not be silenced
