Politics of Hope

Paloma Faith

The rights and freedoms that we have today were won by your mothers
Your fathers, your grandmothers, your grandfathers, your ancestors before them
We stand on the shoulders of giants and we owe it to our ancestors
Not just to defend the rights and freedoms that they fought for at such cost
And at such sacrifice, that continue their struggle that a different sort of society
Not a society run in the interests of a tiny elite
But a society run in the interests of the majority
Those who preach the politics of despair
They want us to believe that all injustice is like the weather
That you can complain about it raining but there's nothing you can do about it
But the politics of hope tell us something else