Hopeful, power-driven quartet built on a deep, steady heartbeat drum that feels grounding rather than aggressive, with layered low strings and rising percussion that expand into a triumphant pulse; tempo moderate and resolute, allowing each voice to enter individually before harmonies lock together in strong, soaring four-part unity; orchestration should swell gradually — adding bass, floor toms, and subtle brass — creating lift without losing emotional weight; vocals move from intimate declaration to full-bodied, defiant resonance, emphasizing ownership and collective strength rather than rage; overall tone is expansive, empowering, and cathartic — a protest transformed into reclamation, ending in a sustained, unified final note that feels like breath reclaimed and space taken back., female vocals
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Lyrics
They told us hush.
They told us hide.
They told us swallow
What we felt inside.
They told us shame
Was what we wore.
They locked the chapel.
They locked the door.
WOMEN (low, pulsing)
Hush.
Hide.
Bend.
Break.
WOMAN
They called it mercy.
Called it grace.
Left their fingerprints
On every face.
Said God was watching
From above—
But God looked nothing
Like their love.
WOMEN (stronger)
We were named.
We were blamed.
We were scrubbed
And rearranged.
WOMAN
But listen close—
The walls can shake.
Even stone
Can start to break.
You build a cage
Out of prayer.
You build a silence
Out of air.
WOMEN (rising rhythm)
No more kneeling.
No more small.
No more halos
Built to fall.
WOMAN
Magdalene sisters
Don’t stay quiet.
We were not born
For holy riot—
But you lit the match.
You fed the flame.
You gave our hunger
Someone to blame.
WOMEN (anthemic hook)
Magdalene sisters
Don’t stay quiet.
We are the thunder
Under the quiet.
Magdalene sisters
Stand upright.
We are the shadow
That learned to fight.
WOMAN
You thought confession
Made us weak.
You thought submission
Kept us meek.
But grief can harden
Into steel.
And silence learns
To peel.
WOMEN
We are not shame.
We are not stain.
We are not bodies
You can contain.
WOMAN
If we are fallen—
Watch us rise.
WOMEN (huge unison)
If we are fallen—
Watch us rise!
WOMAN
You can keep your
Polished saints.
WOMEN
We will keep
Our living names.
FULL ENSEMBLE (final surge)
Magdalene sisters
Don’t stay quiet!
Not anymore!
Not tonight!
Magdalene sisters
Find their voice—
And when we stand
It is a choice!
WOMAN (clear, steady)
We choose.
WOMEN (final punch)
We choose.
Massive drum hit.
Silence.