[Intro] Ring the bell Raise the rates Close the docks Lock the gates [Verse] They don’t need bombs when the shelves go bare They don’t need tanks when the price ain’t fair They don’t need soldiers in the morning light Just a market panic and a televised fight A factory mother with her lunchbox dented Learns her whole future has been represented By a rich man shouting through a golden grin That somebody somewhere has to lose for him to win [Pre-Chorus] The numbers climb The workers fall The headline says It’s good for all [Chorus] Sing the Trade War Hymn With your empty plate choir Sing the Trade War Hymn While they light the wires Sing the Trade War Hymn Every tariff has a cost The rich count victories The poor count what they lost [Verse] She watches the brokers clap at the screen Like hunger is clean if the graph stays green They call it leverage, they call it pride While nurses pay double for the gloves inside A farmer is staring at a field of debt A sailor says nobody has paid me yet A student is working through a second night So a leader can brag that he won the fight [Pre-Chorus] The numbers climb The workers fall The headline says It’s good for all [Chorus] Sing the Trade War Hymn With your empty plate choir Sing the Trade War Hymn While they light the wires Sing the Trade War Hymn Every tariff has a cost The rich count victories The poor count what they lost [Instrumental] Cash registers crack like gunfire Bassline burns through factory wire Drums hit hard on loading bays Guitars scrape rust off working days [Bridge] They trade in fear They trade in grain They trade in steel They trade in pain They trade our hours They trade our sleep Then call us strong When we break cheap [Breakdown] No war but class war No crown but cash No flag but profit No truth but crash No war but class war No hymn but rage We don’t owe hunger To your golden cage [Build-up] She sends the story From a closing plant The workers answer With a pavement chant [Chorus] Sing the Trade War Hymn With your empty plate choir Sing the Trade War Hymn While they light the wires Sing the Trade War Hymn Every tariff has a cost The rich count victories The poor count what they lost [Chorus] Sing the Trade War Hymn Till the stock bell breaks Sing the Trade War Hymn For the hand that shakes Sing the Trade War Hymn No empire feeds the poor It only sells them hunger Then demands a little more [Outro] Ring the bell Raise the rates Close the docks Lock the gates The hymn goes thin The people sing No trade war king