Hear our cries rebounding o'er the waves
We flee the scourge
Just to drown
Under this deluge

Tell yourself that you can't help me
Tell yourself that we're just numbers now

I have no choice
But pay them as they charge
Much as that wavering craft
Will fail me

Tell yourself that you can't help me
Tell yourself that we're just numbers
No one
Wants us
But they can't stop us
We must get out

Once you were here
A refugee
On distant shores
Once you were me
Stood in these shoes
Desired this same hope
For your children
Yet you...

Tell yourself that you can't help me
Tell yourself that we're just numbers
No one
Wants us
But they can't stop us now...

His face a tragic woe implored
His lifeless body laid
To frame your failure
Yet you...

Tell yourself that you can't help me
You tell yourself that we're just numbers
No one
Wants us
But they can't stop us
We must get out

Open your heart and
Let that sorrow
Build in you
The strength to break in
Drive out the dark with love
Know your soul does plead

But don't tell yourself
That you can't help us
Tell yourself
We're not just numbers
See our faces
You can't keep us out