Anthem · Barking Justice Music
I'm Your Citizen
The ship is drifting, the power is tightening, and every citizen has to help steer it home.
About this anthem
I’m Your Citizen begins with a country drifting toward danger and an ordinary person refusing to remain a passenger.
Through the image of a ship caught in a gathering storm, the anthem names what democratic decline can feel like: years of drift, a darkened shore, and power tightening its hand around the public voice. But its answer is not resignation. It is citizenship practiced aloud: stand beside one another, speak while there is still time, and help steer the country back toward freedom.
The repeated declaration, “I’m your citizen,” turns responsibility into a vow. Democracy will not save itself. It depends on people who refuse to let it disappear quietly.
I’m Your Citizen has earned Station Favorite status because its message reaches across Barking Justice Radio. It belongs beneath the democratic warnings of The Democracy Block, the moral defiance of Righteous Fire, and the accountability work of The Reckoning Hour.
This is the citizen’s answer to the gathering storm: I am still here, I still have a voice, and I am not done steering us home.
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Lyrics
Verse 1
Everybody, listen to me. Help me turn this ship around. I’m your citizen, I’m your citizen, and the storm is bearing down. We’ve been drifting, years uncounted, while the darkness hides the shore. Can you hear me? Can you hear me? We can’t lose this anymore.
Verse 2
If we steer her back to daylight, I will stand on freedom’s ground. Take us home now, take us home now, to the rights our fathers found. Am I shouting in the silence, or are they truly trying to steal this land away from me? You’d better think about it, we can’t survive without it, so don’t let them sink democracy.
Bridge
I can feel the hand of power tightening around our voice. People rise now, people rise now, we have but a single choice. I’m your citizen, I’m your citizen, and the night is running long. Everybody, stand beside me, and we’ll take our country home.
Refrain
We’re getting closer to our home. We’re getting closer to our home. We’re getting closer to our home. We’re getting closer to our home, oh. We’re getting closer to our home.
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Not tied to a single block. This anthem’s demand, that citizens show up and steer the country home, runs underneath The Democracy Block, Righteous Fire, and The Reckoning Hour.
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