Not Borrowed Gold — A Song Inspired by Haiti's Grenadiers end a 52-year World Cup drought

[Intro]
(Blue and red, blue and red)
Somebody fold that yellow shirt slow
Leave it on the chair by the radio

[Verse 1]
We learned the names from another sky
Painted our hope in a borrowed light
Kicked at rocks where the street broke wide
One shoe gone and a whole world tied

Mama said, boy, keep your voice down low
But the block got loud when the fixtures showed
After fifty-two years of swallowing smoke
Our little flag found a throat

[Pre-Chorus]
And I still love the giants, I still know their song
But I been waiting my whole life long

[Chorus]
We don't need borrowed gold tonight
We got blue and red catching fire in the wire
We don't need borrowed gold tonight
Hear that drum in the dust getting higher and higher
If the big sun burns, let it burn where it rolls
We found our own light, not borrowed gold

[Verse 2]
Philadelphia sounds like a far-off bell
But the corner store's got the jerseys to sell
Granddad says he saw seventy-four
Now he's crying at the open door

One kid grins with a slide on one foot
Sets two stones where the goal should look
Says if they ask who I'm screaming for
Tell 'em I ain't split no more

[Pre-Chorus]
I can bow to the giants, then stand up tall
A small flag can cover us all

[Chorus]
We don't need borrowed gold tonight
We got blue and red catching fire in the wire
We don't need borrowed gold tonight
Hear that drum in the dust getting higher and higher
If the big sun burns, let it burn where it rolls
We found our own light, not borrowed gold

[Bridge]
Win or lose, let the whistle cut clean
Let the whole world see what the children mean
A country can ache, a country can sing
A cracked street still grows wings

[Breakdown]
Blue! (blue!) Red! (red!)
Who you carrying in your chest?
Blue! (blue!) Red! (red!)
Say your own name, wake the dead

[Final Chorus]
We don't need borrowed gold tonight
We got blue and red catching fire in the wire
We don't need borrowed gold tonight
Raise it up till the old doubt tires
If the big sun burns, let it burn where it rolls
We found our own light, not borrowed gold
We found our own light, not borrowed gold

[Outro]
(Blue and red, blue and red)
Fold that yellow shirt slow
Bless the dream that brought us here
Then let our own dream go