The portugese organization ROSTO is thrilled to present the Concept Street Musical “Raise your voice” produced in Portugal under the framework of CLOE project:
“There is a story that unites us all, which is bigger than time and crosses all spaces.
It is made up of the many stories that make up each one of us, that make us human beings, that give us existence and recognition as such.
When we are deprived of the right to a story, we are deprived of the right to be remembered as human beings, turning into numbers, shadows of generic words that define us as part of a concept instead of a singular, unique, unrepeatable existence, with feelings and dreams, with reasons and hopes.
Our common history has always tended to erase the perspectives of many, to take the vision of some as the experience of all.
It is in an attempt not to allow any story to be silenced that we present to you some of the many shadows of some of the achievements that make humanity proudest: the Athenian democracy, which excluded women, slaves and foreigners from the concept of citizen; the Portuguese discoveries, founded in and start of the transatlantic trade of human beings; the Italian multiculturalism, marked by increasingly notorious prejudice and discriminatory attitudes (and policies).
To better define the world we want to build, we need to recognize our mistakes, so that we can better avoid them.”
VERSE 1:
When silence surrounds you and it feels like letting go
Take the melody inside, feel the rhythm in your soul
When the clock is up against you life is passing you by
Take the power growing in you, give yourself another try
Look outside your window, draw your world in your own terms 1
Let the colors shine within, let the stillness drive your words 2
Open your door, feel the wind run through your hair
Find your wings and fly again if you can dream to dare
PRE-CHORUS:
You’ve got what it takes to change darkness into light
Pain into a good fight, give fear a new bright sight
Get your stars to be all aligned…
CHORUS:
Raise your voice and sing out loud,
let our differences combine
Lift it high among the crowd and
fill our unison with pride
Make it all rise above
Go and make a new choice
Create a harmony of love,
give the world another voice
VERSE 2:
Sirens’ song fills the air, it gets right into your heart
Through the eyes of a stranger see a future worlds apart
It’s time to lay out your hand, put indifference in the past
Write inclusion in the present, make connections built to last
PRE-CHORUS:
You’ve got what it takes to change darkness into light
Pain into a good fight, give fear a new bright sight
Get your stars to be all aligned…
CHORUS:
Raise your voice and sing out loud,
let our differences combine
Lift it high among the crowd and
fill our unison with pride
Make it all rise above
Go and make a new choice
Create a harmony of love,
give the world another voice
