Once And For All Lyrics - Singles - Newsies

This is the story you wanted to write 

Well, tonight is the night that you can 

Just get this done and by dawn's early light 

You can finish the fight you began 

This time we're in it to stay 

Think about seizing the day 

Think of that train as she rolls into old Santa Fe 

Tell 'em I'm on my way 

See old man Pulitzer snug in his bed 

He don't care if we're dead or alive 

Three satin pillows are under his head 

While we're beggin' for bread to survive 

Joe, if you're still countin' sheep 

Wake up and read 'em and weep 

You got your thugs with their sticks and their slugs 

Yeah, but we got a promise to keep 

Once and for all, something tells me the tide'll be turnin' 

Once and for all, there's a fire inside me that won't stop burnin' 

Now that the choices are clear, now that tomorrow is here 

Watch how the mighty will fall, for once and for all 

This is for kids shinin' shoes in the street 

With no shoes on their feet every day 

This is for guys sweatin' blood in the shops 

While the bosses and cops look away 

This is to even the score 

This ain't just Newsies no more 

This ain't just kids with some pie in the sky 

This is do it or die, this is war 

Once and for all, we'll be there to defend one another 

Once and for all, every kid is our friend, every friend a brother 

Five thousand fists in the sky, five thousand reasons to try 

We're goin' over the wall, better to die than to crawl 

Either we stand or we fall, for once, once and for all