This is the story you wanted to write well tonight is the night that you can



Just get this done and by dawns 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 her I'm on my way



Old man Pulitzer is snug in his bed

he don't care if we're dead or alive

three satin pillows are under his head

while we're begging for bread to survive

Joe if your still counting sheep

wake up and read em and weep

you got your thugs with their sticks and their clubs

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 burning

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 shining shoes on the street

with no shoes on their feet everyday

this is for guys sweating 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 a friend 

every friend a brother

five thousand fists in the sky(five thousand fists in the sky)

five thousand reasons to try(five thousand reasons to try)

we're going over the wall 

better to die than to crawl

either we stand or we fall

for once, once and for all