Suffs - Finish the Fight Lyrics

2024 Broadway
Suffs the Musical - Finish the Fight Lyrics

The song is written by Shaina Taub.

ALICE PAUL:
Let mother vote
Just hold your fury in
Maybe Carrie's right
That's the only way we win
She sounds just like my father
"Please Alice, have some sense
Don't you know that no one likes a girl
Who's too intense?
Don't get so defensive
Alice, don't be so aggressive
Settle down, you're too obsessive"
I've heard it many times before
But I don't wanna hear it anymore

I don't wanna have to compromise
I don't wanna have to beg for crumbs
From a country that doesn't care what I say
I don't wanna follow in old footsteps
I don't wanna be a meek little pawn
In games they play
I wanna march in the street
I wanna hold up a sign
With millions of women
With passion like mine
I wanna shout it out loud
In the wide open light
'Til my generation has made things right
Yes, I wanna know how it feels
When we finally finish the fight

Should I try to take the lead alone?
But it's probably impossible
Will my ideas just dwindle and die?
Try to remember
What your mother taught you
When you dip your pen in ink you can't quit
'Til it runs dry
You've gotta kick down the doors
Of the mightiest men
'Til they never dare to deny us again
You've gotta disrupt their days
Make a fire ignite
No, our generation won't play polite
Just picture the look in their eyes
When we finally finish the fight

Go say goodbye to the world
My mother and grandmothers know
Will I truly be able to change it?
Well, if not me, then who?
So I'll make my own team
And I'll raise up my hand
'Til we're rewriting the law of the land
And we'll unfurl our flag
Purple, gold, and white
Centuries of silence will end at night

There's this incessant unrest
Crumbling deep in my chest
And I'll never be free,
Nor complete, not unless
I am there on the day
When we finally finish the fight
I'll be there on the day
When we finally finish the fight

Suffs the Musical Lyrics

SYNOPSIS
Let Mother Vote
Finish the Fight
Find A Way
Wait My Turn
Terrell’s Theme
The March (We Demand Equality)
Great American Bitch
Ladies
Worth It
If We Were Married
The Convention Part 1
This Girl
The Convention Part 2
Alva Belmont
Show Them Who You Are
The Campaign
How Long?
The Young Are At The Gates
Respectfully Yours, Dudley Malone
Hold It Together
Wait My Turn (reprise)
The Report
Show Them Who You Are (reprise)
Insane
Fire & Tea
Let Mother Vote (reprise)
She and I
A Letter From Harry’s Mother
I Was Here
If We Were Married (reprise)
Lucy’s Song
Finish the Fight (reprise)
Keep Marching