Remember
Remember
The Center for Restorative Justice leads pilgrimages, learning cohorts, and embodied storytelling that refuse to let history stay safely in the past. We wrote “Remember” in the room with them, and it carries their refusal into song: no hiding the broken pieces, no calling the quiet justice. Their work walks people into the places where the story happened. Ours was to give that walking something to sing.
REMEMBER
Written by Yemi Seyi (ASCAP), Jalen Seawright (ASCAP), Bianca Johnson (ASCAP), Victor Mbogo (ASCAP)
© 2026 Common Hymnal Publishing (ASCAP), Christians For Social Action (ASCAP), Jalen Seawright (ASCAP), Creatives Herd (ASCAP), Common Hymnal Digital (BMI), Songbird Artistry Music (BMI) (admin by integratedrights.com)
VERSE 1
AbM7
We won’t hide the broken pieces
Bb/Ab
We won’t paint the scars away
AbM7
We won’t hide the truth in silence
Bb/Ab
Bring what’s buried from the grave
CHORUS
Fm9
We gotta tell the story
Edim7
Gotta tell it all
Ebdim7
Every Wound
Bb/D Bbm/Db
Every Fall
VERSE 2
AbM7
Turn the whispers into witness
Bb/Ab
Leave no voices left unheard
AbM7
We won’t call the quiet justice
Bb/Ab
For there’s blood that stains the ground
CHORUS
We gotta tell the story
Gotta tell it all
Every Wound
Every Fall
INTERLUDE
| Fsus/C | Eb | F/C | Eb |
| F/C | Eb | Fm/C | Eb |
BRIDGE
Fm Eb/G AbM7
Every road remembers.
Fm Eb/G AbM7
Every tree recalls.
Fm Eb/G AbM7 F Eb F Eb
Every river has stories no one’s ever told.
F Eb/Bb Fm AbM7
No one’s ever told
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