Speechless
Duration: 5:10
Filmed at Gubbuh Gubbuh, Middle Head and Leura, as well as numerous school halls and ovals throughout NSW, the Speechless choir features 460 primary and secondary school students across the state in an epic crescendo to the Spectacular Schools – Inspired series.
The message is clear: it doesn’t matter whether you sign or speak your message, the importance lies in developing the confidence and opportunities to deliver it.
Transcript – Speechless
[birds calling]
[music - Speechless]
GIRL: (SINGING) Here comes a wave meant to wash me away. A tide that is taking me under. Swallowing sand left with nothing to say. My voice drowned out in the thunder.
But I won't cry. And I won't start to crumble. Whenever they try, try to shut me or cut me down.
I won't be silenced. You can't keep me quiet. Won't tremble when you try it. All I know is I won't go speechless.
'Cause I'll breathe when they try to suffocate me. Don't you underestimate me.
ALL: (SINGING) 'Cause I know that I won't go speechless.
GIRL: (SINGING) Written in stone every rule, every word. Centuries old and unbending. Stay in your place. Better seen and not heard. But now that story is ending.
ALL: (SINGING) 'Cause I, I cannot start to crumble. So come on and try.
GIRL: (SINGING) Try to shut me and cut me down.
ALL: (SINGING) I won't be silenced. You can't keep me quiet. Won't tremble when you try it. All I know is I won't go speechless.
GIRL: (SINGING) Speechless.
ALL: (SINGING) Let the storm in. I cannot be broken. No, I won't live unspoken. 'Cause I know that I won't go speechless.
Try to lock me in this cage. I won't just lay me down and die. I will take these broken wings. And watch me burn across the sky. Hear the echoes saying
GIRL: (SINGING) I won't be silenced.
ALL: (SINGING) Silenced. You can't keep me quiet.
GIRL: (SINGING) Oh, you want to see me tremble when you try it.
ALL: (SINGING) All I know is I won't go speechless.
CHORUS: (SINGING) All I know. All I know.
GIRL: (SINGING) Speechless.
ALL: (SINGING) 'Cause I'll breathe when they try to suffocate me. Don't you underestimate me. 'Cause I know that I won't go speechless.
CHORUS: (SINGING): 'Cause I know. 'Cause I know.
GIRL: (SINGING) Speechless.
ALL: (SINGING) Silenced.
CHORUS: (SINGING): You can't keep me quiet.
GIRL: (SINGING) You won't see me tremble when you try it.
CHORUS: (SINGING): All I know is I won't go speechless.
GIRL: (SINGING) All I know. All I know.
ALL: (SINGING): 'Cause I'll breathe when they try to suffocate me. Don't you underestimate me. 'Cause I know that I won't go speechless.
GIRL: (SINGING) All I know is I won't go speechless.
Speechless.
[birds calling]
[birds calling]
TEACHER: 1, 2, 3.
[music - Speechless]
ALL: (SINGING): I won't be silenced. You can't keep me quiet. Won't tremble when you try it. All I know is I won't go speechless.
'Cause I know. 'Cause I know.
Silenced. You can't keep me quiet. Won't tremble when you try it. All I know is I won't go speechless.
All I know. All I know.
'Cause I'll breathe when they try to suffocate me. Don't you underestimate me. 'Cause I know that I won't go speechless.
'Cause I know. 'Cause I know.
Speechless.
[music sting]
End of transcript
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