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