Stand Up - Flobots

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Stand up,
We shall not be moved,
Except by a child with no socks and shoes,
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
Stand up,
We shall not be moved,
Except by a woman dying from the loss of food,
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
We still don't understand thunder and lightning,
Flash back to when we didn't fund the dam,
Didn't fund the damn levi?
No wonder man,
Now our whole damn city's torn asunder man,
Under water but we still don't understand,
We see hurricane spills over on the land,
Through gaps you couldn't fill with a 100 tons of sand,
No we still don't understand,
We've seen planes in the windows of buildings crumbled in,
We've seen flames send the chills through London,
And we've sent planes to kill them and some of them were children,
But still we crumbling the building,
Underfunded but we still don't understand,
Under god but we kill like the son of Sam,
But if you feel like I feel like about the son of man,
We will overcome,
So Stand up,
We shall not be moved,
Except by a child with no socks and shoes,
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
Stand up,
We shall not be moved,
Except by a woman dying from the loss of food,
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
I said Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
We shall not be moved,
Except by a child with no socks and shoes,
Except by a woman dying from the loss of food,
Except by a freedom fighter bleeding on a cross for you,
We shall not be moved,
Except by a system thats rotten through,
Neglecting the victims and ordering the cops to shoot,
High treason now we need to prosecute,
So Stand up,
We shall not be moved,
And we wont fight a war for fossil fuel,
It's times like this that you want to plot a coup,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
So Stand up,
We shall not be moved,
Unless were taking a route we have not pursued,
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
I said put your hands up and I'll copy you,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
If you've got a dream and a lot to do,
Put your hands up,
Now shake, shake, a Polaroid dream,
Nightmare negatives develop on the screen,
We sit back and wait for the government team,
Criticize they but who the fuck are we,
The people want peace but the leaders want war,
Our neighbors don't speak, peek thru the front door,
House representatives preach "stay the course",
Time for a leap of faith, Once More,
Put your hands up high if you havn't imagined,
Hope that the pen strokes stronger than the cannon,
Balls to the wall, Nose to the grindstone,
My interrogation techniques leave your mind blown,
So place your bets let's speak to the enemy,
Don't let 'em pretend that we seek blood,
And who's we anyways Kemo Sabe?
Mighty warlord wanna-be street thug,
A threat for a threat leaves the whole world terrified,
Blow for blow never settles the score,
Word for word is time need clarify,
We the people did not want war,
So Stand up,
We shall not be moved,
Except by a child with no socks and shoes,
If you've got more to give then you've got to prove,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
Unless were taking a route we have not pursued,
So if you've got a dream and a lot to do,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
I said Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
Put your hands up and I'll copy you,
If you've got a dream and a lot to do, Put your hands up!