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Stand Up

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Oct. 16, 20071 viewer13.9K views

Stand Up Lyrics

[Hook]
Stand up; we shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than 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 dyin' from a 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

[Verse 1]
We still don't understand thunder and lightning
Flashback to when we didn't fund the damned
Didn't fund the dam levee? No wonder, man
Now our whole damn city's torn asunder, man
Underwater but we still don't understand
We see hurricane spills overrun the land

Through gaps you couldn't fill with a hundred 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 crumblin' 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

[Hook]
So stand up; we shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than 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 dyin' from a 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

[Post-Hook]
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 than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you

[Verse 2]
We shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
Except by a woman dyin' from a loss of food
Except by a freedom fighter bleedin' on a cross for you
We shall not be moved
Except by a system that's rotten through
Neglecting the victims and orderin' the cops to shoot
High treason, now we need to prosecute

[Hook]
So stand up; we shall not be moved
And we won't 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 we're 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

[Post-Hook]
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

[Verse 3]
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 through the front door
House representatives preach "stay the course"
Time for a leap of faith once more

Put your hands up high if you haven't abandoned
Hope that the pen stroke's stronger than the cannon

Balls to the wall, nose to the grindstone
My interrogation techniques leave your mind blown
Place your bets, let's speak to the enemy
Don't let 'em pretend that we seek blood

And who's we anyway, Kemosabe?
Mighty warlord, wannabe street thug
A threat for a threat leaves the whole world terrified
Blow for blow never settles the score

Word for word, it's time we clarify
We, the people did not want war
[Hook]
So stand up; we shall not be moved
Except by a child with no socks and shoes
If you've got more to give than you've got to prove
Put your hands up and I'll copy you
Stand up; we shall not be moved
Unless we are 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

[Post-Hook]
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

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Genius Annotation

“Stand Up” is a song about the fact that we won’t be persuaded for these illogical events that our government or the public want us to assist them in joining them. We are constantly reminded throughout the song that we shouldn’t be persuaded by these but by the things that matter such as poverty, people’s sacrifice for your freedom, and new ideas that contribute to our life as a whole.

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Release Date
October 16, 2007
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