Get Up Stand Up
(专辑: Most Of My Heroes Still Don't Appear On No Stamp - 2012)
[Chuck D] This song don't give a
damn If the
rhymes don't fit Beat don't bounce If the
dj quit This song Don't give a
damn If you can't sing to dance to it Can't romance to it This song ain't arrogant If you don't try it Buy it If your radio deny it Don't care bout what who got What's cool on tv Or what spots hot I
forgot I
ain't mad at evolution But I
stand for revolution Enough is enough Somebody stand up Get up, stand up, Get up, stand up [Brother Ali] This track ain't asking you a
damn thing Not the
brand name bottle with your champagne Not where you land your private airplane How many blood diamonds shining in that chain? How much compromise is tied to that fame? How many more times we gotta hear that lame Line I'm inspiring them To do what? roll better weed and get higher than them? Feed the
needy greedy ass fire in them? Be the
same damn dog but to finer women? They gonna tell me that I'm preaching to the
choir than I'm Sure they right but I'm trying to light a
fire in them Cause I
was raised by the
enemy And ever since then thats been my identity So I'm trying to give back whats was given me Truth told delivery is my tendency Youth fold to the
spirit of my energy Bottom of my feet is something that you'll never see Thats cause I'm standing singing the
anthem Fist on my hand, and a
list of demands and When they hear this might piss in their pants and Try to get the
children to not listen to the
man But the
mighty pe is what birthed ali So what you gonna think come after me? Chuck d
Get up, stand up [Chuck D] Occupy if you denied Protest songs cause I
see wrong Most of my heroes still don't appear on no stamp So I
rant even when they say I
can't [pause] I
rise against Rage against Hope I
don't end up being the
same thing I'm fighting against Hence I
wince never on the
fence Since they think the
masses powerless Ain't on no power list I
ball my fist w
my audience Like this Get up, stand up, Get up, stand up [Chuck D] Got so much to shout about What the
1% is gettin out Recession depression desperation due Never have so many been screwed by so few Cheapest price is to pay attention No need to dumb down to what I
mention No need to young down how I
mention In spanish portuguese english french and No satisfaction Listen to the
world reaction Americas still black and white Like an old tv set What we gonna do about it? Laugh sit back forget & quit? I
get racial Just talkin about the
ratio People are no longer patient Now the
brown they don't want around Thats why sammy got that facial My wife says its spacial Politics that stick way beyond baseball I
think its self hateful Anti immigration Disgraceful Get up, stand up,