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When someone's beaten down Ya close ya eyes Ya cannot se nothin' Thru walls of business enterprise And lies that rise to crime To oppression Ya don't accept the voice of people under-kept Who knows what is the truth And what is the fiction? Media offer the same Corruption tang and over-diction Redemption's lost, nowhere to hide Sleepin' pills for the ills And no one's here to kill ya pride What is enough? To rape my soul? To steal my dreams? My mind's full of resistance My mind aims at self-esteem And those who try to tame the truth Most of them wear blood And belong to the honour crew And if ya stand in silence If ya stand the state Or if ya lazy and afraid Ya let evil in gate Still is not too late But we all gotta do somethin' more Raise ya fist thru the mist And keep ya rights above the law CHORUS: Stand up, stand up Open ya mind Stand up, stand up And don't be blind Stand up, stand up Don't breed the pain Stand up, stand up And use ya brain Now it's time to wake up To figure out what's goin' on We gotta start to perform Drop the system Smash cellular phones That ring for slavery They make us be servants We must not only wait for a hit So let's make a movement People exploited with the multi-national firm elite My bloody tangled nation's in their eyes for delete They know the beat-downs have the power To take 'em down And they know that the fed-up crowd is not alone And if ya stand in silence If ya stand the state Or if ya lazy and afraid Ya let evil in gate Still is not too late But we all gotta do somethin' more Raise ya fist thru tha mist And keep ya rights above the law CHORUS |