Flobots - 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 k** them, and some of them were children But still we crumblin' the building Underfunded, but we still don't understand Under God, but we k** 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 f** 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