Flobots - Stand Up lyrics

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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