Tom Morello, Shea Diamond, Dan Reynolds, The Bloody Beetroots - Stand Up lyrics
[Tom Morello, Shea Diamond, Dan Reynolds, The Bloody Beetroots - Stand Up lyrics]
Everyone is at each other's throats
Everyone thinking that they know things
That they don't know Everyone
Painting the third coat on the wall of belief
Send me relief
When I call the police will they
Just kill me? Will they just kill you?
When I call the police will they just
Protect me cause I'm white skinned too?
Every time you talk the system knows
Everywhere you walk the cameras go
Everything I say you already know
Everything in state is about to blow
Way back before Jim Crow
When I call the police will
They just kill me? Will they just kill you?
When I call the police will they just
Protect me cause I'm white skinned too?
Stand up 'Cause you are standing for nothing
Just shut up 'Cause your words mean nothing
Everybody stares like I'm just my gender
But, I'm a living soul with my own agenda
Tell me how you are the
Priest and the prosecution
Tell me how you have a
God who loves executions
Corruption in the blue line ripples out
Eruption in the streets bring
The few and proud
Attention when the knees fall to the ground
Silently loud
When I call the police will
They just kill me? Will they just kill you?
When you call the police would they just
Protect you cause you're white skinned too?
Every day that passes I'm angrier
Every time the cops get a hall
Pass - build another barrier
Now it's stereotypical
No I'm not cynical, political, hypocritical
Corruption in the blue line ripples out
Eruption in the streets bring
The few and proud
Attention when the knees fall to the ground
Silently loud
Stand up 'Cause you are standing for nothing
Just shut up 'Cause your words mean nothing
If you walked a mile in my shoes
You'd probably take 'em off, wouldn't you?
If you had to live in my truth
You'd probably tell a lie, wouldn't you?
When I call the police will
They just kill me? Will they just kill you?
Stand up stand for nothing
Nothing you stand for nothing
Stand up 'Cause you stand for nothing
Just shut up 'Cause your words mean nothing
Stand up 'Cause you stand for nothing
Just shut up
'Cause your words mean nothing, ooh
Everyone thinking that they know things
That they don't know Everyone
Painting the third coat on the wall of belief
Send me relief
When I call the police will they
Just kill me? Will they just kill you?
When I call the police will they just
Protect me cause I'm white skinned too?
Every time you talk the system knows
Everywhere you walk the cameras go
Everything I say you already know
Everything in state is about to blow
Way back before Jim Crow
When I call the police will
They just kill me? Will they just kill you?
When I call the police will they just
Protect me cause I'm white skinned too?
Stand up 'Cause you are standing for nothing
Just shut up 'Cause your words mean nothing
Everybody stares like I'm just my gender
But, I'm a living soul with my own agenda
Tell me how you are the
Priest and the prosecution
Tell me how you have a
God who loves executions
Corruption in the blue line ripples out
Eruption in the streets bring
The few and proud
Attention when the knees fall to the ground
Silently loud
When I call the police will
They just kill me? Will they just kill you?
When you call the police would they just
Protect you cause you're white skinned too?
Every day that passes I'm angrier
Every time the cops get a hall
Pass - build another barrier
Now it's stereotypical
No I'm not cynical, political, hypocritical
Corruption in the blue line ripples out
Eruption in the streets bring
The few and proud
Attention when the knees fall to the ground
Silently loud
Stand up 'Cause you are standing for nothing
Just shut up 'Cause your words mean nothing
If you walked a mile in my shoes
You'd probably take 'em off, wouldn't you?
If you had to live in my truth
You'd probably tell a lie, wouldn't you?
When I call the police will
They just kill me? Will they just kill you?
Stand up stand for nothing
Nothing you stand for nothing
Stand up 'Cause you stand for nothing
Just shut up 'Cause your words mean nothing
Stand up 'Cause you stand for nothing
Just shut up
'Cause your words mean nothing, ooh