Kabaka Pyramid, Nathalia - Stand Up lyrics

If I don’t stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no out)
If I don’t speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no way out)
Accurate Immaculate

Haffi check myself see if I thinking straight
Cause, I’m feeling so alone
Inna this sinking place
Everybody trying to stay afloat
And think it safe
Following the news reporters
Everything they state
But Martin Luther had a dream weh
Him nuh live fi see
Rosa Parks did tek a seat
Kaepernick him tek a knee
Mandela guh a jail and end
Up set the people free
Marcus Garvey mek mi pree a God weh favour me
Malcolm X him tell we seh
By any means necessary
Peter Tosh seh legalize it
Look deh now see ganja free
The word tek onto flesh and
Manifest in front a me
Suh I create my own reality

If I don’t stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no out)
I don’t speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no way out)

Some a dem cyaan pay dem lawyer fee
Suh them haffi tek a plea
Suh what that says to me
Is that freedom isn’t free
Cah get no good education
From certain community
Suh yuh likely fi guh end
Up inna di penitentiary
Breonna Taylor get shot up and
George Floyd him couldn’t breathe
If a dat them do to them
Then what dem ago do to me
Anyone with common sense can see
Wah Babylon a pree
But even when di higher man stand alone

If I don’t stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no out)
I don’t speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no way out)

See dem waan fi muzzle mi but I a speak out
That's why dem record label dem
Nuh try fi reach out
Dem know seh that mi different from
The guy weh bleach out
And rasta nah go sell mi soul
Fi go buy a beach house
Tell dem seh di Bebble Rock reliable
Gideon start, nuff a dem unidentifiable
One bagga talk
Until yuh see seh dem a pliable
But, I a stand firm, and that is undeniable

If I don’t stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no out)
I don’t speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no way out)

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