Stand Up - Live at House Of Blues - Anaheim, CA/2009 - Flobots

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 dying from a loss of food

If you've got more to give than 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 dam

Didn't fund the damn 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 sending chills through London

And we've sent planes to kill them

And some of them are children

But still we crumble under buildin'

Underfunded, but we still don't understand

Under God, but we kill like the Son of Sam

But if you feel like I feel about the son of man

We will overcome

So stand up (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 (Stand up)

We shall not be moved

Except by a woman dying from a loss of food

If you've got more to give than 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 dying from a loss of food

Except by a freedom fighter bleeding on a cross for you

We shall not be moved

Except by a system thats rotting through

Neglecting the victims and ordering the cops to shoot

High treason now we need to prosecute

So stand up (Stand up)

We shall not be moved

And we wont fight a war for fossil fuel

Times like this that if you want to plot a coup

Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up (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

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

Neighbors don't speak, peak through the front door

House representatives preach "stay the course"

It's time for a leap of faith once more

Put your hands up high if you haven't abandoned

Hope that the pen strokes stronger than the cannon

Balls to the wall, nose to the grindstone

My interrogation techniques leave ya mind blown

Places your bets, let's speak to the enemy

Don't let them pretend that we seek blood

And whose we anyway kimosabai?

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 its time to be clarified

We the people did not want war

So stand up (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 (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