Get Up, Stand Up

[Verse 1: Chuck D]

This song don't give a damn

If the rhymes don't fit, if the DJ quit

This song don't give a damn

If you can't sing or dance to it, can't romance to it

This song ain't arrogant

If you don't try it, buy it

If your radio denies it

Don't care 'bout what who got

What's cool on TV, or what spot's hot I forgot

I ain't mad at evolution

But I stand for revolution

Get up, enough is enough

Somebody stand up

[Hook]

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up

[Verse 2: Brother Ali]

This track ain't asking you a damn thing

Not the brand name bottle with your champagne

Not where you land your private airplane

How many blood diamonds shining in that chain?

How much compromise is tied to that fame?

How many more times we gotta hear that lame line, "I'm inspiring them"

To do what? Roll better weed and get higher than them?

Feed the needy greedy ass fire in them?

Be the same damn dog but to finer women?

They gonna tell me that I'm preaching to the choir, then I'm

Sure they right but I'm trying to light a fire in them

Cause I was raised by The Enemy

And ever since then that's been my identity

So I'm trying to give back what was given me

Truth told delivery is my tendency

Youth fold to the spirit of my energy

Bottom of my feet is something that you'll never see

That's cause I'm standing singing the anthem

Fist on my hand, and a list of demands and

When they hear this might piss in their pants and

Try to get the children to not listen to the man

But the mighty PE is what birthed Ali

So what you gonna think come after me?

Chuck D

[Scratching]

"Chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-Chuck D"

"The-the enemy-the-the enemy"

"Wo-wo-wo-words you heed"

"Bui-bui-bui-built-built for speed"

[Verse 3: Chuck D]

Occupy if you denied

Protest songs cause I see wrong

Most of my heroes still don't appear on no stamp

So I rant, even when they say I can't

I rise against, rage against

Hope I don't end up being the same thing I'm fighting against

Hence, I wince never on the fence

Since they think the masses powerless

I ain't on nobody's power list

I ball my fist with my audience

I raise my fist with my audience like this

Like this

[Hook]

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up

[Verse 4: Chuck D]

Got so much to shout about

What the one percent is gettin' out

Recession, depression, desperation due

Never have so many been screwed by so few

Cheapest price is to pay attention

No need to dumb down to what I mention

No need to young down how I mention

In Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and

No satisfaction

Listen to the world's reaction

[Hook]

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up

Get up, stand up