Get Up Off Our Knees

[Verse 1]

Famines will be famines, banquets will be banquets

Some spend winter in a palace, some spend it in blankets

Don't wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away

Don't shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today, can shoot today

Ha, ha, ha, ha...

[Pre-Chorus]

Time to end the praying

Listen what they're saying

[Chorus 1]

(Get up off our knees)

You can wag your finger till your finger's sore

Shake your head till it shakes no more

(Get up off our knees)

You can wag your finger till your finger's sore

Shake your head till it shakes no more

(Get up off our knees)

Oh-ho, get up off our knees...

[Verse 2]

Paupers will be paupers, bankers will be bankers

Some own pennies in a jar, some own oil tankers

What may sound like tomorrow could be ours today

There's no more need for sorrow if we get off our knees to pray, off our knees to pray

Ha, ha, ha, ha...

[Pre-Chorus]

Time to end the praying

Listen what they're saying

[Chorus 2]

(Get up off our knees)

You can wag your finger till your finger's sore

Shake your head till it shakes no more

(Get up off our knees)

You can wag your finger till your finger's sore

Shake your head till it shakes no more

(Get up off our knees)

Oh-ho, get up off those knees

Get up off those knees...

[Verse 3]

Countries will be countries, borders will be borders

Some have lost their folks at war, some have given orders

Don't wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away

Don't shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today, can shoot today

Ha, ha, ha, ha...

[Pre-Chorus]

Time to end the praying

Listen what they're saying

[Chorus 1]

(Get up off our knees)

You can wag your finger till your finger's sore

Shake your head till it shakes no more

(Get up off our knees)

You can wag your finger till your finger's sore

Shake your head till it shakes no more

(Get up off our knees)

Oh-ho, get up off our knees...

[Outro]

Get up off our knees

Get up off our knees

Get up off our knees!