Get Up Stand Up Lyrics - Brother Ali

This song don't give a damn 

If the rhymes don't fit 

Beat don't bounce 

If the dj quit 

This song 

Don't give a damn 

If you can't sing to dance to it 

Can't romance to it 

This song ain't arrogant 

If you don't try it 

Buy it 

If your radio deny it 

Don't care bout what who got 

What's cool on tv 

Or what spots hot I forgot 

I ain't mad at evolution 

But I stand for revolution 

Enough is enough 

Somebody stand up 

Get up, stand up, 

Get up, stand up 

This track aint 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 than 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's 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 

Get up, stand up 

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 

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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 

Ain't on no power list 

I ball my fist w my audience 

Like this 

Get up, stand up, 

Get up, stand up 

Got so much to shout about 

What the 1% 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 reaction 

Americas still black and white 

Like an old tv set 

What we gonna do about it? 

Laugh sit back forget & quit? 

I get racial 

Just talkin about the ratio 

People are no longer patient 

Now the brown they don't want around 

That's why sammy got that facial 

My wife says it's spacial 

Politics that stick way beyond baseball 

I think it's self hateful 

Anti immigration 

Disgraceful 

Get up, stand up 

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