Sides Lyrics - Singles - Flobots

This is more than an idea (sing it), oooh 

Show me all of who you are (sing it), oooh 

A voice from the wilderness 

Detroit and Port-au-Prince 

Building the movement from the basic ingredients 

Immediate response, the reaction to the chemicals 

Screaming compassion from the tracks of the tennis shoes 

When academics trapped in academies 

Won't renew movement or produce strategies 

Opening the data stream 

That we teach me how to fill 

Built a resistance to opiates and imbeciles 

I hate to take a side 

I've got to take a side 

When it's time to take a side 

Stand up for what is right 

Or should I say left? 

Cause that's usually where I find myself 

Aligned for the future that we're trying for 

Slogan on my sign board 

You're tired, you're scared, you're working overtime 

War fatigues, Christ Lord 

Another gaint's born 

Midwifed by the phantoms that we're crying for 

How the West is, how the West is 

Show 'em how the west is 

One for my dreams 

Two for my doubts 

Three for the people that've been left out 

Four for the love that can save us 

Five for the names on the grave, Troy Davis 

Six for the pain 

Seven for the patience 

Eight for the strains of the tough conversations 

Nine for the kids on the front lawn racing 

To ten, the joy that can never be taken 

For all the life we've forsaken 

The side that I've taken 

And the life that I'm makin' 

But in this demonstration's 

The time I lack patience 

? violence play favorites 

? and still didn't show up 

When justice hit the streets the definition didn't hold up 

Why we are divided, the reason that we're fighting 

What a human life, the meaning of? 

I can't tell you where to go (sing it), oooh 

You are never on your own (sing it), oooh 

We'll live on when we are gone 

We'll be everywhere at once