Paul Robeson Lyrics - The World / Inferno Friendship Society

joy beats oppresion, 

but oppression will make you pay, 

cause our joy is fleeting while oppression never goes away.. you look them right in the eye, 

yea you shout and sing them down, 

but joy, our joy, don't really care for fighting 

while oppression will just wait around for you to blink. 

joy beats oppresion, 

but oppression will make you pay. 

speak up , black out, black listed, full blooded, red- 

he gave us all he could 

but when he got tired 

and we all get tired 

when we ain't thinking so good 

when he got tired this country 

it took everything damn back 

had freed that it god damn could. 

bullies will always take back everything they can, 

from the joyous, from the free 

lucky drunks who don't give a damn 

this country will always take back everything it can. 

speak up, black out, black listed, full blooded, red 

speak up, black out, black listed, full blooded, red 

he wasn't in it for hisself 

he was in it for you and for me 

but he fought it alone 

and that just makes you bitter and mean 

For a while this could be so good 

For tonight we make the rules here inside this club 

Me and the girls are here to tell you 

they're fucking with you 'cause they want what you have 

and that things are really pretty damn funny 

and that things aren't really quite so bad 

take this one thing with you to work and to school 

and to home to mom and to dad 

there are moments when you can stop the world 

remember that friends don' t be sad 

take this one thing with you to work and to school 

and to home to mom and to dad 

don't hang a man out to dry again, 

don't make a man fight it alone again. 

speak up, black out, black listed, full blooded, red 

speak up, black out, black listed, full blooded, red