[Intro] Stand up Stand up Waitin on the time When the last shall be first And the first shall be last ha ha [Hook] I, I, I hold my heart in the palm of my hand And I give it to man You, you, you Can do the same just by taking a stand and sing along with the band We, we, we will stand tall draw a line in the sand And make em meet our demands This is it Youre either in or youre out Youre either with us or youre not brother [Verse 1] Power to the proletariat The people never fallin off Spittin revolution like a Soviet Kalashnikov Red star badges patrolling the streets We put the toes to the pigs so police the police Because Congress cant help theyll filibust us full o holes Well storm the Beltway and fill a busta full o holes Thats that Pancho Villa justice And theyll say Victors brain has finally left him My familys fallen far too deep Put em on that list of casualities of ideology Cause were broadcasting live from the Sierra Maestra An po to the pigs we coming to get ya Mr. Ashcroft no we didnt forget ya The ax grinds slow I hope it doesnt upset ya Upset ya [Hook] I, I, I hold my heart in the palm of my hand And give it to man You, you, you Can do the same just by taking a stand and sing along with the band We, we, we stand tall draw a line in the sand And make em meet our demands This is it Youre either in or youre out Youre either with us or youre not my sister [Verse 2] Now let me tell you how to lower the gas price You get a bunch of friends that want to lower the gas price You grab the CEO by his tie and say thats right Youre dead if you dont sign the paper, lower the gas price Bo Then people want to know who the squad is That be robbing from the rich like we was Hugo Chavez And give it to the poor like young Fidel Castro Anybody standing in the way we march yo Erase attack yo come forth and back yo Dont even see no difference tween the blacks and whites yo Its just a bunch of bullshit they tryin to distract you You checkin for the front, when they rush in the back door They pump you full of fear Eliminate the middlemen Say run along sheep and be a good little citizen But that aint me And no way it never will be Yo these motherfuckers are gonna have to kill me [Bridge] Theres a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you cant take part, you cant even passively take part. And youve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and youve got to make it stop! And youve got indicate to the people who run it and the people who own it, that unless youre free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. [Hook] I, I, I hold my heart in the palm of my hand And I give it to man You, you, you Can do the same just by taking a stand and sing along with the band We, we, we will stand tall draw a line in the sand Well make em meet our demands This is it Youre either in or youre out Youre either with us or youre not my people Hah! [Outro]
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