Chuck D - Get Up, Stand Up lyrics

[Verse 1: Chuck D] This song don't give a damn If the rhymes don't fit, if the DJ quit This song don't give a damn If you can't sing or dance to it, can't romance to it This song ain't arrogant If you don't try it, buy it If your radio denies 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 [Hook] Get up, stand up Get up, stand up [Verse 2: Brother Ali] This track ain't 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 a** 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 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 [Hook] [Verse 3: Chuck D] 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 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 ma**es powerless I ain't on nobody's power list I ball my fist with my audience I raise my fist with my audience like this Like this [Hook] [Verse 4: Chuck D] 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, Portugese, English, French and No satisfaction Listen to the world's reaction [Hook]