Another Radio Head offering:

and the greatest "stand up for your rights" song ever:



"Get Up, Stand Up"

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Preacherman, don't tell me,
Heaven is under the earth.
I know you don't know
What life is really worth.
It's not all that glitters is gold;
'Alf the story has never been told:
So now you see the light, eh!
Stand up for your rights. Come on!

Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!

Most people think,
Great God will come from the skies,
Take away everything
And make everybody feel high.
But if you know what life is worth,
You will look for yours on earth:
And now you see the light,
You stand up for your rights. Jah!

Get up, stand up! (Jah, Jah!)
Stand up for your rights! (Oh-hoo!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Don't give up the fight! (Life is your right!)
Get up, stand up! (So we can't give up the fight!)
Stand up for your rights! (Lord, Lord!)
Get up, stand up! (Keep on struggling on!)
Don't give up the fight! (Yeah!)

We sick an' tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin' 'n' goin' to heaven in-a Jesus' name, Lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can't fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (What you gonna do?),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (Yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better:
Get up, stand up! (In the morning! In the night!)
Stand up for your rights! (Stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! (Don't give it up, don't give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (Get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don't give up the fight! (Get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!
Get up, stand up!
Don't give up the fight! [fadeout]

Harry Nilsson

I don't care how many times I hear it, it's still the all time right-on gut-grabber for me

Listen to it here: hit "Click to Play" on the right-hand side of the page. This lady is a hero of mine.

http://wastelandofthefree.com/

Living in the wasteland of the free...

We got preachers dealing in politics and diamond mines

and their speech is growing increasingly unkind

They say they are Christ's disciples

but they don't look like Jesus to me

and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got politicians running races on corporate cash

Now don't tell me they don't turn around and kiss them peoples' ass

You may call me old-fashioned

but that don't fit my picture of a true democracy

and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got CEO's making two hundred times the workers' pay

but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage

and If you don't like it, mister, they'll ship your job

to some third-world country 'cross the sea

and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free

where the poor have now become the enemy

Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones

Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy

Living in the wasteland of the free

We got little kids with guns fighting inner city wars

So what do we do, we put these little kids behind prison doors

and we call ourselves the advanced civilization

that sounds like crap to me

and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We got high-school kids running 'round in Calvin Klein and Guess

who cannot pass a sixth-grade written test

but if you ask them, they can tell you

the name of every crotch on MTV

and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

We kill for oil, then we throw a party when we win

Some guy refuses to fight, and we call THAT the sin

but he's standing up for what he believes in

and that seems pretty damned American to me

and it feels like I am living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free

where the poor have now become the enemy

Let's blame our troubles on the weak ones

Sounds like some kind of Hitler remedy

Living in the wasteland of the free

While we sit gloating in our greatness

justice is sinking to the bottom of the sea

Living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free

Living in the wasteland of the free

Or perhaps, in response to them insisting I should leave the country...



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