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Once an honest man could go from sunrise to its set |
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Without encountering agents of his state or government |
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But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land |
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Brought on by the hollow men who did not understand |
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That for centuries our forefathers have fought and often died |
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To keep themselves unto themselves, to fight the rising tide |
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That if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state |
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We enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape |
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When they raise their hands up our lives to possess |
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To know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist |
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Watt Tyler led the people in 1381 |
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To meet the king at |
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Smithfield to issue this demand |
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That Winchester's should be the only law across the land |
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The law of old |
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King Alfred's time of free and honest men' |
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Cause the people then they understood what we have since forgot |
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That the government will only work for their own benefit |
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And I'd rather stand up naked against the elements alone |
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Than give the hollow men the right to enter in my home |
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When they raise their hands up our lives to possess |
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To know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist |
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Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight for what you own |
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Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight, fight for your homes |
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Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight for what you own |
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Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight, fight for your homes |
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Stand up sons of liberty, and fight for what you own |
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Stand up sons of liberty, and fight, fight for your homes |
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Stand up sons of liberty, and fight for what you own |
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Stand up sons of liberty, and fight, fight for your homes |
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So if ever a man should ask you for your business or your name |
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Tell him to go and **** himself, tell his friends to do the same' |
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Cause a man who'd trade his liberty for a safe and dreamless sleep |
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Doesn't deserve the both of them and neither shall he keep |
