Stand Up

Each morning comes the weeping,
For a soul lost to the mire,
Death comes knocking everyday,
As we set this world on fire.

Boom! There goes Iraq,
Korea and Iran are next,
The tyrants in this bitter race,
Pay no last respects.

Mothers sit here weeping,
As their children die in vain,
Blood has washed away the line,
Between love and sweet disdain.

Our leaders are not listening,
What a great democracy,
They only represent themselves,
Such pure hypocrisy.

We create the things we fear the most,
Weapons and monsters alike,
And then we say we never knew,
When insanity does strike.

Our own people are falling fast,
At home, not just abroad,
If we cant fix what's broken here,
Ourselves we do defraud.

Education's failing,
Their funding is no more,
Our kids cant even go to school,
Safely anymore.

We pay these taxes out our ass,
And what is then returned?
Pictures on the evening news,
Of what's been bombed or burned.

This is not what I pay for,
Dictatorship on high,
It's time to stand up as a people,
And scream out our reply.

Show we will not take it,
And prove it's us who reign,
Uniting under a common thread,
Leading unrestrained.