Sunday, October 02, 2005

When you don't Stand for anything, you will fall for everything

Walk in a corner shop
See a shoplifting cop
See the old lady with a gun
See the hero try to run
Nothing's what it seems, I mean
It's not all dirty, but it's not all clean
There's children paying bills
There's monks buying thrills
There's pride for sale in magazines
There's pills for rent to make you clean
Marvin Gaye, there's no brother, brother
Woody Guthrie's land can't feed Mother

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me It might just complete me
And together we can make a stand

A waitress brings me lunch
We meet but do not touch
On TV, D.C. is selling lies
While in the corner, King's dream dies
Go to the counter, pay for me and my friend
A homeless man pulls out a roll, says it's on him
The mayor has no cash
He said he spent it on hookers and hash

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me It might just complete me
And together we can make a stand

Do you dare to take a stand?

3 comments:

hh said...

you wrote that?! Very well said. I mean I enjoyed it. Could make a good song.


Keep on expressing!

iRis said...

Hahaha!! No! I did not write that!

Its a song written titled Stand sang by Jewel, if you heard of her..!

I just love the lyrics so much that I put it here..!

Sorry to burst your bubble eh...:D

hh said...

hmm.. she is one of the singers that I enjoy doing covers for. I think I may just get a copy of this song to do a cover of it.