Released on October 16, 2007

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[Hook]

Stand up; we shall not be moved

Except by a child with no socks and shoes

If you've got more to give than you've got to prove

Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up; we shall not be moved

Except by a woman dyin' from a loss of food

If you've got more to give then you've got to prove

Put your hands up and I'll copy you


[Verse 1]

We still don't understand thunder and lightning

Flashback to when we didn't fund the damned

Didn't fund the dam levee? No wonder, man

Now our whole damn city's torn asunder, man

Underwater but we still don't understand

We see hurricane spills overrun the land

Through gaps you couldn't fill with a hundred tons of sand

No, we still don't understand

We've seen planes in the windows of buildings, crumbled in

We've seen flames send the chills through London

And we've sent planes to kill them, and some of them were children

But still we crumblin' the building

Underfunded, but we still don't understand

Under God, but we kill like the son of Sam

But if you feel like I feel like about the son of man

We will overcome


[Hook]

So stand up; we shall not be moved

Except by a child with no socks and shoes

If you've got more to give than you've got to prove

Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up; we shall not be moved

Except by a woman dyin' from a loss of food

If you've got more to give then you've got to prove

Put your hands up and I'll copy you


[Post-Hook]

I said, "Put your hands up and I'll copy you"

Put your hands up and I'll copy you

If you've got more to give than you've got to prove

Put your hands up and I'll copy you


[Verse 2]

We shall not be moved

Except by a child with no socks and shoes

Except by a woman dyin' from a loss of food

Except by a freedom fighter bleedin' on a cross for you

We shall not be moved

Except by a system that's rotten through

Neglecting the victims and orderin' the cops to shoot

High treason, now we need to prosecute


[Hook]

So stand up; we shall not be moved

And we won't fight a war for fossil fuel

It's times like this that you want to plot a coup

Put your hands up and I'll copy you

So stand up; we shall not be moved

Unless we're taking a route we have not pursued

So if you've got a dream and a lot to do

Put your hands up and I'll copy you


[Post-Hook]

I said, "Put your hands up and I'll copy you"

Put your hands up and I'll copy you

If you've got a dream and a lot to do

Put your hands up


[Verse 3]

Now shake, shake, a Polaroid dream

Nightmare negatives develop on the screen

We sit back and wait for the government team

Criticize they, but who the fuck are we?

The people want peace but the leaders want war

Our neighbors don't speak, peek through the front door

House representatives preach "stay the course"

Time for a leap of faith once more

Put your hands up high if you haven't abandoned

Hope that the pen stroke's stronger than the cannon

Balls to the wall, nose to the grindstone

My interrogation techniques leave your mind blown

Place your bets, let's speak to the enemy

Don't let 'em pretend that we seek blood

And who's we anyway, Kemosabe?

Mighty warlord, wannabe street thug

A threat for a threat leaves the whole world terrified

Blow for blow never settles the score

Word for word, it's time we clarify

We, the people did not want war


[Hook]

So stand up; we shall not be moved

Except by a child with no socks and shoes

If you've got more to give than you've got to prove

Put your hands up and I'll copy you

Stand up; we shall not be moved

Unless we are taking a route we have not pursued

So if you've got a dream and a lot to do

Put your hands up and I'll copy you


[Post-Hook]

I said, "Put your hands up and I'll copy you"

Put your hands up and I'll copy you

If you've got a dream and a lot to do

Put your hands up