We've got to raise our standards

We need better than violent indifference

We've got to raise our standards

We can do better than "heavy and ignorant"

Higher Standards!

The fight of a generation is right outside

But you're content pushing ethics and truth to the side

I can't say the same, I won't play this game

Fake callouts, fake tough, devoid of all shame

Trading critical thought for hype and acceptance

Losing the soul of a culture that was born in resistance

I can't say the same, I won't play this game

Fake callouts, fake tough, devoid of all shame

We need to step forward, without sliding back

It's more than just music that's under attack!

What's left is just fashion with nothing to say

All style, no substance, a waste of a stage

When you blind yourself, you blind us all

If the foundation crumbles then the whole house will fall

Instead of a message of hope and defiance

All that we're left with is tough, dumb, and deaf silence

A dumbed-down zoo of know-nothing fools

With no concern for what's right, but only what's cool