[Intro]

Rise

Rise up

Damned of the Earth

Damned of the Earth

[Verse 1]

Rise up, damned of the Earth

Scorned and tattered, no self-worth

The tenets died an academic death

A generation from the blood and the sweat

Rise up, put your papers down

Hear the boots march right outside

Theorize safe in your seat

The struggle never really left the streets

[Chorus]

So clever, clever with its opinions

Do you remember how we used to fight?

It wants tenure not opposition

It has the watches, it has the time

It has the watches, it has the time

It has the watches, it has the time

It's time to strike

[Verse 2]

Rise up, damned of the Earth

Keep the promise of a brand new birth

For everyone that fought before

For every song sung about this war

Rise up, all you wretched souls

We want it all and deserve it all

Rise up, make the powers pay

For every wound that bled the way

[Chorus]

You're clever, clever but it's still in you

And I remember how we used to fight

Fuck a defeatist disposition

We have the watches, we have the time

We have the watches, we have the time

We have the watches, we have the time

We need to strike

[Bridge]

What's left, what's left

What's left, what's left, what's

Left of the promise that we once made?

What's left, what's left

What's left, what's left, what's

That could chase the vultures away?

What's left, what's left

What's left, what's left, what's

Left of the promise that we once made?

What's left, what's left

What's left, what's left, what's

That could chase the vultures away?

[Outro]

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