This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
This song don't give a damn
If the rhymes don't fit, if the DJ quit
This song don't give a damn
If you can't sing or dance to it
Can't romance to it this song ain't arrogant
If you don't try it, buy it
If your radio denies it
Don't care 'bout what who got
What's cool on TV
Or what spot's hot I forgot
I ain't mad at evolution
But I stand for revolution
Get up, enough is enough somebody stand up
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
This track ain't asking you a damn thing
Not the brand name bottle with your champagne
Not where you land your private airplane
How many blood diamonds shining
In that chain?
How much compromise is tied to that fame?
How many more times we gotta
Hear that lame line, "I'm inspiring them"
To do what? Roll better weed
And get higher than them?
Feed the needy greedy ass fire in them?
Be the same damn dog but to finer women?
They gonna tell me that I'm
Preaching to the choir, then I'm
Sure they right but I'm trying to
Light a fire in them
Cause I was raised by The Enemy
And ever since then that's been my identity
So I'm trying to give back what was given me
Truth told delivery is my tendency
Youth fold to the spirit of my energy
Bottom of my feet is something
That you'll never see
That's cause I'm standing singing the anthem
Fist on my hand, and a list of demands and
When they hear this might piss
In their pants and
Try to get the children to
Not listen to the man
But the mighty PE is what birthed Ali
So what you gonna think come after me?
Chuck D
"Chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-Chuck D"
"The-the enemy-the-the enemy"
"Wo-wo-wo-words you heed"
"Bui-bui-bui-built-built for speed"
Occupy if you denied
Protest songs cause I see wrong
Most of my heroes still don't
Appear on no stamp
So I rant, even when they say I can't
I rise against, rage against
Hope I don't end up being the
Same thing I'm fighting against
Hence, I wince never on the fence
Since they think the masses powerless
I ain't on nobody's power list
I ball my fist with my audience
I raise my fist with my audience like this
Like this
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
Got so much to shout about
What the one percent is gettin' out
Recession, depression, desperation due
Never have so many been screwed by so few
Cheapest price is to pay attention
No need to dumb down to what I mention
No need to young down how I mention
In Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and
No satisfaction
Listen to the world's reaction
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
If the rhymes don't fit, if the DJ quit
This song don't give a damn
If you can't sing or dance to it
Can't romance to it this song ain't arrogant
If you don't try it, buy it
If your radio denies it
Don't care 'bout what who got
What's cool on TV
Or what spot's hot I forgot
I ain't mad at evolution
But I stand for revolution
Get up, enough is enough somebody stand up
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
This track ain't asking you a damn thing
Not the brand name bottle with your champagne
Not where you land your private airplane
How many blood diamonds shining
In that chain?
How much compromise is tied to that fame?
How many more times we gotta
Hear that lame line, "I'm inspiring them"
To do what? Roll better weed
And get higher than them?
Feed the needy greedy ass fire in them?
Be the same damn dog but to finer women?
They gonna tell me that I'm
Preaching to the choir, then I'm
Sure they right but I'm trying to
Light a fire in them
Cause I was raised by The Enemy
And ever since then that's been my identity
So I'm trying to give back what was given me
Truth told delivery is my tendency
Youth fold to the spirit of my energy
Bottom of my feet is something
That you'll never see
That's cause I'm standing singing the anthem
Fist on my hand, and a list of demands and
When they hear this might piss
In their pants and
Try to get the children to
Not listen to the man
But the mighty PE is what birthed Ali
So what you gonna think come after me?
Chuck D
"Chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-chu-Chuck D"
"The-the enemy-the-the enemy"
"Wo-wo-wo-words you heed"
"Bui-bui-bui-built-built for speed"
Occupy if you denied
Protest songs cause I see wrong
Most of my heroes still don't
Appear on no stamp
So I rant, even when they say I can't
I rise against, rage against
Hope I don't end up being the
Same thing I'm fighting against
Hence, I wince never on the fence
Since they think the masses powerless
I ain't on nobody's power list
I ball my fist with my audience
I raise my fist with my audience like this
Like this
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
Got so much to shout about
What the one percent is gettin' out
Recession, depression, desperation due
Never have so many been screwed by so few
Cheapest price is to pay attention
No need to dumb down to what I mention
No need to young down how I mention
In Spanish, Portuguese, English, French and
No satisfaction
Listen to the world's reaction
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
Get up, stand up get up, stand up
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Get Up, Stand Up Lyrics as written by Gary Rinaldo Carlton Ridenhour
Lyrics © REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
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