From the recording Rise
Lyrics
People gather 'round
I've a story to tell
Trouble came to town
And stirred up some hell
Leaders of the world and
The little banks who run them
Schemed behind a fence
Guarded by 25000 gun men
Hell was
Invented for the cop slave
Demented from the top down
Orders taken from a crown
People horizontally,
Emerge and re-arrange
The balance is within us
And around us all the same
A LA LA LA LA
A billion dollars wasted
To get a hate on
For those seeking justice
The mass voice of reason
Hearts uniting
We do not agree
With violent exploitation
For the profit of the “mighty”
We marched together,
A beautiful flow
Bubbling ideas
G20 ought to know
Cops swarmed up
Before we could let go
The brave little smashers
With a street to overthrow
Making sure the breaking glass
Was in full camera view
Outrage manufactured,
Cops lashed on me and you
Beating shields they charged
Impenetrable lines
Pulled someone behind
Blood and bones, batons a-flying
A LA LA LA LA
Dispersed by cop attack
We roamed the broken town
Flocked to solidarity
Wherever we found
The city streets
All blocked. Like flies
Row upon row of
Riot cop eyes
A thousand peaceful people
Cuffed and dragged to prison
A night and day in cages
Released with no good reason
The State shakes hands
With the media machine
They've swayed the public mind
For the corporate regime
Oh fence sitters and witnesses
Who never thought that we
Would stare into the faces
Of State brutality
We live it in our nightmares
And fitful waking hours
We're calm inside struggle though
We know what rights are ours
A LA LA LA LA
The people united
emerge and re-arrange
the balance is within us
and around us all the same
The People United
Will Never Be Defeated!
El pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
A LA LA LA LA