(i) STAND UP (PART 1)

So why do you wait until the darkness comes up to your door
For it to bother you?
And when do you learn the world is dark and those who bear the light
Will pay for being true?

They're telling you be a big tall boy, go and make some noise

Don't you wish sometimes we were less like gentle men
Knew how to give the world a hand
There must be a way to stand up!

The young and the old. Lives got cut off all the time while life
For you it was too good to understand
It was under your nose, through the years while you were having fun
Thinking about your favourite bands

Tell me what were you supposed to either say or do?

Don't you wish sometimes God would stop being a gentleman
Step in, give us all a hand, and show us a way to stand up!
Is there a way to stand up?

(ii) RAIN

Now you say we need to look out for our own
Your patrons must have been enthralled
And you can print whatever justifies (Your pocket)
You don't abuse that freedom much at all

So we all went along with this
They were criminal chance scoundrels spoiling for a war

I must admit I was afraid, watching daily every hour
But we failed to read the truth and it's only getting sourer
Still I guess that we can live in a world of so much pain
As long as we are in the warm, as long as we can stay protected from the rain

We never want for anything if want is something we'd have to cross the ocean for
To kick our kids above the waterline, witness all their potential washed ashore

We walked by on the other side
No we just couldn't wait to get our heads back in the sand

But we've progressed to 'refugee' from the previous 'migrant swarm'
Now that innocence is lost and enough tears shed for a tropic storm
I guess that we can live in a world of so much pain
As long as we can still be dry, as long as we're allowed to stay out of the rain

God forgive us every one for all we haven't done
There's just no way that I can turn it into poetry or song
It's too tragic and I won't even try, I have to say it to myself as well as you
'Cause to look in the mirror these days is frankly all that I can do

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So why do you wait until the darkness comes up to the door
For it to bother you?
And when do we learn the world is dark and those who bear the light
Pay for being true?

(iii) CALM YOURSELVES CHILDREN

Gonna take the world back, are we, or at least you’ll get them on their guard
You're gonna coexist with nobody, ‘cause who wants to work that hard?

Calm yourselves now you children - we'd be children to rise to your bait
We're so sorry you got here just a couple millennia too late

So now you case for all the entrances with a devastating plan
And a mind fixed on a higher law, too shaky to understand
Still the human race can go so far, we’ll have to turn the years right back

Calm yourselves now you children - we'd be children to rise to your bait
We're so sorry you got here just a couple millennia too late
Calm yourselves now you children - we'd be children to rise to your bait

(iv) YOUR HOLY WAR

Look at you faithful, you great re enslaved
Fighting for freedom from the so-called depraved
They are not human no
Though they may cry and bleed the way you do
Just do what you’re told to do while the leaders empowered minds and hearts
Press on, continue to tear lives apart
What evil you advocate
Building some world where everyone’s the same
While the planet reels in pain

Here’s hoping for a light to expose all you thought was right
Turn once again I pray, wash the blood on your hands away
How can you be so sure what on earth it was all done for
Like there will ever be a greater lie out of hell than your holy war

How far will you go? (if you’re not culpable)
How far can you be pushed? (you’re not responsible)
How far will you go? (you’re not accountable)
How long will you go on?

Look at us soldiers, directionless ones
Stopping at nothing to be those who’ve won
What evil we tolerate
What armageddon we’ll expect thanks for
When we’re at the Maker’s door

Here’s hoping for a light to expose all we thought was right
The lives paid in service due to a God that we never knew
While every angel cries, shaking, shielding each other’s eyes
How can we be so sure what an earth is was all done for
How can there ever be a greater lie out of hell than this holy war

(v) STAND UP (PART 2)

'If the people you follow are teaching you to hate and fear, to exclude people for any reason, then they are not sent by Me, even if they say they are.'
'Holiness turns the other cheek knowing God has it all on account.'

Do I get out of the rain?
Do I stay out of danger's way?
No way, Padre!

Stand up like big tall boys, but it won't be with guns that we make our noise
Stand up like we all must do, but it won't be a sword that pushes us through

There's a sacrifice to make and songs that must be sung
We'll build a world for everyone if we stand up

Stand up, do it with your prayer
Set your fears aside, cast away your care
(The world is crying for you)
Stand up with the love that you've found
Let compassion reign strong, spread that good stuff around
(The world is crying for you)

There's a planet out there where goodwill is crumbling down
You know our only option now is to stand up

There's a truth that must be told - the one true war was won
We'll build a world for everyone if we stand up

And our only option now is to
stand up
stand up
stand up
stand up!!!