Текст песни
If I don't stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me locked down, down, down
With no way out, no way out
If I don't speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me locked down, down, down
With no way out, no way out
I'll protect myself, see if I'm thinking straight
'Cause I'm feeling so alone in this sinking place
Everybody trying to stay afloat and think it's safe
Following the news reporters, everything them say
But Martin Luther had a dream, where him no live for see
Rosa Parks, she takes a seat, can't panic him, take a knee
Mandela go a deal and then up and set the people free
Marcus can't make me pray, how God will favour me
Malcolm X, him tell me say by any means necessary
Peter, that's illegalize they look, them no see ganja free
The world take unto place and manifest in front of me
So I create my own reality
If I don't stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me locked down, down, down
With no way out, no way out
If I don't speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me locked down, down, down
With no way out, no way out
Some of them can't pay them lawyer fee
So them have to take a plea
So then what that says to me
Is that freedom isn't free
Can't get no good education
From certain community
So you're likely ending up
In the penitentiary
Breonna Taylor get shot up
And just like them couldn't breathe
If I let them do to them
Then what them have got to do to me!
Anyone with common sense can see
What Babylon are free
But even when the higher man stand alone
If I don't stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me locked down, down down
Got no way out, no way out
If I don't speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me locked down, down, down
With no way out, no way out
Six of them, one for Muslims, but I just speak out
That's why them record label, them not try and reach out
Them know say that me different from them guys who bleached out
And Rasta nah go sell my soul for buying a beach house
Tell them say the baby rock reliable
Idiots start now, for them unidentifiable
One bag of talk until
You see say that them pliable
But I just stand firm and that is undeniable
If I don't stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me locked down, down, down
With no way out, no way out
If I don't speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me locked down, down, down
With no way out, no way out
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah