Stand Up Lyrics by Kabaka Pyramid (feat. Nathália)
If I don’t stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no out )
If I don’t speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no way out)
Accurate Immaculate
Affi check maself see if I thinking straight
Cause I’m feeling so alone inna this sinking place
Everybody trying to stay afloat and think it safe
Following the news reporters everything they state
But Martin Luther had a dream weh him nuh live fi see
Rosa Parks did tek a seat, Cappernick him tek a knee
Mandela guh a jail and end up set the people free
Marcus Garvey mek mi pree a God weh fava me
Malcolm X him tell we seh by any means necessary
Peter Tosh seh legalize it, look deh now see ganja free
The word tek onto flesh and manifest in front a me
Suh I create my own reality
If I don’t stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no out)
I don’t speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no way out )
Some a dem cah pay dem lawyer fee
Suh them haffi tek a plea
suh what that says to me
Is that freedom isn’t free
Cah get no good education from certain community
Suh yuh likely fi guh end up inna di penitentiary
Breonna Taylor get shot up and George Floyd him couldn’t breathe
If a dat them do to them, then what dem ago do to me,
Anyone with common sense can see wah Babylon a pree
But even when di higher man stand alone
If I don’t stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no out)
I don’t speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no way out)
If I don’t stand up for something
They make me fall down for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no out )
I don’t speak up for something
They take my freedom for nothing
Keep me lock down down down
With no way out (no way out )
Whooo, woo,woo,woo
Whoo, woo, woo, woo
Whooo, woo,woo,woo
Whoo, woo, woo, woo