DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE?
IN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE YOU A SLAVE?
WILL YOU STAND OR WILL YOU KNEEL
WHEN THEY THREATEN ALL YOU LOVE?
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE ANSWER
TO THE QUESTIONS FROM ABOVE
WILL YOU BOW BEFORE THE MASTERS?
No Sir, I Won't.
the spark of life is lost when organization becomes institution
when choices are made based only on tradition
no system should endure beside the timeless works of art
that last for beauty's sake, because they're born within our hearts
but they've built the wall of history up so high, that now we can't see over
tear it down, and use the stones to build our future
the bones of nation-states, the shattered remnants of society
it all gets swept aside by the rushing, sweeping forward tide
the time has come to ask what it means to be alive
well?
DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE?
IN THE SYSTEM THAT MADE YOU A SLAVE?
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE ANSWER
TO THE QUESTION OF AUTHORITY
[as i stare out at the city
and think of all the people whose lives have come before
i hear the sounds getting closer
the weaver and the carpenter prepare themselves for war
i look out over the crowd
with my back to the wall
someday it will crumble
someday it will fall]
this decaying edifice which we have built is not democracy
and if we build on it's foundations what's the end for you and me?
(authority)
from Berlin to Palestine, we hear the people's voices call
for we've never brooked entrapment in their jails, behind their walls
we've seen the impossible made real, as with one then so with all
someday they have to crumble, someday they have to fall
we've fought for far too long with the weapons that they gave us
our thoughts and words dictated by our repressive education
we must liberate our spirits, wrest our minds from their control
we must never give up until each of us is whole
until every human is just that, a human, just themselves
not a demographic, not a target audience, not a source of revenue,
not a voting bloc, just an individual,
until then there can be no true liberty
in the face of authoritarian governance there can be no autonomy
there can be only one true answer
to the question of authority,
to participation in the system,
to the lure of false democracy...
No Sir, I Won't.
supported by 4 fans who also own “NO SIR, I WON'T”
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