From the recording Stand Up (Everyday people)
Lyrics
Stand Up
Everyday people (Stand Up)
Everyday people (Rise Up x4)
Verse 1
Loved ones will come
and they will go
Great men will fall
and they will rise again
But love will let no death nor disease
divide us from each other
So hold on
Hold on the line
Verse 2
Fear is a virus that lives in your head
More deadly than any disease
known to man across the land
Protect yourself from your thoughts before you
fear your fellow men
Just hold on
Hold on the line
Pre Chorus
We will sing and dance while we’re alive
We will hug and hold hands before we die
The living they don’t cower
and the cowards they don’t live
We’ll stand up like a wild flowers
To be living is to risk
Chorus
Stand Up!
Everyday people
Stand up for freedom
Everyday people
We don’t need no permission
Everyday people
Stand up for freedom
Everyday people
We don’t need no permission
Cos that’s what everyday people do
every day of their lives
We stand up and fight
Nobody can stop us now
Verse 3
No one can stop us
from the sacred act of an embrace
and of love
No this can never be the will
of the almighty god above
If you surrender your hands to the evil of men
you’ll be dead long before you even begin
So hold on
Hold on the line
Pre Chorus
We will sing and dance while we’re alive
We will hug and hold hands before we die
The living they don’t cower
and the cowards they don’t live
We’ll stand up like a wild flowers
To be living is to risk
Chorus x 2
(Stand Up)
We are everyday people
We stand up for freedom
Everyday people
We need no permission
Everyday people
We stand up for freedom
Everyday people
We don’t need no permission
Cos that’s what everyday people do
every day of their lives
We stand up and fight