Flobots Sides song lyrics

This is more than an idea (sing it), oooh

Show me all of who you are (sing it), oooh

A voice from the wilderness

Detroit and Port-au-Prince

Building the movement from the basic ingredients

Immediate response, the reaction to the chemicals

Screaming compassion from the tracks of the tennis shoes

When academics trapped in academies

Won't renew movement or produce strategies

Opening the data stream

That we teach me how to fill

Built a resistance to opiates and imbeciles

I hate to take a side

I've got to take a side

When it's time to take a side

Stand up for what is right

Or should I say left?

Cause that's usually where I find myself

Aligned for the future that we're trying for

Slogan on my sign board

You're tired, you're scared, you're working overtime

War fatigues, Christ Lord

Midwifed by the phantoms that we're crying for

How the West is, how the West is

Show 'em how the west is

Three for the people that've been left out

Four for the love that can save us

Five for the names on the grave, Troy Davis

Seven for the patience

Eight for the strains of the tough conversations

Nine for the kids on the front lawn racing

To ten, the joy that can never be taken

For all the life we've forsaken

The side that I've taken

And the life that I'm makin'

But in this demonstration's

The time I lack patience

? violence play favorites

? and still didn't show up

When justice hit the streets the definition didn't hold up

Why we are divided, the reason that we're fighting

What a human life, the meaning of?

I can't tell you where to go (sing it), oooh

You are never on your own (sing it), oooh

We'll live on when we are gone

We'll be everywhere at once