Stand your ground
You’re big enough
Stand your ground
You know too much
Today drifts into tomorrow
And you can almost taste the sorrow
Stand your ground
You’ve had enough
Lost and found
Diamond in the rough
Today drifts into tomorrow
You feel your soul’s been borrowed
Oooh, oooh…
Stand your ground
The water’s deep
Feel the sand beneath your feet
I know your prayers seem hollow
But when it’s hard they follow
Ooh, ooh…
Everyone’ll try to put you down
Everyone’ll try to tell you no
If you’ve got a dream inside
You’re the only one who can know
Don’t let nobody own ya
Just say "one day i’ll show ya"
Revenge’ll sure feel nice
If inside you’ve paid the price –
Chorus:
You know it and you’ve gotta stand your ground
You’ve earned it – no one can cut you down
They’ll try to get what they can
When you’re strong, everyone’s your friend
Guard the jewel you’ve found
You’ve gotta stand your ground
Come on everybody clap your hands
Doesn’t it feel good to take a stand?
Music is my only release
Gotta fight for peace
Fight for the beat
Whether you want for yourself or for others
Stand up for your sisters and brothers
Just do what you wanna do
No one can say what’s right for you – oooo!
Chorus
Yo, fred! check this one out!
Rap:
You know you feel helpless on your own
Swallow your pride – don’t you go it alone
Don’t you run away from what is right
Stand your ground – stay there and fight
The only police are in your mind
You gotta work – now work now double time
‘cause runnin’ only lets ‘em get the best of you
So stand your ground
Do watcha gotta do…..
Yo, ira!
(you know it) you’ve gotta stand your ground
(you’ve gotta stand your ground)
(you’ve earned it)
No one can cut you down, down, down, down
They’ll try to get what they can
When you’re strong, everyone’s your friend
Guard the jewel you’ve found
You’ve gotta (you know it) stand (stand)
You’ve gotta stand your ground
You’ve gotta stand (stand, stand) yeah!
Stand your ground
They’ll try, they’ll try, they’ll try
Guard the jewel you’ve found
Listen up, listen up (listen up)
Stand your ground
Hold your head up high,
Cuz tomorrow you may die,
Cuz no one’s safe around here,
No one’s safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you’re the last one in town.
Someone that you trust turned out to be a tricker,
Smoking cigarettes, getting stoned on liquor,
Getting really dizzy, only getting sicker,
Small problems now only seem bigger.
America’s a safe place,
If you’re gonna leave it,
And the rhetoric is there,
If you’re gonna read it,
And the hollow masses,
The machines defeated,
And the rich look down to arrive on the bleeding.
Hold your head up high,
Cuz tomorrow you may die,
Cuz no one’s safe around here,
No one’s safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you’re the last one in town.
Hardly enough,
It gets tough when you’re running,
So you bust out the homeless,
When they start coming,
In LA, Broadway, it’s wicked when they’re watching,
And your backup and your backup and your backup ain’t working.
There’s no food, so you’re spurred into action,
Set up and go to no satisfaction,
Ice and snow is the city passion,
When you walk in the shadows, girl, there’s no protection.
Hold your head up high,
Cuz tomorrow you may die,
Cuz there’s no one safe around here,
No one’s safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you’re the last one in town.
[SR talking:]
OK, well,
This is the city of Los Angeles,
And it never sleeps,
It may look like it,
But it doesn’t.
It lives and breathes nocturnally,
So when you’ve got no place to sleep at night,
And you’re all huddled up,
And you’re cold,
Well, this song goes out to the city’s forgotten.
Hey, Tim, take us on home….
Underlying reason, well she can’t keep it going,
In the middle of the night,
they found her frozen,
And the Wal-Mart sign,
Keeps on glowing,
And the winds of change keep on blowing.
Hold your head up high,
Cuz tomorrow you may die,
Cuz no one’s safe around here,
No one’s safe around here.
Stand your ground,
Til you’re the last one in town.
