Resistance - David Rovics

You can say that it’s about the savages

You can say you have a better way to live

You can call it Manifest Destiny

You can talk of all your civilization will give

You can say that we’re a thing of history

And progress is the future you will bring

You can send your armies to these mountains

You can say we’ll prosper beneath your king

But there will always be resistance

The next battle will always be near

As long as you have everything

There will be those who have nothing to fear

And little by little, or maybe all at once you will lose

Because our future is not yours to choose

You can say that you’ve got to stop the communists

You can say that our ideals can’t succeed

You can say that competition is the only way

And a global system based on greed

And you can call yourself a democrat

You can call yourself whatever you will

And you can keep on stamping out the fires you start

So you might stay on top of the hill

You can say that all of us are traitors

Because we oppose your wars of conquest

And your scheming corporations

And all the crimes that they have not confessed

You can say that we are not patriots

Because our nation is not your empire

Because we refuse to stand idly by

As our cities are rising up in fire

And you can say that all of us are terrorists

Madmen bent on destroying all that’s free

You can say that we are building weapons

As your bombers fly from sea to bloody sea

You can say you’re with us or against us

And to die quietly is what we now must do

You can maintain your innocence

You can say that you are many, as you represent the few