Sides - Flobots

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

Look across a line

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

War fatigues, Christ Lord

Another giant’s born

Midwifed by the phantoms that we’re crying for

For (sing it), oooh

How the West is, how the West is

Show 'em how the west is

One for my dreams

Two for my doubts

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

Six for the pain

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

Times I’ve mistaken

The side that I’ve taken

And the life that I’m makin'

But in this demonstration’s

The time I lack patience

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violence play favorites

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and still didn’t show up

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

Apart we are divided, the reason why we’re fighting

Of what a human life is, What the meaning of a side is

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