Turnin' Loose - The Redskins

For the first time

After too many years of waiting

It’s a fine thing to see working people

Stop celebrating

The passive state in which they eke out life

Accepting strife

And gracious for it too We’ve stopped running

Mothers and lovers

Breaking out of years of passive living

Always giving service to the lip of men

Who’ve never given them

The chance to serve themselves

To stand their own

And win a world they have a part in

And now that’s starting

There an’t no stoppin' what we can do

Fan this fire

An' we’ll be turin' loose

Police make crimes of picket lines

And the working man

He hasn’t got the right

To fight to save his living

Then is given no choice

Once young & old sat tight

But now

They fight to win a world they have a part in

We bought their lies.

Now stop!

Realize!

If we stop running, they can’t chase us!

Breaking backs, bones an' brandin' names

Is turnin' loose these furious flames

Fan the flames an' we’ll be turnin' loose!

A world is waiting.

Quit waiting too

You’ve got to take what they’ll never give you

The runnings stopped cos the penny’s dropped

Fan these flames an' we’ll be turnin' loose!