Flobots Sides lyrics

Hey, yeah, hey
This is more than an idea
Singing oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Show me all of who you are
Singing oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

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
Build a resistance to opiates and imbeciles

I hate to take a side, I gotta take a side
Well 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
Another giant's born
Midwifed by the phantoms that we're crying for

Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Singing Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh

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 have been left out
Four for the love that can save us
Five for the names on the graves, Troy Davis
Six for the pain
Seven for the patience
Eight for the strains of the tough conversations
Nine for the kids in the front lawn racing to
Ten the joy that can never be taken
For all the life you forsaken
The times I've mistaken
The sides that I've taken
The life that I'm makin'
But in this demonstrations
The time I lack patience
Dollars and violence play favorites
With a flash-cold harpoon-like tool
It still didn't show-up
When justice hit the streets the definition didn't hold-up
Why are we divided
The reason why we're fighting
What the meaning of a side is

I can't tell you where to go
(Singing) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You are never on your own
(Singing) Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
You'll live on when we are gone
We'll be everywhere and gone