Stand
(Jewel Kilcher-Lester Mendez)

0304

Walk in a corner shop
See a shoplifting cop
See the old lady with a gun
See the hero try 2 run
Nothing's what it seems
I mean
It's not all dirty
But it's not all clean
There's children paying bills
There's monks buying thrills
There's pride for sale in magazine
There's pills for rent 2 make you clean
Marvin Gaye, there's no "brother brother"
Woody Guthrie's land can't feed mother

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me
It might just complete me
And together, we can make a stand

A waitress brings me lunch
We meet but do not touch
On TV, D.C. is selling lies
While in the corner, King's dream dies
Go 2 the counter, pay for me and my friend
A homeless man pulls out a roll
Says it's on him
The mayor he has no cash
He said he spent it on hookers and hash

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me
It might just complete me
Come together, we can make a stand

U will love me
I will love U
U will love me
(Walk to the counter, pull out some cash)
I will love U
(He spent it on hookers and hash)

Mothers weep, children sleep
So much violence ends in silence
It's a shame there's no one to blame
For all the pain that life brings
If you will just take me
It might just complete me
And together, we can make a stand