Billy Bragg - The Internationale Lyrics
Stand up, all victims of oppressionFor the tyrants fear your mightDont cling so hard to your possessionsFor you have nothing, if you have no rightsLet racist ignorance be endedFor respect makes the empires fallFreedom is merely privilege extendedUnless enjoyed by one and allChorus:So come brothers and sistersFor the struggle carries onThe internationaleUnites the world in songSo comrades come rallyFor this is the time and placeThe international idealUnites the human raceLet no one build walls to divide usWalls of hatred nor walls of stoneCome greet the dawn and stand beside usWell live together or well die aloneIn our world poisoned by exploitationThose who have taken, now they must giveAnd end the vanity of nationsWeve but one earth on which to liveAnd so begins the final dramaIn the streets and in the fieldsWe stand unbowed before their armourWe defy their guns and shieldsWhen we fight, provoked by their aggressionLet us be inspired by like and loveFor though they offer us concessionsChange will not come from aboveWords: billy bragg music: pierre degeyter
