Soapbox

How Can You Just Stand There?

Things are getting just too insane. It looks like Iran is about to become "Iraq: the Sequel" as Bush and Rice point fingers and foam at the mouth about nuclear weapons… the time to put your head in the sand and hope it all goes away is long gone.

They say we fight for freedom and our precious children die
For the truths we hold self-evident and a president who lies.
But if I wear the wrong T-shirt or dare to disagree:
They’ll lock me up without a charge in the name of liberty
While you just stand there.

It’s somehow un-American to have a different view
And if you believe in human rights, you’re a traitor too.
They don’t believe in science; reality is jeered.
They govern by division, their only policy is fear
And still, you stand there.

How can you just stand there? Don’t you feel ashamed?
How can you be silent when they do it in your name?
They torture and they terrorize, yet honesty is banned.
The security they promise you is only shifting sand.
How can you stand there?

We fought a revolution to have the right to speak.
No enemy’s as dangerous as the silence that you keep.
You sit and watch your TV set while they take your rights away
And drop their bombs on children and you have not a word to say-
No, you just stand there.

How can your just stand there when half the world’s in flames?
The lies have murdered millions and they do it in your name!
The Bill of Rights is burning! The zero hour’s at hand
And those who remain silent are equally as damned.

Now two failed wars are not enough- they want another try.
No need to negotiate, just bomb them from the sky.
And if we do not stop them then you may be sent to die
For an enemy who stood silently while own leaders lied.

But this is still America, you still have a voice.
Will you stand up for justice? It’s time to make your choice.

How can you just stand there when they beat the drums of war?
Have we all forgotten what America stands for?
Dissent is patriotic, only truth will keep us free
You are the Decider: hey- go out and dump some tea!
But don’t just stand there–
How can you stand there-