To all opposed come and watch me sing
‘Cause I got no more left in me
But of course a chorus, a message or two,
The few words I’ve got left for you
That I’ll hum from the gallows and shout ’til I fall
And pick up when I rise again:
When told those same old fabled stories
Remember only one thief was saved.
When no bell tolls and no song’s sung
And we lie with no peace in our graves
Should we celebrate, should we celebrate
That we were nothing more than slaves
To the times, the tides, the kings, and the lies
To everyone and everything
It didn’t matter what we thought what mattered
Remember, only one thief was saved.
In the end
When there’s nothing left to fight for
Where will you stand?
Will you stand?
When the idols have fallen
What will you do?
When we’re left only to ourselves
What will you do?
‘Cause we’re tired of rising up
We’re tired of giving up
We’re tired, we’re tired
Tired of being less.
So to everybody
Who’s anybody
We’re all just here to
Help somebody out
From underneath
This undertow
Of underdogs
And overthrow
‘Cause we’re tired of fighting, tired of fighting
Tired of taking back what was already
Ours.
We were already ours.
Let’s redefine
What it means to us
Let’s redefine
What we mean to ourselves
In the end
When there’s nothing left to fight for
Where will you stand?
Will you stand?
When the idols have fallen
What will you do?
When we’re left only to ourselves
What will you do?