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By Gerry Daly Posted in User Blogs — Comments (1) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

I must be feeling extra verbose today.

Moe just RedHotted a link to a video by Deeyah. The following is just some supplemental info-- the lyrics to the song. Sometimes, it takes a listening two or ten before the lyrics of a song really register. Sometimes, the process can be helped along by reading the words.

Or maybe that's just me. But here they are-- and it really is a song of defiance.

(Verse 1):

Does the truth only come from the top of a holy man's spire?


From three paces back, covered head to toe?


Are the rules just for the masses and written just for show?



(Pre chorus):

Where the beat goes -- nobody knows


Where the street goes -- nobody knows





(Chorus):



Do you stand up, lay down or follow?


What will it be?


Will it all be the same again tomorrow?


What will it be?


You can claim it but the words are hollow


Do you stand up, lay down or swallow?


What will it be?

(Verse 2):



Thug life, street life - both sides of the world


Not a bit of glamour - no one listens to the words


Survival of the fittest - or maybe how you're born


The kids bear the burden when there's no shelter from the storm



(Pre chorus):



Where the children go -- nobody knows


Where the money goes -- nobody KNOWS



(Chorus):



Do you stand up, lay down or follow?


What will it be?


Will it all be the same again tomorrow?


What will it be?


You can claim it but the words are hollow


Do you stand up, lay down or swallow?



(Young MayLay Rap)



We dont take it lightly when you threatinin women,


how you have so much hate and faith in religion.


Fake in the system, need to take a break wit the dissin,


before you end up in the lake where they fishin.


Hearin bout the Muslim Madona, Asian J Lo, lookin for drama


(ok) if you say so. If you that religious and not wit trendy clothes,


then what you doin even watchin videos.



(Chorus):



Do you stand up, lay down or follow?


What will it be?


Will it all be the same again tomorrow?


What will it be?


You can claim it but the words are hollow


Do you stand up, lay down or swallow?



Do you stand up, lay down or follow?
What will it be?


Will it all be the same again tomorrow?


What will it be?


You can claim it but the words are hollow


Do you stand up, lay down or swallow?

WHAT WILL IT BE?