THE WORLD / INFERNO FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY - PAUL ROBESON lyrics

rate me

joy beats oppresion,

but oppression will make you pay,

cause our joy is fleeting while oppression never goes away.. you look them right in the eye,

yea you shout and sing them down,

but joy, our joy, don't really care for fighting

while oppression will just wait around for you to blink.

joy beats oppresion,

but oppression will make you pay.

speak up , black out, black listed, full blooded, red-

he gave us all he could

but when he got tired

and we all get tired

when we ain't thinking so good

when he got tired this country

it took everything damn back

had freed that it god damn could.

bullies will always take back everything they can,

from the joyous, from the free

lucky drunks who don't give a damn

this country will always take back everything it can.

speak up, black out, black listed, full blooded, red

speak up, black out, black listed, full blooded, red

he wasn't in it for hisself

he was in it for you and for me

but he fought it alone

and that just makes you bitter and mean

For a while this could be so good

For tonight we make the rules here inside this club

Me and the girls are here to tell you

they're fucking with you 'cause they want what you have

and that things are really pretty damn funny

and that things aren't really quite so bad

take this one thing with you to work and to school

and to home to mom and to dad

there are moments when you can stop the world

remember that friends don' t be sad

take this one thing with you to work and to school

and to home to mom and to dad

don't hang a man out to dry again,

don't make a man fight it alone again.

speak up, black out, black listed, full blooded, red

speak up, black out, black listed, full blooded, red