Here I come now with a storynof the human races' diminishing glorynDo you think it's ok nto keep falling futher from the sun?n'Cause, while their making their decisionsnwhen we people speak up they don't listennSo don't you dare go and die for this systemnI'm telling you that's wrongnnSo come and be open, come and get wisenYou think they'll protect you, but don't realisenThe war that they make only takes away life, eeeyeahnThey'll sell you their stories and tell you what's rightnPromise you glory if you go and fightnnBut don't send their own kids to war in the night, eeeeyooonnCome and check your headnCome and check your headnAgainst what is rightnGet up get upnnContemplating what they're doingnsituation, something's brewingnThey'll keep trying to tell us we're wrongnbut we keep believing strongnSo may we wake up from this slumbernlike their spell we've been living undern'Cause this battle's about to get hotternI feel it in my heartnnAnd next time you're waiting for something to changeninstead of just sitting and wasting the daynThe struggle it breathes now and calls out your name, eeyeahnThey start to betray you when thinking of onenthere is no shame greater than what they have donennWhen all their rewards were reaped under a gun, eeyooonnCome and check your headnCome and check your headnAgainst what is rightnGet up get upnn(And) I know you feel it when we talk this wayn'cause their just is no denyingnMay the world we live in now carry me todaynnsee our colours keep on flyin', eeeyeahnnSo come make your own mind and use your own eyesnyou see what they're doing and know it ain't rightnAnd they're ain't nothing wrong with us wanting to fight, eeeyeahnThere is a resistance that grows everydaynfrom following blindly to leading the waynnAnd it's not gonna give up till freedom gonna stay, eeeyooonnCome and check your headnCome and check your headnAgainst what is rightnGet up get upn