Tom Morello pubblica il singolo “Stand Up”, con Dan Reynolds e Bloody Beetroots, contro la discriminazione razziale

In risposta ai recenti fatti legati alla discriminazione razziale e alla brutale violenza ingiustificata che ha portato alla morte di George Floyd e altre persone afroamericane, Tom Morello ha voluto far sentire la propria voce chiamando alcuni amici e colleghi per la realizzazione di “STAND UP”, un potente brano che vuole dare voce alle diversità delle persone unite contro il razzismo in questo difficile momento sociale.

Tom Morello, Dan Reynolds degli Imagine Dragons, The Bloody Beetroots e Shea Diamond doneranno il 100% dei proventi e dei guadagni legati alla pubblicazione del brano a quattro associazioni che lottano per la giustizia razziale, che per Tom Morello "stanno facendo un ottimo lavoro nella lotta contro il razzismo, l'ingiustizia e la brutalità della polizia".

Il testo di "STAND UP", di Tom Morello, Dan Reynolds degli Imagine Dragons, The Bloody Beetroots e Shea Diamond.

Scritto da: Tom Morello, Dan Reynolds, Shea Diamond, The Bloody Beetroots, Justin Tranter, Eren Cannata

Stand up
Cause you are standing for nothing

Just shut up
Cause your words mean nothing 

Everyone is at each other's throats
Everyone thinking that they know things that they don’t know
Everyone painting the third coat on the wall of belief
Send me relief 

When I call the police will they just kill me?
Will they just kill you?
When I call the police will they just protect me cause I’m white skinned too?

Every time you talk the system knows
Everywhere you walk the cameras go
Everything I say you already know
Everything in state is about to blow
Way back before Jim Crow

When I call the police will they just kill me?
Will they just kill you?
When I call the police will they just protect me cause I’m white skinned too? 

Stand up
Cause you are standing for nothing

Just shut up
Cause your words mean nothing

Everybody stares like I’m just my gender
But I’m a living soul with my own agenda
Tell me how you are the priest and the prosecution
Tell me how you have a God who loves executions 

Corruption in the blue line ripples out
Eruption in the streets bring the few and proud
Attention when the knees fall to the ground
Silently loud 

When I call the police will they just kill me?
Will they just kill you?
When you call the police would they just protect you cause you’re white skinned too?

Every day that passes I’m angrier
Every time the cops get a hall pass - build another barrier
Now it’s stereotypical
No I’m not cynical
Political hypocritical 

Corruption in the blue line ripples out
Eruption in the streets bring the few and proud
Attention when the knees fall to the ground
Silently loud

Stand up
Cause you are standing for nothing

Just shut up
Cause your words mean nothing

If you walked a mile in my shoes
You’d probably take em off wouldn’t you
If you had to live in my truth
you’d probably tell a lie wouldn’t you 

When I call the police will they just kill me?
Will they just kill you?

Stand up
Cause you stand for nothing 

Nothing
You stand for nothing 

Stand up
Cause you stand for nothing 

Just shut up
Cause your words mean nothing 

Stand up
Cause you stand for nothing 

Just shut up
Cause your words mean nothing