Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Sons Of Liberty, artist - Frank Turner.
Date of issue: 01.10.2013
Song language: English
Sons Of Liberty |
Once an honest man could go from sunrise to its set |
Without encountering agents of his state or government |
But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land |
Brought on by the hollow men who did not understand |
That for centuries our forefathers have fought and often died |
To keep themselves unto themselves, to fight the rising tide |
That if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state |
We enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape |
When they raise their hands up our lives to possess |
To know our souls, to drag us down, we’ll resist |
Wat Tyler led the people in 1381 |
To meet the king at Smithfield to issue this demand |
That Winchester’s should be the only law across the land |
The law of old King Alfred’s time of free and honest men |
'Cause the people then they understood what we have since forgot |
That the government will only work for its own benefit |
And I’d rather stand up naked against the elements alone |
Than give the hollow men the right to enter in my home |
When they raise their hands up our lives to possess |
To know our souls, to drag us down, we’ll resist |
Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight for what you own |
Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight, fight for your homes |
Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight for what you own |
Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight, fight for your homes |
Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight for what you own |
Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight, fight for your homes |
Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight for what you own |
Stand up, sons of liberty, and fight, fight for your homes |
So if ever a man should ask you for your business or your name |
Tell him to go and fuck himself, tell his friends to do the same |
'Cause a man who’d trade his liberty for a safe and dreamless sleep |
Doesn’t deserve the both of them and neither shall he keep |