Tom Morello, Bloody Beetroots, Shea Diamond e Dan Reynolds (Imagine Dragons) – assieme a Justin Tranter e Eren Cannata – hanno unito le forze per scrivere e condividere un brano inedito contro il razzismo. Il pezzo, pubblicato da KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records, s’intitola Stand Up e il ricavato andrà alle organizzazioni che combattono per la giustizia razziale quali NAACP, Know Your Rights Camp, Southern Poverty Law Center e Marsha P. Johnson Institute, di cui Morello ha detto: «Stanno facendo un grande lavoro per combattere il razzismo, l’ingiustizia e la brutalità della polizia». Di seguito testo e streaming.
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 that 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 I call the police will they just protect me cause I’m 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