What Are We Standing For

An adventure in secular morality

Shouldn't be an insurrection to us all

And a counterfeit political currency

Shouldn't stand as a patriotic call

All the vitriol and hyperbole testifies to vacant humanity

And the rabble that is pounding at the door

Don't know what they're standing for anymore

Find some understanding for

Those who kneel to implore

Know just what they're standing for

What's the lasting legacy of the humanistic progress that we made

Or the blood that spilled for someone else's profit

But would never be repaid?

There's a useless hope of the afterlife

But it can't assuage all the toil and strife

And the pious who were promised so much more

Don't know what they're standing for anymore

Show some understanding for

Those who can't hope for more

Know just what they're standing for, oh

Find some understanding for

Those who kneel to implore

Know just what they're standing for

There's a sound in the attic of memories erratic

A firm resolution for an eternal constitution

The bravery of self-defense against the pall of ignorance

Shudder to adore

Those who don't know what they're standing for

Find some understanding for

Those who can't hope for more

Know just what they're standing for, oh

Be someone who's standing for

Take a knee on the floor

Know just what you're standing for