Underdogs

The underdogs will rise There can be no compromise We gotta let them hear this lion roar They bite the hand that feeds them They think we need them Believe us when we say that they need us more Don't let their borders divide We are international Tear down the flags because we know it's irrational To forge our allegiance at geography's diktat, share No cause with capital or plutocrats When your 40 hour work-week earns you want, debt and poverty No cups overflowing In their trickle down economy They don't think twice about a decade's austerity And throwing our futures away with this barbarity So we got to take notion we can stop the trains The ships on the ocean we can put in chains Every wheel in creation, mine and mill Fleets and armies of the nation At our command will stand still In a world of parasites We could pull out the rug We could brush them aside Change up the order Crying freedom for all Harder they come, well the harder they fall The surplus value we create sitting offshore Economic lords, on the hoard we won't kneel for No more meek and agreeable They built their paradise By robbing working people, so Stand up each generation, again and again Lines are drawn, it's war with no end Panama papering over the cracks And thieving the shirts off our backs To all the workers feeling too much pressure We can drown the bastards, so spit together Never to rest because our spectre will haunt them Never feel relief from the heckles that taunt them Fearing the day we stand shoulder to shoulder Baring teeth growing fiercer and stronger and bolder Silver bullet for the heart of the vampire Our sweat and blood realise their desire no more Let the new day come Turn them to dust as we rise like the sun