Stand Up

The Word says,
"Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves"
You don't know who you could be helping just by standing up for what's right
Stand up by reaching to the LORD
One revelation from Him can change everything
I know it did for me

Stand up, stand up
Your people need you
Stand up, stand up
It ain't about your status, status
I kneel and pray to
Stand up, stand up

I cannot stand the silence wading away at the violence
The anger do bring out my lioness
No role models, can't believe I'm trying this
Now my eyes see all of this blindness

Isn't it lovely, the way He's aligned this
Stevie wondering where higher ground is
Cole world, no blanket, astounded
Savior got me back in lost and found and He got me grounded

When I was flying out to the motherland and I was crying out daily
Reliving my past, when I was trapped in my room, waiting for someone to save me
When I was in fear for my life, 'cuz he threatened to kill me, nearly done raped me
When I was asleep, now every peep got me waiting to retaliatin'

Cavin' - I felt like I ran out of options
Crazy - my life is like a movie, it's
Psycho, Debussy, Project X, 'cuz everything flamin'
Hazy - the smoke fill my lungs with the toxins
Slavin' - the ledge pull my chains
The devil arranged my death 'till my mains came in to

Stand up, stand up
Your people need you
Stand up, stand up
It ain't about your status, status
I kneel and pray to
Stand up, stand up

Now I've resurrected with the Lord Jesus
Many moons passed, couple years, some seasons
I still held the guilt for manmade reasons
Chasing my innocence taken, Liam Neeson
I was kickin', I was screamin'

I was so shook I was willing to lose
'Cuz it was on sight, the same Brutus I'd choose
I was no different from him who deludes
Double identity, staring back at barrels pointed right in my view
I feel foolish when listening in the pews
Felt condemned, when forgiven, Yeshua's Truth
Paid the price, shown us mercy though we non-Jews

You still crown us in joy, though we've wronged You
And You call us the saints we belong to
The Kingdom of Heaven, You want to
Wash us clean in the storm, in the monsoon

You transform all hate into love, You
Stopped the cycle of pain as You undo
All the violence and blindness and speak through the silence
Your voice is a siren we're drawn to

And now Your Son's who we aspire to be
Tears of blood shed in the Garden of Gethsemane
Turned our shame into purpose to tell our stories
To stand against evil in our communities, so we

Stand up, stand up
Your people need you
Stand up, stand up
It ain't about your status, status (no it ain't, no it ain't)
I kneel and pray to
Stand up, stand up