Lyrics Speak out - Ani DiFranco , Rising Appalachia

Who are you?
What have you become?
What have you done to this beautiful kingdom?
I don't want you guns
I don't want your poisons
I don't want your weapons and tools of mass distractions
I don't want your red flags
Don't want your baggage
I don't want your hate speech
Your supremacy

Where are your wise?
Where is your rough edge?
Don't tell me you've traded it, for comfort and privilege
I don't want your fast foods
I don't need to buy shit
I don't want your miles and miles of advertisement
I don't want it no, no, no

So
Step up
Speak out
Show up
Be loud
X 4

*Step Up*
Be loud
*Step Up*

Piece of mind or piece of the pie
Not if we're living in a plastic empire
Where is the house for the wounded and homeless
That sleep on the streets can't afford to own this
Everything is I, I, Me, Me, My My
Busy working for the dollar while the well runs dry
Minimum wages, maximum security
Simple pleasure traded for business and authority

So
Step up
Speak out
Show up
Be loud
X 4

Be loud
Step up
Speak loud
Speak loud
Be Loud
Step up
Be loud
Show up
(Riffed in differing combinations)