Stand Up Lyrics

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