Get Up Off Our Knees - The Housemartins

If you gotta start somewhere, why not here? If you gotta start sometime, why not now? If we gotta start somewhere, I say here If we gotta start sometime, I say now Through the fog, there is hope in the distance From cathedrals to third world missions Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave Tonight's the night for the sinners and the saints Two worlds collide in a beautiful display It's all love tonight when we step across the line We can sail across the sea to a city with one King A city on our knees A city on our knees If you gotta start somewhere, why not here? If you gotta start sometime, why not now? If we gotta start somewhere, I say here If we gotta start sometime, I say now Through the fog, there is hope in the distance From cathedrals to third world missions Love will fall to the earth like a crashing wave Tonight's the night for the sinners and the saints Two worlds collide in a beautiful display It's all love tonight when we step across the line We can sail across the sea to a city with one King A city on our knees A city on our knees Tonight could last forever We are one choice from together Tonight could last forever (ever, ever, ever, ever) Oh, tonight could last forever We are one choice from together, family (family) We're family (family) Oh, tonight could last forever We are one choice from together, You and me Yeah, you and me (you and me) Tonight's the night for the sinners and the saints Two worlds collide in a glorious display 'Cause It's all love tonight when we step across the line We can sail across the sea to a city with one King A city on our knees (tonight could last forever) (We are one choice from together) A city on our knees (tonight could last forever, ever, ever) A city on our knees (tonight could last forever? (We are one choice from together) A city on our knees (tonight could last forever, ever, ever) If we gotta start somewhere, why not here? If we gotta start sometime, why not now?

Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian You gotta get up Gotta get up You gotta get up Gotta get up If you wanna get- I hate people that ain't movin' their shoes And I hate everybody that I see not feelin' my groove I like rhymes that be quick as we be takin' the bar But I hate everybody that don't like electric guitars and I Hate people who think they can dose up their medicine Fuckin' with venom, they's no one, they do not compare to me and I Twista spit the flow so hard it might show them the force I'd like to see somebody talkin' shit get turned to a corpse Only model with the ones that got the wickedest drawers Drink liquor and ballers love, I can kick it with ya'll but Hate phony ass people And I hate having no dro And I hate bougie-ass clubs that don't be havin' No bitches that bring it down to the floor And I hate when I can't hurt somebody And I hate when I ain't got dough And I hate if you ain't feelin' Twista and Prodigy Rockin' loose and partly losing control You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up Gotta get up You gotta get up Gotta get up If you wanna get- Hate phony ass people And I hate having no dro And I hate bougie-ass clubs that don't be havin' No bitches that bring it down to the floor And I hate when I can't hurt somebody And I hate when I ain't got dough And I hate if you ain't feelin' Twista and Prodigy Rockin' loose and partly losing control You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up If you wanna get off Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Keep your eyes open just so I can stop you from blinkin' Make you play Russian Roulette and try to see what you're thinkin' Through the hole in your dome while I'm holding my own Get so cold in the zone I'm destroying my clone I can fill the fuckin' room up with torture and pain Blood of the lyrical Dracula is coursing my veins It's the trilogy of terror, real MC from my era Then I spit vocal agility, then I scare ya Because I hate ya'll phony ass people And I hate having no dro And I hate bougie-ass clubs that don't be havin' No bitches that bring it down to the floor And I hate when I can't hurt somebody And I hate when I ain't got dough And I hate if you ain't feelin' Twista and Prodigy Rockin' loose and partly losing control You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up If you wanna get off You gotta get up If you wanna get off Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian Aa aana, aye aye aan mundian

I tell myself to get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta turn that L into a win Make 'em bow before you get up off the floor again, get up off the floor again Get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta turn that L into a win Make 'em bow before you get up off the floor again, get up off the floor again Can't lie, no phony Bad time, no Rolly White eye, no OD Look high, no holy Oh, no, I know me I can't control me Go, go just slowly High, low, still lonely Gimme some peace, I fall to my knees I'm praying Passing beliefs, I catch and release Betraying So bittersweet, goes 'round on repeat Replaying Dreaming so deep, but I never sleep I tell myself to get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta turn that L into a win Make 'em bow before you get up off the floor again, get up off the floor again Get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta turn that L into a win Make 'em bow before you get up off the floor again, get up off the floor again Gimme some peace, I fall to my knees I'm praying Passing beliefs, I catch and release Betraying So bittersweet, goes 'round on repeat Replaying Dreaming so deep, but I never sleep I tell myself to get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta turn that L into a win Make 'em bow before you get up off the floor again, get up off the floor again Get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta get up off the floor again When you down, you gotta turn that L into a win Make 'em bow before you get up off the floor again, get up off the floor again

I used to think you understood Taught me right and learnt me good Made things simple for my brain Told the truth and made it plain But the implications I mistook Until I found out whose side you took And now with paper in my hand I'm beginning to understand So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} From the front page news to the interviews It's sink the reds and lift the blues They pretend they're differing points of view But it's only different shades of blue But the implications I mistook Until I found out whose side you took And now with paper in my hand I'm beginning to understand So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} (Guitar Solo) So this is freedom - {They must be joking} They must be joking - {If they think its true} So this is freedom - (I doubt their truth} So this is freedom - {For me and you} F.R.E.E.D.O.M. They locked us up once So they'll do it again C.H.A.I.N.E.D. They locked up my friends Now they're coming for me

Please don't show your soul to me I think I'd see the light shine through And please don't greet me on the street I'd like to see a world without you Please don't change your uniform And start to mourn the thousands dead And please wear what you've always worn And don't be drawn by what I've said 'Cause I've found there's nothing more That I could say to you Nothing I could do to change your mind Change your ways and your tune So please don't feel you have to sway Or move away from how you feel And please say what you mean to say And always stay with a heart of steel

Clambering men in big bad boots Dug up my den, dug up my roots Treated us like plasticine town They build us up and knocked us down From Meccano to Legoland Here they come with a brick in their hand Men with heads filled up with sand It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) Whistling men in yellow vans They came and drew us diagrams Showed us how it all worked out And wrote it down, in case of doubt Slow, slow, and quick, quick, quick It's wall to wall and brick to brick They work so fast it makes you sick It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) Oh, build It's build It's build Down with sticks and up with bricks In with boots and up with roots It's in with suits and new recruits It's build It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots (Build) It's build a house where we can stay (Build) Add a new bit, everyday (Build) It's build a road for us to cross (Build) Build us lots and lots and lots and lots and lots (Build)