Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

Once an honest man could go from sunrise to its set

without encountering agents of his state or government.

But a sorry cloud of tyranny has fallen across the land,

brought on by the hollow men, who did not understand

that for centuries our forefathers have fought and often died

to keep themselves unto themselves, to fight the rising tide,

and that if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state,

we enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape.

Bridge

When they raise their hands up our lives to possess,

to know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist.

Verse 2

Watt Tyler led the people in 1381

to meet the king at Smithfield and issue this demand:

that Winchester’s should be the only law across the land,

the law of old King Alfred's time, of free and honest men.

Because the people then they understood what we have since forgot:

that governments will only work for its own benefit.

And I’d rather stand up naked against the elements alone

than give the hollow men the right to enter in my home.

Bridge

When they raise their hands up our lives to possess,

to know our souls, to drag us down, we'll resist.

Solo

Chords:

Chorus

First two times no guitar, guitar on third and fourth time)

Stand up sons of liberty and fight for what you own.

Stand up sons of liberty and fight, fight for your homes.

Outro

So if ever a man should ask you for your business, or your name,

tell him to go and fuck himself, tell his friends to do the same.

Because a man who'd trade his liberty for a safe and dreamless sleep

doesn't deserve the both of them, and neither shall he keep.