Sons Of Liberty Lyrics - Poetry Of The Deed - Frank Turner

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 

That if in the smallest battles we surrender to the state 

We enter in a darkness whence we never shall escape 

When they raise their hands up our lives to possess 

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

Watt Tyler led the people in 1381 

To meet the king at Smithfield to 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 

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'Cause the people then they understood what we have since forgot 

That the government will only work for their 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 

When they raise their hands up our lives to possess 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 

'Cause 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