I Won't Give Up

Here's to fear

Another circus election year

Clown-didates pretend they're human beings

Here's the ads

Then we vote and someone wins

That's all we're allowed to really change

Flat screen flat screen on the wall

Who's the best marketed of all

Best disguising what an asshole

They really are

I've had enough of this

Audacity to exploit hope for cash

I won't give up

I won't give up

I won't give up

It's not an option

Ain't a fight

Red, blue, or black and white

It ain't like changing channels on TV

Ain't Left or right

Or donkeys and elephants

It's the top against the bottom

That is real

The good uprisings

They seem to come in waves

Splash! Then recede

Then splash again

Don't believe the hype

We're the ones being patriotic

When we rise

To fight our government

When they're wrong

I won't give up

I won't give up

I won't give up

It's not an option

While everybody around me

Feels broken down and defeated

I feel this surge of energy

I want rock and roll

Let my sick humor explode

Smile as I set everything on fire

So in my own small way

I'd rather make history

Than watch it on TV

So I made a vow

And you can do this now

Corporations can't have me

Insurrection

Streets, cotes, with our cash

Goodbye Coca-Cola

And chain stores

Holier than thou

Whine you ain't done enough

Well, doing something's

Better than doing nothing at all

We stopped Vietnam

Got civil rights and new deals

Cause we kept a blowtorch up their ass

All that stands in the way

Of more wars and Abu Ghraibs

Ain't messiahs

It is us

I won't give up

I won't give up

I won't give up

It's not an option