I'm really excited about this song. I wrote "Stand For What's Right" after our experience working in the refugee camps in Greece and Turkiye. The music video was filmed in Fernandina Beach, FL. Which is where my family and I currently live. The music video drops next Friday. I'll share more about the video next week.
"Stand For What's Right" is now available everywhere you stream music.
Take care everyone,
Brian
#SongsInTheKeyOfFreedom
STAND FOR WHAT'S RIGHT
[Lyrics]
[Verse 1]
Yeah there's something deep down that I need to say
It's more than a couple of words written on a loose leaf page
I know it might sound crazy but
Know that it's true
The purpose of my life, yeah my purpose is you
And I don't know how else to say it, I
Sure as hell can't fake it
But I dissent from the pearl plated palace when the church became complacent
Putting politics above
Unconditional Love, read about the Prince of Peace
Turn the other cheek, but I missed the part about guns
Gotta crisis on our hands
Occupation of foreign lands
Seventy million people fled their homes
We got blood upon our hands
When they washed upon our border
The People approved a new world order
Since we live in fear, we said you can't come here
You're one of the 'others', so we take more than we need
Justify the homeless with our greed
What made the Good Samaritan different from the Levite and the Priest?
Worshipping a Palestinian Jew
Born a refugee too
Honor the Geneva Conventions that were signed in 1952
[Chorus]
There's a storm that's blowing up on calvary
Like a stampede of horses destined to be free
Remember everything that you've been shown
Stand for what's right even if you stand alone
There's a storm that's blowing up on calvary
Like a stampede of horses destined to be free
Remember everything that you've been shown
Stand for what's right even if you stand alone
[Verse 2]
Can you hear the train a coming up around the bend
It's calling out my name when it called a couple of friends
Ambiguity is subtle when you cross-examine your bubble
And when you take to the streets and you move your feets
You're about to get into trouble, it can change your rosy colored lens
How you view what's real and pretend
Cost you're community and you're relationships with your family and your friends
Ask forgiveness for their sin
And when you cannot make amends
If you sing about the struggle, it'll have an impact on your ends
Cause the more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war
My dad was seventeen numbers away from getting drafted into the war
That put's a thing or two in perspective when your blood line's affected
If he had gone to Vietnam, I might never ever been born
So keep looking to the sky giving thanks for the breath and life, all
The memories you have collected that make you feel alive
And when it finally comes your time, if you're lucky to say goodbye
The only thing that lives on is the Love you leave behind
[Chorus]
There's a storm that's blowing up on calvary
Like a stampede of horses destined to be free
Remember everything that you've been shown
Stand for what's right even if you stand alone
There's a storm that's blowing up on calvary
Like a stampede of horses destined to be free
Remember everything that you've been shown
Stand for what's right even if you stand alone
"Stand For What's Right" is now available everywhere you stream music.
Take care everyone,
Brian
#SongsInTheKeyOfFreedom
STAND FOR WHAT'S RIGHT
[Lyrics]
[Verse 1]
Yeah there's something deep down that I need to say
It's more than a couple of words written on a loose leaf page
I know it might sound crazy but
Know that it's true
The purpose of my life, yeah my purpose is you
And I don't know how else to say it, I
Sure as hell can't fake it
But I dissent from the pearl plated palace when the church became complacent
Putting politics above
Unconditional Love, read about the Prince of Peace
Turn the other cheek, but I missed the part about guns
Gotta crisis on our hands
Occupation of foreign lands
Seventy million people fled their homes
We got blood upon our hands
When they washed upon our border
The People approved a new world order
Since we live in fear, we said you can't come here
You're one of the 'others', so we take more than we need
Justify the homeless with our greed
What made the Good Samaritan different from the Levite and the Priest?
Worshipping a Palestinian Jew
Born a refugee too
Honor the Geneva Conventions that were signed in 1952
[Chorus]
There's a storm that's blowing up on calvary
Like a stampede of horses destined to be free
Remember everything that you've been shown
Stand for what's right even if you stand alone
There's a storm that's blowing up on calvary
Like a stampede of horses destined to be free
Remember everything that you've been shown
Stand for what's right even if you stand alone
[Verse 2]
Can you hear the train a coming up around the bend
It's calling out my name when it called a couple of friends
Ambiguity is subtle when you cross-examine your bubble
And when you take to the streets and you move your feets
You're about to get into trouble, it can change your rosy colored lens
How you view what's real and pretend
Cost you're community and you're relationships with your family and your friends
Ask forgiveness for their sin
And when you cannot make amends
If you sing about the struggle, it'll have an impact on your ends
Cause the more we sweat in peace, the less we bleed in war
My dad was seventeen numbers away from getting drafted into the war
That put's a thing or two in perspective when your blood line's affected
If he had gone to Vietnam, I might never ever been born
So keep looking to the sky giving thanks for the breath and life, all
The memories you have collected that make you feel alive
And when it finally comes your time, if you're lucky to say goodbye
The only thing that lives on is the Love you leave behind
[Chorus]
There's a storm that's blowing up on calvary
Like a stampede of horses destined to be free
Remember everything that you've been shown
Stand for what's right even if you stand alone
There's a storm that's blowing up on calvary
Like a stampede of horses destined to be free
Remember everything that you've been shown
Stand for what's right even if you stand alone
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