Copyright Raz Chaoten 2014 – feel free to distribute and copy so long as it is not for money
LYRICS
VERSE 1:
With Athens and Iceland still burning away
And policemen saying summer here’d be full of rage
We were just sitting in a room called Arts A
Talking about bombs dropping far, far away
Bridge 1:
And the Trotskyists postured and the Anarchists sighed
And we all put up pictures of the children who’d died
Though Zion was responding to terrorist fire
There was no fucking way that this was justified
CHORUS 1:
So we stood in Solidarity, though we’d never stood up for ourselves
Well it’s better than fighting for the Queen
Still, it’s fighting for somebody else
VERSE 2:
The management of that University
Guess we wanted them to help make Palestine free
But they were too busy just scheming away
About cutting our courses and the staff’s pay
BRIDGE 2:
So the Trotskyists postured and the Anarchists sighed
We used words like ‘neoliberal’ and ‘commodified’
And me and my friends even camped right outside
their offices, with a few hand painted signs
CHORUS 2:
Because we stood in Solidarity and we were trying to stand up for ourselves
But most people cared more about their degrees
Than about trying to help somebody else
MIDDLE:
But I didn’t go there to get a degree
I went there to learn, I went there to see
What life was about, and what I found out
Was that the money you earn does not make you free
It just makes you a part of this blood-soaked machine
That’s destroying the earth and destroying the dreams
That the one’s that we owe our existence to fought for
Dreams of being free from exploiters and warlords
And now we’ve got more war than ever in history
Now the exploiters have harnessed the mystery
Of how to make slavery feel just like freedom
How to make people kill for things, though they don’t need em
How to make rebels seem like they’re just stupid
How to make resistance seem like it’s useless
Well they can fuck off, because I know it’s not
And apart from each other it’s all that we’ve got
CHORUS 3:
So stand in solidarity with your comrades all over the earth
Because unless we’re all in this struggle together
There’s no way it ever can work
Stand in solidarity and instead of their doctrines of greed
Say from each according to ability and to each according to need
Stand in solidarity and don’t stand for anything less
Than a world that’s fit for human beings
Not just for capitalists
Stand in solidarity and we’ll fight them in millions of ways
So just do what you can like I tried to do
In my university daze