What Are We Standing For

An adventure in secular morality
 Shouldn't be an insurrection to us all
 And a counterfeit political currency
 Shouldn't stand there as a patriotic call
 All the vitriol and hyperbole
 Testifies to vacant humanity
 And the rebel that is pounding at the door
 Don't know what they're standing for anymore
 Find some understanding for
 Those who kneel to implore
 Know just what they're standing for
 What's the lasting legacy
 Of the humanistic progress that we made
 Or the blood that spilled for someone else's
 Profit but would never be repaid
 There's the useless hope of the afterlife
 But it can't assuage all the toil and strife
 And the pious who were promised so much more
 Don't know what they're standing for anymore
 Show some understanding for
 Those who can't hope for more
 Know just what they're standing for, oh, oh, oh
 Find some understanding for
 Those who kneel to implore
 Know just what they're standing for
 There's a sound in the attic
 Of memories erratic
 A firm resolution
 For an eternal constitution
 The bravery of self-defense
 Against the pull of ignorance
 I shudder to adore
 Those who don't know what they're standing for
 Find some understanding for
 Those who can't hope for more
 Know just what they're standing for, oh oh oh
 Be someone who's standing for
 Take a knee on the floor
 Know just what you're standing for