Sides

This is more than an idea (sing it), oooh
 Show me all of who you are (sing it), oooh
 A voice from the wilderness
 Detroit and Port-au-Prince
 Building the movement from the basic ingredients
 Immediate response, the reaction to the chemicals
 Screaming compassion from the tracks of the tennis shoes
 When academics trapped in academies
 Won't renew movement or produce strategies
 Opening the data stream
 That we teach me how to fill
 Built a resistance to opiates and imbeciles
 I hate to take a side
 I've got to take a side
 When it's time to take a side
 Stand up for what is right
 Or should I say left?
 Cause that's usually where I find myself
 Aligned for the future that we're trying for
 Slogan on my sign board
 You're tired, you're scared, you're working overtime
 War fatigues, Christ Lord
 Midwifed by the phantoms that we're crying for
 How the West is, how the West is
 Show 'em how the west is
 Three for the people that've been left out
 Four for the love that can save us
 Five for the names on the grave, Troy Davis
 Seven for the patience
 Eight for the strains of the tough conversations
 Nine for the kids on the front lawn racing
 To ten, the joy that can never be taken
 For all the life we've forsaken
 The side that I've taken
 And the life that I'm makin'
 But in this demonstration's
 The time I lack patience
 ? violence play favorites
 ? and still didn't show up
 When justice hit the streets the definition didn't hold up
 Why we are divided, the reason that we're fighting
 What a human life, the meaning of?
 I can't tell you where to go (sing it), oooh
 You are never on your own (sing it), oooh
 We'll live on when we are gone
 We'll be everywhere at once