Exposition - Leave a Penny [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

[Intro]
Stand up (Stand up)
Waitin' on the time
When the last shall be first
And the first shall be last (ha ha)

[Hook]
I, I, I hold my heart in the palm of my hand
And I give it to man
You, you, you
Can do the same just by taking a stand and sing along with the band
We, we, we will stand tall draw a line in the sand
And make 'em meet our demands
This is it
You're either in or you're out
You're either with us or you're not brother

[Verse 1]
Power to the proletariat
The people never fallin' off
Spittin' revolution like a Soviet Kalashnikov
Red star badges patrolling the streets
We put the toes to the pigs so police the police
Because Congress can't help they'll filibust us full o' holes
We'll storm the Beltway and fill a busta full o' holes
That's that Pancho Villa justice
And they'll say Victor's brain has finally left him
My family's fallen far too deep
Put 'em on that list of casualities of ideology
Cause we're broadcasting live from the Sierra Maestra
An po- to the pigs we coming to get ya
Mr. Ashcroft no we didn't forget ya
The ax grinds slow I hope it doesn't upset ya
Upset ya

[Hook]
I, I, I hold my heart in the palm of my hand
And give it to man
You, you, you
Can do the same just by taking a stand and sing along with the band
We, we, we stand tall draw a line in the sand
And make 'em meet our demands
This is it
You're either in or you're out
You're either with us or you're not my sister

[Verse 2]
Now let me tell you how to lower the gas price
You get a bunch of friends that want to lower the gas price
You grab the CEO by his tie and say that's right
You're dead if you don't sign the paper, lower the gas price (Bo)
Then people want to know who the squad is
That be robbing from the rich like we was Hugo Chavez
And give it to the poor like young Fidel Castro
Anybody standing in the way we march yo
Erase attack yo come forth and back yo
Don't even see no difference 'tween the blacks and whites yo
It's just a bunch of bullshit they tryin' to distract you
You checkin' for the front, when they rush in the back door
They pump you full of fear
Eliminate the middlemen
Say run along sheep and be a good little citizen
But that ain't me
And no way it never will be
Yo these motherfuckers are gonna have to kill me

[Bridge]
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got indicate to the people who run it and the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all."


[Hook]
I, I, I hold my heart in the palm of my hand
And I give it to man
You, you, you
Can do the same just by taking a stand and sing along with the band
We, we, we will stand tall draw a line in the sand
We'll make 'em meet our demands
This is it
You're either in or you're out
You're either with us or you're not my people

Hah!

[Outro]