Get Up Off Our Knees lyrics

Get Up Off Our Knees
Housemartins

Famines will be famines, banquets will be banquets
some spend winter in a palace, some spend it in blankets
Don`t wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away
Don`t shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today

Time to end the praying
Listen what they`re saying

Get up off your knees
You can wag your finger till your finger`s sore
Shake your head till it shakes no more

Paupers will be paupers, bankers will be bankers
Some own pennies in a jar, some own oil tankers
What may sound like tomorrow could be ours today
There`s no more need for sorrow if we get off our knees to pray

Time to end the praying
Listen what they`re saying

Get up off your knees
You can wag your finger till your finger`s sore
Shake your head till it shakes no more

Countries will be countries, borders will be borders
Some have lost their folks at war, some have give orders
Don`t wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away
Don`t shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today

Time to end the praying
Listen what they`re saying

From: Deise Zandona
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