this is more than an idea oooh show me all of who you are 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 traction 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 look across a line you re tired you re scared you re working overtime war fatigues christ lord another giant s born midwifed by the phantoms that we re crying for oooh oooh how the west is how the west is show em how the west is one for my dreams two for my doubts 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 six for the pain 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 times i ve mistaken the side that i m taking 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 apart we are divided the reason why we re fighting of what a human life is of what the meaning of a side is i can t tell you where to go oooh you are never on your own oooh we ll live on when we are gone we ll be everywhere at once