Mistakes And Glories

Album: Testify (2006)
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  • Handicap yourself by choice
    And keep the mind confined to the chair with no voice
    So speak up (you move your lips too slow)
    And make way to the center stage
    And pretty up that face, cause your servants await.
    (It's time to play your role)
    So sing and dance just the way we like it!

    Sweep the leg
    If you don't stand for something
    Sweep the leg
    Then you don't stand for nothin
    Sweep the leg
    Gonna suffer the repercussions
    Sweep the leg

    A coward dies a thousand times
    Death before dishonor, cross the thin red line
    So stay alive, (no other place to go)
    Silence the facts, dillusions are quoted
    Clench the fist in truth and shove it down your throats
    (Don't act like you don't know)
    I'm on the broadpath walkin the tightrope

    Sweep the leg
    If you don't stand for something
    Sweep the leg
    Then you don't stand for nothin
    Sweep the leg
    Gonna suffer the repercussions
    Sweep the leg

    Mistakes & glories
    There in the ground where they were cut down
    Mistakes & glories
    Death doesn't lie and it won't be denied
    Mistakes & glories
    They answer the call and some heroes must fall
    Mistakes & glories
    Giving all you can give when you're dying to live

    You work for us, you work for us
    You work for us, you work for us
    You work for us, you work for us
    You work for us, you work for.....us!

    Sweep the leg
    If you don't stand for something
    Sweep the leg
    Then you don't stand for nothin
    Sweep the leg
    Gonna suffer the repercussions
    Sweep the leg

    Mistakes & glories
    There in the ground where they were cut down
    Mistakes & glories
    Death doesn't lie and it won't be denied
    Mistakes & glories
    They answer the call and some heroes must fall
    Mistakes & glories
    Giving all you can give when you're dying to live
    Mistakes & glories
    There in the ground where they were cut down
    Mistakes & glories
    Death doesn't lie and it won't be denied
    Mistakes & glories
    They answer the call and some heroes must fall
    Mistakes & glories
    Giving all you can give when you're dying to live Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Jim from San Diego, CaOne of my favorite songs on the Testify album. Gets no love though...
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