Category: Music
Duration: 00:07:32
Description:
Unfortunately this one didn't come out as well as I wanted it to, but regardless let's celebrate 6 years! These lyrics come from a community project to write better English lyrics for the Internationale. You can find these lyrics below.
Lyrics:
Arise, you prisoners of starvation,
Arise, you damned throughout the earth!
For reason thunders condemnation
And there's a better world in birth!
It is time to seize our liberation,
Arise, arise, you slaves in thrall!
The earth will change at its foundation,
We who are nothing shall be all!
Chorus 2x:
This is our grand finale,
Stand as one, each in place!
The Internationale
Unites the human race!
We want no condescending saviours,
No god, no king, no lord to heed.
The workers ask not for their favours;
For we will save ourseleves from need!
We will make the thief disgorge his plunder
And free the shackled from their lot.
The fires in our furnace thunder,
We'll strike the iron while it's hot!
Chorus 2x
The system cheats in every nation,
While laws and taxes drain our life.
The rich are free from obligation;
But for the poor is endless strife.
We have languished while they lounge in beauty,
The law of equals rightly cites:
"No rights to those refusing duty,
No claims of duty without rights!"
Chorus 2x
All hideous in brutal glory,
The kings of mine and rail and soil!
But have you read in all their story,
On how they plundered workers' toil?
We will fight for the redistribution
Of workers' labour, thieved by few.
In working for their restitution,
The people only take their due.
Chorus 2x
We see through their disinformation:
Attempts to lead us into war.
But now the soldiers in formation
Will break their ranks and fight no more.
If the gruesome cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride,
They soon shall hear the bullets flying,
We'll shoot the generals on our side!
Chorus 2x
Just we, the workers of the world-wide,
The mighty party of labour,
To own the planet have a true right,
But for the parasites - never!
For too long we've endured exploitation,
Too long we've been the vulture's prey.
Farewell to days of condemnation!
The red dawn brings a bright new day!
Chorus 2x
