Stand Where You Are

It never starts loud.
It starts
when you look away.
Stand where you are.
Stand where you are.
Eyes up.
Spine straight.
This is the line
they can't erase.
They didn't come screaming,
they came in suits,
Smiling calm
while they tightened the noose.
Said stay normal,
said trust the plan,
While they took the ground
from under your hands.
They called it order,
they called it peace,
But peace don't come
when the voices cease.
Every silence bought them more,
Every not my fight
closed the door.
Stand where you are.
Stand where you are.
Eyes up.
Spine straight.
This is the line
they can't erase.
They count on fear,
they count on rent,
They count on
you being tired
and bent.
They don't need love,
they don't need cheers,
They just need you gone
from here.
They move the goalposts,
move the blame,
Rename the loss,
reframe the shame.
Say it's legal,
say it's clean,
While they grind lives
into screens.
Stand where you are.
Stand where you are.
Eyes up.
Spine straight.
This is the line
they can't erase.
This ain't left.
This ain't right.
This is wrong you
feel at night.
If you breathe,
you're part of this.
If you stand,
the spell breaks.
Stand where you are.
Don't move.
Don't bow.
Stand where you are.
Revolutions don't start with flames,
They start
when people say
the same name.
They start
when the crowd won't thin,
When no gets louder
than the din.
No leaders crowned,
no heroes framed,
Just bodies present,
unashamed.
They fall apart
when we don't run,
When the many move
as one.
Stand where you are.
Stand where you are.
Eyes up.
Spine straight.
This is the line
they can't erase.
History's watching.
Stand where you are.