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.