Wake Up. Stop Sleeping

Wake Up (Stop Sleeping)

You can choose to lie in bed, 
Elect to waste away your day,
The world is free for you to choose,
Your own footpath and your own way.
Feel free to sit and not take part,
In all the games that others play,
You have a voice but it’s your choice, 
If you don’t want to have your say.

For all those rags and wasted lives,
That wash up on some distant shore,
The husbands, children and the wives,
Are so far off you can ignore.
And why ever would you question why,
so few are rich but most are poor,
or why the NHS and welfare state,
are things that areworth standing for.

For barricades what need have you,
Why ever would you choose to listen,
To the drums that others beat,
When you have your private mission.
An office desk, a house, a car,
The gemstones of such blind ambition,
Forget plastic seas and cut down trees,
Those are not the things that glisten.

Though when it’s time to draw your pension,
despite the things you have been told,
It will be far too late to mention,
All that glistens is not gold.
So though you choose to lie in bed,
I take this last chance to persuade
you that perhaps you should instead,
Get up and man that barricade.