Stand Up

Stand Up is a message to all about the steps we each can take to better the environment and our social landscape. By taking a look at what we can do to make a small difference to change the world as we know it today, we can leave behind a better legacy for our children. A music video for this song is featured on the non-profit Growing Gardens Web site and download sales benefit their ¡Cultiva! Youth Project. ¡Cultiva! is a youth-operated organic market garden program that teaches youth to care for and protect the environment, learn how to operate a small business, and take part in a variety of activities which create positive change for the community, the environment, and themselves.

Lyrics

Oooh, oooh oooh oooh
Oooh, oooh oooh ooh

Chorus

Stand up look around
Get your feet back on the ground
Put a brand new face on the conversation

Stand up shake it down
See beyond the world you found
And be a little part of the inspiration

Everybody got something to say, got a different point of view
Everybody’s got a take, an explanation
About the crazy mess we’re in
It’s comin’ time to sink or swim
We all gotta’ stake, gotta reputation
So you’re lookin’ for some “common” ground
But the world turns upside down
Cause you find the truth in the lost and found

Chorus
You better
Stand up look around
Get your feet back on the ground
Put a brand new face on the conversation

Stand up shake it down
See beyond the world you found
And be a little part of the inspiration

A little drop of water sends a ripple from my hand
It reaches out, no hesitation
But in the face of what can be
We turn our backs too blind to see
It’s fear and doubt breakin’ down relations
So now you’re preachin’ how to make it right
But with no truth in sight
Just another speech to the congregation

Chorus
Stand up look around
Get your feet back on the ground
Put a brand new face on the conversation

Stand up shake it down
See beyond the world you found
And be a little part of the inspiration

All it takes is a tiny stone to make a thousand grains of sand
Each of us a role to play
We can come together, just need a little hand
Reaching out to change
Each and every day
Oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh

Stand up look around
Get your feet back on the ground
Put a brand new face on the conversation

Stand up shake it down
See beyond the world you found
And be a bigger part of the inspiration