You've got a right To be the person that you want to be A light In a storm of oppression Put up a fight Because the ground is receding and you'll soon be high and dry But not tonight I won't let it happen Now's the time To stand up for the individual Out of spite The whitecoat battalion is encroaching on our lives So rise up Writ large in America Rise up Fearless and free Just out of sight Is the implicit threat of the gun Your life? It doesn't matter to a bureaucrat You've been denied You say your body is your sovereign but you've gotta stand your ground So rise up Writ large in America Rise up Fearless and free Hard to believe we let it get this far Like frogs in a pot, consumed by time Governance by edict, absent vox populi The sword of altruism brought us to our knees I won't back down I won't back down We can't back down We can't back down So rise up Writ large in America Rise up Fearless and free Rise up Don't feed our children to the mob Rise up Writ large in America Rise up Is individual sanctity And we're running out of time Yeah we're running out of time