Get Up Off Our Knees - The Housemartins

Famines will be famines, banquets will be banquets

Some spend winter in a palace, some spend it in blankets

Dont wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away

Dont shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today

Time to end the praying

Listen what theyre saying

Get up off your knees

You can wag your finger till your fingers sore

Shake your head till it shakes no more

Paupers will be paupers, bankers will be bankers

Some own pennies in a jar, some own oil tankers

What may sound like tomorrow could be ours today

Theres no more need for sorrow if we get off our knees to pray

Time to end the praying

Listen what theyre saying

Get up off your knees

You can wag your finger till your fingers sore

Shake your head till it shakes no more

Countries will be countries, borders will be borders

Some have lost their folks at war, some have give orders

Dont wag your fingers at them and turn to walk away

Dont shoot someone tomorrow that you can shoot today

Time to end the praying

Listen what theyre saying