No One's Gonna Do It For Us (a capella)

No One's Gonna Do It For Us (add your flavor/remix this tune)

Melody and Lyrics: Lonnie Ray Atkinson

This is another song againt apathy. For music, I was thinking maybe something 80's sounding with a bass lead. If you are interested (or you think you know someone that might be interested) in adding some music (or better vocals) to the mix, you can download the raw a capellas here at ccMixter (just click on the word "download" under the word "stream"). When you are done, you can email me any mp3s here.

All contributions will be considered Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0.

Your time and talent is greatly appreciated.



Lyrics:

verse one:

where's the masses

the energy that defines youth

where's the conscience

that pushes us to search for truth

where's the struggle

against the unjust and unfair

where's our sacrifice / past signatures

and a couple dollars here and there

 

where's the hunger

to sign our names to the good

where's the urgency

to make our hearts understood

where's our action

why do we leave it to a fearless few

where's our vision

does it skip a generation or two

 

chorus:

no one's / gonna / do it / for us ******

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

 

verse two:

what's the difference

between youth then and youth now

where's the humility

to act without taking a bow

 

where's our moment

the ingredients are all there

where's our sense of place in history

or do we even care

 

chorus:

no one's / gonna / do it / for us ******

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

 

bridge one:

- is this the world we want

is it slipping from our hands

how can we expect what we want

when we haven't got any demands

- we can spend our whole lives waiting

for time to call our bluff

but tell me do we want our children

to know that we didn't do enough



chorus:

no one's / gonna / do it / for us ******

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

no one's / gonna / do it / for us



bridge two:

- and is this the story we want

being written by someone else

tell me, can we expect the next generation

to do what we wouldn't do ourselves



chorus:

no one's / gonna / do it / for us ******

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

no one's / gonna / do it / for us

no one's / gonna / do it / for us



This song is under the Creative Commons License: Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0.

You are free to download this song and share it with as many people as you like (please respect and include attributions).