Handicap yourself by choice   And keep the mind confined   To the chair with no voice   So speak up   (You move your lips too slow)   Make your way to the center stage   And pretty up that face cause your servants await   (It's time to play your role)   So sing and dance just the way we like it      Sweep the leg. If you don't stand for something   Sweep the leg. Then you don't stand for nothing   Sweep the leg. Gonna suffer the repercussions   Sweep the leg      A coward dies a thousand times   Death before dishonor   Cross the thin red line   So stay alive   (No other place to go)   Silence the facts   Dillusions are quoted   Clinch the fist in truth   And shove it down their throats   (Don't act like you don't know)   I'm on the broad path walking the tightrope      Sweep the leg. If you don't stand for something   Sweep the leg. Then you don't stand for nothing   Sweep the leg. Gonna suffer the repercussions   Sweep the leg      Mistakes and glories   There in the ground where they were cut down   Mistakes and glories   Death doesn't lie and it won't be denied   Mistakes and glories   They answer the call and some heroes must fall   Mistakes and glories   Giving all you can give when you're dying to live      You work for us.....      Sweep the leg. If you don't stand for something   Sweep the leg. Then you don't stand for nothing   Sweep the leg. Gonna suffer the repercussions   Sweep the leg      Mistakes and glories   There in the ground where they were cut down   Mistakes and glories   Death doesn't lie and it won't be denied   Mistakes and glories   They answer the call and some heroes must fall   Mistakes and glories   Giving all you can give when you're dying to live