Don’t get other people’s shit on your shoes

How do you know you have made a difference?
How can you spend your time doing good?
When the world is filled with indifference,
The soul will cry out for food.

Don’t get other people’s shit on your shoes
By walking the path, stumbling and lost
Take measure my friend and lose
Lose the hatred, the pain and the loss
To stand back, do nothing, has too high a cost

Standing and be strong as a defender
For the downtrodden a beacon be
Regardless of their identity or gender
Stand ready, your passions they'll see

Don’t get other people’s shit on your shoes
By walking the path, stumbling and lost
Take measure my friend and lose
Lose the hatred, the pain at all loss
To stand back, do nothing, has too high a cost

Stand ready, your heart on your sleeve
Appease no one and stand against greed
Oppression, dissidence, opposed by your deeds
Laughter and song, is the steadfast creed

Don’t get other people’s shit on your shoes
By walking the path, stumbling and lost
Take measure my friend and lose
Lose the hatred, the pain at all cost
To stand back, do nothing, has too high a cost