I know you were young once
And you could get away with anything at all
But those excuses that you made

Well in this day and age, they will not help you anymore
And now that you're older, you realize your history's mistakes
That what you cause is affected by

your certainty that all is yours to take
But now it's time you've got to


Chorus:

Stand tall and reach for the sky

If you come together you can get so high
It's for your sons and daughters
And you know the reason why

So you can look them in the eye,
and tell them that you tried


Engines burning, people climbing
The sky dividing as they all break away
Never mind the price

The cost to all of us is so much greater if we stay
Oh, some may dwell in apathy
Some may disagree but I'll say I believe in you

I know that you can do it
I know that you are strong
And that you can see it through

Oh yeah you know you've got to

Chorus:


Stand tall and reach for the sky
If you come together you can get so high

It's for your sons and daughters
And you know the reason why
So you can look them in the eye,

and tell them that you tried

How much bigger can you grow?

Just how much longer can you fit inside your home?
You've overwhelmed and overflowed,
and if you don't leave this dead-end town your seeds are sown

And you keep digging just to feed these hunger pains,
but when there is so much lost tell me what's the gain
And we may never be the same,

but now we may never be at all
And you'll be the one to blame
Yes you'll be the one to blame

unless you

Stand tall

and reach for the sky
There's nowhere left in this world,
We need to get so high

And I know that we can make it,
or at least together we can try
together, together we can


Stand tall and reach for the sky
Yeah if we come together we can get so high

It's for our sons and daughters, and we know the reason why
It's so our sons and daughters, will look us in the eye, we've got to
Stand tall together

or we'll fall forever
and it's now or never