This is a song about doomed rebellion. When the song demands someone “Rise up, dead man”, this is an exhortation to ‘die on your feet rather than live on your knees’, to resist an unjust status quo. With violence, hence “Let the gunshots ring”. The remainder of the lyrics evoke an insurgency fightin...
(Male chorus humming rhythmically throughout)
[Quietly]
Rise up, dead man
Let the gunshots ring
[Humming intensifies]
[Vocals loud, humming quiet]
Rise up, dead man
Let the gunshots ring
Shadows calling
Let the gunshots ring
Fought the devil
Let the gunshots ring
Black trains coming
Let the gunshots ring
[Vocals quiet, humming loud]
Rise up, dead man
Let the gunshots ring
Shadows calling
Let the gunshots ring
Fought the devil
Let the gunshots ring
Black trains coming
Let the gunshots ring
[Vocals loud, humming quiet]
Hills they halven
Let the gunshots ring
Death's among us
Let the gunshots ring
Bone, it shatters
Let the gunshots ring
Rise up, dead man
Let the gunshots ring
Let the gunshots ring
Let the gunshots ring
Rise up Dead Man was written by Nicolette Stewart & Dominik Zingler.
Rise up Dead Man was produced by .
Port Sulphur Band released Rise up Dead Man on Thu Aug 01 2019.