David Crosby / James Raymond 



  



There was a peace of a song I heard the other day 



Some words I heard this singer say 



Something in me loved the way that it sounded 



When he said how he wanted to stand 



Stand and be counted 



  



Now, sometimes I talk to myself in the early dawn 



Before all the fragments of my dreams are gone 



Things you don't know why your mind held on to 



Or else sometimes you know more than you want to 



  



Stand an be counted, stand on the truth 



Stand on your honor, stand and be counted 



  



And I wonder who that kid was standing brave and trim 



And I hear myself breathe and I know that I was him 



Defender of the poor and those who cannot speak 



I thought I'd be standing by the dam trying to stop the leak 



  



So concerned with matters of the heart 



And knowing the millenium was just about to start 



And knowing that somehow we could make a difference 



  



I want to stand alone in front of the world and that oncoming tank 



Like that Chinese boy that we all have to thank 



He showed us in a picture that I have mounted 



Excactly what it means to stand and be counted