[Verse 1] Arise, you victims of oppression! Arise, you prisoners of want! For reason in revolt now thunders, And o'er the world the specter haunts! No more traditions' chains shall bind us, Arise, you slaves, no more in thrall! The earth shall rise on new foundations, We came from nothing, we shall be all! [Pre-Chorus] So, comrades, come rally! Stand and fight, take your place! The Internationale will be the human race! [Chorus] So, comrades, come rally! Stand and fight, take your place! The Internationale will be the human race! [Verse 2] We need, no savior's proclamation To set our fate or write our law! We workers forge our own salvation, And common counsel guides our cause! To seize back the plunder they have stolen, We break the spirit's prison cell! We'll settle up their false accounting, Now learn to rule ourselves as well! [Pre-Chorus] So, comrades, come rally! Stand and fight, take your place! The Internationale will be the human race! [Chorus] So, comrades, come rally! Stand and fight, take your place! The Internationale will be the human race! [Verse 3] Thieves of the mine, the rail, the shipping, Who hoard the wealth our labor brings, They rule with lips of blood still dripping, And squeeze our labor, for all it brings! They spew, their manic lying orders: "Spill blood for us on foreign soil!" But soon, we'll give them cause to panic When workers rise, and claim, their spoil! [Final Chorus] So, comrades, come rally! Stand and fight, take your place! The Internationale will be the human race!
