– Fight for Their Rights (5:08) –
(Pietro Cottone)
“Fight for their rights” is the title track of the album. The song is an inspirational anthem in support of the last ones and the voiceless. This song encourages us not to turn a blind eye to a world often built on injustice and oppression of the less privileged ones; a world set up on the incapability of understanding one another and unable of accepting differences in ways of being or living. This song encourages us to let the change in humanity begin with us.
Lyrics:
Someone may enslave them because they are children
Someone may ban them because they are Muslim
Someone may hurt them ‘cause they are homeless and they own nothing
Someone may rape them because they are women
Don’t pretend it’s fine, take your own part
Don’t pretend you are blind, fight for their rights
Someone can beat them for the God they’re invoking
Someone can cuff them for the words they are sharing
Someone can squash them ‘cause they are poor and are forgotten
Someone can hit them for the tongue they are speaking
Choose to rise and strive, choose to take part
Choose to take their side, fight for their rights
This wall of silence is loud, is frightening
Break it down, take the streets and resist alongside them
This wall of silence is tall, is challenging
Break it down, take the streets and dissent alongside them
Fight for their rights, fight for their right to be free
Fight for their rights, fight for their social and civil rights
Someone has cleansed them, ‘cause they were Rwandans
Someone has bombed them, ‘cause they were Syrians
Someone has shot them, ‘cause they were black and were worth nothing
You stood and watched them, you stood and watched them
Speak up loud and shout, make your voice count
Stand up proud and fight, fight for their rights
This wall of silence is noisy, is deafening
Break it down, take the streets, and react alongside them
This wall of silence is high, is menacing
Break it down, take the streets and defy alongside them
Fight for their rights
Fight for their rights
Fight for their rights, fight for the rights of the last ones
Fight for their rights, fight for the rights of the voiceless
Fight for their rights, fight for their right to be different
Fight for their rights, fight for their right to be human
Fight for their rights
“Fight for their rights” is a concept album written, arranged, performed and produced by the musician and neuroscientist Pietro Cottone in collaboration with other artists.
Musical genres in “Fight for their rights” range from hard rock, to progressive rock, from metal to psychedelic rock.
“Fight for their rights” stems from Pietro’s expressing his perspective of the social and political challenges that the world is facing. As a concept album, songs are characterized by recurrent themes: “Fight for their rights” is a concept album in defense of the last ones and the voiceless; an album in support of “the scrap of the civilized world.” This album is against oppression and persecution of men over men. It is about how human beings are often incapable of understanding one another and incapable of accepting differences in their ways of being or living. It is about how the underprivileged ones have suffered at the hands of those with power and it encourages man to fight for one another.
“Fight for their rights” represents the debut album of Pietro as a lyricist. In his effort to describe the contradictions of the world in the way human beings have built it, the lyrics as well as the musical compositions of the album, can be harsh, unfiltered and often provocative because the purpose is to evoke strong reactions to the listener. 
