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You'll get yours when you're good and ready
You'll get yours and go straight to hell
And when that day comes
You can be good and sure
The day belongs to us

The sign said: "detour"
So I did
And I found myself in a wonderful place
Fields of green
When the wind blows cold
The kind of place one could grow old
Sky opened up (yeah!)
Sun showered down (aww!)
Onto a row of wooden pikes
What an awe inspiring sight

Birds shy on top of them
Puts your head in a beautiful state

You'll get yours when you're good and ready
You'll get yours and go straight to hell
And when that day comes
You can be good and sure
The day belongs to us

Life is a horror show
And baby it will never stop
They tell me to watch my step
I answer back: "You watch your mouth!"
So many stories you have told
You and stories have grown old
SOS who will save our ship?
SOS who gives a shit?
Sinking like a rock with a heart of coal
Sinking like a rock without a soul
Please note, don't underestimate
Cause I'm a cruel motherfucker!

You'll get yours when you're good and ready
You'll get yours and go straight to hell
And when that day comes
You can be good and sure
The day belongs to us

The new dawn starts this day
As strange and savage poetry make up your eulogy
Tables turned around and turned on you
No one sheds a tear
No one loses sleep
You disappear
We fall asleep
You disappear

16 year old girl
in a hollow carved out place
Just looking for some prettiness
But the cuts in her arm don't
paint for her a very pretty view
In her mind
she dreams that she is
far away from
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls

A concrete city hell
City hell
Suburbs that never end
Just like an ocean
One parent lives in each of them
passed back and forth
He huffs glue to escape
their bitter homes
He's just one
of desperate ranks
who can't break free from
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
I just want you to know
There are warehouses
full of fucked up kids
like you and me
Can't find a way
So many lost in stride
caught in an endless fight
To leave this empty ugly place
I'm leaving you at sea
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls

I must again sing my dissent until you're aware
I must again sing my dissent until you're aware

We all have our vices, we all have our flaws
We all have our anger, we all have our love

This is the first set of words that I'll pick to these chords
To identify me and the blood that runs through the veins in my arms
Pumped from my heart
That holds hope in one chamber and hate in the other

We all have our vices, we all have our flaws
We all have our anger we all have our love

Father-less is how I prefer to be known
At 6 years young I was left all on my own
The son of a full time working mother
And a molester for a father who lives in the prison for home

We all have our vices, We all have our flaws
We all have our anger, we all have our love

I must again sing my dissent until you're aware
I must again sing my dissent until you're aware.
Because I can barely breathe with your weight on my chest
And I'm so fucking sick of being ashamed of my own flesh

We all have our vices, We all have our flaws
We all have our anger, we all have our love

We all

How did we get into this mess?
The question is a hypothetical...
The answers are
Written on the face of the oppressed

Sent to death at just nineteen
Forevermore to be unseen
His mother with tears in her eyes
Crying to god, she calls out "Why?!"

She'll find her answers
On the face of the oppressed

I bow my head in respect
Of the dead

Because we're all bogged down
And there ain't no fucking S.O.S.
That's gonna save our sinking ship
Because we're all bogged down
No, there ain't no fucking S.O.S.
That's gonna save our sinking ship
Our ship

How did we get into this mess?
The question is a bona fide literal
The answers are
Written on the face of the oppressed

We all know the answers why
They sold a lie to build Versailles!
You can roll over and die
Or you can rain down hell tonight!

You'll find your answer
On the face of the oppressed

I bow my head in respect
Of the dead

Because we're all bogged down
And there ain't no fucking S.O.S.
That's gonna save our sinking ship
Because we're all bogged down
No, there ain't no fucking S.O.S.
That's gonna save our sinking ship
Our ship

In the ash of your city lies fertile ground
(In the ash of your city lies fertile ground)
In the ash of your city lies fertile ground
(In the ash of your city lies fertile ground)
This nation's burning, burning down
(This nation's burning, burning down)
This nation's burning to the ground

This is the modern Rome burning
Let it burn
This is the modern Rome burning
Let it burn
This is the modern Rome burning
Let it burn, let it burn

This is New York burning
This is Boston burning
This is Omaha burning

This is Washington burning
This is Pittsburgh burning
This is Birmingham burning

This is the modern Rome burning
Let it burn, let it burn
Burn, burn

> My father Michael is a genius
He sees this world the way no one can
He brought me up and shaped my mind at the tender youthful age of nine
He said don't take this for the way it is
You better watch out son when you get them
Before you know it the friends you trust will have stabbed you in the back he said
If you wanna steal you better learn how to lie
If you wanna live you better not fear how you die
Heaven and hell are just a myth so you better pay attention to this moment [x2]
There's a Fine line between genius and insanity
Is one he often treads so patiently
While pigs and ghouls would always try to knock the door
A system built to perpetuate
Pushers pushin', dealers dealin' and they can't escape
I got kids at home, so pretend there's no living in this race
[Chorus]
Sometimes when my apathy creeps on up from behind me
It reminds me why I moved my TV
Out of the room where I make love
In case I might just look up
And see the sky is falling from above, see it falling from above
[Chorus]

1-2-3-4

The call, the call
Heed up and you will fall
The call, the call

No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning, No warning

This is critical
Mass destruction

Pro-active Communista sin documentos
(This is the call)
The anarchist conspirators are downloading their cookbooks
(This is the call)
Keep your politics out of my apathy
(This is the call)
This the same sad and boring melancholy story

No warning
I am a parasite, I am a hypocrite
(Hypocrite)
It's not an option to be pragmatic
(Madic)
We live and die by opinion public

No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning, No warning

This is critical
Mass destruction

There is no room to grow inside this cage
They can not know the animal that they bred out of rage
I hope that fucker's hungry and he loves the taste of flesh
Ripped from the bone of the close-minded ignorant

No warning
I am a parasite, I am a hypocrite
(Hypocrite)
It's not an option to be pragmatic
(Madic)
We live and die by opinion public
Oh yeah!

The call, the call
Heed up and you will fall
The call, the call
Heed up and you will fall
The call, the call
Heed up and you will fall
The call, the call

No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning, No warning

This is critical mass!

Hey, hey, hey, hey...!

How can we be free?
The bloodline of kings in the house of light
Lynch law abiding citizens cashing in their rights
The sky is on fire, the sky is on fire
It's blood red and torching any horizon it desires

Spit in the face of the deceased
Bite down on your tongue and turn the other cheek
Spit in the face of the deceased
Disappear like a ghost when we pass on the street

Spit, spit, spit in the face
No, I don't give a fuck what you think of me
Are we getting anywhere?
I'm getting out of here

How can we be free?
Abandoning the children in the forest to feed ourselves
We will all stay more healthy if we don't distribute wealth
Aimed friendly fire, aimed friendly fire
(Fire!)
There is only greed living the life we desire

Spit in the face of the deceased
Bite down on your tongue and turn the other cheek
Spit in the face of the deceased
Disappear like a ghost when we pass on the street

Spit, spit, spit in the face
No, I don't give a fuck what you think of me
Are we getting anywhere?
I'm getting out of here

Spit in the face of the deceased
Bite down on your tongue and turn the other cheek
Spit in the face of the deceased
Disappear like a ghost when we pass on the street

Spit, spit, spit in the face
No, I don't give a fuck what you think of me
Are we getting anywhere?
I'm getting out of here

As we set sail across a raging sea
(As we set sail across a raging sea)
Unconquerable by reality
(We are unconquerable)
As we set sail across a raging sea
(As we set sail across a raging sea)
Unconquerable by reality
I am infallible, I am untouchable

Spit in the face of the deceased
Bite down on your tongue and turn the other cheek
Spit in the face of the deceased
Disappear like a ghost when we pass on the street

Spit, spit, spit in the face
No, I don't give a fuck what you think of me
Are we getting anywhere?
I'm getting the fuck out of here

The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation

The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation

The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, dead, dead
1-2-3-4!

Have you ever been alone?
Transparency...
In the middle of millions of others, but still somehow unseen
She is across the aisle; he's on the floor above.
Your neighbour and every prisoner.
Each station filled with static.
Broadcasting nothing but noise.
Deep inside of each of us

We are the lost, the dead and gone, the seldom seen.
We are the helpless and the hopeless.
That no one wants to see.

Have you ever been drowned?
Transparent sea...
In the water with millions of others, but still somehow unseen.
She is across the aisle;
He's on the floor above.
Your neighbour and every stranger.
Each station filled with static.
Broadcasting nothing but noise.

<i>[Chorus]</i>

Outside we are alive.
Where is the line, the great divide?
Are we dead?
Are we gone?
Are we dead?
Are we moving on?
We may fail to see a change but we're never going to fade away.
We will be seen.

Like a ghost
Emptiness haunted his years
Still his heart was made of nothing less than good
Insecure narration in his head
Something less than schizophrenia
Creeping him with every move that he makes
Breath he takes
A beautiful walk alone
To his empty home
Where he'll lay and he'll sleep by himself

Go west young man
Your future is untold
You can find your dreams on the California coast
Go west young man
Your future isn't too
Far away

She hates me
And I know it because she said so
And I forgot my notebook
And my socialist manifesto
Will it be a tragedy
Or a comedy
The choice is up to you
Life can lead you along on a leash
Or you can break free and run on your own
Don't waste your life
Go and live your life
Like it's the last day here on this earth

Go west young man
Your future is untold
You can find your dreams on the California coast
Go west young man
Your future isn't too
Far away

Don't waste your life
Go live your life
Like it's your last day here on this earth

Go west young man
Your future is untold
You can find your dreams on the California coast
Go west young man
Your future isn't too
Far away

Go west young man
Your future is untold
You can find your dreams on the California coast
Go west!

No they won't miss you when you're gone
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
Pull the pin, light the fuse
This song's the smartest bomb

You make your own choices and decisions
You are invulnerable to influences
Sit down, line up, knuckle down, shut up
An electrifying organized crime
With planes and boats and suicide
Sit down, line up, knuckle down, shut up

You're so in control
You're so disposable

30 second spot video game
Memory erased, magnet over tape
Sit down, line up, knuckle down, shut up
Get psyched up listen to Godsmack
Dip you toes in the sands of Iraq
Sit down, line up, knuckle down, shut up

You're so in control
You're so disposable

No they won't miss you when you're gone
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
Pull the pin, light the fuse
This song's the smartest bomb

No they won't miss you when you're gone
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
Pull the pin, light the fuse
This song's the smartest bomb

Every day we've been taught to follow
Every day lettered to live one way
There is no one left to acknowledge
There is nothing left to say

Every day we've been taught to follow
Every day lettered to live one way
There is nothing left to mention
There is nothing left to say

Kill tonight
Will you follow?
Kill tonight
Will you follow?

Kill tonight
Will you follow?
Kill tonight
Will you follow?

Kill tonight
Will you follow?
Kill tonight
Will you follow?

Kill tonight
Will you follow?
Kill

No they won't miss you when you're gone
(When you're gone)
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
(Blood)
Pull the pin, light the fuse
(Fuse)
This song's the smartest bomb

No they won't miss you when you're gone
(When you're gone)
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
(Blood)
Pull the pin, light the fuse
(Fuse)
This song's the smartest bomb
This song's the smartest bomb

Tonight, tonight, tonight...
I'm gonna stay awake.
Safe inside this trojan horse until day breaks.
Open it up, tear it up, fuck it up...
In the streets runs a river knee deep.
Hidden in the blood of our own lies the alphabet of the free.

As i walk through the valley in the shadow of the dead, will you remember them?

Ce soir, ce soir, ce soir. je vais rester reveille.
There is no extinguishing the resistance you betray.
The marquis, zapatista, white rose.
Can we see the end of a battle unheard?
For every name in history there are a thousand more interred.

And i can't believe my own eyes. i've seen this sight 100 times.
We will be sovereign in the water
In the shadow of the dead.
Still no one remembers them.
We will be free in the cold of the shadow of the dead.
Oh, you will remember then.

As i walk through the valley in the shadow of the dead, will you remember them?

> The water turned black
And it's just getting darker
So be afraid, be afraid,
Be very afraid of the coming nightmare
The neo-christian theocrats pray on a Sunday afternoon
Then welcome in Pinochet's men to intimidate and kill
All that we know,
All we know
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
So filled with exhilaration and
Feels like intoxication.
There's nothing like a firefight to get your blood pumping.
We get off to the rhythm of the trigger and destruction.
Fallujah to New Orleans with impunity to kill
We are the hidden fist of the free market
We are the ink, we are the quill
What have you learned
Through the years?
What have you learned
From your fears?
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
Water tastes like arsenic
Feel it pumping coursing in your blood
Your throat gets tight, you can't quite breathe room spinning, kiss your ass goodbye
Now you're off, you've been taken on a ride
We've been sold, been sold a bill of lies
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be afraid, be afraid
Be very afraid
There's a storm cloud gathering overhead
Ominous, black, reigning hell.
when it drops jackboot down on your streets.
You're gonna pray like hell that you're armed to the teeth.
Built on a corporate welfare scam
Rumsfield doctrine stealing wealth.
Profits to saccharine sweet,
The wall street bankers weep.
As the storm gains strength
The aging levees break
The ancient ground does quake
And your lungs will fill your spineless apathy

GO.......OH YEAH.............GO

he knows he'll be alone tonight,
while contemplating, "What can i do?"
The lack of hope leaves him feeling violent,
it's not that he's looking for a fight,
it's just... he don't know where to turn,
more stress than help,
from home and school,
and on the streets his life's out of control...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!
<i>[x2]</i>

She never even had a chance,
mental, sexual, physical violence
not once she heard an encouraging word,
just the phrase, "you better shut up!" and "you're going nowhere!"
her sad stories,
all left untold
so her life became something,
so out of control...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!
<i>[x2]</i>

don't know where to turn
don't know what to do...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!

Politicians talk it up,
about their love, for the USA's youth
But when it comes time to put up,
their rhetoric falls back on every excuse
every excuse, every excuse...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!
<i>[x2]</i>

don't know where to turn
don't know what to do...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!

We've run out of patience,
You've run out of time !
This scene will not fall victim
To your violence or lies.

Your "values" are nothing
But excuses to start fights.
Quit fronting like you're standing
For a moral cause tonight...

United as one, we won't stand aside,
You tried to fuck with our scene... We're gonna fuck your life !!!

This machine, this machine. This machine... THIS MACHINE,
KILLS FUCKING FASCISTS !
Dead... That's right, DEAD !

You don't have to be a rascist,
To be a nazi, fuck !
Your mindless nationalism
Gives you credentials enough.

You spew your right wing rhetoric,
When we got your attention...
You've mistaken the punk scene
For the Republican Convention !

No more infiltration, no more right wing lies,
You don't belong in our scene... We'll fight you till we die !!!

This machine, this machine. This machine... THIS MACHINE,
KILLS FUCKING FASCISTS !
Dead... ahhh... DIE !

The national media cover Clinton/Lewinsky
While the world's governments sell out millions on the issue of free trade
But somewhere in the night -- A force is not asleep
And a massive organization plans to rise up to its feet...
It happens like this...

A pirate radio voice transmits into the night
And from D.C. to Peking email warns of lost global rights
And the hoax the world's leaders, wanted no one to see
Comes crashing on their heads from grass roots
Striking it down the blows coming for the world's...

Underground Network - Alternative Communication
Underground Network - Alternative Communication
Corporate media can't keep us
Beat down! Brainwashed! Enslaved!
Cause of our...
Underground Network - Alternative Communication
They try to blind us but we... Stand up and fight! Stand up and fight!
They try to keep us ignorant but we... Stand up and fight! Stand up and fight!
They want to take our rights away so... Stand up and Fight! Stand up and fight!
Stand up and Fight! FIGHT!

<i>[Spoken:]</i>
Just take a look around the world
and you'll find that nearly all mass media
are owned and controlled by a handful of conservative capitalists.
We must devise and implement alternative methods of distributing our news,
our information, our ideas -- people united worldwide to take a stand,
to tell the truth!

Underground Network - Alternative Communication
Underground Network - Alternative Communication
Underground Network - Alternative Communication
Underground Network - Alternative Communication
Underground Network - Alternative Communication
Underground Network - Alternative Communication
Corporate media can't keep us
Beat down! Brainwashed! Enslaved!
Cause of our...
Underground Network - Alternative Communication
NO! COMMUNICATION!

our thoughts and our lives controlled by pocket books of rich politicians, like a rich daddy warbux they pay for the deaths of those who speak of revolution while they keep us at each other's throats while we still pay their tax notes revolting against the few the rich, the bigoted few they pay for the deaths of those so we're revolting against the few our thoughts and our lives controlled by pocket books of rich politicians, like a rich daddy warbux they pay for the deaths of those who speak of revolution while they keep us at each other's throats while we still pay their tax notes stand up don't fall don't live don't die for them revolting... revolting against the few... the few...

all united, all as one, let's make a stand
we've got a privilege in the power that we command
so let'snot drown in ignorance and let our strenght waste away
as the richest nation in the world, we've got a responsibility.

vieques, puerto rico, a protectorate -- of the U.S.A.
part a home to native families, the rest... a navy bombing range!
shells misfired kill civilians there, and napalm hangs in the island air
but the government beats down protests against this misuse.

chorus:
so... stand up! fight back! resist-refuse!
'cause if we don't do it, no one's going to
sp... stand up! fight back! resist-refuse!
'cause if we don't do it, no one's going to

i look into the eyes, of a dead island boy's face
his (eyes) remind me of another's, from different time and place
where a-bombs baked the ground, on bikini's tropical lands
where a culture was erased, families misplaced, by a nazi-esque like plan!

chorus:
all done, in your name, by uncle Sam
so if we don't fight it - then we're guilty too!
so... stand up! fight back! resist-refuse!
'cause if we don't do it, no one's going to

i think it's 'bout time that we had a change
i think it's 'bout time that we make a change...

welcoming with open arms and, with open hearts
in the end they found their arms in shackles and their hearts torn out
this country named "america", is built on graves
of the natives who lived here before, genocide took place
the word "america" means "freedom" - as in, "free to kill the free..."

don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me... For me!

it's the same today as then, as U.S. (tax) dollars are spent
to rid the native insurgence in Mexico, and any other U.S. (corporate) "interests"
the 3rd world is a modern day playground, for multinational companies
and the tax dollars we're forced to pay, fund these heartless U.S. policies
their explanation... "it's national interest, national security..."

don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
they Stand for greed, they stand for hate, for nothing i believe
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me

at little big horn national cemetery, there's a monument that reads: "to the soldiers killed in montana while clearing
hostile indians away... '
and there's a flag there flying high, over the fallen killers' graves
when they call on me to die for them i'll say... "not me!"


don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
they Stand for greed, they stand for hate, for nothing i believe
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me

don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me...
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me...
they Stand for greed, they stand for hate, for nothing i believe...
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me...

don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
they Stand for greed, they stand for hate, for nothing i believe
don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me... me... me!!!

watch your right watch your left watch the right watch the center and watch your back!

it's on the radio, it's on the TV news
conservatives and liberals
with ever clashing views but as the days go by
i can't tell which side is talking their left is in the center
and labeled "liberal doctrine"

they do nothing for you...
they do nothing for me... no!
they give us nothing to believe
watch your right watch your left watch the right watch the center and watch your back! <i>[x2]</i>

let the feds pass a law, that takes your rights away cause
"you gotta sacrifice if you want to stay safe!"
til the day you find the feds in your back pocket
locking you away for saying, "question", "think", or "stop it"

they do nothing for you...
they do nothing for me... no!
they give us nothing to believe
watch your right watch your left watch the right watch the center and watch your back! <i>[x2]</i>

joseph mccarthy and reagan
set the motherfuckin' stage for the right leanings that now grip the u.s.a.
they framed and jailed the reds
lost the keys to the cell set up
the capitalist machine to go in for the kill... yeah... yeah... yeah...

social divisions encouraged by the few - few!
those few in power - suckerin' suckers like you - you!
as corporate welfare, flows from troughs of the state - state!
yeah big business, takes more than their fair take - take!
but in the end it is suckers like you - you!
who buy that the poor, are givin' you the screw - screw!
can't you realize that it's just talk, talk, talk, talkin'...
like tax men at your door, fuckin' knockin' knockin' knockin'...
watch your right watch your left watch the right watch the center and watch your back! <i>[x4]</i>

their 2 + 2 does not equal 4 their 2 + 2 equals whatver, they want us to die for about face! - snap to attention form your own conclusions to the things you see about face! - sometimes the explanations don't add - up to the facts time and again they manufacture a cause and rally the public around it, check out the movie "wag the dog" killing - to further the interest of private corporations killing - to control global economic situations killing - for fuckin' truth you won't be so quick to sign on! our lives reflect tv sitcoms and tragedies like a bad joke, i ask, "how many of you don't see...? and just how many... how many of you swallow the lies...? how many of you do not realize...?" Gung ho and true - to the stars and stripes they fuckin' brainwashed you, to do their bidding... and like a flock of sheep - with wool over your eyes you never stop to question - you just fall into line the media's a business, that provides entertainment heir bottom line: money, and stories that will make it... so they run with stories, that promotes the lies to keep the ratings coming, wealth from promoting world strife life must be so easy, when you don't have to think black and white like printing, from the newspaper's ink i wish i had the chance, to reveal the lies but you're so fucking brainwashed, would it even help to try... to get through... to you! to get through, through, through, through, through, through... to get through to you!

Get ready to - make a stand
Get ready to - make a move
Because if - we don't- fuckin' do it - then no one's going to!
No!

Have you seen the scene on the street?
Do you care what's - going on?
Thousands ??homeless - in the land of the free but no one seems to think it's wrong!
That's why we fuckin' wrote this song

Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!
Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!
This ship is sinking - it's time we set it right
Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!

When the standards of - society
Are based - solely on greed
Humanity - compassion
Do not - define what it means to succeed!
No!

For the poor - contempt and hate
From the rich - middle class, the state
Compassion - dumped for
Apathy - the greatest nation ever seen?
That's fuckin' real hard to believe

Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!
Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!
This ship is sinking - it's time we set it right
Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!

Socialized ??socialized
Mechanized ??mechanized
To consume... everything in the world!
Saturate ??saturate
Accumulate ??accumulate
Your happiness... can be bought and be sold!
Environment ??environment
Detriment ??detriment
Is not... an issue of concern!
Humanity ??humanity
Or this insanity ??insanity
The choice is yours and your choice alone!
But you won't be alone no, you won't be alone... YEAH!

Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!
Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!
This ship is sinking - it's time we set it right
Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand
We're not gonna back down! Culture revolution!

Revolution!
In your head!
On the streets!
Move!

i want to tell you a little story 'bout a party that went all right, but went all wrong
i want to tell you a little story 'bout a party in this song...

it happened back in '93, in the pittsburgh punk rock scene
an event that will go down, in infamy
it was all the master plan, of one legendary punk rock kid
his name was "spaz", S-P-A-Z...

an eviction notice sent to his house sparked off an idea,
"i should have one last party al my place..."
so off he set with his master plan, the invitations in his hand read,
"you're invited to my house destruction party!"

chorus:
spaz's house destruction party, it was chaos with no end
if you were crazy enough to make the house destruction party then you know
you're lucky that you lived

we played there st. patrick's day, with submachine and the bad genes
in a basement full of debris
from kicked in doors, broken glass, kicked in walls the place was trashed
the house was now missing its support beams

the bathrooms had no toilets or sinks left in them
there was nothing in the kitchen left to break
aus rotten spray painted on walls, drunk punks passed out in the halls
and this was just the second night, or a three-day long party

the cops showed up and all the kids went piling out the back
i remember running away and hiding out in the lot behind the squirrel hill mellon bank
the cop said, "i want to speak to someone who lives here!" and this punk kid said she did
he asked, "is this the condition this house has always been in?"
she answered, " Uhhh, fucking right pigs"

spaz's house destruction party, it was chaos with no end
if you were crazy enough to make the house destruction party then you know
you're lucky that you lived

Spend a lifetime working for these people
To make what they earn in one day
There are options to choose, I call it Social Progress
Progress to not be abused

They were arrested for their views
It was the protesters they screwed
And still had the nerve to ask
Who I was voting for
Cause when you silence our youth
Then you silence the truth
Our right not to remain...

YEAH!!!

Start funding lives that move for changes
Not funding leaders that oppress and use
When politicians become nothing more but major corporations
Posing as humans, real humans lose...

They were arrested for their views
It was the protesters they screwed
And still had the nerve to ask
Who I was voting for
Cause when you silence our youth
Then you silence the truth
Our right not to remain...
SILENT!!!

I won't remain
I won't remain silent
I won't remain
I won't remain SILENT!!!!

Bring out your dead...
Oppression
Intimidation
Suppression

rats, monkeys, mice - teach 'em little tricks stay far from creativity, and from politics cause the multinationals need a solid work force or their growing profit margins will be wiped out at the source conform to the status quo, set rules hold your mind into their fucking tool reciting back their facts and numbers - that don't make you smart there's much more to intelligence - and thinking for yourself would be a start it would be a start... start! pledge allegiance to a flag of which you're taught no history not mexico, granada, panama, or middle east but they're just a mere fraction of this country's shady past skeletons locked in the closet and i doubt they'll be the last "national interest, " defined for you... but who's it really serve? who's getting screwed? your prison warden is your school training you to be a social screw stage a jailbreak, swim against the flow show those motherfuckers what you know! i feel like i am suffocating i feel my life depreciating i know their teachings are riddled with lies, distortions, shit! it kills me knowing the masses are so brainwashed by it - brainwashed by it!

You walk past an activist, who is talking on the street
About political prisoners, locked up in your own home state
And you think just for a minute, you think just a second
Then you say, "That can't be true!
Cause I live in the land of the freedom... where no one gets the screw!"

You turn your face, you turn your back
You say, "That can't be true!"
You stay safe lost in your prefab world
Cause you're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to you
Just wait till it happens to you!

You've heard it every day, since the first day of your life
But you never stopped to think, what you heard was full of lies
You can't think just for a minute, can't think just for a second
Cause you're nothing but a tool
Whose thoughts are tailored and fashioned
Each night by the evening news

You turn your face, you turn your back
You say, "That can't be true!"
You stay safe lost in your prefab world
Cause you're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to you
Just wait till it happens to you!

You could stand on the street, talk 'til you're blue in the face
And they would not make you stop, cause you have no power base
But if Dan Rather got on the Evening News,
And said, "It's time for revolution!"
The F.B.I. would fuck him up so bad
He'd wish he wasn't living!

They call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave"
And they call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave"
Yeah they call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave"
More to the truth it's a murderer, it's the land of the Enslaved!

You turn your face, you turn your back
You say, "That can't be true!"
You stay safe lost in your prefab world
Cause you're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to
Sure it won't happen
Sure it won't happen to you!

16 year old girl
in a hollow carved out place
Just looking for some prettiness
But the cuts in her arm don't
paint for her a very pretty view
In her mind
she dreams that she is
far away from
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls

A concrete city hell
City hell
Suburbs that never end
Just like an ocean
One parent lives in each of them
passed back and forth
He huffs glue to escape
their bitter homes
He's just one
of desperate ranks
who can't break free from
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
I just want you to know
There are warehouses
full of fucked up kids
like you and me
Can't find a way
So many lost in stride
caught in an endless fight
To leave this empty ugly place
I'm leaving you at sea
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out
Merica
To live and die
in the heart of America
where they sell souls

(Rollin?)

If you utter a sound
Don't make a move
We'll kill you
Then they gathered around me
One man took my right arm
And another man took my left
When the third man grabbed the front of my coat
Then thrown in to an automobile we go

Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in that 20 mile ride
Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in the beautiful California moonlight

In an auto with six man and chauffeur
Yeah these Christian patriots
They put fingers in my eyes and nose
As they subjected me to torture
Yeah the torture that a good fearing man
Is capable of conceiving

Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in that 20 mile ride
Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in the beautiful California moonlight

You won't kiss the American flag
Well by god we'll make you
We'll ram it down your throat
Sing the Star Spangled Banner with feeling

They put their autos together
So the lamp set a sickly stage light
Fourteen defenders of this country
All commanding me to undress
They poured tar over my body and hair
In the absence of feathers they rubbed sagebrush instead

Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in that 20 mile ride
Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in the beautiful California moonlight

My suffering was terrible
But my greatest pain was over you

Turncoat, killer, liar, thief
Criminal with protection of the law

State lies dressed up as evening news, we're tired of lies, we want the truth
Broadcast by corpses courting you, we're tired of lies, we want the truth
Most people, they will never know, we're tired of lies, we want the truth
With you or against you, then I am against you because you're a

Turncoat, killer, liar, thief
Criminal with protection of the law
Turncoat, killer, liar, thief
Criminal with protection of the law

And your gunner makes me want to douse myself in gasoline
Civil servants fall in line for you
Too brainwashed to see the truth
You use anyone you can

Turncoat, killer, liar, thief
Criminal with protection of the law
Turncoat, killer, liar, thief
Criminal with protection of the

Killer, liar
A turncoat and a thief
Criminal with protection of the law, the law
Criminal with protection of the law