Which lie is the one
that will take me
and which war

Generations of wage slave data

family stories they said don't matter

when the last breath burns

in the throats of Bhopal

will I feel the blade

when they bury them all

Hiding from us

all this time

ghosts flickering

and out

of my mind

Dead End Streets
We walk by
No Retreat
Staring at the sun
Dead End Streets
the blast shadows
are waiting for an answer
all this time

I'll give them mine

If I could
walk in my grandfather's footsteps
while they glowed in the dark
on his way back from the yard
where the train was parked
I'd say
Don't turn your back
Don't you trust those bastards

I wish I could say this now

Don't Walk By
No retreat
Staring at the sun
Dead End Streets
the blast shadows
are waiting for an answer
All this time
I'll give them mine

Into our history⿦
Not even a letter
to fake a smile
to say 'I'm sorry'

Our trust in this system's dead

what will it take
to make you sorry?

Hiroshima started in Tennessee
Let it end with me
Let it end

They say we're not so free
My Solidarity
with everything you kill
all gone
now live again

(Chorus)

Poisoned by the religions
so we drink to drain our hearts
false prophets of failure
lie in the distance
awaiting the day
when they tear you apart

I'm singing roar against them
⿿roar against them like the sea⿿

You say I'm not so free
My Solidarity
Another Martyr's line
not mine to follow blind

(Chorus)

For every clinic destroyed
and molested boy
and scripture recited
to poison our joy
you say redemption's
in the hands
of the church and state
think that'll bury me?
it⿿s not my fate

or my faith

So we won't fight for your God's wars
turn this key unlock the door

(Chorus)

so what is sinful?
I reject the mask of me
Whoa-oa-oa
Protect our lives and see
Where
A Good Life's Lived
A Good Life's Lived
A Good Life
without your
false authority
authority

Take the banner
Hang it upside down
this country's in distress
from the schools to the factories
on the dead edge of town
this dream's a fucking mess

Our sisters⿿ and mothers⿿ rights to choose
and powers determined to fake the news
this poison undertow
the bigot's power grows

when we put our will to sleep
in the radiation of
rioting pictures
we let them
jail and murder our sisters

break out

Up on the hill where the road is red
if you look close enough
Down in the valley we're the living dead
while our hands are cracked and rough
for every deception that the papers print
to fortify their lie
Our creativity always wins
from now to the day we die

I see the young revolutionaries changing clothes
living in condition while the third world grows
weary of supporting all the costume changes
all right
Anthems for New World Disorder
hammers to the bricks and mortar
consciousness in crisis
it⿿s up to you
So what are you gonna do?

When we put our will to sleep
under the blankets of
patriot colors
we let them jail and murder our brothers

break out

Up on the hill where the road is red
if you look close enough
Down in the valley we're the living dead
while our hands are cracked and rough
for every deception that the papers print
to fortify their lie
Our creativity always wins
from now to the day we die

Take this banner
Hang it upside down
this country's in distress

So I'll write these words now
for you my friend
here after all this time
we may never sing this one
it's just here as a light to help you

When the power goes out
like the moments you might
shake yourself awake
from those horrible dreams
the only ones we never talk about

The glare of madness
in grown-ups⿿ eyes
the rage that takes
the whole room
by surprise
this vicious trap
the male cultural disguise
is the one we fight against

We Go, We Go, We Go
the one we fight against
We Go, We Go, We Go

So I'll write these words now
for you my friend
here after all this time
we may never sing this one
it⿿s just here
as a light to help you

The sickness
the silence
as you hide in your room
wishing so hard they'd forget
you're alive
but
you're alive
so the sight of broken things
won't mean a pound of flesh
and the time you speak up
won't be repaid by fists
praying not to be missed
the night you ran away

We Go, We Go, We Go
the night you ran away
We Go, We Go, We Go
So I'll write these words now
for you my friend
here after all this time
we may never sing this one
it⿿s just here
as a light to help you

This violence passes for
an apology
the trickle down
in our society

This is for the peace
you never had
This is for the peace
we never had
This is for the peace
we never had

How do we guard the door
against your Dad?

We go, We go, We go
the night you ran away
We go, We go, We go
So I'll write these words now
for you my friend
here after all this time
we may never sing this one
it⿿s just here
as a light to help you

This Is America yeah it⿿s true
but everything else is false
that was taught to
me and you
but
I try to sort it out
I'll try to sort it out
with you

Did you promise the world
that you'd change it?
Sounds like the way that I feel
One brick thrown, one vote alone
won't take back everything they steal

we'll take back everything they steal

This Is America yeah it⿿s true
but everything else is false
that was taught to
me and you
but
I try to sort it out
I'll try to sort it out

Shake It Up
Shake me 'til I wake from the coma
All the distance
distorted and lonely too
so out of the target
so out of the target I'm pushing you

Promised the world that you'd change it
Sounds like the way that I feel
One brick thrown, One vote alone
won't take back everything they steal

everything they steal

We're all walking forward

For every treaty broken:
annihilation tokens
for every treaty broken
we'll take back everything they steal

The preachers from the pulpits of power
leaders of cloth
they preach to our empty pockets
and the same gang with different colors
plays up to the dialect
of establishment

Will you take our pain
will you throw bread
to us from high above?

We will stay true to trust
on these streets
but I won't be corrupted
or stuck on repeat

The preachers from the pulpits of power
leaders of cloth they preach
to our empty pockets
and the same gang
with different colors
plays up, raise up
any flag we fly
any war we buy it
any war

Will you take our pain
and will you throw bread
to us from high above?

Will you take our pain?
Will you throw bread
to us from high above?

We will stay true to trust
on these streets
but I won't be corrupted
or stuck on repeat
yet

The whispered [sings: workers⿿] rage in the empire days
The ratchet thrown in the children's mills
the bootstrap lies in the Patriot Plays
The burning fires on these hills
this road grows

The preachers from the pulpits of power
leaders of cloth
they preach to our empty pockets
and the same gang with different colors
plays up to the dialect
of establishment

Will you take our pain?
Will you throw bread
to us from high above?

Where did it go?
The One!

one big dream we don't give up
steel-eyed through the pressure drop
thirst and hunger
workday rhymes
in disastrous times

build up
this family
we draw so close
outside of the lines
we're still screaming
for the music
the meaning

meaning what is right
two thousand
other souls burn bright

all in
this entertainment
break out
or be contained in it
reaction
reaction
are we all forgetting?

all in
this entertainment
break out
or be contained in it
reaction
reaction
are we all forgetting why?

All forgetting why
the clothes of the
rebel sound
don't fit
lost in an instant

we all fall down to

Build up
this family
we draw so close
outside of the lines
we're still screaming
the music
the meaning

Screaming for our rights
two thousand
other souls burn bright
tonight

All in
this entertainment
break out
or be contained in it
reaction
reaction
are we all forgetting why?

I won't
take it or leave it
the question's asked:
do you still believe it?
reaction
reaction
are we all forgetting why?

Where is your courage?
Wasted!

Where is the courage that
has brought you to this place
sold into the fashions
of the false heroes' fight
souls burn bright

You were there
down by the water on that ambush night
when all the 'CRASS' punks
refused to fight
Instead too many tithed into the shooting star
trading their lives in for the glamour of tar

When I found out all my heroes are just parasites
where are the good people
compromised by the road we have to follow

Get Out Get Out Get Out
and get away
there's no one left who can make you stay
the city's making money barricading the view
polluting our homes
and suffocating you

I found out all my heroes are just parasites
where are the good people
compromised by the war we call survival

If you don't do it
who fucking will?

I found out all my heroes are just parasites
where are the good people
compromised by the road we have to follow

I found out all my heroes are just parasites
we are the good people
compromised by the war we call survival

survival
hey hey hey
survival
hey hey hey
survival
hey hey hey

fuck
you

For the days to come watch out
They're taking everything we die for
like the freedom from this world's disorder
what did they murder you for?
born in gray eyes up but heads bowed
our comrades' songs heard at Stonewall loud
for every day we'll fight our way through
or we'll drown in all our past mistakes

Searching not waiting
For our reaction
Don't let them tell you
What you cannot be

all the silent nights you thought
the space between you and the mirror
telling all the things you couldn't tell us
so afraid the world won't listen
and the ministers fill up the skies
praying on our fears and lies
still Love is the last thing we've got left to lose
our we'll drown in all our past mistakes

Searching not waiting
For our reaction
Don't let them tell you
What you cannot be

Searching no longer
For our reaction
Don't let them tell you
Who you cannot love

For all this
You wanted
Don't fall
Names of the fallen
In the wall
Live on
So arm in arm
We'll fight them down
With all our pride

Don't let them tell you
Who you cannot love

I see you
Staring out from the printed page
the calm before the storm
in your breath
The sunset on the side
of your face
the moments between
life and death
One truth for the men who pushed
you into death
and one truth for the rest of us
we may be down
but not out
We're standing right in back of you

Static quotations, historical lies
Don't mean nothing
when your children die
just one more breath
the last word on your lips
The dust and the bruise
The gunpowder we choose

Soldiers of the hopeful masses
optionless
working classes
sending money home to keep illusion alive
standing right in back of me

Static quotations, historical lies
Don't mean nothing
when your children die
just one more breath
the last word on your lips
The dust and the bruise

The gunpowder we choose

We're standing right in back of you

One truth for the men who pushed
you into death
and one truth for the rest of us
(The rest of us)
we may be down
but not out

We're standing right in back of you

Static quotations, historical lies
Don't mean nothing
when your children die
just one more breath
the last word on your lips
The dust and the bruise
The gunpowder we choose

Into the real real world not played on the TV
Radio Control burned down set free

Radio Control

Containment
Are our lives gonna be forfeit?
Discharge
this propaganda
they fill me with
My eyes do they see
only what they want me to?
The contest myth
for the chosen few
divide and conquer
what leaders do

Into the real real world not played on the TV
Radio Control
What they want me to see is product instead of
Radio Control

Entertainment
The ghetto life
combustible
Discontent
Blaze up this Draft Card
Burn it
Another generation of 'heroes'
discarded
exploited
and dead
For opportunity promises
to hell we are led

Into the real real world not played on the TV
Radio Control burned down set free
Into the real real world not played on the TV
Radio Control
what they want me to see is product
instead of all this possibility
what they want me to be is product instead of
Radio Control

Is this what you wanted when you joined up?
Did they make you thirsty
then forced you to their cup?
We're tied to their clock
they teach us how to pray
but no way
out of here
This false consensus
based on fear

(Control)
burned down, set free
(Control)
burned down, set free
(Control)
burned down, set free
Radio Control

To glitter
Like cities
breathing below
while lights mark time
in the lowest room
outside
the white man's death
in the hands of violence
are choking our breath
in the prison parks
our righteousness
contains the litter
that we kill in contempt of
ourselves

We followed these streets
through the city's red lights
Underneath these iron trees
On rooftops worth burning
whispers to prayers
in these strange futures
know your rights

We kill in contempt of kindness
extricate or obliterate me
don't let it get so far away
don't settle
for justice punch it through the screen
and every dead commercial in between
calls you to be captured
to write you down

We followed these streets
into the city's red lights
Underneath these iron trees
On rooftops worth burning
whispers to prayers
in these strange futures
know your rights

don't settle for justice
punch it through the screen
and every dead commercial in between
calls you, calls you to be captured
to write you
to write you in

We followed these streets
through the city's red lights
Underneath these iron trees
On rooftops worth burning
whispers to prayers
in these strange futures
know your rights

Hear the clock ticks
like the bombs
of history
jail time
ticking outside
they keep us treading the lines
the stocks and figures
hands shake
then triggers
powers-that-be
clean up
the waste of our dreams
all your trends,
back ends
and we all know what it means

I walk this wasteland with you
but it⿿s the least I can do
I walk this wasteland with you
and it⿿s the least I can do

and they say
give it time
while we stand
in the lines
and
our anthems
diluted to bind us
trapped in this cage
it defines us

for
a fairer future
these flags we burn
in the name
of 'civilization'
repression
unlearn

I walk this wasteland with you
but it⿿s the least I can do
I walk this wasteland with you
but it⿿s the least I can do

All the lines
yesterday went by
All the lines
yesterday went blind

this toxic nerve
release us
this toxic nerve
release us
this toxic nerve
release
and get us the
fuck out of here

I walk this wasteland with you
but it⿿s the least I can do
I walk this wasteland with you
but it⿿s the least I can do

I walk this wasteland with you
I walk this wasteland with you
I walk this wasteland with you
and it⿿s the least I can do

Echoes like the sound of a gunshot
'cross the Richmond city night
and are all the punks too drunk
to stand upright?

She's still walking the streets
until the daylight comes
she says 'I'm the last one
to grow up numb.
My footsteps leave these
little prints of light'

'I'm the last one
Let me be the last one
to grow up numb'

On the rotting docks
near the auction blocks
of which we don't speak
and the lights on
floods rebuilding
covers up this old creek
While our grandmothers walked
past every numbered street
a twelve hour day
just for something to eat
this long walk home is not
taught in our history

'I'm the last one
Let me be the last one
to grow up numb'

Here's to the sweet smell
of all the banks burning
All the food is freed
from the storehouse
all the teachers are learning
Fuck the laws
For their greed
the ratchet's thrown
and we won't bleed
our true wealth lies in the
song of the land
communities freed from
this prison of god and men

'Let me be the last one
to grow up numb⿦'

Echoes like the sound of a gunshot
'cross the Richmond city night
and are all the punks
too drunk to stand upright?

Are you addicted to the sight
of spaces in-between
when the night birds cry
do you know what it means?
It⿿s the forgotten ones who ask us
never to give up

'I'm the last one
Let me be the last one
to grow up numb'

our lives! are not expendable
no murdering meals
are starving the bloodstream
I am still accountable
for all of my footsteps
scarring the green
yeah
A silent cry
planet wide
are all our cousins
happy to die?
traditions and appetites
are no good reason why

We are all animals
so we suffer in kind
all our customs leave
our consciousness behind
all this balance
interrupted
I won't consume you
If you breathe what I do
and bleed in red too

We paint a picture
of human 'nature'
This distance that we buy
vivisected
then collected
You didn't have to die

this Species War it is Class War
poverty diet cancer increases
in the freezers at the back of the store
we only look at lives
lived in pieces

We are all animals
so we suffer in kind
all our customs leave
our consciousness behind
all this balance
interrupted
I won't consume you
If you breathe what I do
and bleed in red too

Live free

We are all animals
so we suffer in kind
all our customs leave
our consciousness behind
all this balance
interrupted
I won't consume you
If you breathe what I do
and bleed in red too

Did they
smile through their teeth
when they
told you
you deserved this?
professional men
speaking from the side
of their mouths
letting you battle
with this isolation
give me strength to witness
strength to witness
death is big business
not for you and I
our death is not collateral

In these days our crimes are paid
by our wasted sweat on the kiling maze
with freedom stains upon your hands
what do you do for a living ?
and how does it feel
to watch the bosses rise
while people fall
patriots to comfort delusional
another time, in another place
for better life than this rat race
Our labor's lost
too many lifetimes wasting
how many words did it take
and when was the first time
it stuck your heart with fear
was it worth it to salute the culture
that takes the life out of us
to oil their weapons
rise or rust
our labor's lost


Release us now
before we forget what we are
lift up our souls in union


Inside us there's a nation
hidebound and unaware
A people's insurrection
of the soul to kill despair
release us now from the distance
A promise that takes our power
A people together in this
the burning hour

Your children are shooting up society
'cause you made money making killing a commodity
at war on tv from a faraway field
a timebomb generation
the nation's fate is sealed


kill the stain inside our heads
tell the policeman to give up
we live in defiance of empty times
kill the stain inside our heads
apathy until we're dead
we live in defiance of empty times


No more empty times


Timebomb is the building tension
stretched across the globe
timebomb watch the media lying
'just another episode'
timebomb to transform awareness
in our hearts deep inside
from man to man to nation
end the fear and conquer pride


so what does it mean
to take their power and push it away
overcome this culture
and the lies they tell them everyday
find a voice for a better future
and a place for you and I
to face our fears and
fall down to rise back up

sister
I won't let you go
I won't let them take you
into the silence of a past divided
brother
keep teaching the power
we only move together
away from the past that made us fall apart


I refuse to run and I will die
before I kneel in this life


systems
of profits we punish
with love as our weapon
and unity
unity rebirth in fire


I refuse to run and I will die
before I kneel in this life


are we crucified
we defend our birthright
equality betrayed
and every hour a voice is lost
but every rage defies the cost
embrace the whole world as your kin
truth to truth and skin to skin
begin


searching for an end to the bullshit reactions
another way to separate us
and end to the bullshit of separation
another way to keep us from truth

The government say that its what we need
to work until we die serving someone else's greed
they separate divide but its the same red blood we bleed
rob us of the fruit but we'll always have the seed
so people are speaking out against what they see
searching for the truth within the promises of liberty
people are imprisoned for what they believe
or is it just propaganda


out of the gate we're all quick to defend
the sell out positions white-washed of content
to our hearts discontent
too afraid of our failures
faith and future unkown
do we dare and reach beyond it


you screamed in my face but I waited quietly
religious leaders, politicians, and the lies you say
from the economic poisons of the enemy
to the bottom of the bottle where the poor man stay


or is it just propaganda


out of the gate we're all quick to defend
the sell-out position white-washed of content
to our hearts discontent
too afraid of our failures
faith and future unkown
do we dare to reach beyond it
do we dare to stand alone


do you feel the pressure rising ?


pressure rising
push the future
pressure rising
in the present we
push the future
in a house divided
we will watch it fall

When they broke down the door
and put their guns in the face of your wife and child
and as they pinned you to the floor
did you say "officer, i am not resisting you. " ?


American Justice american dream
is this what ' the other half ' means
half of our lives dissolved in fear
half of our rights they disappear
is our apathy so corrosive
where does the cycle start
hear the sirens screaming out in the distance
hold your family close to your heart


American Justice American Lies
a war of words that I despise
I wish the good cops If they exist
the very best
and a bullet for all the


complications injustice deliberations what's the deal
they fake it, we break it, and take back what they steal
we could rise black and white unbound and make them pay
for every tear, for every fear, defend our yesterdays


when they dropped the bomb on the building to kill a MOVEment
did they care where the rights of the murdered went
police terror in the eyes of the children
police terror in the streets of every town
where's our freedom when the sun goes down
and will the houses that the landlords built keep out the bullet sound


American Justice American Lies
a racist prison
anaesthetized
I wish the good cops If they exist
the very best
and a bullet for all the . . .


so we try
to defend
together


defend our yesterdays , defend our tomorrows
together

We are not the images we see


I refuse to
follow the fashion to its end
hypocrisy
is killing me
on the rights of your wealth
I disagree
this puppets culture scars our tongues
with what's unsung
but we're not finished
we're not done
illusions of their fucking progress
are always fed to us
but innocence can rise again
redemption
a healing trust
from the depths of their false dreams
rebuilding, rebuilding
nothing for their war
nothing anymore


are we all guilty ?
are we all guilty ?
the greed inside me
waiting for our share


stand up now
rebuilding
nothing for their war
nothing anymore


we're all addicted born
with desperation, scorn
for hopes and dreams to mourn
the time we did not dare


( but it's not there )


stand up, speak out
to define a future


we live in silence pulling in
it's what we're in this for
gotta stop the war
we buy and buy hypocrisy
what are we in this for ?
gotta stop the war


I refuse to
carry the flag of this country
of golden guns and cynics puns
as the rights of your wealth walk over me
from the depths of these false dreams
we're addicted born
waiting at the window
for the coming storm


we're all addicted born
with desperation scorn
our hopes and dreams to mourn
the time we did not dare
to change the future
and respect our past
illusions that are fed
are passing through
and they won't last


we are not the images we see

This is the moment when we choose to stand upright and direct
set the course of our vision : new spirit in the flesh
we see the rich man's law dem break the poor man's back again


dead eyed but unbroken


we see society's cruel mask upon the meaningless face
the arrogant false prophets of this human race
but rising to the surface hear the waters make the sound


dead eyed but unbroken
now


Are you dead eyed, but unbroken?
are you feeling alive in the dead world they've made
are you working for a promise?
are you working for a promise already betrayed
while the dreams of the nation
are just a weapon in our hearts now


we can defy the curse of self righteousness
no more cultureless emptiness
pull back to reach the moment where connection was lost
the greater the freedom the higher the cost


drink in organic insurrection cleanse the mind
mine the heart droplets falling faith and courage
and fire in our hearts rising to the surface
hear the waters make the sound


dead eyed but unbroken


minds once set to fight now rot bloodless upon they stem
to update the paranoia the media disguise the system with
designer clothes and violence regulate our birthright


dead eyed but unbroken
now


are we dead eyed but unbroken
yeah we're feeling alive in the dead world they've made
are you working for a promise
yeah working for a promise already betrayed
while the dreams of the nation
are just a weapon in our hearts now


colors on the tv they push the lie in all things
some of us bleed against this deception stays entrenched
did you start to believe in it
colors of the ruling class push the lie in all things
some of us bleed against this deception stays entrenched
did you start to believe in it


are you dead eyed from the sight of no future
and broken handed from working for a promise betrayed ?


we can disarm

Where are your heroes
underground?
do our egos block us out
from feeding the future
of this sound ?
where were you
when they passed out
the lotteries of birth?
complacency
conditioned to suffer
what's the price ?
what's it worth to us ?


No Justice No Justice
Anywhere Until We Put It There
No future No future
I don't care


It's not because I don't love you
It's not because I don't know
the time it takes to say goodbye
to find a balance of heart and mind


explode these traditions
live for what you love
not what they tell you to do
fight the poison minds
of the dead past
invading the peace
between me and you


so where were you when
they passed us over for
the lotteries of birth :
complacency
conditioned to suffer
so what's the price ?
what's it worth ?


we sing !
no. go put your words on the hills and
no. reject the boredom it kills our
faith in a future they shot and missed
our ways of expression :
a heart not a fist


we sing !
No Justice No Justice
Anywhere, Until We Put It There
No future No future
I don't care
Until We Put It There


Power
for one and all

We see the billboard girl
the one devoted to ritual
standing in the rain
holding all of her pain inside


I know you're hurting now
but I can't point my finger at
the words I should or shouldn't say
anything
to take the pain away


to walk alone on the streets tonight
and fear nothing
to choose to love what we are in this life
and shine brighter
don't let the crosses and dollar signs
the symbols of man unkind
make you feel
that you're not real
all this time walk out
out of the shadows


we see the lines in chalk
the warning sign for where we walk
in the shadows of the cities maze
to try and fight
for better days


yeah we're ungrateful
yeah we're ungrateful for
holy books, religious men
values of beauty, original sin
all this time we unwind it
i won't give up, i'm not afraid


Resister go
as long as it takes
to reverse the hypocrisy
challenge the stakes
of safety and survival
at the heart
of women's voices
women's art


to walk alone on the streets tonight
and fear nothing
to choose to love what we are in this life
all that matters
don't let the crosses and dollar signs
the symbols of man unkind . . .
I won't give up
through all this time walk out
out of the shadows


if we take
our strength
to market
to trade
for their
ugly
beauty
watch us
grow up
to war


no more

They say we live like this
and so we die like this
nothing will change
but for the same
if we don't resist


the greed from the start
the hate in our hearts
the trust torn apart
in this life
we teach them to remember


We are the fire in the eyes of the young population
once fallen asleep soon to rise to the occasion
you won't find my name for the future roll call
for a leader, a bleeder, a tax
and we fall


attacks the people
soon to rise against
injustice
won't sustain


' Black for the night
Green for the light
Red for the blood in our arms '
We helped build a nation
and this is the thanks we get
a halflife of broken promises
No , we're not finished yet


They say we live like this
and so we'll die like this
nothing will change
but for the same
if we don't resist
attacks
( and we fall )
a tax, and we fall
attacks the people
a tax, and we fall


Agreed from the start
No hate in our hearts
No trusts torn apart
In this life
a tax,
and we fall

This is a call
to wake
the sleeping army
dreaming for
end the fear
in our hearts
for the last time


a shared vision
love's transmission through
the hollow days ahead
a hope
for where we grow
when its over
and its over


it falls
it passes right through me
it falls
and you won't be mistaking me
it falls
inside us
inside
it falls
it passes right
right through me


and we find out
what will remain


one day
I will wake up to find
you've bound my sister's feet
to find you've tied my daughter's hands
and you are walling in her mind


we throw
our hearts against the wall
we grow
the will to make it


fall


so we are living in a five hundred year old
prison in the mind in the heart where they
take your intelligence and your faith is torn
apart by culture state and power come together
and they steal all the light inside of us
everything that's real


when it falls

To live in discontent
Anti-establishment
Since the day we were born
If we just look inside
Each of us
A thousand rebellions sleep

You dance! Upon rights not yours to give
Judgements made upon the way we live
Your bigotry is stamped in action and in law
Inside the corpses of prosperity
Litters our hearts
A void in their minds
And these laws were made for property (not people)
I will try everything
To kill the sleeping cop in me
I will do everything
I will try everything
To kill the sleeping cop in me
I will do everything
I see you abuse your position
Buy lawyers to tell
A lie for a law
And you in a cell
It litters our hearts
It litters our hearts
To live in discontent

So how am I supposed to trust you?
You're like an overseer watching
Us work for nothing

They don't think that their
Power could come to an end
And trust us that we won't
Awake within

So we buy and sell their lies
For them dependent sleeping citizen
Litters our hearts

I will refuse their deal
Healing from a chorus of one

Are you a hard-faced boy with hooligan eyes?
Are your hands driven to murder?
The conscience they teach you to despise

Inna world full of the sell-out condition
With your hands still on the triggers of the weapons of war
You sing and choke on the tears of your hatred
Wounded but living to fight again
For what?

They preach their disorder
They make you accomplice
And try to say there's nothing left
For you to do

But we can liberate each other
Scream out against the void
Communicate! Not seperated
We live to arm this joy

So, why do we do what they tell us?
Why do we do what they say?
Why do we do what they tell us?
Why am I controlled by what they say?

Right now, you can't be shut down or go mad
Be binded not so bad
In every tongue with every voice
Arm this joy

To the government, the world stage
Our voices, this outrage
In every tongue with every word
Arm this joy

Right now, hooligan captive girls and boys
We make this noise for life

Will you walk on the battlefield with me?
Our hearts define widdershins against the sun
I'm not the only one.

The tyrants have taken our softest dreams
The tyrants have stolen our minds so it seems
The tyrants music deafens undetected are our screams
The tyrants take our bodies' freedom
Ripped at the seams

Arm desire rebel soldier bomb the mind

Resist infiltration
Put the chains of society
On the leaders themselves
So they can pull each other apart
In their homes where they lie
When they sell where they lie
When they tell where they lie
When they sell where they lie

But who elects the tyrants?
Voting with our poisoned ambitions
Pets of the public inna black hole watching
In every house in every nation they're recreating
Channels of false expression
Now fight against this:
resist infiltration

Find the hidden words of freedom
On the walls, on the hills, and
On these streets where we labor
Leave their power unfilled

The vision of the corporate virus will take our eyes soon
The warmth of a television: black hole mental tomb
The handshake of a leader paralyze us in the womb
Of armed desire rebel soldier bomb the mind

Earthbound government's open sores
Death and killing are in control while
A leader is smiling no thoughts for the people
Hearts tied to the floor
We know we never wanted this
We're taught there's nothing more
And I can't tell you it's not working
For the prizes they promise that offer
No ending to the power abusing
Our trust in this system becomes hatred
So. Come out and listen? No.
We can't live through this frustration
In this world we must say, "no!"
And we're taught nothing more
In the eyes in the heart in the mind freedom starts -
With our youth still in our hands
And an earthquake in our hearts

We are fighting a war
Here we come now living in a new age
Where the roles are set to tear us apart
Here we come now fighting for a living wage

It's time. The pleas from the politicians to the poor
Do nothing but distort the truths they tire of
The system is built to keep us from ourselves

You ask what I can give? I've got nothing for you
But everything for a better way. So you demand
That we/I live under your laws blinded to the fact
We are at war

Do we settle for the system or do we fight for our own voice?
Will we force them all to listen? It's all coming down
To one choice

So I wait for a change to come, and I ask myself why
Does everyday the sky remain over our heads?
Would it be impossible to tear it down?

The past nights I have had dreams - three dreams of change
The final conflict at the world's end. People running away
From fear hands to cover their eyes and ears and mouths of
The leaders drowning listen!
Are our souls in bondage unbreakable? Heartriot exodus solution:
The divergent path seems so clear we run back into freedom
We focus and we defy this time of pain and so we go into the
Underground America 1999, but it could be any year, anywhere
They try to teach us to take back now into bondage a people
liberated they shoot and reload fear at the working classes
And the poor are separated from their families as the rich act
Like they've never felt any pain. They reload fear at the working
Classes. In the wound lies self-defeat.
They jail the threat of consciousness (Yes I!) and deprive us of
Choices we suffer the mess. I revolt for the vision: strength,
Kindness, and love in your eyes run back into freedom.
We focus and we defy this time of pain and so we go into the
Underground America 1999, but it could be any year, anywhere
We build a window for the vision of a freedom we could reach
Will we smash it with the brick of self-defeat

We're amplified, adrenaline,
another flag's shadow cover us again
And on these steps, take back our days
So when we go go out in a blaze...
WE GO GO OUT IN A BLAZE!
Cause we all are...HUMAN POLUTION!
Hey hey hey hey hey hey...HUMAN POLUTION!
Hey hey hey hey hey hey...HUMAN POLUTION!

We! Rise like lions after slumber
in unvanquishable number
Shake these chains to earth like dew
You are many, they are few!

Without a voice to question the hollow aggression
of public perception through all this time we rise
The human solution!

We're amplified, adrenaline
another flag's shadows covers us again
and on these steps, take back our days
and when we go go out in a blaze
We'll go go out in a blaze
Human pollution!

In the people's war behind the writing on the wall
In the people's war searching, spoiling for a fall
searching, spoiling for a fall
it's written in our blood so don't misdirect your rage
don't misdirect your rage
don't misdirect your rage
don't misdirect your rage
In the human solution

We're amplified, adrenaline
another flag's shadows covers us again
and on these steps, insurgent days
so when we go go out in a blaze
We go go out in a blaze
We'll go go out in a blaze

Are we running so far from facing the numbers who clash in an empty room
for false visions we search and the reflections consume but the mirror is everyone's tomb
what we'll find in the waste of time all these self hating days in the image maze
losing sight of our roots in the empty shells where everyone fights themselves, selves
everyone fights themselves, selves

[Chorus:]
I'm tired of looking out from
BLANK EYES
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
OUTSIDE
watching gridlock in the window
BLANK EYES
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
OUTSIDE
another answer for our crimes
and I get so tired of waiting for it
to find the truth in everything rejected
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
another day between the lines

Rooftop to rooftop screaming out into the sky
we fight the war inside us turning answers into questions
through all this vanity we'll fight 'til soul rebuild
fools gold what we had the symptoms of a world gone mad
the world's lies, the masses cry, children's lives spent sewing up our cheap disquise
losing sight of our roots in the cathode rays amnesia for the end of our days, days
amnesia for the end of our days, days

[Chorus:]
I'm tired of looking out from
BLANK EYES
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
OUTSIDE
until it's nothing special
BLANK EYES
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
OUTSIDE
another answer for our crimes
and I get so tired of waiting for it
to find the truth in everything rejected
I get so tired of waiting, tired of waiting
another day between the lines

We're all gone dead what we reject [x3]

Wake up everyone!
blank eyes tired of waiting
outside here I am
blank eyes tired of waiting and tired of wasting it all away
outside here I am

Look how the ruts cling to my footsteps
the fatal invisible tool
by which we define (we fight!) for our approval
and fear our removal from the safety of fools

From the tidal forces of our positions
not won (not one!) to take for granted
are our rebel hymns in canted
to sing in the mines of the fortunate sons?

Brothers in spirit, sisters in rage,
will we live out our lives in this concrete cage?
another heartbeat lost, another police murder
buried in the public eyes on the back page.
heartbeat lost in a new world order
hobbled and bound but still walking away

I pledge allegiance to the world
nothing more, nothing less than my humanity
I pledge allegiance to the world
searching for vision not invisibility
I pledge allegiance to the world
searching for vision not invisibility
I pledge allegiance to the world
until the last lock breaks none of us are free
none of us are free...

We fight to balance our minds
petty powers pushing profits over our lifetimes
world leaders mortgaging our lives with words
I don't need to be reminded of whom you really serve.

Brothers in spirit, sisters in rage,
will we live out our lives in this concrete cage?
another heartbeat lost, another police murder
buried in the public eyes on the back page.
{Too many} heartbeats lost in the new world order
{while we're} standing alone with our backs to the maze

I pledge allegiance to the world
nothing more, nothing less than my humanity
I pledge allegiance to the world
until the last lock breaks none of us are free
I pledge allegiance to the world
until the last lock breaks none of us are free
I pledge allegiance to the world
for nothing more, nothing less

In justice, in hunger united
searching for vision united
in justice, in hunger united
law and order {but} for whose order?

I pledge allegiance to the world
nothing more, nothing less than my humanity
I pledge allegiance to the world
until the last lock breaks none of us are free
I pledge allegiance to the world
under no nation will we ever be
I pledge allegiance to the world
for nothing more, nothing less
than my humanity, than my humanity, than my humanity (pledge allegiance!)
to our humanity, to our humanity, to our humanity (to the world!)

there's a young world standing strong in the tide with vision not blinding yet anger just one chance that we get in the rain although the blood on the nighsticks' new mark is made the terror evaporate in the rain coming down on a new day dust to dust a violation of trust justice that maybe somebody someday will understand we didn't live and die in vain the voices of the people will come down like rain and though the blood on the nighsticks it's never too late the streets are burning bright in light of the flames of the flames new suns for a new day broken faces plastic nerves selling the passion to rot in the suburbs plastic faces broken nerves selling the passion we rot in the suburbs the world's in traction do all our shots miss? from action to fashion we rot in the office the world's in traction all our shots miss from action to fashion we rot in the office rot in the office well the world's in traction from action to fashion but we're not gonna rot building Babylon with our life and death we spit and run one voice one breath [x2] we spit and run.

So here we go, an international war and we're buying the voice
to lie and justify the schore fight the confusion, anger and hate
our shot in the darkness it's never to late one
will and one heart a worldwide calling out for your muted voices
we scream and shout our leader invoke their gods
and their eyes glaze profits and prophets religoins of guilt and decay
will we fall
will we fight
black out in the daylight in world justice name
will we fall
will we fight
blackout in the wokryards of the killing game...
BLACKOUT i don't wanna fight
BLACKOUT against our rights
BLACKOUT won't take the life, the spoils of war we'll profit from no more
BLACKOUT i don't wanna fight
BLACKOUT won't take the life
there are no saints, there are no patriots, designer gods fulfill their prophecy
but they're not talking to me
while crocodile tears pour from the tv
well you were once boardroom tables apart while trading
our reason for the businessman's art, how many fabricated enemies willl it take til we see?
will we fall
will we fight
black out in the daylight in world justice name
will we fall
will we fight
blackout in the workyards at the killing game
BLACKOUT i don't wanna fight
BLACKOUT won't take the light the spoils of war we'll profit from no more
BLACKOUT don't wanna fight
BLACKOUT won't take the life
BLACKOUT against our rights. HERE WE GO!

there are no saints, there are no patriots
designer gods fulfill their prophecy but they're not talking to me
How many false enemies will it take 'til we see?
will we fall
will we fight
BlACKOUT in the daylight
will we fall
will we fight

blackout in the daylight

Don't follow and burn the future believing
teachings which defend a past conveived to deceive us,
to elevate a ruling class

we dream with all the love that you threw away
we dream truthseeking in the movement we stay
we dream in love with this resistance we play
we dream when we go and we dream when we say...

so far carry it on (on) so far carry it over
we dream now listen to the voice of the land
we dream defying all the killing comands
we give our restlessness to fight for the truth
we give healing from the fount of youth

our own truth
our own truth
our own truth
our own truth!

Upon us all bought and sold into the lie of modern life given all the right things to pacify our anger and strife given the tv to help us forget modeling poisons we place our bets feeling like I canӴ see a thing when my eyes are wide open under the milleniumӳ shadow hear the rain of justice fall awaiting all this time release upon us all under the milleniumӳ shadow hear the rain of justice fall awaiting all this time upon us all us all the currency of life stretched out to wait the blood on our hands will follow the fashion the innocent blood upon our plates withered in vision a martyred witness kept by contempt from our native stillness glued to the screams on the screen the false idols of order are calling under the milleniumӳ shadow hear the rain of justice fall awaiting all this time release upon us all under the milleniumӳ shadow hear the rain of justice fall awaiting all this time released upon us all we all die our choice lies in the time where we grow out of this modern life release upon us all weӲe bought and sold into the lie of this fucking modern life our social mask calls our anger happiness weӲe all crushed beneath the lie youӶe built calling you to wake the fuck up.

light light light in the beggarӳ cart
light light light when the trouble starts
to weigh to weigh to weigh to weigh to weigh

light light light in the beggarӳ cart
light light light in the heavy hearts
to weigh to weigh to weigh to weigh to weigh

fight their future organize this righteous treason
focused (on) faultlines scholars of the killing season
war in your head while we wait for answers the poor lie dead

there is a war in your head
lined up for the ticket at the store
then pushed out for the crime of wanting more
too false too far away to hear:
decay in the voice of reason
deceit in the truths to reveal then
clear the shadows that they will never steal
what we feel weӲe

marching anti-heroes for a hundred reasons
parasites the martyrs for their profit margin
war in your head while we wait for answers the poor lie dead

so you placate an illusion a doctrine of hate
I reject your lies and the murdering state
deny this fate where but for life and love go I
itӳ not too late our kingdom is the earth and sky deny!

well weӲe marching anti-heroes for a hundred reasons
parasites the martyrs for their profit margins

light light light in the beggarӳ cart
light light light when the trouble starts
to weigh to weigh to weigh to weigh to weigh

light light light in the beggarӳ cart
light light light in the heavy hearts
to weigh [x9]

Wrap these silences around me
With the darkness all that i see
Societies of bitter temper these headstones
I pedal through with your restless spirit by my side no longer
i carry on for you no regrets no anger seize this time
we'll push it through your lifetimes
lived in sorrow for too long now, we'll cary it on

From ashes we're learning
Richmond is burning
Disrupt and disorder at the empire's borders
United by what we do not who we labor for
From Ashes we're learning
Richmond is burning
Disrupt and disorder at the empire's border
United by what we love not who we suffer for

We'll take it back and undermine the attack
tired of holding onto faulures for no reason this guilt is not our gluse
signs of the times we remember these headstones
I pedal through your restless spirit by my side no longer

From ashes we're learning
Richmond is burning
Disrupt and disorder at the empire's borders
United by what we do not who we labor for

From Ashes we're learning
Richmond is burning
Disrupt and disorder at the empire's border
United by what we love not who we suffer for

We are leaving into the earth
we go new seeds for common wealth
Wrap these silences around me
With the darkness all that i see
we'll seize this time don't throw it away
we'll seize this time don't throw it away
seize this time don't throw it away
we'll carry it on

From ashes we're learning
Richmond is burning
Disrupt and disorder at the empire's borders
United by what we do not who we labor for
From Ashes we're learning
Richmond is burning
Disrupt and disorder at the empire's border
United by what we do not who we labor for

From ashes we're learning
Richmond is burning
Disrupt and disorder at the empire's borders
United by what we do not who we labor for
From Ashes we're learning
Richmond is burning
Disrupt and disorder at the empire's border
United by what we love not who we suffer for

We are leaving into the earth
we go new seeds for common wealth

Thereӳ a new war starting in the world today to halve the have-nots while we look away the game of empireӳ pawns we fall right through the chessboard I will not fall for the black and white armed with no options weӲe ghosts in the fight I wonӴ pull the trigger on the world for you underground in ever city eye to eye defined by our choices not where we divide in every city ear to ear I hear the echoes of another way every living day and I know that I am not alone inside I know the fault lies with us too guarded to contact too frightened to trust someoneӳ heroes are someoneӳ terrorists watch the elites fall over themselves to squeeze blood from a stone I wonӴ sell out my reasoning and I know that I am not alone in every city eye to eye defined by our choices not where we divide underground in every city ear to ear I hear the echoes of another way ever living day and I know that I am not alone I hear the echoes and I will not fall for the black and white armed with no options weӲe ghosts in the fight I wonӴ pull the trigger on the world for you.

do you still believe the chance of a life and a peace exists for us beyond these walls burning all illusion buried by illusion our cities bleed their secrets rebel lives still sing when the last step falls burning all illusion buried by illusion the local time falling from fire we abandoned past the past the past unwind our dirty reflections in the water rocks of white teeth at the fall line spinning tales tonight histories the days unsung but brightly shining these songs are songs are for the dead that the system forgets these words add to the voices and weӲe not beaten yet these truths another way to guard the light in your eyes these word building potential we get back up to rise building potential up to rise Iӭ so sick of feeling hollow and empty when the tvӳ on buried my illusion burning my illusion clutching cold to the still air and the faded dreams of tomorrows gone burning all illusion buried all illusion this virus in our compassion has no known cure weӲe distracted then bought out clean and pure we are all dreaming dreaming for our eyes race under the lids hear the voice from the past to the unbroken kids these songs are for the dead that the system forgets these words add to the voices say weӲe not beaten yet these truths another way to guard the light in your eyes these days building potential we get back up to rise up to rise your voices sound from underground your dreams endure Ҵil days shall be no more.

This is an anchor for my anger, battery for my brain
Rebirth in this resistance recharge, rewrite, refrain
This is an issue of contempt I'll see it through
and wash it clear. Free from the pain of self-destruction
I am awake and I won't sleep in the stillness - I won't suffocate
But I'll burn in the darkness to open up the inner heart
Inside of us aware there comes a time when we choose to stand
Or walk away
And I choose to stand

Strike the chord
Talking ourselves into the grave
Strike the chord
I refuse to be enslaved
Strike the chord
Begin the drumbeat beating away
Awake

To sleep with anger every day - to put your prayers in someone's mouth
I watch you struggle with your own antidote, then you spit it out
And I can't breathe while I watch you sell yourself into the world
You try to steal my life
Now. Kill the hatred with a new sound. Put a new voice in a dry mouth
Breaking the prison inside - we're running riot
Now. Kill the hatred with a new sound. Put a new voice in a dry mouth
Will we bide our time afraid? Will we wait or overthrow?
All these things in my life dem a stain to remove
Beauty in our makeup peace in a gun cut the picture of yourself
In resistance to prove at least one of these colors does bleed and run
It's the war inside of us all
Poverty is the biggest strongest jail that the government ever built
So we go paralyzed by the lie of socialized violence
And while American culture seeds stagnation with its guilt our
Society is the lie we define with our silence

A living thing the sound we run lasting forever always

No more coiling in the dust of violence
We take while being taken by the price of silence
Our safety from fulfillment, the razor's touch
Calling your number but the lines are cut
Sabotage at the start of the race
For every smile, on every dirty face

Two worlds at war
Two fuses for the buying
Two worlds at war
Our consciousness is dying
Two worlds at war
You're the first and last to flash in my mind
Two worlds at war
I won't leave you behind

I won't leave you behind my friend,
So tear up the script and write a new end
Our working hands we cannot afford
Pax Americana from the killing floor
Did you bury your vision and join the roll call?
Woah..
From the shopping mall in the toxic sprawl
Where they keep young hearts in isolation

I'll leave in the commercial
I don't care what I've missed
These wire taps and satellite maps
Can't touch my right to exist

So "not in my name" but they buy us the same
Will they shut down our hearts in the pouring rain?
Don't tell us to die for the brand names of our dying days

Two worlds at war
Two fuses for the buying
Two Worlds at war
Our consciousness is dying
Two worlds at war
You're the first and last to flash in my mind
Two worlds at war
I won't leave you behind

Sing out from 'round the world tonight
From 'round the world tonight
So the struggle remains do we break from the line and run?
Captive and tense in the twilight cage the setting sun
Face to face no more, waiting to hear their call
for the bombs, the mines, the bullets and fists
Here's my name now, for the blacklist

I'll leave in the commercial
I don't care what I've missed
These wire taps and satellite maps
Can't touch my right to exist

Hear the preachers from the pulpits of power spin the lies
They sell give the youth our rage inna society built on
Distraction holy material excess strengthen the bars on our cage
Instigate awake, overcome mistake, are we gonna break?
Steal back the truths they take. Pretty chains of hate.
What the system make. At war frrom once without and now within
We're all trying to reach beyond the plastic truths of our
Nation soiled by miscircumstance soiled by miscarriage of
Justice beyond the truths of a television lie the rot and
Myopia of this self-consuming utopia
Youth enrage
Breaking the tide over our shoulders and out into the children
Of a justice-starved world to win above the mockeries of
Patroitism the flags flying under the billboards are the
Blind spots in our eyes
The comfort of the boss's hands around our hearts around these
Lands the morals of paper; where it stood and where we'll
Stand tonight. A world to win. Tonight.
Now we're all working in our hearts in our dreams to change
Our state tear our seams and choose our new destinies much
More than this: what we could hold in our hands.

What'd you say
when we said
we'll be here 'til tomorrow
in my heart and in my head
Fear of failure
Fear of reprimand
Two big problems I've never had
I never doubted what I have inside
what I have inside
Values here
in my heart
and we'll be here through tomorrow
Every day's a brand new start
Fear of failure
Fear of reprimand
Two big problems I've never had
I never doubted what I have inside
what I have inside
Fear of reprimand
Two big problems I've never had
I never doubted what I have inside
what I have inside

Every september I always remember to sing to your headstone and hear you sing back wait for the day work for the day how could I forget the world you showed me courage and brilliance curiosity wait for the day work for the day too many watery eyes in protest for a brighter age all the while I'll shine in this song even when my body's gone too many watery eyes in protest for a brighter age all the while you shine in this song even when your body's gone I'll hear you sing back wait for the day work for the day

now every september I always remember to sing to your headstone and hear you sing back wait for the day work for the day too many watery eyes in protest for a brighter age all the while I'll shine in this song even when your body's gone too many watery eyes in protest for a brighter age all the while you'll shine in this song even when your body's gone

beyond time and place in your footstep's trace when we close our eyes and we see your face beyond the days your art and voice are missed beyond sentiment every word is bond beyond memory when these days are gone I'll carry you in my heart and soul and fist I promise now through the days every smile's memorial every time we raise a glass to your name it's your energy flows through me I promise you I will walk with my heart still open courage spoken loud I put my song on the track to hear you sing back

The blood for your freedom The horror that you taught to them to kill all your sheep In the fold your power fades without control

Privacy invasions The press dilates a glamorous, divisible United States

blown apart The blood of soldiers Testify to what preachers told us do or die Distortions caught us out in the cold I'm swear I'll never got that old

Privacy invasions The press dilates a glamorous, divisible United States

blown apart The precious sound blown apart Weapons of peace blown apart Uncivil disobedience blown apart Burning these streets Go!

On the TV map we're worlds apart in line we're side by (Side)

Privacy invasions The press dilates a glamorous, divisible united States

Blown apart!

Lower the flags Raise Up the Earth Freedom 'til death Death until birth

We're still fighting each other I'm your opposite number I know we didn't have a say I'm your opposite number

Unwritten violence Aristocratic outrage Were you there?

Forgotten in all of this change New faces same system It's true

Fuck You!

I'm your opposite number

Judges and victims They rotate the symptoms Were you there?

Forgotten in all of this change New faces same system It's true

Fuck you!

Lower the flags Raise up the Earth Freedom 'til death Death until birth

Wake up from under all this trash Peel away your mask from the myths of sin Pisstaken isolation Men mistaken for buried in the sound for all who turned around you struck as the boots went up the stair you didn't care we're knocking like heartbeats on the skyscraper door windows breaking with music can you feel it through the floor? we're one don't misunderstand this future, not chaos is what we demand this is the one shot one life to see it through i want to speak for justice when she can't speak for us anymore no borders in our hearts she can't speak yet we are the damned and poor speak for good ones buried before their time mural the bank wall teach in the rhyme in red and black because we're all coming back

we're knocking like heartbeats on the skyscraper door windows breaking with music can you feel it through the floor?

we're one don't misunderstand this future, not chaos is what we demand this is the one shot one life to see it through

i want to free our world from the trap between the walls tear up the stage walk out and into the sun and the waves and feel them crashing over drowning out

We get torn apart All our lives Told that we're useless or gifted Loved or despised Too many generations passed And passing But all their progress Lost its meaning We call it evolution You call it a crime But as we run From your culture You're running out of time

Self immolation? Just to keep you warm tonight (Passing through) How far could this world go To reject you

I - will not fall in line I - will not break in time We can rebuild this, Beyond All our lives

Dead boys Dig through all this condescension Speech from the desert echo to cities Coming in louder and clearer

Communicate this capital cancer Fuck no ! Here's my answer

What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? When it's all gone, without a warning What are you gonna do when it all Comes down and crashing through What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? When it's all gone, without a warning What are you gonna do when it all Comes crashing down on you?

Dead boys Pave the road with good intentions

Did the banks buy our president? The corporate bail-out Heaven sent

Legislation from a company town Washington D.C. burn it down

What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? When it's all gone, without a warning What are you gonna do when it all Comes down and crashing through What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? When it's all gone, without a warning What are you gonna do when it all Comes crashing down on you

Without a warning we're dead, boys

With what they value, How is this a surprise? A better world will live on In our eyes

I woke up screaming but no one heard the drying river shining to the breathing world (what was I dreaming of...) and I missed all the gardens all the animals' footprints fresh in the rain now there is only the train the beast gives wait another master another day

in the borderlands cities forgotten borderlands crossing over me

so wipe the tears from your cheekbones and the blood from your fingers we are the ghosts in the theater of human rights just beyond their security lights

in the borderlands cities forgotten borderlands crossing over me to the borderlands rivers and mountains borderlands crossing over me

(crossed me)

this world is bigger than this bigger than lines drawn by governments illusions we're tracked by your eyes always watching

just like the cameras twisting 'round this place out 24,000 miles in space always so cold and so clear but how do we get to the world from here?

crash the system's hate from the factory floor to the white house gate crush the system's hate from the maquiladora to the White House gate

to the borderlands cities forgotten (crossing over) borderlands crossing over me

to the borderlands rivers and mountains borderlands crossing over me

I ought to know I'm not so black and pretty too big, suspended two dimensional glory in competition watch your suicide clothes: flat screen targets sweat shop fashion

my love my love is bleeding out and my love my love is keeping doubt for all this processed hatred from the heart's eye model citizen

no alibi burning their beauty from your face in plastic we rust one bomb for them another one for us

so wipe the smell of the bourgeoisie off me and wash the billboard bus stop benches imprisoned you'll see caught in the act resist this dying, bloody model citizen lobotomy burning their beauty from your face in plastic we rust one bomb for them another one for us burning the time to say I'm sorry Annihilate one bomb for them another one for us

with the light's out would you be there? would you walk the words off camera? Run beside me turning isolation into family would you be there? Would you walk the words and open stitches don't follow run beside me 'til we stand still and the world moves over

All the world is waiting in the half life where we live nobody left to lead us our time is closing in We'll take it back our time is closing in so make it last our time is closing in

living in apocalypse closing in from the streets to the towers where the air is thin what does it take take to survive in the lumpen maze how to get out alive

our gardens in the ghetto abandoned lots loved in secret it's all that we've got so when the police come we'll tell them it was all of us all of us

our time is closing in

there's the college of protection for the rich white men who frame us for their camera eyes but their science of injustice can be dispossessed everytime we organize from the halls of litigation to the empty docks where the product rolls on by production is protected like an innocent while our dreams are hung and dried the straw men built up will be burning my friend to light and guide our way our way

all the world is waiting in the half life where we live nobody left to lead us our time is closing it

We move from fear to fear I don't believe in consolation no matter what falls out of the bloated mouthpiece of the nation You close the doors beyond your petty Pain remains in vain we realize all the lives 24 hour eyes

another world inside me singing as we go all the way to green lands rolling out too burning bright from both ends radiation sky all i want's the time to say goodbye

the melting continents of water do their blessed balance homeostasis - to colder places storms to rust and quiet all the cities charge! The dreams they follow dreams and I'll believe it when I see you pick up the hammer with me

another world inside me singing as we go all the way to green lands rolling out too burning bright from both ends radiation sky all i want's the time to say goodbye

you've always had a choice, you've never had to look too far one world colliding with our disillusion pole to star red tides and lightning under mountain under seas until the seasons change us and we're fucking tired of standing still

another world inside me singing as we go all the way to green lands rolling out to sea burning bright from both ends radiation sky all i want's the time to say goodbye

The driver shouted out, "Time to turn this around, wipe the dust and spit from his face." out loud sang starvation and blight gone from the light and we're so tired of running

we can move the finish line we can move but we won't be left behind

doubling over buckling under left behind we waste the daylight burn in the night to find the words of violence and history's silence to answer the question is this human kind?

Sing!

is all our innocence driven underground? Are these electronic gallows for the urgent sound with our tendons cut h ow do we run for sport but we're so tired of running we can lose in the sun we can lose but all we have to win is one

doubling over buckling under win is one we waste the daylight burn in the night to find win is one words of violence and history's silence win as one won't answer the question is this human kind?

Every september I always remember to sing to your headstone and hear you sing back wait for the day work for the day how could I forget the world you showed me courage and brilliance curiosity wait for the day work for the day too many watery eyes in protest for a brighter age all the while I'll shine in this song even when my body's gone too many watery eyes in protest for a brighter age all the while you shine in this song even when your body's gone I'll hear you sing back wait for the day work for the day

now every september I always remember to sing to your headstone and hear you sing back wait for the day work for the day too many watery eyes in protest for a brighter age all the while I'll shine in this song even when your body's gone too many watery eyes in protest for a brighter age all the while you'll shine in this song even when your body's gone

beyond time and place in your footstep's trace when we close our eyes and we see your face beyond the days your art and voice are missed beyond sentiment every word is bond beyond memory when these days are gone I'll carry you in my heart and soul and fist I promise now through the days every smile's memorial every time we raise a glass to your name it's your energy flows through me I promise you I will walk with my heart still open courage spoken loud I put my song on the track to hear you sing back

Half alive we fall through worlds we go to colorful altars in the grip of war and woe and the desperate charge to make the damage look undone here's another war across the ocean

casualties of war you better learn casualties of war whose souls are reaching casualties of war you'll find better way casualties of war that's all

through days of hunger and nights that we forget I think that we could heal together strength to strength and from the scars of everything we've left behind to find a new life set our souls alight

casualties of war you better learn casualties of war whose souls are reaching casualties of war you'll find a better way casualties of war that's all in rebel learn

casualties of war whose souls are reaching politics in war we'll find better way we're casualties of war that's alright from the scars of everything we left behind to find a new life set our souls alight through days of hunger nights that we forget that we could heal together strength to strength

If you could see in the dark hallways old lights flicker stobelight shows of gurneys silver and rust refrigeration stalled when the fuse box blew the medicine needed to save you holding tight to a weapon in the place of a toy or your mother's hand white diamonds red earth i t's slavery understand home now is the place between right and this the blast still sings t he bullets blaze the target missed atrocity calmly in your narcotic bliss this last harvest of our innocence

holding tight to a weapon in the place of a toy or your mother's hand white diamonds red earth is slavery understand

postcards from post colonies, post kingdoms progress twisted from sea to sea

postcards from post colonies post kingdoms progress twisted for you and me

you can't walk the light will follow you you can't walk away because you're so conditioned (like me) you can't walk away this land will follow you you can't walk away 'cause this is home