1. |
Learning
02:01
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Learning to live with less is a need of all to do
Fuck all of their symbols of status, and refine our souls
Loving your brother
Loving your sister now
Will make you happier than any house on a hill
We’ve got to unionize
We’ve got to unify ourselves before it’s too late
We need to destroy the landmarks of socio-economic progress
It’s just their bullshit, when all we need it love, love
Loving your brother
Loving your sister now
Will make you happier than any house on a hill
We’ve got to unionize
We’ve got to unify ourselves before it’s too late
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2. |
For Me
02:39
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No money, No Faith, No fear
The last thing that kept you has gone away
The last thing that kept you here has slowly left today
You think no one cares about you
Its the same sad story
Gonna unload a gun in face
Thats not the way
Thats not the way
I care for you
Homeless left for dead on the street
Have it just as bad as you
And life is getting boring
The jokes are getting older now
And everything is similar
It’s too much the same for you
So now you want a change
Stay here for me
Food Not Bombs isn’t your way of helping out anymore
It’s been like a means of survival since you walked out through that door
Now no one cares about you
It’s the same sad story
Gonna unload that gun in your face
You know it’s not the way
End your life? maybe you don’t care
But I do
Stay here for me
And life is getting boring
The jokes are getting older now
And everything is similar
It’s too much the same for you
So now you want a change
Stay here for me
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3. |
Struggle Against
02:04
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We went so well together, always side by side
But now the days go by and I’m left here wondering why
We aren’t such good friends anymore
I see you walking down the street
I hope you find what your looking for
We’re always fighting
Well it’s a struggle to struggle against
It’s just a conflict of our interests
We’re always attempting to destroy
The society that tears us apart
But we never seem to get that far
Well I got no regrets to carry with me
Somethings just werent’ meant to be, I look back then
And maybe things were not so good
We couldn’t admit who was right, now I would
We’re always fighting
Well it’s a struggle to struggle against
It’s just a conflict of our interests
We’re always attempting to destroy
The society that tears us apart
But we never seem to get that far
So call me what you want
But your the one that sold out being what they want
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4. |
White Riot
01:29
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5. |
Slave
02:35
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All the powers in their hands
With a doctrine to enslave
It’s 1996 now all the children must pay
Tied up, and gagged
Vanity displayed
Naked and helpless
It makes this hard to say
We never asked for guns or imperialism
I never aksed for war but your so eager to steal
From the voiceless people
To fill your empty house of lies
On the fucking hill
Lives are commodities, Didn’t you fucking know?
We can kill in the name of God while the saints come marching home
Don’t try to break the bubble that holds in the nationalism
Or youll be against the state with it’s cold gun to your head
We never asked for guns or imperialism
I never asked for war but your so eager to steal
From the voiceless people
To fill your empty house of lies
On the hill
Fill up your house of lies
Search for something to hold inside
Something to call your own
Something called LOVE
Fill up your house of lies
Search for something to hold inside
Something to call your own
Something called LOVE
LOVE
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6. |
Home
02:13
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Stopped by your porch, fifteen past nine
I had just sat down to watch TV
Your at the door, starring at the floor
You said take these credit cards and don’t give them back to me
You said we would never part
Parents said you were moving south
Now it’s not a home, it’s just a house
I went to your backdoor, the backdoor was locked
Went to your garage, the windows were shut
At the top of the street, you left your dog’s toy
I used to be your boyfriend, now i’m just a boy
You said we would never part
Parents said you were moving south
Now it’s not a home, it’s just a house
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7. |
Quiet
02:13
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I don't want to be tied down, unless I’m tied down to you
Hell lies in loneliness, being without you
So now I wait around, thinking about you
Knowing so damn well, your not thinking about me
I'm not feeling good about my fucked up state
Maybe one day I'll ask you so you say no way
I think it’s better
Better than living in a dream
Now I lay down too hard
Feeling keep blowing up inside
Will you be there in the next morning, hold my hand while the sun is shining
So now I wait around, thinking about you
Knowing so damn well, your never thinking about me
I'm not feeling good about my fucked up state
Maybe one day I'll ask you so you say no way
I think it's better
Better than living in a dream
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8. |
Teenaged
02:26
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Had a dream, thought I needed to pray
I needed to get away from whats wrong with me
Society is killing me
A stone church’s doors won’t open for me
And I need to get inside
Or else I might suicide
Theres a storm tonight, you can look in my eyes
I play it off as I’m thinking…but I’m crying inside
For you, For you, For you
Have a home but no one’s home
In other words I’m all alone
And all I could ever want is someone like you
Had a lot of money but I’m broke right now
In the city and theres no way out tonight
Me and myself hanging out, and I think about you
Theres a storm tonight, you can look in my eyes
I play it off as I’m thinking…but I’m crying inside
For you, For you, For you
Theres a storm tonight, you can look in my eyes
I play it off as I’m thinking…but I’m crying inside
For you, For you, For you
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9. |
Forward
02:48
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Resist what our forefathers told us in their hour of need
What we see today is not necessarily being free
Resist the people afraid of change
Resist the cynic that tells you there’s no fucking way
Because theres a way if you got a brain
Ratify your thoughts, Mobilize your dreams
The future can only give you what you put in
Liberation can only come once you have the guts to begin
Resist the police, and people that tell you what to do
If they try to change your mind their an enemy to you
Resist racist heritage of for which many have died
Remember the tears of which oppression cries
And free yourself
Because theres a way if you got a brain
Ratify your thoughts, Mobilize your dreams
The future can only bring you what you put in
Liberation can only come once you have the guts to begin
To free yourself
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10. |
Caffeine
02:06
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I don't understand what caused the fight
And I don’t understand why you think it's up to you
And I got myself jaded tonight
I had an opportunity and everything to lose
The aggressions gone
It's 11:30
The televisions on
And I need caffeine
Do you want me to stop seeing you?
Why do you have to cry so late at night?
The aggressions gone
It’s 11:30
The televisions on
And I need caffeine
You can't give up when you don't even try
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11. |
Quiet (Version)
02:15
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I don't want to be tied down, unless I’m tied down to you
Hell lies in loneliness, being without you
So now I wait around, thinking about you
Knowing so damn well, your not thinking about me
I'm not feeling good about my fucked up state
Maybe one day I'll ask you so you say no way
I think it’s better
Better than living in a dream
Now I lay down too hard
Feeling keep blowing up inside
Will you be there in the next morning, hold my hand while the sun is shining
So now I wait around, thinking about you
Knowing so damn well, your never thinking about me
I'm not feeling good about my fucked up state
Maybe one day I'll ask you so you say no way
I think it's better
Better than living in a dream
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12. |
Forward (Version)
02:46
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Resist what our forefathers told us in their hour of need
What we see today is not necessarily being free
Resist the people afraid of change
Resist the cynic that tells you there’s no fucking way
Because theres a way if you got a brain
Ratify your thoughts, Mobilize your dreams
The future can only give you what you put in
Liberation can only come once you have the guts to begin
Resist the police, and people that tell you what to do
If they try to change your mind their an enemy to you
Resist racist heritage of for which many have died
Remember the tears of which oppression cries
And free yourself
Because theres a way if you got a brain
Ratify your thoughts, Mobilize your dreams
The future can only bring you what you put in
Liberation can only come once you have the guts to begin
To free yourself
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13. |
Compassion
02:02
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Death walks the streets of a city
A city that has forgotten how to care
Indifference breeds the disease
That fills out the air
Have we turned a blind eye
To the sea of escalating poverty
We continue to live our lives
Drowning in despair
Too many living in the streets
Too many dying alone
Point out responsibility
Another blood stain on the hands of society
So we continue to waste our time on solutions impossible to define
While we search for an easy answer
Another gives up the fight
Human Compassion we find against the selfishness
We sit complacent and allow the helpless to die off
Doesn’t matter what you know is wrong
Are you content to follow along?
Who will be the first of us to rise and take a stand?
Am I a fool for believing in my fellow man?
Do you have the courage to fight for what you think is wrong
Or are you content to follow along?
Who will be the first of us to rise and take a stand?
Am I a fool for believing in my fellow man?
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15. |
Resist, Destroy, Resist
03:42
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Freedom, the ability to live without fear of violence
Or commitment of unwillingful acts
The screams at night
Hearing someone you care about being slapped around your own house
But your too scared to do anything about it
And when you finally do something, the victim won’t even press charges out of fear
A child, afraid to think about the warzone their house is
Every other family is Norman Rockwell, while yours loves his work
But is comparable to a warring country
I say war, because thats what it is: A War
A war against patriarchy
A hierarchial disease that places the male as the ruler
The wife an indentured servant
And the children as parents
To witness this violence, this war, strikes a deep dischord on my insides
But to speak of it feels like a flux of all the hate towards the father
This hate has been in my veins, building up inside my veins for the past seventeen fucking years
Resist!
The mother is the architect of resistance
She stands scarred, shaking, but still she stands
She clutches her children with protection
She blocks out the violence
Mother
Strong
Cast from the torture
Release from the ghetto of patriarchy
That transcends all economic-class systems
The resistance can never end
The resistance can never end
Resist
Destroy
Resist
It never ends
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