Mobilize

Anti-Flag Mobilize Lyrics
1.911 For Peace

It's in the paper every day
I see it in the headlines and I feel so sick, yeah
Another life leaves this world (this world) so full of hate
But short
Short on compassion
Short on humanity
Asking myself in vain, shaken by the shock,
'do we even have a chance?'

I don't wanna die
(I don't wanna kill)
I don't wanna kill
(I don't wanna die)
We are all human.
Let' start to prove it.

This is a plea for peace (world peace)
To the oppressors of the world and to
To the leaders of nations, corporate profit takers,
to the everday citizen
Greed, envy, fear, hate-- the competition has to stop.
When you see someone down, now's the time to pick them up
Set aside your differences and never look back, no

I don't wanna die
(I don't wanna kill)
I don't wanna kill
(I don't wanna die)
We are all human
It's time to prove it.

Isn't everybody tired of the fighting? (hey, hey)
Isn't everybody tired of the killing? (hey, hey)
Isn't everybody tired of the dying? (hey, hey)
Isn't everybody tired fo the hatred? (hey, hey)
Violence.. fighting... killing...dying.. aaaaaaah!!

(excerpt from Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'I Have a Dream' speech)

I don't wanna die
(I don't wanna kill)
I don't wanna kill
(I don't wanna die)
We are all human
It's time to prove it.

We are all human
It's time to prove it.
We are all human...


2.Mumia's Song

Arm in Arm - Fists held high
'set them free' - our battle cry
Take back the streets
And our right to free speech
Locked up and put away
For fear of what they'll say

Crooked cops plus crooked judges, don't equal justice
Free all political prisoners
Racist cops plus racist judges, don't equal justice
Free all political prisoners

Brick by brick - wall by wall
Wont sit back - let our brothers and sisiters fall
The unjust justice system
Our voice will overthrow


Leonard Peltier
Father Roy Bourgeois
The Angola 3
The MOVE 9
Ken Sara Wiwa
Lori Brenson
Like Nelson Mandela
Keep hope alive... KEEP HOPE ALIVE!!!

Brick by brick, wall by wall...
We're gonna free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Brick by brick, wall by wall...
We're gonna free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Brick by brick, wall by wall...
FREE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL!!!


3.What's The Difference?

The constitution crumbles beneath the weight of fascists
No right to assemble - no free speech for the masses
Seattle '99 the mayors decree
Anti-W.T.O. statements are grounds for arresting!

Our leaders decry Tianamen
And dare to speak of freedom
As they unleash our cops on us
So... what's... the fuckin' difference

Behind locked doors in session
World sponsored corporate politicians
Structure policy to build more coporate strength
Fight strength - with strength
At news conferences they claim, 'we listen'
while they lock out their own constituents
So we march on to raise our voice
Because we are left with no choice!!!

In China, Nike pays workers fifty cents a day
In the U.S., lawmakers give China 'free trade'
Human rights-based sanctions just washed away
When our lawmakers are owned by multinational's money


4.We Want To Be Free

All night out on the streets
I got the back of all my friends
We never want to go back home
Never want the night to end

Because we want to be... FREE!
We want to be...FREE!

The schools that they send us to are prisons
The same can be said for their churches too
I don't want my mind or my arms tied in bondage
I don't want to be another cloned state tool
When I'm with my friends, when I'm at a show
Thats when everything is OK
Thats why I follow my heart every single day
Single day... EVERY SINGLE DAY!!


5.Nbc(No Blood-Thirsty Corporations)

I herad a man on the radio saying, 'we're facing an economic
hell'
It creates a vision in my head of ten thousand kids sent off to
kill
Theres always a voice that says, 'you've got a choice'
But a choice between shit is still shit!!

Resistance, Resistance
I won't be used
By a fascist corporation, a rightwing politician,
I'm not a slave, not a tool, fuck you!

I've got an idea in my head and I know it is nothing new
But it seems to me a better plan than being used, and being
screwed
Think your safe to spread your hate from behind your iron gate's
Your walls will never be strong enough to keep us down


Sometimes there is not a choice, like when your backs against
the wall
So it's better to make a move, before they've set you up to fall
SO YOU... so you better organize
SO YOU... so you better open eyes
SO YOU... so you better sound out loud the call
Before you find your back is up against the wall
THEIR fucking wall


6.Right To Choose

Thrown out by her family
In the midst of anger
Mom and dad can't make sense
Of her sexual preference
It seems rhe cars
Just drive by on this night
No one has any idea
What this feels like

You wave your flag
Tell me I'm free
Then use the word fag
To fuck with me

Judged by parents and the public
The Fingers pointed at them
Well I'll point mine right back
They Must Realize
You can't change whom you love
And gender is not the issue

That night she said, 'I will be true'
Meant every word she said to you
It seems today, to be yourself
Takes so much courage and strength
If you were half the human, as people who 'come out'
This world would be a better place
You wave your flag
Tell me I'm free
Then use the word fag
To fuck with me
I'm free, fucking free!! YeaHH!!


7.We Don't Need It

Lost on the street because you don't know what to do
There's something in your heart that's coming over you
SOMETHING IN YOU- SOMETHING IN YOUR HEART!
It takes you back to a better time and place
The leaders of this world have shortchanged the human race
SOMETHING IN YOU- SOMETHING IN YOUR HEART!

We've spent our lives living in their past
We've spent our lives living in their past
One look at their world and it prompts these words,
'WE DON'T NEED IT!'

The state of The State, it makes you feel sick
Back stabbing, dollar driven, status quo shit!
SOMETHING IN YOU- SOMETHING IN YOUR HEART!


I been thinking about the sad state of the world
Don't you know it starts with you and that it starts with me?!?!
This is the new fucking millennium...
We're going to turn the world upside down!
It's time to show some true humanity
And time to show we truly care...
For the world, for each other, for those we've known...
Through all our years...


8.Anatomy Of Your Enemy

10 easy steps to create an enemy and start a war:
Listen closely because we will all see this weapon used in our
lives.
It can be used on a society of the most ignorant to the most
highly educated.
We need to see their tactics as a weapon against humanity and
not as truth.

First step: create the enemy. Sometimes this will be done for
you.

Second step: be sure the enemy you have chosen is nothing like
you.
Find obvious differences like race, language, religion, dietary
habits
fashion. Emphasize that their soldiers are not doing a job,
they are heatless murderers who enjoy killing!

Third step: Once these differences are established continue to
reinforce them
with all disseminated information.

Fourth step: Have the media broadcast only the ruling party's
information
this can be done through state run media.
Remember, in times of conflict all for-profit media repeats the
ruling party's information.
Therefore all for-profit media becomes state-run.

Fifth step: show this enemy in actions that seem strange,
militant, or different.
Always portray the enemy as non-human, evil, a killing machine.

THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY. THIS IS HOW TO START A WAR.
THIS IS HOW TO CREATE AN ENEMY.

Sixth step: Eliminate opposition to the ruling party.
Create an 'Us versus Them' mentality. Leave no room for opinions
in between.
One that does not support all actions of the ruling party should
be considered a traitor.

Seventh step: Use nationalistic and/or religious symbols and
rhetoric to define all actions.
This can be achieved by slogans such as 'freedom loving people
versus those who hate freedom.'
This can also be achieved by the use of flags.

Eighth step: Align all actions with the dominant deity.
It is very effective to use terms like, 'It is god's will' or
'god bless our nation.'

Ninth step: Design propaganda to show that your soldiers
have feelings, hopes, families, and loved ones.
Make it cleat that your soldiers are doing a duty; they do not
want or like to kill.

Tenth step: Create and atmosphere of fear, and instability
and then offer the ruling party as the only solutions to comfort
the public's fears.
Remembering the fear of the unknown is always the strongest
fear.


We are not countries. We are not nations. We are not religions.
We are not gods. We are not weapons. We are not ammunition. We
are not killers.
We will NOT be tools.

I'm not a fucker
I will not die
I will not kill
I will not be your slave
I will not fight your battle
I will not die on your battlefield
I will not fight for your world
I am not a fighter
I'm in UNITYYY!!!


9.Underground Network

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 ad a massive
organization plans to rise up to its feet... it does it like
this... a pirate radio voice transmite 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 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
make our rights away so... stand up and fight fight...! just
take a look around the world and you're going to 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 worldwide working together to make a stand,
to tell the truth!


10.Tearing Everyone Down

i thought i'd begun to see a change but the more things change,
the more they stay the same back stabbing and name calling, the
trade marks of your act you talk and talk of unity, but divide
with your attacks (you say), 'i'd like to see a change, i'd like
to see a change, i'd like to see a change, but i'm too busy...
tearing everyone down...' all us kids, we try to make a change
some kids start a band, others start a zine you, no matter what
your path you throw a curve in what could be achieved, then give
up and move onto some other thing (you say), 'i'd like to see a
change, i'd like to see a change, i'd like to see a change, but
i'm too busy... tearing everyone down...' take a break from your
fights, try to open up your mind tonight when you feel that's
complete then we can tackle this society! you may not like
everything in life i do... but that doesn't mean, i'm not trying
to change the same problems as you (you say), 'i'd like to see a
change, i'd like to see a change, i'd like to see a change, but
i'm too busy... tearing everyone down...'


11.Bring Out Your Dead

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 stil 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...
start funding lives that move for changes not fundingleaders
that oppress and use when politicians become nothing but major
corporations posing as humans, real humans lose... bring out
your dead... oppression intimidation suppression.


12.A New Kind Of Army

look back...on history, nothing much has changed thousands...of
soldiers of all countries, all marching the same every nation's
leader says that our side is right every nation's leader says
the time has come to fight but they use the common people, to
settle their scores it's time that we refuse to fight in any of
their wars! we're looking to start a new kind of army, (that's)
too smart to fight, too smart to die we're looking to start a
new kind of army, (that's) too smart to fight, too smart to
kill... for you! join now...the ranks of all nations who refuse
to go to war refuse...to pull the trigger of a gun for leaders
'round the world i'd rather fight to spread some tolerance and
unity than buy into their nationalistic brainwashing killing
mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, common human beings not
savages but people, like you, like me! we're looking to start a
new kind of army, (that's) too smart to fight, too smart to die
we're looking to start a new kind of army, (that's) too smart to
fight, too smart to kill... for you! we're looking for a few
good men we're looking for a few good womyn who are not afraid
to fight against tyranny but refuse to fight...with tyranny
refuse!!! we're looking to start a new kind of army, (that's)
too smart to fight, too smart to die we're looking to start a
new kind of army, (that's) too smart to fight, too smart to
kill... for you! *note:the spelling of the word 'women' as
'womyn' is not a mis-spelling, but a result of feminist
conscience


13.Their System Doesn't Work For You

one day while sitting in my room you came in preaching your
words predicting doom you've never once been happy with me
because im not what you want me to be...no you tried to teach me
to pray and go to school you tried to teach me to be the systems
tool but you missed what i was smart enough to see that their
what they say is true oh...their system doesn't work for you
oh...you can be what you want to be oh...don't have to choose to
join the corporate army for god and country give up your life
don't try to figure out what's wrong or right you never tried to
stop to look to see that you're exactly what you're told to be
you did everything fucking right you followed the systems
guiding light and now you bitch to me to fucking get a job when
you don't like the fucking life you've got (you fucking


14.Free Nation

state officials talk of freedom they-talk in this country that
we live in they-talk free to be harassed and be beaten by the
pigs your rights-no rights till your fucking broken, crippled,
or until you're fucking dead they pass laws unfair to gays
their-work and separatist laws to keep the non-whites in their
place their-work family values as a smoke screen blowing in your
face their truth-no truth family values isn't something that
shouldn't be based on hate justice presides over them, late into
the night a blind fold covering their eyes but something isn't
right... under their arms there are shackles on her legs and the
hands that once held up her scales are bound, are bound in
chains and behind their closed doors they conspire through the
night more work-sick work and they won't stop until this nation
is all straight and all white they call it a free nation, but
all it is, is a nazi nation


15.Spaz's House Destruction Party

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!'
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, 'ah... yeah, it is.'


16.Die For Your Government

you've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government? die
for your country? that's shit! there's a gulf war vet, dying a
slow, cold death and the government says, 'we don't know the
source of his sickness.' but don't believe what they say,
because your government is lying they've done it before and
don't you know they'll do it again a secret test, government
built virus 'subject test group:gulf battle field troops' you've
gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government? die for
your country? that's shit! first world war veterans slaughtered,
by general eisenhower you give them your life, they give you a
stab in the back radiation, agent orange, tested on us souls
guinea pigs for western corporations i never have, i never will
pledge allegiance to their flag you're getting used, you'll end
up dead! you've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your
government? die for your country? that's shit! i don't need you
to tell me what to do and i don't need you to tell me what to
be... fuck you! i don't need you to tell me what to say and i
don't need you to tell me what to think! what to think! what to
think, what to think, what to think, think, think, think! you've
gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government? die for
your country? that's shit!