The Bright Lights Of America

Anti-Flag The Bright Lights Of America Lyrics
1.Good And Ready

You'll get yours
when you're good and ready
You'll get yours
and go straight to hell
And when that day comes

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

You can be good and sure
The day belongs to us

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

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

You'll get yours
when you're good and ready
You'll get yours
and go straight to hell
And when that day comes

You can be good and sure
The day belongs to us
You'll get yours

when you're good and ready
You'll get yours
and go straight to hell
And when that day comes

You can be good and sure
The day belongs to us
Life is a horror show
And baby it will never stop
They tell me to watch my step
I answer back: 'You watch your mouth!'
So many stories you have told
You and stories have grown old
SOS who will save our ship?
SOS who gives a shit?
Sinking like a rock with a heart of coal
Sinking like a rock without a soul
Please note, don't underestimate
Cause I'm a cruel motherfucker!
You'll get yours
when you're good and ready
You'll get yours
and go straight to hell
And when that day comes

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

You can be good and sure
The day belongs to us
The new dawn starts this day
As strange and savage poetry
make up your eulogy

Tables turned around and turned on you
No one sheds a tear
No one loses sleep
You disappear

We fall asleep
You disappear
We fall asleep
You disappear
We fall asleep
You disappear
We fall asleep
We fall asleep
You'll get yours
You'll get yours
You'll get yours
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You'll get yours
when you're good and ready
You'll get yours
and go straight to hell
And when that day comes

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

You can be good and sure
The day belongs to us
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2.The Bright Lights Of America

16 year old girl,

in a hollow cooped up place

Just looking for some prettiness,

But the cuts in her arm don't pay for her,
very pretty view
In her mind, she dreams that she is,
far away, from,
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out Merica,
To live and die in the heart of America
where they sell souls,
The bright lights of America
life and death in a sold out Merica,
To live and die in the heart of America
where they sell souls,

A concrete city hell (City hell)
Suburbs that never end (Just like an ocean)
One parent lives in each of them

passed back and forth the ?
to escape their bitter homes,

He's just one,

of desperate ranks,
who can't break free from,
The bright lights of America,
life and death in a sold out Merica,
To live and die in the heart of America,
where they sell souls,
The bright lights of America,
life and death in a sold out Merica,
To live and die in the heart of America,
where they sell souls,

I just want you to know,
There are whole houses full of
fucked up kids like you and me
(Can't find a place)
So many lost in stride,
caught in an endless fight
To leave this empty ugly place ,

I'm leaving you as sane!
The bright lights of America,
life and death in a sold out Merica,
To live and die in the heart of America,
where they sell souls,
The bright lights of America,
life and death in a sold out Merica,
To live and die in the heart of America,
where they sell souls,

The bright lights of America,
life and death in a sold out Merica,
To live and die in the heart of America,
where they sell souls,
The bright lights of America,
life and death in a sold out Merica,
To live and die in the heart of America,
where they sell souls.


3.Vices

I must again
sing my dissent until you're aware

I must again
sing my dissent until you're aware

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

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

We all have our vices,
we all have our flaws
We all have our anger
we all have our love
Father-less is how I prefer to be known
At 6 years young I was left all on my own

The son of a full time working mother
And a molester for a father
who lives in the prison for home

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

I must again
sing my dissent until you're aware

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

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


4.The Modern Rome Burning

How did we get into this mess?
The question is a hypothetical...
The answers are
Written on the face of the oppressed
Sent to death at just 19
Forevermore to be unseen
His mother with tears in her eyes
Crying to God
She calls out, 'Why!?!?'
She'll find her answers
On the face of the oppressed
I bow my head in respect
Of the dead
Because they're all bogged down

And there ain't no fucking S.O.S
That's going to save our sinking ship
Because they're all bogged down
No there ain't no fucking S.O.S
That's gonna save our sinking ship..
(Our ship)
How did we get into this mess?
The question is a bonafide literal
The answers are written on the face of the oppressed
We all the know the answers why
They sold a lot of girls aside
You can roll over and die
Or you can rain down hell tonight!
You'll find your answer
On the face of the oppressed
I bow my head in respect
Of the dead
Because they're all bogged down
And there ain't no fucking S.O.S.
That's going to save our sinking ship
Because they're all bogged down
And there ain't no fucking S.O.S.
That's going to save our sinking ship ..
(Our ship)

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

This is the modern Rome burning
Let it burn

This is the modern Rome burning
Let it burn

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

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

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

This is the modern Rome burning
Let it burn
Let it burn
(Burn, burn, burn)


5.If You Wanna Steal (You Better Learn How To Lie)

My father Michael is a genius

He sees this world the way no one can
He brought me up and shaped my mind
at the tender youthful age of 9
He said don't take this for the way it is
You better watch out son when you get them (?)
Before you know it the friends you trust
will have stabbed you in the back he said

If you wanna steal you better learn how to lie
If you wanna live you better not fear how you die
Heaven and hell are just a myth
so you better pay attention to this moment
If you wanna steal you better learn how to lie
If you wanna live you better not fear how you die
Heaven and hell are just a myth
so you better pay attention to this moment

There's a Fine line between genius and insanity
Is one he often treads so patiently
While pigs and ghouls would always try to knock the door

A system built to perpetuate
Pushers pushin', dealers dealin' and they can't escape
I got kids at home so pretend there's no living in this race?
....
If you wanna steal you better learn how to lie
If you wanna live you better not fear how you die
Heaven and hell are just a myth
so you better pay attention to this moment
If you wanna steal you better learn how to lie
If you wanna live you better not fear how you die
Heaven and hell are just a myth
so you better pay attention to this moment
Sometimes when my apathy
creeps on up from behind me
It reminds me why I moved my TV

Out of the room where I make love
In case I might just look up
And see the sky is falling from above,
see it falling from above

If you wanna steal you better learn how to lie
If you wanna live you better not fear how you die
Heaven and hell are just a myth
so you better pay attention to this moment

If you wanna steal you better learn how to lie
If you wanna live you better not fear how you die
Heaven and hell are just a myth
so you better pay attention to this moment
If you wanna steal you better learn how to lie
If you wanna live you better not fear how you die
Heaven and hell are just a myth
so you better pay attention to this moment


6.No Warning

Anti-Flag-No Warning lyrics
The call... The call...
Heed up and you will fall
The call... The call...

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

This is Critical Mass Destruction
Pro-active Communista sin documentos
The anarchist conspirators are downloading this cookbooks
Keep your politics out of my apathy
It's just the same sad and boring,
melancholy story
No warning
I am a parasite, I am a hypocrite (hypocrite)
It's not an option to be pragmatic (matic)
We live and die by opinion public
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning, no warning

This is Critical Mass Destruction

There is no room to grow inside this cage
They cannot know the animal that they bred out of rage
I heard that fucker's hungry and he loves the taste of flesh
Ripped from the bone of the close-minded, ignorant
No warning
I am a parasite, I am a hypocrite (hypocrite)
It's not an option to be pragmatic (matic)
We live and die by opinion public
Oh yeah

The call... The call... Heed up and you will fall
The call... The call... Heed up and you will fall
The call... The call... Heed up and you will fall
The call... The call...

No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning
Time bomb contemporaries' tick-tock
No warning
I write in white on the black block
No warning, no warning
This is Critical Mass...

Hey... hey... hey...


7.Spit In The Face

How can we be free?
The bloodline of kings in the house of white
Lynch law abiding citizens cashing in their rights
The sky is on fire
The sky is on fire
It's blood red
and torching any horizon it desires
Spit in the face of the deceased
and turn the other cheek
Bite down on your tongue
Spit in the face of the deceased
Disappear like a ghost
when we pass on the street
Spit, spit, spit in the face
I don't give a fuck what you think of me

Are we getting anywhere,
I'm getting out of here

How can we be free?
Abandoning the children in the forest to feed ourselves
We will all stay more healthy if we don't distribute wealth
Aim friendly fire
Aim friendly fire
There is only greed living the life we desire
Spit in the face of the deceased
Bite down on your tongue
and turn the other cheek
Spit in the face of the deceased
Disappear like a ghost
when we pass on the street
Spit, spit, spit in the face
I don't give a fuck what you think of me

Are we getting anywhere,
I'm getting out of here

Spit in the face of the deceased
Bite down on your tongue
and turn the other cheek
Spit in the face of the deceased
Disappear like a ghost
when we pass on the street
Spit, spit, spit in the face
I don't give a fuck what you think of me

Are we getting anywhere,
I'm getting out of here

As we set sail across a raging sea
(as we set sail across a raging sea)
Unconquerable by reality
(we are unconquerable)
As we set sail across a raging sea
(we set sail across a raging sea)
Unconquerable by reality

I am infallible
I am untouchable
Spit in the face of the deceased
Bite down on your tongue
and turn the other cheek
Spit in the face of the deceased
Disappear like a ghost
when we pass on the street
Spit, spit, spit in the face
I don't give a fuck what you think of me
Are we getting anywhere,
I'm getting the fuck out of here
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead, long live the new nation
The nation is dead
Dead........Dead


8.We Are The Lost

Anti-Flag-We Are The Lost lyrics
have you ever been alone?

transparency...

in the middle of millions of others,
but still somehow unseen
she is across the aisle;
he's on the floor above.
your neighbour and every prisoner.
each station filled with static.
broadcasting nothing but noise.

deep inside of each of us
we are the lost,
the dead and gone, the seldom seen.

we are the helpless and the hopeless.
that no one wants to see.

we are the lost,
the dead and gone, the seldom seen.

we are the helpless and the hopeless.
that no one wants to see.

have you ever been drowned?

transparent sea...

in the water with millions of others,
but still somehow unseen.
she is across the aisle;
he's on the floor above.
your neighbour and every stranger.
each station filled with static.
broadcasting nothing but noise.
we are the lost,
the dead and gone, the seldom seen.

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

we are the helpless and the hopeless.
that no one wants to see.
outside we are alive.
where is the line, the great divide?
outside we are alive.
where is the line, the great divide?
are we dead?
are we gone?
are we dead?
are we gone?
are we dead?
are we moving on?
we may fail to see a change
but we're never going to fade away.

we are the lost,
the dead and gone, the seldom seen.

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

we are the helpless and the hopeless.
that no one wants to see.
we will be seen.
we will be seen.
we will be seen.
we will be seen.
we will be seen.
we will be seen.
we will be seen.
we will be seen.


9.Go West

Like a ghost
Emptiness haunted his years
Still his heart was made of nothing less than good
Insecure narration in his head
Something less than schizophrenia
Creeping him with every move
that he makes
Breath he takes
A beautiful walk alone
To his empty home
Where he'll lay
and he'll sleep by himself
Go west young man
Your future is untold
You can find your dreams
on the California coast
Go west young man
Your future isn't too
Far away......

She hates me
And I know it because she said so
And I forgot my notebook
And my socialist manifesto
Will it be a tragedy
Or a comedy
The choice is up to you
Life can lead you along on a leash
Or you can break free
and run on your own
Don't waste your life
Go and live your life
Like it's the last day here on this earth
Go west young man
Your future is untold
You can find your dreams
on the California coast
Go west young man
Your future isn't too
Far away.......
Far away.......
Don't waste your life
Go live your life
Like it's your last day here on this earth
Go west young man
Your future is untold
You can find your dreams
on the California coast
Go west young man
Your future isn't too
Far away......
Far away......
Go west young man
Your future is untold
You can find your dreams
on the California coast
Go west!


10.The Smartest Bomb

No they won't miss you when you're gone
when your heart stops beating and pumping blood
Pull the pin, light the fuse,

this song's the smartest bomb..

You make your own choices and decisions,
you are invulnerable to influences
SIT DOWN, LINE UP, KNUCKLE DOWN, SHUT UP
An electrifying organized crime,
with planes and boats and suicide
SIT DOWN, LINE UP, KNUCKLE DOWN, SHUT UP

You're so----- in control
You're so -----disposable

30 second spot, real life video game
Memory erased, magnet over tape
SIT DOWN-LINE UP-KNUCKLE DOWN-SHUT UP
Get psyched up listen to Godsmack
Dip you toes in the sands of Iraq
SIT DOWN-LINE UP-KNUCKLE DOWN-SHUT UP

You're so ------in control
You're so ------disposable

They won't miss you when you're gone
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
Pull the pin, light the fuse,

this song's the smartest bomb

They won't miss you when you're gone
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
Pull the pin, light the fuse,

this song's the smartest bomb
Every day we've been taught to follow
Every day lettered to live one way
There is no one left to acknowledge
There is nothing left to say
Every day we've been taught to follow
Every day lettered to live one way
There is nothing left to mention
There is nothing left to say
KILL TONIGHT
Will you follow?
KILL TONIGHT
Will you follow?
KILL TONIGHT
Will you follow?
KILL TONIGHT
Will you follow?
KILL TONIGHT
Will you follow?
KILL TONIGHT
Will you follow?
KILL TONIGHT
Will you follow?
KILL TONIGHT
They won't miss you when you're gone
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
Pull the pin, light the fuse,

this song's the smartest bomb
They won't miss you when you're gone
When your heart stops beating and pumping blood
Pull the pin, light the fuse,

this song's the smartest bomb

this song's the smartest bomb


11.Shadow Of The Dead

tonight, tonight, tonight...
i'm gonna stay awake.
safe inside this trojan horse until day breaks.
open it up, tear it up, fuck it up...
in the streets runs a river knee deep.
hidden in the blood of our own
lies the alphabet of the free.
as i walk through the valley in the shadow of the dead,
will you remember them?
as i walk through the valley in the shadow of the dead,
will you remember them?

Ce soir, ce soir, ce soir. Je vais rester eveille.
there is no extinguishing the resistance you betray.
the marquis, zapatista, white rose.
can we see the end of a battle unheard?
for every name in history
there are a thousand more interred.
as i walk through the valley in the shadow of the dead,
will you remember them?
as i walk through the valley in the shadow of the dead,
will you remember them?
and i can't believe my own eyes.
i've seen this sight 100 times.
and i can't believe my own eyes.
i've seen this sight 100 times.
and i can't believe my own eyes.
i've seen this sight 100 times.
and i can't believe my own eyes.

we will be sovereign in the water
in the shadow of the dead.
still no one remembers them.
we will be free in the cold of the shadow of the dead.
oh, you will remember then.

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


12.The Ink And The Quill (Be Afraid)

the water turned black
and it's just getting darker.
so be afraid, be afraid,
be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
the neo-christian theocrats pray
on a Sunday afternoon
then welcome in Pinochet's men
to intimidate and kill.
all that we know, all that we know is
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be very afraid of the coming nightmare.

so filled with exhilaration
and feels like intoxication.
there's nothing like a firefight to get your blood pumping.
we get off to the rhythm of the trigger and destruction.
fallujah to New Orleans with impunity to kill.
we are the hidden fist of the free market.
we are the ink, we are the quill.
what have you learned... through the years?
what have you learned... from your fears?
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
water tastes like arsenic -
feel it pumpking coursing in your blood.

your throat gets tight, you can't quite breathe.
room spinning - kiss your ass goodbye.
now you're off, you've been taken on a ride.

we've been sold, been sold a bill of lies.
been sold a bill of lies
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be very afraid of the coming nightmare.
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be afraid, be afraid...
be very afraid of the coming nightmare.

there's a storm cloud gathering overhead.
ominous, black, reigning hell.
when it drops jackboot down on your streets.
you're gonna pray like hell
that you're armed to the teeth.
built on a corporate welfare scam.
Rumsfield doctrine stealing wealth.
the wall street bankers weep.
profits to saccharine sweet,
as the storm gains strength the aging levees break.
the ancient ground does quake.
and your lungs will fill your spineless apathy.


13.Tar And Sagebrush

Anti-Flag-Tar And Sagebrush(Rollin)lyricas
If you utter a sound
Don't make a move
We'll kill you

Then they gathered around me

One man took my right arm

And another man took my left

When the third man grabbed the front of my coat

Then thrown in to an automobile we go
Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in that 20 mile ride

Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in the beautiful California moonlight

In an auto with six man and chauffeur
Yeah these Christian patriots

They put fingers in my eyes and nose

As they subjected me to torture

Yeah the torture that a good fearing man

Is capable of conceiving
Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in that 20 mile ride

Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in the beautiful California moonlight

You won't kiss the American flag

Well by god we'll make you

We'll ram it down your throat

Sing the Star Spangled Banner with feeling

They put their autos together

So the lamp set a sickly stage light

Fourteen defenders of this country

All commanding me to undress

They poured tar over my body and hair

In the absence of feathers they rubbed sagebrush instead
Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in that 20 mile ride

Oh I wish
I could describe
The terror in the beautiful California moonlight

My suffering was terrible
But my greatest pain was over you