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Anti-Flag Underground Network Lyrics
1.Angry, Young And Poor

GO.......OH YEAH.............GO
he knows he'll be alone tonight,

while contemplating, 'What can i do?'

The lack of hope leaves him feeling violent,

it's not that he's looking for a fight,
it's just... he don't know where to turn,
more stress than help,
from home and school,
and on the streets his life's out of control...

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

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

She never even had a chance,

mental, sexual, physical violence

not once she heard an encouraging word,
just the phrase, 'you better shut up!'
and 'you're going nowhere!'
her sad stories,
all left untold
so her life became something,
so out of control...

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

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

don't know where to turn
don't know what to do...
Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!

Politicians talk it up,
about their love, for the USA's youth

But when it comes time to put up,
their rhetoric falls back on every excuse
every excuse, every excuse...
Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!

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

don't know where to turn
don't know what to do...
Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!


2.Bring Out Your Dead

Spend a lifetime working for these people
To make what is earned in one day

There are options to choose
I call it Social Progress
Progress to not be abused

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

YEAH!!!

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

They were arrested for their views
It was the protesters they screwed
And still had the nerve to ask
Who I was voting for
Cause when you silence our youth
Then you silence the truth

Our right not to remain...

I won't remain silentSILENT!!!

I won't remain
I won't remain silent

Bring out your dead...
Oppression
Intimidation
Suppression


3.Culture Revolution

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revolution!

In your head!

On the streets!

Move!


4.Daddy Warbux

Our thoughts and our lives controlled
by pocket books of rich politicians,
like a rich daddy warbux
they pay for the deaths of
those who speak of revolution
while they keep us at each other's
throats while we still pay
their tax notes revolting

against the few the rich,
the bigoted few
they pay for the deaths of those
so we're revolting against the few
our thoughts and our lives
controlled by pocket books of rich politicians,
like a rich daddy warbux
they pay for the deaths of those
who speak of revolution
while they keep us at each other's throats
while we still pay their tax notes stand up

don't fall don't live don't
die for them revolting...
revolting against the few...
the few...


5.Spaz's House Destruction Party

i want to tell a little story '
bout a party that went all right
but went all wrong
i want to tell 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 to his house sparked off an idea,
'i think i'll have one more party at my place...'
so off he set with his master plan
the invitations in his hand read,
and this was just the first night
of a three-day long party
ANTI-FLAG Spaz's House Destruction Party LYRICS
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
of a three-day long 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

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... it is..
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

go
hey


6.This Machine Kills Fascists

We've run out of patience,
You've run out of time !
This scene will not fall victim
To your violence or lies.
Your 'values' are nothing
But excuses to start fights.
Quit fronting like you're standing
For a moral cause tonight...
United as one, we won't stand aside,
You tried to fuck with our scene...
We're gonna fuck your life !!!
This machine, this machine.
This machine... THIS MACHINE,
KILLS FUCKING FASCISTS !

Dead... That's right, DEAD !

You don't have to be a rascist,
To be a nazi, fuck !
Your mindless nationalism
Gives you credentials enough.
You spew your right wing rhetoric,
When we got your attention...
You've mistaken the punk scene
For the Republican Convention !
No more infiltration
no more right wing lies,
You don't belong in our scene...
We'll fight you till we die !!!
This machine, this machine.
This machine... THIS MACHINE,
KILLS FUCKING FASCISTS !
Dead... ahhh... DIE !


7.Underground Network

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the national media cover clinton/lewinsky
while the world's governments
sell out millions on the issue of free trade
but somewhere in the night -
a force is not asleep
and a massive organization
plans to rise up to its feet...

and like this...

a pirate radio voice transmits
into the night
and from d.c. to peking email
warns of lost global rights
and the hoax the world's leaders
wanted no one to see
comes crashing on their heads from grass roots -
striking it down the blows coming for the world's...
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corporate media can't keep us beat dow
brainwashed, enslaved
'cause of our... underground network
alternative communication

they try to blind us but we...
stand up and fight! stand up and fight!
they try to keep us ignorant but we...
stand up and fight! stand up and fight!
they want to take our rights away so...
stand up and fight! stand up and fight!
stand up and fight! fight...!

just take a look around this world,
It's not our media, it's their fucking media,
all we get is neo facists
raise your fist, TELL THE TRUTH!

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corporate media can't keep us beat down,
brainwashed, enslaved
'cause of our... underground network
alternative communication
NO! COMMUNICATION!


8.Vieques, Puerto Rico: Bikini Revisited

All united, all as one
let's make a stand...
ANTI-FLAG Vieques, Puerto Rico:Bikini Revisited LYRICS
We've got a privilege in the power
that we command !
So let's not drown in ignorance,
And let our strenght waste away...
As the richest nation in the world
we've got a responsibility !

Vieques, Puerto Rico
a pretectorate -- of the USA.
Part a home for native families,
the rest...
A NAVY BOMBING RANGE !!

Shells misfired kill civilians there,
And napalm hangs in the island air.
But the government beats down
protests against this misuse...
So...
STAND UP, FIGHT BACK
RESIST-REFUSE !!
'Cause if we don't do it
no one's going to...
So,
STAND UP, FIGHT BACK
RESIST-REFUSE !!
'Cause if we don't do it
no one's going to...

I look into the eyes
of a dead island boy's face.
His (eyes) remind me of another's,
From a different time and place...

Where A-Bombs baked the ground,
Of Bikini's tropical lands.
Where a culture was erased,
Families misplaced,
BY A NAZI-ESQUE LIKE PLAN !!!

All done, in your name
by Uncle Sam...
So if we don't fight it
then we're guilty to !

So...
STAND UP, FIGHT BACK
RESIST-REFUSE !!
'Cause if we don't do it
no one's going to...

I think it's 'bout time
that we had a change...
I think it's 'bout time
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !!

I think it's 'bout time
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !!

I think it's 'bout time
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !!

I think it's 'bout time
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !!

I think it's 'bout time
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !!

MAKE A CHANGE..
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !
MAKE A CHANGE..
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !
MAKE A CHANGE..
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !
CHANGE
that WE MAKE A CHANGE !


9.Until It Happens To You

You walk past an activist
who is talking on the street
About political prisoners
locked up in your own home state
And you think just for a minute
you think just a second
Then you say, 'That can't be true!
Cause I live in the land of the freedom...
where no one gets the screw!'
You turn your face, you turn your back
You say, 'That can't be true!'
You stay safe lost in your prefab world
Cause you're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to you
Just wait till it happens to you!

You've heard it every day
since the first day of your life
But you never stopped to think
what you heard was full of lies
You can't think just for a minute
can't think just for a second
Cause you're nothing but a tool
Whose thoughts are tailored and fashioned
Each night by the evening news
You turn your face, you turn your back
You say, 'That can't be true!'
You stay safe lost in your prefab world
Cause you're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to you
Just wait till it happens to you!
You could stand on the street
talk 'til you're blue in the face
And they would not make you stop
cause you have no power base
But if Dan Rather got on the Evening News,
And said, 'It's time for revolution!'
The F.B.I. would fuck him up so bad
He'd wish he wasn't living!

They call it America
'land of the free, home of the brave'
And they call it America
'land of the free, home of the brave'
Yeah they call it America
'land of the free, home of the brave'
More to the truth it's a murderer
it's the land of the Enslaved!
Enslaved!
Enslaved!
Enslaved!
Enslaved!
Enslaved!
Enslaved!
Enslaved!
You turn your face, you turn your back
You say, 'That can't be true!'
You stay safe lost in your prefab world
Cause you're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to
Sure it won't happen
Sure it won't happen to you!


10.Watch The Right

watch your right watch your left
watch your right watch your left
watch the right watch the center
and watch your back!
ANTI-FLAG Watch The Right LYRICS
it's on the radio
it's on the TV news
conservatives and liberals
with ever clashing views
but as the days go by
i can't tell which side is talking
their left is in the center
and labeled 'liberal doctrine'
they do nothing for you...
they do nothing for me... no!
they give us nothing to believe
watch your right watch your left
watch the right watch the center
and watch your back!

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

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

they do nothing for you...
they do nothing for me... no!
they give us nothing to believe
watch your right watch your left
watch the right watch the center
and watch your back!
watch your right watch your left
watch the right watch the center
and watch your back!

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

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

watch the right watch the center
and watch your back!


11.The Panama Deception

their 2+2 does not equal 4
their 2+2 equals whatver
they want us to die for
about face! - snap to attention
form your own
conclusions to the things you see
about face! -
sometimes the explanations
don't add -
up to the facts

time and again they manufacture a cause
and rally the public around it
check out the movie 'wag the dog'
killing - to further the interest of private corporations
killing - to control global economic situations
Killing - for personal gain (i.e. Bush in Panama)
Learn the fuckin' TRUTH
you won't be so quick to sign on!

about face! - snap to attention
form your own
conclusions to the things you see
about face! -
sometimes the explanations
don't add -
up to the facts

Our lives reflect tv sitcoms and tragedies
Like a bad joke, i ask
'how many of you don't see...?
and just how
many...
How many of you swallow the lies...?
How many of you do not realize...?'

Gung ho and true
to the stars and stripes
they fuckin' brainwashed you
to do their bidding...
and like a flock of sheep
with wool over your eyes
you never stop to question
you just fall into line
the media's a business
that provides entertainment
heir bottom line: money
and stories that will make it...
so they run with stories
that promotes the lies
to keep the ratings coming
wealth from promoting world strife
life must be so easy
when you don't have to think
black and white like printing
from the newspaper's ink
i wish i had the chance
to reveal the lies
but you're so fucking brainwashed
would it even help to try...

TO GET THROUGHT... TO YOU!?!?

to get through, through, through
through, through, through...
to get through to you!


12.Stars And Stripes

welcoming with open arms and
with open hearts
in the end they found their arms in shackles
and their hearts torn out
this country named 'america'
is built on graves
of the natives who lived here before
genocide took place
the word 'america' means 'freedom' - as in
'free to kill the free...'
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me
for me don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me
for me... For me!
it's the same today as then
as U.S. (tax) dollars are spent
to rid the native insurgence in Mexico
and any other U.S. (corporate) 'interests'
the 3rd world is a modern day playground
for multinational companies
and the tax dollars we're forced to pay
fund these heartless U.S. policies
their explanation...
'it's national interest, national security...'
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
they Stand for greed
they stand for hate, for nothing i believe
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
at little big horn national cemetery
there's a monument that reads:
'to the soldiers killed in montana while clearing
hostile indians away... '
and there's a flag there flying high
over the fallen killers' graves
when they call on me to die for them
i'll say... 'not me!'
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
they Stand for greed
they stand for hate, for nothing i believe
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me...
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me...
they Stand for greed
they stand for hate
for nothing i believe...
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me...
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
they Stand for greed
they stand for hate, for nothing i believe
don't fly those stripes
those stars-and-stripes for me...


13.A Start

Antirats, monkeys,
mice - teach ' em little tricks
stay far from creativity,
and from politics
'cause the multinationals
need a solid work force
or their growing profit margins
will be wiped out at the source

conform to the status quo, set rules
hold your mind into their fucking tool

reciting back their facts and numbers
that don't make you smart
there's much more to intelligence
and thinking for yourself would be a start start
it would be a start... start!
it would be a start... start!
it would be a start... start!
it would be a start... start!

pledge allegiance to a flag of
which you're taught no history
not mexico, granada
panama, or middle east
but they're just a mere fraction of
this country's shady past
skeletons locked in the closet
and i doubt they'll be the last
'national interest, ' defined for you...
but who's it really serve?
who's getting screwed?

reciting back their facts and numbers
that don't make you smart
there's much more to intelligence
and thinking for yourself would be a start start
it would be a start... start!
it would be a start... start!
it would be a start... start!

your prison warden is your school

training you to be a social screw

stage a jailbreak, swim against the flow

show those motherfuckers what you know!

i feel like i am suffocating

i feel my life depreciating

i knowtheir teachings are riddled with lies,
distortions, shit!

it kills me knowing the masses are so brainwashed
by it - brainwashed by it!