American Shutdown

Unit F American Shutdown Lyrics
1.American Shutdown

There's a new wave sweeping America. It's a swelling of national
pride.
Are you patriotic? Have you pasted the flag all over your luxury
car?
Independent thinking is definitely sinking when opposition is
pushed aside.

Fist first!
Into the future.
Head first!
Right from the past!
History is hollow when we must swallow everything they say.

Safety in numbers, unity is motion.
Don't question the nation cause.
Dive into the new flagged America and watch your problems all
dissolve.
You're either with us against us in the war on terror - can you
feel your pride explode?
But when you want the reasons and ask for the truth, suddenly
you are the enemy's toad!

So you eat the party line like another Quarter Pounder.
Never questioned or given any thought.
In the wake of tragedy we never consider the consequences of
what we have wrought.
With history ignored, policies abhorred, it's the same old
American way
Where the xenophobic, self-righteous patriots tell me to jump
with the lemmings I despise!


2.Just Say Yes

Just say yes
To war. Just say yes to porn.
Just say yes
To government. Just say yes to public scorn
Just say yes
To politics. Just say yes to guns.
Just say yes
To fear. Just say yes to unlimited fun!

It doesn't matter if it's wrong or right unless we know the
reason why.
And if we let them tell us what to think, they'll finally
control our minds.

Just say yes
To terror. Just say yes to drugs.
Just say yes
To conformity and yes let's act like thugs.
Just say yes
To crime. Just say yes to hate.
Just say yes
To apathy and ignorance that seals our fate.

Just say yes
To agendas. Just say yes to greed.
Just say yes
To religion and yes to doing more speed.
Just say yes
To discipline and say yes to trust
Just say yes
To corporate criminals running our asses into the dust.

So we say yes...Just say yes! Yes!


3.I Am The DA

In 1994, they thought they had their man.
A hate crime and someone got stabbed.
In Fullerton, Fear was the band, Nazi skins were out of hand.
The cops had stuck a target on his back.

I am the DA!
I do it my way.
I'll make sure somebody pays.

The case had been well planned, they placed liars on the stand.
The verdict was decided by the shake of a hand.
He spent the best years of his life in a penitentiary.
Locked up for saving somebody else.

In the wrong place again. So pay the price again.
Railroad justice again and again.
For the time that he served, the criminals still run free
While the DA captured the press again

The truth is elusive and careers are at stake
The evidence is disposable and politics takes its place.
And if this type of justice is a shock to you
Pay attention on Election Day or the day might you!

I think you're going to pay.


4.I See Grey

Unbiased peers decide my fate. Said guilty all the way.
No one ever listened to what I had to say.
You never stopped to think-
Don't care who lives or dies.
Blinded by your own beliefs. Can't see through all the lies.

Accuse me of a violent crime and sentence me to die.
What gave you the right to take my life when I can't even try?

An eye for an eye does not apply when done in the name of
Justice.
Who is to say mistakes can't be made, when they're made by the
best of us?
Grey! Where nobody wins!

You don't have it in your heart to see past your own hate.
Your decision has been made and now it is too late.
Try to calm the public's fear, condemn a man to die.
No need to worry afterwards, out of sight means out of mind.

You try to justify this as the lesser of two sins.
There is no way to fix this now where everybody wins.

Last rites will not help me, your decision has been made.
Now I am an afterthought and everything turns grey.
A coward dies a thousand deaths. I've died a thousand times.
I don't really want to die for someone else's crimes.

Sitting here all by myself to helpless I could cry.
Who gave you the right to take my life when I can't even try?


5.Secret Government

There's an omni agency working somewhere you can't see.
And no standing president is going to ever touch their tent.
Ten stories underground politicians and their little clowns,
They make the super rich their own little bitch.

It's a war! Secret government.
(It's a war)

And like the C.I.A., they cannot be made to pay
They will bring the drugs to you because they need to see you
lose
So have yourself some fun. You'll be easier to stun.
It's a slower class decay 'cause they own the D.E.A.

Crack for the lower class
AIDS for the fags
Guns for the fascist fad
And that's all they have?


6.Without Reason

The body bags arriving on our shore
Day after day and still there are more.
The sons and daughters of America
Are sacrificed for what?
An agenda?!

There is no reason for this war.
They say they have their reasons,
But I don't believe them.
No real reasons for this war.

The brave are sent into the hornet's nest,
To do a job with noble intent.
Unprepared for the carnage and hate
Of a bad situation. My god it's getting late!

They say they have their reasons,
But I don't believe them.
No real reasons for this war!

How do we calculate the cost of lives lost?
Is there a budget, to heal the scars?
If blood stops raining on the desert floor
Can we tell our children what this was all for?
So what's the reason for this brutal mess?
Is this freedom on the march?
We shock and awe the children as we pound a population.
The cost is more than carnage and the profits are obscene.

You said you had your reasons,
So many reasons.
What happened to your reasons?
With no good reasons, you committed treason.
You have no reasons anymore!

What is the real cost of this treason?


7.Consumption Fix

Pop culture fills and empty world. The consumption fix, really
brings me down.
We have a drug, it's the greatest thing, a simple cure for your
problems.
It's a brand new you with all your things. In the end, is it
really true?

It's the image that we feed, the image that you've seen.
The marketing machine is based on greed
So we plant the seeds, the growth of need and in the end you'll
be just like your friends!

Never fear. New credit is here. It will seem like you will never
have to pay.
Rock and roll, bought, packaged and sold. Independence has been
washed away.
They'll compromise anything, then you buy hoping to fit in.

Why don't you buy!
Try it!
Get it!
On credit!

Bringing you the latest, the newest and greatest.
The image that you want always starts with us.
They hype that you need, exploiting every need.
But in the end who will you be?
It's a brand new you will all your things and in the end
Is it really true?


8.Hauted Kitty

Bleeding eyeballs. Hacking lungs. Bleeding gums.
Anthrax. Small pox. West Nile.
Here it comes!

Hello kitty. Blurry visions. Icy sweats. Open sores.
Saran gas and airborne agents leave you choking on the floor.

Mmmmm a full on outbreak. It's vaccination time here in level
6.
Containment? Fleeing is no use. It's your internment time.
Government round-up time.

Hello kitty. Bleeding eyeballs. Hacking lungs. Bleeding gums.
Anthrax. Small pox. West Nile. Well now you can't run

You can't run!


9.Ride

Drivin' that chop caddy creep show,
Hundred and sixty, mean and low
Under the evil moonlight.
Drivin' through the hot, desert night,
Little demonette sitting next to me
Off to Vegas to get married.
Gonna get hitched in the temple of sin,
Got us a ghoul for a chaplain.

Straight to the top of the bottom in the city of lights.
Baby, let's ride. Mama, let's ride.

Have an itchy finger that's got to be pleased
Feeling those satin panties
It's so hot it can't be right.
Got a lot of cash in the city of lights.
Flyin' through the hot, desert night,
Like bats of evil under neon light,
Corked to the gills with redemption.
Our saving grace is we're ready to win!

Snakes and scorpions watchin' me go
Yucca Mountain's nuclear glow.
Skeleton's from where? I don't know.
Faces from the past, maybe they're ghosts.

Gettin' it all in the chapel of love.
Elvis visited from above.
Blessed us all in the chapel of sin.
Now we're ready to cash it in.
Trippin' through the night desert fast and low.
Christian Bob on the radio
Screaming at me, telling me where I'm gonna go.
I'll see him in hell. I already know!


10.The Other Side Of Town


11.Torn


12.Information Age

Their eyes are looking down on you
From satellite to video.
Watching every move.
They want to take control of you.
Intimidate! That's what fascists do.

Freedom gets in their way.
With freedom, we'll make them pay,
In the information age.

They got your cell calls, e-mails too.
They're keeping tabs on your suspicious views.
They'll get your details, records too and
Once collected, they can sell that too.

I think I know why they tell their special lies to elevate the
fear.
The new regime is here and now it's time to make our stand.
The resistance starts with a counter plan.
It's time to bring them down.
It's time to make them pay.
Freedom is ours and cannot be taken away!

Freedom is ours today!
We must make them pay.
The regime it goes away,
In the information age!