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Not gonna happen again
01:29
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Shutting us away making us obey, Telling us to be something we can not, Believing all your lies twisting us to see, HOW MUCH CAN WE TAKE!?, Thinking that you can just throw us away, You’re taken our pride and forced us to hide, If it’s bad enough for you then it’s good enough for me, We wanna break away and it’s gonna be today.
Today Is when we take it all back, Today we recapture our lives, Today is gonna be the end and it’s not gonna happen again.
Making us believe wanting us to see, The ugliness in you it overshadows me, Giving into fear, giving into hate, This culture they have breed and there seems no escape, I wanna tear it down and I wanna smash it up, I wanna make a change and set the world right, The time is right now, this minute, this second, So set their flag alight and watch their world burn!
Today Is when we take it all back, Today we recapture our lives, Today is gonna be the end and it’s not gonna happen again.
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Victims
02:09
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Step outside your house and make your way down the street, Same mass of people that you see every day, They all look so normal, Yeah they all seem so clean, But scratch their outer shell and you’ll see what lies beneath, There’s a conman, a grafter, the liar and the cheat, All of them waiting to spring their trap, They want to take you for all you’re worth, They wanna turn you into a…
Victim! Of society, We’re victims! Of a greedy system, We’re victims! Of our own addictions, We’re victims! Of broken homes, We’re victims! Of the culture war, We’re victims! Of shattered faith!
Turn on your t.v. and you’ll see what I mean, They’re on every channel and you just can’t escape, Another sad story, a human tragedy, Claim you’re a victim and you can get what you want, Sell your sob story and get rich quick, Feeding on the sadness, feeding off the pain, Cause the next disaster that’s their get rich scheme, Cause the next disaster to displace and create…
Victims! Of their institutions, We’re victims! Of the human condition, We’re victims! Of our own design, We’re Victims! Of class warfare, We’re victims! Of our own minds, We’re victims! In our own minds we’re all victims!
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I turn on my t.v. screen and what do I see? A generation in the streets drowning in their own blood, Sent off to die for the rich man’s greed, Brown sands turn red, the cross is used to justify their cause.
Sending generations to the slaughter never expecting them to come home outside a body bag, They’ve returned home just to die at their own hand, My bleeding hearts bleed dry and now it seeks revenge.
They return home to the hails of praise, but once the parade ends no one will lend a hand, Strap the boots on and place a rifle in their hands, All the politicians, lobbyist and oil barons.
Sending generations to the slaughter never expecting them to come home outside a body bag, They’ve returned home just to die at their own hand, My bleeding hearts bleed dry and now it seeks revenge.
Send them to the slaughter, Meat grinder of the Middle East, Send them to the slaughter, Meat grinder of Afghanistan.
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The revolution is dead
02:18
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People on the streets gathered in masses fighting for their right just to exist, But they had no signs and empty minds, Their bleeding hearts had long bleed dry, They soon forgot the cause and returned home, Back to the couch to fill their empty lives.
The revolution is dead! In fact it never was, The revolution is dead! Cause of death was apathy, The revolution is dead! Joe Strummer would be pissed, The revolution is fucking dead.
They talked a good game, but set their sights too high, So much to gain too much to lose, Didn’t want to lose their nine to five, Sat in their homes with their complacent lives!
The revolution is dead! In fact it never was, The revolution is dead! Cause of death was apathy, The revolution is dead! Joe Strummer would be pissed, The revolution is fucking dead.
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The People vs. The State
02:56
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The people vs. the state squaring off in the streets, Tear gas, black masks, shiny badges, big guns, protest, resist, The people are taking a stand to protect themselves from the aggression of the Police State, When did a badge give you the right to kill? When did a badge give you the right to kill?
Stand up for your rights, Stand up for your life, Fight for your rights, Fight for your life.
Take to the streets, Take back your right to be, Take back your streets, Take back your right to breath, Take back your right to gather peacefully and question the integrity of authority, When did a Senate seat give you the right to steal? When did a Senate seat give you the right to steal?
Stand up for your rights, Stand up for your life, Fight for your rights, Fight for your life.
We’re seeking answers, we’re seeking justice, we’re seeking truth, We’re seeking answers, we’re seeking justice, we’re seeking truth, All we get is double talk and dirty lies, All we get is double talk and dirty lies.
Stand up for your rights, Stand up for your life, Fight for your rights, Fight for your life.
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Jim Jones Summer Camp
02:46
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I created the People’s Temple and welcomed all, Every color has a place in my special rainbow, Come join our flock and be saved by the power vested in me, I am eternal, I am the one, I’m your salvation your guiding light, We must join hands and prepare for the nuclear apocalypse is upon us.
Hey kids! Let’s go! To Jim Jones Summer Camp!
A Socialist Eden I sought to make, The only way to reach it is through me, Renounce your addiction to the religious drugs and it’s pusher gods, But as the pressure grew I had to move, Down to Guyana to build my sanctuary, So please come and visit, come for a stay, I promise that you’ll never leave.
Hey kids! Let’s go! To Jim Jones Summer Camp!
Leo Ryan cam looking for the truth, He found the truth at the barrel of a gun, Now my children take up your cup and receive, Your grace, your eternity rest with me.
Hey kids! Let’s go! To Jim Jones Summer Camp!
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Big8
01:13
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I look in your eyes and all I see is your hate, All the vile vitriol spills out of your mouth, Your sarcasm laced with racist, sexist rhetoric, The only truth about you is you’re just built of lies.
You’re just a bigot with nothing useful to say, You’re just a bigot a fucking piece of shit, You’re just a bigot we’re gonna string you up, You’re just a bigot a fucking piece of shit.
I don’t know what else I can say, Your mouth breathing ignorance shines right through, For all the world to see, For all the world to see, Your troglodyte brain can’t think it through.
You’re just a bigot with nothing useful to say, You’re just a bigot a fucking piece of shit, You’re just a bigot we’re gonna string you up, You’re just a bigot a fucking piece of shit.
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Viloent Reactions
02:20
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We’re tired, Continous degeneration of our minds, You poison the water don’t drink the water, You poison the water don’t drink the water, We’re tired of getting the shaft.
You’re callous actions cause violent reactions, when will you learn that you can’t kill us all?
Left and Right they’re all the fucking same, Fall on their knees to their corporate masters, Hail to the almighty dollar, Big auto, big banks and big oil, Too big to fail fucking let them fall, We’re in it up to our necks, We’ll never make it out alive we’ll drown in this shit.
You’re callous actions cause violent reactions, when will you learn that you can’t kill us all?
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Global Collapse
02:16
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Depression is setting in a global catastrophe; Resources are running thin the nations send up their call, Fight for your country, fight for your pride, The future is fading fast and soon the present too, What will they do when there is nothing left to destroy? What will they do when there is nothing left to take? What will they do when they run out of lies? What will they do when the people stand up?
I watch the dominos they fall like toy soldiers on the battlefield as the bombs drop from above, I watch the soldiers fall just like the dominos on the battlefield as the bombs drop from above.
The global markets fail, leaders are dumbfounded, Their greed led to this their greed now drives the war, Nations amass their troops, deploy them everywhere, Taking all they can in the name of country, In the name of God the lands run red with blood.
I watch the dominos they fall like toy soldiers on the battlefield as the bombs drop from above, I watch the soldiers fall just like the dominos on the battlefield as the bombs drop from above.
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Never, nev...
00:56
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I will never conform, I will never submit to your hate, I will never become what you are, I will never die.
Don’t try to tie me down to this place, you can not change my face, I hear the screaming in my head, I view the death within my bed.
I will never be what you want, You just can’t push me down, ‘cause when I come back around, you’ll be the one to hit the ground.
Don’t try to tie me down to this place, you can not change my face, I hear the screaming in my head, I view the death within my bed.
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“For your own benefit”
I see the lines fade as you distort the truth again/ Your lies propagate the beginning of our end, you do it all to push us down/ Doing your best to bury our reason/ You’re striving to eliminate our logic and individuality/ Strip the bones of their flesh and leave them so there is nothing left/ You legislate our lives with bills and laws you pass, add amendments for yourselves/ Giving room for your lies to spread, infecting our documents/ For your own fucking benefit, allow the system to destroy itself/ For your own fucking benefit, HEY HEY, For your own fucking benefit!
Every time we turn around, another one of you is found/ The accusations coming down, your filthy little fucking lives/ We can’t take it anymore, all your lies and all your greed/ All you spread is misery, yeah all you spread is fucking misery!
“Fuck You Fuck”
You’re just a piece of shit/ You’re fucking insignificant/ You’re just a fucking waste/ So get up/ Get up/ And get on with your life/ Just shut up/ You fuck up!
So Fuck Off! Fuck Off! Fuck Off! JUST FUCK OFF AND DIE!
You’re just a fucking worm feeding off the others/ You’re just a fucking leech sucking off the others.
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I feel the weight of the world on my back/ I feel at any moment I’m gonna crack/ All this pressure keeps on dragging me down/ I’m spiraling into the ground/ There’s no way that I can keep this pace/ I know I’m never gonna win this race/ The only objective that I’m seeing clear, is how to start my own end.
What’s the point of living in this world, if you’ve got nothing to live for? I want something to live for/ Show me something to live for.
So I take these pills and I swallow them down/ My eyes grow heavy and my mind draws a blank/ I scratch my eyes and I’m clawing my face/ I keep on thinking that I can’t keep this pace/ The memories that I have, now begin to disappear/ And the only thing that is clear, is just how I’m gonna save myself.
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What the hell’s the matter with the people of today? Taking their problems on the t.v. screen/ Acting like animals in a circus show/ They scream and yell so loud you just can’t ignore/ While thousands die in the streets naked and cold/ Searching and begging for their food/ Screaming for the answers that won’t be found in time/ Their cries going up, but falling on deaf ears.
I’m losing faith in humanity/ I’m losing faith in humanity/ I’m losing faith in humanity/ I’m losing faith in us all.
Now let’s dive in to little Johnny’s problem/ It says right here that he’s got a lot of pain/ He’s scitzonoid and paranoid and utterly insane/ Society has made him this way/ Sex on the t.v. and violence on the streets/ No wonder he ended up suck a freak/ Now he’s shooting dope into his toes/ It’s the only way he knows how to get by.
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You’re just a young man so new to the world/ You want to strike it big and make a name for yourself/ Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha goona do? Sign your name on the dotted line/ Now instant hero status is obtained/ Take this gun in hand, ‘cause it’s time to make a stand/ They’ll ship you off to strange looking lands/ Making you a martyr is their master plan.
Would you kill? Would you kill? Would you kill for your country?
Kill shot! Kill Shot! Kill Shot! Pull the trigger for a Kill Shot! Kill Shot! Kill Shot! Pull the trigger take a Kill Shot! Kill Shot! Kill Shot! Pull the fucking trigger for a Kill Shot!
Marching you out one by one, you’re just another cog turning in the war machine/ Pull a kill shot and you’ll come back alive/ Die on the scene and you’re just another face, used to recruit more like you/ Better hope they don’t pull a kill shot on you!
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I’ve been studying for hours, but I can’t figure it out/ There’s a bullet in my brain so I get the words out/ UGHHHH! It’s so hard to think clear when your brains all a buzz/ With all the pointless shit that you pick up every day/ All this pointless shit yeah it makes you go insane/ Now you know the reason why you slef-mediacte
MEDICATE! MEDICATE! MEDICATE! SELF-MEDICATE!
I’ve been sitting here for days trying to make some fucking sense/ Of all the horrible images that I see/ It makes me so sick/ It makes me so sick/ It makes me so sick that I want to cut my wrists/ Yeah it makes me so sick/ It makes me so sick/ It makes me so sick that I want to cut my wrists/ But I don’t/ I…
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You call this freedom? Your freedoms fucked to me/ They tap our phones, they read our mail/ They’re watching you from the window seal / They’re digging in our garbage cans/ They’re keeping tabs on your kids/ They follow you to the grocery store/ They know your car/ They know your wife/ They know your life/ And this is freedom?
The bodies pile up every day and people are dying out on the streets/ The shit gets deeper while the rich get richer/ The preachers telling me that I must be a believer.
They’re passing laws that strip you of your rights/ They’ll throw you in the county jail/ Speak your mind and you’ll get the stick/ They’ll send their forces out to oppress/ They’ll take your land/ They’ll take your wife and march you down a Trail of Tears/ You call this freedom? Man, your freedoms fucked to me!
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