Strike Anywhere

When they broke down the door And put their guns in the face of your wife and child And as they pinned you to the floor Did you say "officer, i am not resisting you."? American Justice american dream Is this what ' the other half ' means Half of

We are not the images we see I refuse to follow the fashion to its end, hypocrisy is killing me On the rights of your wealth, I disagree This puppet's culture scars our tongues with what's unsung But we're not finished, we're not done Illusions of th

We rise like lions after slumber In un-vanquishable number Shake these chains to earth like dew You are many, they are few Without a voice to question The hollow aggression of public perception Through all this time we rise Human solutions We're ampl

We get torn apart All our lives Told that we're useless or gifted Loved or despised Too many generations passed And passing But all their progress Lost its meaning We call it evolution You call it a crime But as we run From your culture You're runnin

Take this banner, hang it upside down This country's in distress From the schools to the factories On the dead edge of town This dream's a fucking mess This dream is fucked Here we go Our sisters' and mothers' rights to choose And powers determined t

Four, three, two, one, go! This is America, yeah, it's true Everything else is false that was taught to me and you But I'll try to sort it out I'll try to sort it out This is America, yeah, it's true Everything else is false that was taught to me and

Lower the flags Raise Up the Earth Freedom 'til death Death until birth We're still fighting each other I'm your opposite number I know we didn't have a say I'm your opposite number Unwritten violence Aristocratic outrage Were you there? Forgotten in

Where are your heroes Underground? Do our egos block us out From feeding the future Of this sound? Where were you When they passed out The lotteries of birth? Complacency Conditioned to suffer What's the price? What's it worth to us? No Justice No Ju

Are we running so far from facing The numbers who crash in an empty room. False visions we search And the reflections consume. But the mirror is everyone's tomb. What we'll find in the waste of time, Self hating days in the image maze. Losing sight o

Light, light, light in the beggar's cart Light, light, light when the trouble starts To weigh, to weigh, to weigh, to weigh, to weigh Light, light, light in the beggar's cart Light, light, light in the heavy hearts To weigh, to weigh, to weigh, to we

So I'll write these words now For you my friend Here after all this time We may never sing this one It's just here as a light to help you When the power goes out Like the moments you might Shake yourself awake From those horrible dreams The only ones