Red Sun
Tirana
Cultural Revolution
Mumia
One Out Of Three
No More
Beliefs
Today's The Day
A Bullet
We Will Free Ourselves
Oppression
Another Time
AK-47
Sellout
Time's Up
Where Are You?
This World
Doesn't Mean a Thing
Years
Re-Education Camp #7
The life and soul of the revolution
is only what we bring with us
Engulf this country in the flames of war
The path shines on, we are not lost
And we rise yet again
Like the red sun
While billions they suffer all over the world
Those with nothing left to give, give us their lives
So do we stand and be counted or hide our empty heads?
Better something than nothing because we're almost dead
AND WE RISE!!!!
When the facists came to take you and everything you had
There was nothing they could do against the unforgiving land
The mountains surround them to take their worthless lives
And the heroes of the people live 'til the end of time
Tirana we hear you
Tirana we know you
Grandmothers fought alongside their daughters and their sons
Nothing would be spared to acheive liberation
The "poor man of Europe" would use his crutch no more
Shqipetar kryemgritje, aferohet dita
(Albanian revolution, the day approaches)
This culture of degregation
We lose our hearts and minds
Where "Cops" is seen as entertainment
And the poor are left behind
Millions hooked on nothing
All escaping from their lives
Oppression breeds destruction
But I know that we can rise
One heart and one mind
In this Cultural revolution
Raising our sights higher
Than the horizon set for us
We can acheive anything
It's ourselves we have to trust
Are you ready for the sacrifice
I know we'll have to bear?
See beyond your "favorite show"
Or don't go anywhere
One heart and one mind
In this cultural Revolution
Fear strikes at the heart in this land of the slaves
Under every fucking mall lies another thousand graves
Screaming from the shadows he says "I know what you are"
Hear the people singing "Free Abu Jamal"
Free Mumia
Threats are getting louder but there is no compromise
From a brother who has dedicated his liffe to fight the lies
There is no room for truth in this system's dying days
As long as we can fight there will always be a way
Free Mumia
Hear your sister crying every night
I bet you know someone who does
If the grass is greener on the other side
Show me wherre this other side is
What if it was your mother lying there on the floor
Crying until she fell asleep
Is it more than statistics or sad sad songs
Condescending with your sympathy
One out of three
I hate you more than you hate the poor who work the land
When Wall Street falls I'll hear you curse the peasants' callused hands
The backs that broke to keep you fed while families went without
You fear the faceless who made you rich, why are you so fucking proud?
No more
Confront the masses in their millions, it's a revolution born
Dirt floors and endless poverty, the seeds of war are sown
The Zapatistas' rifles sing loud enough for us to hear
Either with us or with the pigs, the choice is fucking clear
Nothing left of honesty and guts
No one left whith beliefs they'd die for
Winding down now something must erupt
Let's all find something we can live for
Do you believe in love
Have you seen the hate
Do you believe in revolution
We can make the evolution
Action now, Fuck White Power
Show the way by example , we lead our own lives
seize the time let's have the hour
Exposing all their hatred and dirty lies
We take the words right from our hearts
And change them to a living thing
Traditions based on exploitation
Is nothing that we want to keep
We take the boots off of our necks
Every time we learn the truth
The system is dying and it wants to take us down
Today's the day
That we break traditions chains
Today's the day
That we throw it all away
Today's the day
When nothing stays the same
Today's the day
The cops who go out immigrant bashing
The politicians who set them loose
The morons fooled into voting for them
We will resist or fall
And now I've got the answer
A bullet
Now you've given me the reason
A bullet
Tell your lies I see through you
I know the truth we will have you
Preach your filth, cast your ballot
I see right through you
Now I've got the answer
A bullet
Now you've given me the reason
A bullet
All the democratic posturing
Cannot suppress the truth
Despite the fucking ballots
There is something we refuse
We mount the stage of history
Let the pacifists go home
As patriotic soldiers
Gun down their very own
We will free ourselves
We will free ourselves
We will free ourselves
And all of human kind
Unafraid of sacrifice
We've done it all before
They'd have no profits without us
Now they'll have a civil war
And the priests can never stop us
When we've had enough of lies
Unafraid of bloodshed
Now we're taking back the time
You vomit racist slurs
I can smell your bile a mile away
So complacent in your life
You're probably not aware
That you carry this disease
So shut your fucking mouth
And open up your eyes
I wish that you were color blind
You don't know-Oppression
You complain that it's not fair
The minority got the job
Your reactionary statement
Only goes to show
How blind you really are
When it comes to righting wrongs
In this fucked up world
Where the oppressor has it all
You don't know-Oppression
I can barely stand the thought of another working day
As I struggle with my drudgery, I'm a million miles away
I guess no one really knows what freedom really means
Only in my dreams can I be what I want to be
In another time we'll get what we deserve
In another time we'll get what we have earned
In another time we'll have made all of the gains
I won't let myself die in vain
With nothing but our hands we can only sell our time
And if you don't like it there's a hundred more in line
To come and take a job that they'll hate just as much
Time to educate ourselves, there's too many out of touch
Some changes to be made for a better life for all
Take control for ourselves the state of things must fall
Keep working for a change consciousness must climb
Maybe not today but in another time
These contradictions are dragging us down
They talk about truth then fuck us around
Money and freedom can't stand side by side
Police as protectors a ruling class lie
AK-47
A Nazi on fire is a true work of art
A bombing in Lima will give me heart
We push for the day a new flag will fly
When racists and profits will all fucking die
AK-47
You wear the price tag on your heart but it's too much pay
For the recognition, adulation, a lie that they call fame
Insecure but never more than a money making tool
Rebel rocker live the falsehood playing by the rules
It's over
You sellout
Justify and double speak we already understand
The dollar signs are louder than a stadium of fans
Alternative to what I wonder? The other side of truth
Another businessman is sqeezing money from the youth
It's over
You sellout
You'd think they'd never heard of freedom
That you now think you have
With time their thoughts have narrowed
And it's really kind of sad
That at one time they were like you
You find it hard to believe
And tomorrow you'll be like them
Just you wait and see
Your time's up
Your time's almost up
Voting for the right side
When you said you'd never vote
A bandaid for your conscience
Give the charities a note
But when someone asks for money
You tell them to "go and get a job"
Will you find yourself in church this week
Afraid not to believe in god
Your time's up
Every cop understands waht side they're fighting on
Yet some of us will argue and say that this is wrong
And the motherfuckers making millions off everybody's backs
Like to sow confusion as they continue their attacks
Are you with me? Where are you?
Will you be there? Where are you?
Stand again? Where are you?
Are you with me?
Taking back the land is a never ending "crime"
But the first nations have been here since the beginning of time
The pigs will always be here but where will you be
Time is getting tighter, this is the hour of need
It's like poetry every time I hear it
We are not lying down this time
A flower blooms in the crack of a sidewalk
Sendero knows that it is no crime
To take a facist down
And sing another song
To turn the world around
And take what is our own
This world is ours
It's like seeing the sun rise for the first time
And really feeling like you are alive
Understanding you are not alone
But one of a thousand points of light
And it's revolution time
Would you lay down your life
Dying on your feet
Or living on your knees
This world is ours
Do you hear hypocrisy with every hymn they sing
Misdirect your sorrow till it doesn't mean a thing
Some churches fill with hatred almost every other day
But the needles in the parking lot just never go away
And it doesn't mean a thing
I can recite you numbers until the day is done
But it may not mean a thing to you unless you know someone
Who's been brutalized, raped and beaten in our very home
And I reject every thing that leads us to this hell
It doesn't mean a thing
The bloodspots on the sidewalk are just another stain
Someone's being murdered and we look the other way
And all the brave policemen are the brownshirts of today
You can sove your flag exactly where you keep your brain
It doesn't mean a thing
Eagerly she takes the gun from dying Yankee's bloody hand
To avenge all the thefts and murders from LA to Vietnam
The crying's over and self pity is cast away in favour of
A red heart yearns for revolution
Now she's found real love
All the years of degradation
All the years of nothing at all
All the years of mis-education
All the years of kicking at the walls
I have a dream that I know has happened
And it will again
I have more faith in this than the pope does in all his gold
You will unlearn all your hate, rape, war, and racist lying
You will unlearn everything that's fucked or
You will die trying
Everything you need to know
I know where you need to go
Re-Education Camp #7
After all the smoke has cleared
The comrades will take up the task
The women will teach you respect
And you'll make up for your past
So earn your life or go to where
The Nazis will call home
Six feet under, motherfucker
There is no race but one
Now you'll know
Well, that's all the lyrics for "Now You'll Know".
As soon as the next album comes out I'll put those lyrics up too.
*All lyrics were written with permission*
