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1. Intro
2. The System Works For Them
3. The Battlefields Still Red
4. When You Support These Fucking Bastards
5. American Ethic
6. No Justice, No Peace
7. Too Little, Too Late
8. Poison Corruptions
9. Tedium
10. B.A.T.F.
11. The Crucifix and The Flag
12. The Flags Will Cover Coffins
13. No Change, No Future, We're Lost
14. They Ignore Peaceful Protest
15. This Is Brianwash
16. Secret Police, Secret Army
17. Apathetic
18. Denied
19. Have Another
20. Tuesday, May 18, 1993
21. Vietnam Is Back
22. Fuck Nazi Sympathy
23. A.I.D.S.
24. Do You Know Where Their Children Are?
25. Perverted Patriotism
26. Grave
27. Two Years And One Song Later
28. The Battefield's Still Red
29. Prejudice (Crucifix)
30. Capital Punishment (live)
31. Media Blackout (live)
32. From Protest To Resistance (live) (Conflict)
33. Swastika Rats (live) (Upright Citizens)
34. Tube Diasters (live) (Flux of Pink Indians)
35. 30 Years (live) (Chumbawamba)
(spoken word...i'll do it eventually)
You know the system kills, so you try to take a stance, Boycott
You speak up for the people who will never get their own chance, Boycott
Or are you just fooling youself, the truth just out of your reach?, Boycott
You don't support your enemy when you are at war, Boycott
You're helping to enhance the rich while fucking over the poor, Boycott
You've heard it all before and you know just what I'm saying, Boycott
You hate hate these corporate killers but you fucking keep on paying
For the products you don't need you share with them their fucking greed
And responsibility for those who died, their exploitaion and genocide
All the shit you fucking hate, too blind to see that you helped create
chorus:
You're living proof that the system works... That the system works for them
You spend your hard earned money and help support their deathBoycott big business because death is the going rate, Boycott
You control who you support so why support what you hate, Boycott
Multi-national companies are hiding under false names, Boycott
To protect themselves from people who are unaware of their games, Boycott
So fuck their games and fuck their lies instead just stop and think, Boycott
Is all of their suffering worth your burgers and your soft drinks, Boycott
When you buy their products you ignore the blood they're spilling, Boycott
Reject this capitalist system and support the ones they're killing, Boycott
Fuck convenience in their store, if it's important it's worth fighting for
Don't you see you hold the key, throw out your fucking apathy
Then start to spread the word around and help to bring the companies down(chorus)
Our individual efforts is where our struggle begins
To stand up and fight for those oppressed by politicians
The companies condition the public through media bullshit
All of this suffering is inflicted just to turn a fucking profit
They stifle criticism with a cost of living raise
Selling out the working class a million different ways
The power that you give them is go they keep their control
Don't support them anymore, it's time to take back what they stole
Fuck the system, fuck it's views, it's the people they abuse
Abuse of power and authority is the downfall of society
But people never seem to listen, they're all brainwashed by the system(chorus)
3. The Battlefield's Still Red
Wednesday, May 18th 1994
Does anyone remember what all of this fighting's for?
All this senseless blood shed, all this fucking death
You oly know statistics who now take their dying breath
Can anyone see an end to this putrid fucking war?
Does it now seem any closer than it did the year before?
A year has now gone by and the battlefield's still red
The only thing that's changed is the number of the dead
All of the children born in bloodshed will be lucky to survive
Will they be just more than memories when it's 1995?
The battlefield's still red
They call it "ethnic cleansing"
But it's just like before
This is racial murder
It's not a fucking war
The battlefield's still red
Little girls are stripped and they're beaten to the floor
Systematically raped by soldiers and they fucking call this war
Their mothers are sent through minefields, all humanity's been lost
How many lives will this year claim in this modern day holocaust?
The battlefield's still red
They call it 'ethnic cleansing'
But it's just like before
This is racial murder
It's not a fucking war
The battlefield's still red4. When You Support Those Fucking Bastards
Don't listen to their politics or employ their bullshit laws
You never ask why
Don't get caught up in the civil war which your rulers hope to cause
Don't listen to these bastards, don't listen to their lies
Take your fucking race war and shove it up your ass
It's fucking propaganda dispensed by the ruling class
Don't listen to these bastards, don't listen to their lies
In spite of everything you know, You're still playing their game
When you support these fucking bastards the results remain the same
The starving are still hungry
The suffering in pain
The poor still have no money
While the rich drink their champagneI work all day in a factory
Making parts for bombs I'll never see
I have to support a family
American ethic will set me free
I work in a forest cutting trees
I work in a lab creating disease
Dressed in blue I do what I please
American ethic will will set be free
Don't care for homeless lazy slobs
Get off your ass and get a job
A shining example, look at me
American ethic will set me free
I don't care about suffering in foreign lands
I've got a clear conscience, no blood on my hands
I don't care about pollution or poverty
American ethic will set me free
Get up in the morning, get to bed at night
I don't know my wife, so we don't fight
I've got some kids just like me
American ethic will set them free
I've lived my life without any thought
Except for my job and what I've bought
Seems like someone has lied to me
Now I need death to set me free
I don't care about suffering in foreign lands
I've got a clear conscience, no blood on my hands
I don't care about pollution or poverty
American ethic will set me freeFreedom for all political prisoners in the United States
Be aware of cointelpro and the falsehoods it creates
We must stop the racist atrocities committed by police
Demand that every last freedom fighter be released
These people lost their freedom because of their knowledge of the facts
And their commitment to expose it warrants FBI attacks
If they survive thery're harled away, the system now aborts
Their rights and any justice in political puppet courtsChorus:
Another imprisioned year goes by
Another parole will be denied
Another prisioned is victimized
Another parole will be denied
The government and the FBI
Make sure parole will be denied
Our judical system's a fucking lie
They'll keep them there until they dieThey're victims of the corrupt legal system we ignore
Like Leonard Peltier, Geronimo Pratt, The Move9, and Ricahard Moore (Dhoruebim Wahad)
only crime committed is their mere existence
Or their noble sacrifice of uncompromising resistance
Persistence of resistance stems from independent thought
So these "dangerous" revolutionaries are left in jail to rot
This country reeks of prejucice from sea to shining sea
They fucking lock the people up and throw away the key(chorus)
Our freedom of speech in this country is limited
To having the sage obedient views the government want us to have
Those with dissenting views are harassed, beaten imprisoned or killed
Your freedom of assembly is also a lie
If you protest against the government the chances are
You've already been filmed by police and are now on file
There's hundreds of political prisoners being held all over the United States
They have to endure some of the harshest conditions of the American prison system
As long as our government continues to subject us to their cowardly oppression
We're no longer obligated to them as peaceful citizens
The time's extrememly overdue to take back what's rightfully ours
We're no longer here for their selfish exploitaion
It's our lives, our minds, our beliefs
Fuck their threats and intimidation
They have nothing left to hold over our heads
Freedom and equality some people will never know
Like Mumia Abu-Jamal who is waiting on death row
His rights were stripped away by cops under Rizzo's reign
Then he was dragged into court where Judge Ssbo did the same
He exposed their fascist tactics and their feeble racist fears
So he was framed and put in prison where he's now spent fourteen years
He fights for the rights of people who fall victim to government violence
They want him dead because the voice of the voiceless won't be silent(chorus)
Many fled to Zaire for the fear of being killed in the vicious,
Bloody civil war that took half a million lives
Over two milion refugees pile into neighboring countries towns
Hoping to escape their deaths but this is what they found
Bodies stacked in massive piles and mass graves overflowing
As the cholera camps are waiting for the aid to finally come
The Rwandan refugees are dying by the thousands every day
While clean water needed to preserve life is supposedly on it's way
Too little, too late
We are all responsible for the third world we create
Now we try to help these people but we're too fucking late
Too little, too late
We control the third world's fate
Our high standard of living contributes to their deaths
And the truth behind the bloodshed is what our government protects
But the fault is also ours because we're killing with our greed
For our material possessions we confuse our wants with need
The companies and the media promote these capitalist views,
Praising the American way of life, never asking at whose expense
So if you think we're helping then you're really fucking blind
Because we're after special interests and the rest we leave behind
Too little, too late
We are all responsible for the third world we create
Now we try to help these people but we're too fucking late
Too little, too late
We control the third world's fate
Haitian and Cuban refugees try to find a better life only to be denied
Entry to the United States because our government doesn't deem it necessary
To help our fellow man, so if they can't make us money
They don't want them in our land
Panama and Nicaragua were some to receive our "aid",
So what kind of difference did we make beside the loss of lives?
And how is life in BOSNIA? Did the problems disapear?
And what about Rwanda is their water now crystal clear?
Too little, too late
We are all responsible for the third world we create
Now we try to help these people but we're too fucking late
Too little, too late
We control the third world's fateGreedy fucking bastards killing off the land
Watch our fucking planet burn soil turns to sand
Acid rain is falling from the skies
It's only getting worse contrary to the politicians lies
Agent Orange, Seven Chlordate, and DDT
Made by corpoate bastards like the DuPont company
Nuclear waste, helps helps destroy our earth
Once they pass it on to us what will it all be worthchorus:
Poisin corporations
They're sealed the planets doom
Thinking they could pay for whatever they consume
What good is all their money when there's no one left to buy?
You can either try to stop them or you can watch our planet dieCoke and Pepsi, made by popular demands
Exploit the third world workers on what used to be their lands
McDonalds, with their sick McWORLD in sight
You can help them to achieve their goal every time you take a bite
World conquest, through murder and starvations
Imperialist dictators live to oppress the weaker nations
Ruling class, fucking beat the people down again
Their profit margins more important then their fellow man(chorus)
I fear that I'm losing what little was mine
I gave you control and you're robbing me blind
I showed you my soul and you took all I had
Blind, mained, disfigured you left me for dead
I look out my window down on
the street/ See all the people crushed out by defeat
See all the suffering it shines in their eyes
Pushed to the limits humanity dies
We go on slaving day after day
Just to survive collecting our pay
And to the rich go all the spoils
And to the poor degradation and toil
You stole all my time corrupted my mind
Made all your profits and left me behind
Treated me like nothing,a line on a chart
It's your mindless Tedium that tore me apart10. BATF
(Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms)ATF, ATF, we don't need the ATF
There's an organization with dangerous views so the fighting soon erupts
We could've asked what they believed if they hadn't been blown up
But were their views dangerous to the people or the state
Did they know the truth about the government based on hatechorus:
ATF, ATF, we don't need the ATF
Their twisted reign of terror is the cause of many deaths
It's their twisted reign of terror that you willingly acceptAppointments made by Janet Reno help the blood-soaked ATF
Like Mark Richard who's made his life's career by covering up what's left
They claim it's national security so the publice never see
That this secret service bullshit's at the expence of you and me(chorus)
If you cross our government then you may just disappear
And become another statistic for the rest of us to hear
If you keep on looking closer you may just find your death
Compliments of our government and bastard
ATF, ATF, we don't need the ATF
BATF (Bureau OF Assasins, Torturers, and Facsists)The crucifix and the flag are both the fucking same
They both represent dominance and control
Arrogant symbols displayed high about our heads
A constant reminder that you are being controlled
If the government is to be stopped the church must also be abolished
Religion and government are both the fucking same
They both are dominance and control
Arrogant dictators that keep your fears fed
A cnstant reminder that you are being controlled
If the government is to be stopped the church also must be abolished
The crucifix and the flag
Are both to fucking blame
For the streets stained red
Arrogant symbols displayed high above our head
A constant reminder that you are dead12. The Flag Will Cover Coffins
Burn your countries flags
Fuck your patriotic pride
Fuck the politicians and the shit they try to hide
They make you pay their taxes and they make you fight their wars
But they won't feed the hungry and they don't care about the poor
Instead they try and take you for all your fucking worth
And they separate with flags all the people of the earth
They exploit our different cultures and enhance our sickening greed
And they get the hatred rising which is exactly what they need
But what about the people's needs
Will they be unfulfilled
Ane what of those who speak out? Will those "traitors" then be killed?
The only traitors that exist are the traitors to mankind
The ones who put the money first and the people's need behind
They say is we don't love our country then get the hell out
Should we be thankful to die in battle for what our flag's about?
Well fuck off
Fuck you
Fucking hear this
Your ignorant petty support doesn't mean piss
Don't support, no matter what the cause
Your fucking flags and damn religion just feed corporate claws
I renounce my citizenship from the U.S.A. and I'd suggest the same for any country
Because countries kill the people's will with their patriotic lie
And every fucking day you're killing who they say and you never even wonder why
Why do we blindly follow what our leaders have to say?
Instead let's make them answer to the people they betray
We don't owe our leaders anything so fuck what they demand
Then disregard their fucking lies and bury them where they stand
The flags will cover coffins where these fuckiers will now lie
And we'll give a flag to their families when these poor bastards die
Natonalistic pride is fucking shit why can't the people see
As long as flags fly up above us no one's really free
Free?