Rock Against Bush, Vol. 1

We've had enough
We've had enough
We've had enough of the politicians
We've had enough yeah
Of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
What we need right now is love, come on
We've had enough of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
All we need right now is love

Turn it up
The future is held in the hands
Who right the textbooks
Ignorance is bred when falsified thinking is taught
To the youth instead of
Past mistakes and mind elevation,
Like the graves that manifest destiny has created
So we can build our
Capitalist consumer based economy,
To build, market,
And sell commodities we don't need
But we are trained to believe like celebrity imaging
Well I'm here to take my feelings back and I hope That you will be with me

I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all screaming.
Ahhhhhhhhh,
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all singing together,
Ooooohhhhhh
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all screaming.
Ahhhhhhhhh
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all singing together,
Ahhh,

I can't wait for the day
When I hear us all screaming,
HERE COMES THE REVOLUTION.
When every race color
And creed of militant human beings stand up
With fists together for substance and true meaning
Because right now we got our feet stuck in cement
We're too caught up in
A material status quo punishment
And one thing is for sure
And that's the sun will always set,
Darling you can bet our moon is quite the opposite
So baby take a axe to your makeup kit
Set ablaze the billboards and their advertisements
Love with all your hearts and never forget
How good it feels to be alive
And strive for your desire
Just cause you can't see
Your cage doesn't mean that you are free
When there are laws against nature
But its ok for you to be
Addicted to over the counter prescriptions
And magazines dictate all our human relations

I'm not buying, no I'm not giving in
To a culture that objectifies all of our women
I'm not buying, no I'm not consuming
The apathetic dribble on the news media's chin
I'm not buying, no I'm not giving in
The lies that are sold through textbooks to children
I'm not buying, no I'm not consuming
Cause the positive will
Always overcome the negative right

And we stay inside, its right outside,
We stand in line
We all enjoy the fences to keep it at bay
But I'm not giving in

Not one more word tonight
between here and there
Well put a distance the size of the ocean
so now his heart can be a skipping rythem
As the cadence carries me
I almost drift away
far enough to forget
but when it comes you cannot hesitate
and when found i will write
on account and seal it in an envelope
addresed to your last known residence

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooo

and we sink and we drowned
and what is lost can never be found
well these arms did swim,
until the lungs pulled in
panic was lost in a deep understanding
that you will see what is wrong with everything
what is wrong with you and me
they make all the right reasons to fuck it up
you gotta fuck it up

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooooooooo

(That sounded pretty good to me)
(I thought it was pretty good)

Johnny has a problem
Johnny is out of control
He had a TV party
With the kids in the black hole
Stealing people's mail
And lynching the landlord
Things to do when angry, young and bored

Johnny was only a lad
Johnny hates the scene
First he hit an old man
Then he hit and run Pauline
The record player spinning the best times
I never had
So why do my old records make me sad?

Cause they're so bad
And no one seems to understand
The glory of guitar
When out of tune
The off timing
The singers who can't sing
The beauty of love

He's a teenage vegetable
This is the last resort
He's got PCP in his veins
He lives inside a quart
Johnny is a punk rocker
Johnny is he queer?
Johnny needed two bags
And a car to commandeer
Johnny wasn't liked much
But he had a lot of friends
Waits on stage
Eating ludes
A mindless brainwashed pig
Johnny was a good man
Till the day that he got shot
He had a jacked up chevy
That could blow you off the spot

Johnny always needs
More than he takes
Forgets a couple chords
Forgets a couple breaks
Johnny says he's bound
By only six strings to this world
Johnny questions sellout bands
And Johnny pux0rs Ritilin
And Johnny is an angry amputee

If this is really living
Then why am I so unforgiving
Half the world is down the toilet
Half on its way

If I had a dollar for every time he hollers
Trust us with your hearts and minds
Or I'll make you pay

Trust me -- 2x

Ask me why you're feeling screwed
And I'll give you the answer
There's a Colon Dick & Bush
Justa hammerin' away

Ask me why you feel deceived
Stripped of all your liberties
It doesn't take a genius to explain
That today

Trust me -- 2x

Hear the walk, if I speak
Turn it into codes
Break it through, through the wall
Bring it up to speed
Innocence drifts away passing through pains
Just one person in a million waiting for that day
To start and end the line
To pay it all on time

The wind is shifting, somethings different in the air.
I see it in the form of choices every where
And I've been asleep a lifetime just to wake in time to find...
the voice that has been speaking for me is no voice of mine!
NOW YOU'VE JUST BEEN SPOKEN FOR !
NOW YOU'VE JUST BEEN SOLD !
My eyes fixated on the life I left behind,
A puppet dreams of being human
Every time that a string gets pulled before you know, your dancin' to the lie
Of someone elses vision of the perfect waisted life.........

Its in the way we never seem to get it right !
A systematic form of bowin down and under,
And all we know is what we are, without the faith in WHO WE ARE
Soo desperate......

Somethin' here has gotta give and my instincts fill me with this dread,
That I've become what I'm tryin' to kill, that my appetite is my free will.........
THERE IS NO RIGHT, THERE IS NO WRONG, THERE IS ONLY THAT IS FOREVER GONE!

God you must be kidding me, thought this was supposed to be
The home of the brave and the free for you and me
but now there's something wrong - shit's been going on too long.
It's never gonna change, there's no way so i say.
What's the CIA and the NRA?
They're all the same - just names are changed.
Fuck - there's no excuse - any way you lose.
It's all a joke in the god old USA.
All we need is more factories pumping filth into the sky.
Corporate greed and perverted priests, it's the story of our lives.
And apathy's the national disease and there is no end in sight.
God save the USA - blame the president and say your prayers tonight.
The irony of liberty is no one here is truly free
When elections are stolen by greed, the G.O.P.
So watch the nightly news - find out how you are getting screwed.
What you gonna do? - there's no use so i say
Fuck the industry - the aristocracy
They're all the same - just names are changed.
Fuck there's no excuse, any way you lose.
It's all a joke in the good old USA.
Government hypocricy -American Idolatry - Corporate philosophy.
Nightly news of tragedies - Whre no one cares what's right or wrong
Our heroes now are all long gone - The freedoms that we all abuse
The obituaries front page news

As I walk beneath the valley
I shall fear no evil
for thanks to King George and his rainbow cabinet
today murder is legal
God I know that it's wrong
to kill my brother for what he hasn't done
and as the planes blacken the sky
it sounds like heaven is falling
it sounds like heaven is falling
you promises me a new day a'dawning
I've seen a thousand points of light
like so many points of hatred, shame and horror
God I want to be a man
but I don't want to die with a rifle in my hand
and as the planes blacken the sky
it sounds like heaven is falling
it sounds like heaven is falling
you promised me a new day a'dawning
well nothing here looks new to me
but a score of mothers' sons
caught 'tween the devil and the deep blue sea

Break through the undertoe, your hands are grasping to fight,
pollution burns my tongue, the words i can't speak so I

stall myself again, then I fall to the surface,
throw my life with them, then let it out

I give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So give it all, cause its these reasons that belong to me

Rock bottoms where we live, and still we dig these trenches,
bury ourselves in them, backs breaking on the tension

For far too long these voices, muffled by distances,
its time to come to our senses, and from the dark

We give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So give it all, its these reasons that belong to me

Breathe, the air we give, the life we live, our voices raising distances,
so when my tongue, break into song, you seize a competition,

so please believe your eyes, of sacrifice,
is not what we had in our minds,
I'm coming home tonight, home tonight

We give it all, this is the reason why I sing,
So Give it all, its these reasons that belong to me

Today I offer all myself through this I'm living for my dying words,
I give it all, now there's a reason, there's a reason, to give it all

Dont go out at night. thats when they all come out!
THATS when they'll get you.
Hey, look out! on the right!
he doesnt look like you? Call us! well get him!
Its gonna be alright your messing with my head
i dont belive you. Youre coming at us hard
control is what you want. Well im not buying.

Seems like you wanna be shut down
id say your gonna be shut down
they say youre gonna be shut down

Seems like you wanna be shut down
id say your gonna be shut down
they say youre gonna be shut down

Were doing this for you. If we dont stop them now
theyre gonna get you. In fact, theyre here right now.
Youd better learn to sleep with one eye open.
Its gonna be alright your messing with my head
i dont belive you. Youre coming at us hard
control is what you want. Well im not buying.

Seems like you wanna be shut down
id say your gonna be shut down
they say youre gonna be shut down

Seems like you wanna be shut down
id say your gonna be shut down
they say youre gonna be shut down

thats how you look out on the streets thats how you(x4)


thats how you look out on the streets
thats how you suspect all of the kids you meet(x4)

Seems like you wanna be shut down
id say your gonna be shut down
they say youre gonna be shut down

Seems like you wanna be shut down
id say your gonna be shut down
they say youre gonna be shut down

Look how the ruts cling to my footsteps
the fatal invisible tool
by which we define we fight! for our approval
and fear our removal from the safety of fools

from the tidal forces of our positions
not won not one! to take for granted
are our rebel hymns in canted
to sing in the mines for the fortunate sons?

So brothers in spirit sisters in rage,
will we live out our lives in this concrete cage?
another heartbeat lost another police murder
buried in the public eyes on the back page.
Heartbeats lost in a new world order
hobbled and bound but still walking away

I pledge allegiance to the world
nothing more, nothing less than my humanity
I pledge allegiance to the world
searching for vision not invisibility
I pledge allegiance to the world
searching for vision not invisibility
I pledge allegiance to the world
until the last lock breaks none of us are free
none of us are free...

we fight to balance our minds
petty powers pushing profits over our lifetimes
world leaders mortaging our lives with words
I don't need to be reminded of whom you really serve.

Brothers in spirit, sisters in rage,
will we live out or lives in this concrete cage?
another hearbeat lost another police murder
buried in the public eyes on the back page.
(Too many) heartbeats lost in the new world order
while we're standing alone with our backs to the maze

I pledge allegiance to the world
nothing more, nothing less than my humanity
I pledge allegiance to the world
until the last lock breaks none of us are free
I pledge allegiance to the world
until the last lock breaks none of us are free
I pledge allegiance to the world
for nothing more, nothing less

in justice in hunger united
searching for vision united
in justice in hunger united
law and order but for whose order?

I pledge allegiance to the world
nothing more, nothing less than my humanity
I pledge allegiance to the world
until the last lock breaks none of us are free
I pledge allegiance to the world
under no nation will we ever be
I pledge allegiance to the world
for nothing more, nothing less
than my humanity, than my humanity, than my humanity (pledge allegiance!)
to our humanity, to our humanity, to our humanity (to the world!)

What America do I live in if not this one?
and what do they think they are exporting? it's not me.
This land is my land where ever I stand
only that money belongs to thee.

The riot of history, our history of riots
and the life you've stangled out of the word 'free'
Liberty ain't an airport in Newark
and towers don't need to be free.
You drop the 'e' in equality
something nice in a high end catalogue
never sent to the likes of me.
This land is my land where ever I stand,
what god has made let no man lease.

Some of the phrases in that rhetoric you're stuttering
must mean the opposite to you than it does to me.
yeah being scared and confused i guess is a part of freedom
is that what you wanted me to get out of that speech?
Is there another America than the one I live in & why do i get their TV?
This land is my land and you should understand that when you say 'we'.

Oh say do you see
that the America you live in is not this one
and that you don't protect or represent me.
This land is my land but from where i stand outside the gated communities I can see
there is another America than the one I live in
and what they're exporting is me
this land is my land, where ever I stand
See you in the funny papers, or in the penitentiary.
this land is my land and I mean goddamn you're embarrassing me.

shooting, fleeting
get onto the set at night
play it and repeat it
if you don't then the people won't get it tonight
scripted, heard it
don't it just sound so right?
(??)
the headlines are keeping us up tonight
and they'll scare us all

shut your windows and lock all your doors
choke on it

it's something you won't want to miss
?los angeles?
destroy you're last ??
if you don't watch you might die
struggles, trust me they won't subside
until something ??
just burns through the night
and they'll scare us all

shut your windows and lock all your doors
choke on it