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

It's The Law
We're sitting here in this cell
You know it's like a living hell
Was what you did really a crime?
The judge says you have to serve time

[Chorus]
It's the law, you're in jail
It's the law that sets your bail
Don't bother to try and fight
It's only a few more nights

The deputy had a bad night
He couldn't get it up for his wife
So he's gonna be pissed on the job and
He's gonna bum out your life

[Chorus]

All along, we follow blindly,
Force-fed prime time, printed nightly,
Why would anybody leave the safety of their home?

I wonder why,
I wonder why,
Only disasters flood the headlines,
Other people's misery,
Are up for the next three hours,
Commercial free.

And I can't take much more of this,
We're all so wrapped up, in it,
Nothing will change, but the channels,
So I turn it off.

I see billboards on the horizon,
I can't imagine what they'll tell me,
What to wear,
What to drink,
Where to eat,
It's so easy not to think for yourself anymore,
So naive,
You don't do anything anymore.

And I can't take much more of this,
We're all so wrapped up, in it,
Nothing will change, but the channel,
And no,
I can't take much more of this,
We're all so wrapped up, in it,
Nothing will change, but the channel...

We all give in,
We all complain,
We sit and wait,
For things to change,
Worrying,
Worrying.

All along, we follow blindly,
All along, we follow blindly.

And I can't take much more of this,
We're all so wrapped up, in it,
Nothing will change, but the channel,
And no,
I can't take much more of this,
We're all so wrapped up, in it,
Nothing will change, but the channels,
So I turn it off...
Turn it off...

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!

all the kids in the basement with the stereo
no body on the street and everybody knows
that they're running out of time
that they're waiting on the line
and they're laughing at clothes
they're all hooked in and watching old videos
smoking cigarettes and fingers going up their nose
and they're wasting all their time
thinking everything is fine
not caring what jim knows
i don't bother to ask why
when you're sitting home and crying
oh ???????????
i don't care why (oh-ee-oh-ee-oh-ee-oh)
i need more time (oh-ee-oh-ee-oh-ee-oh)
i don't care why (oh-ee-oh-ee-oh-ee-oh)
i need more time (oh-ee-oh-ee-oh-ee-oh)

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

I can't go on
You said my head's too heavy
I need that song
those trusty chords could pull me through
and early on
they saw the warning signs and symptoms all day long
we sit and dream of better days
where we'd hit the ground running on empty
stories we've been told
and all those nights we spent together never felt this fucking cold
when we let the car run in the driveway
kiss you one last time
before we brought the horse's in before the storm of '59'!
of 59' [x2]

i cant go on these limbs have grown to heavy
i need that song a night on earth could pull me through
and early on
they saw the warning signs and symptoms all day long
wonder how far from here we'll fall
before we hit the ground running on empty
stories we've been told
and all those nights we spent together never felt this fucking cold
when we let the car run in the driveway
kiss you one last time
before we brought the horse's in before the storm of '59'!
of 59' [x4]

look at the blueprints as they disappear
cuz of the blank space filled with all our fears
to make a move could be devastation
to take a chance is a way to face them
make a it a choice to take a different road

you want a revolution
you gatta make a difference on your own
wanna revolution
stand up
stand out and make it known

a new state ?relivation?
a new day brings you to the nation
these days another way to replay
no replay
I think I'm better this way
times up and can I say its ok
to late
I should've could've made me
why wait
but in the end it could be my last big
mistake

you want a revolution
you gatta make a difference on your own
wanna revolution
stand up
stand out and make it known

face first new days choices we made
^ the

face first
our ability to chose I make a change
insteada saying that its just fine
time to open up and time to realize
you can make a difference if you try

you want a revolution
you gatta make a difference on your own
wanna revolution
stand up
stand out and make it known

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