Anti-Flag, "For Blood and Empire"

by **Rigorous Intuition** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:29 am

<a href="http://www.anti-flag.com/microsite/index.php">Anti-Flag</a> I linked a while ago to a video of their earlier song, <a href="http://p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm27.showMessage?topicID=313.topic">Turncoat</a>. Thinking of the Bono, hero or heel? discussion makes me want to recommend their latest album, which I picked up yesterday. Wolfowitz won't be backstage for these guys. Sample lyrics (I've added "Hymn to the Dead" to the RI radio playlist.):  "The Project For A New American Century" It's a gut check of what you believe A Global Pax Americana Neo-con, neo-fascist blue print - USA hegemony Charlatan war hawks, untried, untrue Celebrate and exploit tragedy To steal away control And it's a gut check of what you believe Will you stand up for democracy? or a New American Century? Endless... Endless violence, endless hatred Endless empire tyranny Will you make a stand for human dignity? Or never ending hate? It's a think tank, psycho and crazed War profiteering membership - a world catastrophe They've got a war plan that counts on you to kill for their corporate empire while they sit at home And it's a gut check of what you believe Will you stand up for democracy? or a New American Century? Endless... Endless violence, endless hatred Endless empire tyranny Will you make a stand for human dignity? Are you going to...Fight Back! Time to prove what you really believe We gotta FIGHT BACK! Until we win it all We gotta FIGHT BACK! Will you heed the call? The Neo-Fascist race to war The PNAC plan to rule the world It's a gut check of what you believe Will you stand up for democracy? or a New American Century? Are you going to... And it's a gut check of what you believe Will you stand up for democracy? or a New American Century? Endless... Endless violence, endless hatred Endless empire tyranny Will you make a stand for human dignity? Will you? Or never ending hate?  "Hymn For The Dead" Sing a hymn for the dead Because in death as in life we are one in the same Sing a hymn for the world To avert eugenic errors - Go! The sun sets, the light fades The blood red on an empty street It's not night, it's not day It's no more, for an unfortunate soul who Witnessed his life violently erased, From the horror of the human race Bright futures exchanged for profit, living half alive Sing a hymn for the dead Because in death as in life we are one in the same Sing a hymn for the world To avert eugenic errors - Go! In life now pay respects to your blood Those in the vast of the great Unknown, unite there, your heart's one in moments you'll never forget, yeah History lessons direct from the grave Lost souls of the lost divide Liberate your generation, living, rotting flesh Sing a hymn for the dead Because in death as in life we are one in the same Sing a hymn for the world To avert eugenic errors Call out tyranny! A spark of dissent can light a fury of flame Call out to be free! Sound off! Be the voice of a generation Dissent! You've got a choice to make Sound off! Be the voice of a generation Dissent! You've got a choice to make Strip away! Be the voice of a generation Strip away! You've got a choice to make Cut away! Cut away! Strip away! Strip away! Cut away! Strip away your chains! Sing a hymn for the dead Because in death as in life we are one in the same Sing a hymn for the world To avert eugenic errors Sing a hymn for the dead Because in death as in life we are one in the same Sing a hymn for the world To avert eugenic errors, oh!   "Confessions Of An Economic Hit Man" Recruited by the NSA, my orders to talk smooth and straight If heads of state try to say "No", I lovingly told them "Fuck you!" The jackals lose when I cannot (get through) There is a windfall of profit to (get to) You better deal or we're gonna take you down And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move So dance with me Arbenz, Mossadeq, Allende, Roldos, Torrijos, Aristide Elected democratically, all snuffed out by the CIA The truth will cause your heart to seize Shed light on the true enemy And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move What have we done? (You don't know) Until you care (You never will) What have we done? (You don't know) Until you care (You never will) The crimes, the murder, unjust, unheard of The crimes, the murder, what have we done? And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move And it goes on and on and on and it goes on and on it goes The iron fist for blood and empire, will make you move So dance with me "State Funeral" This is the sound of a dropping bomb After years are we still all content With being pawns in war game chess? Shuffled by King George and his English Queen On a board of autocracy As fundamentalist citing stories and fables Of whose god is more righteously skilled In whose gods' honor that we are all killed... A dead ringer for Armageddon Dead ringer dead! A dead ringer for Armageddon, yeah Dead ringer dead! A dead ringer for Armageddon Dead ringer dead! This State Funeral, we do not mourn And still the wicked sleep And dream of endless years of tyranny Passed on by incestuous means Skull and Bone, Freemason reigns A dead ringer for Armageddon Dead ringer dead! A dead ringer for Armageddon, yeah Dead ringer dead! A dead ringer for Armageddon Dead ringer dead! This State Funeral, we do not mourn Destroy all adversary - free yourself Erase the common enemy - free yourself Extinguishing the quarry - free yourself Through the smoke screen we seek out justice...  Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 5/31/06 9:31 am

by **professorpan** » Wed May 31, 2006 11:34 am

It's clearly time to add Anti-Flag to my iTunes playlist. Thanks, Jeff.

by **dugoboy** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:58 pm

daaaamn!! <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/roll.gif ALT=":rollin"> ___________________________________________ "BUSHCO aren't incompetent...they are COMPLICIT."

by **HMKGrey** » Wed May 31, 2006 4:59 pm

You guys need some CRASS: "Big A Little A" by Crass originally recorded in 1980. Big A little A bouncing B The sytem might have got you but it won't get me 1 2 3 4 Chorus: External control are you gonna let them get you? Do you wanna be a prisorner in the boundaries they set you? You say you want to be yourself By christ do you think they'll let you? The're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you Hello, hello, hello, this is the Lord God, can you hear? Hellfire and damnation's what I've got for you down there On earth I have ambassadors. archbishop. vicar. pope We'll blind you with morality, you'd best abandon any hope, We're telling you you'b better pray cos you were born in sin Right from the start we'll build a cell and then we'll lock you in We sit in holy judgement dondemning those that stray We offer our forgiveness, but first we'll make you pay Chorus Hello. hell. hell, now here's a message from your queen As figurehead of the status qui I set the social scene I'm most concerned about my people, I want to give them peace So I'm making sure they stay in line with my army and police My prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors For those amongst my subhects who dare to ask for more Unrulyness and disrepect are things I can't allow So I'll see the peasants grovel in they frefuse to bow. Chorus Introducing the Prime Sinister, she's a mother to us all Like the dtch boy's finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part If Moses did it with his faith, she;ll do it with an army Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there Gaurding national heritage no matter what or where Palaces for kings and gueens, amnsions for the rich Protection for the walthy, defence of pribige They've learnt the ropes in Ireland, engaged in cibil war Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle agaisnt the poor Great Britain? Future? bollocks, you'd better look begind Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984 Guardian of the future, he'll implement the law Big brothers system's always there with his beady eyes on you From God to local bobby, in home and street and school They've got you name and number while you've just got their rule We've got to look for methods to undermine those powers It's time to chage the tables. the future must be ours. BE exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do I am he and she is she but you're the only you No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see It's up to you to change you life and my life's up to me The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take If you don't like the life you life, change it now it's yours Nothing has effect if you don't recognise the cause If the programmes's not the one you want, get up, turn off the set It's only you that can decide what life you're gonna get If you don't like religion you can be the antichrist If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist But no on ever changed the church by pulling down the steeple And you'll never change the syustem by bombing number ten Systems just aren't made of bricks they're most made of people You may send then into hiding, but they'll be back again If you don't like the rules they make, regust to play their game If you don't want to be a numver, don't give them your name If you don't wnat to be caught out, refuse to hear their question Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection They'll try to make you play their game,refuse to show your face Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do I am he and she is she but you're the only you

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