Here's a full transcript of the lyrics of all our songs so far:
Matching the Price of Freedom (With a Bullet to the Head)
We can feel it
Society’s decline
Anxiety rising up the back of my spine
Slowly filling me with dread
No question it’s oppression at the center of this mess
Losing civil liberties every time the sun sets
Watch them being torn to shreds
{Like digging up the graves
And rescuing the dead
Matching the price of freedom
With a bullet to the head}
We can feel it
Society’s a wreck
All the checks and balances just no longer check
White and blue is bleeding red
Raising voices and shouting our demands
Every cry for peace is met with gun in hand
And a bullet to the head
{Chorus}
With a bullet to the head!
The head!
DISASTER!
House full of rowdy drunks late after dark
Another Saturday night, another girl I gotta sweet talk
Buddies outside throwing rocks at cops
Fist to the face won’t desist and stop
Not gonna spend ten in a prison yard
When the man raises his hand, he’ll pull it back scarred
Living in the US of moral decay
Til we’re tagged as terrorists and carted away
Oh, oh, whoa!
{Stand up!
For unity! You gotta
Rise up!
Make people believe!}
We took this riot from the house to the streets
Where there’s DISASTER! Everywhere I could see!
Armed police, every corner, every street!
DISASTER! Everywhere I could see!
{Chorus}
Rise up!
Make people believe!
Rise up!
Make people believe!
Rise up!
Make people believe!
Rise up!
Make people!
Believe!!
Right Now
Cold winter day
Driving and waiting for the call
Long drive, windshield wipers clearing raindrops as they fall
Stereo broken, stuck in motion with the words I recall
No illusion, this confusion must happen to us all
When your own worst enemy
Lives inside your head, you see
The whole world in grayscale while you watch the demons crawl
Worst wound you can have is the one that doesn’t leave a bruise…
Now I’m thinking about the last night’s six o clock news
Latest school shootings getting rave reviews
Trend in the media commonly to abuse
The power of the spotlight in order to confuse
They manipulate the public eye, bending all the rules
So fear can penetrate into our hearts and our minds
Thus keeping us blind…
{RIGHT NOW! (x4)
Knowledge and justice and peace RIGHT NOW! (x4)}
Well just a second, rewind
Try to find
The source of the problem—of course
A teenager with a gun is still just a symptom
Of broken families
Broken homes
Broken dreams from when
Daddy broke your bones
I know
The pain makes you want to leave smoking holes
In the faces of everyone you can’t control
But redirect that anger and resentment!
It would do us more good to put five in the president!
See how much he likes the taste of the pavement!
While such a solution would be heaven sent,
I know I won’t hold my breath and I haven’t yet!
{Chorus}
Right NOW! Right NOW! Right NOW! (x2)
RIGHT NOW!
Not Monuments
{Everybody on TV is irrelevant
So pardon me if my opinion is irreverent
And those that you are dying to meet
Take payment in full
Knock them off the pedestal!
Everybody on TV is irrelevant
They’re not monuments, not monuments
Not monuments, not monuments
Not monuments!}
Don’t look now but all the heroes of the past are dead
They only existed in your head
And everybody that you ever looked up to
Is just as ordinary as me or you
Fame may not penetrate the skin
But the effects on the mind tend to work their way in
Just living and breathing
Human beings
Why is this not what we’re seeing?
{Chorus}
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! HEY!
Stay Alive
{Stay alive!
Feel the smoke stinging your eyes!
Stay alive!
Ignore that grieving mother’s cries!
Stay alive!
Push the bodies of your friends aside!
Stay alive!
No safe places left to hide!}
A thousand bullets for every white flag that you wave
Just as many fears to conquer, keep your head up and stay brave
Steel toed boots and brown fatigues
Empty magazine in your M16
Stench of death and sweat and grease
Terror that spreads like a disease
[prechorus:]
Waiting for the train at the station
Hearing the proclamations
About the devastation
Of the innocent
It’s just a number
And a statistic
Resistance, resistance, resistance…
{Chorus}
[prechorus]
RESISTANCE, RESISTANCE, RESISTANCE!!!
Stay alive! (STAY ALIVE!)
Feel the smoke stinging your eyes!
Stay alive! (STAY ALIVE!)
Ignore that grieving mother’s cries!
Stay alive! (STAY ALIVE!)
Push the bodies of your friends aside!
And stay alive! (STAY ALIVE!)
No safe places left to HIDE!
Goodbye Creature
She was the highschool misfit love wet dream
Dwelled on the depressive and obscene
Summer nights I’d make her scream my name
Got knocked up at seventeen
Turned into just another shattered dream
Two years later I knew I’d watch her change
So goodbye creature
Goodbye queen
Sorry for being so goddamn mean
Goodbye creature
Goodbye queen
The Long Drive to Golgotha
Lets go!
Fuel gauge needle buried on empty, still got a long ways to go
Girl next to me in the passenger seat demonized by the dashboard glow
Tires being torn and worn away
Cheap cigarettes filling the ashtray
Burning the candle from opposite ends down another unknown highway
Keep that pedal to the floor.
Forty forty forty ounces away, still got a long ways to go
Sparks in the dark come from the backseat, inhibition disappears like smoke
I’m in perfect time like an atomic clock
Head still reeling from the chemical shock
See you at that final show off another highway unknown
Keep that pedal to the floor!
Meet you at the place of skulls!
Dropping the Gavel
Raising up the shield that protects social control
Forcing the rest of us into society’s roles
With 12 gauge and pepper spray knocking at our doors
Every badge is a hand that silences a voice
All us activists are the true patriots
But now I guess we gotta risk being labeled terrorists
Makes me sick the way they twist
The words that come out from their lips
Heard every single syllable
But not a single truth at all
[Oh, whatever happened to right and wrong?
Oh, can you tell me where love has gone?]
Ask a politician why everyone’s in prison
And it’s unlikely to phase him
Up in his ivory tower in an isolated chamber
Can’t hear you through the thick skin
Well now I make the choice with every ounce of my voice
To put the balances back in check
Burn those fascists down to ashes
Break their necks in the fall down the capital steps
[chorus]
(punk breakdown):
Judge, drop that gavel on me one more time
This is your war on the poor, not a war on crime
Let’s bust up the upper crust
Along with everybody else we should be able to trust!
