Anti-Flag - Underground Network

Anti-Flag - Underground Network lyrics

Angry, Young And Poor
This Machine Kills Fascists
Underground Network
Daddy Warbux
Vieques, Puerto Rico: Bikini Revisited
Stars And Stripes
Watch The Right
The Panama Deception
Culture Revolution
Spaz's House Destruction Party
Bring Out Your Dead
A Start
Until It Happens To You

Angry, Young And Poor

GO.......OH YEAH.............GO

He knows he'll be alone tonight,
While contemplating, "What can I do?"
The lack of hope leaves him feeling violent,
It's not that he's looking for a fight,
It's just... he don't know where to turn,
More stress than help,
From home and school,
And on the streets his life's out of control...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!
[x2]

She never even had a chance,
Mental, sexual, physical violence
Not once she heard an encouraging word,
Just the phrase, "you better shut up!" and "you're going nowhere!"
Her sad stories,
All left untold
So her life became something,
so out of control...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!
[x2]

Don't know where to turn
Don't know what to do...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!

Politicians talk it up,
About their love, for the USA's youth
But when it comes time to put up,
Their rhetoric falls back on every excuse
Every excuse, every excuse...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!
[x2]

Don't know where to turn
Don't know what to do...

Angry, young and poor!
Angry, young and pissed!
Angry no one cares!

This Machine Kills Fascists

We've run out of patience,
You've run out of time !
This scene will not fall victim
To your violence or lies.

Your "values" are nothing
But excuses to start fights.
Quit fronting like you're standing
For a moral cause tonight...

United as one, we won't stand aside,
You tried to fuck with our scene... We're gonna fuck your life !!!

This machine, this machine. This machine... THIS MACHINE,
KILLS FUCKING FASCISTS !
Dead... That's right, DEAD !

You don't have to be a rascist,
To be a Nazi, fuck !
Your mindless nationalism
Gives you credentials enough.

You spew your right wing rhetoric,
When we got your attention...
You've mistaken the punk scene
For the Republican Convention !

No more infiltration, no more right wing lies,
You don't belong in our scene... We'll fight you till we die !!!

This machine, this machine. This machine... THIS MACHINE,
KILLS FUCKING FASCISTS !
Dead... ahhh... DIE !

Underground Network

1, 2, 3, 4 GO!

The national media cover Clinton/Lewinsky
While the world's governments sell out millions on the issue of free trade
But somewhere in the night - a force is not asleep
And a massive organization plans to rise up to it's feet
It happens like this

A pirate radio voice transmits into the night
And from D.C. to Peking email warns of lost global rights
And the hoax the world's leaders, wanted no one to see
Comes crashing on their heads from grass roots - striking it down
The blows coming for the world's

Underground network - alternative communication
Underground network - alternative communication
Corporate media can't keep us beat down, brainwashed, enslaved
'Cause of our underground network - alternative communication

They try to blind us but we
Stand up and fight!
Stand up and fight!
They try to keep us ignorant but we
Stand up and fight!
Stand up and fight!
They want to take our rights away so
Stand up and fight!
Stand up and fight!
Stand up and fight!
Fight!

Just take a look around the world and you'll find that nearly all
Mass media are owned and controlled by a handful of conservative capitalists.
We must devise and implement alternative methods of distributing our news, our
Information, our ideas - people united worldwide working together to make a stand, to
Tell the truth!

Underground network - alternative communication
Underground network - alternative communication
Underground network - alternative communication
Underground network - alternative communication

NO COMMUNICATION!

Daddy Warbux

Our thoughts and our lives
Controlled by pocket books.
Of rich politicians. Like a rich Daddy Warbux,
They pay for the deaths of those who speak of revolution,
While they keep us at each other's throats,
While we still pay their tax notes.

...HEY! HEY!....HEY! HEY!...HEY! HEY!...

Revolting against the few - THE FEW!
The rich, bigoted the few - THE FEW!
They pay for the deaths of those - THE FEW!
So we're revolting against the few.

Our thoughts and our lives
Controlled by pocket books
Of rich politicians. Like a rich Daddy Warbux,
They pay for the deaths of those who speak of revolution,
While they keep us at each other's throats,
While we still pay their tax notes.

...HEY! HEY!...HEY! HEY!...HEY! HEY!...

Revolting against the few - THE FEW!
The rich, bigoted the few - THE FEW!
They pay for the deaths of those - THE FEW!
So we're revolting against the few.

Stand up!
Don't fall!
We don't live!
We don't die for them...

Revolting,
Revolting,
Revolting,
Revolting,
Revolting,
Revolting,
Revolting,
Revolting,
Revolting!

Revolting against the few - THE FEW!
The rich, bigoted the few - THE FEW!
They pay for the deaths of those - THE FEW!
So we're revolting against the few.

Revolting against the few - REVOLT!
Revolting against the few - REVOLT!
Revolting against the few - REVOLT!
Revolting against the FEW!

Vieques, Puerto Rico: Bikini Revisited

All united, all as one, let's make a stand...
We've got a privilege in the power that we command!
So let's not drown in ignorance,
And let our strength waste away...
As the richest nation in the world, we've got a responsibility!

Vieques, Puerto Rico, a protectorate -- of the USA.
Part a home for native families, the rest...
A NAVY BOMBING RANGE!!

Shells misfired kill civilians there,
And napalm hangs in the island air.
But the government beats down protests against this misuse...

So...

STAND UP, FIGHT BACK, RESIST-REFUSE!!
'Cause if we don't do it, no one's going to...
So,
STAND UP, FIGHT BACK, RESIST-REFUSE!!
'Cause if we don't do it, no one's going to...

I look into the eyes, of a dead island boy's face.
His (eyes) remind me of another's,
From a different time and place...

Where A-Bombs baked the ground,
Of Bikini's tropical lands.
Where a culture was erased,
Families misplaced,
BY A NAZI-ESQUE LIKE PLAN!!

All done, in your name, by Uncle Sam...
So if we don't fight it, then we're guilty too!

So...

STAND UP, FIGHT BACK, RESIST-REFUSE!!
'Cause if we don't do it, no one's going to...

I think it's 'bout time that we had a change...
I think it's 'bout time that WE MAKE A CHANGE!!

Stars And Stripes

Welcoming with open arms and with open hearts
In the end they found their arms in shackles and their hearts torn out
This country named America is built on graves
Of the natives who lived here before genocide took place
The word America means freedom as in, free to kill the free...

Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
For ME!!

It's the same today as then, as U.S. dollars are spent
To rid the native insurgence in Mexico, in every U.S. Corporate interests
The 3rd world is a modern day playground for multinational companies
And the tax dollars we're forced to pay, fund these heartless U.S. policies
Their explanation... national interest, national security...

Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for me
They stand for greed, they stand for hate but nothing I believe!
Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, For me

At little big horn national cemetery, there's a monument that reads:
To the soldiers killed in Montana while clearing hostile Indians away...'
And there's a flag there flying high, over the fallen killers' graves
When they call on me to die for them I'll say... not me!

Watch The Right

Watch your right
Watch your left
Watch the right
Watch the center
AND WATCH YOUR BACK!
HEY!

It's on the radio, it's on the TV news
Conservatives and liberals, with ever clashing views
But as the days go by I can't tell which side is talking
Their left is in the center, and labeled "Liberal Doctrine"

They do nothing for you...
They do nothing for me...
NO! They give us nothing to believe
Yeah!
Watch your right
Watch your left
Watch the right
Watch the center
AND WATCH YOUR BACK!

Let the Feds pass a law, that takes your rights away
'Cause, "You gotta sacrifice if you want to stay safe!"
Till the day you find the Feds in your back pocket
Locking you away for saying "Question", "Think", or "Stop It"

They do nothing for you...
They do nothing for me...
NO! They give us nothing to believe
Yeah!
Watch your right
Watch your left
Watch the right
Watch the center
AND WATCH YOUR BACK!

Joseph McCarthy and Reagan, set the motherfuckin' stage
For the right leanings that now grip the USA
They framed and jailed the Reds- lost the keys to the cell
Set up the Capitalist Machine to go in for the kill... yeah... yeah... yeah...

Social divisions - encouraged by the few- FEW!
Those few in power - suckerin' suckers like you- YOU!
As corporate welfare, flows from troughs of the state- STATE!
Yeah big business, takes more than their fair take- TAKE!
But in the end it is suckers like you- YOU!
Who buy that the poor, are givin' you the screw- SCREW!
Don't you realize that it's just talk, talk, talk, talkin'...
Like tax men at your door, fuckin' knockin' knockin' knockin'...

Watch your right
Watch your left
Watch the right
Watch the center
AND WATCH YOUR BACK!

The Panama Deception

Their 2+2 doesn't equal 4
Their 2+2 equals whatever
they wants us to die for

ABOUT FACE! snap to attention
Form your own conclusion to things you see
ABOUT FACE! sometimes the explanations
DON'T ADD up to the facts

Time and again they manufacture a cause
And rally the public around it, Check out the movie "Wag The Dog"
Killing To further the interest of private corporations
Killing To control global economic situations
Killing For personal gain (i.e. Bush in Panama)
Learn the fuckin' TRUTH you won't be so quick to sign on!

ABOUT FACE! snap to attention
Form your own conclusion to things you see
ABOUT FACE! sometimes the explanations
DON'T ADD up to the facts

Our lives reflect TV sitcoms and tragedies Like a bad joke,
I ask, "How many of you don't see...?
And just how many... How many of you swallow the lies...?
How many of you do not realize...?"

Gung ho and true to the stars and stripes
They fuckin brainwashed you, to do their bidding...
And like a flock of sheep, with wool over your eyes
You never stop to question, you just fall into the line

The media's a business, that provides entertainment
Heir bottom line: Money, And stories that will make it...
So they run with stories, that promotes the lies
To keep the ratings coming, wealth from promoting world strife

Life must be so easy, when you don't have to think
Black and white like printing, from the newspaper's ink
I wish I had the chance, to reveal the lies
But you're so fucking brainwashed, would it even help to try...
TO GET THROUGH... TO YOU!?!?

To get through, through, through, through, through, through...
To get through to you!

Culture Revolution

Get ready to - make a stand
Get ready to - make a move
Cause if - we don't - fuckin - do it
THEN NO ONE'S GOING TO! NO!

Have you seen the scene on the street?
Do you care what's - goin on?
Thousands - homeless - in the Land of the Free
BUT NO ONE SEEMS TO THINK IT'S WRONG!
That's why we fuckin wrote this song

Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand!
We're not gonna back down! Culture Revolution!
Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand!
We're not gonna back down! Culture Revolution!
This ship is sinking, it's time we set it right
Take to the streets - cause it's time to make a stand!
We're not gonna back down! Culture Revolution!

When the standards of - society
Are based - solely on greed
Humanity - compassion - do not define
WHAT IT MEANS TO SUCCEED! NO!

For the poor - contemt and hate
From the rich - middle class, the state
Compassion - dumped for - apathy
THE GREATEST NATION EVER SEEN!
Thats fuckin real hard to believe...

Socialized - socialized, mechanized - mechanized to consume...everything in the world
Saturate - saturate, acclumate - acclumate your happiness...can be bought and sold
Environment - environment - detriment - detriment is not... an issue of concern
Humanity - humanity, or this insanity - insanity, the choice is yours, and your choice alone
But you won't be alone
No, you won't be alone...YEAH!

Revolution! In your head! On the streets! Move!

Spaz's House Destruction Party

I wanna tell you a little story about a party that went all right but went all wrong
I wanna tell you a little story about a party in this song...

It happened back in '93, in the PITTSBURG PUNK ROCK SCENE
An event that will go down, in infamy
It was all the masterplan, of one legendary PUNK ROCK KID
His name was "Spaz", S-P-A-Z

An eviction notice to his house sparked off an idea
"I should have one last party at my place..."
So off he set with his master plan, the invitation in his hand read:
"You're invited to my House Destruction Party!"

Spaz's House Destruction Party, it was chaos with no end
If you were crazy enough to make the House Destruction Party then you know
You're lucky that you lived

LET'S GO!

We played there St. Patrick's Day with Submachine and THE BAD GENES
In a basement full of debris
From kicked in doors, broken glass, knocked in walls, THE PLACE WAS THRASHED
The house was now missing it's support beams

The bathrooms had no toilets or sinks left in them
There was nothing in the kitchen left to break
Aus Rotten spray painted on the walls, drunk punks passed out in the halls
And this was just the second night of the three-day long party

Spaz's House Destruction Party, it was chaos with no end
If you were crazy enough to make the House Destruction Party then you know
You're lucky that you lived

The cops showed up and all the kids went piling out the back
I remember running away and hiding out in the lot behind the Squirrel Hill Mellon Bank
The cop said, "I wanna speak to someone who lives here!" and this punk kid said she did
He asked, "Is this the condition the house has always been in?"
She answered, "Uh... yeah, it is."

Spaz's House Destruction Party, it was chaos with no end
If you were crazy enough to make the House Destruction Party then you know
You're lucky that you lived

LET'S GO! HEY...

Bring Out Your Dead

Spend a lifetime working for these people
To make what is earned in one day
There are options to choose, I call it Social Progress
Progress to not be abused

They were arrested for their views
It was the protesters they screwed
And still had the nerve to ask
Who I was voting for
Cause when you silence our youth
Then you silence the truth
Our right not to remain...

YEAH!!!

Start funding lives that move for changes
Not funding leaders that oppress and use
When politicians become nothing more but major corporations
Posing as humans, real humans lose...

I won't remain
I won't remain silent
I won't remain
I won't remain SILENT!!!!

Bring out your dead...
Oppression
Intimidation
Suppression

A Start

Rats, monkeys, mice - teach 'em little tricks
Stay far from creativity, and from politics
'Cause the multinationals need a solid work force
Or their growing profit margins will be wiped out at the source

Conform to the status quo, set rules
Mold your mind into their fucking tool

Reciting back their facts and numbers - that don't make you smart
There's much more to intelligence - and thinking for yourself would be a start
It would be a start...
Start!

Pledge allegiance to a flag of which you're taught no history
Not Mexico, Granada, Panama, or Middle East
But they're just a mere fraction of this country's shady past
Skeletons locked in the closed and i doubt they'll be the last
"National Interest," defined for you...
But who's it really serve? Who's getting screwed?

Reciting back their facts and numbers - that don't make you smart
There's much more to intelligence - and thinking for yourself would be a start
It would be a start...
Start!

Your prison warden is your school
Training you to be a social screw
Stage a jailbreak, swim against the flow
Show those motherfuckers what you know!

I feel like i am suffocation
I feel my life depreciating
I know their teachings are riddled with lies, distortions, shit!
It kills me knowing the masses are so brainwashed by it - brainwashed by it!

Until It Happens To You

You walk past an activist, who is talking on the street
About political prisoners, locked up in your own home state
And you think just for a minute, you think just a second
Then you say, "That can't be true!
Cause I live in the land of the freedom... where no one gets the screw!"

You turn your face, you turn your back
You say, "That can't be true!"
You stay safe lost in your prefab world
Cause you're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to you
Just wait till it happens to you!

You’ve heard it every day, since the first day of your life
But you never stopped to think, what you heard was full of lies
You can't think just for a minute, can't think just for a second
Cause you're nothing but a tool
Whose thoughts are tailored and fashioned
Each night by the evening news

You could stand on the street, talk 'til you're blue in the face
And they would not make you stop, cause you have no power base
But if Dan Rather got on the Evening News,
And said, "It’s time for revolution!"
The F.B.I. would fuck him up so bad
He’d wish he wasn't living!

They call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave"
And they call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave"
Yeah they call it America, "land of the free, home of the brave"
More to the truth it's a murderer, it's the land of the enslaved!

You turn your face, you turn your back
You say, "That can't be true!"
You stay safe lost in your prefab world
Cause you're sure it won't happen to you
You're sure it won't happen to you
You’re sure it won’t happen to
Sure it won’t happen
Sure it won’t happen to you!

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