MODERN META MEDICINE lyrics - Anti-Flag (feat. Jesse Leach)

Self-serve it's all that you can eat

How will we pay, we're the commodity

We can never help ourselves

We want it all and nothing else

Market plan. Consumed, buy everything

Create desires and trade them publicly

The sweet smell of our excess

We choke and gag upon the stench

Every dime spared from the war fund

Another pill for us to choke on

On and on and on and on

We're never right, we're never wrong

And on and on and on and on

What's black is white, what's true is false

Take off my weary head

Fill us with medicine

We're all bogged down with dread

Fill us with medicine

Fill us with medicine

Under treat the pain, deny dignity

Subhuman graves robbed for the body

Indelible memory remains

The histories of abuse and shame

Same story, the character, a caricature

A premium paid, a misery ensured

Shocked by the inhumanity

Is this life of ours worth anything?

Every dime spared from the war fund

Another pill for us to choke on

On and on and on and on

We're never right, we're never wrong

And on and on and on and on

What's black is white, what's true is false

Take off my weary head

Fill us with medicine

We're all bogged down with dread

Fill us with medicine

Fill us with medicine

So we get, get, get what we deserve

So we try, try, try to bereave the interred

So we get, get, get what we deserve

This modern medicine

This modern meta medicine

This modern meta medicine

So let us in

This modern meta medicine

So let us in

This modern meta medicine

LAUGH. CRY. SMILE. DIE. lyrics - Anti-Flag (feat. Shane Told)

Can you hear me, hear me calling

I got this idea that I'm selling, for nothing

(Whoa whoa) Can anybody hear me?

(Whoa whoa) Does anybody care?

Can you hear me, hear me calling

I got this worry that we're falling, for nothing

(Whoa whoa) Is anybody listening?

(Whoa whoa) Is anybody there?

Flashback to 1983

Emphasize the uncertainty

The memo says the company

Turns truth into a theory

The lies they tell our children shaping everything we know

Turning fact into a fiction streamed on every single show

Packaged and rebranded so that it's consumed by all

Simplify the lyrics so the world can sing along

Can you hear me, hear me calling

I got this idea that I'm selling, for nothing

(Whoa whoa) Can anybody hear me?

(Whoa whoa) Does anybody care?

Can you hear me, hear me calling

I got this worry that we're falling, for nothing

(Whoa whoa) Is anybody listening?

(Whoa whoa) Is anybody there?

In the fluorescents of boardrooms

The proof disappears

In the darkness of the night

They prey on our fears

Now they're capping all the the questions, no accountability

The only answers given are the ones that keep them free

They knew it, they sold it then wrote it into law

To greenwash, to market, the cleanest death of all

Can you hear me, hear me calling

I got this idea that I'm selling, for nothing

(Whoa whoa) Can anybody hear me?

(Whoa whoa) Does anybody care?

Can you hear me, hear me calling

I got this worry that we're falling, for nothing

(Whoa whoa) Is anybody listening?

(Whoa whoa) Is anybody there?

Is anybody there?

Can you hear me, hear me calling

I got this idea that I'm selling, for nothing

(Whoa whoa) Can anybody hear me?

(Whoa whoa) Does anybody care?

Can you hear me, hear me calling

I got this worry that we're falling, for nothing

(Hey) Is anybody listening?

(Hey) Is anybody fucking there?

(Whoa whoa) Is anybody listening?

(Whoa whoa) Is anybody there?

THE FIGHT OF OUR LIVES lyrics - Anti-Flag (feat. Tim McIlrath & Brian Baker)

There's a dark cloud growing at the end of the road

There's a crowd of people left with nowhere to go

And I get so sick at the sight, it keeps me up at night

(It keeps me up at night)

There's a headline telling you that this is the end

There's no conversation, it's still us versus them

And I get so sick at the sight, it keeps me up at night

We're in the fight of our lives

Crossing over the lines

We'll never run, never hide

(Oh oh oh oh)

Wake up surrounded in flames

Holding onto our pain

Still some hope in our veins

(Oh oh oh oh oh)

I get so sick at the sight, it keeps me up at night

We're in the fight of our lives

There's a echo ringing that we're going to war

It's the same old story, they're still killing for sport

And I get so sick of the sight, it keeps me up at night

(It keeps me up at night)

We're in the fight of our lives

Crossing over the lines

We'll never run, never hide

(Oh oh oh oh)

Wake up surrounded in flames

Holding onto our pain

Still some hope in our veins

(Oh oh oh oh oh)

I get so sick at the sight, it keeps me up at night

We're in the fight of our lives

(Oh oh oh oh)

We're in the fight of our lives

(Oh oh oh oh)

We're in the fight of our lives

Wake up, to existential dread

Empires, they crumble in our hands

Phone call, no one on the other end

(No one on the other end)

Inside, to dispel the myth

So tired, we haven't done anything

Reach out, no one on the other end

(No one on the other end)

("The number you've dialed is not in service")

We're in the fight of our lives

Crossing over the lines

We'll never run, never hide

(Oh oh oh oh)

Wake up surrounded in flames

Holding onto our pain

Still some hope in our veins

(Oh oh oh oh oh)

I get so sick at the sight, it keeps me up at night

We're in the fight of our lives

(Oh oh oh oh)

We're in the fight of our lives

(Oh oh oh oh)

We're in the fight of our lives

IMPERIALISM lyrics - Anti-Flag (feat. Ashrita Kumar)

Did things my own way, made up my own rules

Took off a Sunday and stole all of your jewels

Moved into your house, you said can you move

I said, I'm goin', I'm goin' nowhere

I plan to fabricate a little holiday

And find myself a lovely, cozy place to stay

And if I like it I may never go away

Yeah!

And when I show up you'll be thrilled to let me in

Cause I got all you need to wash away your sins

Yeah, once you know me you'll realize I'm your best friend

You've been needing a new friend

I'm gonna be there till the end

Did things my own way, made up my own rules

Took off a Sunday and stole all of your jewels

Moved into your house, you said can you move

I said, I'm goin', I'm goin' nowhere

The heads of state are drinking up their vintage wine

While blowin' smoke on human rights and apartheid

From Pittsburgh, PA all the way to Palestine

Yeah!

I'll tell you who's your enemy and who to trust

If you don't like it, I don't really give a fuck

I'm rolling heavy and I'm tired of your distrust

You see your loyalty's a must...

You better bring it, motherfucker

Did things my own way, made up my own rules

Took off a Sunday and stole all of your jewels

Moved into your house, you said can you move

I said, I'm goin', I'm goin' nowhere

And the sun keeps shining down

On the hills and city streets of this fair town

What once and what is now are futile

To break down, to break down

Did things my own way, made up my own rules

Took off a Sunday and stole all of your jewels

Moved into your house, you said can you move

I said, I'm goin', I'm goin'...

I'm goin' nowhere, nowhere

Yeah, yeah, yeah

I'm goin' nowhere, nowhere

Oh, oh

Did things my own way, made up my own rules

Took off a Sunday and stole all of your jewels

Moved into your house, you said can you move

I said, I'm goin', I'm goin' nowhere

VICTORY OR DEATH (WE GAVE 'EM HELL) lyrics - Anti-Flag (feat. Campino)

When the world starts burning ring the bell, ring the bell

We can say we can say we were there when it fell

Hear the voice of the choir fare thee well, fare thee well

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

You were born far away in the pouring rain

Dreaming I would meet you there someday

Well, I don't know your story and I don't know your name

But I can tell you that you won't die in vain

When the world starts burning ring the bell, ring the bell

We can say we can say we were there when it fell

Hear the voice of the choir fare thee well, fare thee well

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

When you come face to face with the weight of your fate

(Will you) Count your blessing or just count your mistakes?

When the sun begins to set on the things you never did

Will they haunt you or the ones you have left?

To the end of the day nothing left but to raise up a glass to the lost and the brave

You may be buried in a grave that is marked with no name

But I'll be thrown down in a hole just the same

To arms the brave

Unknown soldiers wait

March on, march on to our very last breath

It's victory or death...

When the world starts burning ring the bell, ring the bell

We can say we can say we were there when it fell

Hear the voice of the choir fare thee well, fare thee well

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

When the world starts burning ring the bell, ring the bell

We can say we can say we were there when it fell

Hear the voice of the choir fare thee well, fare thee well

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

We gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell, gave 'em hell

THE HAZARDOUS lyrics - Anti-Flag

Confined, separate and polarized

Maintained, condoned and designed

No relief and nowhere left to hide

Hell trapped in cracks of the pavement

Decline, compound abandonment

No escape and nowhere left to repent

Insolence only crime

Inside our own lives

Injustice resides where the weapon resides

Locked out, locked up

They've got their gun to our heads

Same war, same chains

Same house always wins

The bottom line defines the hazardous redline

They've got their gun to our heads

Blood thirst, watch the interest hike

Blockbust, forced fed hunger strike

Their ghosts hang in the poisoned air

Insolence only crime

Inside our own lives

Injustice resides in everything that we buy

Locked out, locked up

They've got their gun to our heads

Same war, same chains

Same house always wins

The bottom line defines the hazardous redline

They've got their gun to our heads

There's only hell inside

There's only hell outside

But the structures are all rotten

In the maps of the forgotten

Our dignity, our liberty is all or nothing

Locked out, locked up

They've got their gun to our heads

Same war, same chains

Same house always wins

The bottom line defines the hazardous redline

They've got their gun to our heads

Locked out, locked up

They've got their gun to our heads

Same war, same chains

Same house always wins

The bottom line defines the hazardous redline

They've got their gun to our heads

Locked out, locked up

Same war, same chains

Same house always wins

Locked out, locked up

The hazardous redline

They've got their gun to our heads

SHALLOW GRAVES lyrics - Anti-Flag (feat. Tré Burt)

In the lotteries of stolen fate

To clear the way, gas up the trade

To rape the soil to the end days

Where they bury our soul in a shallow grave

In a shallow grave

Gold mountain ghost, spirit remains

For the destitute, for the cast away

Manifest destiny to fill our shame

Where they bury our soul in a shallow grave

In a shallow grave

In a shallow grave

In a shallow grave

In a shallow grave

Bodies piled on the border lines

Shots of patron in the friendly skies

Futures detained on the Rio Grande

Will wash their blood right off your hands

In a promised land

In a promised land

In a promised land

What promise?

We are the warmth of the other suns

Five hundred years of violence undone

We are the sins that you will not forget

The broken promise of the innocent

We are the warmth of the other suns

Five hundred years of violence undone

We are the sins that you will not forget

The broken promise of the innocent

WORK & STRUGGLE lyrics - Anti-Flag

Work and struggle, and be grateful for it

Work and struggle, and death

Work and struggle, and be grateful for it

Work and struggle for less

Work and struggle, and be grateful for it

Work and struggle, and death

Work and struggle, and be grateful for it

Work and struggle for less

There's blood on the banks of homestead

There's blood in the banks of Wall Street

Robert Owens gave birth to the 8 hour day

The boss wants it down in a grave

Poison the rivers, slaughter the cows

Build up the prisons, burn forests down

Food to the landfill, patent the seeds

They waste your labor, and your dignity

They want to use you up, and steal your soul

They want to use you up, and steal your soul

Work and struggle, and be grateful for it

Work and struggle, and death

Work and struggle, and be grateful for it

Work and struggle for less

Perpetuate violence, surveilled privacy

Serving evictions, deny basic need

Following orders, just do what you're told

They'll leave you with nothing, just a flag to fold

They rob the world blind, never pay for their crimes

They've got us trained like rats

So we organize on the boss' dime

We don't have to live like this

Like this, like this

They want to use you up, and steal your soul

They want to use you up, and steal your soul

Bleed you to death 'til there's nothing left

Bleed you to death 'til there's nothing left

They're gonna bleed you to death 'til there's nothing left

They'll bleed you to death

Work and struggle, and be grateful for it

Work and struggle, and death

Work and struggle, and be grateful for it

Work and struggle for less

Work and struggle for less

NVREVR lyrics - Anti-Flag (feat. Stacey Dee)

Cut throat and don't look back

As if gifted by the zodiac

With the key that's gonna unlock my own path

Catastrophe is guaranteed again

'Cause your payoff is with a moral sin

Well, somehow, that idea always got under my skin

But you never got into my head

You never got into my head

Attack after attack

When living in this nightmare is a total laugh

I never, ever, ever

Never, ever, ever

And when the wolves attack

There ain't no ground that I'm ever giving back

I never, ever, ever

Never, ever, ever

Much like a poison kiss

Bittersweet, infamous

The villain's gift comes with a hitch

Slick and pretty with a warm embrace

Behind the veil there is a sacrifice

The time will come when you don't wanna pay that price

And they never got into my head

No, they never got into my head

Attack after attack

When living in this nightmare is a total laugh

I never, ever, ever

Never, ever, ever

And when the wolves attack

There ain't no ground that I'm ever giving back

I never, ever, ever

Never, ever, ever

All the struggles of the world make me hate you evermore

All the struggles of the world make me hate you (Make me hate you)

All the beauty of the world makes me hate you evermore

All the beauty of the world makes me hate you (Makes me hate you)

And I hate you

And when the wolves attack

There ain't no ground I'm giving back

Attack after attack

When living in this nightmare is a fucking laugh

I never, ever, ever

Never, ever, ever

And when the wolves attack

There ain't no ground that I'm ever giving back

I never, ever, ever

Never, ever, ever

And when the wolves attack

There ain't no ground I'm giving back

You better fucking know it

And when the wolves attack

There ain't no ground I'm ever giving back

ONLY IN MY HEAD lyrics - Anti-Flag

All the glory that I've seen

It's only in my head, only in my head

Their amber waves of greed

It's only in my head, only in my head

In a cubicle or a locked cell

The profit builds a living hell

Raze monuments to thieves

But it's only in my head, only in my head

They're after me

Where no one's free

The house created by their greed

Is not the goddamn home that we need

They're all after me

Forget the death, the pain

It's only in my head, only in my head

All in the name of the state

It's only in my head, only in my head

Foundation born of hate

All the cancer it creates

Slow death only fate

But it's only in my head, it's only in my head

They're after me

Where no one's free

The house created by their greed

Is not the goddamn home that we need

They're all after me

Lost in the light of spectacle

Ban all the books, padlock the schools

Never knowing our reality

When everything is a conspiracy

All the glory that I've seen, it's only in my head...

They're after me

Where no one's free

The house created by their greed

Is not the goddamn home that we need

They're all after me

20/20 Vision (2020)

• Hate Conquers All
• It Went Off Like A Bomb
• 20/20 Vision
• Christian Nationalist
• Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down
• Unbreakable
• The Disease
• A Nation Sleeps
• You Make Me Sick
• Un-American
• Resistance Frequencies
• Born To Run (Bonus Track)
• Fight Like Hell (Bonus Track) 

Hate Conquers All lyrics - Anti-Flag

"In the good ol' days this doesn't happen because they used to treat them very very rough. And when they protested once, they would not do it again so easily."

Hate conquers all

In the ashes of the fall

With our backs against the wall

With our backs against the wall

Watch the empire fall

Watch the nation dissolve

With our backs against the wall

With our

The new disorder of the impoverished nation state

The endless cycle, divide and manipulate

Never give in to the sympathy

Never give in to reality

No one could save us

So build up and lock the gate

Never give in to a sensory

Never give in to the honesty

No one could save us

Hate conquers all

In the ashes of the fall

With our backs against the wall

With our backs against the wall

Watch the empire fall

Watch the nation dissolve

With our backs against the wall

With our backs against the wall

The same masters who made us their fuckin' slaves

Are now our saviors I'm so sick of needing to be saved

Never give in to the sympathy

Never give in to reality

No one could save us

"And you know what? The audience swung back. And I thought it was very appropriate. The audience hit back. And that's what we need a little bit more of."

Hate conquers all

In the ashes of the fall

With our backs against the wall

With our backs against the wall

Watch the empire fall

Watch the nation dissolve

With our backs against the wall

With our backs against the wall

Hate conquers all

In the ashes of the fall

With our backs against the wall

With our backs against the wall

Watch the empire fall

Watch the nation dissolve

With our backs against the wall

Hate conquers, hate conquers all

It Went Off Like A Bomb lyrics - Anti-Flag

And it went off like a bomb

Incinerating, unforgiving

Gone...

No recovery, no pretending

Collision course - it's just a wreck

Shock and awe - no turning back

Nothing left to say or be done

It went off like a bomb

In the dark, in a place where no one sleeps

In the veins of extremist war

There's a message in the words that they speak

There's an action that they're callin' for

They make hallow all the shallow

Accidents of birth and reign

Zealot scum fucks kill for fame

We erase their names

And it went off like a bomb

Incinerating, unforgiving

Gone...

No recovery, no pretending

Collision course - it's just a wreck

Shock and awe - no turning back

Nothing left to say or be done

It went off like a bomb

Dog whistles endlessly

Storm troopers in the wings

Gin up the devotees

Certain they're under siege

Division sewn to yield a firestorm

Another product of the new norm

You think you're safe? It won't be too long

Until it all goes wrong

And it went off like a bomb

Incinerating, unforgiving

Gone...

No recovery, no pretending

Collision course - it's just a wreck

Shock and awe - no turning back

Nothing left to say or be done

It went off like a bomb

Yeah went off like a bomb

Yeah went off like a bomb

20/20 Vision lyrics - Anti-Flag

I had a 20/20 vision

Of the last of the wrongs undone

No more hate, no division

No one is free until the war is won

Is there an answer to the question?

When will this come to its end?

Or do we just keep on repeating

All the things that the loathsome did?

Carry on, carry on, carry on

Tell me, which side are you on?

Carry on, carry on, carry on

One by one

Now there's a silence on the radio

Now there's a hole right through our heart

And the last of the wicked

Waiting to tear us all apart

Carry on, carry on, carry on

Tell me, which side are you on?

Carry on, carry on, carry on

One by one

I had a 20/20 vision

Of the last of the wrongs undone

No more hate, no division

No one is free until the war is won

Carry on, carry on, carry on

Tell me, which side are you on?

Carry on, carry on, carry on

For the people or the gun?

Carry on, carry on, carry on

One by one

One by one

One by one

One by one

Christian Nationalist lyrics - Anti-Flag

History is rife with the likes of you

History is littered with the likes of you

We'll never back down in the face of the likes of you

Never back down in the face of the likes of you

You're no better than the rest

White neo Christian nationalist

Religious law your litmus test

White neo fascist supremist

Off on the crusade of a century

With a vengeance in your veins for your enemies

Hate in your heart and division in your eye

You got queers to convert, you got lies to entice

And I can show you a compassionate authoritarian

Corrupted patriotism sold as nationalism

Your theocratic beliefs are a moral weapon

Full of venom Armageddon

You're no better than the rest

White neo Christian nationalist

Religious law your litmus test

White neo fascist supremist

We reject theocracy

We reject your view of the world

You're no better than the rest

White neo Christian nationalist

We all know who you are yeah

We all know who you are

We all know who you are

You're no better than the rest

White neo Christian nationalist

Religious law your litmus test

White neo fascist terrorist

You're no better than the rest

White neo Christian nationalist

Religious law your litmus test

White neo fascist supremist

We all know who you are

We all know who you are

We all know who you are

We all know who you are

We all know who you are

We all know who you are

We all know who you are

We all know who you are