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Iron Front

by Strike Anywhere

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1.
The blood For your freedom The horror That you taught to them To kill All your sheep In the fold your power fades without control Privacy invasions The press dilates A glamorous, divisible United States Blown apart The blood of soldiers Testify to what preachers Told us do or die Distortions caught us Out in the cold I swear I'll never get that old Privacy invasions The press dilates A glamorous, divisible United States Blown apart The precious sound Blown apart Weapons of peace Blown apart Uncivil disobedience Blown apart Burning these streets Go! On the TV map we're worlds apart In line we're side by (Side) Privacy invasions The press dilates A glamorous, divisible united States Blown apart!
2.
Lower the flags Raise Up the Earth Freedom 'til death Death until birth We're still fighting each other I'm your opposite number I know we didn't have a say I'm your opposite number Unwritten violence Aristocratic outrage Were you there? Forgotten in all of this change New faces same system It's true Fuck You! I'm your opposite number Judges and victims They rotate the symptoms Were you there? Forgotten in all of this change New faces same system It's true Fuck you! Lower the flags Raise up the Earth Freedom 'til death Death until birth
3.
Wake up From under all this trash Peel away your mask from the myths of sin Pisstaken isolation Men mistaken for Buried in the sound For all who turned around You struck as the boots went up the stair You didn't care We're knocking like heartbeats On the skyscraper door Windows breaking with music can you feel it through the floor? We're one Don't misunderstand This future, not chaos is what we demand This is the one shot one life to see it through I want to speak for justice when she can't speak for us anymore No borders in our hearts She can't speak, yet we are the damned and poor Speak for good ones buried before their time Mural the bank wall, teach in the rhyme in red and black Because we're all coming back We're knocking like heartbeats on the skyscraper door Windows breaking with music, can you feel it through the floor? We're one Don't misunderstand This future, not chaos is what we demand This is the one shot One life to see it through I want to Free our world from the trap between the walls Tear up the stage walk out And into the sun and the waves And feel them crashing over, drowning out
4.
Failed State 02:26
We get torn apart All our lives Told that we're useless or gifted Loved or despised Too many generations passed And passing But all their progress Lost its meaning We call it evolution You call it a crime But as we run From your culture You're running out of time Self immolation? Just to keep you warm tonight (Passing through) How far could this world go To reject you I - will not fall in line I - will not break in time We can rebuild this, Beyond All our lives
5.
Dead boys Dig through all this condescension Speech from the desert echo to cities Coming in louder and clearer Communicate this capital cancer Fuck no ! Here's my answer What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? When it's all gone, without a warning What are you gonna do when it all Comes down and crashing through What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? When it's all gone, without a warning What are you gonna do when it all Comes crashing down on you? Dead boys Pave the road with good intentions Did the banks buy our president? The corporate bail-out Heaven sent Legislation from a company town Washington D.C. burn it down What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? When it's all gone, without a warning What are you gonna do when it all Comes down and crashing through What are you gonna do? What you gonna do? When it's all gone, without a warning What are you gonna do when it all Comes crashing down on you Without a warning we're dead, boys With what they value, How is this a surprise? A better world will live on In our eyes
6.
The Crossing 02:49
I woke up screaming But no one heard the drying river shining To the breathing world (what was I dreaming of...) And I missed all the gardens, All the animals' footprints fresh in the rain Now there is only the train the beast gives wait Another master another day In the borderlands Cities forgotten Borderlands crossing over me So wipe the tears from your cheekbones And the blood from your fingers We are the ghosts in the theater of human rights Just beyond their security lights In the borderlands cities forgotten Borderlands crossing over me To the borderlands Rivers and mountains Borderlands Crossing over me (Crossed me) This world is bigger than this Bigger than lines drawn by governments Illusions we're tracked by your eyes always watching Just like the cameras twisting 'round this place Out 24,000 miles in space Always so cold and so clear But how do we get to the world from here? Crash the system's hate from the factory floor to the white house gate Crush the system's hate From the maquiladora to the White House gate To the borderlands cities forgotten (crossing over) Borderlands Crossing over me To the borderlands Rivers and mountains Borderlands Crossing over me
7.
Spectacular 01:45
I ought to know I'm not so black and pretty Too big, suspended two dimensional glory In competition watch your suicide clothes: Flat screen targets sweat shop fashion My love My love is bleeding out and My love My love is keeping doubt for All this processed Hatred from the heart's eye model citizen No alibi burning their beauty from your face In plastic we rust One bomb for them Another one for us So wipe the smell of the bourgeoisie off me And wash the billboard bus stop benches imprisoned you'll see Caught in the act resist this dying, bloody Model citizen lobotomy Burning their beauty from your face In plastic we rust One bomb for them Another one for us Burning the time to say I'm sorry Annihilate One bomb for them Another one for us With the light's out Would you be there? Would you walk the words off camera? Run beside me Turning isolation into family Would you be there? Would you walk the words and open stitches Don't follow run beside me 'Til we stand still and the world moves over
8.
All the world is waiting In the half life where we live Nobody left to lead us Our time is closing in We'll take it back Our time is closing in So make it last Our time is closing in Living in apocalypse Closing in From the streets to the towers Where the air is thin What does it take Take to survive In the lumpen maze How to get out alive Our gardens in the ghetto Abandoned lots Loved in secret It's all that we've got So when the police come We'll tell them it was all of us All of us Our time is closing in There's the college of protection For the rich white men Who frame us for their camera eyes But their science of injustice Can be dispossessed every time we organize From the halls of litigation To the empty docks Where the product rolls on by Production is protected like an innocent While our dreams are hung and dried The straw men Built up Will be burning my friend To light and guide Our way our way All the world is waiting In the half life where we live Nobody left to lead us Our time is closing it
9.
We move from fear to fear I don't believe in consolation No matter what falls out Of the bloated mouthpiece of the nation You close the doors beyond your petty Pain remains in vain we realize All the lives, 24 hour eyes Another world inside me Singing as we go All the way to green lands Rolling out too Burning bright from both ends Radiation sky All I want's the time To say goodbye The melting continents of water Do their blessed balance homeostasis - to colder places Storms to rust and quiet All the cities charge! The dreams they follow dreams And I'll believe it when I see you pick up The hammer with me Another world inside me singing as we go All the way to green lands rolling out too Burning bright from both ends Radiation sky all i want's the time To say goodbye You've always had a choice, You've never had to look too far One world colliding with our disillusion pole to star Red tides and lightning under mountain under seas until The seasons change us and We're fucking tired of standing still Another world inside me singing as we go All the way to green lands rolling out to Sea burning bright from both ends Radiation sky all i want's the time to say goodbye
10.
Summerpunks 02:04
The driver shouted out, "Time to turn this around, Wipe the dust and spit from his face." Out loud Sang starvation and blight Gone from the light and We're so tired of running We can move The finish line We can move But we won't be left behind Doubling over Buckling under Left behind We waste the daylight Burn in the night to find The words of violence And history's silence To answer the question Is this human kind? Sing! Is all our innocence Driven underground? Are these electronic gallows For the urgent sound With our tendons cut How do we run for sport? But we're so tired of running We can lose In the sun We can lose But all we have to win is one Doubling over Buckling under Win is one We waste the daylight Burn in the night to find Win is one Words of violence And history's silence Win as one Won't answer the question Is this human kind?
11.
Every September I always remember To sing to your headstone And hear you sing back Wait for the day Work for the day How could I forget the world you showed me Courage and brilliance curiosity Wait for the day Work for the day Too many watery eyes in protest For a brighter age All the while I'll shine in this song Even when my body's gone Too many watery eyes in protest For a brighter age All the while you shine in this song Even when your body's gone I'll hear you sing back Wait for the day Work for the day Now every September, I always remember To sing to your headstone and hear you sing back Wait for the day Work for the day Too many watery eyes in protest For a brighter age All the while I'll shine in this song Even when your body's gone Too many watery eyes in protest For a brighter age All the while you'll shine in this song Even when your body's gone Beyond time and place In your footstep's trace When we close our eyes And we see your face Beyond the days Your art and voice are missed Beyond sentiment Every word is bond Beyond memory When these days are gone I'll carry you in my heart and soul and fist I promise now Through the days Every smile's memorial Every time We raise a glass to your name It's your energy flows through me I promise you I will walk With my heart still open Courage spoken loud I put my song on the track To hear you sing back
12.
Half alive, we fall through worlds we go To colorful altars in the grip of war and woe And the desperate charge to make the damage look undone Here's another war across the ocean Casualties of war You better learn Casualties of war Whose souls are reaching Casualties of war You'll find better way Casualties of war That's all Through days of hunger and nights that we forget I think that we could heal together Strength to strength And from the scars of everything we've left behind To find a new life Set our souls alight Casualties of war You better learn Casualties of war Whose souls are reaching Casualties of war you'll find a better way Casualties of war That's all In rebel learn Casualties of war Whose souls are reaching Politics in war We'll find better way We're casualties of war That's alright from the scars of Everything we left behind To find a new life Set our souls alight Through days of hunger Nights that we forget that We could heal together Strength to strength
13.
If you could see In the dark hallways old lights flicker Strobelight shows of gurneys silver and rust Refrigeration stalled When the fuse box blew The medicine needed to save you Holding tight to a weapon In the place of a toy or your mother's hand White diamonds red earth It's slavery, understand Home now is the place Between right and this The blast still sings The bullets blaze The target missed Atrocity calmly In your narcotic bliss This last harvest of our innocence Holding tight to a weapon In the place of a toy or your mother's hand White diamonds red earth, It's slavery understand Postcards from post colonies, Post kingdoms Progress twisted From sea to sea Postcards from post colonies Post kingdoms Progress twisted for you and me You can't walk The light will follow you You can't walk away Because you're so conditioned (like me) You can't walk away This land will follow you You can't walk away 'Cause this is home

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Strike Anywhere's new B9 full length 13 song album, "Iron Front"

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released October 6, 2009

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