Why can't people just understand
money's something in the nature of the hand
now as we need something to help us with
all used up and nothing more to give
Change for the better
no more laziness kills like murder
help another you want for someday
you cant hide while I'm running
And all these people they don't comprehend
all those obscure animals aren't even in their pen
along the wheels comes the pain and strife,
?
Change for the better
no more laziness kills like murder
help another you want for someday
you cant hide while I'm running
And all these people they don't comprehend
all those obscure animals aren't even in their pen
along the wheels comes the pain and strife,
?
Change for the better
no more laziness kills like murder
help another you want for someday
you cant hide while I'm running
Change for the better
no more laziness kills like murder
help another you want for someday
you cant hide while I'm running

The Clash

Know Your Rights

London Calling

White Riot

Artist: The Clash

Song: Know Your Rights

Album: Combat Rocks

Producer: Glyn Johns

Year: 1982

Label: CBS

Genre: Punk

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPeWSpB_7w4

Lyrics: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/fahrenheit911/knowyourrights.htm

This is a public service announcement
With guitar
Know your rights all three of them

Number 1
You have the right not to be killed
Murder is a CRIME!
Unless it was done by a
Policeman or aristocrat
Know your rights

And Number 2
You have the right to food money
Providing of course you
Don't mind a little
Investigation, humiliation
And if you cross your fingers
Rehabilitation

Know your rights
These are your rights
Wang

Know these rights

Number 3
You have the right to free
Speech as long as you're not
Dumb enough to actually try it.

Know your rights
These are your rights
All three of 'em
It has been suggested
In some quarters that this is not enough!
Well..............................

Get off the streets
Get off the streets
Run
You don't have a home to go to
Smush

Finally then I will read you your rights

You have the right to remain silent
You are warned that anything you say
Can and will be taken down
And used as evidence against you

Listen to this
Run

Artist: The Clash

Song: London Calling

Album: London Calling

Producer: Guy Stevens

Year: 1979

Label: Epic

Genre: Punk

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiVvA9YQpiI

Lyrics: http://londonsburning.org/lyr_london_calling.html

London calling to the faraway towns

Now war is declared - and battle come down

London calling to the underworld

Come out of the cupboard,you boys and girls

London calling, now don't look to us

Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust

London calling, see we ain't got no swing

'Cept for the reign of that truncheon thing

CHORUS

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in

Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin

Engines stop running, but I have no fear

Cause London is drowning and I, live by the river

London calling to the imitation zone

Forget it, brother, you can go at it alone

London calling to the zombies of death

Quit holding out - and draw another breath

London calling - and I don't wanna shout

But while we were talking I saw you nodding out

London calling, see we ain't got no high

Except for that one with the yellowy eyes

CHORUS x2

The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in

Engines stop running, the wheat is growing thin

A nuclear error, but I have no fear

Cause London is drowning and I, I live by the river

Now get this

London calling, yes, I was there, too

An' you know what they said? Well, some of it was true!

London calling at the top of the dial

And after all this, won't you give me a smile?

London Calling

I never felt so much alike, like-a, like-a...

Artist: The Clash

Song: White Riot

Album: The Clash

Producer: Mickey Foote

Year: 1977

Label: CBS

Genre: Punk

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9eLeZS9OeY

Lyrics: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/c/clash/white+riot_20031778.html

White riot - I wanna riot

White riot - a riot of my own

White riot - I wanna riot

White riot - a riot of my own

Black people gotta lot a problems

But they dont mind throwing a brick

White people go to school

Where they teach you how to be thick

An everybodys doing

Just what theyre told to

An nobody wants

To go to jail!

All the powers in the hands

Of people rich enough to buy it

While we walk the street

Too chicken to even try it

Everybodys doing

Just what theyre told to

Nobody wants

To go to jail!

Are you taking over

Or are you taking orders?

Are you going backwards

Or are you going forwards?

Closet Monster

Battle Cry for a Better World

Corporate Media Death Squad

Smells Like Revolutionary Spirit

The Empire Strikes Iraq

Artist: Closet Monster

Song: Battle Cry for a Better World

Album: Killed the Radio Star

Producer: Closet Monster

Year: 2002

Label: Underground Operations

Genre: Punk

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vbGGKBbrJ3Y

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/closet_monster/battle_cry_for_a_better_world.html

Man made convention breeds accident prevention.
A garbage man blew his head off; he deals with all our waste.
Refuse to learn a lesson, keep asking the same question,
History repeats itself as we wash down the drain.
Who are we and what have we become?
A race of ignorance.
Who are we and what have we become?
A race of ignorance.
Convenience bought by the wholesale tons.
Obedience and peace sought through the barrel of a gun.
Upkeep the illusion
First world leaders,
Of equal rights and global harmony.
Celebrated by spending billions on olympic stadiums
While just outside there are thousands
Sound asleep upon the streets.
It's time to stand up,
It's time to fight back.

Artist: Closet Monster

Song: Corporate Media Death Squad

Album: Killed the Radio Star

Producer: Closet Monster

Year: 2002

Label: Underground Operations

Genre: Punk

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AbAhjq0hui0

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/closet_monster/corporate_media_death_squad.html

Just one more headline, stop the press.
Forget about their news.
Its filtered through years of pedigree and policy.
We don't think you don't think twice,
Cause you don't think at all.
The weathers nice so here's another useless hit pop song.
I want to smash the radio.
I want to smash the radio.
The struggle's about freedom,
No who is going to win it.
A public service announcement for you:
No one should profit from the news.
2-4-6-8 first things first then smash the state.
5-6-7-8 right about then I'm feeling great.
I want to smash the radio.
I want to smash the radio.
The struggle's about freedom,
Not who is going to win it... oh yeah.

Artist: Closet Monster

Song: Smells Like Revolutionary Spirit

Album: Killed the Radio Star

Producer: Closet Monster

Year: 2002

Label: Underground Operations

Genre: Punk

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=fyXYtqLHbn8

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/closet_monster/smells_like_revolutionary_spirit.html

The people united will never be defeated,
Sticks and stones and kitchen racks soaked in vinegar,
Fists of love and homemade shields and hearts made of gold.
Cause bravery... is standing up for what you believe...
Not hiding behind flags and lies and broken down democracies.
Not fighting wars from behind palace doors.
50,000 voices screaming out,
"OUR VOICE WILL BE HEARD".
50,000 different rhythms creating one,
"OUR NOISE WILL BE HEARD"
So-so-so-solidarity.
Hand painted signs, on the front lines a message of strength.
Laugh and dance while you stare you oppressors in the face.
We won't back down.
Fighting evil will make the weakest brave.

Artist: Closet Monster

Song: The Empire Strikes Iraq

Album: We Rebuilt This City

Producer: Closet Monster

Year: 2004

Label: Underground Operations

Genre: Punk

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2u6Mu_AlIKk

Lyrics:

http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/closet_monster/the_empire_strikes_iraq.html

More bomb dropped on the first morning
Then in all of operations desert storm
Unprovoked. I sit alone in fear
Whos rifles start as pens
And end as smart bombs upon innocence
Its difference in culture not intelligence
Please sign here

Broken audio as carpet bombs explode
I wish all the dead children could be delivered and
Buried on the White House lawn
That's imposed freedom's highest cost
Maybe for once a price we won't forget
I ask, was this our vietnam?

If this is freedom then what's with all of the dissent
Da-na-na-na-NA [x2]
If this is freedom then what's with all the piles of dead
Da-na-na-na-Na

Dead Kennedys

A Commercial

Holiday in Cambodia

Artist: Dead Kennedys

Song: A Commercial

Album: Bedtime for Democracy

Producer: Dead Kennedys

Year: 1986

Label: Manifesto

Genre: Punk

URL: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YFsL2t44rVY

Lyrics: http://www.lyriczz.com/lyriczz.php?songid=35445

Have we got a telethon for you coming soon on MTV!

A rockin' bankroll extravaganza featuring all your vigilante rock stars!

Sammy Hagar: Sylvester Stallone: Clint Eastwood.

It's so important we've even exhumed the bodies of Lynyrd Skynyrd!

This ain't no sissy concert to raise food for the needy; this concerts whipped up the American way to raise money for guns for the greedy!

So stay tuned and dig in those heels for: USA FOR SOUTH AFRICA!

It's USA for South Africa 'cause those poor, sex-starved riot battalions need more machine guns, more tear gas, more nerve gas, more electric fences for those prison camps they call "homelands."

And who's going to give it to them?

WE ARE! Every one of us!

Every time we go to the bank.

Every time we buy food at Theftway.

Or those fancy chrome wheels for your hot car.

It's USA FOR SOUTH AFRICA!

Don't delay! Apartheid is a BIG business!

What would these American ladies do without those diamonds?

You heard the White House: DON'T MISS IT!

Have you're rich parents' money ready, world hunger's gone forever once your check's in the mail when MTV and the rock and racism connection bring you live, from Sun City, USA FOR SOUTH AFRICA!

Artist: Dead Kennedys

Song: Holiday in Cambodia

Album: Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Producer: Dead Kennedys

Year: 1980

Label: Cherry Red / Alternative Tentacles

Genre: Punk

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKw3TX0CRKc

Lyrics:

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/deadkennedys/holidayincambodia.html

So you been to school
For a year or two
And you know you've seen it all
In daddy's car
Thinkin' you'll go far
Back east your type don't crawl

Play ethnicky jazz
To parade your snazz
On your five grand stereo
Braggin' that you know
How the niggers feel cold
And the slums got so much soul

It's time to taste what you most fear
Right Guard will not help you here
Brace yourself, my dear:

It's a holiday in Cambodia
It's tough, kid, but it's life
It's a holiday in Cambodia
Don't forget to pack a wife

You're a star-belly sneech
You suck like a leach
You want everyone to act like you
Kiss ass while you bitch
So you can get rich
But your boss gets richer off you

Well you'll work harder
With a gun in your back
For a bowl of rice a day
Slave for soldiers
Till you starve
Then your head is skewered on a stake

Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son:.

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, Pol Pot, [etc]

And it's a holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll do what you're told
A holiday in Cambodia
Where the slums got so much soul

Jam

In the City

Town Called Malice

Artist: The Jam

Song: In the City

Album: In the City

Producer: Vic Smith and Chris Parry

Year: 1977

Label: Polydor Records

Genre: Punk

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivm0inFdJL8

Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/IN-THE-CITY-lyrics-The-Jam/97E991913FF0EC6F482569760024E2D1

In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you

But whenever I approach you, you make me look a fool

I wanna say, I wanna tell you

About the young ideas

But you turn them into fears

In the city there's a thousand faces all shining bright

And those golden faces are under 25

They wanna say, they gonna tell ya

About the young idea

You better listen now you've said your bit-a

And I know what you're thinking

You still think I am crap

But you'd better listen man

Because the kids know where it's at

In the city there's a thousand men in uniforms

And I've heard they now have the right to kill a man

We wanna say, we gonna tell ya

About the young idea

And if it don't work, at least we still tried

In the city, in the city

In the city there's a thousand things I want to say to you

Artist: The Jam

Song: Town Called Malice

Album: The Gift

Producer: Pete Wilson, the Jam

Year: 1982

Label: Polydor

Genre: Punk

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7zyUgMbGuk

Lyrics: http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/billyelliot/towncalledmalice.htm

Better stop dreaming of the quiet life -

cos it's the one we'll never know

And quit running for that runaway bus -

cos those rosey days are few

And - stop apologising for the things you've never done,

Cos time is short and life is cruel -

but it's up to us to change

This town called malice.

Rows and rows of disused milk floats

stand dying in the dairy yard

And a hundred lonely housewives clutch empty milk

bottles to their hearts

Hanging out their old love letters on the line to dry

It's enough to make you stop believing when tears come

fast and furious

In a town called malice.

Struggle after struggle - year after year

The atmosphere's a fine blend of ice -

I'm almost stone cold dead

In a town called malice.

A whole street's belief in Sunday's roast beef

gets dashed against the Co-op

To either cut down on beer or the kids new gear

It's a big decision in a town called malice.

The ghost of a steam train - echoes down my track

It's at the moment bound for nowhere -

just going round and round

Playground kids and creaking swings -

lost laughter in the breeze

I could go on for hours and I probably will -

but I'd sooner put some joy back

In this town called malice.

OMD

88 Seconds in Greensboro

Artist: OMD

Song: 88 Seconds in Greensboro

Album: Crush

Producer: Stephen Hague

Year: 1985

Label: Virgin

Genre: Punk

URL:

http://play.rhapsody.com/orchestralmanoeuvresinthedark/crush/88secondsingreensboro

Lyrics: http://www.songfacts.com/lyrics.php?findsong=1821

88 seconds

Is all it takes

88 seconds

Don't make mistakes

We've seen you

We can see you

In red and blue

In black and white

Under crystal skies

In full daylight

You know it

God you know it

88 seconds

Is all it takes

In 88 seconds

We don't make mistakes

We know you

Oh yes we have known you

Times are changing

But not in our street

Once we played there

Like the good times

You know it

God you know it

They're heading for

A shallow grave

With a big black cross

By a tall white house

To a place down south

We won't forget

To be stabbed in the back

By a man they met

In 88 seconds

In Greensboro

88 seconds

In Greensboro

88 seconds

In Greensboro

Is all we take

Post Office

We Will Become Silhouettes

Artist: Post Office

Song: We Will Become Silhouettes

Album: EP

Producer: n/a

Year: 2005

Label: Sub Pop Records

Genre: Punk

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSYQcFi_ayY

Lyrics: http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/We-Will-Become-Silhouettes-lyrics-The-Postal-Service/5FD424DB326B6A9148256D1E000530B8

I've got a cupboard with cans of food,
filtered water, and pictures of you
and I'm not coming out until this is all over.
And I'm looking through the glass
Where the light bends at the cracks
And I'm screaming at the top of my lungs
Pretending the echoes belong to someone
Someone I used to know

And we become silhouettes when our bodies finally go
ba ba ba ba

I wanted to walk through the empty streets
And feel something constant under my feet,
But all the news reports recommended that I stay indoors
Because the air outside will make
Our cells divide at an alarming rate
Until our shells simply cannot hold
All our insides in,
And that's when we'll explode
(And it won't be a pretty sight)

And we'll become silhouettes when our bodies finally go
ba ba ba ba

Tom Robinson Band

Long Hot Summer

Artist: The Tom Robinson Band

Song: Long Hot Summer

Album: Power in the Darkness

Producer: Chris Thomas

Year: 1978

Label: EMI

Genre: Punk

URL:

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Darkness-Tom-Robinson-Band/dp/B0002WTJYE

Lyrics: http://www.bolchini.com/mow/tr/lyrics/all.html - L

Hey Joe, get up and go

Wouldn't like to tell you twice

Hey mac, get off my back

Didn't ask your advice

There's all this heat

Out in the street

Telling us to move along

It's gonna be a long hot summer

From now on

Hey man, I don't understand

We ain't hardly bothering you

Say fag, you're just a drag

We ain't nearly finished with you

There's all this heat

Out on the beat

Telling us we don't belong

It's gonna be a long hot summer

From now on

Hey Dan, give us a hand

We won't make it alone

But we can all make a stand

Next time the whistle's blown

So get your feet

Out on the street

When you hear the heat is on

It's gonna be a long hot summer

From now on

Look out sisters

Look out brothers

We won't be fooled again.

Total Chaos

End of White Supremacy

Riot City

Artist: Total Chaos

Song: End of White Supremacy

Album: Patriotic Shock

Producer: Total Chaos

Year: 1995

Label: SOS Records

Genre: Punk

URL: http://www.amazon.com/Patriotic-Shock-Total-Chaos/dp/B000001IQW

Lyrics: http://www.actionext.com/names_t/total_chaos_lyrics/end_of_white_supremacy.html

No group or race of people
should ever rule the world
The end of white supremacy

The fall of the kkk and nazism
A human dream come true
The end of white supremacy

I've talked about racism
for years and years
but you still don't learn
It is wrong to hate
another human being
Because of color or country
they were born
Now i'm going to become
a threat to your lies

Equality and interracial love
is the answer to save our world
The end of white supremacy

Artist: Total Chaos

Song: Riot City

Album: The Early Years: 1989-1993

Producer: Total Chaos

Year: 2000

Label: Anarchy Music

Genre: Punk

URL: http://music.yahoo.com/release/67900

Lyrics: http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/T/totalchaoslyrics/totalchaosriotcitylyrics.htm

riot breaks out every day
from racism to people's gain
bloody riot to fiery hells
riot's a fact that never fails
riot city - L.A.
riot city - u.s.a.
riot city - U.K.
riot city - africa
let's riot let's riot let's riot today
against the police or c.i.a.
stand up and don't be quiet
it's a total fucking riot
riot city - china
riot city - russia
riot city - israel
riot city - germany

Yellowcard

Believe

Artist: Yellowcard

Song: Believe

Album: Ocean Avenue

Producer: n/a

Year: 2003

Label: Capitol

Genre: Punk

URL: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A3cXMyE8sw

Lyrics: http://www.lyrics007.com/Yellowcard%20Lyrics/Believe%20Lyrics.html

Think about the love inside the strength of heart
Think about the heroes saving life in the dark
Climbing higher through the fire, time was running out
Never knowing you weren't going to be coming down alive
But you still came back for me
You were strong and you believed

Everything is gonna be alright
Everything is gonna be alright
Everything is gonna be alright
Be strong. Believe.
Be strong. Believe.

Think about the chance I never had to say
Thank you for giving up your life that day
Never fearing, only hearing voices calling out
Let it all go, the life that you know, just to bring it down alive
And you still came back for me
You were strong and you believed

Everything is gonna be alright
Everything is gonna be alright
Everything is gonna be alright
Be strong. Believe.

(Again today, we take into our hearts and minds those who perished on this site one year ago, and also those who came to toil in the rubble to bring order out of chaos, to help us make sense of our despair)

Wanna hold my wife when I get home
Wanna tell the kids they'll never know how much I love to see them smile
Wanna make a change or two right now
Wanna live a life like you somehow
Wanna make your sacrifice worthwhile

Everything is gonna be alright
Everything is gonna be alright
Everything is gonna be alright
Be strong. Believe.

Everything is gonna be alright
Everything is gonna be alright
Everything is gonna be alright
Be strong. Believe.

Think about the love inside the strength of heart
Think about the heroes saving life in the dark
Think about the chance I never had to say
Thank you for giving up your life that day

(The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here)

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