Lyrics
Direct Action
Fire in the hole, war coming down
As Wall Street crashes to an all time low
To find inspiration where there is none
You're going to have to take DIRECT ACTION
Free man of this land, he knows what's going down
He's got a King James Bible right by his side
To find the truth in a web of lies
You're going to have to take DIRECT ACTION
I'd give my last drop of blood just to keep you alive
Take a bullet in the head for you
Make a stand in the court of humanity all alone
DIRECT ACTION now
Release The Pressure
Economic pressure going to take control of me
Economic pressure from the government to the street
Economic pressure under heavy skies
Economic pressure in my baby's cry
Economic pressure got a hold on me tonight
Walk the street through the litter and rain
Overcrowding the pavement
Walk the streets see the drunken saints
Waiting on a saviour
RELEASE THE PRESSURE
Economic pressure blames it all on friendly fire
Economic pressure when I can't afford to live my life
Economic pressure from a wife to a husband
Economic pressure when I think of England
Economic pressure as the interest rates go high
Walk the streets to see the real hard life
Staring back from the faces
Walk the street see the guttersnipe
Hanging on for dear life
RELEASE THE PRESSURE
Plastic Carrier Bags
Some people carry their lives in PLASTIC CARRIER BAGS
Some people live in their cars or their office space
Some people sweat it out on electric treadmills
Watch meteorite showers scratch the night sky
Some people see themselves through other peoples eyes
Through video cameras, through mobile phones
Some live outside in cyberspace they've learnt digital gone broken english
Some live in photographs or flowers by the roadside
Some have to hang themselves to reach new highs
Some have secrets, lies, stolen thoughts that make them feel so alive
In the underground I wait, in the underground I crawl
Sometimes I ask myself, sometimes I ask myself
is this the life I wanted
Is this the dream I dreamed of
Is this the hope I hoped for
In PLASTIC CARRIER BAGS
Loaded
See that man fighting on the city street
See that child crying to be free
Don't ask me questions, don't ask me why
I'm just another passerby
LOADED
I'm just another lonely passerby
See that crowd marching on the government
See that flag flying in the bitter wind
I don't understand, I don't know why
I'm just another passerby
LOADED
I'm just another lonely passerby
Control
Bruised and battered are the broken people trying to find the will to survive
Bruised and battered are the broken people living on the end of the line
Anarchy isn't just a word that Johnny Rotten used to piss us off
Anarchy is a form of expression like the needle is bound to the cross
Send for the black mariah, send for the c.s. gas
It's time to take CONTROL
White noise in the back of my head it's so loud I can't switch it off
Send for the black mariah, send for the c.s. gas
It's time to take CONTROL
One Guitar
Could be the middle of night...or in the middle of the street
It could be uptown, downtown...or even where you sleep
I hear the marching drum... I hear a song unsung
It could be your dream, my dream...I'm not the only one
'Cause I’m a soldier marching in an army
I got no gun to shoot all I've got is ONE GUITAR
I see the risin’ smoke...I hear a heartbreak joke
All of my brothers and sisters... I think it’s time we spoke
I’ve only got six strings... but like a bell they ring
It’s like a jet plane, insane... crashin’ in my brain
'Cause I’m a soldier marching in an army
I got no gun to shoot all I've got is ONE GUITAR
So if you get knocked down... you gotta take a stand
For all the outcast, dead last... who need a helping hand
You've got to raise your voice... raise it up loud
You've got to raise your... above the crowd
'Cause I’m a soldier marching in an army
I got no gun to shoot all I've got is ONE GUITAR
Written by Willie Nile / Frankie Lee
©Willie Nile Music (ASCAP) / Roll Of Tens Music (BMI)
Change III
CHANGE is alive on the street today
Change makes some people afraid
Change only happens when you look away
Change in the twenty first century
Change, change always seems to happen when you look away
Change, change it can make you feel alive or take your breathe away
CHANGE is a time bomb a ticking clock
Change has more power than an atomic bomb
Change is the small voice that rights big wrongs
Change moves on when I have to stop
Change, change it only ever happens when you look away
Change, change it can make you feel alive or take your breathe away
CHANGE is an earthquake a hurricane
Nothing's ever going to be the same again
Change is what happens when you're standing still
Keep you alive or change can kill
Change, change it only happens when you think it's gone
Change, change it can make you feel right then prove you wrong
CHANGE can put a politician in the stocks
Takeaway whatever power they've got
Shine a torchlight under your bed
Brink you back to life even when you're dead
Change, change it only ever happens when you look away
Change, change it can make you feel alive or take your breathe away
Milk And Opportunity
I've been pushed and I've been beaten down but I am... still hanging around
Been made to eat the dirt of my shoes... they said "don't come around here you know the rules"
I've worn the colours the red white and blue don't make no difference... you know that it's true
'Cause this is life in all it's glory... it's dirty, it's filthy, it's beautiful too
Don't let them beat you up, don't let them push you down
Don't let them do to you what you wouldn't do to them
No matter who you are or who you are not... no matter where you've been or where you're from
We walk the walk and we talk the talk...at night we all lay down beneath the same stars
To live in hope and to live in peace... together we all got to dream the same dreams
This land of MILK AND OPPORTUNITY... this land so beautiful and free
Don't let them beat you up, don't let them push you down
Don't let them do to you what you wouldn't do to them
Don't let them do to you what you wouldn't do to them
Come Alive
I don't know how to look into the future
I don't now how to see what's going down
I don't know how to stop what's going to happen
But I know how you make me feel right now
In you I COME ALIVE
I should of known that somehow we could make it
I should of known something was going down
Should of looked beyond the periphery of my imagination
If this is how you make me feel right now
In you I COME ALIVE
I don't want to look any further
I don't want to look too far
I just want to live in this moment right now
In you I COME ALIVE
Badge Of Honour [Part One]
Anytime you need a place to hide
Anytime you need somewhere to run
Anytime at all, anytime at all
Anytime of day you feel afraid
Anytime you need a helping hand
Anything you want, anything you need
All I've got is this BADGE OF HONOUR
All I've got is this show of strength
All I've got is this bleeding heart for you
Anytime you feel like giving up
Anytime you feel like letting go
Anytime at all, I'll give you all I've got
All I've got is this BADGE OF HONOUR
All I've got is this show of strength
All I've got is this bleeding heart for you
I'll be there when everyone deserts you
I'll be there when everyone has gone
All I've got is this BADGE OF HONOUR
All I've got is this show of strength
All I've got is this bleeding heart
Higher Call
I was lying in the wreckage when I heard it calling
I was falling through the skies when I heard it speak
Calling out in the voice of the stranger
The words of the preacher and the medicine man
Somewhere there is a country
Somehow that flies no flag
Someway we'll make that HIGHER CALL
I was drowning in the water when I heard it whispering
I was fighting in a foreign field when it called to me
Calling out in the voice of the lawyer
The carpetbagger and the politician
Somewhere there is a country
Somehow that flies no flag
Someway we'll make that HIGHER CALL
Heard it spoken in the bleeding sounds of freedom
Heard it spoken in the silence all around
Hear it comes, hear it comes
Somewhere there is a freedom
Somehow there is a hope
Someway we'll make that HIGHER CALL
Somewhere there is a country
Somehow that flies no flag
Someway we'll make that HIGHER CALL
Badge Of Honour [Part Two]
A century of stars and light are flashing right before my eyes
A century of life undiscovered
Everyone must pass this way walk right through this passageway
Lay your clothes down at the gate and walk into the brand new day
All I've got is this dirty little BADGE OF HONOUR
All I've got is you and I
It's up to us to make a truce
It's up to us to broker peace
It's up to us to find the words that will make or break us
All I've got is this dirty little BADGE OF HONOUR
All I've got is you and I
Riot Squad
Freedom is a bullet exploding from a gun
Freedom is a voice that's afraid to speak
Freedom is a soldier who wants to come home
Freedom is no food and no place to sleep
Here come the RIOT SQUAD now
Freedom is an old man who's forgotten who he is
Freedom is the drug that blurs the lines
Freedom is a flag burning on a TV
Freedom is the profit made out of poverty
Here come the RIOT SQUAD now
Freedom the aggressor with a velvet glove
Freedom is the pacifist with an atomic bomb
Freedom does not negotiate
Freedom only make peace after the war is won
Here come the RIOT SQUAD now
After The Rock And Roll Has Gone
After the final chord has faded
the lights have all burned out
After the rain has washed us from the streets
After the sound there comes a silence
I hope I can live without
The crashing of these drums and these guitars
I have given everything that I can give
And more when what I gave was not enough
AFTER THE ROCK AND ROLL HAS GONE
After the sound of revolution
After the storm the calm
After the last goodbye I'll walk away
I have looked everyone I've known between the eyes
And stood for everything I thought was right
AFTER THE ROCK AND ROLL HAS GONE
After all is said and done and all the bloodshed wasted
The battles that we;ve fought are history
I wish I could take you with me when I go
But this final step I must walk alone
AFTER THE ROCK AND ROLL HAS GONE