FIRST BLOOD LYRICS

1. Intro

2. Silence

SILENCE in the midst of madness, of men hellbent on war
SILENTLY we endure the hardship so others can have more

SILENCE... Time has come to break this...
SILENCE... Time i snow to break my...
Silence is... BETRAYAL to the ones you love
BETRAYAL to us all
BETRAYAL to all the innocent

Silence is... BETRAYAL to humanity
BETRAYAL to the worl
BETRAYAL to all those suffering

SILENCE is BETRAYAL

3. Preamble

How can we live life without ever questioning?
When knowledge gives you power and the truth will set you free

How can we accept this world of inhumanity
And turn our backs to the injustice between what is and what could be

We can turn our backs and turn the other cheek
We can cover our eyes but we all...
We all have blood on our hands
We all have blood flowing on our hands
We will always have blood on our hands
We have their blood flowing our hands

But we can make this stop

So many people suffering
So many forced to live in misery
And someday they will hit the streets
For justice, screaming...
Off with their heads

The people crying out...
Off with their heads
To all their leaders...
To all the criminals...
The people crying out...
Off with their heads

And that day is drawing near
So many are suffering, living in misery
But we can make this end

If we accept the possibility
And make a change within
And make the steps to move
Towards what could be from what is

And we accept responsibility
Because if we choose to remain silent
We give them no reason to STOP

For too long...
We've got to bring this to an end
No more...
We must reserve this downward trend

Too long!
It's not too late to make a stand
No more!
If we remain silent...

We all have blood on our hands
FIRST FUCKING BLOOD!

4. Enemy

I'm not your enemy
We're not your enemy
They're not who they appear to be
Those with the power to
Control our beliefs

To break this curse
Expose for all to see
To know that I am on your side
We're on your side
Powers that be have their methods
To dominate and be secure
In their power

To gain control
Over all that we see...
All that we see
Over all that we hear...
All that we hear
Manipulate to divide and conquer
Search for the truth
And you'll find the real enemy

I'm not your enemy
We're not your enemy
They're not who they appear to be
Because some things are not
Always as they seem

Control the public mind
To be secure in their power

5. Resist

The choice to refuse/RESIST!
To say NO! I WON'T COMPLY!

With the corrupt institutions that keep getting worse with time
While liars and cheaters keep looting the system and robbing people blind...

I REFUSE to pledge and ounce of allegiance to benefit the few
I REFUSE to serve and FIGHT for a system that's really fighting you...
IT'S FIGHTING YOU!

Why do we need the?
How do we beat them?
TELL ME HOW do we defeat them?
When does this begin?
IT STARTS NOW!

Buried under all this weight. Tell me...
How much will you take? HOW MUCH WILL YOU TAKE?
Stand up before it's too late. Tell me...
How long will you wait? HOW LONG WILL YOU WAIT?
Feel like you've been pushed too far?
The time is now to draw the line... TIME TO DRAW THE LINE!

The choice to refuse/RESIST!
And say NO! I won't comply!
NO! I WON'T COMPLY!

Why do we need them?
How do we beat them?
TELL ME HOW do we defeat them?
IT STARTS NOW!

6. Truth

The pain that we must all endure
To pass the THREE STAGES OF TRUTH

So many who base their lives
On the prevailing point of view
And because a great many who will believe
Therefore it must be true

DARE NOT TO ASK...
Who gains? Who profits? Who wins?
Who benefits the most?
From the conditions we accept with our own lying eyes
From believing what we are told
WHAT WE ARE TOLD!

Those we condemn... THOSE WE CONDEMN
For what they know... FOR WHAT THEY KNOW
To have the vision to see beyond the status quo...

1) First they are RIDICULED then
2) Opposed so violently until...
3) ACCEPTANCE

These are the three stages of truth

The pain that we must all endure
To pass the THREE STAGES OF TRUTH

The pain... the THREE STAGES OF TRUTH
The damage... the THREE STAGES OF TRUTH

The pain that we must all endure
To pass the THREE STAGES OF TRUTH

The damage we must all endure
To pass the THREE STAGES OF TRUTH

7. Detach

The more we look... THE MORE WE LOOK
And understand... AND UNDERSTAND
We start to see... LIES EVERYWHERE
And get the feeling that...
WE HAVE BEEN MISLED

By illusions that constantly
Try to convince me of what to believe
And tell me what I need
Tell me how I should feel
That all of this is real
I know there's got to be...
SOMETHING MORE THAN THIS
False sense of reality
The truth is what I seek
Into this fabric of conformity
Some choose to blend
But I choose to...

DETACH from this legacy
DETACH from this lunacy
DETACH from this apathy
DETACH from this insanity
DETACH from this suffering
DETACH from this misery

At the point of no return
And there's no turning back

I will not LIVE MY LIFE
By the game that's laid out for the masses
HOW CAN THEY JUSTIFY
Who will live, who will die, who will suffer?
HOW DO THEY SLEEP AT NIGHT?
To defy and to face consequences
THIS IS THE CHANCE WE TAKE
In our struggle to find true meaning
I made the choice to...

BREAK free from this cycle, I must...
BREAK free from this herd
BREAK free from the madness that's been crippling this world
I must BREAK FREE FROM THIS CYCLE
I must BREAK FREE FROM THIS HERD
We all must BREAK FREE FROM THE MADNESS
That's been CRIPPLING THIS WORLD

When I look back to the beginning
To see where this journey began
To see those planes crash into those two buildings
I knew there had to be more than this

The more we look... THE MORE WE LOOK
And understand... AND UNDERSTAND
We start to see... LIES EVERYWHERE
I know there's got to be more than this

WE HAVE BEEN MISLED
We all have been misled
I know thre's got to be more than THIS

This world won't defeat me
It's my life and I chose to...

DETACH from their conditioning
DETACH from all this hypocrisy
DETACH from all that's enslaving me
DETACH from this false reality
DETACH from this legacy
DETACH from this insanity

All that we've known is just a game
All we've been told is just a game
The lies we're sold; It's just a game
It's getting old; I know it's just a game

8. Enslaved

YEAR OF THE SLAVE
BOW TO YOUR MASTERS
YEAR OF THE SLAVE
The year that never ends
Their servants 'til the end

It's always been, will always be...
To gain CONTROL over THE WORLD

Witness society in decline
Standards of living falling downward over time
With generations looking back in disdain
The neverending year... year of THE SLAVE

What you've built so easily is taken AWAY
And for the sins of our masters we're forced TO PAY
To keep us deaf, dumb, and blind so we can't see THE CHAINS
Or know that none are more hopelessly ENSLAVED

With every threat, ever panic they create
When every weapon is AT THEIR BECK AND CALL
To bring about conditions of despair
So they emerge the RULERS OF US ALL

It's been their goal
The plan unfolds
To seize control
NO ONE IS SAFE

Sparing no expense
A one world government
By conquest or consent
WE ALL WILL PAY

In this... YEAR OF THE SLAVE
The neverending... YEAR OF THE SLAVE

NONE ARE MORE HOPELESSLY ENSLAVED
Than those who falsely believe that they are free

Kept in perpetual debt... year of THE SLAVE
Through hiddens forms of theft... year of THE SLAVE
The transfer of wealth... year of THE SLAVE
Forever in the year... year of THE SLAVE

9. Confront

Face to face with my enemy...
What can I do? What should I say?
State my case or live in disgrace
And forever hang my head in shame? NO!

State to state, sea to shining sea
From every nation and every land
Standing up as citizens of the world
As a counteracting force against the...
Powers that be who will lie and deceive
Without a single ounce of shame
Unless we get in their face and publicy disgrace
For what they've done not in our name

WHAT IT'S ABOUT: Truth and justice
GET ON YOUR FEET! Rise up and start...
CALLING THEM OUT for their crimes against humanity
Stand up and fight for what you believe

FIND A WAY to unite and join forces
BREAK THE CHAINS that have been holding you down
PAVE THE WAY for others to follow
Become the force that cannot be denied

For... the ones with a higher calling
Those... who question authority
Who... The ones with the courage to...
CONFRONT the criminals OF THIS WORLD

FOR... the messengers of the truth
THOSE... who challenge authority
WHO... the ones with the courage to...
CONFRONT... and never hang their head in shame

No justice, no peace
For the oppressed, for the betrayed
Leading the fight as we are shining the light on the crimes they won't escape
Now that long gone are the days where they keep getting away
With their sick and twisted games
Because now we know if we do nothing
Then nothing will change

So we stand up for those in honor's name

FOR THOSE WHO CONFRONT the criminals of this world
And send a message face to face

10. Fear

Why are we LIVING IN FEAR
Of who we are and what we have
Afraid to STAND FOR OUR BELIEFS
To rise against, voice our dissent
And not be torn DOWN FROM WITHIN

The more we give, the more they take
If they can KEEP US ALL AFRAID
Taking advantage to make sure that we are...

Kept in a constant state of...
Kept in a constant state of... FEAR!

Why are we living... LIVING IN FEAR
Why are we living in FEAR

Of what we do not understand
LIVING IN FEAR
As we keep eating out of their hands
LIVING IN FEAR
This plague I cannot comprehend
LIVING IN FEAR
When will this madness ever END

Searching for the answers but they're
NOWHERE TO BE FOUND
As they take our rights and bury them
SIX FEET IN THE GROUND

SEARCHING FOR THE ANSWERS
BUT THEY'RE NOWHERE TO BE FOUND

As they take our rights, our freedom, and liberties and bury them...
SIX FEET IN THE GROUND

Why are we living in...

FEAR of organizing
FEAR of consequences
FEAR to take a risk and...

FEAR of organizing
FEAR of sacrificing
FEAR of realizing

Why are we living in FEAR?

11. Occupation

The living nightmare of OCCUPATION

In defense of their people and their land
Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan
The people from all the nations
Forced to live under occupation

BOMBS... rain down on women and children
Targeting schools, destroying hospital buildings
BOMBS... dropped by a foreign invasion

Answer the question: What would you do if...

They were killing your people?
If they were stealing your land?
Would you FIGHT BACK?

Against the evil aggressors demolishing your home
While your land is being turned into a killing field
And witness complete BREAKDOWN OF...
Way of living, the violation of basic human rights
With your people being used as human shields

Ask yourself, what would YOU do if...

THEY were killing your people?
If THEY were stealing your land?
If THEY were fucking with your family?
Do YOU think maybe then you WOULD UNDERSTAND?

The living nightmare of OCCUPATION

12. Fascism

To shut an open society to no uncertain fate
An end result of the merging of the corporation
And the state...

Bleeding us...
Bleeding us to death
With no one to turn to and nowhere to run
Hold on tight because the worst is yet to come

Create the threat... a terrifying act of violence
Control the press... to program mass compliance
Empower the police, soldiers patrol the streets
Random detention and release target activists and put them on a list
One day we'll all be terrorists

As we descend... to the depths
As we descend... of the past
As we descend... to the next chapter of fascism now

...and they start coming for you

First they came for the outcasts and I didn't speak
Because their reasons for fighting I just would not believe
Then they sent us to war and still I didn't speak
As all these people were dying based on lies and deceit
Then they shut down the protests, limit freedom of speech
Does anyone even notice when history repeats?
With no one left to keep fighting, you ask, "What can I do?"
When no one's left to speak up and they start coming for you

13. Lies

Don't believe the lies
Read between the lines
Seek and you will find
The truth has been denied
Don't believe the lies so easily
Read between the lines to see the signs
Seek and you will find they're everywhere
The truth has been denied for all our lives
As long as there are those who feel the need
To lie and deceive
To gain advantage
To achieve their ends
There are those will keep pointing it out
That day will come
When they no longer get away
With all the lying through their teeth
That day will come
When they get the message
Dragging their bodies through the streets
Maybe then they'll learn
The lesson that they teach
That filter down through all society
If at first you don't succeed
Then lie and lie and lie again
The culture of deceit that filters down through all society
That if at first you don't succeed
Then lie and lie and lie again
That day will come
The tides of justice take their turn
Sending the message that this cannot continue
Or else they'll never fucking learn
If you continue to lie and deceive the people
Then you will fucking burn!

14. Messenger

Silence those who protest
Opponents of the government
Use the courts to extend
Powers to repress dissent

Dig up their past... KILL
Discredit their name... KILL
Divide their cause... KILL
Stifle debate... KILL! KILL

Single out those who speak
Who question your authority
Target those who resist
And lavel them all terrorists

Smear them with lies... KILL
Accuse them of hate... KILL
To justify all the horrors
Wrought in your name

Kill the MESSENGER
YOU MUST KILL THE MESSENGER
To shield all consequence of the lie
The agenda you should never engage
YOU MUST KILL THE MESSENGER
Thje mortal enemy of the lie
And the greatest enemy of the state
YOU MUST KILL THE MESSENGER of the truth
That is why they'd rather see me DEAD

15. Survive

I'm just trying to live
I'm just trying to survive
And find the meaning, my purpose in life
And break free from all that has been
Holding me down from the goals I wish to achieve

I'm just trying to keep the message alive
I'm just trying to live
I'm just trying to survive

The influences that try to shape our minds
Our difference that they stress to make us fight
But we know better, all together singing...

Through my conviction I have remained free and clear
Through dedication to the values I hold, dear
To keep the message and the resistance alive

I'm just trying to live
I'm just trying to survive
And find the meaning, my purpose in life
And break free from all that has been
Holding me down from the goals I wish to achieve

I'm just trying to keep the message alive
I'm just trying to live
I'm just trying to survive
I'm just trying to live
I'm just trying to survive
I'm just trying to live
I'm just trying to survive
I'm just trying to live my fucking life

The influences that try to shape our minds
The forces telling us how to live our lives
Won't be defeated, won't be denied by
By people telling us how to live our lives

The forces telling us how to live our lives
Just trying to live, trying to survive
The forces telling us how to live our lives
The forces telling us how to live our lives
Won't be defeated, won't be denied by
The people telling us how to live our lives

Can't slay the beast, at least we can change our minds
The only place for truth we'll ever find
Why can't they see that we are so much more than meets the eyes
Because what matters the most is what's inside
I'm just trying to live...
I'm just trying to survive

16. Armageddon II

[Intro:]
This is a really lousy world we're leaving for our children and grand children,
They are surrounded by powers from the East to the North, To the West and Us
There's Nuclear Weapons (weapons)
There will be massive retaliation
We will be able to totally obliterate them
The world very well may ? nuclear disaster
This is a possible destruction of the entire planet
For the first time we've given human beings the chance to destroy everything

This is the end of all existence, of this world as we know it,
If we continue to barrel down this path,
Total destruction if we ignore the warnings, Our time is running out,
Finger on the trigger, the final countdown has begun,
Once we pull the lever, we can't erase what has been done,
The merchants of death embrace, a new era of hysteria has been born,
The devastation, millions will perish and all the nations of the earth will mourn,
Haunted by the visions from the lessons of the past what have we learned,
The potential and the willingness of man that creates hell on Earth,
NOW FUCK!
Re-ject the means of destruction, the potential for abuse,
Re-ject, Reject the ideology that supports their use,
Re-ject the means of destruction, the potential for abuse,
Re-ject, Reject the ideology that supports their use,
Because our time is running out,
Again impending disaster is near
Can be prevented if we take a stand (we take a stand)
We face the threat, we face the threat,
But our own hands, but our own hands,
If we forget the past, the price we pay,
with no escape will be the end of the world.

[Voice over:]
-We use nuclear weapons, The genie ain't going back in the bottle, until American cities is taken out by Islamic weapons in retaliation. So tell me, if you want to go to war with Iran. Pick your city, pick your city. Tell me which one you want gone. Seattle? L.A.? Boston? New York!? Miami? Pick one! Because it leaves one result, that's something we should all think about before we march down this path of sanity.

Voices of reason, drowned by insanity,
No prayers will save us, the end of humanity,
THOSE WHO CAN MAKE YOU BELIEVE ABSURDITIES
can make you commit, commit atrocities

[Voice over:]
-"Are you looking forward to Armageddon?" Obviously that's what I live for, really I hope it comes tomorrow ha ha. Really I hope it comes tomorrow. I'm looking forward to Armageddon. I'm looking forward to the cleansing of the Earth.

Time is running, for humanity, time is running, running out,
For the future of this world, Time is running,running out,
Do not say we were not warned
Time is running, running out,
When everything we love will burn, time is running, running out,
And in the fury of the wrath, time is running, running out,
If we continue down this path, time is running, running out,
Day of judgment, running out, time will come, running out,
This is, This is the end
Of all existence, of this world as we know it,
If we continue to barrel down this path,
Now!
Total destruction, if we ignore the warnings,
Our time is running out.
Fuck the World [x3]







FIRST BLOOD LYRICS