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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 10:58 PM
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One of the BEST anti-war songs I've heard in a long ass time
The lyrics are fantastic but the song is great, too. You really have to hear it. I played it over and over the first time I heard it. It's damn cathartic. The rhythm actually speeds up in the middle then slows down again later.

RX BANDITS LYRICS

"Overcome (The Recapitulation)"

We've had enough
We've had enough
We've had enough of the politicians
We've had enough yeah
Of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
What we need right now is love, come on
We've had enough of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these politician's wars
All we need right now is love
We've had enough of these military scoreboards
All we need right now is love

Turn it up
The future is held in the hands
Who right the textbooks
Ignorance is bred when falsified thinking is taught
To the youth instead of
Past mistakes and mind elevation,
Like the graves that manifest destiny has created
So we can build our
Capitalist consumer based economy,
To build, market,
And sell commodities we don't need
But we are trained to believe like celebrity imaging
Well I'm here to take my feelings back and I hope That you will be with me

I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all screaming.
Ahhhhhhhhh,
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all singing together,
Ooooohhhhhh
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all screaming.
Ahhhhhhhhh
I can't wait for that day
When I hear us all singing together,
Ahhh,

I can't wait for the day
When I hear us all screaming,
HERE COMES THE REVOLUTION.
When every race color
And creed of militant human beings stand up
With fists together for substance and true meaning
Because right now we got our feet stuck in cement
We're too caught up in
A material status quo punishment
And one thing is for sure
And that's the sun will always set,
Darling you can bet our moon is quite the opposite
So baby take a axe to your makeup kit
Set ablaze the billboards and their advertisements
Love with all your hearts and never forget
How good it feels to be alive
And strive for your desire
Just cause you can't see
Your cage doesn't mean that you are free
When there are laws against nature
But its ok for you to be
Addicted to over the counter prescriptions
And magazines dictate all our human relations

I'm not buying, no I'm not giving in
To a culture that objectifies all of our women
I'm not buying, no I'm not consuming
The apathetic dribble on the news media's chin
I'm not buying, no I'm not giving in
The lies that are sold through textbooks to children
I'm not buying, no I'm not consuming
Cause the positive will
Always overcome the negative right

And we stay inside, its right outside,
We stand in line
We all enjoy the fences to keep it at bay
But I'm not giving in
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name not needed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 10:44 AM
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1. Friggin great song
I'm actually listening to it right now.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-27-04 11:00 AM
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2. RX Bandits are great
Another good song by them is "Newsstand Rock"

Now America's got a brand new war
Can anybody tell me what we're fighting for?
Time to manufacture the illusion of safety
Don't fear, just consume to uphold the economy
Yeah we always buy everything that they're selling
Everything that they're selling

Paying for the bombs that fall on our children
Now we're headed for our own demise
Dreaming of another mushroom cloud horizon
And that's the bottom line
It's time to cancel my subscription
I just can't stomach anymore of the lies
Violence equals violence and its no solution
And that's the bottom line

Now turn on the radio and hear what it's saying
Another hollow candy coated melody about nothing
Easier to sell it don't require you to think
Dumbed down drool, a fa§ade suck-cess
We're still buying everything that they're selling
Everything that they're selling

Now I'm lookin for the truth and solid meaning
So I can scrape the glass of both of my eyes
Stuffed to the gills
With a false sense of stubstance
And now I realize
So its time to cancel my subscription
I just can't stomach anymore of the lies
Wealth the spectacle of a greedy solution and That's the bottom line

Now I'm not buying anything that they're selling
Not giving in this time, this time, this time

Paying for the bombs that fall on our children
Now we're headed for our own demise
Dreaming of another mushroom cloud horizon
And that's the bottom line
It's time to cancel my subscription
I just can't stomach anymore of the lies
Violence equals violence and its no solution
And that's the bottom line

http://www.plyrics.com/r/rxbandits.html
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