wednesday lyric

American Steel
Rogue's March
"Insurrection Ave."

They wanna isolate the left
...isolate the right
...and all of us
They're gonna polarize the blacks
...polarize the whites
and everybody gets caught up in the fight
I read revolution on the Berkeley walls
while the red threat waved to the comunist fall and from down here
I read four letter words on the bathroom stalls and in the union halls

American Revolution is unfinished
there won't be peace until there's justice
I've got my home-made bombs homespun charms
I'll meet you at the corner of Skid Row and Insurrection Ave.

I get no dough from the Pentagon
I can't subsidize my family ties with the IM Fund
keep the workers working the Guvna say cool off
some cool off but I'm feeling red hot
I'm feeling tension in the melting pot
They're gonna blur threat and catastrophe
they're gonna blur class lines
they're gonna blur all the history you can't defeat an enemy you can't define
They're gonna urge you to God and country
they're gonna urge you to cross picket lines
and while the trading is free far overseas they're retouching borders we're all chained behind

I'd seriously recommend anyone who likes music with power and conviction to listen to American Steel. Their latest isn't even as heavy duty punk as Rogue's March, although even that had a few moments of ska, reggae, and motown influnced musical adventurism in it. The title track and this one are almost worth buying that album by themselves, and they threw in a few other kickass songs besides. There's some MP3 links in the artist site link above.