Anti-Flag is an American punk rock band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for their outspoken views on American government. Most recently, the band has focused criticism on the United States bailouts. [read more] - Death Of A Nation
When all you needWas a little motivationThey pointed fingers and yelledDead GenerationWhen all you need was a little careAll you got was an old white hair blank stareHave you ever needed an ounce of loveAnd all you...
- *** The Flag
Brainwashing Piece of RagTake it off mast, and stick it up your assNow it's time to slaughterIn its *** honorWhat a bunch of *** shit!*** the flag and *** you!*** the flag and *** you!*** the flag and...
- Sold As Freedom
You want to save the world?I can tell you what to do!You want to end terror?This solution is for you!Answer the call up join the proud the few.Pull on the triger with your heart and soulCause war is peace now you...
- Wake Up!
If i had a lighter in handsWith some oily ragsIs that what it'd take To wake you from your sleep? Woke up from your American dreams To be surrounded Surrounded in flames! You got to SCREAM TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!...
- Power To The Peaceful
Sons and daughters of a dreamthe urge to struggle for an idealto stay and fightoppose war feverrefuse to kill or be killedthere's voices calling in the wind and they sing"POWER TO THE PEACEFUL"with a readiness of all...
- Mind The G.A.T.T.
A brand new history slyly and quickly, sparkles in your eyes-hope you're not missing the flash points/sign posts etching the future from here. Ancient ancestors transmitting via a pool formed form rainfall where my...
- Turncoat
TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THEIF!Criminal with protection of the law!Go!States lies dressed up as evening newsWe're tired of lies we want the truth!Brodcast by corpses courting youWe're tired of lies we want the...
- When You Don't Control Your Government People Want To Kill You
BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!America blown to smithereens.Your friends, Your home, Your life, Your family.Boom, Boom, Boom! SmithereensI wish I could say this was unforeseen.Well, theyre planting the seeds,for destruction's...
- You Can Kill The Protestor, But You Can't Kill The Protest
You can spoon my eyes out,but I can still see through youSlice my ears from my head,but you can not shut out the sounds of truthLock off each sound at the wristso I can't raise my fist!you can kill the protestor...
- One People, One Struggle
The people, united, will never be defeated.The people, united, will never be defeated.The people, united, will never be defeated.The people, united, will never be defeated.The people, united, will never be...
- Rank-N-File
I'm standing with the rank-n-file I'm marching with the underground our black hearts worn on our sleeves let my imagination go and drop me where I feel most scare snap back already giving thanks im not trapped working...
- Tearing Down The Borders
No one flag flies over the multi-national companyNo allegiance to the board's homeland, fellow citizens, the flag, born of their countryAs the brainwashed nationalists moveTo shed their blood on battlefieldsWar...
- Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.)
This is a tale of liberationThis dedication songBroadcast it from all stations!!This tribute, this saluteCold hard facts one can't refuteNumber 1 liberators in the worldCan kill better than ice is coldTo save you we...
- Post-War Breakout
BREAKOUT!So we breakout!I'm a post-war breakout (Post-war breakout!)And a post-war breakdown (Breakdown! Breakdown!)I'm a post-war syndrome (Post-war syndrome!)And a post-war hero (Yeah, yeah, yeah :/ )Just a post-war...
- The Ink And The Quill (Be Afraid)
The water turned black And it's just getting darkerSo be afraid, be afraid, Be very afraid of the coming nightmareThe neo-christian theocrats pray on a Sunday afternoonThen welcome in Pinochet's men to intimidate and...
- Spit In The Face
How can we be free?The bloodline of kings in the house of whiteLynch law abiding citizens cashing in their rightsThe sky is on fireThe sky is on fireIt's blood red and torching any horizon it desiresSpit in the face...
- Tar And Sagebrush
If you utter a soundDon't make a moveWe'll kill youThen they gathered around meOne man took my right armAnd another man took my leftWhen the third man grabbed the front of my coatThen thrown in to an automobile we...
- Go West
Like a ghostEmptiness haunted his yearsStill his heart was made of nothing less than goodInsecure narration in his headSomething less than schizophreniaCreeping him with every move that he makesBreath he takesA...
- No Warning
The call The callHeed up and you will fallThe call The callNo warningI write in white on the black blockNo warningTime bomb contemporaries' tick-tockNo warningI write in white on the black blockNo warning, no...
- Shadow Of The Dead
Tonight, tonight, tonightI'm gonna stay awakeSafe inside this Trojan horse until day breaksOpen it up, tear it up, *** it upIn the streets runs a river knee deepHidden in the blood of our own lies the alphabet of the...
- The Bright Lights Of America
16 year old girl, In a hollow carved out placeJust looking for some prettiness,But the cuts in her arm dont paint for her a very pretty viewIn her mind, she dreams that she is, far away, fromThe bright lights of...
- The Smartest Bomb
No they won't miss you when you're goneWhen your heart stops beating and pumping bloodPull the pin, light the fuse, this song's the smartest bomb..You make your own choices and decisions,You are invulnerable to...
- We Are The Lost
Have you ever been alone?TransparencyIn the middle of millions of others, but still somehow unseenShe is across the aisle; he's on the floor aboveYour neighbor and every prisonerEach station filled with...
- Vices
I must again sing my dissent until you're awareI must again sing my dissent until you're awareWe all have our vices, we all have our flawsWe all have our anger, we all have our love This is the first set of words that...
- The Modern Rome Burning
How did we get into this mess?The question is a hypothetical...The answers areWritten on the face of the oppressedSent to death at just 19Forevermore to be unseenHis mother with tears in her eyesCrying to GodShe calls...
- Good And Ready
You'll get yours when you're good and readyYou'll get yours and go straight to hellAnd when that day comesYou can be good and sureThe day belongs to usThe sign said: "detour"So I didAnd I found myself in a wonderful...
- If You Wanna Steal (You Better Learn How To Lie)
My father Michael is a geniusHe sees this world the way no one canHe brought me up and shaped my mind at the tender youthful age of nineHe said don't take this for the way it isYou better watch out son when you get...
- 911 For Peace
It's in the paper every dayYou see it in the headlines and you feel so sickAs another life leaves this world - this world so full of hate - but short!Short on compassion, short on humanityAsking myself in vain, shaken...
- Anatomy Of You Enemy
10 easy steps to create an enemy and start a war:Listen closely because we will all see this weapon used in our lives.It can be used on a society of the most ignorant to the most highly educated.We need to see these...
- We Want To Be Free
All night out on the streets I got the back of all my friends We never want to go back home Never want the night to end CHORUS Because we want to be... FREE! We want to be...FREE! BRIDGE The schools that they send us...
- Mumia's Song
Arm in Arm - Fists held high "set them free" - our battle cry Take back the streets And our right to free speech Locked up and put away For fear of what they'll say CHORUS Crooked cops plus crooked judges, don't equal...
- What´s The Difference
The constitution crumbles beneath the weight of fascists No right to assemble - no free speech for the masses Seattle '99 the mayors decree Anti-W.T.O. statements are grounds for arresting! CHORUS Our leaders decry...
- N.B.C. (No Blood-Thirsty Corporations),
I herad a man on the radio saying, "we're facing an economic hell" It creates a vision in my head of ten thousand kids sent off to kill Theres always a voice that says, "you've got a choice" But a choice between shit...
- 20 Years Of Hell
I've stood by, and I've eried,while my friends have diedYou ever had a friend killthemselves, shot down, orknifed?Just when I think it's happenedfor the final time,it comes knocking back again todevastate my life20...
- I Can´t Stand Being With You
I Can't Stand Being With YouEverything that you didEverything that you saidYou may as well be down at the mallcause that's no different, than being at the barI saw that look in your eyesIt made me realizethat you...
- We´ve Got His Gun
Dad keeps a gun in the drawer in his roomMy best friend is coming over to playWe've got his gunWe've having funTrying to find where the bad guys areI pull the trigger and shoot my friend oh noOh no 4XRun in the house...
- Anti-Violent
100 kids just having funUntil you comeYour steroid armsand skinny headYou cut your writsslash your facecall it performance artTrying to be cool, You're ignorantAnti Violent X4You start a fightDrink Beer all nightAnd...
- You´ll Scream Tonight
Last night I turned my TV on and I couldn't believe what was onSome *** rich kid crying cause her, her boy friend left her coldwell why the *** is this shit playing over the air?To make us feel sorry for some...
- The Truth
They feed us brainrot, and tell us that it's trueDan Rather is reporting something but it isn't newsIt's molded, and folded, and beamed into your homeThe next minute you find yourself dying for *** oil...Immediate...
- Indie Sux, Hardline Sux, Emo Sux, You Suck!
The indie kids are a bunch of snobs, they complainmy timing's all offI think timing is for stupid ***s! why do they think I play PUNK ROCK?!?!Steve Albini playing god of indie haven, stupid dorkskeeping time in...
- Born To Die
He knew he was gonna get it badas his dad bailed him out of jailleading him from the station.by a handful of his hair He said"i don't know what to do with you boy,I just don't understand?!?!what the hell makes you act...
- Their System Doesn´t Work For You
One day while sitting in my roomyou came in preachingyour words predieting doomYou've never once beenhappy with me,because I notwhat you want me to be...No!You tried to teach meto pray and go to schoolYou tried to...
- I´m Having A Good Day
Watching TV talk shows is a lot of fun.I like it when they always have onpeople who are shooting gunsInbred couples from West Virginia,inbred people, who want to kill you!I saw a story about a manwho was *** his...
- Indie Sux, Hard-Line Sux, Emo Sux, You Suck! Lyrics
The indie kids are a bunch of snobs, they complainmy timing's all offI think timing is for stupid ***s! why do they think Iplay PUNK ROCK?!?!Steve Albini playing god of indie haven, stupid dorkskeeping time in seven...
- I Don't Want To Be Like You
see you there, youve got a cold blank stareand you wish i was, but im notand you? well now you just dont get it its the hate in your eyes. its the hate in you hearti stand there and laugh as they cut you apartkill...
- Betty Sue Is Dead
Sittin' home on a Saturday nightI can't believe she called meI've beening waitin' for my whole lifeand now she's deadBetty Sue..is dead!Betty Sue...Sittin' home on a Saturday nightI've got nothin' better to dothen to...
- The School Of Assassins
1, 2, 3, 4!Has your life got you down? Are you feeling lost and blue?Im thinking maybe a career change is the best answer for youYouve never lived, never known true romanceTill you been taught the steps to the...
- Welcome To 1984
Who would Jesus bomb? Yeah, who would Jesus kill?The double talk is past surrealThe word of god is now the word of hateWar is peace, and freedom is the police stateCan't you see the writing on the wall?Democracy lays...
- Antithetic To The Cure
-verse1-there is no ardor that you knowwhere is the axiom that we're owedhow do you *** sleepyou haven't missed a winkthere is no allegiance where you go-pre-chorus-sure-fire "mandates" theoretical-chorus-anti-...
- You've Been To Our Shows, You've Sung Our Songs, Now Go To A *** Protest!
And so the time has finally comeThe bourgeoisie have signed the war decree with Prelierate bloodAnd that blood which flows from their *** the closest that they're ever been to the people...You've been to our shows,...
- We Don't Need It
[Verse:]Lost on the street because you don't know what to do,There's something in your heart that's coming over you,SOMETHING IN YOU-SOMETHING IN YOUR HEART!It takes you back to a better time and place,The leaders of...
- Underground Network
the national media cover clinton/lewinskywhile the world's governments sell out millions on the issue of free tradebut somewhere in the night -- a force is not asleepad a massive organization plans to rise up to its...
- A Start
rats, monkeys, mice - teach ' em little tricksstay far from creativity, and from politics'cause the multinationals need a solid work forceor their growing profit margins will be wiped out at the sourceconform to the...
- This Machine Kills Fascists
we've run out of patience, you've run out of timethis scene will not fall victim to your violence or liesyour "values" are nothing but excuses to start fightsquit fronting like you're standing for a moral cause...
- Spaz's House Destruction Party
i want to tell you a little story 'bout a party that went all right, but went all wrongi want to tell you a little story 'bout a party in this song...it happened back in '93, in the pittsburgh punk rock scenean event...
- Bring Out Your Dead
spend a lifetime working for these peopleto make what they earn in one daythere are options to choose, i call it social progressprogress to not be abusedchorus:they were arrested for their viewsit was the protesters...
- Daddy Warbux
our thoughts and our livescontrolled by pocket booksof rich politicians, like a rich daddy warbuxthey pay for the deaths of those who speak of revolutionwhile they keep us at each other's throatswhile we still pay...
- Culture Revolution
get ready to - make a standget ready to - make a standcause if - we don't- ***in' - do itthen no one's going to! no!have you seen the scene on the street?do you care what's - going on?thousands - homeless - in the...
- Watch The Right
It's on the radio, it's on the TV newsConservatives and liberals, with ever clashing viewsBut as the days go by I can't tell which side is talking Their left is in the center, and labeled “Liberal...
- Stars And Stripes
welcoming with open arms and with open heartsin the end they found their arms in s***les and their hearts torn outthis country named "america" is built on gravesof the natives who lived here before genocide took...
- Vieques, Puerto Rico: Bikini Revisited
all united, all as one, let's make a standwe've got a privilege in the power that we commandso let'snot drown in ignorance and let our strenght waste awayas the richest nation in the world, we've got a...
- The Panama Deception
their 2+2 does not equal 4their 2+2 equals whatver, they want us to die forchorus:about face! - snap to attentionform your own conclusions to the things you seeabout face! - sometimes the explanationsdon't add - up to...
- Angry Young And Poor
he knows he'll be alone tonightwhile contemplating, "What can i do?"lack of hope leaves him feeling violentit's not that he's looking for a fight, it's just...he don't know where to turnmore stress than help, from...
- Until It Happens To You
you walk past an activist, who is talking on the streetabout political prisoners, locked up in your own home stateand you think just for a minute, you think just a secondthen you say, "that can't be true! 'cause i...
- No More Dead
Why don't you come over here and see what you've createdIt'll make you laugh so hard you'll cryAnd lookin' into the black you make me so far past sickLookin' into your eyes I wish you'd dieNo more dead (x2)Two, three,...
- Confused Youth
"Why don't you go to school? You need to grow up."They're so inatuated like growing up is somethingyou shoot upSome girls my age they want to have a babySome of them wanna get married... they're *** crazyWe gotta...
- Your Daddy Was A Rich Man
All you ever do is brag about your dadWell what the mother*** hell did he ever do?He had some money, I guess he was *** richYeah, well if you ask me I think your dad was a *** dickHe was a rich man, your...
- Red White And Brainwahsed
They use the flag to control usBrainwash us to be their patrotic slavesPrograms our minds by controlling what we learnThe only difference from the nazis is thatSomeone tried to stop themRed, White, and Brainwashed!...
- Rotten Future
All you punkers with yourNo Future dreamsFollow Johnny Rotten andAll our present beliefsFollowing society be whatThey want you to beDrunk and Quiet"There's No Future for me"IMPATIENCE with societyBE WHAT they want you...
- Kill The Rich
A billionaire chatting with his friendsThey've gotta stop and laugh"We've really got those suckers fooled,We've gotta 'em trained like rats!"The riches plot, control your thoughts, to make you blame yourself"The rich...
- I'm Being Watched By The CIA
Oh say can you seeBy the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we hailAt the twilight's last gleamingI'M BEING WATCHED I'M BEING WATCHEDI'M BEING WATCHED BY THE C.I.A. (x2)They said there's drug dealers selling on my...
- Drink Drank Punk
Gulp Gulp GulpGulp Gulp GulpI want to drink more beerUntil I pukeDrink Drank Punk (x4)I'm so coolCause I can drink so muchI can drink more than youDrink Drank Punk (x4)Met a girl at the bar ohShe was a 10 at 2:00...
- Safe Tonight
You know I feel so violent, Just want to break some glass,Every day I pray it'll be my lastTurning to a blank wall wondering what to do? Turning to a caliber .22Every day he starts the same old fight. And every day it...
- You'd Do The Same
You think you're oh so differentWell, you'd do the same as me, yeahYou're just a hypocriteWhen you make fun of meYou'd do the sameWell, you've done it nowYou've blown your rideWasting your timeIs all your timeYou'd do...
- Summer Squatter Go Home
Hey, we're rolling, hey...Go home, go homeSquatter go home (x2)I think I hear your Mommy callin'On your cellular phoneShe said your dad wants his car backSo you'd better come homeSquatter go home (x4)Go home, go...
- She's My Little Go-Go Dancer
Go go go go go go dancer (x2)I was talking to this girl before a showDoes she like me? I don't knowI asked her to go out on Saturday nightShe said "OK that would be alright"Then she left she had to go to workShe gave...
- Police State In The USA
The Berlin Wall falls in the EastThe West claims triumph, "We've really got 'em beat!"Politicians from the West claim the police state's deadBut what about the police state in the West?Police state in the USAIt's...
- Punk By The Book
Covered in leather, or plaid patches, or metal studsYour hair is dyed or spiked with glueYou only talk to those who look and act the way you doCause you think you're so ***in' coolPunk. Punk. Punk.Punk by the...
- *** Police Brutality
A bunch of punks hangin' out on the streets before a showPatty wagon pulls up -instinct- "Run Man, let's just go!"Cop chases them through the streets and then they go insideThey run into a show where maybe they can...
- You've Got To Die For The Government
You've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government?Die for your country? That's shit!There's a Gulf War vet, dying a slow, cold deathAnd the government says, "We don't know the source of his sickness."But...
- Davey Destroyed The Punk Scene
He thinks because he's got spikes on hisLeather, that he's the punkest, he thinkshe's better! He walks around with hisNose in the air, the only thing biggerThan his ego is his hairHe thinks that uniform he's wearing...
- What You Don´t Know
It's gonna take some action and some reaction from....... from me and you'Cause you gotta stand up and you gott make demands to...... obtain the truthTime after time there are so many secret....... decisions madeWhere...
- No Apology
Slaughtered by the hands of a butcher The hands of the butcher were the hands of a "doctor"And these are the golden days that you want to bring back ?Making it illegal won't make it go away The rich will fly to far...
- Right On
Pocatello, Idaho: "Punk rock?!?!?! Isn't that the type of music where kids cut each other with razor blades and knives?" New York, NY: "You guys were so awesome tonight. Well actually, I'm so drunk I can't remember...
- Tearing Everyone Down
I thought i'd begun, to see a change But the more things change, the more they stay the sameBack stabbing and name calling, the trade marks of your actYou talk and talk of unity, but divide with your attacks(You say),...
- Free Nation?
State officials talk of freedom THEY - TALKIn this country that we live in THEY - TALK Free to be harassed and be beaten by the pigs YOUR RIGHTS - NO RIGHTS Till your *** broken, crippled, or until you're...
- A New Kind Of Army
LOOK BACK... on history, nothing much has changedTHOUSANDS... of soldiers of all countries, all marching the sameEvery nation's leader says that "our side is right Every nations leader says the time has come to fight...
- The Consumer´s Song
Don't trust them as far as you can throw them 'Cause as strong as you may be you won't be able to move them an inch But you don't have to believe me go ahead and be the corporate stooge that they trained you to be...
- Police Story
A black man driving down the street one day Pulled over by racist boys in blue in Brentwood, PAThere's no real reason, they don't have any right It's just that in their eyes he's not the correct shade of white......
- I Don´t Believe
I learned about America from my first day in schoolLand of opportunity, land of the freeThey told us we were blessed and fortunateBut they turned away my questions on homelessnessI don't believe - I don't believeBorn...
- No Difference
As I look from this stage at the hundreds of kids in this room with me The truth is so plain and so obvious, I just can't help to see... That all of us we are one and the same Only different in our ages and our names...
- Captain Anarchy
A-N-A-R-C-H-Y... He says that for the punk rock scene he'd give his *** lifeBut he's only ever paid to see a show once maybe twice Instead he stands outside the halls and pan handles for beer Then sneaks into the...
- That´s Youth
GO!We were just hanging on the corner, after skating for a fewWe were just killin time lookin for something newThen someone came 'long with a guitar, and we just started to playAnd we sang Clash songs and the songs of...
- I Don't Believe
I learned about America from my first day in schoolLand of opportunity, land of the freeThey told us we were blessed and fortunateBut they turned away my questions on homelessnessI don't believe - I don't believeBorn...
- Got The Numbers
You push and push a people, what are they to do?Soon this corporate run government will be through You see, it doesn't represent the people anymore Big business are the pimps and governments' their whores We don't...
- This Is Not A Crass Song
You're walking down the street in the middle of the day The sun is shinning brightly everything is quite ok But then you hear this song, it makes you stop and yell out, "HEY!" You might think that it is...BUT THIS IS...
- Outbreak
The president got caught getting head So soon some people will be dead Iraqi bodies scattered around By the cluster bombs that land in their barracks and their homes They (i.e. U.S. Representatives) get on T.V. and...
- Gifts From America: With Love, The U.S.A.
The world keeps turning and I keep fighting'cause what else are you to do?When there's a fascist telling you,"It's time you were put in your place!"As he salutes the Stars and StripesBy raising fists and starting...
- Smash It To Pieces
A psychic said to me - (WHAT DID SHE SAY?)She said, "You know I gotta a very special feeling,That truth and freedom will break out today!"(BREAK DOWN THE WALLS TODAY!)"Cause there's a message in the cards- it...
- The Freaks, Nerds, & Romantics
I got a song stuck in my headWalking down street number nineI sing it out loud with my friendsAnd we're all having a good timeWe all waited for weeksNow we're hanging on the street in NYCWe gotta go to the showEven...
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