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                                 AGNOSTIC FRONT



                            Liberty & Justice For...



                             Compliments of  Racer X



                      >>> A CULT Publication......1988 <<<

                        -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc-

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  Music & lyrics by AGNOSTIC FRONT except 'Crucified' by IRON CROSS



  Songs (c) 1987 Bomber Zee, Inc. except 'Crucified' (c) 1981 Iron Cross 



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LIBERTY & JUSTICE

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Anger as sharp as the broken glass

Burning cars and tear gas

Every race riot--is the last one

A dying culture's final gasp



Every decade--yet no one learns

And it's always their own homes they burn

Crushed by a quorum-driven-state machine

A nation's will, cannot be turned



Memories lost in a nation's sleep

In the dreams of contented sheep

Can we ever hope to find solutions

When our country has sold the Constitution



All too wrong to be right

The answer's there, we just lack the sight

Race wars fed by prejudice and fright

The love of a nation for its people

        burned through the night



Monochrome blood sport--we never tire

So many things feed the fires

To repeat History--a world conspires

So many years have fed the desires





CRUCIAL MOMENT

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So many people will come and go

Past their time before they know

Swear they were there from the start

Never had it in their hearts



Things you do--come back to you

Things you've said--echo on inside your head



Figureheads come cheap these days

No one listens to what they say

In their faces I see the fear

A crucial moment drawing near



You pay the price--take bad advice

What they said--echoes on in your head





STRENGTH

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Day after day

See a world grow cold and grey

Did you see it today

Youth that rage while their idols age

Need some new start

See ideals for what they really are



What does it take?

Eyes for the blind

What does it take?

Strength of the mind



That's what it has to be

To cast everything aside for me

It takes sacrifice

To find the heart and set it free

You better find the drive

While you're young and still alive

No one hands you the truth

No one can say what's right for you



Don't wait for the call

Strength above all



Don't just wait in vain

For everything to change

Don't wait for the call

Strength above all





GENESIS

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The birth of man was the birth of Hell



The wrathful flames dance around my head

Falling figures, burning dead

A well once filled with flowing water

Now an endless tunnel of hate and squalor



Covered, once, with locks of hair

All burned off, to leave me bare



A hand that once reached out to feel

Now gropes about for something real

I try to hold onto what I've found

But the heat of the touch melts all to the ground



Pulling back, Inside my head

I watch for hours, the listless dead



From my hear flows the tears

Giving no life to that which is seared

I wait for the day when only ashes appear

Nothing gained--and no more fear



And once again I will be pure





ANTHEM

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Changes that were hardly noticed

Until time itself became a chain

Once hot blood began to cool

My ever slowing heart--beat in vain



From the nightmare I wake in another dream

And stare at an unbroken sky

Try to distill a cure for the plague

That's put to rest everything--I once felt inside



To never again be bound by United Blood

A sense of purpose lost forever more

Is this the way I'll die?  No!

I'll find the sense of honor--that I held once before



The Blood--The Honor--The Truth

Thought it would never end

The Blood--The Honor--The Truth

Can be part of our lives again





ANOTHER SIDE

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Awash on the tides of city rain

I flow through the streets and into the drains

Numbed by the gaze of uncaring faces

Try to offer my truth--but they drift away

Until the streets and myself have no name

No longer human--no longer the same

Lost all hope--lose all dreams--No more pain



Awake--I choke on human steam

And the stench of animal fear

Tonight I'm going to light a match

And let the sewer burn--until my soul is clear



Each night a thousand hearts are wasted

On those who don't care if they live or die

Each day I wade through vacant stares and wonder

Are they looking for the same things as I



I see the people turn away

And still hear every word they say

Hope someday I'll have the nerve

To put a bullet through my brain

And not a needle in my vein





HAPPENED YESTERDAY

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You--You raised your fist

You were some real Anarchist

Made a lot of promises to your friends

You'd never let it end



Now--You just sit and stare like old men

Now--You talk about how it was then



Now it's a few years later

Your scene isn't looking so good

Everything you had, the lives you led

Dead or misunderstood

So--You'll rise from the dead

You'll show everyone

But you're running, running scared

From ghosts of the past

You can't run too fast



No--You'll never get back what you had

No--Well...that's just too bad



Gone--Where did it go, it happened yesterday

No--Where did it go, it happened yesterday





LOST

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Yahweh promised a conquered land,

Domination over life--man against man

Mother Earth came to conflict with patriarchal powers

And eyes lit up with hierarchy fed desires

The spirit within--quickly became lost

In search of glory and power the rules of war were taught



The dogs, run wild, parting souls from lives

Bombs fragment, the Earth, leaving wounds in her side



The roots of perversion--so deeply planted

Man has become evil--peace and freedom tainted

Leaders ask their people to dig their graves deeper

No spirit of their own--they took heed of their keepers



Man finds himself trapped in aggression

He knows no other life but that of oppression





HYPOCRISY

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So you hate your Mom, you hate your Dad

You hate "The State" because it's bad

But look at you, how do you rate?

You're just as bad as those you hate



You're telling me--you keep telling lies

But deep down inside--You're not true to your mind



All fucked up, king of the show

Flail at your friends, you don't know

Fight before and afterward

But it don't do you any good



So live your life in ignorance

Close your mind, your defiant stance

Isolate and isolate

Until you're gone and it's too late

To wake up and live

You're just a victim of your fate





CRUCIFIED

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They ask why do we dress this way

Live for now--Don't understand today

See the kids--But don't hear what they say

Close your eyes and look the other way

Say the end justifies the means

Gonna lock us up and throw away the keys



Crucified--Crucified for your sins

Crucified--Crucified for your sins



They don't know our feelings--only desperate cries

They see reflections through distorted eyes

We don't care because it breaks their views

Got to learn to fight to live

Before they grind us under heel



We're the targets so easy to find

And we're the ones that won't stay in line

I find myself nailed to a cross

For something that I didn't do

It's your fault you've ruined our lives

And we're the ones you crucify

You're the ones who commit the crimes

But it's always us who do the time





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 (c)1988  cDc communications  by Racer X                              8/1/88-65

 All Rights Worth Not Very Much At All, And Regrettably So

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