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Rating: United States of America. Many praise this country and think it is perfect, especially Americans who, as is known, have a great patriotic spirit. But the country is not perfect, far from it. For a long time, various figures have been denouncing evident problems, but they do not seem to be heard.
Many bands, especially in the Punk and Hardcore scene, make music that heavily criticizes the country, spontaneous music in the spirit of free expression. Anti-Flag is among these groups and among the more recent, having only been producing records since 1996.
"The Terror State" was released in 2003, and is considered by many their best album. The album is very balanced between tracks of hardcore punk inspiration and others simpler, yet they do not pale in comparison at all. The first track "Turncoat" is more melodic and simple compared to other tracks on the album but is still an easy-to-listen piece that immediately catches on. "Civil servants fall in line for you /Too brainwashed to see the truth/You use anyone you can! "Post-War Breakout" on track number 3 is perhaps the most particular and thoughtful on the album, featuring an excellent bass line. Right after that, the interesting intro of "Sold As Freedom" pushes us to a more incisive side of the album but with "Power to the Peaceful", track number 5, it returns to an easier listening experience. At track number seven, it returns to a more incisive rhythm with "You Can Kill The Protester But You Can't Kill The Protest" with excellent Hardcore Punk roots riffs. Rather aggressive rhythms are still heard in "Wake Up!". Woke up from your American dreams /To be surrounded /Surrounded in flames!. In position number thirteen is one of the band's most famous tracks, "Death Of A Nation", the most aggressive track on the album, short in duration, reminiscent of the early Hardcore Punk. With "Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L)" things calm down a bit, but the piece is still among the best on the album. The last track, "Fuck The Flag", lasting 54 seconds, immediately brings to mind groups like Minor Threat and Black Flag as it is so harsh and direct.
In the end, the many who consider this CD the best in Anti-Flag's discography are right, it is the most balanced, the most direct, the best, in short.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Turncoat (02:10)
TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law!
Go!
States lies dressed up as evening news
We're tired of lies we want the truth
Brodcast by corpses courting you
We're tired of lies we want the truth
Most people they will never know
We're tired of lies we want the truth
With your or against you?
Then I am against you because you're a...
TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law
TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law
In your corner
Makes me wanna
Douse myself in gasoline!
Civil servants fall in line for you
Too brainwashed to see the truth
You use anyone you can!
TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law
TURNCOAT! KILLER! LIAR! THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the
KILLER!
LIAR!
A TURNCOAT! and a THIEF!
Criminal with protection of the law!
The law!
Criminal with protection of the law.
05 Power to the Peaceful (02:57)
Sons and daughters of a dream
The urge to struggle for an ideal
To stay and fight
Oppose war fever
Refuse to kill or be killed
There's voices calling in the wind
Power to the Peaceful
Power to the peaceful
Whoa-oh!
Let's Go!
Oh yeah!
Alright!
With a readiness for war
They come down hard in dissent of all forms
Blood and militarism has swept the country by storm
There's voices calling in the wind
Power to the Peaceful
Power to the Peaceful
Whoa-oh!
Power to the Peaceful
Power to the Peaceful
Whoa-oh!
This is not a war
of the urging people
This is not a war
of economic independance
It's a war for conquest
It's a war for military power
It's a war for money
The road to universal slaughter
Sons and daughters of a dream
The urge to struggle for an ideal
To stay and fight
Oppose war fever
Refuse to kill or be killed
There's voices calling in the wind
Power to the Peaceful
You know it's Power to the Peaceful
Alright, check this out
There's repression and intolerance
On any deviation from the norm
In all factions of your life
At this time of entry
Into war say Hey-Hey
Do you know what they sing. Say Hey! - Hey!
Yeah you know what they sing. Say Hey! - Hey!
Do you know what they sing? Say Hey! - Hey! - Hey!
Power to the Peaceful
Power to the Peaceful
Whoa-oh!
Power to the Peaceful
Power to the Peaceful
Whoa-oh!
Alright!
Whoa-oh! Whoa-oh! Whoa-oh!
Yeah!
06 Mind the G.A.T.T. (03:14)
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 pool formed from rainfall
Where my reflection stares back at me and says
As the sun sets bright over ancient earth and disappears from view
The spirit of the world will rise up from the dis again
Our voices sing in union
Lifeless, soulless, secret abyss
Plotting the worlds doom
Production and consumption wakes the sleeping world to sing again
Our voices sing in union
From African coasts to Australian mainland
Watch your brother's back, watch your sister's back
From the American plains to the sea of Japan
Watch your brother's back, watch your sister's back
In your own backyard, or far off foreign lands
We find our adversaries woven of the same thread
As evil hacks and rips at every corner of the world
The peoples voice will sing as one voice
Our voices sing in union
To implement a Paul Hawken-Esque model for the world
The people voice will sing as one voice
Our voices sing in union
The Arabian sea to the coast of Chile
Watch your brother's back, watch your sister's back
The plateau of Tibet to the Bay of Biscay
Watch your brother's back, watch your sister's back
In your own backyard, or far off foreign lands
We find our adversaries woven of the same thread
Rethink... Fucking dig in!
Don't sit by and take it!
They built it we can break it!
We're not gonna stand for any G.A. double T's!!!
Don't sit by and take it!
They built it we can break it!
We're not gonna stand for any G.A. double T's!!!
Don't sit by and take it!
They built it we can break it!
We're not gonna stand for any G.A. double T's!!!
Don't sit by and take it!
They built it we can break it!
We're not gonna stand for any G.A. double T's!!!
09 Wake Up! (02:35)
If I had a lighter in hands
With some oily rags
Is 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!
AND I WON'T STOP SCREAMING
UNTIL MINE IS HEARD!
Wake Up!
Wake Up!
To the world around you
Wake Up!
Wake Up!
To the world around you
Wake Up!
Wake Up!
To the world around you
Wake Up!
Wake Up!
YEAH!
And if we blocked the streets
Everyday
Face down on the pavement
As we lay
You're angered
That you're five minutes late.
What happens next time
When we will stop you all day?
Yeah, next time
When we will stop you all day?
You got to SCREAM
TO MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD!
AND I WON'T STOP SCREAMING
UNTIL MINE IS HEARD!
Wake Up!
Wake Up!
To the world around you
Wake Up!
Wake Up!
To the world around you
Wake Up!
Wake Up!
To the world around you
Wake Up!
Wake Up!
To the world around you
And it's the same song, sung
Sung at the top of our lungs
SCREAMING FOR FREEDOM
PLEADING FOR LIBERTY
SCREAMING FOR FREEDOM
PLEADING FOR LIBERTY
SCREAMING FOR FREEDOM
PLEADING FOR LIBERTY
FREEDOM!
11 Death of a Nation (01:55)
WHEN ALL YOU NEED!!...
Was a little motivation!
They pointed fingers and yelled...
DEAD GENERATION!!
When all you need was a little care
All you got was an old white hair blank stare!
Have you ever needed an ounce of love
And all you got was a whole lot of fucked!!
So say your prayers
It's the death of a nation
Say your prayers
For the dead generation
Condescending broad generalizations
Get real old real fast
YEAHH!!
Just because most hippies and their parents have sold out!!
Does not mean that you (Yeah, you!)
Your children (Your children!)
And their kids won't last!!
So say your prayers
It's the death of a nation
Say your prayers
For the dead generation
Say your prayers
It's the death of a nation
Say your prayers
For the dead generation
Agressivness is godliness
Combativness is holiness
Destructiveness is faithfullness!! YEAHH!!
Deadliness is devoutness!!!
Praying to a god that they created!!
And know damn well does not exist!!
We find them on their knees...
12 Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L.) (02:21)
This is a tale of liberation, this dedication song
Broadcast it from all stations
This tribute, this salute
Cold hard facts one can't refute
Number one liberators in the world
Can kill better than ice is cold!
To save you we may have to kill you
For freedom you may have to die
Number one at liberation - liberating life from bodies
Helping spirits fly
Freedom from... life
This is a tale of liberation, this dedication song
Broadcast it from all stations
This tribute, this salute
Cold hard facts one can't refute
Number one liberators in the world
Can kill better than ice is cold!
To save you we may have to KILL YOU!
For freedom you may have to die - yeah!
Number one at liberation - liberating life from bodies
Helping spirits fly...
The government lies
The masses die
The military lies
AND WE ALL DIE!
Broadcast it from all stations - This is our liberation song
Broadcast it from all stations - This is our liberation song
Broadcast it from all stations - This is our liberation song
Broadcast it from all stations - This is our liberation song
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