Lyrics
Intro
Brothers and sisters,
Mothers and fathers,
Sones and daughters,
The time has come!
The time has come,
For those who have been silent to remain silent no longer!
The time has come,
For those who have fallen asleep to wake up!
The time has come,
For those who have sat idly by to stand up united as one!
For this!
This, is where we draw the line!
This is where we say, “We have had enough”!
For this!
This is Rebellion!
Riot
Gotta Gotta start a riot
Gotta start it we gotta start it right now
Gotta Gotta start a riot
Gotta start it we gotta start it right now
Hate to tell you but we’re taking over so get your hands out of our pocket
We know what we’re up against and even if it takes us all night
We can rest when we’re dead!
Gotta Gotta start a riot
Gotta start it we gotta start it right now
Gotta Gotta start a riot
Gotta start it we gotta start it right now
Changing everything started with me changing everything even history
We walk in step with a thousand soldiers they won’t get by because we’re shoulder to shoulder.
Gotta Gotta start a riot
Gotta start it we gotta start it right now
Gotta Gotta start a riot
Gotta start it we gotta start it right now
Gotta Gotta start a riot (everbody riot)
Gotta start it we gotta start it right now
Gotta Gotta start a riot (everbody riot)
Gotta start it we gotta start it right now
This is our call to the underground
we must stand up and live a life worthy of the calling God has placed on our lives.
This is our call to the underground it’s our time to take a stand now we move from the shadows in to the street with our fists held high our fists held high.
This is our call to the underground it’s our time to take a stand now we move from the shadows in to the street with our fists held high our fists held high.
start a riot
start a riot
start a riot
You better start a running when you see us coming ha ha!
Stop Drop & Rock N' Roll
I 95 we’re headed off to nowhere
Windows down and music on the stereo
100 miles an hour but we didn’t care
The road winds on and on just like it did before
We got to go we got to get out of here
Got to go got to go got to g-g-g go.
Leather pants, (Tattoos)
Fist fights at midnight
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll.
How many times we’ve driven down the same road
And every time it takes us to the same hole
Young and dumb, liven in the moment
So naive I thought it would never end (You want to be what you’ve never been)
You gotta do what you’ve never done
Leather pants (Tattoos)
Fist fights at midnight
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
Leather pants (Tattoos)
Fist fights at midnight
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
Leather pants (Tattoos)
Fist fights at midnight
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
Leather pants (Tattoos)
Fist fights at midnight
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
Stop stop stop drop and Rock N’ Roll
March of the Living Dead
Wretched hearts and broken parts yeah we all got a story to tell.
I’m just a bag of broken bones and I still don’t wear it well.
Dead flesh rigor mortis in my soul and I’m rotten from the inside out.
This broken heart is filled with maggots all along
So cold and calloused its going to rip me apart.
We are the fallen ones tonight
We are the fallen ones tonight
Ripped to shreds stiff legs we’re marching on tonight.
A suit and tie is our disguise to hide what’s inside.
Depravity that’s been killing me we’re going to make it through the night.
This broken heart is filled with maggots all along
So cold and calloused its going to rip me apart.
We are the fallen ones tonight
We are the fallen ones tonight
Our hearts are beating funeral marches to the grave.
Our hearts are beating funeral marches to the grave.
Our hearts are beating funeral marches to the grave.
We are the fallen ones tonight
We are the fallen ones tonight
We are the fallen ones tonight (yeah we struggle but still we will fight)
We are the fallen ones tonight (whoa oh whoa ho whoa oh)
Our hearts are beating (We are the fallen ones)
Our hearts are beating (We are the fallen ones)
Tonight
No Rest for the Wicked
Driving all night you gotta pay to play.
No one ever told us it would cost us our soul.
Driving all night you gotta Rock N’ Roll.
Give it all you got are you ready to roll.
Road weary and exhausted holding on to our last breath.
Long days long nights we tip our hats to our brothers by the wayside.
Long days long nights we tip our hats to our brothers by the wayside.
Living for the night sleep all day.
White lines on the road start to look like home.
Living for the night Rock N’ Roll.
Give it all you got are ready to roll.
Road weary and exhausted holding on to our last breath.
Long days long nights we tip our hats to our brothers by the wayside.
Long days long nights we tip our hats to our brothers by the wayside.
We will not be defeated.
We will not back down.
This is the day that prepares us for tomorrow.
This is the day that we chose to die.
The horizon; we’re stretching out to reach it.
You can never ever ever teach this.
Long days long nights we tip our hats to our brothers by the wayside.
Long days long nights we tip our hats to our brothers by the wayside.
Long days long nights we tip our hats to our brothers by the wayside.
Long days long nights we tip our hats to our brothers by the wayside.
We will not be defeated.
We will not back down.
We will not be defeated.
We will not back down.
American Idolatry
Well the latest fashion is like a spreading disease
From the runways in New York City to the kids on the city streets.
(We’re the kids on the city streets)
Force feed the babes with Vanity Fair
Because it defines the American dream
Million dollar watches and billion dollar rings
It’s gimmy gimmy and buy more things.
All the kids they wanna be (just like me) x3
Well I’m picture perfect and I’m so far out of your league
You might as well keep on dreaming baby you’re never going to be with me.
You can start you’re diet you can throw up every day
You might as well just go home and starve yourself
come on honey it doesn’t matter to me.
All the kids they wanna be (just like me) x6
Well come on now honey look how your wasting away
Would you even miss it now honey if you sold your soul for that fortune and fame. Come on pretty baby you can make me fake (whoa oh whoa oh)
Come on pretty baby you can make me a stare.
Come on it’s you and me in the land of the free.
We got high fashion, glamor, and sex on tv.
Come on its you and me in the land of the free.
We spend money we don’t have on things we don’t need. Come on!
Ca ca ca ca ca ca ca ca ca come on!
We’ll put a price tag on all that you are.
Yeah, yeah whoa oh oh oh oh oh.
All the kids they wanna be (just like me) x6
Well I’m just like you.
All the kids they want to be…
All the kids they want to be…
All right boys!
All the kids they wanna be (just like me)x3
It’s vanity that has killed our soul.
We all listen to the Rock N’ Roll.
We bow our knee at the alter of our pride.
Don’t you know we’ll never make it out alive.
Rebel Yell
V twin chrome and long.
The sound of a thousand horses stampeding out the tailpipe.
Jet black glimmers in the sun.
A tall dark figure steps out of the shadows and in to the light.
The sun glimmers of his jet black slicked back hair.
Skin as tough as the faded leather jacket on his back.
The tattoo on his throat reads “you’ll never take me alive”.
Hey Hey
Rebel yell fists in the air.
Life’s a slave to the open road.
Shoot twice remember why we’re her.
Live free ready rock n’ roll.
Rebel yell fists in the air.
Life’s a slave to the open road.
Shoot twice remember why we’re her.
Live free ready Rock N’ Roll.
Rebel yell, yeah rebel yell. You’ll never take me alive.x8
Ready Rock N’ Roll
Raise the Flag
It all started in the summer of 1941.
I thought I was invincible thought I owned the world.
Sign you name on the doted line they said we’ll ship you off to war.
So proud just to stand up and fight march in a line for what was right.
Ready for adventure I was seventeen.
We were all so far from home.
So young but we were off to war.
They told me only you can change the world.
hoist the tattered colors high.
We’ll raise that flag to the top of the pole.
So proud just to stand for something true.
When did life become so cold.
all the colors just fade to gray.
I find it so hard to even pick up my gun and fight.
But still this cold and bloody war.
Rages on I can’t take it any more.
How could I have ever known.
I could ever feel so alone.
At seventeen.
We were all so far from home.
So young but we were off to war.
They told me only you can change the world.
hoist the tattered colors high.
We’ll raise that flag to the top of the pole.
So proud just to stand for something true.
Time went by, it seemed like all my friends had died.
Everyone I knew they were falling left and right.
Left, left, left right left.
Left, left, left right left.
Left, right, left, right.
You gotta keep up nobody falls behind.
You gotta keep on marching kick ‘em right in the face.
Hoist the colors high, only you can change the world.
But now we’re not so far from home.
And every word they ever told me was true.
Believe me when I tell you, you can change the world.
But as for me I’ll hoist the colors high.
I’ll raise that flag to the top of the pole.
So proud just to stand up and fight with you.
Sex Drugs and Rock N' Roll
Sex drugs and rock n’ roll
The church sleep on yeah, it’s out of control
Over my dead body will we run and hide
Wake it up wake it up come along for the ride
Whoa oh oh oh
Wake up wake up
Sound the alarm.
Spend your time with your lies and your cigarettes
You’re trading truth for what you find in a bottle of boo’s
Live in fear of the man next door
This apathy has made me sick and I can’t take it any more
Wake up wake up
Sound the alarm.
Wake up wake up
Sound the alarm
We will take responsibility (Whoa oh oh oh)
For what happens on our watch (Whoa oh oh oh)
We will run on the walls (whoa oh oh oh)
We will sound the alarm
Wake up wake up
Sound the alarm
Come on!
We will take this city (we will take this city)
We will take this city (we will take this city)
We will take this city (we will take this city)
We will take this city, We will take this nation by force!
Red, White, Black and Blue: The Divided State of America
Power money absolute control
Well our lives are the dice you roll
This is a game of political gain
And our freedom is the price you pay
You sold us out in our darkest hour
We will rise up and take back power
Cause we’re all saying!
Don’t don’t don’t don’t tell me what to do x4
If God is for us who can be against us
As we watch our buildings fall
Where did our freedom go
We sold it with our liberty long ago
It’s one nation under God
But how should God bless America
When theirs blood on our hands
We here the shout in the city streets saying
Don’t don’t don’t don’t tell me what to do x4
We’ve been beaten and we’re red white black and blue x4
Whoa oh oh oh
Whoa oh oh oh
Don’t don’t don’t don’t tell me what to do x4
This is Rebellion
This city has got a gun to my head
No matter which way I go I would be better off dead
I run around with a crowd from the wrong side of town
They try and shut us down but our resolve is stronger than that
They stick a boot in our face and we will stand up and say
We fought too hard to just run away!
This is rebellion
We fight the fight they say can never be won
This is rebellion
knuckles up til the sun comes up again
Oh but now we are on the run
We find ourself constantly under the gun
And we are wanted for the truth that we speak
Like a fugitive they’ll take us dead or alive
We don’t really care if there’s price on our head
The whole world’s turned against us and we’re left for dead
This is rebellion
We fight the fight they say can never be won
This is rebellion
knuckles up til the sun comes up again
This is rebellion
We fight the fight they say can never be won
This is rebellion
knuckles up til the sun comes up again
Blood and bone hanging naked on a cross
Stretched out exposed to the mockers scoff
Father forgive them, the anthem of the dying for the lost
He broke the rules of life and death
This is rebellion!
This is rebellion!
To give your life so that others can even have a chance to live
Stand in defiance to the ruler of this dark and oh so lonely place
Tell the world the truth that will set them free
This is rebellion!
This is rebellion!
Tonight we will make our stand
We will give our final breath for this
This is rebellion!
This is rebellion!
This is rebellion!
This is rebellion!
We give our final breath!
This is rebellion! x20
Credits
Written By Triple Stitch
Produced By Dan Schreck
Co-produced By Triple Stitch
Engineered By Dan Schreck
Recorded at DFS Studios in Minneapolis, MN
Mixed By Eric Wickstrom
Vocals, Wurlitzer, and acoustic guitar Recorded at Fuzzy Slippers Studio in St. Paul, MN
Engineering at Fuzzy Slippers Studio by Tom Smouse and Russ Nueske
Drums on Stop Drop and Rock N’ Roll and Sex Drugs and Rock N’ Roll by Matt Muha
Wurlitzer in Raise the Flag by Angela Adams
Additional vocal production assistance by Tommy Rehbein
Gang vocal assistance by Scott Richter, Officer Johnson, JD Anderson, Pamela Anderson, Douglas Persing, Erick Palkovich, Jared Mueller
Album Artwork By Verismo Studio