A Nation On Fire

Well i see, i feel
On my way
You close your eyes, scared to think
You might see
A world that spends more to kill than to cure
Living, writhing, diseased, so unpure

It hardens me, the things i see
But i wont break. it gives me strength

Our suffering. wont always be
Well dominate. this nation on fire

The media it
Blinds out eyes
A people divided
And force fed lies
The black and white societies corrode
Warring, hating, blind, a rage explodes

So take my hand, across this land
I wont go down, stand my ground

Our suffering. wont always be
Well dominate. this nation on fire

This nations built on fighting war after war
And for my brothers, i will fight and stand for
Cause i wont break. your truth is fake
If blood ran red, youd leave me for dead
A nation on fire
A nation on fire

You tell me peace, well i hear gunshots all night
The scars i have, ive earned cause ive had to fight
An endless pain, and it wont change
We just sat, and watched this world die
A nation on fire
A nation on fire

A Thousand Lies

What is a man that stays true to the game
But has to cheat a little to get by
Well thats a person that i know too well
Dont want to know but i dont have to ask why
Everyone like a loaded gun
You want some shit. ill fuckin pound you, son
Dont need a reason, pain im feelin
I gotta vent or else i blow inside

Introspection, termination
Cant tell right from wrong
Fed up with this whole system
Its gone on far too long

You tell a thousand lies been told a thousand times
Your words we hear but we cannot sympathize
Thousand lies been told a thousand times
Hard as nails the power to survive

What s a man that stays true to the game
But cant believe some of the things he sees
Angers a gift and i wont be kept down
In poverty there is no democracy
Used needle and a crack vile
A broken bottle and a bullet shell
This urban life is so volatile
An inner city or a concrete hell

Introspection, termination
Cant tell right from wrong
Fed up with this whole system
Its gone on far too long

You tell a thousand lies been told a thousand times
Your words we hear but we cannot sympathize
Thousand lies been told a thousand times
Hard as nails the power to survive

What is a man dont stay true to the game
Dont care for no one, only cares for his greed
Hes playin god killin thousands of people
Cause the power is the fix that he needs
Racist goal of the white devil
I watched our soul burnin over oil
A politician got no feelin
It makes my motherfuckin cold blood boil

Introspection, termination
Cant tell right from wrong
Fed up with this whole system
Its gone on far too long

You tell a thousand lies been told a thousand times
Your words we hear but we cannot sympathize
Thousand lies been told a thousand times
Hard as nails the power to survive

Alan's On Fire

[bonus track in limited edition digipack]

Go!
All my life i have been used by you
Time has come our game of love is through
Since i was born i've lived in the cold i've lived in the dark
Now i want heat now i want light igniting spark
I'm not a martyr but i am truth and you are a liar
But now my life of constant sadness goes up in the fire

I will
Be heard
And i will
Be heard

Step on me i'm here for you to see
I hope you choke as i go up in flames
I told you my problems but you never heard a word
This is the moment for once in my life i will be heard
I know there must be a better way but i don't know how
You've lied to me and you've ignored me but you won't now

I will
Be heard
And i will
Be heard

All my life i have been used by you
Time has come our game of love is through
A burning passion from a burning mass reaches up for the sky
I've called you here my devoted family turn to watch me die
I'm not a martyr but i am truth and you are a liar
So now my life of constant sadness goes up in the fire
Yeah! one, two, three, four

All In Your Head

All in your head

You tell me, i´ve been walking on a railing
Been excelling at failing
That i think wrong, i don´t belong
I don´t fit, i don´t give a shit
Take my guitar and microphone, pour out my fuckin´ soul
Insecurity, i´ll strip it down to the bone - fuck it
I ain´t a stranger, just strange
I´ll be find so leave me alone

You can´t see the things that make
Your happiness go away, well i can

It´s all in your head
It´s in your head
Sad but it´s true
It´s inside you
Keep wallowing in your misery
It´s all in your head

I know that i´m a weirdo and i´m messed up
And the lord knows that i´ve fucked up
But i don´t need you to point out
Every mistake that i make
I´m sick of all your negatives, something has gotta give
Got me thinking you need to stop overthinking
Brink of losing my mind and going blind
I´ll be fine, leave me alone

You can´t see the things that make
Your happiness go away, well i can

It´s all in your head
It´s in your head
Sad but it´s true
It´s inside you
Keep wallowing in your misery
It´s all in your head

Why can´t you see it´s you
It´s just inside of you

You can´t see the things that make
Your happiness go away, well i can
Honestly you´re driving me insane, again

Because it´s all in your head
It´s in your head
Sad but it´s true
It´s inside you
Someday you´ll see who you´re unhappy
Someday you´ll see that it´s not me
It´s all in your head

It´s just inside of you

American High

American high

I was that kid sittin´ over
In the corner,
Smiling with a shit-eating
Grin
And i was that kid smilin´ in
The back of class
´cause i´m fryin´ on mescaline
I was that kid drinkin´ 40´s
On the bleachers
Getting drunk after school
Gettin´ home too late,
Fallin´ on my face,
Way too drunk to skate
And actin´ a fool

I was that kid never doing
Good at
Nothing except for maybe
At p.e.
And i was that kid getting
Bullied by the
Filipinos rollin with abt
Me and my friends reading
The satanic bible thinking
We should start a band
Cutting class to jam,
Cutting class to jam
In my dad´s garage we
Learned to

Act a fool - don´t need to
Be cool
Pissed off too and
Breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in
School
Don´t rock ´n roll
But this is my american
High

I was that kid that was
Crank-calling
Your girlfriend, couldn´t
Get a goddamn date
And i was that kid that was
Getting hella busted for
Pissin´ on the bart train
I fuckin´ hated school
Except for hanging out
With my friends, the
Outcast that was
Startin´ up a band
Fremont was the town,
California-bound,
Bay area sound, taught me
To

Act a fool - don´t need to
Be cool
Pissed off too and
Breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in
School
Don´t rock ´n roll
But this is my american
High

I´m that kid you tried to
Punk in english class
Now i´m in a band and
You´re kissing my...

Asteroids beat out homework
Slayer beat out zeppelin
Not the sharpest noggin
That´s why i´m in this band

And what you got against
Me, i don´t need a new job
What you got against me,
I´ll get by on my own
Tellin´ me i´m never getting
By from my songs
I love it when you´re
Proven wrong

Act a fool - don´t need to
Be cool
Pissed off too and
Breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in
School
Don´t rock ´n roll
But this is my american
High

Act a fool - don´t need to
Be cool
Break the rules
´cause this is my american
High.

Bay Of Pigs

I gotta rise, i'm sick of your lies
And i won't be your scapegoat now
Ain't gonna bend
And won't 'til the end
Understand on my word i vow

A pig, a pig, that's all you'll ever be
Refuse to cower to the swine

I'm sick of it, at the end of my wits
'cause next time that you fuck with mine

I'm gonna snap like
I never have before

Your law's the flaw
Upon this nation
Your lies despised
By generations

I got a friend might
Not walk again
And your laws
Never helped at all
Go fuck your clause, your
Probable cause
Power trippin' above us tall

Afraid, afraid and so you better be
'cause when i call you're not around
Serve and protect

And give some respect
Next time that you shake me down

I'm gonna snap like
I never have before

Your law's the flaw
Upon this nation
Your lies despised
By generations

Your lies despised
Your law's the flaw
Upon this nation
Upon this nation
Upon this nation
Your lies despised
By generations

Blank Generation

Blank generation

They say we been
Going down and going
Down
Been traveling on the road
To nowhere
Going down, round and
Round
Trying to get to the place
Where we started

When i was just a boy
At four years old thought
The world was joy
As a kid i´d play, just
Create the day
As i saw it my way

But time blows by

And strips us to the bone
Poisoned wind of woe
Teach us that we´re
Alone in this world
We learned to see all the
Corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
A toast to the end of our
Innocence
A toast to our blank generation

They say we been
Going down, been going
Down
Been traveling on the road
To nowhere
Going down, round and
Round
Trying to get to the place
Where we started

When i was seventeen
Realizing the world wasn´t
What she seemed
Underneath the night san
Francisco sky
I would see, too clearly

But time blows by
And strips us to the bone
Poisoned wind of woe
Teach us that we´re
Alone in this world
We learned to take all the
Corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
A toast to the end of our
Innocence
A toast to our blank generation

So here´s to our collagen
Lips and saline tits
To our growth hormones
And antibiotics
To the hollywood world
We made out of barbie doll
Hearts
After we melted them down
So we could make our new
Start
Here´s to a generation
Scared and always
Wondering why
Instead of playing doctor,
We play shoot each other
And die
Instead of ring around the
Rosie, we play hide from
Mommy
´cause mommy´s been drinking
Again and we don´t
Want to get beat
Even with all our tattoos,
And all our cheap thrills
There´s still a hole inside
Of us that may not ever get
Filled
So we give back a little bit
Of what the world´s given
Us
Giving back a bit of never
Giving a fuck

Here´s to the justice never
Dealt, to innocent, proven
Guilty
Here´s to bad cops turning
Cheeks when real cops are
On the street
Here´s to the rat-tat-n-tat
Of gun shots, and your life
Is shattered
Here´s to "gimme me your
Cash or your brains is
Gettin´ splattered"
Here´s to mad cow disease
And all that yummy msg
Here´s to mickey d´s serving
All those mutant chick-a-dees
This is a toast to celebrate
The end of our innocence
This is a toast to celebrate
How...
We´ve become desensitized
If life is to grow
Some life must die

We learned to take all the
Corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
A toast to the end of our
Innocence
Our generation
We now embrace all the
Corruption
And greed, all its hate, all
Its pain, so
A toast to the end of our
Innocence
Our blank generation.

Blistering

You stabbed me in the back over a sliver
A feeling i have been betrayed
Both hands broken together
Clenching fists cause the rage

It comes in spades
From a life of pain
I dont care cause i dont give a fuck
It tears a path right through me

A systematic vision of survival
A struggle i alone engage
Tension burning inside me
Blood so sweet cause revenge

It comes in spades
From a life of pain
I dont care cause i dont give a fuck
It tears a path right through me

Revenge is mine
Suffering divine
Fractures break through bone
Frustration wont let go

Filled with lead and
Dumped into the river
And buried in a shallow grave
Both hands broken together
Clenching fists cause the rage

It comes in spades
From a life of pain
I dont care cause i dont give a fuck
It tears a path right through me

Block

Hate breeds hate my eyes they have seen
The decimation of all that is pure, pure
A system that feeds their machine with
The blood, sweat and money of the poor, poor
Corruption gets rich, honesty just exists
'cause nobody cares anymore, anymore

Fuck it all
Fuck it all

White attack black, black attack back
The fuckin' media keeps us all blind, blind
Children on crack, junkies on smack
You wanna close your eyes to hide, hide
Pollution so dense, sickening existence
New world order, new world decline, decline

Fuck it all
Fuck it all

The more intense the sense of ignorance
The more intense then is the pain

Hate breeds hate my eyes they have seen
The decimation of all that is pure, pure
A system that feeds their machine with
The blood, sweat and money of the poor, poor
Believe in something if it stops your suffering
'cause all we have is nothing

Nothing
Fuck it all

Blood For Blood

I bite the hand cause this hands feeds off me
Devoid of emotion, it lives to cheat
Ignorance is bliss, and respect i gave you
Friend you did claim this
Too bad you cant speak the truth

Give respect
Cause the rule is blood for blood

Beatings are what youll inherit this time
Fist bait, your new name
Your pain is my shrine
Pulverize and break
Determination
Pleasure i negate
Your pain brings me salvation

Give respect
Cause the rule is blood for blood

I was born to tension
Anger came from frustration
I cant back down from aggression
Some hard knocks taught me this lesson

Give respect
Cause the rule is blood for blood

Give respect
Cause the rule is blood for blood