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CRO-MAGS LYRICS
"The Age of Quarrel" (1986)
1. We Gotta Know
2. World Peace
3. Show You No Mercy
4. Malfunction
5. Street Justice
6. Survival of the Streets
7. Seekers of the Truth
8. It's the Limit
9. Hard Times
10. By Myself
11. Don't Tread on Me
12. Face the Facts
13. Do Unto Others
14. Life of my Own
15. Signs of the Times
1. We Gotta Know
Strugglin in the streets just trying to survive Searchin for the truth is just keepin us alive Gotta break these shackles gotta break these chains Said the only way we'll do it is if we use our brains Said there's gotta be some meaning to the purpose of life I know there must be more than the struggle and strife Cause I'm looking for the answers and I need a clue Cause my mind's so disturbed now what do I do? Notice everywhere there's mass confusion and packs of lies We gotta know! We're starin down our enemies in the eyes We gotta know! These are the days of the cheaters and the cheated We gotta know! But we're not gonna bend you know we won't be defeated We gotta know! Cause my minds so disturbed now What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? This planet's turnin into a hell And I figured out that things don't really look too well Reactions coming they're already starting to show But the question is who'll go with the flow You know there's gonna... be a fight Cause somebody's always tryin to keep ya... from doing the right There's always gonna be somebody comin no matter where you go So now you know why we gotta know
2. World Peace
All you hippies better start to face reality,
All your far fetched dreams of anarchy,
Better start to see things the way they are,
Cause the way things
Are going they won't be goin' far.
World peace can't be done.
It just can't exist.
World peace can't be done.
Anarchy's a mess.
Things are gettin hectic.
It's all gonna end.
You don't know what's waitin' up around the bend.
Open your eyes, perhaps you'll realize.
If AIDS don't get ya then the warheads will.
All you hippies better start to face reality,
All your far fetched dreams of anarchy,
Better start to see things the way they are,
Cause the way things
Are going they won't be goin' far.
World peace can't be done.
It just can't exist.
World peace can't be done.
Anarchy's a mess.
Things are gettin hectic.
It's all gonna end.
You don't know what's waitin' up around the bend.
Open your eyes, perhaps you'll realize.
If AIDS don't get ya then the warheads will.
World peace can't be done!
World peace!
It just can't exist.
World peace!
World peace can't be done.
World peace!
Anarchy's a mess!
World peace can't be done!
World peace!
No it can't.
World peace!
It just won't exist.
World peace! World peace! World peace!
3. Show You No Mercy
I tried to stop myself
Told you those games ain't good for yourself
Gave ya advice cuz I thought you could hear
Better listen closely cuz your end is near
Won't show you no mercy at all
Gonna kick ya, kick ya when you're takin your fall
Won't show you no mercy today
Gonna hit ya, hit ya when you're movin on your way
Put ya in check cuz I thought you were my friend
Sorry it had to come to the bitter end
Just like a blind man you can't see
Better move along and just let me be
Don't come to me for no sympathy
You won't get none here
Just leave you in fear
Won't show you no mercy at all!
What does it take to prove you were a fake
I thought so anyway,
Won't show you no mercy today!
Won't show you no mercy at all!
4. Malfunction
I just can't get through to you
Despite all the ways
I try or any of the things I do
Maybe I'd be better off talkin to a wall
Cause you ain't making any sense at all
I'm walkin and I'm talkin
And I'm tryin and I'm lyin
But I just ain't getting through to you!
I'm walkin and I'm talkin
And I'm tryin and I'm lyin
But I just ain't getting through to you!
Am I just wastin, just wasting all my precious time
Cause I ain't wastin a breath on you or any of your kind
If you had any brains you would open your mind
But, I guess you're juts afriad of what you're gonna find
I just can't get through to you
Despite all the ways
I try or any of the things I do
Maybe I'd be better off talkin to a wall
Cause you ain't making any sense at all
I'm walkin and I'm talkin
And I'm tryin and I'm lyin
But I just ain't getting through to you!
I'm walkin and I'm talkin
And I'm tryin and I'm lyin
But I just ain't getting through to you!
It's a malfunction...!
5. Street Justice
Street justice happening all around you see
Won't try to talk my way out
Don't try to play those speech games anymore
Overpower-Overcome
Street justice! Street justice! Street justice!
No way out gotta stand strong
Can't you see that I'm not wrong
That's the way it is and can't you see
Street justice for you and me.
Street justice! Street justice!
Street justice! Street justice!
If it really doesn't matter why do you care?
Don't turn around if it's not your affair
Don't try to play those speech games anymore
Overpower-Overcome
Street justice! Street justice!
Street justice! Street justice!
Justice!!!
6. Survival of the Streets
Livin inside enclosed walls
Got no money in my pockets
No pictures on the walls
Wake up with a gun on my head
That's the life, the life I've lead
What can I do?
Life's hard so
I gotta be hard too
But things always seem to get in my way
But I'm gonna get over for another day
Survival of the streets!
Survival of the streets!
Survival of the streets!
Livin in burnt out buildings
Livin in the streets
It's the life of the cro-mags
Survival of the streets
Never know what's comin up ahead
If the beast pulls the trigger could wind up dead!
7. Seekers of the Truth
Wastin my time servin my mind
For sense pleasures I can find
Gotta get back, back to the truth
You know it was left behind
It's so easy to see, if you wanna be free
Don't wanna be just a slave
Cause no matter how you choose
You know you'll lose
If you ain't looking for the truth
Searchin and searchin for something real
You gotta know how I feel
Cause we been looking after the truth
Rejected those lies of our youth
You've seen the proof
This ain't no spoof
They tried to bend the truth
And we won't regret the things we met
If we're on the path of righteousness
Now we gotta, we gotta go back
Something ain't right so we gotta, we gotta go back
Trace our steps and see what we've done
It's time for us to go back to square one
You just can't seem to see what I mean
You know what I'm talkin about
Cause we been in bondage much too long
Don't you think it's time to get out
See time has taken it's toll and they're in control
We can't let this madness last
Gotta make our move
Get in the groove
We gotta do something fast.
8. It's the Limit
Why you messing around with me Pushin me around Values changing But I can't get caught in it today We won't lose with what we've got Cause we'll just sit and watch it all rot Keep your ideas But keep your distance from me Keep off my back cause the things you do I don't wanna see I don't wanna see Wanna see how far I can go Test my patience see what I know Just not happy with nothing to do Getting bold when there's more than two.
9. Hard Times
Hard times are comin your way
You're gonna have to rise above it some day
Organize your life and figure it out
Or you'll go under without a doubt
Hard times! Hard times!
Seems i'm bein forced into a mold
Hard times! Hard times!
Forcin me and i'm growin cold
Hard times are coming through
But if your hard they won't get to you
They're gonna try to drive you into the ground
But never surrender, never go down!
Hard times! Hard times!
Seems i'm bein forced into a mold
Hard times! Hard times!
Forcin me and i'm growin cold
Cromag!
Skinhead!
Breakout!
Now!
10. By Myself
Fightin it's such a struggle and I got so far
Got so far to go
Don't want to except no answers
But I ain't got nothing
Got nothing to show
It's such a struggle but I gotta do it
By myself
Can't except no logic so I gotta do it
By myself
It's such a struggle but I gotta do it
By myself
Can't except no logic so I gotta do it
By myself
Such a lonely path but I can't turn my back
Can't turn my back right now
See I got a role to play
And I gotta fill it, gotta fill it somehow
I set myself on this path and now
Now it's just too late
It's such a struggle but I gotta do it
By myself
Can't except no logic so I gotta do it
By myself
It's such a struggle but I gotta do it
By myself
Can't except no logic so I gotta do it
By myself
I'd put it all aside but you see this madness
Just won't wait
Talk nice things but I see I'm really,
I'm really overflowing with hate I'm talkin,
I'm talkin but I never seem to motivate
The answers you say they're outta reach
But first you gotta learn and then only can you teach
You say I'm insecure but ain't you scared of death
Cause everyone's grabbing, holding for their final breath.
11. Don't Tread on Me
Lie to all your friends
The trouble never ends
You're gonna take a fall
And I don't care at all
Stabbed me in the back
Somone I trusted
Let's get things straight
Don't tread on me
I thought things were cool
But I guess I was a fool
And now I know
All about you
Stabbed me in the back
Somone I trusted
Let's get things straight
Don't tread on me
You crossed me once,
Don't try it again
You didn't learn,
I'll show you again
What goes around,
Comes back around
Revenge, revenge is sweet
Don't tread on me! (x4)
12. Face the Facts
You'd better face those facts It's the blind leadin the blind And there ain't no turning back There's a rhythm to this madness And I think it's gettin strange I can feel it in the air it's time We gotta rearrange It's time for us we gotta make The crucial change Face the facts Nation against nation and it's just so plain to see That's the way that cats and dogs wanna be Hate to think what the future's got in store for me Got a stomach full and just can't take it no more
13. Do Unto Others
Ain't really got nothing to say
It all comes across in a negative way
You, you best learn about bout be humbled
Cause you too you'll wind up stumbled
Not one bit of substance
In a word they speak
When they get outspoken
It's only with the weak
See these wars they're happening
And then you're aksing why
But just stop by some slaughterhouse
And hear the animals cry
You missed the point it's over your head
I guess you'd rather be negative instead
You can't account for these things you've done
I'll bet you think this MOI is fun
Take you down low
And show you some things
You've never seen
Riding that borderline
But there ain't no thing
Called in between
Kick you with some advice
And show you now
Just what I mean
14. Life of my Own
Memories of the times you had
That's the way you see yourself
You fight for your rights
You fight to survive
You come into this world
With nothing except yourself
You, you leave this world
With nothing except yourself
Do what you want
And how you want it
Feel it's right, go out and do it
Think for yourself
And think for the best
Or you'll go down just like the rest
You come into this world
With nothing except yourself
You, you leave this world
With nothing except yourself
15. Signs of the Times
signs of the times, they're all around us no one will look you in the eye you don't know who to trust i'm lookin around me and don't like what i see corruption all around me cause these, these are the signs of the times seems like they're losing their minds these are the signs of the times do you think that we're really progressin just seems to me like some steady regression i'm lookin on and watchin it corrode gotta hold back or i'm gonna explode take a look at where we're going i'm seeing the signs and what they're showing i'm totally in disbelief of modern man and all his grief these are the signs of the times
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