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Protest 100: Power Trip – ‘Divine Apprehension’

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P100 – Divine Apprehension

Artist:          Power Trip

Song:           Divine Apprehension

Album:        Opening Fire: 2008-14

Producer:    Arthur Rizk

Label:          Dark Operative

Year:           2018

Notes:
This song is the first track (with ‘Suffer No Fool’ and a cover of Prong’s ‘Brainwave’) on Power Trip’s self-titled 7”, released Dec. 30, 2011, through Lockin’ Out Records. It was rereleased in 2018 as part of the bands ‘Opening Fire: 2008-14’ compilation.

In 2013 vocalist Riley Gale told The Quietus that “songs like ‘Hammer of Doubt’, ‘Divine Apprehension,’ and others, often at times boil down to ‘You think you know how it is, but you really have no idea’ – plenty of songs about war and our demise at our own hands. But ultimately, I just want to write songs that make people think about something in a way they may not have thought of before.” RIP Riley.

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
The entire circle would be made whole again; rival schools trying to outdo each other rather than facing a common problem together.

Lyrics:

It’s a fine line between faith and ignorance
You cross that line and then you piss all over it
You sell salvation, infested with corruption and lies
Faith-healer, just a madman sickening minds
Idealism as an illness and it must be erased
When all humanity is at stake
Beyond all your greatest efforts
Modern horrors untold
Divine apprehension persists against its greatest foes
(Let’s go)

Pummel fear into the defenseless
Weaken the mind into something senseless
Say it empowers but they become more helpless
And with that power they become more reckless

You see your vision of the truth is so narrow, you’re blind
Soothsayer, just a madman spreading lies
I watch you tremble as the cracks in your foundation break
From the rot of souls’ decay

Divine apprehension resists against the greater force

Orthodox, obliterate
Evangelist, eliminate
Demagogue, I decimate     

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: The (International) Noise Conspiracy – ‘A New Morning, Changing Weather’

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P100 – A New Morning, Changing Weather

Artist:          The (International) Noise Conspiracy

Song:           A New Morning, Changing Weather

Album:        A New Morning, Changing Weather

Producer:    Jari Haapalainen

Label:          Burning Heart/Epitaph

Year:           2001

Notes:
Boredom leads to aggression. But so does oppression. Mix them together and you’ve got an explosive blend. The (International) Noise Conspiracy were formed by Refused vocalist Dennis Lyxzén not long after the latter’s breakup. The music is masterfully executed garage rock with some extra flourishes (e.g. organ) not just added around the edges but woven right through its core. Lyrical content borrowed heavily, and sometimes directly, from the avant-garde Situationist International movement. Was lucky enough to catch this tour (with Rival Schools and the Hives no less!) at Mary Jane’s in Houston

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
…it was such a new moon that you couldn’t even see it.

Lyrics:
God damn let’s hit it on the weak spot
Everybody knows that we all had enough
Smell the scent of gasoline fumes
‘Cause we’re not victims and we know what to do

Right now a systematic shutdown of
New world orders and restructuring plans
Hold tight ’cause here comes the latest craze
I’ve got news baby and this is what I say

Yeah, a new morning, the weather’s changing
Yeah, a new morning, the weather’s changing
Cha’, hey, hey, a new morning, the weather’s changing
Cha’, hey, hey, a new morning

God damn let’s build a new movement
Dead time pacifies so let’s do it
This time all these slogans will come alive
We’re not going to be bored this time

Right now a systematic shutdown of
Neo-liberals and assorted clowns
So strike the match and baby clench your fist
Here comes a party that we don’t want to miss

Hey, hey, hey, a new morning, the weather’s changing
Hey, hey, hey, a new morning, the weather’s changing
Cha’, hey, hey, a new morning, the weather’s changing
Cha’, hey, hey, a new morning

Hey, hey, hey, independence
We are playing a little game, I said
Hey, hey, hey, independence
We got it on the way

Hey, hey, hey, independence
We are playing a little game, I said
Hey, hey, hey, independence
We got it on the way

Hey, hey, hey, independence
We are playing a little game, I said
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Refused – ‘Worms of the Senses / Faculties of the Skull

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P100 – Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull

Artist:          Refused

Song:           Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull

Album:        The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts

Producer:    Eskil Lövström, Andreas Nilsson, Pelle Henricsson

Label:          Burning Heart

Year:           1998

Notes:
Refused are Swedish. Refused broke up just months after this album’s release, chronicling the spiral in one of my favorite music documentaries ever. The band believed that for punk to remain punk its presentation would have to change. There was no hope of getting a message through on a sound that had been corporately coopted. But there was still plenty of message to share. The move was a tactical one, aimed at maintaining pressure on corporate overlords who had done naught but steal from the poor, uneducated, and sick  

Go to the bottom of the post to watch the aforementioned documentary, ‘Refused Are Fucking Dead’

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
Similar lulls had occurred before and were part of why the high-tech wizardry had been developed: to keep people’s senses engaged even when nothing was happening to stimulate them.

Lyrics
They told me that the classics never go out of style but, they do, they do.
Somehow baby, I never thought that we do too.

I got a bone to pick with capitalism and a few to break
Grab us by the throat and shake the life away
Human life is not commodity, figures, statistics or make believe

And yeah, I like eating excrement, not getting paid for it
Play the guilt, play the fear & play the anxiety
And yeah, I like eating excrement, not getting paid for it
Play the guilt, play the fear & play the anxiety

Seduced by the opportunity and robbed of hope
Alien nation is not commodity, figures, statistics or make believe

Yeah!
One more time. Oh!

Marginalize away the joy and sell us boredom

And yeah, I like working doing nothing, not making anything
Blame the poor, blame the uneducated & blame the sick
And yeah, I like working doing nothing, not making anything
Blame the poor, blame the uneducated & blame the sick

I got a bone to pick and a few to break

[Faculties of the Skull]

I took the first bus out of Coca-Cola city
It made me feel all nauseous & shitty
I took the first bus out of Shell town
Cos they didn’t want me all hanging around

Yeah! Yeah! I took the first bus
Yeah, baby! I took the first bus

I took the first bus out of Coca-Cola city
It made me feel all nauseous & shitty
I took the first bus out of Shell town
Cos they didn’t want me all hanging around

Yeah! Yeah! I took the first bus

Let’s take the first bus out of here
Let’s take the first bus out of here
Let’s take the first bus out of here

Let’s take the first bus out of here
Let’s take the first bus out of here
Let’s take the first bus out of here
Let’s go!
Yeah!

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Crumbsuckers – ‘Just Sit There’

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Artist:          Crumbsuckers

Song:           Just Sit There

Album:        Life of Dreams

Producer:    Norman Dunn

Label:          Combat

Year:           1986

Notes:
This song is what it sounds like it is, a condemnation of those willing to just sit around when there’s stuff to fix, with a bonus parting shot at the fat cats running the system.

I remember the day in 1986 I bought ‘Life of Dreams.’ My friend Dan and I drove to the next town up the coast to check out its record store, having already gone scorched-earth on the bins in our hometown. The place had a great metal section (I had bought my first issue of Kerrang! there on a previous visit) and among the new eye-catching titles on hand were ‘Life of Dreams’ and Agnostic Front’s ‘Cause for Alarm,’ which he bought. We went back to his house, dubbed each onto cassette so we could both enjoy them fully, and called it a win, punk (Dan) and metal (me) having found the music in between: hardcore.

Go to the bottom of the post to see Mr. Bungle performing ‘Just Sit There’ earlier this year in Brooklyn.

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
Such a long face nowadays. Just sitting there.

Lyrics
Sit there and let destruction take its course
Sit there and let nothing occupy your mind
But, I know that there’s something left inside
Yes I know what the future will provide

It’s up to us to fight the war
As Ronnie screws up more and more
But he don’t care his life is past
It’s up to us to make things last

Sit there and let destruction take its course
Sit there and let nothing occupy your mind
But, I know that there’s something left inside
Yes I know what the future will provide

Brainwashed by hates and fears
Jeopardizing precious years
Fancy cars and diamond rings
For they live the life of kings.

SIT THERE!

 

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Cro-Mags – ‘We Gotta Know’

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Artist:          Cro-Mags

Song:           We Gotta Know

Album:        The Age of Quarrel

Producer:    Chris Williamson

Label:          Profile

Year:           1986

Notes:
Cro-Mags came out swinging, ‘We Gotta Know’ being the first track on the band’s debut album, ‘The Age of Quarrel.’ The album’s title is derived from the Hindu expression for the current age, Kali Yuga (the final age before the annihilation of the universes), and even back in 1986 the call was out for us to use our brains and see through the lies perpetrated from above. “You’ve got young people that are confused, making mistakes and looking for the truth, looking for answers,” bass player Harley Flanagan said in his autobiography ‘Hard-Core: Life of My Own’ regarding the lyrics he and vocalist John Joseph wrote for Cro-Mags’ debut.

Go to the bottom of the post to see Refused feat. Joseph performing ‘We Gotta Know’ and Bad Brains’ ‘Attitude’.

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
“I know. I know, Captain. Ain’t a goddamn word of truth to any of it. But you buggin’ out freaked those muthafuckas down below. And we gotta give them something.”

Lyrics
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!

Strugglin’ in the streets just trying to survive
Searchin’ for the truth is just keepin’ us alive
Gotta break these shackles gotta break these chain
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?
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
We gotta now!

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Valient Thorr – ‘I Hope The Ghosts Of The Dead Haunt Yr Soul Forever’

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Artist:          Valient Thorr

Song:           I Hope The Ghosts Of The Dead Haunt Yr Soul Forever

Album:        Immortalizer

Producer:    Jack Endino

Label:          Volcom Entertainment

Year:           2008

Notes:
And just like that…I’m back! Everybody ready for the final sprint to the finish line? Good. Today’s offering comes from Greenville, North Carolina’s Valient Thorr, a band that has overtly combined high-speed, party rock n’ roll with political lyrics since the first song off its debut album, ‘Showdown’ from 2005’s Total Universe Man). The track presented here addresses class warfare, the quest for oil, and native American rights all in just over three minutes. Jump in! The water’s fine!!

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
“You alright there, hoss?” Cookie asked. “You look like you just saw the ghost of yo mama’s cooch.”

Lyrics
All these Caesars, slicker than the oil
they own, scheme plans for years
Crack their fingers and smile real big,
While yer family drowns in tears

Someday, when your feet are up,
you’ll soon be shouting NEVER!
I hope the ghosts of the dead come
haunt yer soul forever!

Whatcha gonna do?
Money can’t save you
AAAAAIGHHHHHH!!!!
What was that?
Gonna give yourself a heart attack!
My family! They trust you!
The ghosts of my family
Will crush you!

Skeletons in closet
Lawyer suing
Natives reservations
Casinos ruined, all nations!
They trust you!
The ghosts of all nations!
Will crush you!

Drowns in tears
Someday, when your feet are up, you’ll
soon be shouting NEVER!
I hope the ghosts of the dead come
haunt yer soul forever!

Its too late to save your skin!
Playing the role of dumb, religious men
you’ll regret all those you’ve fucked
when your demons eat you up.

(All these Caesars, slicker than oil)
Can’t get forgiveness, its too late
(All these years, still the same)
So many wishes drowned in hate
(I would make the more adequate decisions)
For all of those lives that you made rough
(To not follow in my fathers name)
instant karmas not enough.

All these Caesars, slicker than the
oil they own, scheme plans for years
Crack their fingers and smile real
big, while yer family drowns in tears.

Someday when your feet are up
You’ll soon bem shouting NEVER!
I hope the ghosts of the dead come
haunt yer soul forever!

—

‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Lamb of God – ‘Redneck’

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P100 – Redneck

Artist:          Lamb of God

Song:           Redneck

Album:        Sacrament

Producer:    Machine

Label:          Epic/Prosthetic

Year:           2006

Notes:
Not so much a protest as a calling out of America’s small-minded to step up and get what’s coming to them. It takes a variety of balls. Then again vocalist Randy Blythe voluntarily returned to the Czech Republic to stand trial for manslaughter after a fan died as result of injuries sustained at a Lamb of God concert, so he’s not lacking.

Blythe could have hidden behind the US flag and just never gone back. But he’s an actual man, and beyond that a feeling human, so he wanted to do the right thing. After his acquittal he had this to say: “While I am relieved that my innocence was proven and apparently I shall not be going to prison, I am in no way, shape or form a happy man right now. A young man is still dead, and his family still suffers…Now I will go home and try to see what good I can make come out the destruction that occurred here – it is the only correct thing to do.” Imagine.

Lead by example. And if you can’t do that, shut up and get out of the way.

P.S. – It’s not all po-faced groaning in LoG-land. They made an entertaining video for this song you can check out at the bottom of the post! Plus, bonus-bonus, some great live action from just last year.

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
Good feelings had also led to good deeds. Someone had cleaned up the pile that was once Redneck Boy. The only thing left was the burn mark on the floor.

Lyrics
So goddamn easy to write this
You make it spill on the page
So drunk on yourself, self-righteous
A laughing stock of your own fucking stage

Oh but I ain’t one to call names
Or throw stones in a house of glass
You try me

This is a motherfuckin’ invitation
The only one you could ever need
This is a motherfuckin’ invitation
You try me

Just one time you got a reason
Heard you had nothing to lose
A blind preacher for the pin-eyed congregation
It must be easy to lose

Oh but I ain’t one to call names
Or throw stones in a house of glass
You try me

This is a motherfuckin’ invitation
The only one you could ever need
This a motherfuckin’ invitation
You try me

You can tell the same lie a thousand times
But it never gets any more true
So close your eyes once more and once more believe
That they all still believe in you

Just one time
This is a motherfuckin’ imitation
The only one you could ever need
This a motherfuckin’ invitation
Just one time

This is a motherfuckin’ invitation
Ya’ try me

Just one time (ya’ try me)
Just one time (ya’ try me)
Ya’ try me

—

‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Earth Crisis – ‘Breed the Killers’

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Artist:          Earth Crisis

Song:           Breed the Killers

Album:        Breed the Killers

Producer:    Andy Sneap

Label:          Roadrunner

Year:           1998

Notes:
Think, dammit! It’s not too late!! Renounce the hate. Take action. Change. Syracuse’s Earth Crisis asked a lot on their third full-length (and only Roadrunner) release. But not any more than they were doing themselves. And not any more than any of the rest of us can do if we simply decide to.

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
He decided to wait a few minutes, the full effect of everything already consumed having not yet taken hold.

Lyrics
Designed to deceive myths of supremacy.
A climate ingrained of fear and disdain. Spawning murderers since
time began. Borders redefined, the aggressors rule.
Demons have their day of every race in every land. Survivors of massacres
live on enslaved. One half of the world in five centuries has been under
European supremacist rule. Hatred forced into each
of all our minds. There’s still time to set ourselves free.
Hatred forced into each of all our minds. There’s still time to
set ourselves free. Architects of conspiracies created to subjugate.
Conquered peoples by believing their oppression is divine will.
Breed the killers of the lies. Unveil the truth throughout the past.
Until achievements are known.
Until inventions are known.
Until contributions are known humanity lives in lies.
Hatred forced into each of all our minds.
There’s still time to set ourselves free.
Hatred forced into each of all our minds.
There’s still time to set ourselves free.

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Bun B. and Mr. Biggs – ‘The Future Is Mine’

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Artist:          Bun B. and Mr. Biggs

Song:           The Future Is Mine

Album:        n/a

Producer:    John Robie

Label:          ZE Records

Year:           2020

Notes:
And now, the up-to-date tip. History can be taught. We can learn. But only if we’re willing to do so. Oh yeah…and VOTE!

“We have reached a pivotal point in history where artists not only have an incredible opportunity but a responsibility to use their talents to raise awareness and provoke change,” producer John Robie told Rolling Stone. “An aggressively old-school jam whose production was purposely meant to fit into a self-penned musical set in the Eighties became transformed by a covenant that Biggs and I have had for many years, to bring meaning and message back into music. To create something turbulent, timeless and timely. And when Bun B graciously joined forces with us to help spread the word, just like the movement to end racial inequality itself, there was no stopping us.”

Robie began his career (and his partnership with Biggs) as co-writer and synth player with Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, including on the seminal ‘Planet Rock.’

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
There was no more worrying about doing the right thing or wondering about the future.

Lyrics
We try to douse the fire, it continues to burn/Like the Boogie Down Bronx, it continues to burn/Like that cross in the yard, it continues to burn/Can’t you see the fire, it continues to burn

[That’s the chorus. Ya’ll got to watch the video for the rest. Which you should do anyway. It’s a journey.]

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.

Protest 100: Run-DMC – ‘It’s Like That’

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P100 – It’s Like That

Artist:          Run-DMC

Song:           It’s Like That

Album:        Run-DMC (1984)

Producer:    Russell Simmons, Larry Smith

Label:          Profile

Year:           1983

Notes:
This one goes back almost to the beginning, and it let people know in no uncertain terms that hip-hop was going to be as much about teaching as jiving. The song catalogs society’s woes, but also exhorts the listener to not give up, to pursue knowledge, and to never feel like they’re alone in the search for meaning. The Lord even gets a shout out, and we a reminder that prince or pauper, black or white, our fate is the same.

Run (Joseph Simmons) is now a reverend. From NPR in 2012: “When I started going to church I started to feel better. Things were starting to look brighter for me. I started to see that learning the principles of God was helping to shape my life better.”

The song was released as a cassette single with ‘Sucker M.C.s’ in 1983 and appeared the next year on the group’s debut album.

Excerpt from ‘Unreality’  —
“It’s not wrapped clean sir. It’s layered, twisted.”

Lyrics
[Run]
Unemployment at a record high
People coming, people going, people born to die
Don’t ask me, because I don’t know why
But it’s like that, and that’s the way it is

[D.M.C.]
People in the world tryin to make ends meet
You try to ride car, train, bus, or feet
I said you got to work hard, you want to compete
It’s like that, and that’s the way it is
Huh!

[Run & D.M.C. alternate lines for the remainder of the song]
Money is the key to end all your woes
Your ups, your downs, your highs and your lows
Won’t you tell me the last time that love bought you clothes?
It’s like that, and that’s the way it is

Bills rise higher every day
We receive much lower pay
I’d rather stay young, go out and play
It’s like that, and that’s the way it is
Huh!

Wars going on across the sea
Street soldiers killing the elderly
Whatever happened to unity?
It’s like that, and that’s the way it is

Disillusion is the word
That’s used by me when I’m not heard
I just go through life with my glasses blurred
It’s like that, and that’s the way it is
Huh!

You can see a lot in this lifespan
Like a bum eating out of a garbage can
You noticed one time he was your man
It’s like that (what?) and that’s the way it is

You should have gone to school, you could’ve learned a trade
But you laid in the bed where the bums have laid
Now all the time you’re crying that you’re underpaid
It’s like that (what?) and that’s the way it is
Huh!

One thing I know is that life is short
So listen up homeboy, give this a thought
The next time someone’s teaching why don’t you get taught?
It’s like that (what?) and that’s the way it is

If you really think about it times aren’t that bad
The one that flexes with successes will make you glad
Stop playing start praying, you won’t be sad
It’s like that (what?) and that’s the way it is
Huh!

When you feel you fail sometimes it hurts
For a meaning in life is why you search
Take the bus or the train, drive to school or the church
It’s like that, and that’s the way it is

Here’s another point in life you should not miss
Do not be a fool who’s prejudiced
Because we’re all written down on the same list
It’s like that (what?) and that’s the way it is
Huh!

You know it’s like that, and that’s the way it is
Because it’s like that, and that’s the way it is

(Repeat these lines til fade)

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‘Protest 100’s mission is two-fold: dispelling the myth that heavy metal is a brainless, socially unaware music genre, and raising awareness of the issues facing our country in the Nov. 3, 2020 election. The path won’t be exclusively metal—some punk and rap and other stuff will be in here too, including the classics—and is not a ranking. All songs are songs I’ve heard while putting this list together, ordered in a manner designed to entertain and educate.