Lyrics from White Rose's First Album, War Machine
CLEAN
When will I ever be clean enough?
I wash with bleach ‘til my skin comes off
Punish myself every single day
Purge my mind for purity
I’m unclean!
I can’t move if you won’t let me
I hide myself when you look in
Keeping guard watch for my crime
Keeping track while I do time
I’m unclean!
It’s always the same thing when you need someone to blame
EXPOSED
Silence of the willing wastes away
Sinking in the abyss as we lose our humanity
Our flesh is stripped –sliced from the bone
(And) this is who we really are
Who is good and who is evil if they both act the same?
Death is brought through religion, with a different name
Carry the guilt and the weight of the world
We lose ourselves in the quest for greed
My mind, my heart –nothing connects
This is who we really are
ARMCHAIR GENERAL
War, without a shot
You’ve never fired a shot!
Advisors say what’s going on
Then you drop the bombs
Armchair General, push a button take a life
Armchair General, your reign of terror won’t survive
Armchair General, liberation is what you need
Armchair General, liberation from your greed
Then you say it’s “liberation”
Your excuse to kill a nation
Liberation is what we want
Liberation from your greed
IN CONTROL
We are the weapons, we are the guns, (and) we are all the revolution
Your are the fuel, I watch it burn, we are all the revolution
We are the shadows behind your back; we are the pain found in your neck!
(But) everyday another freedom gets taken away
You are the disease, we are the cure, (and) we are all the revolution
You sell us lies, we own the truth, (and) are all the revolution
We are the rocks thrown through your window we are all the revolution
We are, we are in control!
If our freedom is “given,” then it can be taken away!
WHO WOULD JESUS BOMB?
Flag of deceit hides corporate greed
How many die until we all become free?
A heinous crime teaching people not to question
How long will it be until we all learn our lesson?
We are sick of all the scandals and the buck is gonna stop with you!
(Criminal Criminal, You should be on TRIAL!)
Maybe it’s you, maybe it’s me and all the good people say
Who would Jesus Bomb?
Amplified fear goes round and round
You preach it from the pulpit ‘til we are all in the ground
You preach hate for hate so you’re all the same
And you say it with a straight face that it is all in God’s name
LEST WE FORGET
There is hope in the heart of darkness
Forgotten graves, stunning logic
Voices from beyond
Ignored for too long
Is the key to the door of the future we long
It seems the end is close at hand
The reaper takes his final stand
Remember lessons from the past
Lest we forget, lest we forget!
A new hope on the dawn of destruction
Atomic options, bomb-destruction
War for all, what’s the call?
If we don’t learn from the past
There will be no future at all
RESIST DESPAIR
I will resist despair
I will not be broken down
I will not be reduced to dust
I will not be broken down!
I am not “nothing” at all
(But) I am everything you fear
I am not who you say I am
I am more than all of this
I will not be who you say I am
And I will always resist!
I am not “nothing” at all!
I will stand up and be counted
A voice against the howling winds
I am what is in between
And I will not be left behind!
SEEDS OF DESTRUCTION
Black market freedom
Hidden in the gutter
Shadows of illusion
Terror and oppression
In the valley of fear
The sky bleeds red
And the trigger grows cold in the executioner’s hand
Who owns the food
While the people are starving?
Who owns your soul
To justify your greed?
Black market gold
Shines in delusion
Executioner’s grip
And the mask begins to fall
WHITE ROSE
Blindfold suddenly more than the eye
Bound hand and foot we ignored the signs
Backs were turned now history repeats
The cycle of violence and the life it depletes
Open your eyes (I can’t see with my eyes shut!)
Front seat demise (the lies you sell are the lies that kill!)
Taking of lives (when are you going to realize?)
Wake up!
Rise Up!
NO FLAGS, NO MASTERS
No flags, no masters what are we fighting for? HEY!
No flags, no masters what are we dying for? HEY!
No flags, no masters what are we killing for? HEY!
No flags, no masters, what are we fighting for? HEY!
Colors of hate- Destroy
God is not a flag –Unite
Religion of hate –Destroy
Self Righteous Faith!
GUILTY
Guilty, we’re all guilty you got blood on your hands
Playing “punk” to the man!
Guilty, clever but guilty
Spreading hatred and fear without shedding a tear
Gonna rise up, gonna tear it down (tear it down tear it down!)
Heard enough crap from the powers that be
(War Machine! War Machine!)