Struggling in the streets just trying to survive
Searching for the truth is just keeping 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 staring 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 turning 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 trying to keep you... from doing the right
There's always gonna be somebody coming no matter where you go
So now you know why we gotta know

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 getting 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 you 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 getting 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 you 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!

I tried to stop myself
Told you those games ain't good for yourself
Gave you advice 'cause I thought you could hear
Better listen closely 'cause your end is near

Won't show you no mercy at all
Gonna kick you, kick you when you're taking your fall
Won't show you no mercy today
Gonna hit you, hit you when you're moving on your way

Put you in check 'cause 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!

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 talking to a wall
'Cause you ain't making any sense at all

I'm walking and I'm talking
And I'm trying and I'm lying
But I just ain't getting through to you!
I'm walking and I'm talking
And I'm trying and I'm lying
But I just ain't getting through to you!

Am I just wasting, just wasting all my precious time
'Cause I ain't wasting 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 afraid 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 talking to a wall
'Cause you ain't making any sense at all

I'm walking and I'm talking
And I'm trying and I'm lying
But I just ain't getting through to you!
I'm walking and I'm talking
And I'm trying and I'm lying
But I just ain't getting through to you!

It's a malfunction...!

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!!!

Living 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!

Living in burnt out buildings
Living in the streets
It's the life of the cro-mags
Survival of the streets
Never know what's coming up ahead
If the beast pulls the trigger could wind up dead!

Wasting my time serving 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

Searching and searching 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 talking 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.

Why you messing around with me
Pushing 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.

Hard times are coming 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 being forced into a mold
Hard times! Hard times!
Forcing me and I'm growing 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 being forced into a mold
Hard times! Hard times!
Forcing me and I'm growing cold

Cromag!
Skinhead!
Breakout!
Now!

Fighting 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 talking,
I'm talking 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.

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
Someone 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
Someone 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]

You'd better face those facts
It's the blind leading the blind
And there ain't no turning back
There's a rhythm to this madness
And I think it's getting 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

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 asking 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

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

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 looking 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 progression
Just seems to me like some steady regression
I'm looking on and watching 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