Silence is golden
Ingnorance bliss
Better off not asking
What you'd rather forget

And as the vice grip choke holds
All of our freedoms are meeting their end
And for the wars they wage
Numberless troops lie wounded or dead

The beatings will continue
Until morale improves

Free your hate
Crusade in the days of rage
Perilous folly
Rise up against your fate
Free your hate
Crusade in the days of rage
Tireless cunning
Stampede and break your chains

Terror at gunpoint
Torture at large
Enemy combatant
Labeled a threat
Without trial or charge

Repetition of history
Messenger, prophet, martyr for god
All for once and for all
Reclaim your power
The tyrant must fall

The beatings will continue
Until morale improves


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Free Your Hate Lyrics as written by Jules Hodgson Andrew Selway

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    General Comment

    this song is about not taking shit and fighting against oppresors and tyrants "rise up against your fate"

    Aussieosborneon February 22, 2012   Link
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    My Interpretation

    A damn good song to focus anger into something useful

    PrinceVon January 20, 2014   Link
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    General Comment

    your right! why hasn't anyone commented this yet. its one of my favorite kmfdm songs besides "ready to blow" actually, it just might be my favorite. great song, great band. enough said.

    worseintention13on September 27, 2006   Link
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    General Comment

    they didnt create that line, its been around for a long long time... its supposed to be ironic, be happy or well beat you until you are. personally i like "Crusade in the days of rage"

    rivenoxon July 08, 2007   Link
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    General Comment

    Seems to be a comment on americas future... fascist nightmare society. I think he's speaking specifically of america because it's almost as if he's speaking to a group of people he's not a part of...

    Noonie!on March 26, 2008   Link
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    General Comment

    The song is about the shitstorm going on in the Middle East. More specifically, it is a pointed criticism of how America and the West have not changed their exploitative mentalities from the Imperial Era.

    inexorableon March 28, 2008   Link

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