I got a girlfriend
Only she don't know it yet
I got a six string best friend
Who sleeps with a broken neck
I want to make my mark
Change the world, with this flow
But, all this doubt in my head
It won't let me go

Can't you see I want to lock my door and shut out all the world surrounding me
Safe from the problems and the pressures caused by insecurities

Get up! Get up!
Let the good times roll!
Get up! Get up!
Take my heart and my soul!
Get up! Get up!
Let the good times roll
On and on and on

Feel like everyone else just needs to see through different eyes
From the outside looking in we shout the anthem of our lives
Come on and let me go
And just like everyone else
I feel the pain each time I try
But I'll fight the bitter end
To shout the anthem
The anthem of our lives

I got a heartache
She's my insecurity
I got all these on my tongue but they escape me
I want to breakout, carpe diem,
I know, but all this doubt in my head It won't let me go

Can't you see I want to find my own direction on this busy one-way street
Where all the influential people never bother helping me

Get up! Get up!
Let the good times roll
Get up! Get up!
Take my heart and my soul!
Get up! Get up!
Let the good times roll
One and on and on

Feel like everyone else just needs to see through different eyes
From the outside looking in we shout the anthem of our lives
Come on and let me go
And just like everyone else
I feel the pain each time I try
But I'll fight the bitter end
To shout the anthem
The anthem of our lives

This is the anthem
Out to all the misfits
If you feel you don't belong
If you don't give a shit
About authority
About majority
About conformity
Shout it out
Let us go!
Let us go!
Let us go!
Let us go!
Let us go!
Let us go!
Let us go!

Everyone else just needs to see through different eyes
From the outside looking in
We shout the anthem of our lives
Just like everyone else
I feel the pain each time I try
But I'll fight the bitter end
To shout the anthem
The anthem of our lives

Feel like everyone else just needs to see through different eyes
From the outside looking in
We shout the anthem of our lives
Just like everyone else
I feel the pain each time I try
But I'll fight the bitter end
To shout the anthem
The anthem of our lives


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Anthem Lyrics as written by Andrew Bradford Daniel Lewis

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    OMG how amazing are these... i saw them at Middlesbrough Music Live yesterday, they were on last... and they totally rocked... their new single ANTHEM was absolutely unbelievable. Loved it!

    jonmitchon June 19, 2006   Link
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    amazin song + video 80)

    Punk_Monkeyon July 27, 2006   Link
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    i heard this song like ages ago way before they did the video, and i like always thought they should relise it, cause everyone would love it... and they did, wich is good cause this is blates an amazing song

    proper love it

    soundtrack to my summer =]

    Takemetoneverlandon July 30, 2006   Link
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    This is fucking awesome live, bloody fucking amazing!!!

    GwillaWillaon September 30, 2006   Link
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    dude, i love this song! its that thing to it, that magical feel. kind of like green day's Good Riddance, it's got some kind of sentimental value. i can see me and my friends totally covering this some day...its simply amazing

    MJatthediscoon October 02, 2006   Link
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    This song is going to be HUGE.

    Sarah_182on October 20, 2006   Link
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    This song is going to be HUGE.

    Sarah_182on October 20, 2006   Link
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    This songs about no fitting in with everyone because of how you look/ what you believe? ect, and most likely getting picked on for it ("Feels like everybody else Just needs to see through different eyes") then finding out your not the only one going throught this.

    "Well can't you see i want to lock my door and shut out all the world surrounding me, Safe from all the problems and the pressures caused by my insecurities" i feel like that alot. "Out to all the misfits, If you feel you don't belong, If you don't give a shit, About authority, About majority, About conformity" yeah, sounds like me 80)

    The song rocks, more people should comment!

    Punk_Monkeyon October 28, 2006   Link
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    Amazing, one of the bests I've ever heard, they really ROCK

    dodek_gifenon January 06, 2007   Link
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    bold comment coming from someone with a band that sounds like shit, guess we'll just take that as a complimenta

    bttw is utter crap though .. compared to their previous albums that is... still good

    invaderon April 01, 2007   Link

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