beat him down with a baseball bat
police retreated the riot scenes in fear of a baseball bat
broken dreams in warsaw, where all the dreams fall down
Demolish the discoteque!
And how many blows to his forearm and neck
till he lay in the schoolyard, bludgeoned to death!
Who remembers the first morning of martial law?
Hey, you should bring that Louisville
Yeah man, I'll know where
Yeah man _ army, hardship in Warsaw
Demolish the discoteque!
And how many blows to his forearm and neck
till he lay in the schoolyard, bludgeoned to death!
The lyrics here are wrong, it's September 13 '81, its about when the Polish government declared Martial Law and arrested all the leaders of the Solidarity Trade Union apart from Lech Walesa. Riots broke out as a result.
lyrical correction: Yeah man ECNOMIC, hardship in Warsaw
this song is great!
what is about? someone inform me please : )
Uhhh you've never heard of Warsaw? It's a town in east germany. The rest should be self-explanitory
warsaw is Polands capital, isnt it?
The date should be December 13, 1981. That's the day when martial law was formally declared in Poland. Solidarity posters from this time period (early 1980's) look like RANCID album art.
Also, I think that line of speech before the song is: "And that is the vision of anarchist..."
The line of speech comes from a debate between Noam Chomsky and a former minister of defence in Holland(I think). The debate was as far as I can remember about Chomskys book Manufacturing Consent. Parts of the debate is presented in the Canadian documentary Manufacturing Consent which deals with Chomskys theory. Rancid probably got it from there.