Cities Burn Lyrics

Lyric discussion by BradleyThreat 

Cover art for Cities Burn lyrics by Anti-Flag

to me this song depicts the catastrophes that could occur if the public remains ignorant and/or apathetic to the governments war-mongoring and suppression of foreign peoples. occupation of other countries does not bring democracy, and it also does not make western society any safer from acts of terrorism. it infact, does the complete opposite. terrorists attacks in cities such as madrid and london since the start of the U.S occupation in iraq prove that it is not making any thing safer at home or abroad, it is infact making things more unstable

the second paragraph depicts the suppression of leftist-ideas such as peace, liberty and equality in the mainstream media

don't you understand, calling think leftist or rightist, liberal or conservative is dangerous, calling things common sense human emotion is the right way to go, war is nothing but a way to control a foreign people, and prove to your people that you are still the top dog. nothing more than a caveman throw back, proving we are better, breed with us. and all the war on terrorism has done has undermined other countries stability, while temperaraly steadied our own. we should be fighting all fundementalism, not muslim, not religous, all fundementalism. and also we shouldn't fight with bullets...