LYRICS


BRATS IN BATTALIONS
1987
S.O.S Records

LINEUP:

Tony Montana - Vocals
Rikk Agnew - Guitar
Steve Soto - Bass
Sandy Hanson - Drums
Alfie Agnew - Guitar

Additional Musicians:
Mike McKnight - Guitar
Vince Meghrouni - Harmonica

BRATS IN BATTALIONS | I LOVE YOU | THE LIAR | THINGS START MOVING | DO THE FREDDY | LOSING BATTLE | HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN | PEASANT SONG | SKATE BABYLON | WELCOME TO REALITY | MARCHING WITH THE REICH | I GOT A RIGHT | SHE WOLF

BRATS IN BATTALIONS
Tonight
We fight
Does might
Make right?

Brats in battalions
Brats in battalions

Tonight
We fight
Does might
Make right?

Does might make right in this world friends?
It's justified as a means to an end -
Power mad, can't accept defeat,
Revenge is bitter and the taste is so sweet!

Brats - Brats - Brats in battalions (x4)
Brats in battalions
Brats in battalions

Tonight
We fight
Does might
Make right?

Law of the jungle and acts of aggression
You glorify war, ignore the situation -
Children with toy guns will roam,
Then they grow up and kill at home!

Brats in battalions
Brats in battalions

Tonight
We fight
Does might
Make right?

Does might make right in this world friends?
It's justified as a means to an end -
Power mad, can't accept defeat,
Revenge is bitter and the taste is so sweet!

Brats - Brats - Brats in battalions (x4)
Brats in battalions
Brats in battalions

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I LOVE YOU
Go!

I'm still wondering how I could have said
All the wrong things at the wrong time
And how you managed to keep your head
When I got - way out of line
These feelings of mine should have come sooner
There's no way I can imagine your loss.
I ask myself "How could you do this to her?"
You're the last person I'd ever cross.

CHORUS:
And I hear your anger,
It's too late to take back what's been said.
It won't go away the morning after,
Guilt's a parasite that leaves all dead.
And I break down, yeah I want to die,
I can't because I know there's something more
Alone in the morning I start to cry,
In the end I feel worse than before.

As we sit outside so afraid to see him,
We wonder if he's better off now.
We can't face the pain of the mausoleum,
We can't be strong because we don't know how.
And we know he's right here next - beside us
The feelings in the air are all so tense.
We want so much more, too much ain't enough
Why are we so afraid of his presence?

CHORUS

Mother looks to her husband in the eye,
"Our baby's gone." They start to cry.
If you come back and its just for a day -
There's only three words we all want to say -
I LOVE YOU! (x8)

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THE LIAR
Watch the skies light up Lybia tonight
Last whispers come bleeding from lips
They stole your freedom for military might
Prostituted like the whores of the apocolypse

CHORUS:
Reagen plays the liar - power's his desire, theres nothing for the world we can do!
Reagen plays the lyre - the flames are burning higher, while the world burns down around you!

They say they're telling us the honest truth,
Then they stab us in the back and lie to our face.
They say they're building a new free world,
But it's just the empire of a new master race.
They say "It's not our policy to kill civilians,
But it's to make the world safe for democracy..."
The fact they're still lying while our children are dying
Only stands as proof of man's insanity.

CHORUS

Do you wave the flag, can you support a man
Who'd rather arm the world than give it food.
As the new master twists the nuclear screw,
He laughs as Kiev burns on the six o'clock news.

CHORUS

They say they're telling us the honest truth,
Then they stab us in the back and lie to our face.
They say they're building a new free world,
But it's just the empire of a new master race.
They say "It's not our policy to kill civilians,
But it's to make the world safe for democracy..."
The fact they're still lying while our children are dying
Only stands as proof of man's insanity.

Reagen plays the liar - power's his desire, theres nothing for the world we can do!

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THINGS START MOVING
Things start moving that never did before
The blue and purple dragones have me rolling on the floor
I look the other way and I see a cat-fight
But I don't mind cos I'll be flying for the rest of the night

CHORUS:
Things start moving but tell me what happens
When everything around me starts laughing
Things start moving that never will again
But now I need to know where last night was spent

Things start moving and they never will again
The windowpanes open and close, my head's in a spin
Red and blue flashes from cars black and white
Point guns at the rocket for speeding 85

CHORUS

Things start disappearing and to rearrange
Mickey Mouse with his wizards's wand and another change
Trolley car makes a turn and now we're lost
Foot by foot, another great trip, never want to stop

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DO THE FREDDY
1, 2, Do the Freddy!

Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Hunch your shoulders, bulge your eyes,
Jump around and don't ask why!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!

Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
First you wander, then you linger,
If you get bored, chop off your finger!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!
Do the Freddy!

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LOSING BATTLE
Can't handle this life anymore
Point in the mirror and I ask what for
Just a miserable monster or part
Dangling at ropes' end good start

Crumbling down - into a mess
I've got too many problems - that tell me I'm less
Than the good god - who watches above
Who'll damn you to hell - and then tell you to love

Now suicidal, caught in a trap
Can't get out don't want to fight back
Now the firing squad is set
To give me the bullet to help me forget

Thinking smart but I'm acting dumb
So come on tell me which side has won?
Just one message before my head explodes
You can't win the losing battle but I didn't know!

Now suicidal, caught in a trap
Can't get out don't want to fight back
Now the firing squad is set
To give me the bullet to help me forget

Crumbling down - into a mess
I've got too many problems - that tell me I'm less
Than the good god - who watches above
Who'll damn you to hell - and then tell you to love

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HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
There is a house down in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun,
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl,
And me, oh god I'm one.

My mother was a tailor.
She sewed those new blue jeans.
My lover was a gambling one.
Down in New Orleans.

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk

He fills his glasses up to the brim,
And push those cards around.
The only pleasure he gets out of life
Is rambling from town to town.

Now tell my baby sister,
Not to do what I have done.
But shun that house in New Orleans,
They call the Rising Sun.

Got one foot on the platform
The other foot on that train
I'm going back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain

I'm going back to New Orleans
The aged-old soul have run
I'm going back to end my life,
Down in the Rising Sun.

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun,
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl,
And me, oh god I'm one.

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PEASANT SONG
It's all dementia thirteen tonight,
The will's no good 'cause we're still alive.
Pushing and shoving like there's gonna be a fight,
Going through the motions without the drive.
The girls are purple polka-dotted tarts,
Playing the game with interchangeable parts.
Looking like vamps dressed for the kill,
Sharpen their teeth up just for the thrills.

CHORUS:
Tonight, we sing a peasant song tonight.
Tonight, we sing a peasant song all right.

Yeah I see my dolly she's only five foot two,
You know she'd use her stockings to strangle you.
Ripping up the town she's a trashy bag lady,
She can play it cool - yeah! She can play it shady.
Leaving a trail of death behind,
She never returns to the scene of the crime.
The vamps say they're gonna do the peasants wrong,
The widows in the field of the peasant song.

CHORUS

We scream for revolution but noting will change -
We're left unfulfilled wasitng for the reign -
In the field we've plowed for generations passed -
We are the revoultion, we are the mass.
In a hopeless situation of world's insanity -
The millions dead because of man's vanity -
Just look into our eyes you'll see our raging fire -
Can only be quenched by our freedom's desire!

CHORUS (x2)

It's all dementia thirteen tonight,
The will's no good 'cause we're still alive.
Pushing and shoving like there's gonna be a fight,
Going through the motions without the drive.
The girls are purple polka-dotted tarts,
Playing the game with interchangeable parts.
Looking like vamps dressed for the kill,
Sharpen their claws for the kill.

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SKATE BABYLON
Riding in the street - these streets are mine!
Fooled by corruption for the last time.
Riding in the street - these streets are mine!
Never again led by the blind

Skating Babylon
Skating Babylon
Skating Babylon
Skating Babylon

When I feel - there's no way out,
I grab my board and I head out -
And Skate Babylon!
And Skate Babylon!
And Skate Babylon!
And Skate Babylon!

Riding in the street - these streets are mine!
Fooled by corruption for the last time.
Riding in the street - these streets are mine!
Never again led by the blind

Skating Babylon
Skating Babylon
Skating Babylon
Skating Babylon


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WELCOME TO REALITY
Blood so deep the horse must hold his head up high
In the valley of decision where a third of the world will die
Beat your hoes and plows into axes and spears
As the armies meet in a battle they've predicted for years

CHORUS:
Let the weak say I'm a warrior - Bring down the warriors
Let the faithless regain faith - Your faith is hopeless

The prophets and psychics and the military agree,
Continual crisis leads us straight to World War III.
Roll out the red carpet let the angel of death ride in,
To the valley of decision let the mayhem begin!

CHORUS

Apocalyptic madness - Two-thirds of the world in sadness.
The other third is gone - insanity lingers on!
Crumbled cities in an aftermath of hate
No way to stop it 'cause now it's too late

The Anti-Christ his mission done
The dead are the only lucky ones

Are you ready? The picture's painted
For the valley the scene is set
Of decision - Make your decision
For the valley it's too late

Welcome - Welcome to reality
Welcome - Welcome to reality
Welcome - Welcome to reality
Make your decision 'cause you've got no choice!

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MARCHING WITH THE REICH
Stormtroopers outside every window -
The night of the long knives.
Jumping the Berlin Wall from windows -
One hundred feet in the sky.
A people split to appease the world -
That dare to question why.
A charismatic leader could blind a nation,
After the humiliation at Versailles

CHORUS:
Dreaming by day into the night
Of marching, marching with the Reich
'Til the day the wrongs done are put right
We're marching, marching with the Reich

Attitiudes and outlooks are changing
And nobody wonders why.
Passive resistance was too late for safety
And millions had to die.
Unconditional surrender and the glory again gone
Of a unified state - proud and free.
Keep the Fatherland divided, pretend nothing's wrong
Is this the end of Germany?

CHORUS

With the Reich! (x7)

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I GOT A RIGHT
Anytime I want I got a right to move -
No matter what they say!
Anytime I want I got a right to move -
No matter what they say!

Honey, I got a right, a right to move
Anytime I want - Yeah any old time!
Honey, I got a right, a right to move
Anytime I want.

Anytime I want I got a right to sing -
No matter what they say!
Anytime I want I got a right to sing -
No matter what they say!

I got a right, a right to sing
Anyway I want - Yeah any old way!
Honey, I got a right, a right to sing
Anyway I want.

Anytime I want I got a right to sing -
No matter what they say!
Anytime I want I got a right to sing -
No matter what they say!

Honey, I got a right, a right to sing
Anyway I want - Yeah any old way!
Honey, I got a right, a right to sing
Anyway I want.

I say "Hey, alright!" (x3)
I got a right! (x5)

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SHE WOLF
She Wolf - You can tell, by the way she moves
She Wolf - You can tell, she dont't play games to lose
She Wolf - She eats men, who can't pass her by
She Wolf - She's on the prowl, another's gonna die

DIE!

She's the blonde queen of the silver screen -
Smashing the weak of the single's scene.
Is she the hawk, the hunter or the hunted?
Will she cut them down from the hangin tree?
Dressed to kill in black and red -
Wanders late at night she wants to be fed.
Men can't resist her, they haven't got the will,
She Wolf moves in for the kill.

She Wolf grabs her men by the throats and yells
"This is what i need!"
She Wolf rips their heads off shrieking
"Open up and bleed!"

Take the strange case of the missing husband
Of the widow at the end of the street:
Friday night he went to the pub with his buddies
To have a couple of drinks.
As his eyes started to wander,
She Wolf spun her web.
As harmless as a spider,
She offered him her bed.

She Wolf grabbed him by the throat and yelled
"This is what i need!"
She Wolf ripped his head off shrieking
"Open up and bleed!"

Mother's life was stolen
By the wicked hands of man.
Unholy maggot on her soul to the end
In death she made her last stand:
"I was raped of love of life -
Man took from women ALL.
No more subservient wife,
No longer do I bid your call.
As a blood oath then,
I offer you my girl.
NEVER AGAIN WILL WOMAN BE
NIGGER OF THE WORLD!"

She Wolf grabs them by the throats and yells
"This is what i need!"
She Wolf rips their heads off screaming
"Open up and bleed!"

She Wolf - You can tell, by the way she moves
She Wolf - You can tell, she dont't play games to lose
She Wolf - She eats men, who can't pass her by
She Wolf - She's on the prowl, another's gonna die

She Wolf!
She Wolf!
She Wolf!
She Wolf!

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