DESCRIPTION:
Strike Anywhere - Sedition of the album Dead FM ( Released 2006 - Fat Wreck Chords )

Lyrics:

Which lie is the one
that will take me
and which war
Generations of wage slave data
family stories they said don't matter
when the last breath burns
in the throats of Bhopal
will I feel the blade
when they bury them all
Hiding from us
all this time
ghosts flickering
and out
of my mind

Dead End Streets
We walk by
No Retreat
Staring at the sun
Dead End Streets
the blast shadows
are waiting for an answer
all this time

I'll give them mine

If I could
walk in my grandfather's footsteps
while they glowed in the dark
on his way back from the yard
where the train was parked
I'd say
Don't turn your back
Don't you trust those bastards

I wish I could say this now

Don't Walk By
No retreat
Staring at the sun
Dead End Streets
the blast shadows
are waiting for an answer
All this time
I'll give them mine

Into our history
Not even a letter
to fake a smile
to say 'I'm sorry'

Our trust in this system's dead

what will it take
to make you sorry?

Hiroshima started in Tennessee
Let it end with me
Let it end

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Q : The song Sedition is based off of your grandfather's unknowing role in the Manhattan Project. Could you elaborate on this for us?

Yes. My father's father was a Union steamfitter who was given work with a couple thousand other men in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1942 . After my father's birth with life-threatening birth defects, and other intuitive information that made my grandfather privately question his participation in the piecemeal fabrication of this secret , epic project - he left for Virginia , leaving behind the Uranium fission reactor that he and his colleagues unknowingly helped build. Once Hiroshima was announced, I believe his fears were confirmed, but I wish he had lived long enough for me to ask him more questions about those times. Perhaps his sharing of these family secrets could have been unburdened him a little. He died of bone cancer when I was nine. I think that my Grandfather quietly felt betrayed and exploited by this participation in the Manhattan Project. I also know that he loved his country and he wanted to to believe that he and the other workers involved were doing the right thing. In his life after leaving the Tennessee Valley, he drifted around, leaving jobs, and often moving the family from town to town without visible explanation. This restlessness and distrust of communities , while contributing to my father's family's poverty, also showed the psychological fallout of the Nuclear Age in the men who wanted to believe that they had no other choices. After my Grandpa's death , and slowly over the past 25 years, my family has examined, then abandoned the American working class preoccupation with emotional patriotism and self-deception. My father's , his sibling's and other folks from this class and generation , have moved, incredibly, to the Left , despite all American media representations to the contrary. This gives me the hope that the men and women who survived the ' Greatest Generation ' may not have wanted the U.S. to become the servant of corporate wealth, the bloody empire its become.