The Black Flag

from Riot Folk EP by Fight The Microphone

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lyrics

No news is good news
(And I can't take it no more)
Every day, ten thousand more issues
And we're off waging new wars

(Chorus)
I want to see our ship on the horizon
The Black Flag raised at half mast
As we all bid farewell together
To the bloody mess we left in the past

If we're forced to stay and fight
But can't ask any questions
And there's no hope to survive
Put flowers in their guns!

Chorus

"I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. No good to nobody. Because you are to old, too young, too fat, too slim, too ugly, or too this or too that. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air, and my last drop of blood. I decided a long time ago that I'd starve to death before I'd sing any such songs as that. The radiowaves on your jukeboxes are already loaded down with such no good songs as that anyhow." -Woody Guthrie

Chorus

We're free and we'll never look back.

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from Riot Folk EP, track released December 29, 2013

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Fight The Microphone Cleveland, Ohio

Anarcho Folk Punk Band from Cleveland, OH. Using instruments such as guitar, mandolin, banjo, bass, drums, washboard, djembe, harmonica, trumpet, kazoo, pennywhistle, chimes, bells, various percussion, and tambourine. Heavily influenced from the forerunners of the genre: Mischief Brew, Blackbird Raum, Johnny Hobo, Frank Turner, Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Ghost Mice. ... more

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