1915

Song 1915
Artist Anti-Flag
Album The General Strike

Lyrics

[00:20.53] In a letter to every president, congressman, career politician,
[00:25.40] Scrawled in spite across the envelope
[00:27.65] With all of our conviction.
[00:30.09] In only took a few hours for his peers
[00:32.65] To find him guilty in a trail too fair,
[00:35.19] A wobblie, immigrant worker has no place among the living.
[00:40.16] My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce.
[00:48.23] Murdered by the capitalist,
[00:50.23] November 1915 be careful of what you wish.
[00:53.17] Who is wrong and who is righteous?
[00:54.73]
[00:57.74] What was stolen from us we will replace,
[01:00.43] Off with the head on the body we feast,
[01:02.99] Who is wrong and who is righteous,
[01:05.31] Will never be our own decision.
[01:19.62]
[01:28.31] He yelled fire to the squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating.
[01:33.02] Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing:
[01:38.04] “My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce,
[01:42.84] And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow.
[01:47.59] Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again.
[01:52.71]
[02:27.60] If the workers take a notion,
[02:30.35] They can stop all speeding trains,
[02:33.35] Every ship upon the ocean.
[02:36.15] They can tie with mighty chains
[02:39.08] Every wheel in the creation,
[02:41.87] Every mine and every mill.
[02:44.79] Fleets and armies of all nations
[02:47.29] Will at our command stand still.

Pinyin

[00:20.53] In a letter to every president, congressman, career politician,
[00:25.40] Scrawled in spite across the envelope
[00:27.65] With all of our conviction.
[00:30.09] In only took a few hours for his peers
[00:32.65] To find him guilty in a trail too fair,
[00:35.19] A wobblie, immigrant worker has no place among the living.
[00:40.16] My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce.
[00:48.23] Murdered by the capitalist,
[00:50.23] November 1915 be careful of what you wish.
[00:53.17] Who is wrong and who is righteous?
[00:54.73]
[00:57.74] What was stolen from us we will replace,
[01:00.43] Off with the head on the body we feast,
[01:02.99] Who is wrong and who is righteous,
[01:05.31] Will never be our own decision.
[01:19.62]
[01:28.31] He yelled fire to the squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating.
[01:33.02] Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing:
[01:38.04] " My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce,
[01:42.84] And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow.
[01:47.59] Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again.
[01:52.71]
[02:27.60] If the workers take a notion,
[02:30.35] They can stop all speeding trains,
[02:33.35] Every ship upon the ocean.
[02:36.15] They can tie with mighty chains
[02:39.08] Every wheel in the creation,
[02:41.87] Every mine and every mill.
[02:44.79] Fleets and armies of all nations
[02:47.29] Will at our command stand still.