1915 (Live Acoustic at 11th Street Records)

Song 1915 (Live Acoustic at 11th Street Records)
Artist Anti-Flag
Album Live Acoustic at 11th Street Records

Lyrics

[00:16.92] In a letter to every president, congressman, career politician,
[00:22.66] Scrawled in spite across the envelope
[00:25.23] With all of our conviction.
[00:27.94] In only took a few hours for his peers
[00:30.92] To find him guilty in a trial too fair,
[00:33.96] A wobblie, immigrant worker has no place amongst the living.
[00:39.11] "My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce."
[00:45.14] Murdered by the capitalist,
[00:51.09] 1915 be careful of what you wish.
[00:54.00] Who is wrong and who is righteous?
[00:59.38] What was stolen from us we will replace,
[01:02.57] Off with the head on the body we feast,
[01:05.79] Who is wrong and who is righteous,
[01:08.72] Will never be our own decision.
[01:22.67] He yelled fire to the squad with guns, they stopped his heart from beating.
[01:28.55] Every word he wrote, he spoke, he sung, we are still singing:remember pingshan
[01:34.17] "My body if I could choose to ashes it reduce,
[01:39.86] And let the breezes blow my dust to where some flowers grow.
[01:45.62] Perhaps some fading flower then would come to life and bloom again".
[02:14.60] If the workers take a notion,
[02:17.45] They can stop all speeding trains,
[02:20.28] Every ship upon the oceans
[02:23.21] They can tie with mighty chains
[02:26.12] Every wheel in the creation,
[02:28.94] Every mine and every mill.
[02:31.77] Fleets and armies of all nations
[02:34.65] Will at our command stand still.