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Cry Later

by The Ancient Gods

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Oskar In-your-face anarcho pop punk! Love seeing them live. Favorite track: It's Gotta Start With Us.
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1.
Laugh Now.. 01:46
what's your plan for when the shit hits the fan, for when you can't find a plane or a boat to get off of this land? will you swim or throw your back against the wall up in Maine, I'm just saying, they're coming after anyone with a brain. if you think for yourself about distribution of wealth or how this country's going under you'll end up in their cells, surrounded by men with guns, just focus on one, take a look in his eyes, see just what he's become. no longer like you, now he's more of a tool then a person, for the elite to divide and rule. i don't care who he was or who he used to be, he's no longer a person now just my enemy. when i say fuck the police i mean FUCK THE POLICE, no sympathy when we see them dead in the streets. we'll all be taking a side, we'll all be making a choice, some have made theirs already, some are using our voice to condemn all of them who pretend that everything will be fine but when your middle class suburbia ends, what will you do and to who or with who? what would you do to make sure that you and yours make it through these hard times? could this be the end times? it's revolution and apocalypse at the same time and i'm not sure which i'm fighting for, if crashing the gate fails we'll crash the back door. we've got to act more, all we do now's react poor, like greece the visions of the future let's attack more, the institutions we hate, we can create a new fate, fuck the state, let's work together and watch their control.. let's work together and watch their control.. let's work together and watch their control disintegrate! control will disintegrate! control will disintegrate! control will disintegrate! control will disintegrate!
2.
i get fed up with life once in awhile and i need to quit my job just to remember i'm alive. if you want to stand and want to smile, you are alive you are alive you are alive. and i remember when we were young and we said we'd always care, they said we're just naive, look at their shoes look at their hair. now it's ten years down the road and twenty six years old, who would've known that we'd live so bold.. i know some folks who live in trees and others who wear business suits, both talk about living free. if you had the chance to be free, how can you decide that's not for me? but now we look around and wonder where all of our old friends have gone, they've moved on to careers and families. they're looking down on us for doing the same thing as when we were eighteen, like it never meant anything to them but it meant something to me. you want to laugh and say they act like they're eighteen. we act eighteen like we're still living out our dreams. in our communities we don't care what you say, do you remember that we were once the same? but it seems like some of us forgot what those feelings were about. there's a fine line between growing up and selling out. we can live more if we buy less, let's all live more let's all buy less. live more buy less. and now we look around and wonder where all of our old friends have gone, they've moved on to careers and families. they're looking down on us for doing the same thing as when we were eighteen, like it never meant anything to them but it meant something to me. yea it meant something to me. and it meant something to me. it still means something to me.
3.
if we can't change ourselves, how will we ever change the world if blue is for boys and pink is for girls? it starts with everyday, they control everything we say, some people do drugs some people pray to try to escape this pain that we call life, then we run into the night but if you need to fight to feel alive it's gotta start with us. it's gotta start with uh uh us. it's gotta start with us. woah oh oh. it's gotta start with us. it's gotta start with uh uh us. it's gotta start with us. woah oh oh. and we do it to ourselves. we might as well be living in shells. the people who created wealth, they're the same people that we get our ideas from. stolen land and stolen lives, I understand there's no compromise but let's remember who our enemies are and stop focusing on just fighting the symptoms. everyday when we lie, all we do is hurt the people we love, if you need to fight to feel alive it's gotta start with us. it's gotta start with uh uh us. it's gotta start with us. woah oh oh. it's gotta start with us. it's gotta start with uh uh us. it's gotta start with us. woah oh oh. why are people ignoring the voices we're raising? why do people still identify with their nation? why do we perpetuate, instead of erasing, their bullshit concepts when we can build something amazing? (2x) it's gotta start with us. it's gotta start with uh uh us. it's gotta start with us. woah oh oh. it's gotta start with us. it's gotta start with uh uh us. it's gotta start with us. woah oh oh.
4.
Only A Dream 02:12
you taught me so much you taught me to live you taught me to love and you taught me to give you taught me to think and you taught me to breathe you taught me to leave behind what i didn't need i didn't see it back then but now i know what you mean and i barely fit in to the radical scene because i say what i think and i think what i feel i won't always tell people what they want to hear i'll be sincere, because of you i got over the fear that appears when you always disagree with your peers it's weird, it took years it took tears and sometimes i still miss you til this day i can't believe things had to end that way and now i can't trust and i can't get close i won't let people within arms distance at most comatose, i feel like we were so close to where we wanted to be, where we wanted to go we both tried to pretend that it wasn't the end in the end it didn't matter everything was a ghost tell me what does it mean when you realize your dream was only a dream it was only a dream when you used to believe in love and fight everything tell me what does it mean when you no longer believe tell me what does it mean when you realize your dream was only a dream it was only a dream when all you got is a scene and not a community and all the work you put in has come apart at the seems.
5.
we came up together in this shit from punk rock shows to throwing bricks i wouldn't be me if it wasn't for you and thats a hard thing to admit in the good times in the bad times i had your back and you had mine remember the time.. the first time we charged a police line the pepper spray in our face would foreshadow things to come in the next couple of years when you were young what made you quit before we could start what made you let them tear us apart where was your heeeart when you closed your eyes you closed your heart when you closed your heart you took a peice of mine i'll never get it back thats fine it won't heal this tiiiime i wouldn't want it to i'm gonna let it remind me of what i'm never gonna do and it makes me sick all the things that we through together because you always knew it wasn't true it was just something to do just something to do now you're.. in a city that everybody leaves its hard to organize in the belly of the beast it might be easier in new york or oakland i'm sick of houston kids that keep moving to austin of course then it's like we lost them she moved to chicago he moved to portland so many lost friends its becoming a joke everyone goes where its easy instead of where its needed the most where its easy, not where its needed where its easy, not where its needed where its easy is not where its needed the most so meet me in texas meet me in texas meet me in texas and lets fight where we stand
6.
we can't be silenced we can't be bought we don't believe a word that we were taught even if they burned our infoshops to the ground we're still here we're driving buses, we're pushing brooms we might have even changed your oil too we're doctors and we're lawyers and we're teaching your children we're still here it wouldn't be enough for them to see us fail they wanna see us all dead or in jail and we will no longer exist if we let them prevail to all you punks with circle A patches on your clothes elitest cliques are not how communities grow even if you stop acting like stupid bros it's not enough to book shows we've gotta fight and we've gotta create we've gotta build the world we want destroy the things that we hate we gotta keep in mind that its never too late as long as we're still here i thought the anarchists all died in '36 in spain that became this thing that everybody was saying this was in new york back in ninety eight now all the fashion punx i know wear studded vests and the studs are always cones pyramids are so five years ago and i'm not even gonna pretend that im ok with how they treat women and their friends or acceptance based on how well you follow a trend they're on the run yea they're runnin scared they try to deny it but ask them why the g8 wasn't in chicago they're on the run yea they're runnin scared (i mumble something about trying to hide it?) we're gonna do this for our whole lives we're never ever gonna run and hide when the time comes we'll up the fight it and if they catch us we'll swallow tabs of cyanide i live my life on my own terms i'm gonna die on my own terms i'm gonna fight until it all buuuuuuuurns until it burns until it burns until it burns unti it all buuuuuuurns

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released April 21, 2013

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Anarcho pop-punk from the gulf coast.

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