Lyrics

You can’t shape me, I was never your clay 
I wasn’t born and raised to be a son of a gun 
My father was no coward to war 
He couldn’t live with killing someones kids 
I’m a traitor to any government 
That visits death on the poor with my taxes paid 
I see through a national flag on the skin 
That covers up the sins of the emperor 

I never swore allegiance and for the record 
I’ve got a shaky romance with peace but I’m not looking away 

I’m facing you 
Your danger clear 
I won’t fear your fears 
I’m not afraid to face the consequences of facing you 
I’ll be watching all you do, I’m a witness, we are legion, fear our name 

I saw a father on a videotape covering his kids from a wild apache 
And that family never did me wrong 
Except come from the east and speak a foreign tongue 
Their minivan filled with bullets and youth 
And they riddle collateral damage 
You sell freedom by instilling fear 
And I’m not buying your corporate wars anymore 

I’m a danger to your interests 
I won’t shut up or ever look away


released 12 August 2013 
Producer: JJJ Sielcken 
Sound Engineer: Bjorn Warning 
Mixed and Mastered by JJJ Sielcken at Het Kantoor 
Recorded at Warning Studios, Amsterdam

Witness

Since ‘74

leaving all for the wilderness
they heard a voice, packed their bags, started up from the ground
working hard to pay the hours he flew
they’d be like the Psalms going up going down 
smuggling hope through the iron curtain 
by camper, holidays would never be the same
they could have taken the easy way
but the yearning’s in the blood on the doors frame

fools, you ain’t no fools
sticking together since '74

a thousand deaths in Colombian skies
bad weather, guerillero’s while she prayed back home
she kicked down doors at the border
saving him from fiends, yeah I bet they still know 
raising five babies, fivefold worries
now settling down and they’re doing just fine
they could have taken the money instead of breathing the spirit
now they got no pension but can look back in pride

you bargained and got so much more
all the good times you’re wanted for 
and your wounds and grins are proof
of your wedding day words coming true

fools, you ain’t no fools
sticking together since '74

you bargained and got so much more
all the good times you’re wanted for since '74

COPPERSKY