Album: "Νation" by Sepultura ( 2001)

One Man Army

Your Green Is For Money
My Green Is For Land
Shut Off My Eyes
Clog Up My Ears
Cut Off My Tongue
You'll Still Hear Me Coming

My Blood Is Thicker
My Pain Will Rise
Boycott My Ideas
Fueled With The Hate I Feel
Infiltrated With The Lies
That You're Feeding Me

One Man Army

Our Strength's Your Weakness
Our Truth's Your Lies
Shut Off My Eyes
Clog Up My Ears
Cut Off My Tongue
You'll Still Hear Me Coming

Surrounded By Mistrust
Trapped In Your Mind
All You Hear Is - What You Fear And
All You Fear Is - What You Don't Know
All You Know Is - What You See
And What You See Won't Last Forever

One Man Army

Our Truth Will Echo And Echo Forever
Tormenting You Forever And Ever

You'll Still Hear Me Coming Through To You

Boycott My Ideas
Fueled With The Hate I Feel
Infiltrated With The Lies
That You're Feeding Me

One Man And I'm Coming For You


A song that refers generally in the hidden power of the masses through unity. The first two verses that we have chosen as our blog favourite motto (see the right column) leads us to interprete the song as a threat of mass awake of repressed or displaced indigenous people in rainforests. But it could be a motto for general used by eco-activists when in unity they face or confront politics and policies based on greed that destroy environment and life quality.


Sepulnation

A Nation Built On Sweat
A Nation Built On Blood
A Nation Built On Dreams

Before The Tongues Are Mute
Before They Hide The Truth
We'll Be The Ones Who Speak

A Nation - A Nation
A Struggle - A Struggle
A Weapon - A Weapon
Our Music!!!
One Mantra - One Mantra
One Prayer- One Prayer
One Belief - One Belief
All Gods!!!

We See Without Our Eyes
We Walk Without A Path
We Fight With Unity

Search For A Better Way
Change What's Been Done Before
Make Our Own History

Rise Up, Rise Up
Resistance Won't Be Stopped
Rise Up, Rise Up
Sepulnation

Rise, Rise
Corruption Undisguised
Rise, Rise
Sepulnation

Confronting With Our Minds
Destroying All The Lies
Unmasked By Purity

Burning The Eyes Of Greed
No Fear, No Disbelief
Our Faith Is Your Misery

A Nation - A Nation
A Struggle - A Struggle
A Weapon - A Weapon
Our Music!!!
One Mantra - One Mantra
One Prayer- One Prayer
One Belief - One Belief
All Gods!!!

Rise Up, Rise Up
Resistance Won't Be Stopped
Rise Up, Rise Up
Sepulnation

Rise, Rise
Corruption Undisguised
Rise, Rise
Sepulnation

One Nation Above All
Founded On Our Faith



Border Wars

Where Am I To Go? What Do I Have To Do?
Borders All Around Me, There's No Chance For
A Choice
Born In This World In A War Stricken Land
I Will Do What I Have To Do And Go Where I Can

The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Imaginary Lines Of Corruption And Greed
The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Overpopulation Isn't Just An Excuse

Searching For A Place Where I Can Have My Own
Rights
Everywhere Around Me There's Death In The Air
I Wanna Find A Way To Make A Change In My Life
I Will Do What I Have To Do And Fight Till The
End

The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Imaginary Lines That Won't Allow Us To Live
The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Denying All The Rules And All Their Abuse

No, No - It Won't Be This Way
No, No - Can't Be Their Way
Pride, Pride - They Won't Blur Our Pride
I, I - Must Stay Alive

Looking For The Ground To Build A Home That Is
Safe
They Make The Planet Small And They Have No
Control
Everywhere You Go They Have An Eye On Your
Steps
I Will Run Where I Have To Run And Hide Where I
Can

The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Exploring Different Fields So We Grow In Our
Hearts
The Walls That We Build We Are Taking Them
Down
Exploiting All The Lies To Defend Our Own Kind

No, No - It Won't Be This Way
No, No - Can't Be Their Way
Pride, Pride - They Won't Blur Our Pride
I, I - Must Stay Alive

Border Wars

One More Crime
Crossing Lines
Trapped Inside
State Of Mind
Never Blind
Fate Untied

No, No - It Won't Be This Way
No, No - Can't Be Their Way
Pride, Pride - They Won't Blur Our Pride
I, I - Must Stay Alive

Border Wars

One More Crime
Crossing Lines
Trapped Inside
State Of Mind
Never Blind
Fate Untied



Who Must Die?

Who Decides Who Lives In This World?
Who Decides Who Dies In This World?
More Efficient Ways Of Execution
This Is Not A Type Of Resolution
Who Dares To Throw The First Rock?
Who Believes In Justice Being Done?
More Efficient Ways To Confess
We Got To Know The Truth No Less

Premeditated, Calculated, Precise
Created Cases Based On Races
Exchanging Life For Lies

Who Denies The Right To Defend?
Who Decides What Crime Is A Sin?
This Is Not A Way To Convict
It's Just Another Way To Conflict
Who Provides The Time For A Chance?
What Case Will Fall In Wrong Hands?
More Efficient Ways To Confess
We Got To Know The Truth No Less

Murder - In The First Degree
Murder - It's Only Revenge
Murder - Why , Why
Are We So Righteous To Declare That One Must
Die

Premeditated, Calculated, Precise
Created Cases Based On Races
Exchanging Life For Lies

Murder - In The First Degree
Murder - It's Only Revenge
Murder - Why , Why
Are We So Righteous To Declare That One Must
Die

Examples Being Made, In A Way Creating An
Endless Cycle Of Violence
Have We Become What We've Hated Most About
Ourselves?
When Mistakes Are Being Made, Who Is Going To
Be The One To Blame?
Who Is Gonna Pay That Final Price?

Who Will Pay The Final Price?
Are We So Righteous To Declare That One Must
Die?



Politricks

So You Want A Nation?
Your Very Own Nation
Push The Machine Aside
Many Have Tried

We Have Always Been There
We Will Always Be There
Making Sure You Need Us
And Feed Us

We Got The Money
We Got The Power
We Got The Guns
We Got Tv

You Are Our Livestock
We Make You Love It
Slave And Dream For Escape
But Scared To Death Of Change

Want To Hear My Speech?
Want To Share My Thoughts?
Protest! Protest!

...Come Now
Is It Worth The Hassle?
Worth All Your Precious Time?
You'll Grow Old, You'll Give Up

We Farm You
We Milk You
Your Energy's For Us To Drain
Office, Sweatshop, Plantation, The Same

I Know We Can Survive Our Choice
I Know We Can Be What We Want To Be
I Know We Can Survive
I Know We Will Survive

The Only Game We Know
We Must Have More And More
Make More, Take More
Control More

You Are Our Marketplace
Not A Community
No Subcommandante Ski-Mask
Will Lead You To No Promised Land

Want To Hear My Speech?
Want To Share My Thoughts?

Protest! Protest!


Sepultura's album "Nation" talks about the consequences of the creation of Nations. Cheated by visions of independence and social and racial equality, peace, etc that were turned quickly to lies, a once free and multicultural territory is enclosed by borders and forced to adopt a uniform culture of "progress" (urbanization and industrialization), or to be eliminated or reduced to a repressed b-class ethnic minority. Nationalistic ideologies (one state, one nation/culture/race: verses: created cases based on races in song who muast die) are still a cause of many local wars and conflicts, not only in Third World where cultural diversity is strong, but even in Europe.

The cause of such a historical evolution was the new exploitative economical system that has prevailed since 19th century, Capitalism, that replaced the oldest multicultural imperiums in Europe and is behind the fake independence of states of the previous colonies in Africa, Latin Amecica, Asia and Pacific territories.

The songs Sepulnation and Border wars talk about cheated people by falsified dreams who they contributed (even giving their blood in wars of independence, or in border wars) to creation of nations and then they were persecuted of put aside in misery.

The song Who muast die acuses the "right" to kill in the name of a nation or an ideology by authorities and generally the capital punishment.

The song Politricks (lyrics by Jello Biafra) talks about the uniform culture of progress (urbanization, industrialization, consumerism) multicultural people are forced to adopt and submit (generally by uniform education and language to impose and enstablish the uniform nationalistic ideals) in order to be easily manipulated by economical elites and authorities.

you can hear some songs from this album in youtube

Sepulnation

Border Wars

One man Army