Loaded Gun
1999 · Lookout LK231CD · Laytonville, California
- Artist
- American Steel
- Title
- Loaded Gun
- Release
- Rogue's March
- Year
- 1999
- Label
- Lookout # LK231CD
- Language
- English
- Country
- Laytonville, California, USA
- Genre
- Rock · Punk Rock
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation — Civil Rights Songs
- Loaded Gun (American Steel) - Kent State reference. Civil Rights, protest
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Kent / Jackson State Songs
Loaded Gun (American Steel) Kent State reference. Civil Rights, protest
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: Who's the enemy, you're gonna point your gun at GI Joe? / Well, your grandpa broke the strikes and your dad the civil rights / When they were 18 too / Kent State, you never had a clean slate / I didn't see Watts burn but I felt the embers / Pinkerton mobs, National Guard / Change the names but someone remembers / Passed out in the flowers in the park / Loaded gun, spent my money in the market / Loaded gun, running rebels reading Marx, how droll / Armelite ballot, there's dollars in Bahrain / Loaded gun, there's rust in the gas can / Loaded gun, bombs for petrol / Loaded gun, petrol's for bombs / They've got a file on you, friend and it's none of your business / Community policing's paying dividends / East Oakland's a no-go but the liquor store is COINTELPRO / Peacekeeping mission in police war zone / With a turbulent DOW Jones / If violence is state monopology / Well, then think of us as antitrust / Passed out in the flowers in the park / Loaded gun, spent my money in the market / Loaded gun, running rebels reading Marx, how droll / Armelite ballot, the CIA is in Oakland / Loaded gun, rewriting the Constitution / Loaded gun, looking at a firebrand / Loaded gun, through the eyes of a loaded gun
About the artist
Formed 1995 Oakland, California, USA. Members Rory Henderson (vocals, guitar), Ryan Massey (vocals, guitar), Scott Healy (drums), John Peck (bass)
Themes
Kent State · Civil Rights · Communism · CIA