Band: Uniform Choice
Album: Screaming For Change
Genre: Hardcore / Punk
Origin: USA
Year: 1985
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Track List:
01. Use Your Head
02. My Own Mind
03. Straight and Alert
04. Build to Break
05. Scream to Say
06. Once I Try
07. Sometimes
08. Screaming for Change
09. No Thanks
10. A Choice
11. Big Man, Small Mind
12. Don't Quit
13. In Time
14. Silenced
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1) Use Your Head
Something happened
It made you change
Something fucked
Can you explain!
So though, so brave
So you fight
Hate called ignorance
Hindered your sights
Times change
People change
There’s so many things
Nothing seems the same
All the things you do
I feel sorry for you
You don’t hear a word I’ve said
You better use your head!
2) My Own Mind
I’m sorry
That I did it
I’ m sorry, I’m sorry for you
I’m sorry
That I did it
I’m sorry, I’m sorry for you
Mister, it’s judgment day
As another stops to judge
Your haste may cause regret
My voice will power on
I’m sorry
You couldn’t understand
I’m sorry, I’m sorry for you
I’m sorry
That it had to hurt
I’m sorry, I’m sorry for you
Man, so here I stand
Dealing with the same old shit
Stupid lies in tainted stories
Narrow minds, same fuckin excuse
Same fuckin release, same fuckin mistake
It’s all the same
My eyes se the lies which cause your pain
My mind, my heart, are stuck in these ways
My feelings, my thoughts, may be against the grain
My desire, I try. I’m sorry I’m not the same
Goddammit I’m sorry, Goddammit I’m sorry
I’m sorry
That I did it
I’m sorry, I’m sorry for you
I’m sorry
It had to end this way
I’m sorry, I’m sorry for you
3) Straight And Alert
Who drinks the barley?
Who drinks the grain?
Who shoots the shit into their veins?
Is there really the need for the use of dope?
Can it solve one’s problem?
Can it help one cope?
Something must be wrong when one slurs to talk
It hast to be hard when it’s difficult to walk
The best thing to know is to know one’s fate
It’s easiest done whenthe person is straight
Straight And Alert
Straight And Alert
Straight And Alert
Straight And Alert
Straight And Alert
Straight And Alert
Straight And Alert
Straight And Alert
Being high doesn’t mean that much to me
There’s much more to life than I can see
I can’t wander around in an unaware state
Know where I am have to be able to relate
I don’t think that I’m too good
It doesn’t mean I have feelings that you never could
Something beyond a statement of my pride
Something solid makes me feel good inside
4) Build To Break
Something new everyday
People talk don’t care what they say
Stories pass from mouth to ear
Changes the truth to what they want to hear.
Words that destroy friendship
Cheap talk that doesn’t mean shit
Lies only build to break
Build to break, you build to break
Build on ignorance
Narrow minds no room for chance
For people who are insecure
Rumors seem to be the cure
Something happens
Stories told what comes next
Build bigger, bigger, bigger and bigger
Until you’ve blown it out of context
You heard it once, you hear it twice
Things like that never get old
You don’t give a fuck about the persons feelings
It’s a rumor and it should be told
5) Scream To Say
Scream so many things
None of which will be heard
Stronger minds a new direction
Intelligence builds our word
See the time for us to unite
And set the others straight
Building for the future
Moving through the ones that wait
We scream to say
You better listen
We’re in a time of tragic need
Of definite despair
Where hatred is the way of life
And no one seems to care
We must keep moving forward
Cannot think about the past
For all our days are numbered
And the next could be our last
Now we’ve come to one conclusion
And we have to stick with it
Seeing minds turn to hate
And attitudes turn to shit
Screaming for the future
Our voices breaking loud
Look into ourselves
See the answers found
6) Once I Cry
The rain begins
And yet the sky is clear
My eyes are shut tight
No one gets in here
My mind’s in a room
With no windows or doors
Away from the hands
That wrap tight around my neck
My neck, my neck, my neck around my neck
These hands that wrap tight around my neck
Where is the sun
I’ve heard so much about
Whose glance is all warming
Erasing doubt
I feel a chill
Run down my spine
So many contradictions
Which road leads home
Once I cry
The rain begins
Once my heart hurts
No one gets in
The sweat pours down
And it stings my eyes
Just as your promises
Turned into lies
I trusted you
What a fool was i
Now I just sit in a room
With no view
No view, no view, no view
With my eyes shut tight I’ve got no view
I heard a sound
Now I’m all alone
A heart beat pounding
It’s my own
Seeking an answer
Question unknown
I’m slowly drowning
I’m my sea of remorse
7) Sometimes
Will you take pride, in what you see?
Is it really the way you want things to be?
Big fucking deal is all you say now
But tomorrow will you feel the same way?
Think you so cool
Play me for a fool
A stupid game
I’m not going to play
You just sit back and follow the crowd
Because you think being yourself is not allowed
You judge others being themselves, from within
But when it comes to being your own person
You don’t know where to begin
So the legends are told saying , “How you must fit”
But if you feel good about yourself who gives a shit
Must always find something new to prove
Why don’t you stop this stupid act and just be you
8) Screaming For Change
Screaming
For a change
Forever reaching
To once again rearrange
Another struggle
With the wind in my face
Forever blowing
But this time at my pace
Screaming for change
Still screaming
Screaming for change
Some is better than one
But some just isn’t enough
I hope the best is yet to come
Bu hope alone won’t stand
I-Scream-For-Change
Understand that you make a difference
No difference between you and I
Look beyond the shadowing surface
Take the time don’t limit your mind
9) No Thanks
Deliberately put your head in a mindless state
Say without the crutch you can’t relate
Intoxicated you do stupid things
Things you don’t mean things you wished could be changed
Drink it down say it’s for the best
Bottle in the hand just like all the rest
Still you do it when you know it’s wrong
But it’s what’s accepted so you feel strong
Tell me, is it really worth it
Fuck it, to turn your brain to shit
My advice, why don`t you stop and think
Please man, it’s ok not to drink
If drinking’s what it take to be accepted
I’d rather stay aware and be rejected
I know what it takes to keep my head on straight
Putting shit in my mind and body is not the way
I don’t need the drugs, I don’t need a crutch
My mind is all I’ll ever need to stay in touch
You can laugh but you’ll get yours
Reason an excuse for your pressure
Finally , you understand
Drinking doesn’t make you a man
Not me, I know what’s smart
In touch, I’ll always be alert
Waiting do you feel better, does it make you
Feel good when you drink
Now you laugh and today your happy but
It’s not as funny as you think
You can do it now and still enjoy it,
The people that care are all still here
But one day when you’re laughing, you’ll
Turn around and no one will be standing there
Staring beyond for what it’ worth
Looking into faces where I see hurt
As the grain goes in you start to change
Searching for excuse and discovering pain
It’s time you open your eyes and let reality through
Fight the bitter wind that has bitten you
A clear mind is all you’ll ever need
For those are none as blind as those who will not see
10) A Choice
You think you’ve got a choice
Well there is a choice
Open your eyes and see the choice
Of a uniformed choice
Uniform Choice, Uniform Choice
Uniform Choice, Uniform Choice
You think with no thought
As if it makes a shit
Open your eyes
So we can deal with it
So many of us
So many different ways
One common goal
Deep beyond the haze
Building strong ideas
Make a solid frame
Realize what’s wrong
First step to change
Sore eyes, see what
Builds these walls
Minds are strong
And will make them fall
You still can’t release
What seems unclear
To ignorant to see
You need not fear
Silence the division
As a result of choice
A powerful expression
Through one voice
11) Big Man, Small Mind
You beat on guys smaller than you
Helpless, there’s nothing they can do
Assholes you’ve got too much nerve
Someday you’ll get what you deserve
You don’t fight to stay alive
You fight to save your stubborn pride
You’ve never had a real reason
Can’t even mount an explanation
There’s always someone bigger and tuffer
You’d better watch out!
There’s always someone bigger, chump
You’d better watch out!
You can make a boy run and hide
But you can’t make a man swallow his pride
Breaking heads for the stories
Kicking ass from some glory
Some guys won’t put up with it
That’s when you’ll know you’re in deep shit
If you can’t defend yourself
You’re going to be one hell of a mess
Big man, such a shallow mind
Bully, it’s only a matter of time
12) Don't Quit
When things go wrong
As they sometimes will
When the road your trudging
Seems all uphill
When the funds are low
And the debts are high
When you want to smile
But you have to sigh
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must but don’t you quit
Life is queer
With it’s twists and turns
As everyone of us
Must at sometime learn
Often the struggler has given up
When he might of captured the victor’s cup
And he learned to late as night slipped down
How close he was to the golden crown
Success
Is failure inside out
The silver tint to
The clouds of doubt
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems afar
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit
Don’t quit
Don’t quit
Don’t quit
Don’t quit, don’t quit
13) In Time
In time…
Why do I scream?
Why do I yell?
Because you don’t try to understand the way I feel
No one ever listens to a word I have to say
Blind in their own minds
Tell me there is no other way
Today, I stand by myself
This day I screm as one
Tomorrow we stand one in all
Tomorrow’s when we get things done
Once the feelings there
The emotions are inside
I’ve got to scream to express
The feelings I just can’t hide
Now it’s gone too far
It’s finally to the point
To where I have to fucking scream
For everything I want
I scream to get my point across
I scream because I have faith
I scream because you lock me out
And it’s the only way I can relate
In time…
Finally you open your eyes
Think you’ve figured out why I scream
You say I’m immature
Trying to live out a hopeless dream
You ask me why I do it
Does it have a meaning
I know someday I’ll get through to you
Until then I’ll just keep screaming
In time
14) Silenced
When there’s silence
Friends need not speak
It’s understood
Die I would
And when there’s silence
Cultures appear as one
Colors are blurred
My brother I heard
When there’s silence
Meanings all seem clear
Distractions unknown
Uniformly alone
And when there’s silence
Love has no hurt
Despair cannot live
Words take I give
The sound of no sound
Is the most deafening of all
The feeling of no feeling
Is the most painful of all
And yet we must endure
For I do now and forever shall
Love all things that are real
Even when… silence is broken
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