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Si sa è più facile parlare di ciò che ci aggrada maggiormente, piuttosto che doversi impegnare e dedicare tempo per narrare di qualcosa che magari non è rimasto nel cuore o a cui non abbiamo legati ricordi particolari.
E se è vero che gli Strike Anywhere non sono mai stati in cima ai miei ascolti tra le band di hardcore melodico in circolazione, vale la pena comunque narrare in breve la loro personale storia.
Originari di Richmond, Virginia si formano nel 1999 dall'incontro tra il cantante Thomas Barnett che ha sciolto il suo precedente progetto punk Inquisition e Matt Smith, Garth Petrie, Matt Sherwood ed Eric Kane.
Esordiscono con l'ep “Audience of One” e successivamente pubblicano nel 2001 il primo disco “Change is a Sound” su etichetta Jade Tree. Tra le storie narrate nei testi prendono piede i diritti delle donne e degli animali, una critica serrata al capitalismo e alla globalizzazione e gli abusi della polizia.
Da molti considerato il loro miglior disco, il loro debutto si distingue molto dalle classiche proposte di casa Epitath e Burning Heart che imperversavano nei meandri degli anni Novanta e che facevano da colonne sonore per avventure in skate sul lungomare sotto il sole estivo.
La particolarità di questo disco, croce e delizia, sono gli innumerevoli cambi di tempo, che stravolgono volentieri le strutture delle singole canzoni, nonché un'atmosfera a tratti emozionale che emerge anche dalla voce spesso urlata dello stesso Barnett (“Timebomb Generation” e “Laughter in a Police State”) che fanno il pezzo con un paio di episodi più scanzonati a riportare tutto nella norma. "Refusal" probabilmente invece l'avrete udita mentre diversi anni fa giocavate ad uno dei primi Tony Hawk's.
Per certi aspetti la band a cui erano più accostabili al tempo, anche da un punto di vista strettamente temporale sono i Rise Against quelli dei primi due dischi sotto Fat Wreck.
Si può affermare che è un lavoro che cerca di mescolare le carte, in cui le influenze classiche del genere vengono rielaborate alla luce della tradizione hardcore old school in un giusto mix tra vecchia e nuova scuola.
E' un disco quindi che potrebbe fare contenti sia chi ascolta hardcore melodico, sia chi cerca una formula atipica che in parte si distacchi dal classico filone West Coast.
Successivamente arriveranno altri tre dischi, di cui l'ultimo risalente al 2009, in cui si perderà in parte quell'urgenza propria dell'esordio. Mentre allo stato attuale risulta in lavorazione un nuovo disco che dovrebbe rompere il silenzio ed uscire nel 2017.
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03 Refusal (02:41)
sister
I won't let you go
I won't let them take you
into the silence of a past divided
brother
keep teaching the power
we only move together
away from the past that made us fall apart
I refuse to run and I will die
before I kneel in this life
systems
of profits we punish
with love as our weapon
and unity
unity rebirth in fire
I refuse to run and I will die
before I kneel in this life
are we crucified
we defend our birthright
equality betrayed
and every hour a voice is lost
but every rage defies the cost
embrace the whole world as your kin
truth to truth and skin to skin
begin
searching for an end to the bullshit reactions
another way to separate us
and end to the bullshit of separation
another way to keep us from truth
05 Riot of Words (02:29)
This is the moment when we choose to stand upright and direct
set the course of our vision : new spirit in the flesh
we see the rich man's law dem break the poor man's back again
dead eyed but unbroken
we see society's cruel mask upon the meaningless face
the arrogant false prophets of this human race
but rising to the surface hear the waters make the sound
dead eyed but unbroken
now
Are you dead eyed, but unbroken?
are you feeling alive in the dead world they've made
are you working for a promise?
are you working for a promise already betrayed
while the dreams of the nation
are just a weapon in our hearts now
we can defy the curse of self righteousness
no more cultureless emptiness
pull back to reach the moment where connection was lost
the greater the freedom the higher the cost
drink in organic insurrection cleanse the mind
mine the heart droplets falling faith and courage
and fire in our hearts rising to the surface
hear the waters make the sound
dead eyed but unbroken
minds once set to fight now rot bloodless upon they stem
to update the paranoia the media disguise the system with
designer clothes and violence regulate our birthright
dead eyed but unbroken
now
are we dead eyed but unbroken
yeah we're feeling alive in the dead world they've made
are you working for a promise
yeah working for a promise already betrayed
while the dreams of the nation
are just a weapon in our hearts now
colors on the tv they push the lie in all things
some of us bleed against this deception stays entrenched
did you start to believe in it
colors of the ruling class push the lie in all things
some of us bleed against this deception stays entrenched
did you start to believe in it
are you dead eyed from the sight of no future
and broken handed from working for a promise betrayed ?
we can disarm
06 S.S.T. (02:32)
Where are your heroes
underground?
do our egos block us out
from feeding the future
of this sound ?
where were you
when they passed out
the lotteries of birth?
complacency
conditioned to suffer
what's the price ?
what's it worth to us ?
No Justice No Justice
Anywhere Until We Put It There
No future No future
I don't care
It's not because I don't love you
It's not because I don't know
the time it takes to say goodbye
to find a balance of heart and mind
explode these traditions
live for what you love
not what they tell you to do
fight the poison minds
of the dead past
invading the peace
between me and you
so where were you when
they passed us over for
the lotteries of birth :
complacency
conditioned to suffer
so what's the price ?
what's it worth ?
we sing !
no. go put your words on the hills and
no. reject the boredom it kills our
faith in a future they shot and missed
our ways of expression :
a heart not a fist
we sing !
No Justice No Justice
Anywhere, Until We Put It There
No future No future
I don't care
Until We Put It There
Power
for one and all
07 Detonation (03:01)
We are not the images we see
I refuse to
follow the fashion to its end
hypocrisy
is killing me
on the rights of your wealth
I disagree
this puppets culture scars our tongues
with what's unsung
but we're not finished
we're not done
illusions of their fucking progress
are always fed to us
but innocence can rise again
redemption
a healing trust
from the depths of their false dreams
rebuilding, rebuilding
nothing for their war
nothing anymore
are we all guilty?
are we all guilty?
the greed inside me
waiting for our share
stand up now
rebuilding
nothing for their war
nothing anymore
we're all addicted born
with desperation, scorn
for hopes and dreams to mourn
the time we did not dare
(but it's not there)
stand up, speak out
to define a future
we live in silence pulling in
it's what we're in this for
gotta stop the war
we buy and buy hypocrisy
what are we in this for?
gotta stop the war
I refuse to
carry the flag of this country
of golden guns and cynics puns
as the rights of your wealth walk over me
from the depths of these false dreams
we're addicted born
waiting at the window
for the coming storm
we're all addicted born
with desperation scorn
our hopes and dreams to mourn
the time we did not dare
to change the future
and respect our past
illusions that are fed
are passing through
and they won't last
we are not the images we see
10 Chalkline (02:39)
We see the billboard girl
the one devoted to ritual
standing in the rain
holding all of her pain inside
I know you're hurting now
but I can't point my finger at
the words I should or shouldn't say
anything
to take the pain away
to walk alone on the streets tonight
and fear nothing
to choose to love what we are in this life
and shine brighter
don't let the crosses and dollar signs
the symbols of man unkind
make you feel
that you're not real
all this time walk out
out of the shadows
we see the lines in chalk
the warning sign for where we walk
in the shadows of the cities maze
to try and fight
for better days
yeah we're ungrateful
yeah we're ungrateful for
holy books, religious men
values of beauty, original sin
all this time we unwind it
i won't give up, i'm not afraid
Resister go
as long as it takes
to reverse the hypocrisy
challenge the stakes
of safety and survival
at the heart
of women's voices
women's art
to walk alone on the streets tonight
and fear nothing
to choose to love what we are in this life
all that matters
don't let the crosses and dollar signs
the symbols of man unkind . . .
I won't give up
through all this time walk out
out of the shadows
if we take
our strength
to market
to trade
for their
ugly
beauty
watch us
grow up
to war
no more
11 My Design (03:07)
This is a call
to wake
the sleeping army
dreaming for
end the fear
in our hearts
for the last time
a shared vision
love's transmission through
the hollow days ahead
a hope
for where we grow
when its over
and its over
it falls
it passes right through me
it falls
and you won't be mistaking me
it falls
inside us
inside
it falls
it passes right
right through me
and we find out
what will remain
one day
I will wake up to find
you've bound my sister's feet
to find you've tied my daughter's hands
and you are walling in her mind
we throw
our hearts against the wall
we grow
the will to make it
fall
so we are living in a five hundred year old
prison in the mind in the heart where they
take your intelligence and your faith is torn
apart by culture state and power come together
and they steal all the light inside of us
everything that's real
when it falls
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