Released: March 19, 2002
Songwriter: Dave Mustaine
Producer: Dave Mustaine Bill Kennedy
[Short Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
A cockroach in the concrete, courthouse tan and beady eyes
A slouch with fallen arches, purging truths into great lies
A little man with a big eraser, changing history
Procedures that he's programmed to, all he hears and sees
Altering the facts and figures, events and every issue
Make a person disappear, and no one will ever miss you
[Refrain]
Rewrites every story, every poem that evеr was
Eliminates incompetencе, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools
[Verse 2]
You said you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway?
Ever think maybe it was meant to be this way?
Don't try to fool us, we know the worst is yet to come
And I believe my kingdom will come
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
F is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D for your dying, O, your overture
M, they will cover your grave with manure
This spells out 'FREEDOM', it means nothing to me
As long as there's our PMRC
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
F is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D for your dying, O, your overture
M is for money, you know what that cures
This spells out 'FREEDOM', it means nothing to me
As long as there's our PMRC
[Chorus]
F is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D for your dying, O, your overture
M, they will cover your grave with manure
This spells out 'FREEDOM', it means nothing to me
As long as there's our PMRC
[Bridge]
Put your hand right up my shirt
Pull the strings that make me work
Jaws will part, words fall out
Like a fish with hook in mouth
[Refrain]
Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was
Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools
[Outro]
I'm not a fish, I'm a man
Hook in mouth!
[Verse 1]
A cockroach in the concrete, courthouse tan and beady eyes
A slouch with fallen arches, purging truths into great lies
A little man with a big eraser, changing history
Procedures that he's programmed to, all he hears and sees
Altering the facts and figures, events and every issue
Make a person disappear, and no one will ever miss you
[Refrain]
Rewrites every story, every poem that evеr was
Eliminates incompetencе, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools
[Verse 2]
You said you've got the answers, well who asked you anyway?
Ever think maybe it was meant to be this way?
Don't try to fool us, we know the worst is yet to come
And I believe my kingdom will come
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
F is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D for your dying, O, your overture
M, they will cover your grave with manure
This spells out 'FREEDOM', it means nothing to me
As long as there's our PMRC
[Instrumental Break]
[Chorus]
F is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D for your dying, O, your overture
M is for money, you know what that cures
This spells out 'FREEDOM', it means nothing to me
As long as there's our PMRC
[Chorus]
F is for fighting, R is for red
Ancestors' blood in battles they've shed
E, we elect them, E, we eject them
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
D for your dying, O, your overture
M, they will cover your grave with manure
This spells out 'FREEDOM', it means nothing to me
As long as there's our PMRC
[Bridge]
Put your hand right up my shirt
Pull the strings that make me work
Jaws will part, words fall out
Like a fish with hook in mouth
[Refrain]
Rewrites every story, every poem that ever was
Eliminates incompetence, and those who break the laws
Follow the instructions of the New Way's Evil Book of Rules
Replacing rights with wrongs, the files and records in the schools
[Outro]
I'm not a fish, I'm a man
Hook in mouth!
Rude Awakening (Live)
- Dread and the Fugitive Mind (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Hook in Mouth (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Almost Honest (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- 1,000 Times Goodbye (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Mechanix (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Tornado of Souls (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Ashes in Your Mouth (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Sweating Bullets (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Trust (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Symphony of Destruction (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Peace Sells (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Return to Hangar (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Hangar 18 (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Kill the King (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Wake Up Dead (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- In My Darkest Hour (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Angry Again (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- She-Wolf (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Reckoning Day (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Devil’s Island (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Train of Consequences (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- À Tout le Monde (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Burning Bridges (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due (Live at the Web Theatre, Phoenix, AZ)
- Rude Awakening (Live) (2002)
- Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
- À Tout le Monde
- Tornado of Souls
- Symphony of Destruction
- Peace Sells
- In My Darkest Hour
- Sweating Bullets
- Hangar 18
- Rust in Peace... Polaris
- Five Magics
- Mechanix
- Take No Prisoners
- Dystopia
- Trust
- The Conjuring
- Hook in Mouth
- Countdown to Extinction
- Lucretia
- Good Mourning/Black Friday
- Set the World Afire
- Angry Again
- Wake Up Dead
- Dawn Patrol
- Conquer or Die!