Individualist Anthem – Anonymous author (1901)
lyrics translated from the Italian by waronsociety:
To save from dying in the mud of the street
we’ll imitate Bresci and Ravachol
Whoever extends their hand to the bourgeoisie
is a human unworthy to see the sun
Grinding machines mangle the beggars
and ever pallid and weeping are the brides
Fallow lie the fields and the miners buried
and ever run down murdered are the workers
(chorus)
And those who haven’t surrendered, open the tomb,
set the bomb, sharpen the knife,
action is the ideal!
Alert France on the guillotine
beheads those who wanted to punish it
Vile Spain the garotte and murder
Italy shoots those not wont to tremble
In America hanged in Africa slaughtered
In Spain ever tortured at Montjuich
But the sad race of the hoodlum sir
the individualist will strike again
(chorus)
And those who haven’t surrendered, open the tomb,
set the bomb, sharpen the knife,
action is the ideal!
As long as we’re a herd it’s right that there’s
a social clique for decreeing laws
As long as the sun of anarchy does not shine
We’ll always see the people slain
Cops tremble to hear the dynamite
exploding against the oppressor
we are against all cops and scoundrels
and one against all we will defeat them
(chorus)
And those who haven’t surrendered, open the tomb,
set the bomb, sharpen the knife,
action is the ideal!
