Foreigner - At War With The World Lyrics

killer song, is it just me or does the riff starting at 0:55 sound similar to the riff in the middle of King Crimson's "Red"?

I love this song,Its one of my favorites besides Jukebox Hero

First rock album I owned, this album kicks a@@ to this day. Why this song doesn’t get more play is beyond me

🥀Awesome Song I've got this Album oh yeah I was raised right🥀🖤🥀🤘

Yeah I remember. It was a great time in Philly. Lotta partying keggers and such. Even rowdyness. All kidding aside but the guitar rift midway gives me chills.

sounds like free 2nd song

The debut Foreigner album gets no love when the greatest debut albums are mentioned. But it's still my fav of all of Foreigner output.

this is fuckin awesome rock cant believe i never heard it before

ISIS AND OTHER TERRORIST GROUPS ARE AT WAR WITH THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!THEY MUST BE DESTROYED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

best debut album ever

Happy Birthday today(December 27) to Mick Jones. Cheers!

🥀Awesome Song🥀

I love the instrumental keyboard section at 2:14

Led Zeppelin had jimmy page,les Paul through Marshall amps,Foreigner had Mick Jones,les Paul through Marshall amps,both groups had blond front men,Robert plant and Lou grammatico,Foreigner had more people in they're band.

we used to jam this tune on the lunch room juke box when i was in the 10th grade in 1977. good times. !

I think this was my first major album purchase. It was on 8 track.

You better be careful, with one who is at war with the world

I ALSO AGREE THIS ALBUM WAS THERE BEST ALBUM RELEASED

Trump's song. 7/13/18.

They were so great with Lou . The new singer is ok. He sounds a tad like Lou , but the original lineup was killer. The first 4 albums were untouchable.

Does anyone remember when this came out, could not have been a better time, I know these were the years I remember

March 8, 1977. Cheers!

You know Kevin some will say if you remember it you didn’t have enough fun... I was lucky 🍀 enuf to see these guys on the first tour with all 6 members... Instant fan!

Was a junior in high school.

Mid 70s

The first time I heard this album was 7-7-77 had to go to the record store and buy it that day

Never gets old!!! Love this group!!!!

this is the lou gramm vocals we remember......not now

What was the point of this comment?

The opening riff sounds a lot like Deep Purple's "Lay Down Stay Down"

anaximander24 Uli Jon Roth

guess it's been long. yeah still fighting this war. they keep on stealing from us and we just gotta fight back. good rythms

guess it's been long. yeah still fighting this war. they keep on stealing from us and we just gotta fight back. good rythms

guess it's been long. yeah still fighting this war. they keep on stealing from us and we just gotta fight back. good rythms

.... At war with the empire myself : )

AMAZING TUNE.....AMAZING VOICE....Love ya Lou !

First three Foreigner albums
Thats all you need..

Best foreigner album ever!!!! just saw them in Atlanta....Fantastic show!!!!! Kelly Hansen sounds just like Lou.....but a stronger voice!!!!

The whole album rocks

KICK ASS RIF...!!!

best song ever!!!!!

KIDZROCK4 Hey Kid you have great taste in music so I liked and subbed. Greetings from the Land of Lincoln.:-)

Golden Tune

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This style kinda reminds me of Led Zeppelin. Anyone?

+Mark Seymour Every band that has ever existed has borrowed from someone else...Get over it!

Foreigner were like a more top 40 radio friendly version but still awesome.

Mike Thomas not at all for the most part I like Foreigner better than Zeppelin except Stairway to Heaven of course LOL

Foreigner was more a 2nd rate Bad Company than they were Led Zeppelin. Still, this is a really good album.

This is a music for a man who commands a mercenary group of one person.

...........have you ever been late on your mercenary payments..?..... if so you could sue yourself for non-payment........ and then say each of your lawyers has a conflict of interest and get your case cast out of court...... unless it goes to the supreme court - if you argue gender identity -multiple personality order conflicts......

Or woman- I am at war with the corporate government empire of greed and destruction. They have financially destroyed me- free masons.
But I will fight them till my dying breath- as the ALL MIGHTY is my witness : )

@TCBTT From time to time I would wonder who is the author or who is this song referring to. The author of this popular song (and all others) is the devil.

@Guns N Rosaries Wow- I wrote that a year ago. Today I am just the resistance to the lunatic fringe of the secret bizness clubers who run this royal scam for the discarnate spirits who must burn off their sanskaras over many years. And agreed- it is the devil that wrote all these hermetic songs from the 1970's- aka, God's shadow who run this shadow-land the satanist guards call earth. But, anyone can benefit from the content they impart it turns out. Godspeed.

I saw them three times in concert, they lit up the Garden!

+Stb Tac I saw them in 1979, 9th row center at MSG, Head Games Tour.....

I saw them in '94 at Sunrise Musical Theater, So. FL. They did open for The Doobie Brothers..both fantastic, great show!

Great song.. Awesome harmonies !

one bad ass band!!

and you are bad man and ass man!!!!!

LOL, I love stupid people. you must like it in the ass

get lost dork

get lost you, bad man!!

LOL, There's always got to be a douchebag in every bunch...jaime is that person here. Like you said, "One bad ass band!!:

Great rock!

to me, one of their best.. those harmonies in the chorus are just amazing

Nice lyrics.. it was an F-U song without any of the direct language.

@FreakEating I love the lyrics. Sounds great when I'm pissed off.

A GREAT MONDAY MORNING SONG SONG.;]

Super!!!!

Rockin' tune!!!! Always been a major fan of Foreigner:) RIP Ed

Did he pass ?

@Guy Mckinney Ed Gagliardi died in 2014 :-((

what a band!

Rock on home boy!

Love At War With The World by Foreigner!I did see them in concert in the 70's when i was just a teenager and they did this song!This one is a really great memory of my teen years and all of the great bands i had seen in concert decades ago!

i think this is one song from this band that was just super underated,

is it just me or does this song sound fairly similar to King Crimson's "RED"? That's what this song reminds me of.

Doobie1975 Ian McDonald was also a member of King Crimson and was on the Red album.

no,but great song

One of the best albums ever- when the boys were tight as a unit.

good tune

WOW..I never dreamed how fitting this song would be to me when I was 17 years old..Now an olderman going on 54 & it just popped into my head out of now where...
It really explains my situation in life today....The war has just begun...

Hope you won bud

BEST Foreigner album ever released!

This album kicks a@@ , one of greatest Underrated songs ever. This whole album to this day is awesome

Without a doubt my friend,😁 although double vision was pretty good 😁👍👍👍🤙🤙🤙

Can't really go wrong with any of their first four albums, but the debut is probably my favourite and this is a cracking 70s heavy rock song, one of the heaviest the band recorded.

@Trucker Kev The Paid Tourist Hot Blooded not just my all time favourite Foreigner track but one of my all time favourite songs full stop. Tramontaine is great too, very almost hypnotic and Spellbinder would also feature in my top 10 Foreigner songs.

@Jerry Attwooll yeah put the needle Down or hit play and yeah Hot blooded is fine with the whole album.
but radio his killed it through the years so bad; just like somebody to love or to an extent we will rock you we are the champions from Queen and now almost like fat bottom girls if I'm not listening to either news of the world or jazz or a night at the Opera literally there certain songs have just gotten beat to death that I don't really care if I ever hear them again LOL

Did I win?

Great largely-unknown tune.

LOVE THIS BAND!!!! 3

great music

super with mi Janis Speakers ''thats fine Y aaaooo!! yes i have a real pair of Janis in goods Shape 70 ''

AT THEIR BEST

Junior year of High School, sucked down a lot of suds, Salem lights and Alcapolco gold listening to this album and 8 track. Good times!

Yep many times i saw them in concert badass

Yup. Mine too. Excellent chorus.

In the Top Ten Debut Albums of all time!

Definitely Bad as a MF!

I was at Lowry the same time, loved watching the sun hit the mountains as we marched to our building in the morning. Never saw such colors

anybody have this song set to batman clips?

one of my favorites

Cool story. I know music can bring back so many memories!

great song

Thanks:)

joseph

I'm kind of a musical bigot, but I like this! The lyrics are good.

WELL THIS IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE THE BOMB !!!!

Excellent Son may the good lord make you a clear path! You can stand by my side anyday. Friends are forever traders ,liers, theives will never know!!!!

Solid and righteous lyric

Mine too

Great song, great band, can't get this music nowadays!

glad to see people who think highly of their debut album, I used to like the '4' album the best when I was younger but as I've gotten older I grew to like this album more.

Mike Thomas I like Foreigner 4 also

Mike Thomas I was in 8th grade in Livonia Michigan when this came out it takes me back to the old days

give > "UNITED" by Judas Priest another listen, It , like this song so pertains to today . Aparara po?

MAN!! I forgot about this GEM!!

1980, enlisted and proudly served in the US Army. I remember this song as I was learning my trade as a 35H calibration specialist at Ft. Lowry, CO

Bought a motorcycle and cruised everywhere with Foreigner blasting, this album was my favorite. It's amazing how it brings back those memories.

@DrDougMusic I was hooked from the start! Their first release could of been a best hits album. Every song was fresh, catchy and likeable! Foreigner rocked it out.

Foreigner songs that you cannot play JUST ONCE!
"At War with the World"
"Spellbinder"
"StarrRider"
"Women oh Women"
"Damage is Done" Mantra Studio Version 1977
"Girl on the Moon"
"Tramontane"
"Love on the Telephone"
"Rev on the Redline"

Couldn't stand to see them now! They rocked in the 70's!

doesn't the music from :55 to 1:10 sound similar to King Crimson's "RED"?

great song, Foreigner really showed so much promise with their early albums but got too commercial later on, too bad Mick's ego caused half of the original lineup to leave after a few albums, I thought Foreigner was at their best when Ian McDonald, Al Greenwood and Ed Gagliardi were in the band

Funny when you haven't heard a great song in 30 years but the lyrics you don't forget! Wow! Great flashbacks! This playing in a room that only has a black light on and a space black light poster to keep you in a trance for hours.... Ahh, Good Time!

i can see how they were blown away by Lou's singing!!!!!!!

I so remember this song !! Its still like my BITCH SONG ! In a GOOD way!

This is my favorite Foreigner song, didn't get much airplay true.

About time this song is put on YT, this is one of my favorite songs by Foreigner and one of Mick Jones' best guitar playing he's ever done