Rancid - Arrested In Shanghai Lyrics

You better not go fuckin back there

I have a strange wanting of Bob Dylan now

Falling out of love.. this song eases the pain

I could have been a punk but I became a Juggalo but I'm still rocking out to Rancid like over 15 years later

AMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

well well well well，finally another song disappeared in mainland of China

EPIC EPIC TOTALLY EPIC!

2019 anyone? Seriously though I got this album from the shop in our college when it first came out, this song has stuck with me ever since!

Paradoxical irony

Arrested In Shanghai"

They assured me I was guilty but I commited no crime
They said confessions bring lenience so they put me on the line
So I protest the massacres at the Tiananmen Square
My friends said yo, stay away man, you better not go fucking back there

They wouldn't let me write about my opinions about the state
And freedom of expression they would never tolerate
And the military secrets that I never did steal
I didn't start no violence, and there was nobody that I killed

So I have a clear account of all the abuses of power
And the memories of my homeland have now gone sour
And I only got one weapon, its so plain for me to see
My only weapon I call.. poetry

And I don't even know why
The truth seems like a lie
In my cell there is no sky
When I was arrested in Shanghai

Into wealth and priveledge, huh, I was not born
But a devotion to freedom and liberty, I was sworn
So every emotion is studdied, watched and controlled 
Who gets paid, who gets disciplined, who gets rolled

A transmitter beams my coordinates anywhere on earth
And radio waves, surveilance, satellite burst
Open up your skull and let some knowledge come in
Crack open the cranium and let awareness begin.......

good people wish IMF need

evening company(gas bagging)

Hey JB Smith put your hands in air and wav'em like you just don't Care. Now play Dead so we can Roll like F.B.I Agencies

They assured me I was guilty but I commited no crime
They said confessions bring lenience so they put me on the line
So I protest the massacres at the Tiananmen Square
My friends said yo, stay away man, you better not go fucking back there

They wouldn't let me write about my opinions about the state
And freedom of expression they would never tolerate
And the military secrets that I never did steal
I didn't start no violence, and there was nobody that I killed

So I have a clear account of all the abuses of power
And the memories of my homeland have now gone sour
And I only got one weapon, its so plain for me to see
My only weapon I call.. poetry

And I don't even know why
The truth seems like a lie
In my cell there is no sky
When I was arrested in Shanghai

Into wealth and priveledge, huh, I was not born
But a devotion to freedom and liberty, I was sworn
So every emotion is studdied, watched and controlled
Who gets paid, who gets disciplined, who gets rolled

A transmitter beams my coordinates anywhere on earth
And radio waves, surveilance, satellite burst
Open up your skull and let some knowledge come in
Crack open the cranium and let awareness begin.......

"there's a reason shanghai is a verd!!"
xD

Brilliant remember playing these when I was like 13

Elliot Lambert lol, yeah I remember going into virgin records and buying it. I might even have been younger I can’t remember. I do remember the first time hearing this song, it was unexpectedly perfect, It is always going to be my favorite song from them. The rest of the album was just average for me.

Took my boy to this show and he fell asleep on the floor, I thought Chet that truly is not giving a damn. He even enjoys some rancid

r.i.p freedom of speech

sounds like a punk Bob Dylan hahaha

🎼✊*Epic*✊🎼

Phill collin vibes on this song

damb good song

dis is song for sing dedicate to sing man of all time

Rancid slow jam. Aw yeah! This is still great after all these years

A Mohawk traveling down sunset blvd, now there’s a statement.

Sayori is cute!

One of my all time fave bands. Tim Armstrong and Lars Fredrickson are a mighty duo. 🤓 Much love. 🍻💞✌

Not quite rancid but a great song nonetheless

Sayori is best girl by the way

Fat Mike's every cool fuck hero

Damn this sounds so nice

This song is catchy

Sayori brought me here :)

Dancow rasa ganja I think its "Sayori is cute!"

Hello,if you are reading this...play "Doki Doki:Literature Club" ( played it almost 2 months ago) i still think about this game sometimes.
I hated the anime style and VN,i still do lmao, but really it may look super duper hyper mega *Generic* but i can assure you it's very different,i am pretty sure this expieriencie will leave you thinking for hours if not days. All types of feelings will come to your head once you play it, truly a master piece.

Tommy R why are so many people from that game here? Fucking weabs mixing with the douchebag punks now?

It's a wonderful sight, isn't it, Jerry?

Jerry Seinfeld and i literally said that i hated anime xd how am i a weaboo?
The only bad thing about this game is that the fandom is getting really big, and i'm afraid that it'll turn into some kind Undertale

Yeah, that's true. I was afraid the game would get too big, and now that Pewdiepie and Game Theory have both made videos on it, it's pretty much game over for the fanbase at this point.

Holy fuck,i didn't notice you were the one that made the "Sayori is cute" vid.
It was fucking awesome.Subscribed,you deserve it.

If you notice I have the original disc of indestructible this version is lower

Sayori best girl

Pablo Rivas i already know that game, but i never listen this song in the game

FireBot Xp oh. Look up sayori is cute and this song will play in the video so thats why everyone familiar with the game is here😂

i agree

why are weebs gathering in the comments of a rancid video

@Ren I came here through rancid, but by reading the comments of this video, I realize that the instrumental sounds a lot like the ddlc soundtrack...

Cool.poetry in emotions is mindless.

The truth seems like a lie...

Özge Gülçağ when I was arrested in Shanghai

Welcome to backwards world

Que som legal
punk na veia

as someone eise wrote on here this is a classic dylamesque song!!!

is it weird that i thought this song was so perfect when i was younger, including the vocals. now im older and all i can notice is the imperfections in the timing of his vocals, the impediment, ,etc. i guess ignorance is bliss...

Khystar Humphries he has fucking awesome voice! that’s what makes tim armstrong tim and rancid rancid it’s perfect !

thats what makes it so raw. his voice sounds so bad ass

Dont look for perfection here

It is what it is. Don't try to dissect it, just enjoy it.

It's as if Blondie and Bob Dylan had a punk rock child. Awesome!

A Walton born in the wilderness...wild

PUNK NOT DIE(T) 😂

dwi septiyan that doesnt make any sense

Nate Guy I take it as him playing on the Punk is Dead ideology and how these guys never put out Diet Punk or watered down Pop Punk, so i think it’s actually quite thought provoking

Dan Adrian ooooooooh

Lyrics:

They assured me I was guilty but I commited no crime
They said confessions bring lenience so they put me on the line
So I protest the massacres at the Tiananmen Square
My friends said yo, stay away man, you better not go fucking back there

They wouldn't let me write about my opinions about the state
And freedom of expression they would never tolerate
And the military secrets that I never did steal
I didn't start no violence, and there was nobody that I killed

So I have a clear account of all the abuses of power
And the memories of my homeland have now gone sour
And I only got one weapon, its so plain for me to see
My only weapon I call.. poetry

And I don't even know why
The truth seems like a lie
In my cell there is no sky
When I was arrested in Shanghai

Into wealth and priveledge, huh, I was not born
But a devotion to freedom and liberty, I was sworn
So every emotion is studdied, watched and controlled 
Who gets paid, who gets disciplined, who gets rolled

A transmitter beams my coordinates anywhere on earth
And radio waves, surveilance, satellite burst
Open up your skull and let some knowledge come in
Crack open the cranium and let awareness begin....

Dareka tasukete

I watched an interview with Fat Mike on the Dennis Miller show while Fat Mike was speaking out against George Bush jr. Dennis asks Mike "Well, if punk is about being true yourself, fuck what society thinks and even though George Bush is a piece of shit, he's been totally unapologetic. John Kerry is a political chameleon who's always changing up his opinions and stances for his personal benefit. So doesn't that make George Bush punk?" I fucking HATE George Bush, but Mr. Miller has point. I dont think you can sum punk up by stating one facet of it.

Los escuché en los 90 y me volaron la cabeza

Somos de diferentes épocas pero de buenos gustos ambos :)

Rancid, Nofx, Guttermouth, Antiflag...
Real american punk rock is real, for ever tovarichs o/

Make Amerixa great again.

what is Amerixa?

Like a Rolling Stone

you suck

RANCID WILL NEVER DIE

Votano Writing they did after the drummer was replaced and when they released that album in 2009

great sawng

Rancid son los mejores

Bob Dylan like.

What isnt punk is saying what is and isnt punk.

Punk Hyena
poser. 😉.
I was hanging out with some crust punks going to an old firm casuals show and we saw lars and they starting hating on him. Turds.

Trap is the new Punk dyi as fuck and lack for established rules.
but sadly a massive lack of ideology, then again fuck all and have fun is an ideology as well.

*insert obligatory swearword.

Hyenas are punk as fuck man

There's more punk in this song than there is in an entire green day discography.

yeah Rancid have nothing to do whit Green Day.

Stefano Morini except that Tim and Billie Joe have turned together recently AND have a band together called THE ARMSTRONGS. Research dude

You're gay lol.

@bones27 American Idiot is gay. Everything GD did before that at least had punk in it.

Well that was not hard to reach.

although this song is not punk rock by any means it's still awesome

+Marty McFly This is fucking punk song !!!!!!

+Marty McFly You are going by sound. Song is very punk rock lyrically and emotionally.

+Marty McFly not punk? what is punk? lol you got to be kidding....

What isnt punk is saying what is and isnt punk.

you guys are getting carried away with this "what is punk" bull shit. just enjoy the song and hear it's message. fucking trolls, man. I swear to god.

Benny and the jets

+Airport Office what?

Benny! Benny! Benny benny benny benny benny and the jets!

Airport Office benny the jet...damn old friend

lagunya PAP banget dehhhh

I see what you did there! lol

found this in my bookmarks.... must've been on some shit that day

like a rolling stone

+radnaksi iskandar I hear that man

There's such a Dylan feel to this song, it's only unrecognized by those who don't listen to him.

The new generation of Punk music sucks..

@Punit Metalhead

isn't that the point?

ik what your saying dude, but I like this song

This isnt the new generation of punk bro. This album came out in 2003. Rancid is one of the best punk rock bands and actually brought it into the mainstream.. in a non sellout way.

fuck commies

+Shawn Rekiel how can you be a capitalist hippie anyway? that's a contradiction

That made about as much since as a Conservative-Liberal?

+Dustin Linhart my comment was based on the "fuck commies" comment coupled with the Pink Floyd image. Plus hippies and capitalists are not mutually exclusive.

i would have to agree with Shawn

曜穆 punk rock is more 'commie' than you are. ha ha ha

punx not dead neither is our race............................

yeah bro'. we never die, we re already dead...But u know, still more alive than other ppl..

FUCK CHINA MAN THOSE CUNTS ARE FUCKED UP #WHOSWITHME  

ZombiEBenoiT fuck racism, fuck china government,.,., not the people....

NAH MAN I BIN THERE AND THEY ARE ALL FUCKED UP HEY #BELEEDAT

easy buddy

Somehow this song is a little off compared to the CD version, but I'm on mobile so maybe it's just the quality of the video?

very techno... just listen man, no analogazation. lol

it's sped up slightly, i think.

I prefer this one over the original

Thank you, rancid.

Open up your skull and let sum knowledge come in , yeah
Crack open the cranium and let awareness begin.

"My only weapon.. I call poetry"

Aryell Caesar seriously banging..for real(realm)

this comment aged like a fine fucking wine

tool of the modern old day

it's "My only weapon I call... Country"

I like to modify this line slightly, ' my only weapon I call anarchy'.

why is this on a punk oi rac rock list(by kalvis kaisers)? who thinks this is rac punk ?

Rap Against Crips

Simply great.

The truth seems like a lie

i really dont know why the fuck this song reminds me of the girl i like XDD

RANCIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Favourite Rancid song.

post-Transplants song kinda

Sounds like Bob Dylan..

stenkka

This is awesome

becouse they have an others instuments and effects hear good in the begginig this instument is not a piano or guitar i forget the name but this my opinion why they didnt preform it live

Marimba

Muito bom

As Lonely Island said...you can't trust the system!

Best song on the album.

totally rad.x.

this song 3457 times better than all of their other songs all together... I'm proud for humanity when hear something like that...

Anarchism (punk) isn't just about anti-royalism and burning buildings its about the abuses of power and political poetry, it is the anthem of liberty and maverickism. yes rancid do do metal songs but 'arrested in shanghai' is about the lyrics not swearing and pissing people off. the sex pistols may have been like that but only because they where young and immature (like you for example)

man. lots of memories ...i always loved this song and the lyrics is just amazing !

karbanova máma

DAT IRONY

"his songs"? It's a fucking band.

perfect shrooms song, so many different trips.

and its called punk, not metal/rock

Same here bro.

That's where some us live

uuuhh uuuh uuuuuh!!!

tattooing "and i only got one weapon, its so plain for me to see. my only weapon i call poetry" on me

fuck i love this song..

Agreed. Sometimes punk isn't about high volume, power chords and yelling. (haha) Political punk, high paced or low paced can be appreciated by anyone willing to listen.

PUNKS ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are the best