FFF
Cryptic Writings
1997
Duration: 2:27
Track number: 12
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, Dave Ellefson, Nick Menza
Theme
The title stands for **'Fight For Freedom'** (and is also often seen as 'Fast Forward Fever'), and the song is a high-speed political thrash track. It deals with cynical themes of class warfare, social cleansing, and the relentless pressure to survive in a dehumanizing system that 'eliminates the poor' while the privileged 'crack a demon smile.'
Lyrics
Looking for a cure within the human race
Eliminate the poor, how much longer will it take
Burning up the tents of the rank and file
Exterminate their lives, crack a demon smile
Crushing down, caving in our will to live
Getting rid of man's mistakes
To take a lost life, lock it up, break it down
How much more can we take
**Fight for freedom**, **fight authority**
Fight for anything, my country tis' of me
Cry for absolution, it's not the end for me
A last minute pardon, one final reprieve
Resist the war machine, don't get in its path
Fight to die a free man and reap the aftermath
Crushing down, caving in our will to live
Getting rid of man's mistakes
To take a lost life, lock it up, break it down
I don't know how much more I can take
Fight!... It's my country
