OPERATION IVY – Sound System

Operation Ivy’s Jesse Michaels and Tim Armstrong reunite and play “Sound System” at Musack’s Rock n’ Roll Carnival on 2/5/22 for kids’ music charity with members of The Interrupters.

Musack gives kids and teens a voice through music by providing guitars, drums, and other instruments wherever the need arises.

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The video was directed by Josh Roush, a Punk Rock filmmaker based in North Hollywood, CA.

His first narrative feature, Wrong Reasons will debut in 2022. It features music from Tim Timebomb, X, Channel 3, L7, The Unseen, The Wipers, and his own bands, Bi-Product and The Overrides. His documentary Magnum Dopus is now out on DVD and he’s currently in work on a documentary on Clerks 3.

Sound system gonna bring me back up (yeah) One thing that i can depend on Sound system gonna bring be back up (right) One thing that i can depend on

Try to describe it to the limit of my ability Its there for a second then its givin up what it used to be Contained in my music is somehow more than just sound This inspiration coming and twistin things around Cuz you always know that its gonna have to go You always know that youll be back in the cold Point of departure sublimated in a song Always comin and givin us hope for a second then its gone but

Sound system gonna bring me back up (right) One thing that i can depend on Sound system gonna bring me back up (yeah) One thing that i can depend on

Static pulse inside of music bringing us escape Its always temporary changing nothing in its wake Just a second while were leaving all this things behind Just a second but its leaving just this much in mind To resist despair that second makes you see To resist despair cuz you cant change everything To resist despair in this world is What it is what it is what it is to be free

Sound system gonna bring me back up (right) One thing that i can depend on Sound system gonna bring be back up (yeah) One thing that i can depend on

Oh, pick it up, pick it up, pick it up…

Sound system! Sound system!

Wake up turn my box on bust the shades let the sun in Times are gettin tougher bout time to start runnin Box in my hand Music by my side Skankin to the rhythm of the music by my side

Sound system gonna bring me back up (yeah) One thing that i can depend on Sound system gonna bring me back up (right) One thing that i can depend on

Sound system gonna bring me back up (yeah) One thing that i can depend on Sound system gonna bring me back up (right) One thing that i can depend on

Sound system! Sound system!