LYRICS FROM STRUNG OUT, NUFAN, NOFX, BAD RELIGION, and more to come!
Song List:
Firecracker
Better Day
Solitaire
Never Good Enough
Gearbox
Monster
Bring Out Your Dead
Rottin' Apple
Radio Suicide
Somnombulance
Six Feet
Speed Ball
Wrong Side of the Tracks
The Answer Is Still No
Invincible
Growing Down
On the Outside
A Postcard Would Be Nice
Secret
Best Regards
Revenge
Sidewalk
Three Month Weekend
Sitting Duck
Fields Of Athenry
Justified Black Eye
The Daily Grind
Linoleum
Leave It Alone
Dig
The Cause
Don't Call Me White
A Perfect Government
The Brews
Dying Degree
Fleas
Lori Meyers
Jeff Wears Birkenstocks?
Punk Guy ('cause he does punk things)
The Happy Guy
Reeko
Scavenger Type
The Death Of John Smith
The Longest Line
Stranded
Remnants
Kill All the White Man
Punk Rock Elite
Kids of the K-Hole
Murder the Government
Monosylabic Girl
180 Degrees
All His Suits Are Torn
All Outta Angst
I'm Telling Tim
Dad's Bad News
Kill Rockstars
Eat the Meek
The Desperation's Gone
Quart In Session
Falling In Love
Incomplete
Leave Mine To Me
Stranger Than Fiction
Tiny Voices
The Handshake
Better Off Dead
Infected
Television
Individual
Hooray For Me...
Slumber
STRUNG OUT
lyrics
from SUBURBAN TEENAGE WASTELAND BLUES
(ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE-soon.)
The other day I swear to God
I got a letter in the mail that
Said register with us or you’re
Gonna go to jail
You’ll be put inside a cage, then
Forced to enlist
Well I laughed out loud, said I
Won’t comply
to be labeled as one of those
Who qualify to be shipped off to
Fight some fucking war
‘Cause your war’s not about policy-religion.
It’s about economy and I’m not dying
To set your country free
I’ll never bow to your expectations
I never have I never will
I’m not a puppet, pawn, or
Figure head I’m a man of my
Own free will
Our freedoms are slowly surrendered
As they take more than their fill
How much power is ever enough for
The men, the men on Capital Hill.
They’re cuttin’s back on welfare
IL legalizing harmlessness, am I the
Only one to see there’s something
Wrong with this
I don’t have the answers won’t
Pretend to say I will but to put
My trust in the government, I think I’d
rather kill
Off mighty word democracy
Spells freedom for you and me
The books have all been written
And the prophets denied
Little by little watch this state
Begin to fall as we awaken from
This dream and find ourselves
Nailed to the wall
Oh firecracker patriotic lire, you were
Burnin’ bright the day the country
Died, in all your glory in all your
Pride,
Light the way torch of Liberty
Light the sky for the whole world
To see, in all your glory in all
Your pride.
Better Day
Some days I’m up, some days I’m
Down, some days I don’t give a fuck
About anything.
Cause yesterday I gave everything
Now I want something’ back
Wanna end it all, wanna save the world.
Wanna take what was never mine.
I wanna shout it all out to the world.
I wanna keep it all inside
Here I am!
I’m just lookin’ for
Better day’s, the kind
That never seem to come
My way
So here I am
I’m just lookin’ for better
Day’s-the kind that never
Seem to come just when
You need em’ most
I remember a time, not too long
Ago when all my day’s would only
Start in one shade of black-
When all the thoughts that dragged
Through my head seem to wash away
The sun
Always a dollar short and one split
Second out of time
Exiled in a memory-tonight I’ll
Drink-Drink myself to sleep
I’m just part of all the madness
Here I know, that anything I
Say or do won’t ever change a thing
When the words have all been
Spoken and intentions smoked away
I find myself in the same ol’ shit.
The same ol’ shit again
Maybe today won’t be the same
Maybe I’ll just stand my ground
Maybe another time another place
I’ll float myself right outta here
Under the influence of reality.
Some days I drive myself insane
Some days I’m all I’ve got
Some days I’m tired of seeing
The world take everything I’ve got
It’s hard to get it right when doin’
Wrong is all you know
I’ll take my chance when tomorrow
Comes with a little luck I’ll grow.
I hurt myself again today,
Feelin’ a little numb I could
Use the pain.
I always find myself in this
Little bind.
It’s been a few weeks since
You’ve been around
So here I sit with my hands
Strapped down patiently awaiting
Our secret games
We used to play alone
So here I sit all tied up
All alone with all my thoughts
I do not mind if this goes
On
I think about what I’ll say to
You when you finally decide to
come my way
I’m sittin’ around all painted up
like a fool
And I don’t know how I got
This way and I don’t know how much more I wanna take
But I know you’ll shoot me down
And bury me before I get too high.
So here I sit all tied up all
Alone with all my thoughts when
Will I learn to walk away
From the things I do that make
Me feel the way I feel when
I’m with you? Tonight it’s me, myself
and I
All this pain I seem to put
Myself through, all the ways I
Find to submit to you
Cat o’ nine tails gettin’ old
And I don’t know how I got
This way I don’t know how much more
I wanna take
I got a million ways to tame
Myself and a million nights to
Try
When will you come around
To do the things you do to me
I hate this game of solitaire
Never Good Enough
She’s a big girl and she knows
Just what she wants
She’s gonna get her shit together
gonna get out of Hollywood
Daddy’s little angel won’t be commin’
Home tonight.
When you’re nowhere to be found
I’ll know you’ve givin up the
Fight
She can’t hold her own she
Says she’s gotta run away from
Here
The city’s gotten the best of
Her just one too many times.
When everything’s been said and
Done and the dust has finally cleared
I’ll be your fool just one more
Time I’ll be waitin’ by the phone.
Cause I don’t know
And I don’t care
I’ll do anything you want
Never good enough for you.
Well she don’t need nobody anyway.
That’s cause no one understands her
She’s somewhere in outer space
Knock Knockin at my head again this
Time you won’t get in
She’s in orbit now and I’m underground
Just waitin’ by the phone
Everything she sees is everything
She wants
There’s a riddle in her eyes sometimes I try to figure it out
She’s got a mountain of toys reachin’
to the sky doesn’t keep her high
So the needle and the spoon are gonna
make
You feel alright
chorus
I remember you used to pray
For me now you turn your
Head away
Expectations that I never met
Forgotten promises you never
Kept
I know someday there’ll be a
Time when you can look
Me in the eye
Now I write these words just
To keep it clear
In a jaded song you won’t
Ever hear
I never wanted your forgiveness
You did what you had to I did
What I could now we’ve gone
Our separate ways
I never found comfort in your
Acceptance if times a healer
Then I’ll sit and wait for
Your poison words to scar.
A notebook filled with a million
Words sits quietly by my side
Like a loaded gun with wrong
Intentions they tell me life is pain
I forgot a long time ago, but
Everyday I’m reminded of the
Way
You put me down, the way you
Put me out, the way you torched
My fucking world
chorus
I don’t need your lies don’t
Need your promises
Don’t want your open arms don’t
Need your sacred ways and all
I need is all I am today.
What was once belief has now
Turned to grief
And there ain’t nothin’ more that
You could say
Look to myself for everything I need
Ain’t lookin’ back on anything.
So you think you got me all figured
Out and you think you know what this
Hate is all about
Don’t try to understand, don’t try to
Comprehend the answer is my words.
When the world comes crashin’ down
All around
And I need a quite place to hide.
You’ll find me deep inside my head
Under a tree of thought in a world of
Pain.
I never wanted you here
I never needed you here
So when you think of me try
To understand
I never wanted your help I
Never needed your hand to
Guide me there your maze
Of lies
To guide me through your
Narrow world
I forgot a long time ago, now
Every day I’m reminded of the
Way you put me down the way
You put me out the way you
Torched my whole world.
Time it makes you old, experience
Make you wise.
And it’s only a fool who judges life by
What he sees in other people’s eyes.
The decisions that you cast effect
The outcome of your game the
Only person who’s gonna think about
You is the one that’s standin’ in
Your shoes
Live by the sword die by the
Sword
I’m a weapon of my set. The
Only family that I’ve ever known
Is the gun that’s by my side
Little big man he’s not alone
Now, he’s all grown up his stories
Written all along these city walls.
Found unity, he’s gained a brotherhood
As they gather to beat you down
The fists reign hard, the fightin’
Never stops.
There’s no mercy in this town
And I don’t know when it’s gonna’ end
For me
This side of town is all I know
It’s all I see
If I go on like this I’m gonna’
End it all one day
It’s my destiny it’s my reality It’s society.
I wear my colors proud but stare
Me down
I’ve got a million scars to prove
My pain
You think you know who I am
Try walking a mile in my shoes.
Quick on the draw
Never walk alone
Know your enemy
Never be afraid, it’s what they always say
Till they come around for you.
Ghetto birds light the evening
Sky as the sun begins to fall
Another night he’ll spend in this
Jungle with his back up against the wall.
Bring Out Your Dead
One brief recollection of all the
People in my life that have
come and gone
One brief fleeting moment of
People I’ve loved and people that
I have wronged
Long lost are loved ones gone
But this bird cannot seem to
Mend it’s broken wings so the
Lust for life dissipated and
A new greed rises for the
Needful things.
Don’t wanna think about it, I
Indulge myself
Distraction eases pain, bury my
Emotions to protect myself.
Till I can’t feel a fucking thing
I’ve dared to dream I’ve tried
To live
But I’ve played it safe again
Just another slave to my vices now
Bring out your dead
Voices wither and crack then die
Ringin’ in my ear would sing me
Soft asleep
Deathly silence now is all I hear
Has inspiration finally eluded me
chorus
My addiction, my illness, my only
Trusted friend
My addiction my illness my only
Childhood friend.
Your twisted warm embrace
Engulfing all I’ve tried to be
My body’s breaking under
Arms that will not set me free
Locked in this cage that I’ve
Built myself
Constructed out of twisted cold
Reminders of a Life once lost
But I’ve found my way again.
Here among the wreckage and the
Vampires
I’ll play it safe again, just another
Slave to my vices now.
Rottin’ Apple
Hey tired man I see you walk
Alone.
The wrinkles on your face, a map
Of all your pain
Your expression becomes an open book
Of time, filled with pages of forgotten
Hopes.
Good intentions, regret, disillusion with
Life, animosity, unbridled purity.
All these things I swear I see
And your eyes tell me all you could
Never be.
So many times I’ve stared
Into the eyes of the young, the old,
The lonely and the wise.
Just to find a glimpse of all I
Have not seen
Just to find some peace for my
Jaded mind.
Don’t wanna live my life by
the second hand of a clock that’s
Long since past me by
You say I’ve got to stay in line
While your line is going nowhere and
So are you.
Choices decisions made smokin’ away
The pain inside
Sit back and watch it all go by
We could never find the peace
Of mind we need
We hid it all away for another day
Sit back everything’s gonna be alright.
Rivers of pain map your agin’
Skin your expression a journal
Of where you’ve been
All your dreams and your chances
Lost
You walk along that dotted line
Do you remember a time
When you used to dream?
Do you remember a time when
You used to Live?
All your dreams and chance they’re
All gone.
So you gave it all away unalbe
to say all you wanna say
Look at you now-turned out to be
Face of misery
Look at you now a rottin Apple’s all
I see.
Radio Suicide
Two silhouettes stand tall against
A gray November sky
Utopian suburban teenage wasteland blues.
You turn to me and sigh, the boredom
Growin’ in your eyes
As a voice sings songs of splendor
From the radio
I hear that voice again submerging
From the stereo
Invisible electric life flows
Right through me
Then for a moment I forget about
Just where I’m at and the world fallin’
Around looses all urgency.
It’s just another transmission from
A place we all want to be.
It takes control then it spits
Me back to reality
I hear the music
then I close my eyes
It’s just another radio suicide on
The airwaves.
I turn it on-invisible electric life
then the song comes on the radio
The signal takes control-heartbeat
Starts to slow
You hear the words reverberating
In your mind
Twisted electric waves pulse from the
stereo
As a voice screams out loud
Everything is not alright
Forget about the static pulsing
In your ear
Forget everything you see and hear
it’s just another radio suicide
I lie awake again no sleep tonight
I find no peace in the quiet absence
Of the light
A million whispered thoughts floatin’
Through my head
A million seconds has passed me
By in my bed
One two three now it’s four in the
Mornin’ as the emptiness swallows
Me on emore time
I grow a little older with every
Second that passes
I die a little every time I
Close my eyes
No sanctuary in my dreams
No quiet place to hide
Every night I swear it’s the same
And I don’t know where I’ll be tonight
but I know sleep will come if
I walk all night
It’s been a thousand hours maybe
Even more
Since I fell victim to all the
Thoughts I tried to ignore
Nameless faces and sounds, voices
Screamin’ in pain, huddled shadows
And sirens voices calling my name.
Well I can’t sleep but I’m not
Awake to this hazy dim version
of reality
Hypnotized by everything I
Can’t control
Desensitized by everything
That controls me
Chorus
Well I can’t sleep so
It’s here in the dark
I’ll make my peace with all that
I’ve learned
Sanity’s just another dream
Away
Maybe with time it’ll be alright
Everything I swear it’s the
Same
I walk all night and never ever
Get anywhere
It’s taken all my strength
It’s taken all the life that used
To flow deep inside of me
So
In my dreams I’ll find my peace
All of my days are filled with no rest
Maybe with time it’ll be alright.
Six Feet
A family man in the midst of
A total breakdown
Seeks refuge inebriated state
As he thinks to himself how did
Life pass me by-somewhere down
The line I forgot to live
Now every day is just another chore.
Another day, another week, another
year.
The world slowly turns, but this
Rut never ends-one blink of an
Eye then it’s gone.
So he puts his faith in the Almighty
Lord up above, he’s told for all good
Men Heaven awaits
"Well I can’t wait any longer when’s
It my turn to see the light that’ll
Come and take my troubles away?"
Now he spends his days preaching
What he does not believe, to a world
That’s forgotten how to live
And he can’t understand the empty
Feelin’ inside that seems to grow
Every hour, every day.
"What’s it take to be a man, when
Everything I’m taught I can’t believe
And everything is thrown right in my face?
I wake up everyday, I live here among
The dead and I am one of them. Is
This how it’s gotta be? For you and me
Open your eyes take a look
Around think nice thoughts then
It’s off to work I go!"
Now it’s back to the hustle and it’s
Back to the beat
It’s back to another forty hour
Week.
"Soon that weekend will come
I’ll get to have a little for then
it’s back to my forty hour grave"
Speed Ball
No miracles gonna save you now
No profound word’s gonna show
You how
No revelation’s gonna change the way
You live
No wise man’s gonna change the way
You live
No wise man’s gonna come
And take your hand
No awakening lies in store for you
No effort you submit will deliver you.
No picture worth a million word’s
No Salvation worth a million lives
Will ever open your eyes so that
You could really see
You’ve come this far doin what
You do so why change now
You’re doin fine
I’ll candy coat another rhyme for
You.
You’re on a speedball
And it’s goin straight to hell
And I don’t wanna get in your
Way
You’re on a rocket and it’s goin’
Straight down
You’ve lit the fuse set
The fire now there’s no one
Left to save you.
Someone pulled the chair right
Under you, now you’re swingin’ by the
Neck and sill you continue to smile
Step right up and get your fix
Climb back to your crucifix
We’re burnin’ the world down tonight.
No new improved better lookin’ god
No antiestablishmentariant?
Punk Rock song will save the word
Tonight
We’re on a speedball goin’ to hell
A one-way to Candyland and you
Ain’t got no reason to fight
You don’t have the answers
You don’t have the solutions
Somehow it always ends up
Working out.
Wrong Side Of The Tracks
Tell me what you want from me
Cause I don’t know exactly
What you want me to be
There’s no place left for me
To go now so why don’t you
Come kick me around for
A while
Down here you won’t see me cryin’
Ain’t got no time for that
I’ve planned a million ways to
Sacrifice myself now
Seems every time I try to gain a
Little ground-I wind up right back
Where I never thought I’d be
Down here it feels
Alright
Plenty of time
To find another way.
Self-destruction’s the only way I know how to
Maybe another time, maybe another
Day. I’ll be strong enough to leave
This place behind me
Like a clown I’ll raise my glass
To the sky and toast another night
Serenadin’ my reflection
Chorus
Plenty of time to find another
Way to seize the day without this bottle
of redemption
So tonight I’ll stumble my way
Home, maybe tomorrow I’ll find
Myself a job
But tonight I got the moon
And the stars I got a song in
My head and a pocket full of nothin’
Well I got no plans got
No peace of mind
I gotta find a way outta here
Took a little more than I gave
Away
Now it’s up to me to get up and
Try to get it right.
lyrics
from MAKING FRIENDS and 2 extras.
The Answer Is Still No
I couldn't understand why you left me standing here
flickering out like a candle in the wind
memories are laced with shame
there's no intention of working out the
problem that remains the same
Little children standing in the hall
never taught them anything at all
if you were young again would you do it
different?
or keep on making your way trying to find
the fiction in the fact of life?
Try to believe the words that you said to me are true
but something else assures me I'm through
been denied so many times and so I'm told
to sit back and ignore the truth,
enjoy the ride.
Never took a hand with her to school
take a guess then tell us who's the fool
and you're not supposed to be my responsibility
maybe someday you'll regain your pride
and realize life is too short not to try...
Does anybody care?
This conversation sickens me
please let me out, I'll take the bus
and though I try to understand,
I didn't know
how can you say that I'm a fool when all I
do is help
well I guess I'm a fool but I know that I'm
not your pawn
that feeling is dead and gone.
Pretend you're invincible and no one can
save you from yourself
pretend you're a super hero
a fucking zero
trying to save the world
Please don't remind me of the past
it's much too late to work it out
and though I see the positive, I hear the doubt
go off and hide your life away, these words
are obsolete
and I'm crazy to think you can wake up and come around
the silence is made with sound.
Pretend you're invincible , there's no one to tell you that it's wrong
they're all just as scared as I am
it's over someday
soon it won't be long
He doesn't know what's wrong it's been this
way for much too long.
and nothing could be easier than blaming
this on her
kicking in the womb she brings it up he
leaves the room
walk away all he has to say you got what
you deserve.
It's your fault I don't think that it's even mine
and I guess there's not much in his
little mind.
it's a shame when it happens everyday.
He doesn't stop to think that every bottle
that he drinks
is just an additive to ignorance hence
problems that exist
lay down on the bed and dream of glory
days instead
not egocentric attitudes solved problems
with a fist.
I don't understand why he can get so mad
she don't want it either but it's
too late dad
it's not right and I doubt next time I'll think twice.
Pretend that they're lovers but she feels like a
slave
how could I even know?
she's sinking to the bottom and he can't feel
her pain
too late cause the seeds were sown.
Growing down instead of up where you belong
always weak when you're requested
to be strong
it's a shame when it happens everyday.
On the Outside
I'll see you on the outside and we'll never be
the same
after all that's happened what is it that we've
gained?
well I've made mistakes before and never lived
them down
after all you've done for me I'm bound (don't
say another word)
To see you on the outside where we can both
be sane
(you're speaking for yourself) I'm bleeding on
the inside
a place you might have been but now I know
I'll (never be the same)
Well I heard you got a place and it's far away
from here
reality has sun in now confirming
all my fears
I'm not gonna track you down and it's too late
to stop
thinking about the time that we have lost (i'm
happy without you)
I'm trying to forget you and everything we had
(we didn't stand a chance)
we're miserable and it's true, I haven't learned
a thing
but now I know I'll trust no one else
(There was a time when we were back and forth, it wasn't easy)
I guess that we're back where
we belong
one thing is for sure it wasn't strong
I'll see you on the outside, where we can both feel shame
(you've never been more right)
I'm dying on the inside, you're never coming back
and now I know whatever we go through
my heart is stuck with you.
A Postcard Would Be Nice
Lost yourself it didn't take much time, it wasn't
hard to find
now that you've been to the edge, stood and
looked down from the top
and found it wasn't worth the pain, a selfish
way to say
I'm the only one that counts and happiness is
out
Really insecure, disguising what's inside you're
not cool to me
I won't wait in the back of the line
No one knows exactly where you went, the
money has been spent
sent the search team, I'm about to
call it off
feel you close when you're so far away, a
straw inside your vein
as it sucks the life from you I watch it all come true
When it happens like a million
times before
I won't close my mind but I refuse to open the
door
Feel the world caving in, you had so much left
to give
is it worth the tide you turned, all the people
that you burned?
So long to your little friend this is how the story
ends
I'm the only one cause nobody cared anyway.
Hate yourself just like I thought you would it
didn't do us good
I'm afraid of being right so before we say
good-bye to you
come down from off your throne and let the
truth be known
we all know you're not insane, it's how you play
this game
Really insecure disguising what's inside
it's not cool to me when the game is a fake
suicide.
Father works the late shift, mother drinks herself
to sleep
brother's ouside fiending with a match and
gasoline
They told her lies and gave her no hope for
tomorrow
and all the fairy tales just fade away
the brightest day of all, the one that she's been
needing
turns to gray
The boyfriend calls her crazy teacher bores us
all to sleep.
and friends are in the bathroom speaking just
like enemies
Nobody understands the shame that you've been feeling
the dirty secret living in her heart
it must be hard to put the pieces back together
torn apart
Always there to make you think that you're no
good
there's nothing wrong with what
you've done
they just wanna lift you up and throw you down
and make you stop when all you
wanna do is run
Nobody understands her heart that's left there
bleeding
the dirty secret living in her mind
they'll always tell you that you lit the fire you're
feeding left behind
Best Regards
Don't take it so hard, we're not
against you
it's really no that bad, it's just that they want you to think that it is
I'm over the past, but I can't defend you
so I'll say it one last time before I leave that life
behind
It's easy to abuse the friends that end up
screwed
just take one for the team. I hope
you're happy
It's hard to believe that once there
was something
there's something to be said for sinking the ship
that I wanted to sail
you don't have a clue, you never can and never will
but I'll suck it up and lie, with all my dignity and
pride
These words cant say it all, you're feeling ten
feet tall
and stronger everyday. I've leaned to walk
away.
So easy to confuse another lie that's true
you'll fnd out for yourself. I hope
you're happy.
Covered up your insecurities with everything
showing everyone exactly how you think
made no difference. I can see right through your
best disguise
you look like somone else it doesn't matter
where you hide
You wanna empty clips on everyone around
and burn their fortress to the ground
Socializing makes you sick from
drinking everything
and if looks could kill we'd surely all be dead
maybe sticks olf dynamite would solve your
problems now
underneath my feet, was it something that I
said?
You wanna empty clips on
everyone around
and burn their fortress to the ground
Someday soon you'll have your way and
everyone will leave you all alone
you laugh at everyone's mistakes, trapped inside
a mind you call home
You wanna empty clips on
everyone around
and burn their fortress to the ground.
Sitting in the lazy chair the channels look the
same
I realize that the roof is stable and start to feel
ashamed
it's cold outside but don't ask me the weather's fine in here
ask the man around the corner who lives his life
in fear.
Two hundred pennies forty ounces later he's
okay
he doesn't have the pressure to think about the
next day
but I bet it's something cold and hard and grey.
Complaining and whiling all the time. I never
seem to quit
always lying to myself, a shoe that seems to fit
never is a long time and it feels like I'm a clock
ticking like a time bomb someday soon his life will stop
I listen to the radio but nothing
good is on
my friends are calling up but I'm pretending that
I'm gone
we're all pieces in a chess game
he's a pawn
I wonder how it turned out like this, no one seems
to care
the scale has tipped me fortunate is this what we
call fair?
but I've never had the mind to know it never had the guts to show it
I know one thing his dream is my nightmare.
Three Month Weekend
It's a Thursday morning four a.m. and you won't
let me go
if tomorrow comes I guess I'll
never know
even in the darkest hour it's the brightest time of
day.
even when I go to bed I'm still awake
Eyes held up with toothpicks and my jaw is going
off
I will never leave you or admit that I was wrong
There's so many things I'd like to say I'm foarming
at the mouth
maybe I could write, my pen is
hollowed out.
I've got ideas and inventions and I'd use them if I could
stop waking up the net day when they're all no
good.
Please don't say another word. I know your story
well
conversations take two but I'm talking
to myself
Now I need an alibi and everything I did was
true
but ever word I said was just a lie.
Sitting Duck
I read the morning paper, someone had just died
in big bold letters so it comes as
no surprise
I'm looking at a story bout violence, a word from a lawyer in his defense
this time we got the jury by the throat
I turn the television on to get away
a quick reminder that we have to follow every
word they say
learned another lesson in hisotry written like a
murder and mystery.
to me it's just another way of disguising the past
Fear is not the way to make it work and be as
one
it's too late the damage has been done
so fly your flag and make your statements, hold
on to your pride
and live your life for others that have died
This is the end of what we know, where do we go?
don't look for solace in some shallow, ignorant late
night talk show
think about your problems every now and then
discover that we're limited in the end
sometimes you've got to close your eyes, start thinking for yourself.
Fields Of Athenry
low lie the fields of athenry where once we
watched the small free birds
fly our love was on the wing
we had dreams and songs to sings it's so
lonely around the fields of athenry.
Justified Black Eye
She was confused and abused in this life
Emotional and violent moments
Seemed to take the longes time
Every single knockout, dragout
Fight they ever had
Apologies and dignity denied
He starts to laugh he starts to lie with
Suddenly psychotic eyes
Every night she cried herself to sleep
She didn't recognize
Her own face in the mirror
Black and blue, so afraid
Intimidation
Like a child she hides away
He would always try to justify what wasn't true
Justified black eye
Taken for granted, she sleeps by
The phone waiting for a call
From him but it seems he's never coming home
14 beers later he is there without an answer
Once again she questions his
Lies, he goes to bed with
No reply
Tomorrow morning, different story
And he'll be a different guy
He'll justify her black eye
With another lie
She packs her bags in great temptation
He's on his knees, again he cries
A hug and a kiss and a don't know why
As a tear drops from her swollen eye
Apologies until tonight and then another
Justified black eye.
The Daily Grind
Another morning and I'm awake
The same old thing but a different day
I want to drive but my tank is dry
The ground is wet with rain
Greedy people are pushing me
Needy people in misery
It's a push and shove community
But how the hell can I complain
On the other side of town
People are sleeping on the ground
Look not far and you will find
A tragedy The Daily Grind
Seems like when the times are tough
Taht hope is down and the price goes up
There's not enough jobs to fill a cup
And the streets are filled with shame
Here I am in a traffic jam
And ugly faces stare me down
And they call this the right side of town
But still I can't complain
On the other side of town
People are sleeping on the ground
Fighting wars that can't be won
12 year old boy with a gun
Look not far and you will find
A tragedy The Daily Grind
lyrics
from PUNK IN DRUBLIC, the LONGEST LINE, and SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE SHOES
Possessions never meant anything to me
I'm not crazy ('cause I've got none)
Well that's not true, I've got a bed and a guitar
And a dog named Dog who pisses on my floor
That's right, I've got a floor
So what, so what, so what?
I've got pockets full of Kleenex and lint and holes
Where everything important to me just seems
To fall right down my leg
And on the floor
My closest friend, Linoleum.
Linoleum
Supports my head, gives me something to believe
That's me on the beachside combing the sand
Metal meter in my hand
Sporting a pocket full of change
That's me on the street with a violin under my chin
Playing with a grin, singing gibberish
That's me on the back of the bus
That's me in the cell
That's me inside your head
That's me inside your head
Leave It Alone
Breath ever so soft
We wouldn't wanna break the eggs as we walk
Never alone, cautious, afraid
I hear the voice of reason on the P.A.
Leave it alone, follow the grain
We couldn't stop the irresistible force
Leave it the same, change with the leaves
Bringing in the sheaves, bringing in the old
Leave it alone
Da na na na na na na na
Da na na na na na na na
Da na na na na na na na
Da na na na na na na na
Breath, ever so slight
We couldn't take away your god given right
Leave it alone, heel and stay
Roll over and shake and beg for the bone
Leave it alone
Da na na na na na na na
Da na na na na na na na
Da na na na na na na na
Da na na na na na na na
Rationalize values it's so easy to succeed
Keeping your eyes on the prize excess
Camped outside Laissez Faire
People understand me there
Don't talk to me we'll get along just fine
Blowin' out your mores
Henry Ford tradition preys on
Idle minds left the emergency brake on too long
Underneath the city lies the ruins of mankind
The excavation was a financial success
With artifacts of gold
The arrowheads went straight to the Smithsonian
The rest was melted down and sold
Substantial gains
Minimal losses are tolerable
As long as the machine keeps running fine
Cannibals
Functioning on pheromones
Rational thought lost to instinctual.
The Cause
It isn't for the money, so it isn't for the fun
It's a plan, a scam, a diagram
It's for the benefit of everyone
You gotta have a little respect
Subterranean ideas
Traditional neglect
Reflect on how you think it would make you feel
The cause-we're just doing it for the cause
No it isn't for the fortune, it isn't for the fame
It's a scheme, a dream, a barterine
We want everyone to think the same
Because you know what you feel is right
And you feel what you can't ignore
And you try so hard to point the blame
Ashamed-what do we do this for?
The cause-we're just doing it for the cause
The cause-we're just doing it for the cause
The cause-we're just doing it for the cause
The cause-we're just doing it for the cause
Don't Call Me White
Don't call me white, don't call me white
Don't call me white, don't call me white
The connotations wearing my nerves thin
Could it be semantics generating the mess we're in?
I understand that language breeds stereotype
But what's the explanation for the malice, for the spite.
Don't call me white, don't call me white
Don't call me white, don't call me white
I wasn't brought here, I was born
Circumsized, categorized, allegiance sworn
Does this mean I have to take such shit
For being fair skinned? No!
I ain't a part of no conspiracy, I'm just you're average Joe.
Don't call me white, don't call me white
Don't call me white, don't call me white
Represents everything I hate
The soap shoved in the mouth to cleanse the mind
The vast majority of sheep
A buttoned collar, startched and bleached
Constricting veins, the blood flow to the brain slows
They're so fucking ordinary white.
Don't call me white, don't call me white
Don't call me white, don't call me white
Oh, we're better off this way?
Oh, say what you're gonna say
So go ahead and label me an asshole
'Cause I can
Accept responsibility for what I've done
But not for who I am
Don't call me white, don't call me white
Don't call me white, don't call me white
A Perfect Government
Even if it's easy to be free
What's your definition of freedom?
And who the fuck are you, anyway?
Who the fuck are they?
Who the fuck am I to say?
What the fuck is really going on?
How did the cat get so fat?
Why does the family die?
Do you care why?
'Cause there hasn't been a sign
Of anything gettin' better
In the ghetto
People's fed up
But when they get up
You point you're fuckin' finger
You racist, you bigot
But that's not the problem
How is it?
It's all about the money
Political power is takin
Protecting the rich denying the poor
Yeah, they love to watch the war from the
White House
And I wonder how can they sleep at night?
How can they sleep at night?
How did the cat get so fat?
How did the cat get so fat?
How did the cat get so fat?
How did the cat get so fat?
The Brews
Friday night we'll be drinkin Manashevitz
Goin out to terrorize Goyem
Stompin Shagitz, screwin schicksas
As long as we're home by Saturday mornin
Cause hey we're the Brews
Sportin Anti Swastika tattoos
Oi Oi we're the boys Orthodox, Hesidic, O.G. ois
Orthopedic Dr. Martins good for
Waffle making, kicking through the shin
Reputation, gained through intimidation
Pacifism no longer tradition
Cause hey we're the brews
Sportin Anti Swastika tattoos
Oi oi we're the brews
The Fairfax Ghetto boys skinheaded Jews
We got the might, psycho Mashuganas
We can't lose a fight, as we are the
Chosen ones
Chutspah, we battle then we feast
We celebrate, we'll separate our milkplates
From our meat
Cause hey we're the brews
Sportin Anti Swastika tattoos
Oi oi we're the boys
Orthodox, Hesidic, O.G. ois
Dying Degree
Dresser drawers are filled with pocket change
Coupons cut, cigarettes smioked down to the butt,
Is this what dreams are made of!
Adding up subtracting down you find
Yourself sucking the rind
Dying degree, grayin Amie
Final payment made-had you forgot?
The rightful owner of one deluxe cemetary plot
Paisley satin lined how apprapoe
What a better way to go
Dying degree, grayin Amie
No more eating crumbs
When my pension finally comes
You kids won't eat mush anymore 'round me
Dying degree, graying Aime
My father used to say
You sleep with dogs the next day
You'll wake in the bed scratching
Those inevitable fleas
At ten years old
You listen to what you're told
But I never felt the itch
I never would
My mother had forbidden me
To waste away my life
I want you to have all the things
I could never buy you
So don't stop what I'd begun
You'r my one my only son
Follow what I say not what I've done
Follow what I say not what I've done
Shower, scrub, and shave
Cleanly boys don't misbehave
Follow what I say, not what I've done
Lori Meyers
Lori Meyers used to live upstairs
Our parents had been friends for years
Almost every afternoon we'd play forbidden games
At nine years old there's no such thing as shame
It wasn't recognition of her face, what
brought me back was a familiar mark
As it flashed across the screen. I bought some magazines, some video taped scenes
Incriminating act I felt that I could save her
Who are you to tell me how to live my life?
You think I sell my body; I merely sell my time.
I ain't no Cinderella, I ain't waiting for no prince
To save me in fact until just now I was doing just fine
And on and on
I know what degradation feels like
I felt it on the floor at the factory
Where I worked long before, I took control
Now I answer to me
The 50K I make this year will go anywhere I please
Where's the problem?
Jeff Wears Birkenstocks?
Don't wanna chill, don't wanna sit
Don't wanna hear no hippy shit
Don't tell me I've closed my mind
Don't wanna groove, don't wanna dig
Don't wanna spend the day naked
Don't like my music country fried
He's got a tye dyed Rancid shirt
He wears his birkenstocks to work.
Is he a jerk? No! Just confused
Jeff don't wear regular shoes
Fat Mike I gotta let you know
It's not the tunes, it's their live show
And all the people you get to meet
Plenty of good vibes and decent dugs
Stinky people give you hugs
Walk around in your bare feet
He's got a tye dyed Rancid shirt
He wears his birkenstocks to work
Is he a jerk? No! Just confused
Jeff don't wear regular shoes
He's got a tye dyed Rancid shirt
He wears his birkenstocks to work
Is he a jerk? No! Just confused
Jeff don't wear regular shoes.
Punk Guy ('cause he does punk things)
Crazier than GG, yet more PC than Ian
Got colored teeth like Johnny
Exudes a vicious disposition
His hair sticks out like Colin's did, he jumps
Similar to Springa, he points his middle finga
Not just he singer in the band
Voted biggest asshole and role model of the year
Got a face like Charles Bronson
Straight outta Green Bay Wisconsin
Not just a singer in the band
He'll punke on you, he'll fuck your mom, he'll smoke
While huffing gas
He was the punkest mother fucker I ever did see
Hell he was even more punk than me
He should've been on the cover
He should've been on the cover
He should've been on the cover of Punk and
Disorderly Volume II
The Happy Guy
He's just a man getting through life
The best he can
He's not a scientist, he programs a computer
Before that he sold cars to pay a
Student loan now he receives pity
From his family-his friends say how could he
Turn his back on reason worshipping
A god finding truth through fear and mind control.
He's just a man trying to explain how
He found the word of God could make life seem less
Insane
So he shares what he's read, what he understands, it
Makes
Sense to him, It makes perfect sense to him, in fact
He's nevers een so clearly
Turned his back on free will-has he lost his mind?
He'd rather kneel down than take charge of his life
And he knows what people think, but it doesn't sway
Him
He can read the writings on the wall
'Cause he knows how people treat, how they treat each
Other
A sacrifice to benefit the all
Don't try to judge him, his theologian ideals
His hopes may be false but his happiness is real
Don't try to judge him, he's just a man
Reeko, try to understand, it really is that bad
It won't just go away, the party's over
It's past two o'clock, so it's about time we
Stopped, 'cause I
See the keg has been sucked dry
The cisco was emptied into the aquarium
Where the fish all seem to play the ex lax lines
The dog bowl
The toilet's overflowed, we've had our fun so
Now there's nothing left to damage
We got no place left to go
Mr. President please understand, it really is that bad
It won't just go away, it's just beginning
The ballots have been cast, we make like seaward rats
Leave this sinking ship, leave and not look back
The things we never tried to disallow
Have come back to haunt us now
With apple pie and Chevrolet
We've come back to see the end, we all made this bed
Now we got nowhere to lay,
Dies and gentlemen
Try to understand
Scavenger Type
Gigin alone at the bottom of the hill
Our protagonist named Bill
Sets his sights on an anchor steam pint
All he needs is thirteen quarters
Congregated in his hat
A crow, a scavenger type
California redemption provides him with his rent
Room and board inside a fifth of comfort
As the wind penetrates his bones
His mind keeps focused
Tidal waves of sound catapulted
From his horn wail like lovees
The coins don't drop consistent as does the mercury
His meter slows realizing a zenith
He's reached perfection
No one did see him die.
The Death Of John Smith
I've got respect from the community
I've got my bridge game to look forward to
I've got this chance, a golden opportunity
As long as I keep goind what I'm supposed to
You see my wife and the kids, they depend on me
To provide them with nothing but the best
I feel it's my duty, my obligation
to live up to the standards society suggests
So I'll keep on working for their benefit
And I'll keep on drinking
I'll keep on believing in my life
Another year of slaving and smiling, buying and trading
Living the life of a wealthy man
But somehow I don't feel so rich inside
But that doesn't make sense
I just had a two week vacation
As soon as I get this operation
taken care of, I'll start enjoying
the good things in life
So I'll keep on working for the benefits
And I'll keep on drinking
I'll keep on believing in my life
When the pity spins your mind,
Darkness fill your heart,
And I won't be around
When you're feeling all alone,
They you'll know it's time,
To go into the ground
When the pity spins your mind,
Darkness fill your heartr,
And I won't be around
I've got my family, friends, and associates
To stand by me as the threshold comes near
Withintheir faces I see grave concern
As I ask myself if their thoughts are sincere
After all these years of being complacent
What do I get? Tenderness, affection, a true sense of love?
No! Just pain through a body chalk full of regret
I'll keep on believing my life stilll has value
And I'll keep on laughing
Why can't I stop laughing? I can't stop laughing.
The Longest Line
In the darkest tunnel it's nice to see a light
Not just a headlight
Like the one that's heading right for me
It would be nice if things could turn out right
Turn out right yeah
Don't think I'll ever see the day
I must have done something wrong
Or maybe pissed off god
I think Chinese food when I think of life
That's sweet and sour
My life is sweet as saccharine
You know 3 week old milk and grapes are not
Not the same, No
I am the one Johnny Carcinogen
I must have fucked with some witch
In turn she cursed me, cursed my life
At the end of the longest line
That's where I'll always be
If you need to find me, just go to
The end of the longest line
But officer that was a yellow light
The light was red, son
Insubordination, reckless driving
I must be wrong, this can't be right
I don't belong, this world is much too dangerous
For someone lacking luck, like me
At the end of the longest line
That's where I"ll always be
If you need to find me, just got to
The end of the longest line
At the end of the longest line
That's where I'll always be
At the end of the longest line
She once told me not to listen
Find the answers, intuition
follow no-one, trust your instincts
Face the world, find out it stinks
Don't come crying, don't come crying
Don't come cry to me
I'm not your friend, I'm just your lover
Don't put your faith, Don't put your faith in me
You cut me up and rob me blind
But now I'm fine
She told me about the places I could never find
She told me how to walk while by her side
Don't be fooled by teardrops
They're worth a thousand lies
When I saw them running down her face
I believed in her
Stranded, Ah Ah
Stranded, Ah Ah
Hit me in the gut like a brick through a window
Left me in the gutter like a wet news rag
Sitting alone, thinking out the times we never had
Cause you were my life
she told me if and wether
We'd spend the night together
She made so many promises
I believed in her
Wasting your life on the sidewalk
When you can be out on the street, dodging cars
As they go by, the wind goes right through you
Life on the edge of a razor
Never knowing when you're to fall
Sure as hell beats never gambling at all
Life's too short to barely exist
Whide spread mediocracy
Will you suck up, resist
Another number on a list
I don't want it, you can have it
You can try, but you won't make me
Feel the things you feel
I'll take my chances, till I find a better deal
I'll take my chance along with all the rest
The snail goes over the razor blade
The suicide squad of lemmings parade
To their kingdom, where they've made reservations
I have no resrervation
I don't think my seat's been saved
I'll take my chances, here, right
Kill All the White Man
The white man call himself civilized
Cause he know how to take over
The white man come to pillage my village
Now he tell me I have to bend over
Oh yeah, kill all the white man
No I don't like the white man up in me
He rape my people as he rape my country
Everything I love and cherish, he try to take away
We will be rid of him, soon come the day
Oh yeah, kill all the white man
Oh yeah, kill all the white man
Oh yeah, kill all my white man
Oh yeah, kill all my white man
Punk Rock Elite
Indiscriminate I'd rather be elite
I''ll choose my own shit scene
Unsubstantiated rumors flown are true
I'm here for me not you
Nonconglumurate I mean what I say
I'm not your fucking scape
Goat apparently I've alienated some
It seems my job's half done
You'll never understand it
Try to buy and brand it
I win, you lose, cause it's my job
To keep punk rock elite
This music ain't your fuckin' industry.
Kids of the K-Hole
Everybody needs some time away
Just stuck in the k-hole again
An 18 hour holiday
Just stuck in the k-hole again just once again
Mrs. Kitty Ketamine your perseverance may
Outlast my ambition to go home
Infatuation with your dark side I obey
Forbidden pleasures, I have grown to loathe/love
Somewhere between Eden and North Utopia
Somewhere beneath the Astral Plain
I've taken residence on Sybaritic soil
You won't be seeing me again
You won't be seeing me again
Dropping crumbs and flying thumbs
Won't help me get back home
The home is where the heart is, I've been told
'Cause I promised my heart to her
She cooked it medium well
Then proceded to swallow it whole
It may sound good to you
It may sound oh so wrong
Just stuck in the k-hole again
Winter's broken, summer's gone
Just stuck in the k-hole again
Just once again.
Murder the Government
I wanna see the Constitution burn
Wanna watch the White House overturn
Wanna witness some blue blood bleed red
I wanna tar and lynch the KKK
I wanna pull and shoot the NRA
I wanna pay the lobbyists to kill themselves
I wanna dose the DEA
I wanna join the CIA (not really)
Murder the government murder the government
Murder the government and then do it again yeah
Murder the government murder the government
Murder the government and then
Murder the government
It just seems so fucking easy to make this
Country a better place to live.
Illegalize guns and lobbying (jail murderers and
Extortionists)...legalize drugs and prostitution (free
Salesmen and saleswomen)...
Monosylabic Girl
I take her to the aquarium, she says shark
I taker her to the planetarium, she says dark
I take her to the seaside
Where she likes to spin and twirl
She says sure and cool and yeah
Sh's my monosylabic girl
I take her to the university, she says huh
I take her to our anniversary, she says one
I take her to the jewelry store
I say diamonds, she says pearl
Oh everyone knows I'm in love
With a monosylabic girl
180 Degrees
It's so easy to defend the status quo
With everyone so cool and cynical
But when you see the end don't justify the means
It's just that 180 degrees
The great thing about bein' a human
The ability to reason
But reasoning don't work when no on e cares
2 parts apathy, one part despair
Guess what, this might come as a surprise
I'll no longer roll my eyes
A change of heart to let the conscience breath
One quick twist, just 180 degrees
Yeah, I no know the right thing to do
Yeah, anti tradition tried and true
Yeah, a world where wrong has right of way
Yea, fuck that world, fuck that heirarchy.
Go ahead, work, waste your life away
Fuck that world, go fuck that right of way.
All His Suits Are Torn
Billy Cobin lost it all
We knew he would eventually
Some wonder why he took the fall
Others just ask who the hell is he
And why should we care for him?
A baggy man with baggy clothes
A face made of paper mache
He lost his humor years ago
Along with his molars
His head planted beneath his shoulders
Kill the pain, integrity don't keep you warm and sane
Don't throw me out with the bath water
Don't wanna be, anyone who would wanna know me
Billy Cobin had a time, Billy Cobin had a place
Following his fifteen minute climb
Billy took a seven second leap a cannonball
Plunge off the deep.
All Outta Angst
I'm not insane, I'm not bummed out
I got no one to blame, nothing to change
I got no evil to fight
One thing's for sure, I'm all outta angst
Society don't bother me
And there's something wrong with that
So I'm off to Pakistan, learn the laws of Islam
Fundamentalism, forget that rock-n-roll
No cigarette, no drink, in fact
It's difficult to think about getting laid
When you don't even get to see her face
I'm not insane
I'm not insane, I'm not liquored
I got nothin' to do, nothing to lose
I got no place to call home
One thing's for sure, I'm all outta angst
Society don't bother me, there's something wrong with that
Next stop Mongolia
Don't get to golf or fuck or bowl with 'ya
Throw out that handicap
No stepping out, till spring, in fact it's
Difficult to sing when it's 20 below
And that's during the day
I'm not insane.
I'm Telling Tim
You better watch out you better not cry
You better put out records DIY
Cause it's not what you've done it's what you've been
If you fuck up I'm telling Tim
Take you out of book your own life part six
You won't play again at ABC
You're gonna get ostracized like Lawrence
When I tell Tim, I'm telling Tim
I'm telling Tim telling Tim
Dad's Bad News
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
He's been classified grade A psycotik
You can see it from the hole in his head
A saner man would have used a bigger gun
The story spoken is a story unheard
By you so listen cause it's unbelievable
A certain trait has passed while centuries turned
This certain trait has been a family tradition
No simple way to tell your son
We share the same red tainted blood
I'm gonna kill me, you're gonna kill you
Killing you
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
He's a psycotik, grade A psycotic
Kill Rockstars
"Kill the rockstar" how ironic, Katheen
You've been crowned the newest queen
Kinda like the punk rock Gloria Steinham
You can't change the world by blaming men
Can't change the world by hating men
Just cause I don't know the reason you're so pissed
Don't dare tag me mysoginist
I thought the goal here was mutual respect
Not constructing a separate sect
I wish I could have seen courtney
Demonstrate some real mysoginy
Can't change the wrold by hating men
Eat the Meek
Y mussed oui stay wear wee don't bee longe
Y mussed oui stay wear wee don't bee longe
Because there's never gonna be enough space
So eat the meek, enjoy the waste
It's always gonna be a delicacy
Lick your chops and eat the meek
Y mussed oui stay wear wee don't bee long
Y mussed oui stay wear wee don't bee long
The factory mass producing fear, bottled,
Capped, distributed near and far
Sold for a reasonable price
And the people, they love it, they feed it
Brush with it, bathe with it, breathe it
Inject it direct to the blood
It seems to be replacing love
Y mussed oui stay wear wee don't bee longe
Y mussed oui stay wear wee don't bee longe
Because there always gonna be token truth
Forgotten code discarded youth
You know there's always gonna be pedigree
One own the air one pay to breathe
Y mussed wee stay wear wee don't bee longe
Y mussed wee stay wear wee don't bee longe.
The Desperation's Gone
Trip down the stairs into hell
Cathay De I miss your smell
A mixture of punke, beer, stale piss
Fuck, sweat, and fear
Adrenaline addicted, the blood leak
From my head kinda concerned my friends
But at the time it felt so right
The music blaring on, now that desperation's gone
The desperation's gone.
Turn, tune the knob K-go
Some alterna radio
Strategic marketing hype, media, stereotype,
Has our music been castrated? Yes
To you it may sound good
To me it sounds all wrong
The notes and chords sound similar
The same forbidden beat, but
The desperation's gone (The song's the same)
But the desperation's gone
Quart In Session
It's funny how nothing seems much fun
Anymore to me now that I quit the drink
'Cause soberness, it might be what I need
But it's certainly not how I wanna be
Nothing seems much fun anymore to me
Consequence never had anytime to think
About what coulda, shoula, happen to me
C-common sense my parents said I
Didn't have any, but now look whose got the dough
No longer born to lose
Put away my party shoes
Missin' the alcohol
Don't feel like goin' out
Nothing worth singin' about
Missin' the alcohol
Without tonic n gin
Without no vicodin
Nothing seems much fun anymore to me (x4)
Falling In Love
Blast, oxygen masks, smoke filled cabin
Depressurize, don't be afraid, hold onto me
We're goin down, but not our love
Death don't seem so bad, 'cause I'm with you
My only love, so close your eyes
Kiss me one last time, we're gonna
Die, but not our love, not our love.
lyrics
from STRANGER THAN FICTION
Mother,
Father,
Look at your little monster
I'm a hero
I'm a zero
I'm the butt of the worst joke in history
I'm a lock without a key
a city with no door
a prayer without faith
a show without a score
I'm a bad word
a wink, a nod, a shiver
an untold story, sex without fury
a creeping gray memory,
I am
Incomplete, Incomplete, Incomplete,
Incomplete
Doctor
Cure me
What is the cause of my condition
This madness shoots me
Like bullets smashing glass in a silent
movie
I'm a trap without a spring,
a temple with no god,
a jack without an ace,
the tip of your tongue,
I'm a promise, an unmailed letter,
an unbuilt motor, deck without a joker,
a creeping gray memory
I am
Incomplete, Incomplete, Incomplete,
Incomplete,
Tell Saint Peter not to bet on me
I am a naked obsession
a good intention gone bad
I am
Incomplete, Incomplete, Incomplete,
Incomplete,
Incomplete, Incomplete, Incomplete...
Leave Mine To Me
There are desperate times upon us, there
are codes of white and black,
political resentment and people start to
crack
There's hate and opposition, there's fumbling dialog,
yet you sit there and judge me and you think
it makes a difference
If you think I'm all alone you are foolishly
wrong
There's an entire army who blindly follow
along
and you happen to be one of them believe it
or not
even though you try not to be we are of the
same plague
The other ways we're taught to fear
Don't even scratch the surface of the
problem here
I'm not blind, and I'm not scared
So many crucial factors exist out there
And they're but one, and we're but two
And how we come to terms wiill help us pull
through
Things cannot change too fast, it took us
this much time
to reach our current platform and walk this
fragile line
If I thought I'd make a difference I'd kill
myself today
But so many are like me lost in the fray
You create your own reality
And leave mine to me
Stranger Than Fiction
A febrile shocking violent smack the
children are hoping for a heart attack
tonight the windows are watching,
the streets all conspire
and the lamppost can't stop crying
If I could fly high above the world
would I see a bunch of living dots spell
the word stupidity?
Or would I just see hungry lover homicides,
loving brother suicides
and ally ally oxenfrees, who pickaside and
hide
The world is scratching at my door
My morning papers got the scores,
the human interest stories, and the obituary
Cockroach nape and rattling traps,
how many devils can you fit upon a match
head?
caringosity killed the Kerouac cat,
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction
In my alley around the corner
there's a wino with feathered shoulders
and a spirit giving head for crack and he'll
never want it back.
There's a little kid and his family eating
crackers like thanksgiving
and a pack of wild desperadoes scornful of
living
The world is scratching at my door
My morning paper has the scores,
the human interest stories,
and the obituary
Cradle for a cat, Wolfe looks back,
how many angels can you fit up on a
match?
I want to know why Hemmingway cracked
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction
Life is the crummiest book I ever read,
there isn't a hook, just a lot of cheap shots
Pictures to shock and characters an amateur would never dream up.
Tiny Voices
The brown and orange sky holds its breath
as the sun retreats to the distant horizon
And our hearts palpitate anxiously as we
soon will lay spine,
and wait for sleep to overcome us
And from somewhere in our black
subconscious minds when we're asleep
Comes a haunting swelling mass of voices,
resonating
Its screams of forgotten victims and the cries of innocence
And the desperate plea for recognition and
recompense
TINY VOICES, ECHOES OF OUR HERITAGE
OUR LONG AND
SALLOW FACES
TURN THE OTHER WAY
TINY VOICES, HARBORED DEEP WITHIN
AS WE OUTWARDLY
DENY THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY
AND IF WE DON'T CONFRONT THEM THEY
WILL NEVER GO AWAY
The billions of tiny pinhole embers fade into a
morning sky filled with poignant morose
wonder
Waking we bear a cosmetic peace that
verifies the turmoil which we carry deep
inside
And from somewhere in our black
subconscious minds when we're asleep
Comes a haunting swelling mass of voices,
resonating
Its screams of forgotten victims and the cries
of innocence
And the desperate plea for recognition and
recompense
TINY VOICES, ECHOES OF OUR HERITAGE
OUR LONG AND
SALLOW FACES TURN THE OTHER WAY
TINY VOICES, HARBORED DEEP WITHIN AS
WE OUTWARDLY
DENY THAT THEY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY
AND IF WE DON'T CONFRONT THEM THEY
WILL NEVER GO AWAY
go away!
The Handshake
Every time you shake someone's hand and it
feels like your best friend
Could it be that it's only superficiality?
Without regard to well-being, without an
inkling of compromise
Handshakes are nothing but a subtle 'F--k
you'
Contracts determine the best friendships
This is the way of the modern world,
Everyone's vying for patronage
This is the way of the modern world, And
something has gotta give
Every time you shake someone's hand, and
you share neither color or creed
You gotta overcome the obstacles of history
There is restrained passion, mistrust, and
bigotry
And these have created the new
foundations of society
there's no harmony just class and race
This is the way of the modern world,
Everyone's fighting for dominance
This is the way of the modern world, And
something has gotta give
Now I believe in unity, and I am willing to
compromise, but I'm not gonna lie or sell
my soul
Every time you shake someone's hand, it
determines wehre you stand
And if you won't uphold your side then its
better to...
Fend for yourself, and shun the handshake
someone's gotta give.
Better Off Dead
I'm sorry
about the sun
How could I know
that you'd get burned?
And I'm Sorry
about the moon.
How could I know
you'd disapprove?
I'll never make
the same mistake.
The next time I create the universe I'll
make sure we communicate at length
Just to play it safe.
But until then...
better off dead, a smile on the lips and a
hole in the head
Better off dead, yeah better than this
Take it away 'cuz there's nothing to miss
I'm sorry
about the world
How could I know
you'd take it so bad?
And I'll never make
the same mistake
The next time I create the universe I'll
make sure youparticipate.
Oh yeah.
But until then...
Better off dead, a smile on the lips and a
hole in the head
Better off dead, yeah better than this take
it away 'cuz there's nothing to miss
Better off dead, yea better off dead, why
do'nt you try pushing daisies instead
Better off dead, yeah better off dea, a
smile on the lips and a hole in the head
And I'll never make the same mistake
The next time I create the universe I'll
make sure you participate
Oh yeah...
And I'll never make the same mistake
The next time I create the universe I'll
make sure we comunicate.
Just in case.
Now here I go
hope I don't break down
I won't take anything
I don't need anything
don't want to exist
I can't persist
Please stop before I do it again
just talk about nothin, lets talk about
nothing
Let's talk about no one, Please talk about
no one, someone, anyone
You and me have a disease
you affect me, you infect me
I'm afflicted you're addicted
you and me, you and me
I'm on the edge
Get against the wall
I'm so distracted
I love to strike you
here's my confession
you learned your lesson
stop me before I do it again
just talk about nothing, let's talk about
nothing
Let's talk about no one, Please talk about
no one, someone, anyone
You and me have a disease
you affect me, you infect me
I'm afflicted you're addicted
you and me, you and me
you're clear-as a heavy lead curtain want
to drill you-like an ocean
we can work it out, I've been running out,
now I'm running out,
don't be mad about it baby
You and me, have adisease
I want to tie you, crucify you
Kneel before you, revile your body
You and me, were made in heaven
I want to take you, I want to break you
supplicate you, with throny roses
You and me, are incurable
I want to bathe you in holy water I want to kill
you, upon the later
You and me, you and me
Television, Television, Television, Television
Oh yeah! I want to bask in your golden light
submerge in electric waves
I need my connection
to the world outside
the world outside is buzzing like an angry
wasp in summer
the candidates are running, and soon the son
of God is coming
crackle mental convolutions tune in to the
revolution
whereby everyone's included so we'll never
have to be alone
Television, Television, Television, Television
Oh yeah! I want to bathe in your golden light
submerge in electric waves
I need my injection
From the world outside
Every atom of my body, blood and sinew,
bone and fiber
I can't distill you from my blood, you're a
hungry germ inside of me
You're my lover, you're my heroine, my
conscience and my voice, and I
know now that I
have learned to let you in I will never have to
be alone
Television, Television, Television, Television
Oh yeah! I want to bathe in your golden light
submerge in electric waves
I need my connection
To the world outside
I'd take after my mother but she's from a different generation
I prefer my big brother he's so gentle and
understanding
and I learn what I can from him by the
television light
So that when I'm all alone I know
everything's gonna be alright
Television, Television, Television,
Television
Television, Television, Television,
Television
Individuals run for cover, for the
multitudes of thoughtless clones have
reached a critical mass
Individuals hide in fear, under cover,
sheltered by the wafer thin veil of
intelligence
Individuals
Nowhere to be seen
Urbana is oozing like a bloated carcass
with maggots cooking in the desert heat
Oozing, with progeny writhing and
desperate for input from someone more
determined
Congregating in invisible circles
Half apart and half a part
All too aware of the insignificance
Pushing on with soul and heart
Individuals don't pray for forgiveness,
when pinned up against the wall under
seige of persecution
Individuals command exception, and
accept dichotomy
Maybe you can't choose anymore
Procreation without gain or purpose
Languid wills and torpid minds
Catapulted ever faster by the arrow of
time.
Hooray For Me...
I can see my teenage father standing
straight on a desolate corner
in the shadow of tetacled towers by the
red light of America.
I imagine how his mother felt when she
heard that her husband was dying.
And the underground heroes of the tarmac
shooting smack were blowing up
worlds and
damned! out loud.
Hey, can you tell mehow does it feel?
Yea, tell me...Can you imagine, for a
second, doing anything that you don't have
to?
Well that's what I'm accustomed to so
hooray for me...
When I slept with stony faces on the
riverbank,
My angeldevil reveler shook me
desperately in dying.
I don't exactly want to apologize for
anything.
And now we're all mad and tangled in
secret rooms with roman candles
On an endless graveyard
train.
Yeah, tell me...Can you imagine, for a
second, doing anything just 'cus you want
to?
Well that's just what I do so hooray for
me...
Yeah, I was dreaming through the
"howzlife", yawning, car black,
when she told me "mad and meaningless
as ever..."
and a song came on my radio like a
cemetery rhyme
for a million crying corpses in their tragedy
of respectable existence
Yeah, tell me...Can you imagine, for a
second, trying half the things you ever
wanted to,
Well that's just what I do, so hooray for
me...
Oh yea...I'm not respectable, and never
sensible, I've been incredible
so damned irascible and I like the things I
do so Hooray for me...
So, you're feeling unimportant
'Cuz you 've got nothing to say
And your life is just a ramble
No one understands you anyway
Well, I've got a piece of news son
Taht might make you change your mind
Your life is historically meaningful
And spans a significant time
SLUMBER WILL COME SOON
AND YOU ARE HELPING PUT IT TO SLEEP
SIDE BY SIDE WE DO OUR SHARE
FAITHFULLY ASSURING THAT
SLUMBER WILL COME SOON
Wel, now do you feel a little better? Lift up
your head and walk away
Knowing we're all in this together
for such a short time anyway
There is just no time to parade around
sulking, I would rather laugh than cry
The rich, the poor, the strong, the weak, we
share this place together
And we pitch in to help it die
I'm not too good at giving morals, and I
don't fear the consequence
If life makes you scared and bitter, at least
it's not for very long
SLUMBER WILL COME SOON
The purple peacock flies at midnight.