Naked Raygun is a Chicago-based punk rock group. Initially active from 1980 to about 1992, Naked Raygun had several short-lived reunions afterwards and a full-time reformation in 2006.
From the beginning, their music had a strong sense of melody and songwriting, with Pezzati's lyrics often exploring working class issues. Naked Raygun began in the hardcore punk style, later branching out into post-hardcore territory. By their early 1990s incarnation, Naked Raygun's melodic tendencies became more pronounced, with strong power pop leanings in the vein of Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, and The Jam.
The band was formed in 1980 by Santiago Durango, Marko Pezzati and later Jeff Pezzati. Singer Jeff Pezzati was the sole constant member through multiple personnel changes. Members over time include drummers Bobby Strange, Jim Colao, and Eric Spicer; bassists Marko Pezzati, Pierre Kezdy, and Camilo Gonzalez; guitarists Santiago Durango, John Haggerty, and Bill Stephens; and keyboardist John Lundin.
Jake Burns (born John Burns, 21 February 1958, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a singer and guitarist, and is best known as the frontman of Stiff Little Fingers.
Burns started off his career at school with a rock covers band, Highway Star, which consisted of Burns, Gordon Blair, Henry Cluney, and Brian Faloon. Gordon Blair subsequently left the group to join Rudi, and Ali McMordie joined, about the time the band discovered punk.
They were briefly named The Fast, but as there was already a group of that name they changed it to Stiff Little Fingers, taken from the song of the same name that had appeared on Pure Mania, the 1977 album by The Vibrators.
They recorded "Suspect Device" their first single in 1977. The single was packaged in the form of a cassette, with a cover depicting a cassette bomb, apparently causing great hilarity in the group, when one record company phoned them and asked for another copy, as they'd thrown the first one in a bucket of water for fear that it was a real bomb.
A copy of the single was sent to John Peel. He played it repeatedly leading to a distribution deal through Rough Trade.
You take a break
And you get stabbed in the back
Are you tired of it? I am
It's not "Smear The Queer"
Take a chance
And you could fall on your face
Least you know you tried
And you can say you did
Those who move
'Round in little squares
Pointing at those who move
It never bothered me
They've got a right to know
Just what you're all about
You're the one who moves
It never bothered me
Those who gape
Taking it all in
Are you tired of them? I am
Leave
I'm not the show
Not the one you're here for
Sad as it may seem
Banging on the inside
Fighting to get out
It's not all this trash
That blows 'round my feet
It might be this day
It might be this heat
And it's all of these idiots
That are bothering me
With their drivelling prattle
And their useless critiques
So now I know where snipers come from
A man weighted down by too heavy a load
So now I know where snipers come from
Peering down through my scope with an amoral code
The view is fantastic
From my aerie on high
I laugh at your pleading
Thrill at your cry
Semi-auto archangel
Unto death do us part
Vespiary of mercy
Putting lead in your heart
I saw it from afar. It was standing there.
Promises of virtue fell at my door.
I'm caught in a web -
They said it wasn't true. They said it was a lie.
They said it wasn't gold, but now it's only fool's gold.
I'm caught in a web -
You appear stage left all searching for your plan of life
Youth of course on your side as they play the drum and fife
Tryin' to get you marching to the worn out song they preach
About how things you hope for are so very out of reach
Can't they even remember
When they had hopes
And dreams?
Adolescence fled; the adolescents sang; while you -- you had no chance
Then before you even knew your wife she got in line to be your first romance
In the sunset of your best years you piled on the debt
You think this can't be happening here -- not here, not now, not yet
You're gonna regret this.
It's your big fall...
Well OK -- life's not what it used to be
We're tryin' to become something that maybe wasn't meant to be
We're now so totally up for grabs -- I hope someone's left to see
Will the end justify the means? Well it beats the heck outta me
In the next round
What will we be?
Listen now to what I say
About the kids of today
Suscribe to them all your fears
'Til they become like you
What poor gods we do make
What poor gods we do make
What poor gods we do make
What poor gods we do make
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
i don't know
So listen now to what I say
About the kids of today
Suscribe to them all your fears
'Til they become like you
Teach them all your fallacies
Contain them in reality
Suscribe to them all your fears
'Til they become like you
Then a slippage happens
In your ranks
And causes all... Your morals sank
For us to create our own
And we became like you
What poor gods we do make
What poor gods we do make
What poor gods we do make
What poor gods we do make
I don't know
I don't know
I don't know
i don't know
What poor gods we do make
What poor gods we do make
I don't know
i lie right to your face
not because i want to, or have to
cause you make me
lie to your face
i hate your guts, you stupid SHNOT!
hey hey hey hey
i wont lie
wont lie to you
to you
You pull up to the big brown
You pull up in your big white
Then you're climbing the stairs
No matter who you are
No matter what your beef, boy
You take the big green stacks
And you shove 'em in the white one
That's the way of the envelope
It's good work if you can get it
Beats pushing
You remember a time
You remember it well
It was a fine fine place to live
You pull up in your big brown car
You pull up in your big white brick
Then you're climbing the stairs to take you up to the 8th, or 9th or 10th
No matter who you are
No matter what your beef, boy
You take the big green stacks
And you shove 'em in the white one
That's the way of the envelope
It's good work if you can get it
Beats pushing
You remember a time
You remember it well
We're breeding some real invalids and cons
Most of us don't have a clue of what's going on
I can't belive we live with this mutation
We must be just a step out of damnation
Cremation, free nation
Haven't I read all of this in a book?
It seems the Romans were hung on the same hook
We might lose a little bit in the translation
But I think it's basically the same equation
Creation, of a free nation
I look at the crowd and see something in their faces
It makes me glad that I'm not in their places
I'm single minded and in for the duration
With my progress serving as my explanation
Predation, in a free nation
Take and talk and time for all of it
There are no leaders who see the point of it
Independance is always started by education
But only will be truly gained by declaration
Elation, for a free nation
swingo, like the swingers used to swing
swingo, back and forth beat
swingo, like the heartbreakers do
swingo, like the hangman swings
like the pendulum do
like we all swing
like John Wilkes Booth
like John Gacey should
go swing
go swingo
Hey ho hey mofo
Hey ho hey mofo
Well take you pop political pap and shove it up your virgin ass
Hey ho hey mofo
If you cared about the world, you wouldn't be here hanging on a girl
Hey ho hey mofo
In America you gotta do more, than singing and dancing on the floor
Hey ho hey mofo
Hey boys why aren't you playing?
our man Reagan can't hear what you're saying
Hey ho hey mofo
It could be worse, yes it can, if we were in Pakistan
Hey ho hey mofo
Over there you gotta do more than singing and dancing on the floor
Hey ho hey mofo
He never tried so hard.
Never tried so long.
Something he had dreams of.
For something he had longed for.
He never climbed so high.
He shouldn't have climbed so high.
That when they beat him down.
He couldn't get off the floor (and)
Whoah ho whey oh.
Then he went right off the edge.
(And he went right off the edge. (said) - [2x])
She never talked 'bout dreams
She never talked her dreams.
For fear what she'd be thought of.
For fear what she was thinking.
She never thought so hard.
She shouldn't of thought so hard.
That she snapped inside
And then she hit the floor (and)
[Chorus with 'she']
Whoa ho whey oh
(And we all go off the edge. - [2x])
Whoa ho whey oh
(As we all go off the edge. - [2x])
Whoa ho whey oh
(And we went right off the edge - [2x])
Whoa ho whey oh
Drunk again -- not a weekend
Isn't life a fuckin' ball?
Should have read all the writing on the wall
Pissed again -- one more loose end
Ever see such a fuckin' gall?
But I'm laughing at angels as they fall
(same as above)
Drunk again -- not a weekend
My insides feel black and blue
Will this healing elixir pull me through
Drunk again -- where is Lou Reed?
Come on Iggy -- tell me true
Wish Roy Orbison could tell me what to do
(chorus)
So I'll drink
To the wonder, while I wander
If there are gods they must be drunk
Rev'ling in the madness you and I
So I'll wonder, while I wander
If there are gods they must be drunk
Rev'ling in the madness you and I
Drunk again not a weekend
Give me needles -- sleep on pins
As I long for the sweet Bacchanalian din
Damned again -- since that weekend
From too much adrenalin
hide my eyes and take two more aspirin
(chorus)
Drunk again -- not a weekend
Pagan alchoholiday
Cheer and beer hounds -- that still keep me at bay
Drunk again -- till the binge ends
My glass fortress my mainstay
So I said to this big swarthy looking guy,
"Man, I never tried to steal your woman.
Because of your bigness,
It would never have entered my mind.
Look, so there's no hard feelings,
Why don't I buy you a malt liquor,
Or some lottery tickets. Say what?
No, I don't want to step outside" a-hyuck hyuck hyuck...
"No, I didn't call you assface,
You must have misunderstood me. No way, dude!"
So now this guy's ready to really kick my ass, right?.
I'm outta there. I find this guy's car,
I whip out my pocketknife and totally trash his vinyl.
A live wire
Lives for today
Look at what you're doing
It matters not what you say
I'll tell you what is what
I'll tell you what is meant to be
All is not well in the land of the free
I'm a live wire from a spark I have grown
But when I'm gone you'll be on your own
Can't you feel my pulse
The current runs through me
I could be underfoot
Don't tread on me
Like a live wire
Watch it burn
Put the knife in oppression
When it's back is turned
The real live wire
The mean defier
I stand against all odds
The equalizer forged of fiber -
That stands up against the gods
Here to serve
The rebels nerve
And give his tongue its lash
But when the battles turn
And the ships are burned
I can pick your locks
Put you up on blocks
Strip you down for parts
Mega-amp jump start
But when you call on me
Best be ready to pay my fee
You only get one chance to do right by me
It's always drive, drive drive
Got to move to survive
That's the law of the ghetto
Know when to stay and when to go
But when you call on me
Best be ready to pay my fee
You only get one chance to do right by me
It's me you'll owe [2x]
So don't owe me
Don't even try to do something to make me feel
Well I'm the ghetto mechanic
There's no need for panic
I drink malt liquor for kicks
There ain't no problem I can't fix
But when you call on me
Best be ready to pay my fee
You only get one chance to do right by me
It's me you'll owe [2x]
So don't owe me
It's all the same to me
I never liked love anyway
No sex no sex no sex no sex no sex no sex
Sex no sex no sex no sex no sex no sex
Never wanted it in the butt
Never wanted it in the rear
No sex no sex no sex no sex no sex no sex
Ever consider
From boiling water the residue?
A sea full of people
But after the action who's left with you?
They're standing on others.
You're standing on hope to see you thru.
The atmosphere's wanning
They stand on your toes they breathe with you
With virgin eye and heart of cold
And mind of child I swear it's
Not the way I thought it would be
And of the others?
Fools in a glass house throwing stones
Delusions of lacking
Unless one can top it leave it alone
A no - alee dream place
Where waves in my blood crash violent tone
And after all effort
The pain and the rain claim you their own
With virgin eye and heart of cold
And mind of child I swear it's
Icicles on my spine
my boots feel empty
I see the world around me
through the corners of my eyes
White girls lied to me
no great surprise at all
when I think of what you mean to me
I shake and then I fall
Lost control again today (repeats)
You're not one of them
you're pure
you're something special
yeah that's for sure
You are my electric
got a black jag for you
that's why I call you
Staring at the lifeguards
Hear mommy scream
I ain't got no morals
It's a bloody wayout dream
The noon-day sun makes you want to kill
Mining all beaches
Flying hands and feet
Poison in your Thermos
Is no fun but discreet
Muscle Beach is now Pork Chop Hill
Barbecuring babies
Shish-kabob bikinis
Napalm makes you vomit
As it sizzles off your weenie
What was the aggressive
is now a bit more so
edging, and more daring
and tolerance is low
seeing, rather caring
my children will be mad
their offspring, so, insane
to shadow what I had
(Chorus)
I am one
I am one
I'm feeling so far gone
I am done
I am done
They'll shoot me on the run
O.K. wait, O.K. wait
I gotta step back and say
Wow, what a fuck up
what a damned way
I was just, was just, was
just thinking on a bit of the choice they have
and what they'll do with it
I'm gone, so gone, so gone
Put on your coat and button your pride.
Take a deep breath and step outside.
Hide your hope tightly inside your fist-
To scared to think ya know you can't resist.
When a victory is sure,
You're not afraid to stir.
Plenty of yells to go around.
The other side is strong,
You might do something wrong.
(Then) nobody wants to make a sound.
((Giving it all away. - 2x) Giving it all
Guess we all want something
Something we haven't got
There's a feelin' that I get when,
I see all those that just have not.
Someday this place'll be
Where man is all the same
All lookin' like salesman
They'll even change our name
And...
[Chorus:]
(Although) I see one people
(We're all) one human race
Communication will save us
I see a plain, plain place
I see you think that you're a savior
You think you're Jesus Christ
From what I've seen of our shepherds
Your type had best think twice
Your master plan to save me
Just doesn't suit me right
You'd like to suit me up?
Well you had best think twice again
[Chorus]
Yeah we all want something
Something we haven't got
How much'll you give up?
Allow yourself to be forgot?
Scores of plastic people
Not just a chosen few
Every (single last) one of us
Yeah what they really want is you
What they want's too much of you
When what they want is you
The future looks bright
If you're into the blight
Haven't we learned at all?
Time and again
We lose in the end
How does it feel to be burned?
In your blood again
And in your tears
You count just on one hand
The remaining years
Check yourself again
(Test yourself again)
Lovers and your friends
Lovers and your friends
Assume that it'll end
(Plague has reached the land)
Against your time again
Treat each month like a year
(Treat each hour like a year)
Back to the blight
It may be alright
We're just too close to the source
Hop a plane bus or cab
Or leave it to Abbott Labs
And so it finally comes to this
Everybody looks just like shit
The situation's just a little remiss
Where will the knight be when the light glows low
Electric slows and the sun can't make things grow?
What was he supposed to do?
After all he was the man in blue not you
Bringin' home the goods and takin' his time
James Gordon saw the sun refused to shine
Will he see his Sarah? he yearned
Her apartment is the one that's burned - he runs
The boys gather in the thick of the dump
Weapons ready and adrenalin begins to pump
Time to turn the boys into men
The sons of Batman will ride again tonight
The throng moves man of steel falls
James Gordon finds her in his arms - she bawls
The Gotham jail has gone up for grabs
In Gotham City he's not out of a job tonight
Onto the scene rides the man of old
Nerves of steel bat blood of cold
Bats at the helm again [2x] and he runs
Of course he ends up saving the day
Robin's back and as a girl she's not so gay
Bats at the helm again [2x] and he's
Now he's back
But where's Kent?
Now he's back and it's right
And so it finally comes to this
As we swan dive into the abyss
slanted eyes and yellow skin
in the future tense he could be Ho Chi Minh
workin' in his rice fields
if he don't like it he'll slit your neck
he'll dress you all the same [x2]
in something nice and gray
you look so good in gray
ho whey oh [x4]
Emperor Tojo [x4]
he'll build a Chinese wall [x2]
it'll have lotsa bricks
that thing will never fall
ho whey oh [x4]
Why me?
Why am I down?
Why feel
I'm not whole?
Why feel
so far below?
I'm free to go
Why dream?
Why partake?
Why be half
of a weak embrace
of time
and place
and lose space?
Deep down inside
I know the reasons, reasons
In faces I see lies
While they try to hide their eyes
Man, it hurts inside
It's like treason, treason, treason, treason
Soft ground
politics
Inside
dealing tricks
I can't
pick a side
you decide
What plan?
What design?
Can they
have in mind?
Have they
lost their minds?
Have I lost mine?
It's never just black or white
I know the reasons, reasons,
What I feel makes me alive
Ggoes beyond what they decide
Can't fight what gives you life
I am a fetus
I am a tumor
I am the local slime mold
Hey (17x)
I am a pupa
I am a larva
I am the emperor Tojo
Hey (17x)
Metastasis
Metastasis
I am a lizard
I am a nymph
I am a three-toed gecko
hey (17x)
Metastasis
Metastasis
You start your own company
Only in America
Mixing chemicals a new way
Only in America
It's good for the economy
Only in America
Makin' cancer everyday
Only in america
Then someone can make a buck
With the cure for your bad luck
When you're born you start to die
Don't know from what
And you don't know why
So you start your own religious cult
Only in America
Live on the San Andreas Fault
Only in America
Eat your own weight in salt
Only in America
Picj your boogers in your car
Only in America
Then someone can make a buck
With the cure for your bad luck
You buy a couch with food stamps
Be the woman with Midol cramps
It happens only in the U.S.A.
Only in America
Only in the U.S.A.
Only in America
Only in the U.S.A.
Only in America
Far far away, she comes to visit. And she has that easy goin' smile.
(It's where you live - 3x) Where you live.
Bowl of cliché, tears on paper. Hope looks good
Upon your sleeve.
(Where you live - 4x)
Far far away, she comes to visit. And she has that
Easy goin' smile.
(It's where you live - 3x) Where you live.
Check me out ya know I'm a major world power.
Watch me as I swing my hips around.
Ohh I seem to have bowled you right over (how 'bout that).
Don't you worry ya know it happens all the time.
'Scuse me ya know I speak for the people of the world
We don't really like it when you swing your hips around.
Just can't believe you work in the interest of all the people.
We don't really like it that you have so much fat.
Hey you little South American Spanish-speakin' country
Watch me as I whip some political advisors right on ya,
You'll still have a bit of your own personality left.
Don't you worry you know this kind of thing happens all the time.
'Scuse me 'scuse me but I speak for the people of the world
We don't really like it that you swing your hips around.
Just can't believe you work in the interest of all good people
Bred for success
But we didn't like the breeding
Did you check their faces
When we started bleeding
Can you tell which side they're on?
How can you tell which side they're on?
'Achieve what we have'
'We hear your common voice'
How can we believe them
When they all drive Rolls Royces?
Can you tell which side you're on?
How can you tell which side I'm on?
I can't tell which side I'm on
Can you tell which side you're on?
It's gettin' kind o' hard (kind of hard)
To tell 'em apart
Too many faceless ones
Crawlin' after you. (after you)
And if you ask a lot of questions
And all that it reveals
Is the best choice we're given
Is the best of two evils
Then can you tell me which side you're on?
How can I tell which side I'm on?
I can't tell which side they're on
How can I tell which side you're on?
Can you tell which side I'm on?
I can't tell which side I'm on
Can you tell which side you're on?
It's late, she's alone
Just another trip from work to home
Post-modern jungle times
Potential jungle crimes
It's dark, she's alone
She's heading toward her home
My footsteps echo her's
My shadow is a curse
It's late, she's alone
Only three blocks from her home
She thinks I'm out for fun
She begins to run
In her eyes I'm just a potential rapist
She's real tense and her fingers are clenched in a fist
She don't know that I've got no sex interest
'Cuz in her eyes I'm just a potential rapist
Well I think she thinks I wanta violate her hidden pink
Just 'cuz I'm a male, I'm a threat in every detail
I think she thinks that I think that it's funny, but it's not
If I were a girl I'd pack a gun
If I were a girl I'd hang that lot
It's late, she's alone
And she's walking toward her home
My footsteps echo her's
My shadow is a curse
In her eyes I'm just a potential rapist
She's real tense and her fingers are clenched in a fist
She don't know that I've got no sex interest
'Cuz in her eyes I'm just a potential RAPIST!
She sits at home with the TV on.
(She) She cry's all night cause her life's not getting on.
Gets home from work and he down's a beer.
Smashes his fist cause the pain can't mask the fear.
(I gotta get - 3x) out - 2x)
(I can see this is not the way it's supposed to be - 2x)
(She) She left her home had to be alone.
She left mom and dad she had to get at on her own.
He left his home and he left his job.
Gets in his car and he rips down the road.
(I gotta get - 3x) out - 2x)
(I can see this is not the way it's supposed to be - 2x)
(He's got his home and he's got his job.
Yet he feels alone cause he's dead inside - 2x)
Smashes his fist cause the rage can't mask the fear.
(I gotta get - 3x) out - 2x)
I'm so bored right now and I got hurt, got hurt, hurt.
I'm so tired right now.
I'm sick of chasing you around (the world).
I'm sick of chasing you around (the world).
I am the peacemaker
I'll pound sand right up your ass
Our moral codes differ
You are scum... that is all
A trail of shit follows you around
On the edge, it's a hell of a drop
Your number's up
We've got your name and your middle name
I am the peacemaker
I'm right and you are wrong
I am the peacemaker
You are wrong, that is all
A trail of filth follows you around
On the edge
It's a hell of a drop
Peacemaker
Backlash? Jack said it would happen to me
That is what he said to me
Tremors cause the weak to flee
So choose your friends
And choose wisely
Don't touch the stuff
I think once is enough
His ears think the sounds
He dreams what he has found
Backlash? Jack said it'd happen to me
Again he warned me of what I'd see
When praises come too easily
Pay for lip, backlash is free
The first to abandon
Formed the band wagon
The first rat off the ship
A brilliance under mane
Cloudy lens and subtle strain
A fury sears the vein in time
And momentum is decline
You see the man is sick
With power's arsenic
What politic contradicts
Change
Change in sight
Change
The lay is right
Time
Time ignite
Like a freak, in a beast, in the least
Hand, hang, hang
In a spiralling humanity
There's a cycle we can see
In a throng's monstrosity odds are
There'll always be a mule
You never can predict the mind of a lunatic
A mind so badly sick
Get away from me boy
Don't even want a girl
My libido is low
My libido is low
Don't wanna have sex
Hardly play with myself
My libido is low
My libido is low
Well I guess it happened
Just last week
Got all hepped up on too much speed
And I danced 'til my prostate fell out
Better dominate me
I like to lie there
My libido is low
My libido is low
Once a week I look at dirty pictures
I rape myself
My libido is low
My libido is low
I heard this happens to older men
I wish I'd started when I was ten
I might as well just lob it off
And feed it to my dog
Weird world
got no shame
problems
with no name
screams all (of) the time
problem is
they're mine
[Chorus:]
I'm going to cut that bastard up
and it still won't be enough
the unwritten laws we learn
from living off the cuff
weird world
not insane
cuts me
all the same
screaming
wounded, blind
I stagger
down the line
[Chorus]
cut it
I didn't let go 'cause you hurt me
I didn't let go so you'd stay
I did let you go 'cause I love you so much
And it kills me to see us this way
Love saved my life when you found me
A debt I can only repay
By closing the doors, now I'm savin' yours
And I know that you want it this way
Sandman take me much further than sleep
We'll ride down that river of tears
Where only the stars and the angels will weep
As I jettison all of my years
Long are the nights I lay cryin'
Wasn't because you weren't true
I hope you can finally be happy my love,
'Cause I'd give up my own life for you
Sandman take me much further than sleep
We'll ride down that river of tears
Where only the stars and the angels will weep
As I jettison all of my years
Oh, I jettsion all of my years
Said I got new dreams.
(Got new dreams and I'm gonna make 'em real. - 3x)
Got new dreams and I'm gonna make them
(Oh way ohh, whey ohh way - 4x)
(Got new dreams and I'm gonna make 'em real. - 3x)
Got new dreams and I'm gonna make them
(Oh way ohh, whey ohh way - 4x)
Said I
(Got new dreams and I'm gonna make 'em real. - 3x)
Got new dreams and I'm gonna make them
Starin' off in... to the night
She picks up her dreams and her bags
"I'm off to a place where life's right"
Jeanie walks out on the home of the brave
He picks up his boots from the dust
Knocks out the dirt on the ground
Wonders about his life... and he cussed
Stu wonders what his parents had found
Broken dreams and promises
These are the things they have and hold
A country that even...
Persecuted the Weavers
The big ball swings towards you and him on her
When the finding's out and the fryin' pan flies
And the sound resounds when your love is burned
And you just can't take it any more
When the walls come down
When the walls come down
A crack starts near ground
Will it all come down
There's the fear that's like a leech on your heart
And it's in the eyes of your enemy
Then there's the clutch near death the dying strike
Impress your fist upon the face of eternity
When the walls come down
When the walls come down
A crack starts near ground
He took a bleeding heart liberal
To lunch today
Not much in common
At lunch today
The big top rolled up
And over the hill yeah
Mr. Gridlock
On Hill 49 in a pillbox
Slow shock, huh
Tying up traffic at every turn
Grid lock to the max, Jack
Girls girls girls
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They got cable and HBO too
Good service
Mud wrestling
Free beer night
This place is called The Strip
Bring your mom
And your mom's friends, too
Good service
Mud wrestling
Free beer night
This place is called The Strip
Been there forever
Girls girls girls
All girl review
$9.95 for a single
They got cable and HBO, too
Good service
Mud wrestling
Free beer night
This place is called The Strip
Bring your mom
See my face, it's blood red with warpaint
And there's no way out, but to fight this time.
The bastard dies and I've got a right.
Take what I want - bad ass & bithcin',
I've got hot atomics in my brain - bass ass & bitchin',
I move pretty good, yeah - bad ass & bitchin',
Got hot atomics in my brain - bad ass & bitchin'.
I know when I see you,
You know I don't fear you.
Next time I see you, I'll cut your eye.
Take what I want - bad ass & bitchin',
I've got hot atomics in my brain - bad ass & bitchin',
I move pretty good when I see you - bad ass & bitchin',
I've got hot atomics in my brain - bad ass & bitchin',
I'm the one, goin' off, walk away, and I'm hurtin'.
You know I'll beat it out of you.
Feel pretty good yeah, bad ass & bitchin',
I've got hot atomics in my brain - bad ass & bitchin',
Move pretty good when I see you, bad ass & bitchin'.
I got hot atomics in my brain.
Yeah hot atomics in my brain,
Can't you see 'em comin' on.
You're like hot atomics in my brain,
Follow me
I'll take you there
You needn't think
You needn't care
On the way
We'll find some others
Baptize with lies
And make them brothers
No I will never follow
I will never follow
Your truth diseased and hollow
No I will never follow
Forget your thoughts
Forget your will
Tell that voice inside
To just keep still
If it gets too be too much
Just turn your eyes away
The free individual
Is from a bygone day
No I will never follow
I will never follow
Your truth diseased and hollow
No I will never follow
I'll be your destroyer
Your world's great annoyer
I'll be your destroyer
No worn propaganda for me
Follow me
I'll take you there
You needn't think
You needn't care
We'll all go gentle
Into that good night
There'll be no more raging
Against the dying of the light
No I will never follow
I will never follow
Your truth diseased and hollow
No I will never follow
I'll be your destroyer
Your world's great annoyer
I'll be your destroyer
No guns, knives, nor lawyers
No I will never follow
I will never follow
You can't take my will away
Originally by Stiff Little Fingers
Inflammable material is planted in my head
It's a suspect device that's left 2000 dead
Their solutions are your problems
They put up the wall
On each side time and prime us
And make sure we got fuck all
They play their games of power
They mark and cut the pack
They deal us to the bottom
But do they put back?
Don't believe them
Don't believe them
Don't be bitten twice
You gotta suss, suss, suss, suss, suss out
Suss suspect device
They take away our freedom
In the name of liberty
Why don't they all just clear off
Why don't they let us be
They make us feel indebted
For saving us from hell
And then they put us through it
It's the bastards fell
Don't believe them
Don't believe them
Question everything you're told
Just take a look around you
At the bitterness and spite
Why can't we take over and try to put it right
We're a suspect device if we do what we are told
But a suspect device can score an own goal
I'm a suspect device the army can't defuse
You're a suspect device they know they can't refuse
We could use those men in tan.
You say what do we know.
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh.
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh.
What do we need to take control
We could use the rat patrol
What's that coming over the dune?
Yea well that's what we know
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh.
Whoah oh oh oh oh oh
Chasing them halftracks
Across the sand flats.
Got a nice pine box for that desert fox.
Machine guns blaring
And Arabs staring
Wondering why the Westerners are there.
It's the same old story
(Performed with Elizabeth Elmore of Sarge)
I've got nothing 'gainst he greats.
Fact the truth is you kinda like 'em a little.
Great men built all that you see.
what you see burns a hole right through you.
I'm feelin' tired all the time.
Feelin' tired's just a big excuse for you.
I got nothin' 'gainst the greats.
The more you try the less you'll be just like them.
Could you be right?
What makes you both so sure you'll will stand
up in spite, stand up to spite on you?
You can't be right.
Can't there be somethin' that'll help see the
light, help you see the light you fools.
I got nothing 'gainst the pain.
The pain you feel is nothin' great you know.
I feel for those who do not have.
You keep talking and its just lip ya know.
I want to reach the great masses.
You don't do it by sitting in your tower.
I want to teach what I know.
What you teach no one wants to learn.
All of your might, all your strength will not make
them take flight, make them retreat from you.
And when you're right, not that we think you are,
And so it begins - that some things last forever
This spirit endure - the courage that failed them never
So let valor erase - the lies that sought
To deceive them.
And so for now - I see it very clearly
A soldier in time - knows just what he holds dearly
And so it became - that time was not on their side.
And yet it remains - until we breathe our last breath.
So it's come to my attention
Some things you don't understand
Wandering through a cycle
When the power lay in your hand
Well there's an old expression
About how to play the game
Where Triumph and Disaster
Are imposters just the same
[Chorus:]
I understand
Do you understand
Understand?
So some they ask me
And this is what I say
The only thing worth having
Is what can't be taken away
[Chorus x2]
Well I can show you
Just what I mean
[X2]
Well it's my world
I see with blinding sight
Don't read from a Book
I decide what's wrong and right
So when all is evil
Don't leer into the sky
The power of creation
Is inside you and I
They all ride the same train.
It's called the Ravenswood.
They've got 2.3 children.
Their overcoats are tan.
System - [4x]
They all work for the same pay.
The loop is their destination.
They go back and forth on the tracks.
Their overcoats are tan.
System - [4x]
They've all got two cars.
And they wash them every Sunday.
And after they mow the lawn,
Cold and darkest
Thoughts while passing the time
Bold and headless
Concepts formed in my mind
Answers are found
I'm awed by decisions I've made
Convinced, I move forth
Because fortune favors the brave
Heart, soul
Heart, soul
It's all in the back of my mind
I know the flaws
I'll grind them down with my hand
And use my claws
I'll always be a freeman
Shake the big men
Shake them 'till they come down
King of the hill
And I've still got my feet on the ground
Straight, edge
Straight, edge
And I still've got my feet on the ground
When I'm long dead
After I've been taken down
When I've been betrayed
And my words can no longer be found
When memories die
And my bones are deep in the ground
I'll still be a part
They'll rip your skin off
They'll flay you alive
You try to keep breathing
On this ride of your life
I got gear
I got gear
I got gear
I can use it
I can cause you grief
So you try to keep breathing
On this ride of your life
Buckle in strap down buckle in
Strap in buckle down strap down
You try and stop me try and stop me
It's the ride of my life
Well ICBMs and retro blasters
I got mobile silos, I got
I got multiple independent reentry vehicles
Ya know you can't stop me
You can't stop me
You can't stop me
I got heat-seeking missiles in my garage
My dad's bigger than yours
My dad's bigger than a garage