New Radicals (styled as Иew Radicals) were an American pop rock band active in the late 1990s, centered on frontman Gregg Alexander, who wrote and produced all of their songs and was the sole constant member. They released one album, 1998's Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too, an alternative album heavily influenced by the rock and soul of the 1970s, containing—among radio-friendly modern rock tracks and love songs—strong criticism of corporate America.
The band is best known for their debut single "You Get What You Give", which topped the charts in Canada and New Zealand and became a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom and whose lyrics, which insulted celebrities at the end of the song, provided a minor media spectacle. Tired of touring and promotional interviews, Alexander disbanded the group in mid-1999 before the release of their second single, "Someday We'll Know", to focus on writing and producing songs for other artists. As a result, "Someday We'll Know" received little attention in most countries and the band is widely considered a one-hit wonder. "Someday We'll Know" did however go on to be covered by Hall & Oates on their 2003 album Do It For Love.
Gregg Alexander (born Gregory Aiuto, 4 May 1972) is an American singer/songwriter and producer, best known as the frontman of the New Radicals, who scored the international hit "You Get What You Give" in late 1998. Earlier in life he recorded two solo albums, Michigan Rain and Intoxifornication. He dissolved the New Radicals in 1999 to focus on production and songwriting work, winning a Grammy for the song "The Game of Love" in 2003.
Gregg Alexander was born in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and was raised in a conservative Jehovah's Witness household. He quickly developed into a multi-talented musician after receiving his first guitar at the age of 12 and teaching himself to play several instruments. At the age of fourteen Gregg joined the band The Circus, with fellow classmates George Snow, John Mabarak, along with Gregg's older brother Stephen Aiuto. They played the 1984 highschool Battle of the Bands, competing against John Lowery (John 5). By the age of 16, he signed his first recording contract with A&M after playing his demo tapes to producer Rick Nowels. He released his debut album Michigan Rain in 1989 at the age of 17, to little notice. In 1992 he signed to Epic and released Intoxifornication, which consisted largely of re-released songs from Michigan Rain and was again ignored.
Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen
They got you down on your knees
So polite
You're busy still saying please
Frenemies
Who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night
We smash their mercedes-benz
First we run
And then we laugh 'til we cry
But when the night is falling
And you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
Four a.m. we ran the miracle mile
We're flat broke
But hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial
But when the night is falling
And you cannot find a friend
You feel your tree is breaking
Just bend
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
The world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
This whole damn world can fall apart
You'll be ok follow your heart
You're in harms way I'm right behind
Now say you're mine
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
The world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
Don't let go
I feel the music in you
Fly high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
You're gonna get what you give
Just don't be afraid to leave
Health insurance rip off lying
FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes run to your mansions
Come round here we'll kick your asses
I come, you're there when I call you
I come, turn me around, baby, inside, yeah
I come pickin' my fight, back just around you, yeah
I come, don't matter why, yeah
You stay around, yeah, you're runnin' outta space
You run, you're down, you dump it in my face
Your soul is black just carryin' it around and I
I call, it's over the phone, again too soon, choo, choo
I'm you, I'm me, I'm all the answers die I'm the bim, bum, bim
Ooh, you make me wild, yeah
You and me, my only desire is to hide
You're set for doin' my new dance
The baboon, the baboon, the baboon, yeah
Heh, heh, shit on it, come on, it's you
You're ridin' on the floor, it's out back, it's out the door
It's here, it's there but baby, it's ev'rywhere I hide
Whatever makes you live
Whatever makes you high
Whatever makes you smile
You make me feel wild, yeah
You make me feel child, ooh, yeah
You make me feel wild
Well, no matter what, I'm gonna be there for you
In a while we're gonna try
We're gonna try ,we're gonna try, we're gonna try
We're gonna try, gonna try, gonna try, gonna try
Meet a girl i met Carolina
Her parents jumped off niagara falls
She broke her hips when she was a baby
Trying to hop the Berlin wall
It's not that she's anti-american
Although she shot a mayor at nine
He looked just like the prez on t.v.
But didn't know in '63 he had died
Does she think this world is all wrong
Does she think i'll rob her and run
When i ask her she gets her gun
And simply says scat boy scat scat
But isn't it a wonderful world carolina
Look at the birds in the sky
Jehovah made this whole joint for you carolina
And isn't it wonderful to be alive
So original in her black lipstick
Listening to some obscure band
But isn't she pissed that all the other non-conformists
Listen to that same obscure band
That's OK she's helping the environment
By sipping pure water and such
Then she screams we better start thinking about
The ozone layer
While tossing out a styrofoam cup
Does she think this world is all wrong
Does she think I'll rob her and run
When I ask her she gets her gun
And simply says scat boy scat scat
But isn't it a wonderful world Carolina
Look at the birds in the sky
Jehovah made this whole joint for you Carolina
So isn't it wonderful to be alive
Real deep shit on her mind
"Let's kill the world
Take over everything"
She says we don't need politicians
They breed mistrust
And as a matter of fact did you steal my purse?"
Yeah, but isn't it a wonderful world Carolina
Look at the birds in the sky
Jehovah made this whole joint for you Carolina
So isn't it wonderful to be alive
Huh isn't a wonderful world to be a...
Isn't it wonderful to be alive.....
Fuck Yeah, it's so wonderful I feel like...
Our lives?
They're nine to seven
Why aren't things wild?
You said you was a flower child
I can respect your soul searching
But now's no time for questioning
I'm sure you've been misled before
And once you'd trust they'd slam the door
But I'm everything I claim to be
You just need vodka and honesty?
Do you know who i am
Do you know who i am
My love is real
As real as the flowers you smoke to get high
My love is real
As real as our god who has spoken on how we can fly
My love is real
As real as flowers
You're 22 why aren't you free?
You're mom and daddies victory
A soul that's lived a thousand lives
Don't hide behind a childs eyes
I'm sure you've been misled before
And once you'd trust they'd slam the door
But i'm everything i claimed to be
You just need vodka and LSD?
Do you know who I am
Do you know who I am
My love is real
As real as the flowers you smoke to get high
My love is real
As real as our god who has spoken on how we can fly
My love is real
As real as flowers
I love you you hate me
I took math class that ain't a fair exchange
I call you you hang up
Don't have to be a bitch and get your # changed I'm sorry forgive me
I never meant to call you those names
I was dancing
With your shadow
Slow down memories hall
I said wait
Have I been seduced and forgotten
You said baby haven't we all
Now I don't like crying
Because it only gets me wet
But I can't help failing
To remember to forget you
And I know it's gonna be a long time
Now i'm crying like a church on Monday
Praying for these feelings to go away
So do me a favor baby
Put down your new god
And love me like sunday again
I was hiding in your bedroom
When I saw him come inside
I can't live in his shadow
Is that where I'm dancing till i die
Now I don't light candles
Because they make me see the light
That I can't help failing
To remember to forget you
And I know it's gonna be a long time
And i'm crying like a church on Monday
Praying for these feelings to go away
So do me a favor baby
Put down your new god
And love me like sunday again
Duu duu duu duu duu duu duu duu
Duu duu duu duu duu duu
Aaah
Looked for love in Memphis
Looked for love in Rome
Now that I finally got you
Just wanna take you home
Trying my best not to rush you
'Cause rush is ain't no fun
But are you breakin' the law
Lookin' out for a miracle
I think it's time you tell me where we stand
You've been takin' the love
You've been breakin' the law
You better start makin' the love
'Cause I'm in need of a miracle
You've been takin' the love
You've been breakin' the law
You better start makin' the love
'Cause I'm in need of a miracle
Aaah
Bedded a girl in Texas
And went all the way in Spokane
But I love you so much
Content to hold your hand
See I ain't in no hurry
I can't wait to be your man
Are you takin' the love?
Takin' the love
(Breakin' the law)
(Breakin' the law)
I think it's time you tell me where we stand
You've been takin' my love
You've been breakin' the law
You better start makin' the love
'Cause I'm in need of a miracle
You've been takin' my love
You've been breakin' my love
You better start makin' the love
'Cause I'm in need of a miracle
I think it's time you tell me where we stand
Yea, yea
Don't say
I took a train to Detroit
Now rode a plane to Memphis, yea
I've been all around this bad bad world
Just to find some tenderness
Takin' the love
You've been breakin' the law
You better start makin' the love
'Cause I'm in need of a miracle
You've been takin' the love
You've been breakin' the law
You better start makin' the love
'Cause I'm in need of a miracle
(Aaa)
(Huh)
Took a train, eh
Took a train to New York
And then I drove into Chicago
Yeah, I've been all around this mean mean world
Just tryin' to find a heart of gold
Takin' the love
(Oow)
You've been breakin' the law
You better start makin' the love
'Cause I'm in need of a miracle
(Huh)
(Yea ya)
You've been takin' the love
(Haa ha, ha ha ha, haa)
You've been breakin' the low
(Haa ha, ha ha ha, haa)
You better start makin' the love
(Haa ha,ha ha, ha haa)
Ho, uu, how, ya, aah
You've been takin' the love
(Haa ha, ha ha ha, haa)
You've been breakin' the love
(Haa ha, ha ha ha, haa)
You better start makin' the love
I saw your eyes I had to run away
I fell too deep in love
There were no words to say
I just had to get high
One look inside and I knew right away
I felt too much
I did not have the strength
I just ran to get high
But lover, there's something about you pushing me
Pulling me
That's saying don't go away
I saw your eyes
Fell back to yesterday
What lonely child
Until you let me stay
I had no one on my side
[Incomprehensible]
Too weak to stand
Too scared to love again
The damn has broke
My soul is spilling all over your hands
Take a look in my eyes
Lover, there's something about your pushing me
Pulling me
That's saying don't go away
One, two, three, four
I see your eyes
I'll never run away
I fell too deep in love
Got just five words to say
One, two
One, two, three
Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age 14 we got you down on your knees
So polite, you're busy still saying please
Frienemies, who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night we smash their Mercedes-Benz
First we run and then we laugh till we cry
But when the night is falling
You cannot find the light, light
If you feel your dreams are dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
I'm coming home, baby
You're tops
Give it to me now
Four a.m. we ran a miracle mile
We're flat broke but hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial
But when the night is falling
You cannot find a friend, friend
You feel your tree is breaking
Just then
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
This whole damn world can fall apart
You'll be ok, follow your heart
You're in harms way I'm right behind
Now say you're mine
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget
We only get what we give
Don't let go
I feel the music in you
Fly high, high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
You gonna get what you give
Just don't be afraid to leave
Health insurance rip off lying
FDA big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Courtney love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your ass in
Don't let go
One dance left
Don't give up
Can't forget
The Decency League, dedicated to stopping all sexual behaviour
I'm merely trying to deprive all those of the reasonable use
of their sexual organs, organs
The Decency League, dedicated to stopping all sexual behaviour
I'm merely trying to deprive all those of the reasonable use
of their sexual organs, organs
Six, five, eight, three, two
Ooh-hoo, ooh-oo-ooh
I don't like the decency league, get out of my head
I don't like the decency league, get out of my bed
The Decency League, dedicated to stopping all deviant behaviour
I'm merely trying to deprive all those of the reasonable use
of their sexual organs, organs
The Decency League, posing yourself 'gain on your "Christian" behaviour
Yeah right, I'm merely pointing out to everyone
I'm fucked up in the head, the head
Six, five, four, three, two
Ooh-hoo, ooh-oo-ooh
I don't like the decency league, get out of my head
I don't like the decency league, get out of my bed (adlib)
The Decency League, dedicated to stopping all sexual behaviour
I'm merely trying to deprive all those of the reasonable use
She came from a world that is so far out
Roller skating into my life I never had no doubt
She said where to get that velvet colored hair
I said I got lot's more somewhere
If you touch my big _____
And she said I come from a world that is so far out
And I said so do I
And she may not be the world's solution
But she's a world class revolution
Technicolor lover
Rate my heart
Technicolor lover
Sate my heart
Technicolor lover
Take my heart... now
She came from a world that is so far out
Roller skating into my life I never had no doubt
She said where to get that velvet colored hair
I said I got lot's more somewhere
If you touch my big _____
And she said I come from a world that is so far out
And I said so do I
And she may not be the world's solution
But she's a world class revolution
Technicolor lover
Take my heart
Technicolor lover
Rate my heart
Technicolor lover
90 miles outside chicago
Can't stop driving
I don't know why
So many questions
I need an answer
Two years later you're still on my mind
Whatever happened to Emelia Earhart
Who holds the stars up in the sky
Is true love once in a lifetime
Did the captain of the titanic cry
Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you
Does anybody know the way to Atlantis
Or what the wind says when she cries
I'm speeding by the place that I met you
For the 97th time tonight
Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you
Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you
I bought a ticket to the end of the rainbow
I watched the stars crash in the sea
If I could ask god just one question
Why aren't you here with me
Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you
Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
Theres something about you,
tears me inside out whenever youre around
Theres something about you
Speeding thru my veins until we hit the ground
And theres something about this rush
Take it away
It made me feel so good
I get a feeling, you get a feeling, we got a feeling
like we could die
And guess what mother
we just cant get enough
we just cant get enough
Lover
we just gotta get it up
we just gotta get it up
Theres something about you
That tears me inside out whenever you're around
And theres something about you
That makes me fly
You're a heart attack, just the kind I like
and theres something about your kiss
haunting and strange
That makes me feel so good
I get a feeling, you get a feeling we got a feeling
Like we're alive
This world may not have too much time
But baby I'm fine because maybe you're mine
We just cant't get enough
You better give up, come on and give up
give up your life
it's you for me, and me for you
You make my dreams come true
Off the wall coming from me
But I wanna see this through, my baby
You're on my mind all the time
I found a million dimes
You rolled the dice, and lost them all
And baby I just dont mind
And incidentally mother
And I dont want no one if I cant have you
a world of illusion
But baby you're true
I know I deceived you I once told you lies
If you dont believe me
Just look in my eyes
Social Security Number please
Credit card number please
Money please
Money please
Money please
Please deposit $85 dollars
for the next three minutes
(or your call will be f***ing disconnected immediately)
She wanted to be a nun
Until that fateful day we met
I beat the crucifix
In a game of russian roulette
I burned my beatles records
Because she hated number nine
She licked rock cocaine suckers
Laughed, said her mom's doing mine
Well... are you an illusion
Or am i just getting stoned
Because i can't take it alone
I can't take it alone
I hope i didn't just give away the ending
We started limping
Caught the handicap shuttle to town
And yelled "god's healed us"
As we ran off the bus the driver just frowned
By the way this girl was sexy and she wouldn't touch you
That may not be true
But i said it so you'd feel involved with the song
Are you an illusion
Or am i just getting stoned
Because i can't take it alone
I can't take it alone
I hope i didn't just give away the ending
We caught a fey taxi driver
I smiled the ride was free
I felt like amsterdam
She wanted more drugs and maybe me
I told her dealer i was broke
He hired a cameraman
We did a porno film for coke
I hear i'm big in japan
Are you an illusion
Or am i just getting stoned
Because i can't take it alone
I can't take it alone
I hope I didn't just give away the ending
We went back to her kitchen
Put the coke all in a can
Tied up a t.v. minister
In walked her dad
He started drinking coffee
Too much sugar on the go
He fell dead on the floor
He thought the coke was sweet 'n low
Well are you an illusion
Or am I just getting stoned
Boy was she upset but then she stole her dad's wallet and
I drove him to the hospital
To sell all his donatable body parts
And this is when she dies
They brought a depressed junkie in
She shot his Cyanide up
I guess she thought it was errol flynn
I'm blamed in confusion
The police being phoned
I don't even love you
We weren't even friends
It's just that i can't take it alone
I can't take it alone
Uh huh
I can't take it alone
I hope I didn't just give away the ending
I hope I didn't just give away the ending
I hope I didn't just give away the ending
I hope I didn't just give away the ending
I hope I didn't just give away the ending
I hope I didn't just give away the ending
Aw Jesus, ah shit
Two months of fun
Two years of pain
Add it up
And get a life of rain
Need to scream
But too ashamed
It's gonna rain it's gonna rain
You wanna go you wanna stay you wanna
You really blew my world
I wanna live and there's only one way
I don't wanna die anymore
I want to live it up
I don't want this high anymore
But i can't give it up
I won't live a lie anymore
I need to give you up
Won't you save me
Two months of sun
A life of rain
Add it up
I'm on my own again
Need to scream
I'm so filled with rage
It's gonna rain it's gonna rain
You wanna go You wanna stay you wanna
You really screwed my world
I gotta live but you stand in the way
I'm pullin out of now "UHH"
I don't wanna die anymore
I want to live it up
I don't want this high anymore
But i can't give it up
I won't live a lie anymore
I need to give you up
And "OH OH BABY" did you think that i was strong?
Well "OH OH BABY" can't ya see that you were wrong
The flowers you gave me
Are just about to die
When I think about
What couldve been
Makes me want to cry
The sweet words you whispered
didnæ° make a thing
I guess our song is over
Cause we began to sing
Couldve been so beautiful
Couldve been so right
Couldve been my lover
Every day of my life
Couldve been so beautiful
Couldve been so right
I never know what couldve of been
On a cold and lonely night
The memories of our loving
Still linger in the air
Like a faded scent of your roses
Stay with me everywhere
Every time I get my hopes up
They always seem to fall
Still what couldve been is better then
What can never be at all... at all________
Couldve been so beautiful
Couldve been so right
Couldve been my lover
Every day of my life
Couldve been so beautiful
Couldve been so right
You could know what couldve of been
On a cold and lonely night
Couldve been so beautiful
Couldve been so right
You could know what couldæ³e of been
On a cold and lonely night
How can you know what couldve been
Two months of fun
Two years of pain
Add it up
And get a life of rain
Need to scream
But too ashamed
I'm gonna rain, I'm gonna rain
You wanna go, you wanna stay
You wanna
You really blew my world
I wanna live and there's only one way
I don't wanna die anymore
I want to live it up
I don't want this high anymore
But I can't give it up
I won't live a lie anymore
I need to give you up
Won't you save me
Two months of sun
A life of rain
Add it up
I'm on my own again
Need to scream
I'm so filled with rage
Gonna rain, gonna rain
You wanna go, you wanna stay
You wanna
You really screwed my world
I gotta live but you stand in the way
I'm pullin out now, uh
I don't wanna die anymore
I want to live it up
Don't want this high anymore
But I can't give it up
I won't live a lie anymore
I need to give you up
Oh, oh oh
Oh oh baby, do you think that I was strong?
Oh oh baby, can't you see that you were wrong?
Oh oh honey, do you think that I was strong?
I don't wanna die anymore
I want to live it up
I don't want this high anymore
But I can't give it up
I won't live a lie anymore
I need to give you, give you, give you,
You got me really going out of my mind
Oh oh baby, do you think that I was strong?
Oh oh honey, can't you see that you were wrong?
Oh oh baby, do you think that I was strong?
Oh oh baby, do you think that I was strong?
Oh oh honey, can't you see that you were wrong?
Wake up kids
We've got the dreamers disease
Age fourteen
we got you down on your knees
So polite
you're busy still saying please
Frenemies
who when you're down ain't your friend
Every night
we smash their mercedes-benz
First we run
and then we laugh till we cry
But when the night is falling
and you cannot find the light
If you feel your dream is dying
Hold tight
You've got the music in you
Don't let go
You've got the music in you
One dance left
This world is gonna pull through
Don't give up
You've got a reason to live
Can't forget you only get what you give
Four a.m. we ran a miracle mile
were flat broke but hey we do it in style
The bad rich
God's flying in for your trial
(chorus)
This whole damn world can fall apart
You'll be ok follow your heart
You're in harms way I'm right behind
Now say youre mine
(chorus)
Fly high
What's real can't die
You only get what you give
Just dont be afraid to leave
Health insurance rip off lying fda big bankers buying
Fake computer crashes dining
Cloning while they're multiplying
Fashion shoots
with Beck and Hanson
Courtney Love and Marilyn Manson
You're all fakes
Run to your mansions
Come around
We'll kick your ass in
Don't let go
Sweet greet drizzle, oh that's so high
Says givin1 delirium tremors
Takin1 off everything, knife of the crowd
Says somebody makes him do better
Her lags are blailing, She's having babies
That does not metter cause there's just one thing to know
That said, my baby's on something
My baby's on something good
My baby's on something
So shut up, bitch and give me some of that shit.
Hoo-ooh, ooh-hoo
I'm drivin' down San Diego, the fat police all stare
Ah, the cop car does not matter
Hell, modern this summer
I just wanna make all your crazed illusions of me be shattered!
She's lag are flailing, She gave me rabies
That does not metter cause there's just one thing to know
That said, my baby's on something
My baby's on something good
My baby's on something
So shut up, bitch and give me some of that shit.
Hoo-ooh, ooh-hoo
Unh-huh, uhh-huh
Yeah-yeah, YEAH yeah!
Aaow!
Her's lag are flailing, She's having babies
That does not metter cause there's just one thing to know
That said, my baby's on something
My baby's on something good
My baby's on something
So shut up, bitch and give me some of that shit.
Hoo-ooh, ooh-hoo
Unh-huh, uhh-huh
Yeah-yeah, YEAH yeah!
lalala
lalala
la lala la
lick my ass
it tastes good
mmmm so gud
i like ass it tastes good
mmm mmm ass
mmm mmm ass
lick it
lick it
lick it
lick it till your tongue gets aids
lalala
la la lala
ladida
didoo
didoo
yeah oh yeah ass is so good
lick my ass or i'll fuck your mom
fuck fuck fuck
mother mother fuck
mother mother fuck fuck
mother fuck
mother fuck
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smokin weed
smokin wiz
doin coke
drinkin biz
drinkin biz biz biz
rollin fatties smokin blunts
who smokes the blunts?