It's eight in the morning and you've
been crying all night
Why do you wake me now?
All these hours I've been sleeping peacefully
Your imagination has been running wild
Oh honey rest
Your wet nose on my chest
I'll make it alright
We do this every night
'Cause I love you like a child of mine
I wish more like a friend sometimes
But hey, that's still love anyway
I'm wide awake so sing it...
"I don't wanna feel the hurt no more,
Smile on me baby"
'Cause I love you like a child of mine
I wish more like a friend sometimes
Speak of heroes
You're swift to nominate them
Oh, darling be a sacrificial lamb
Oh, poor boys fighting peasants in foreign lands
How loudly you praise them
Oh, but where were you then?
Off dancing with your debutante
Her skin is soft and warm
But her eyes are cold and dead
It serves the greedy well
To say men's hearts are dark
But I believe there'll be a light that shines
Which now is just a spark
No gods, no masters
No kings nor their court jesters
No gods, no masters
No kings nor their court jesters
Bury the last
Sons of avarice
Tell the teachers and nurses and soldiers
They must be lazy and/or dumb
While you, you earn a hundred to one
Oh, but don't you fucking utter the word
Meritocracy
So what's our priorities
With people or markets being free
I hear Sudan is a dusty place
And every day a few less black faces
It serves the greedy well
To say men's hearts are dark
But I believe there'll be a light that shines
Which now is just a spark
No gods, no masters
No kings nor their court jesters
No gods, no masters
No kings nor their court jesters
Bury the last
Sons of avarice
No gods, no masters
No kings nor their court jesters
No gods, no masters
No kings nor their court jesters
Bury the last
Speak, oh heart!
I'll follow your call anywhere
Give these lungs some fresh air to breathe
And the songs of our fathers to sing
It's early morning and I'm leaving town
So don't be surprised when I'm not around
With such subtle cruelty, you never made an unkind remark
You struck me down and tore out my heart
Bleed old wounds
Remind me of the dangers of standing still
Away with the drudgery
These ruts in the road
Are growing and I'm not yet old
The word left long unspoken shouldn't be spoken at all
An older man's loyalty can equal young passion after all
Ah your cute little hurricane,
Your shot in the dark
It's a disaster when honesty means an unyielding heart
There's no justice
There ain't no peace until you're dead
One step forward and two steps back
Flowery poetry dowsed in hate
And if there's a love I hope we find it
Cuz there's a life to live out there
Smothered in obedience
I know there's no rebel song to sing
I know there's no chorus to this tragedy
Wander where exiles wander
Cuz there's a life to live out there
Smothered in obedience
There's a life to live out there
But you have to try one of these days
And if there's a chance I hope we take it cuz
There's a hope to have out there
There's a million rebel songs unwritten
There's a million rebels unsung
every place i've been's a shimmering sea
of degredation
and all their eyes are drying blood
over my midnight shoulder
i could pity their vain ignorance
to the ever incurable
i'm choking down all of this desperate sense
either way i've been to some darkest places
and there's little point in sweet talking me
i'm lonely all of the time [x3]
lonely
i wore a red carpet overcoat
so you could complete your task in style
and i crossed my eyes one million times
to pretty your smile
i poured sincerity on your words
so they were dripping with meaning
and your crocodile tears were salty enough
your soul's a cannibal woman
and there's little point in sugarcoating you
i'm lonely all of the time [x4]
you taste like last night
you smell like tomorrow morning
you look like you'll just eat me alive
once i resuscitate you
and i'm gonna (hey) resuscitate you
gonna
i'm gonna resuscitate you
resuscitate you
lonely
lonely all of the time [x3]
Who's the enemy?
You're gonna point your gun at GI Joe
Well your Grandpa broke the strikes and your dad the civil rights
When they were 18 too
Kent State, you never had a clean slate
I didn't see watts burn but I felt the embers
Pinkerton mobs, national guard
Change the names, but someone remembers
I passed out flowers in the park (Loaded gun)
I spent my money in the market (Loaded gun)
Running rebels reading Marx (Loaded gun)
How droll! Armalite ballot!
There's dollars in Bahrain (Loaded gun)
But there's rust in the gas can (Loaded gun)
Bombs for petrol? (Loaded gun)
No! Petrol for bombs
They've got a file on you, friend, and it's none of your business
Community policing paying dividends
East Oakland is a no-go
But the liquor store is Cointelpro
Peacekeeping missions in police warzone
With a turbulent Dow Jones
If violence is a state monopoly
Then think of us as antitrust
The CIA is in Oakland (Loaded gun)
Rewriting the constitution (Loaded gun)
see the rollers rolling up
they put me in the handcuffs
i didn't do nothing wrong
just trying to get along
so don't smile your eyes at me
cuz it don't mean shit to a latchkey kid
hard knocks have made me
hard as a rock
don't want to let it in my heart
but its going to y head
latchkey kid introverted
better off dead
where does our childhood go
we grew up before we every really grew
sometimes i want to sweep down and save you
we gotta make our own mistakes
but i can't watch you fucking up
i can still remember that
smiling face that
made not me feel so out of place
Landmine fuck i'm out of time how
was i to know you were gonna blow?
hey gray cloud, lay off for now
enough bad luck my skies are clearing up
you'll just sit and watch
cuz you're so detached
all is not lost once you start fighting
back nothings relevant you're indifferent
and you'll feel no pain if you stay the same
tightened up clean my nose and act up
cuz now i'm not a convict now i'm not
locked up set my eyes to fairness and
remove signs of violence destroy
cycles and circles not myself this
madness around us some souls just can't take unflinchingly
broken heart and broken spirit
break the glass till there's no glass left
and while you're young drink until your heart's numb
look at all the broken folks
wonder if they ever tried to decycle
release the pain of childhood
and find some peace in what's good
cuz now i ain't like my old man
i ain't no hardknuckler swashbuckler
i was back then let the old man slip
away concentrate on being a good one
I'll tell you what we're gonna do
We're gonna paint the deserts red white and fucking blue
See through the cable news veneer
While a country insane with fear
Goosesteps down the Appian Way
We're all gonna rue the day
It won't be long
'Til we're all dead and gone
I got a feeling something's wrong
It won't be long
'Til we're all dead and gone
The world's seeing stars and stripes
And smart bombs
I'll tell you how it's gonna be
We'll die like drowning rats just swallowed by the sea
Freedom's on the ides of marching
Onward Christian soldiers of fortunes
Reversing tides of red herrings
Hollow, how long can we go?
It won't be long
'Til we're all dead and gone
I got a feeling something's wrong
It won't be long
'Til we're all dead and gone
The world's seeing stars and stripes
And smart bombs
See through the cable news veneer
While a country insane with fear
Goosesteps down the Appian Way
We're all gonna rue the day
It won't be long
'Til we're all dead and gone
We're singing everyone's swan song
It won't be long
'Til we're all dead and gone
I got a feeling something's wrong
It won't be long
'Til we're all dead and gone
The world's seeing stars and stripes
YOu got stars in your sunglasses
mona lisa has got nothing on you
im seeing angels the angels of death
you've got pallid features and carbon breath
like a hint
like a feather
but its a crisis
walk on the water
before it is wine
remember that we're lovers
you drive me crazy
i need my mind
we need to run
still we hide
day to night
specters wisp about your cloudy eyes
you were never kind to another soul
they want to take you home tonight
and make love to your evil passion inside
like a hint
like a feather
but its a crisis
walk on the water
before it is wine
remember that we're lovers
you drive me crazy i need my mind
we need to run
still we hide
day to night
i fall to my knees
for shame i cry
for selfish regret i chastise
i hope you find some peace
in your devil mind
and a thousand painful deaths
cursed upon myself
for every act
of cruelty
and every word unbrotherly
passion overcomes reason again
drunk clarity amid such desperation
running around the wharf with you
seven blankets and we're still freezing half to death
somehow i'm still managing this smile in my life
i keep trading future pain for this moment's passion
this time i hoped things could last a light longer
separation...your issues destroy my heart again there
is no absolution cause really there
is no fault only a drunk confused
anger i must destroy before our
friendship gets torn apart i know
there's not enough hope and there's
too much anger i know there's no
one you trust you have so much
anger i don't care that everything
keeps crashing down for every low a
companion high i'm staying positive
don't want to live with bitterness
i'm not going to waste my youth
My lungs still hurt
cuz i'm still breathing you
you can't see clear
when i'm always near
if we can't breathe we have to leave
if you come running to me
i'll meet you half way
i'll always stay
close enough away
it's hard to take
the leap of faith
from the pedestal we put
eat other on
i'll climb down one foot at a time
i'll always stay
Parading through the streets
this ain't no ordinary beat
I'm on vacation from the east bay
When i think i can leave all the grief it just stays inside me
look on the bright side, cheer up
you & me will fuck shit up
holiday
i know that you're sick of this town
you & me will burn it down
wake up sunday morning to a fresh urine stain and a pool of vomit
that i guess i hope is mine
four hours of sleep cuz of nintendo playing speed freaks
i'm penniless in a different place
but it's the same old scene
holiday
it's okay and i'm okay
everything's going to be all right
i'm looking on the bright side
Hidden tombs and solitude
hunger stikes or belly aches
handcuffed pines and crossed picket lines
sacrifice is a tear away
Barren plans, buried two fingers beneath the sand
overdoses or body shakes
a wet dream for a dry spell
addiction is a tear away
When the booms a bust and profits gone
by war cry or swan song
we'll be here like before and evermore
Nothing to lost is a tear away
Obese and unnatural and wearied of the weight
sacred heart or blessed fall
salvation is a tear away
Murder bloody murder
suicide pact the world over
stillborn slaves can't fill mass graves
sooner than their share has been reserved
peasant mobs and kings for a day
your loves are fleeting when so unjust
for bleeding hearts drain fast with steadfast lust
I met you at a party and i should
have known with eyes like yours i
should have left you alone i
played the fool and i bit the
hook those eyes that glitter for
any fool who'd look you were
looking for a warm bed, mine was
down the hall i was looking for
love and ready to fall
we're both in the same place so
lets not place any blame
you don't love me so i cant love you
you wont cry no tears so i wont cry too
i wont drag out the past
if you wont drag out the future
let it be wrong cuz i can't stay
here all night long tonight i
know love is lost we don't need
no situation my head hurts,
everything keeps falling down
you don't need to come too
you don't love me so i can't love you
you wont cry no tears so i wont cry too
i wont drag out the past
Irgendwo in Oakland, Kalifornien, steht ein Lagerhaus, über dessen volle Breite der
Schriftzug "American Steel" zu lesen ist. Auf der gegenüberliegenden
Straßenseite befindet sich ein unbedeutender Club, in dem 1995 eine unbedeutende
Punkrock-Combo ihre erste Show abliefert. Alles o.k. so weit, bis auf eine
Kleinigkeit: Die Band hat keinen Namen. Was lag da näher, als den übermächtigen
Lagerhaussschriftzug als Namensgeber zu nehmen? So kann es auch gehen.American Steel
aus der legendären Bay Area, der schon viele große Bands entsprangen, fingen an wie
viele andere auch. Nachdem sie einige Shows gespielt hatten und ein eingespieltes
Line-Up besaßen, investierten sie ihr letztes Geld in einen Bus, mit dem sie eine 32
Tage- und 12000 Meilen-Tour durchzogen.Zwei Jahre nach Bandgründung erschien dann,
nach einigen Sampler-Auftritten, ihr erstes selbstbetiteltes Werk. New Disorder
Records hieß ihr erstes Label und schickte sie mit Kevin Army ins Studio, der zuvor
schon mit Green Day oder Operation Ivy zusammengearbeitet hatte. Was sie ablieferten
war Punkrock pur. Ein rotziger aber melodiöser Gesang, ein dreckiger Sound mit einem
Schuss gutem Rock'n'Roll. Auch der Ska und Reggae hat seinen Platz in der Musik von
American Steel, so dass sie ein abwechslungsreiches Songrepertoire präsentieren
konnten.Bald wieder auf Tour machten sie sich einen Namen mit ihren intensiven
Live-Shows. So erarbeitete sich die Band eine große Fangemeinde in den USA, die ihr
99er Album "Rogues March" enthusiastisch feierte. Damit hatten sie sich
als East Bay Punkband etabliert und wurden letztendlich zusammen mit Rancid, Green
Day, No Doubt und Blink 182 bei den California Music Awards 2001 für das beste Punk
Album nominiert. Gewonnen haben sie zwar nicht, dafür konzentrierten sie sich auf
die Fertigstellung ihres dritten Werkes "Jagged Thoughts". Und einmal mehr
gelang ihnen ein überzeugendes Album, mit dem sie sich und ihrem Sound treu geblieben
sind. Dabei wissen die Jungs nicht nur zu rocken. Nein, auch die Lyrics geben etwas
her. Sehr melancholisch erzählt Sänger Ruarie von seiner Welt, die er mal depressiv,
mal aggressiv, aber selten optimistisch verarbeitet. Keine heile Welt, aber trotzdem
schön, irgendwie.2001 Jagged Thoughts1999 Rogues March1997 American
Steel
So alone
the ghosts of ex-lovers haunt me
like they haunt this town
broken life broken dreams
and a fucked up heart
i've got a bottle of bargain scotch
and thats a start
christ look how this time's gone by
look at our rotting livers and our wasted lives
never alone
our friends leave broken bottles all over our broken home
it's the same scene every night
we sit around, drink, fuck or fight
christ look how this time's gone by
look at our rotting livers
thanks for treating me like dirt when i was
just like dirt and giving me no value when
i had no self worth and in repayment
for the lessons on the courses you never had to live
you're welcome for my pride
when i had nothing else to give
i'll await your half-assed amends when the
only thing you could hope for is just a friend
hurray hurray i thank you to
condescend when the only thing i needed in life
was just a friend hurray hurray
oh its wonderful advice a grand idea
as if on cue to replace
my own tattered body
the moon is bright
there's sadness in your eyes
a desperate evening
stretches out before us
wine and cigarettes
are taken as commitment
nothing will grow here
wine and cigarettes
are taken as commitment
nothing will grow here
nothing nothing will grow here
there's a new life [x6]
wake up sweating
it's four a.m. i'm thinking
my god there's a new life
struck by the horror of it all
half dead and passing my diseased life along
touch your stomach with my hand
burn and choke on my regret
what can i say
but it's like me
far too often your steps are weighted by sorrow
but i would sooner stand still then stand indifferent
since i learned regret to live
today is not to waste another
moment one more thing before i
shut the door
i don't wanna see you here no more
i've been patient i think i've listened
i think you've got your two cents in
reservation, hesitation, amidst desperation
It's been a long day
breaking my back for pay
It's been a long day
working my life away
it's been a long day
sucking my ego in
It's been a long day
and it's just begun
it's been a long long long long long long
its been a long long day
its been a long day
living from paycheck to paycheck
existing, 5 days from homelessness
long day, living the wrong way
one more long day,
you'll never get that time again
building up the boss's wealth
"at least you've got your health"
long day, living the wrong way
one more long day,
you'll never get that time again
always remember the longer you live,
Whiskey, Women, And Blackguarding (Ain't No Cure For A Broken Heart)
In the flatlands its uphill everywhere you go.
I can feel the fuckers in the hills looking down their noses.
At the black man white man heading off to work.
(Hard knocks hard luck and hard living).
Then the fog rolls in and we do it all again.
(Hard knocks hard luck hard living)
see the kids in the streets learning how to hate.
Lockdown cell block 32-28
You spend your sunny days on the brink of another disaster.
Try to run but you couldn't live any faster
Like lover boy said we be working for the weekend.
So the butchers go and cut it up in brokeland.
Well laid plans one night stands and fisticuffs.
(whiskey women and blackguarding)
Monday morning black eyed toiling we've clearly had enough.
(whiskey women and blackguarding)
Adeline Adeline sweet Adeline
Bottle to the face cuts to the chase
lets paint this town fucking black and blue.
You spend your sunny days on the brink of another disaster.
Try to run but you couldn't live any faster
You spend your sunny days on the brink of another disaster.
The year is growing old under a cloudy sky
like pouring new wine into an old glass
we'll drink the bottle dry
just walk with me to the end of the night
haloed streetlights shine down
on an empty street
miles and miles of nothing at all
fall asleep to the sound
of the ringing in my ears
lay my tired head on what could have been
and wake up alone again
reel in another week, order another round
tonight we run from last call to last chance
the barroom clock runs down
haloed streetlights shine down on your twisted sheets
empty bottles all over the floor
fall asleep to the sound
of your breathing in my ear
sleep the dark dreamless sleep of the dead
you fell in love with a brash young thing
an unpredictable man
lately i've been working every night
so i guess you say i've stayed my hand
people in the street know your name
they wink at me so i do the same
something is not right but they imply
i'll know when
if i wasn't scared by now i won't be then
never seen someone so deserving
of the benefit of the doubt
believe me you're got some rumors baby
whispered voicings down and out
some say you're trouble
i can see what they mean
run for your life boy
well i say i am
never seen my interests protected so well
if i was ever scared of trouble
it wont be now
they say you're trouble
i know damn well what they mean
they wink their eyes
until they can't see anything
your crooked smile
and my crooked mind
if i ever saw two crooks
constellations of corpses
hovering hateful hymns
intimate our world dangerous
we smile kisses as if
we'll see each other again
turn it out
id-bunkered silence
turn it out
what on earth
could make you wait so long
turn it out
your baited expectations
turn it out
hollow snaps of misdirected anger
ricochet pumiceous conrete
you're not a threat like tet
lonely mi lai no one left to cry
turn it out
id-bunkered silence
turn it out
what on earth
could make you wait so long
turn it out
your haited expectations
How could i expect love or trust
the people here are lost
we live with holes in our hearts
blood in our mouths
how could you have done that to them
they were your children
raped and beaten
do you still wear that hard on?
these are good days anyway
i just feel so much rage
but we have each other
and i will hold you and hold you
until your tears stop
until the past gets buried again
i talk so much shit
stay positive, stay positive
i'm feeling fucking negative
when all my anger builds up
when i imagine what it looked like
when they bled
you fucked up my friends
we come to this place this age
with hearts that are welted and bleeding
somehow you have to take back
those years and your fear
from the people who hurt you
i am not your father
not your rapist
not like the past
i am not the ones who left
but still you regard me
with that hint of unease
will there ever be trust
the people i know
have grown strong with beatings
i'm feeling like our strength
could be our greatest weakness
i'm trying to prove
someone can love you
They're all lies
Everything that helps you sleep at night
You sharpen the hatchet
Still you just won't make your peace with the past
And you were once a charming child
I fell in love with the freedom that you had inside
And it makes me so sad
To warp the best memories that I have ever had
The wind blows
The trees bow
The river flows
To the sea
They're all here
All the people and places you've always held near
You can let it all go now
We've waited so long for you just to calm down
They can bury us standing dear
But I'm weary with all of the fighting and fear
Feel the love wash over me
Ageless and serene as the river to the sea
The wind blows
The trees bow
The river flows
jagged words are all i've heard
spitting shards of vitriol
jagged thoughts they're all that i've got
shredding my soul
jagged words are all i've heard
spitting shards of vitriol
jagged thoughts they're all that i've got
shredding my soul
shrapnel
true love is a thorn in its side
wasting time to smell the roses
my lover is a diamond ring
who takes a shine to a puppet
on a string of bad luck isn't tragedy
its hardened tears are here to stay
tick tock time clock whistle stop
everyone knows you goin home dog tired
gonna wake up
exhausted to a new day
jagged words are all i've heard
spitting shards of vitriol
jagged thoughts they're all that i've got
shredding my soul
shrapnel
wherever the wind blows
baby i'll go head high
cause my hero is a lonely gravesite
twisting in solemn vigil of waning
light some spark in a slugging mind
and all the world is a powder keg
but i remember you when you loved freedom too
brimming young with life so wipe the tears
from your eyes
baby no one's got to see you dying
jagged words are all i've heard
spitting shards of vitriol
jagged thoughts they're all that i've got
shredding my soul
shrapnel
no one's got to see you
no one's got to hear you dying
dying.
jagged words are all i've heard
spitting shards of vitriol
jagged thoughts they're all that i've got
shredding my soul
well we've been fucking hibernating,
all these years, just stagnant, waiting
I watched you sleeping, wondering
are you dreaming like me?
we can be safe from reality
if we haint it while it sleeps
We can escape this quarantine,
rotting away our dreams.
Rotting Away!
Buy a quart pass it back and forth
rotting, rotting
You're so far from the street's sound
imprisoned by your thoughts,
your crazy life is wearing thin
I'm waiting in the lost and found
crooning on your front porch
on the outside looking in
rotting, rotting, rotting away
rotting, rotting, rotting away
there's passion in the alleys tonight
you help me dread the morning light
there's inspiration for a wayward soul,
I'm ashamed that you're not more angry
It's a mans world but it's falling apart
No we don't share a thing we kill and rob and anthropomorphize God
Battle drums of the Rogues March
Rattle my bones for the ghost
Of revolutionaries biding their time recruiting at the local bread line
Idle hands burn the midnight oil
Muscles ache
Sweat on your brow
Oh the Rogue's March
-We're the heart and soul of this heartless country-
Now I'm a happy voter, free wheelin' like General Motors
Pero, No Trabajo
Come on come on now lets think twice people aren't made of sugar and spice
It's a long dark road to suffer disgrace
You know Jesus the magician
Statistician
God bless your superstition
Walked on water
Turned it into wine
Hated faggots
Complained about them all the time
The world is lousy with religion
Of course yours is the true one
Your faith can't make our decisions
Aren't they our decisions
Anyways?
They're only words
They can't draw blood
Is that a dose of Jesus' love
Left 'em bleeding
You were screaming
Razorblades
Razorblades
Your words are so sharp with hate
Left 'em bleeding
You were screaming
Razorblades
Who'd believe us
Without statisticians
Mounting death tolls
God bless your superstition
It there's no atheists
In the trenches
I think that maybe they came to their senses
The world is lousy with religion
Of course yours is a peaceful one
Your faith can't make our decisions
Aren't they our decisions
Anyways?
They're only words
They can't draw blood
Is that a dose of Jesus' love
Left 'em bleeding
You were screaming
Razorblades
Razorblades
Your words are so sharp with hate
Left 'em bleeding
You were screaming
i wandered miles in the rain
i hunted miles in my old man's shoes
i was singing
i was singing songs my mother sang to me
i hear where you're comin from
cause i'm not far away
i hear where you're comin from
cause i'm not far away
away
c'est la vie
save me
c'est la vie mon amie
save me for a rainy day
a rainy day
i never looked at you with hateful eyes
i never held you in angry arms
i'm not a statue to rise
i'm not a statue to fall
through the trials of time
who loses his arms
i'm your cold sweat epiphanies
you're my red wine soliloquies
so please
c'est la vie
save me
c'est la vie mon amie
save me for a rainy day
a rainy day [x2]
c'est la vie
save me
c'est la vie mon amie
save me for a rainy day
a rainy day [x5]
c'est la vie mon amie
save me for a rainy day
everybody's just filled with hate, but
ill always offer a clean slate
oh how i've tried to stick up for you
but you always fuck up something new
the bickering the snickering is old
i can't see you thinking twice as
another drama unfolds and your life...
wastes, wastes, wastes away
fear is in the mirror, you're just passing by
we all make mistakes
but you've never really owned up to it
and all your half-assed apologies
don't ever really add up to shit
your self service is blatant
and we've served all your purposes
you wonder how you missed all the answers,
without trying to scratch the surface and your life...
is that fear in the mirror
is this another shattered life, is this
the amount of all the broken promises and lies
the more i try not to let you slip
the more it feels like i'm chasing
first high wasted my love, smoked my
empathy angered my sympathy, love and wisdom
Times like these are fleeting at best
to hell with the rest
trust is like suicide
what I mean to say is you don't have a choice either way some things were said but that's okay they needed said anyway let's forgive and forget I don't know how far the apple fell and through angry lenses it's hard to tell but I'll be seeing you in hell
Fill up the parting glass
up off your ass it's time
to make what we have last goodnight I love you still
Turn out the lights the party is over
if you sleep
Sweet dreams
Drink all night and sleep all day and i wake up just in time to work away - I'm out the fucking door - and I'm out of mind love and sacrifice aren't the meaning of life just a way don't you see that yet? like you and me hand in hand and so far apart my heads impaled on X-mas ale and shadows from the past warm thoughts full up cold hearts like coats coming off at X-mas mass
Fill up the parting glass up off your ass
it's time to make what we have last
Good night I love you still
When I lost my dad I was ten years old
Had a heart filled with venom and a poisonous tongue
I hated everything about the whole damn world
Mom was tough as they come and she held us close
Trying to raise us to the standards of his ghost
And you know that it was hard on her
Guess it was hard on us too
But where some have no one we had a village to get us through
The years have flown by and somehow we've survived
Somewhat broken hearted but willing enough to try
Tell me that you'll be there
And we'll hear the dance music from down below
Walking arm in arm through the summer air
With drinks in hand at the end of old Croy Road
We lost my dad when I was ten years old
I got his record collection and stereo console
And I learned every word, sang every line
Trying to find the man I was sure was hidden inside
Let's breathe the summer air and dance underneath the moonlight
We'll steal kisses underneath the oaks and I'll be loving life
Tell me that you'll be there
And we'll hear the dance music from down below
Walking arm in arm through the summer air
With drinks in hand at the end of old Croy Road
We lost my dad when I was ten years old
I got his record collection and stereo console
And I learned every word, sang every line
i've found a new religion
every morn a new mantra
it's not that now i don't believe
everything i'm told or read
overheard and over said
i'm just not listening
try to change the weather
like time magazine
did you read?
chairman mao is a robber baron now
rolling over in his grave
i've found a new religion
every day (every day)
i've found a new religion
every day
i've got a new image
got a new outlook
and it's decidedly sexy
but then again i can't be satisfied
and broken hearts are counterrevolutionary
are feeling cooped up
like allende?
see i ain't
gonna pull my hair out anymore
for a new cold war
i've found a new religion
every day (every day)
i've found a new religion
every day (every day)
yeah yeah
Let us mourn the passing of the weekend
My liquor's all dry and gone
All the problems haven't been resolved
And my headache's grown
It's not hell on earth
It's more like a dream
It's not like a nightmare anymore
Look at my cloven hooves
Look at my paraplegic strut
I wish you'd do me in
I wish you'd snuff me out
So I'd awake with a gun in my mouth
Wide eyed for the first time
It's more like a dream
It's more like a dream to me
A splash of cold water
A welcome slap to the face
Never ending progress
Don't brush your shoulder with your ear
And if I second guess
The actions that have brought me here
I'd awake with a gun in my mouth
Wide eyed for the first time
It's more like a dream
It's more like a dream to me
It's not hell on earth
It's more like a dream
It's not like a nightmare anymore
You better calm down
I'm not liking the sound of your voice
I might blow up on you I can't say
I've been drunk since noon
Kaboom!
Now the boys won't take me out in public
They wanna drop me like an awkward subject
Let me be clear I've a mean streak my dear
Everyone that I meet I wanna stab in the ear
Except you 'cause you're like me
We both act miserably
I like you 'cause you're like me
We both act miserably
It must make us happy
Fuck all these people
I can't stand the looks on their face
Just one more nasty glance
And I might just fuck up the place
A disgrace
Thought I was just a basket case
It's looking more like a kick to the face
Let me be clear I've a mean streak my dear
Everyone that I meet I wanna punch in the ear
Except you 'cause you're like me
We both act miserably
I like you 'cause you're like me
We both act miserably
It must make us happy
The say these colors don't run
But they bleed in your face
like a bully spitting up a bad taste
after being knocked down a few pegs
you sigh as hard as a rock
it cuts your laugh lines absurd
i'm smiling with irish eyes bloodshot
christmas colored you don't know what you've got
i'm falling apart at the seams
i'm mending this fifth of old age
minding these six strings
it don't do me a damn
that you got a pretty face baby
it don't seem to you a damned thing
you got soothsayer nay-saying
red herrings never spoke to us
we don't believe in fate or metaphor
they got healing lips but their tongues are poison tipped
maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
well make them rue the day they met you
im whistling with conviction like a young man in love
like a young man with his pride on sale
baby
join the club
well you're just darling
with your exclaimed travesties
its a long road so keep your chin up
you got soothsayer nay-saying
red herrings never spoke to us
we don't believe in fate or metaphor
they got healing lips but their tongues are poison tipped
maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
well make them rue the day they met you
i once held a stone also
staring at you naked
daring us to throw
maria you see the good in everything
now i know stones and bones fall
to where they came from
maria, the moment is right
to make them take a step back
maria on your quietest night
Sunrise I see in your eyes
Destroy the future now
Of those whose motivation is just fear
and superstition
Huddled masses rise up
Rebel hearts stand tall
Because love's the only answer
For anything you've ever wondered
That is, love and logic
We want love and logic
We need love and logic
Daughters of the revolution
Still waiting for resolution
Come sons of everyman
Still waiting for their promised land
Huddled masses rise up
Rebel hearts stand tall
Because love's the only answer
To anything you've ever wondered
That is, love and logic
We want love and logic
We need love and logic
Sunrise I see in your eyes
Destroy their future before it kills us
I shatter everything when i want to see my
mind i'll pick the pieces up when i get the
time but there isn't enough glue only this
social lubricant between me and you to
stop the friction you've got to learn to
whisper if you want people to listen gotta
learn to laugh through the harshest conditions
as we cry while we all get christened
out hearts are broken our eyes are smashed in
our minds are tired and we come and go alone
regret's in the back of my mind
i'm too busy wasting time got nothing to do,
i'll wince when i think of you
regret returns, a wise teacher but i never learn
laugh all you want but don't cry,
cuz we're
too young to know we're old enough to die
it's too bloody anyway
it took 35 years to kill himself
one moment to take control of his life poetryless
the angels steal away the gems hoarding them in agonized prose
and gaudy catholic clothes so many ghosts
can just wisp away i'm still haunted by
count the years with rosary beads thank
mary for god speed our hearts are broken
our eyes are smashed in our minds are tired
They wanna isolate the left
...isolate the right
...and all of us
They're gonna polarize the blacks
...polarize the whites
and everybody gets caught up in the fight
I read revolution on the Berkeley walls
while the red threat waved to the comunist fall and from down here
I read four letter words on the bathroom stalls and in the union halls
the American Revolution is unfinished there won't be peace until there's justice I've got my home-made bombs homespun charms I'll meet you at the corner of Skid Row and Insurrection Ave.
Ill be sure to roll off your back
so that i'm not on your mind
i stick my hands in my back pockets
and stare back what you dont feel
you dont feel alive? might as well be dead?
im not impressed by threats
im walking away alone
biting my lip biding my time
you can slit your wrists
you can hold your breath
i don't mind
if you slit your beatless wrists
if you hold your bestilled breath
i don't mind
how you're killing your time
i loved you alive i'll love you dead
go ahead
i can't promise ill cry
but ill always try
since im not around
how will you kill time
theres no me no subtlety
theres no tears left
im so over relfection
biting my liip biding my time
you can slit your wrists
you can hold your breath
i don't mind
if you slit your beatless wrists
if you hold your bestilled breath
i don't mind
I know that you've been lonely
I've been losing my mind
Hurtling down the highway
In this Ford Econoline
But everything's alright now babe
More than you know
We drive all night gal
'Cause I'm coming home to you
I'm hurtlin' home to you
I know you've waited for me
And I have been loyal to my heart
Ten thousand miles
Can't tear our love apart
But everything's alright now babe
More than you know
We drive all night gal
'Cause I'm coming home to you
you're just a simple man
god loving christian
proud american law abiding citizen
you're crushing me under your cross
what a good samaritan
please save me from my sins
im just heathen godless pagan
you insult my sense of faith
i don't care what you say about my family
law huckleberry flynn
with god as law and law as god
i question your certainty
and divine authority
i pledge no allegiance
i've got too many grievances
fuck your moral majority
preaching all your values
they always turn back on you
you can't see me off the street
go out of your way to step on me
My lady left me, my boss gives me no break
What I take home alone the landlord come and take
Take away the pain, take away the tears
And we've had a past too long to stretch out so few years
These years have not been kind to you
These years have not been kind to me
Why do I work to buy me time to pick up the pieces?
Working woman, I've been led astray
I'm never gonna leave again
Our hearts are one, our heads are two
Your strong arms for me, my strong arms for you
These years have not been kind to you
These years have not been kind to me
Why do I work
She works for me
Faggot, faggot
they called as I walked down the street
faggot, faggot
your words don't mean shit to me
sick of your words sick of this town
if this is a fight i'm standing my ground
I can't believe this country is my home
stuck in fargo north dakota
fuck you, redneck fuck
the power behind your fist bespeaks the depth of your ignorance
booze and blood and sexual confusion
i remember everything
your smile your hands
and the strength that they had
blood on this floor and it will never come clean
faggot, faggotseething sound of your bigotry
forget, forget
the love of the god you're calling down on me
i'm tired of ignoring your threats
tired of the religion you pervert
take my freedom to exist for granted at home
won't make that mistake in north dakota
and when i walk your threat will be there and when i get up
your boot will be there
i've got your blood on my hands
I've been watching too many suns rise
spliced together by pattern and spite
I say I love you too many times
and you can't can't drunk anymore
I slept off all the signals
and got fuck-all for warning
I wish I was back in the drunk tank drowning
Every new morning
I was lost but now I'm found
searching every pub in town
cuz you been sleeping every day and night
burning out the bulb in your reading light
I slept off all the signals
and got fuck-all for warning
I wish I was back in the drunk tank drowning
Every new morning
You'd cry your heart out thinking twice
You'd kill yourself with the second chance
I drank whatever they gave me
one nickel to save me
I'll choose my own painful direction to follow
-Every new morning-
You don't love me no more
