I've had it up to here
With all of yer lies.
I've had enough
Of the people I despise.
Yer so impatient,
Yer so deranged,
I'm gonna end yer life,
It's already arranged!
I got an enemy
And that enemy is you!
I'm planning murder
I'm planning murder for you!
Go get an army,
I wanna war!
I'm gonna see your teeth on the floor!
I'm gonna hit you when you're goin' through the door!
I'm gonna kick you when you're half dead on the floor!
[Chorus]
I say a-one, a-two, one two three four!
Well you said to me that you'd be
There for me when no goes
It all went wrong (It all went wrong!)
Still got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday too
But none of them ever feel the way that you do
Because you're the one, two, one two three four!
Friday night, Friday night, Friday night
Whoa
Friday night's a good time with you (Friday night)
Friday night's a real grand time (Friday night)
Friday night's always a good, a great (Friday night)
(Whoa)
The best time with you
But once again, you leave me there
With no point, nothing, just a feeling; despair
It's such despair
Well I know this heartache, yes it's true
And it won't be fixed, I'll just battle through
No, well I need you
One, two, one two three four!
Friday night, Friday night, Friday night
Whoa
Friday night's a good time with you (Friday night)
Friday nigh's a real grand time (Friday night)
Friday night's always a good, a great (Friday night)
(Whoa)
The best time with the lads, yeah
We're hanging on the streets
We're singing all the songs
Starting off the night with the
Oi! Oi! Oi!
We're hanging on the streets
We're singing all the songs
Starting off the night with the
Oi! Oi! Oi!
Friday night, Friday night, Friday night
Whoa
Friday night's a good time with you (Friday night)
Friday night's a real grand time (Friday night)
Friday night's always a good, a great (Friday night)
(Whoa)
The best time with you
Friday, Friday night
I said, Friday, Friday night
I said, Friday, Friday night
Some say time will wait for no man
You turn around and then it's gone
Some say nothing ever goes to plan
All things wrong, All day long
Some will pass the buck
as they follow a mouse-trail
singing a rodent's song
[Chorus:]
But there we stood united
at the stop for the Piccadilly Line.
You cannot foresee the signs that lie
waiting at the crossroads in your life.
You can believe them,
but not everything they say is gold-dust.
It's deceiving
and you have to take it on trust
(go on and take it all on trust)
Some say they do, but they don't
Some say they will, but they won't
(You know they won't)
Some are easy - come and go
Now you see me, now you don't
Some will rise
and some will fall in the ratrace
Singing a rodent's song
[Chorus]
There's just one thing
I'd like to share
Before you go alone out there
Solitary is the heart of the lonely,
but now, solidarity,
it is the hearts of many
(So what's it gonna be?)
Some will say they're fighting for God,
Queen and country or the president's gas.
Some will say they're dying for lower,
working or middle-class.
Some will say they're fighting for left-wing,
right-wing full of violence.
Some will say they're dying for a promise of pie
and gladly remain silent.
Some say all we do is fight [x3]
SHIT!!
Ruts(?) in the hallways
dressing in tune and
Handing out rules like it's some kind of fashion
No passion, in the way they live it's just a game to them
Talking like their shit don't stink!
[Chorus:]
I am frustrated with you
I. am. frus. trated. with you! [x2]
Punks in the front room
Choking on a cigarette
Handing out abuse like it's some kind of fashion
No passion, The way they is just a look for them
I'm telling you their shit, IT STINKS!
Dead-end bosses are after me like a bad dream come to life
Working a 9 to 5 'till the day I die lets have a dog two kids and a wife
A two week vacation yeah every year just to make sure that I survive
Because somebody higher they want me there
Big money making just a pie in the sky
A credit card and a car or two will make sure that my mind is numb
Don't forget sir "the little things in life"
Keeps ya right under the thumb
AND AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DONE
More is said than done
AND AFTER ALL IS SAID AND DON'T
We're the ones who cock a loaded gun
Politicians up in parliament-they all claim they're telling my truth
But I'll ask 'em where all the moneys spent
And then find I'm getting the screw
And with the help of big-time companies
Who overlook our democracy
Well people like us don't stand a chance
Can hardly eat a meal G.E free
So I sit back and turn on the dotted screen
What does it mean to you or me
I'll tell ya they're sellin' us all far too short
For images none of us can be
[Chorus]
Well - I'm not saying I - I'm always right
I just question everything that I'm told
I simply won't die here begging on my knees
'Cause if there's an office in the sky
Surrounded by glass where fat cats dream cities of gold
Gonna go out there and plant me some trees
I used to be alone
Confused and unknown
But now I've got my liberty
I've got my friends I came to see
And I refuse to be no one
Listen up:
I hate you
(You told me)
That you hate me
(You said so)
But we were addicted to the bone
I hate you
(You told me)
That you hate me
(You said so)
But we were addicted to the bone
To bone
Addicted to the bone
Got the words that I condone, yeah
So now I'll sing you another song
Of all the things I think are wrong
True to where I come from
The coast
I hate you
(You told me)
That you hate me
(You said so)
But we were addicted to the bone
I hate you
(You told me)
That you hate me
(You said so)
But we were addicted to the bone
To bone
You told me that we were addicted to the bone
I hate you
(You told me)
That you hate me
(You said so)
But we were addicted to the bone
I hate you
(You told me)
That you hate me
(You said so)
Hold up - hang on sneak a glance in your pocket
You drank it all up - or so say's that docket
But it's all gone and now you've got none
You spin the blackjack kid and then your night's done
A sky high cost that left you no dosh
That sank you awash in the land of the lost
But to the hands of a few - that you never knew
They stole your livelihood right where ya stood
So stop and take a step back
And put your gun back on the rack
Come on and line the facts up
Hold your back up
We all can crack up
Free from the lock-up
Beat up smack down for just a few cents more
When you realise that Robin Hood hit the poor
And now you're sore at quarter past four
But now they're comin' back they're lining up for a little more
And I'm not saying no - 'cause this is not straight-edge
But I can't see the green on your side of the hedge
There's Tip Top - Coca-Cola but not a sign of peace
And when we can't sort it out we leave it to police
[Chorus]
Police and thieves in the streets
Oh yeah!
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition
Police and thieves in the street
Oh yeah!
Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition
From Genesis to Revelation
The next generation will be hear me
From Genesis to Revelation
The next generation will be hear me
And all the crowd comes in day by day
No one stop it in anyway
And all the peacemaker turn war officer
Hear what I say
Police, police, police and thieves oh yeah
Police, police, police and thieves oh yeah
From Genesis oh yeah
Police, police, police and thieves oh yeah
Scaring, fighting the nation
Shooting, shooting their guns and ammunition
Police, police, police and thieves oh yeah
Police, police, police and thieves oh yeah
Here come, here come, here come
The station is bombed
Get out get out get out you people
Can’t you see we have no choice,
can’t you hear freedoms voice.
Can’t you tell were gonna be ourselves,
whether we have a choice or not [x2]
Won’t you see they silence your voice,
so punk rock is our only choice.
Won’t you see it’s about being yourself,
whatever fuckin choice you’ve got [x2]
Resting on a bench, slogans stained up on a fence.
I sit right here and wonder why nothing makes sense.
A busker on the street plays alone outside a store,
should I save my pennies and hand them to the poor.
[Chorus:]
No clue and no future - The only future is the one you make.
No warmth and no shelter - At this rate it won’t be that great.
No clue and no future - It’s up to you what you really want to do.
No warmth and no shelter for you.
Sitting on a corner of this road without a notion,
in a fucked up city I stand today, no reconciliation.
Hand some sense to the busker, it won’t cure animosity,
but in the end it’s what matters and it’s best for you and me
[Chorus]
True no one can tell you who to be - Oh No
So no-one can ever grind you down - No Way
One simple answers all that’s left - This is all it takes
Two simple words will make it clear - FUCK YOU
[Chorus]
There’s a future for you, there’s shelter for you [x4]
He got an idea and then he used it
Justification of the gunner with a direct hit
Deployed to the paranoid
They've got their fingers on their triggers and
Official permits for you
Like an atom bomb they light the fury
Like a truncheon to the judge
And to the jury
The allegiance of arrogance
Choke on the selfishness of all gun-liberty
A rising sun, it sets in the west,
Above the heads of rough justice
'Cause you can do what you want
If protection's your aim Gunning
For the N.R.A, we're D.O.A. Bullets
Result in a painful death
Watch the life drain from your last breath
Read the headlines, they
Told the stories of a man with
Nothing to lose
Who no longer cared what any of us think
Death sentence on you
Here ends a legacy with a twisted ending
To the fiery pits of the deepest
Hell he is descending
Justified, nationalized
Look what you've left now that you're buried and
You’re dead
A rising sun, it sets in the west,
Above the heads of rough justice
'Cause you can do what you want
If protection's your aim Gunning
For the N.R.A, we're D.O.A.
He got an idea and then he used it
Justification of the gunner with a direct hit
The act turned his heart black
Like an atom bomb, continued fury
Like a truncheon to the judge
And to the jury
Well, well, the act turned his heart black
Go!!!
Bullets
Result in a painful death
Watch the life drain from your last breath
Read the headlines, they
Told the stories of a man with
Nothing to lose
THE BATTLE'S ALMOST OVER
BUT THE WAR HAS JUST BEGUN
THE DAWN OF A NEW AGE ARISES
WITH THE SETTING SUN
WE WILL MARCH INTO THE FIELD
WE WILL MARCH VICTORIOUS
'CAUSE THE STING OF THE FIGHT
HERE IS NOTHING NEW TO US
Way back - back when I was young
Growing up taught not to jump the gun
About a man's colour or creed
Six years down and now I finally see
It's a war with the words we write
We'll stand together black and white
One goal in mind is all we have
Side by side - hand in hand
So send the warning red alert
'Cause our battles just begun
Out there on the airwaves
Prejudice gone and dug itself a grave
Words are ammunition
Poetry like bullets from a gun
Until every women and every man
Are side by side - hand in hand
[Chorus]
The time is gonna come to stand up for yourself
It's a dawn of a new age now
[Chorus]
The battle's almost over - the war has just begun
This is the story of a time in life
When I went down the Devil's highway
A time in life when I found it hard
To keep the ongoing wolves at bay
A wise man told me "don't play with death"
But I cut myself just the same
And now the cursed scars that still remain
Are what keeps this man totally insane
DEVIL'S HIGHWAY
Self destruction
Just a casualty of this
Devil's highway
Drives a good man insane
See I've been called a dropkick and a loser in someone else's game
But when I get my chance to make a move
I'm gonna make it to the hall of fame
A friend of mine he'll cheat me this time
But I've kept a few tricks up my sleeve
And now the stories tattooed on my skin
Are what keeps this main going the right way
DEVIL'S HIGHWAY
I'm wearing a crowd of thorns
Blood sticking in my eyes
Devil's highway
Keeps a good man insane
Lucky card I'm gonna roll the dice without ever stopping
And thinkin' twice
Lock down the city of sin
'Cause I - I can see that it's wearing thing
The devil's and angel's all gather around harmony
And with it's own evil it's tearing at the seams
Can't you hear us calling out your name
We need some guidance here today
There heroes that influenced us kids
They all suckered and left for the highest bid
For the highest bid
Stuck in this endless purgatory
We're caught in the jet-stream of life
And there's no way out or so it seams
But you haven't seen the light
Haven't seen it just yet
City of sin
Countdown ticking in the city you live
Stranded
You're running like a sieve
And the devil's and angel's will both ask you which you'd rather be
And with your own self-hate your gonna tear right at the seams
[Chorus]
They're no way out
No way out or so it seems
but we haven't seen the light
Haven't seen it just yet
[Chorus]
I'd like to say: Hello, dear god
I've got some questions that need an answer from you
Is the life I make, is it worth a dime?
I sure could use one to get me through, tonight
[Chorus:]
Life seems better when you've got something to lose
This reputation from playing with fire [x2]
See I've been down here, with the scum of the earth
And I know that things aren't always what they seem
But if you lean me now, a helping hand
I'm sure that I'll make it on to the other side
[Chorus:]
Life seems better when you've got something to lose
This reputation, we're playing with fire [x2]
With a baseball bat mid-swing
And a sorry excuse for ?? dream
But I took you in like a friend of mine
Held you tight, told you everything was fine
So forget the past, and make it last
Because everybody grows up way too fast
[Chorus:]
Life seems better when you've got something to lose
This reputation, we're playing with fire [x2]
We're playing with fire!
I don't know what to tell you about the things you disapprove of
But I'm sure you can guess by now
I won't change my ways you see
I too wake up to my problems
They never go away
So here's my middle finger
All you'll fuckin' get from me
ANOTHER WASTED DAY GOES BY
Every waking minute of my life
ANOTHER DAY ANOTHER NIGHT
Wo oh - Wo oh
Another bill
A bit more stress
Another day I try my best
ANOTHER WASTED DAY GOES BY
That's right
The story of my life
And yet you wanna tell me that I'm better off than you
But I'm still in this hell - just reaching for the sky
Just like you I am doubtful every single day
And right now I'm close to the edge and I will not fuckin' lie
[Chorus]
I will see another
Another wasted day
[Chorus]
WASTED
Do you know what it's like not to give up?
Do you know how it feels to be hated?
I'm saying - do you know what it's like - I'll tell ya to
[Chorus:]
Tie yer boots tight (yer boots up, tie yer boots up)
And take a walk in my shoes
I dare you to try looking through my eyes - my eyes, my eyes
Let's take a walk! Let's take a walk in each other's shoes!
Do you know what it's like when they're on your back
When they try to bring you down - try to break you
I'm saying - do you know what it's like - I'll tell ya to
[Chorus]
Do you know what it's like not to give up
Just to keep on going sedated
Do you know what it's like - I'll tell ya to
[Chorus]
Yer boots are tied - and then you run!
Yer boots are tied - and then you run!
Yer boots are tied - and then you run!
It's another spin out just like every other night
Dusk comes out once more and on go the street lights
Your getting cold out in the dark and you think you are alone
You think you stand in solitude no-one you can condone
Yeah it feels like something's missing - it's banging on your brain
So hungry for salvation you crawl right out of the drain
You step back on the cold concrete you're searching for direction
There's not so many answers only worthless questions
Then you hear a sound that may just change your mind
WO-O-OH HEY
Your salvation, it's liberation, your revolution for civilization
There's something that comes with this that just cannot be missed
This punk rock sound that makes me wanna raise a clenched fist
Oh yeah it taught me to disobey so don't stand around
'Cause here's to the music and the ones who move to the sound
[Chorus]
Now I've got the music that changed my life forever
And now I'm not turning back - no not ever
Oh ignorance it ain't bliss but I got the music - I got the sound
There ain't anything in the world that could ever bring me down
[Chorus]
Sounds of White Light to the Rockabilly beat
Music's my salvation from my head to my feet
This song goes out to all the bands that I know
Keep rocking my radio - radio
You know I'm never down when the needle hits the wax
'Cause something ignites of me that's gonna fire me up - see
I've got the tune like an army on attack
I'm gonna play it so fuckin' loud it's gonna rock the hard concrete
WE'VE COME THIS FAR NOW - WE'RE NEVER TURNING BACK NOW
WE'VE COME THIS FAR AND I KNOW
I have regrets for what I've done
On a bloody razor's-edge I'm fucking forced
To run (run away)
This consequence was misery (it's staring back at me)
Gazing into the eye of hate
With repercussions of no escape (this fate)
These actions haunt you 'til the bitter end
Pain and pleasure flash before your eyes
This reflection is my
Own worst fear
I've come to grips and
Now it's so clear
I don't seem to like
What’s staring at me?
They say "you've got to move on"
This reflection is my
Own worst fear
I've come to grips and
Now it's so clear
I don't seem to like
What’s staring at me?
They say "you've got to move on"
I am running from the
Gun pointed at my head
Another wake up call to the mess I’ve spread
Yeah I don’t want to quit, so hell yeah
I'm listening what solution can you offer?
From the life I'm pissing Up against the wall, come and
watch me fall
Into a state of degradation, a stagger to a crawl
The mirror stares right back at
Me with a feeling of dismay
Tiny cracks of anger, giant leaps to disarray
This reflection is my
Own worst fear
I've come to grips and
Now it's so clear
I don't seem to like
What’s staring at me?
They say "you've got to move on"
This reflection is my
Own worst fear
I've come to grips and
Now it's so clear
I don't seem to like
What’s staring at me?
They say "you've got to move on"
This reflection
This reflection is my own worst fear
I've come to grips and now it's so clear
I don't seem to like what's staring at me
(Stop staring at me)
This reflection is my
Own worst fear
I've come to grips and now it's so clear
I don't seem to like what’s staring at me?
They say "you've got to move on"
This reflection is my
Own worst fear
I've come to grips and now it's so clear
I don't seem to like what’s staring at me?
They say "you've got to move on"
This reflection is my
Own worst fear
I've come to grips and now it's so clear
I don't seem to like what’s staring at me?
They say "you've got to move on"
Reflection my
Own worst fear
(Stop staring at me)
Reflection my
Own worst fear
(Stop staring at me)
We are like ghosts!!!
We unfounded and unaware of our
Surroundings we'll pass through the
Box-shaped cities and then we're gone
This ain't no sanctuary the
Blind lead the blind, we wouldn't
Take their advice this is a purgatory
And so they offer us up no paradise
I am running away from broken souls
I've got nothing to my name but I can
Still rock 'n roll I’m running away
From desperation, isolation won't get
The best of me
We are like ghosts!!!
We’re groundless, confrontational
Regardless we'll scare the living
Hell out of you and then we're gone
This ain't no sanctuary the
Blind lead the blind, we wouldn't
Take their advice this is a purgatory
And so they offer us up no paradise
I am running away from broken souls
I’ve got nothing to my name but i can
Still rock 'n roll I’m running away
From desperation, isolation won't get
The best of me
We are like ghosts and we're running
Away see us pass through the walls
At the end of the day in the night
Time, it is the right time for a spirit
To play and so we say,
I’m running
Away from desperation, isolation
Won’t get the best of me run, run, run,
Running way I said I’m run, running
Away running away
Yeah we're
Running away from society, you
There's no warning,
There's no warning,
When the walls start crashing to the ground
There's no warning,
There's no warning
And your only plan is nowhere to be found
I'll tell you, we're an open-case struggle,
A-singing the blues when the mood is indigo
Black chords struck in a whitelight chateau
And not like robin hood,
The king among those who delve with thieves
Or Jesus Christ to the disciples of the aggrieved,
We are trivial
Well your fine line need not describe
Where you think i should belong on the tightwire
(There is no pity, you're dead and not pretty
You'll get no pity, you're dead and not pretty
There is no pity)
Hell no
'Cause there comes a time in everyone's life
When death comes looking for you
And you're on trial
(There is no pity, you're dead and not pretty
You'll get no pity, you're dead and not pretty
There is no pity)
There is no warning - warning, warning
Blank pieces in a puzzle,
Hypocrites analyse prospect turncoats
We're scrutinized by a unified antidote
Like worms in the sun they squirm,
They've got fundamentalist street-smart
But they're dried up inside, they're withered to the
fucking heart,
So artificial
Well your fine line need not describe
Where you think i should belong on the tightwire
(There is no pity, you're dead and not pretty
You'll get no pity, you're dead and not pretty
There is no pity)
Hell no
'Cause there comes a time in everyone's life
When death comes looking for you
And you're on trial
(There is no pity, you're dead and not pretty
You'll get no pity, you're dead and not pretty
There is no pity)
There is no warning - warning, warning
The fool before trial
Is yet to behold,
There is no golden bail-out
'Cause time cannot be sold
The new education
Has just now been told,
When you're six feet under,
The soil is brown not gold
There is no pity when you're dead and not pretty
You'll get no pity 'cause you're dead and not pretty
There is no pity, hell no
There is no pity when you're dead and not pretty
You'll get no pity 'cause you're dead and not pretty
2 3 4!
Stab in the back time and time again,
While you still claim to be my true friend,
But you wouldn't mind cutting my throat,
And in your darkest dream you held a gun to my head
Something inside is killing me,
You don't like what I can say,
Something inside is killing me,
But we'll do it anyway!
I don't know what to do,
You offer nothing new
I don't know what to do
I'm telling you were through,
I don't know what to do
So you know what you can do,
I don't know that to do
Cause I just don't know what to do
Try to take away what I have done,
Your chance of doing that, well, its none,
You wanna run your mouth
About a scene and politics,
But I'll be damned if I live my life in shit,
Something inside is killing me,
You don't like what I can say,
Something inside is killing me,
But we'll do it anyway!
I don't know what to do,
You offer nothing new,
I don't know what to do,
I'm telling you were through,
I don't know what to do,
So you know what you can do,
I don't know that to do,
Cause I just don't know what to do,
This worlds already full of sin.
You've got junkies eating off of bins,
Homeless kids that sit and beg,
For anything that they can get,
On top of this you drivel on,
It spills like vomit from your mouth,
With friends like you who needs enemies,
With friends like you who needs enemies
You offer nothing new!
I'm telling you were through!
So you know what you can do!
Well I’ve been
Travelling so low, uncovering what
Thy forbid I know by unraveling my
Soul, to publicize the unlucky plateau
Melody go fracture stone, let it be
Known that the walls will not persist
Into the slum now sir, love is
A vibration that will not go
Unnoticed
My mind's a ghetto
And I’ve got to clean up
Down here I’m told
Stories of Babylon and spiritual war
"It won't bother you when you're knelt
Down here on the god-damn floor now
We want your vow, you lost step a
Million miles ago you're not sure
Which way to go,
Just how far you know gather all, gather round,
Gathered up on scars, oh no oh yeah,
Retrace your steps to the stoop at the
Steeple’s steps and try to find the
Strength to repay all your debt"
My mind's a ghetto
Hey I don't wear a halo
My mind's a ghetto and I’ve got to clean up
Well I’ve been travelling solo on
Down where the mind forbids I go
I’ll keep sinking further, I’m going to find
How low that I can go
It’s about time I
Gather all pretense, nail it to the
Wall and slip away unnoticed yes
Hello good sir, is there a lesson you
Give that I let loose and missed well
I’ve been travelling so low on down
Where the mind forbids I go and I keep
Sinking further, just to find how low
I watch logic and reason turn and abandon me for the
teenager in my mind
Aspiration's a reckless philosophy when the world
leaves you behind and you are left to realise
Life's a journey from the word get-go
See one another from children grow
If there's a lesson to be known
You're gonna reap what you sew
So we've got make it known
I've seen the axe when it drops, as I'm standing in
line begging the right to borrow
Aspiration's irresponsible when the real world is in
tow and you are left to realise
There are those of us out there, schemers and dreamers
and idealist
Romantics with tireless ambition, diamonds in the
rough, a curse, a gift -
Making the world go round
So you're down brother, living hard luck
I want to share with you a little piece of my mind
You'll only get what you bring to this life
But you're falling down and I've seen you cry
And I think it's time that you picked yourself off the
floor
It's all you can do, 'cause life is a fight
Life's a journey from the word get-go
And in time you're gonna reap what you've sewn
Life's a journey that we started long ago
The sun is coming up over the Wade Hotel
Intoxicated silhouettes are dancing to adorn
But there's underlying madness in this embellished
concrete hell
And is just beyond a brazen horizon on this early
autumn's dawn -
Oh no
Well, back to the daily grind, a bus ride from minimum
wage
Imitating desolate footsteps of old, inheriting what
they got paid
'Cause you're the charity-case son, born of discount
racks, now working the factory floor
The gold-hearted kid just got a taste of their taxes
and the law
Wandering all alone in a place I never loved
Wandering all alone, used to drift like a broken dove
Staggered footsteps over the hill and then down the
other side
Follow the track to the underpass that the motorway
runs beside
It is there I tread a lone routine at 7 am each day
It is there I used to stop and dream of finding another
But for now I'm wandering all alone
Wandering all alone
Wandering all alone in a place I never loved
Wandering all alone, used to drift like a broken dove
Ode - it's an ode to the underdog
Ode - it's an ode to the underdog
Yeah the unannounced, under it all
The runners up under the haze
You know it's unfair, but understood
Every dog will have its day
You'll never know what you've done for me
Through the days and nights together care free.
I long for the day that I make you my own
And I cherish the times that we spent in our home.
I love you my girl, yer heart and yer soul,
So thankful you've dragged me right out of this hole.
Punk rock princess forever I'll spend,
Each penny on you my true friend, yeah.
And I know - And I know
Life gets harder as you will discover but,
Carry on - Carry On
For you I would look the devil in the face
And I'd search ten times over for amazing grace.
I don't have much money, but I do have the time,
To spend with you baby, till the day that I die.
Well most days are good yeah, but some might be bad.
And together they both will conquer this land.
I've said and thought it and know that it's true,
That girl was made just for you!
[Chorus]
Carry on, carry on, carry on
I'm downtown with a few dollars more
I got paid from the beg and the borrow
the sun is shining it's a quarter past four
I've gotta get my head straight from the night before
I jump on the triple nine bus
The driver says it's $2.60 you don't make a fuss, yeah
All of this shit, yeah in this pit
Oh in this ditch, They call 'the city'
[Chorus:]
Old times, old memories
Don't seem the same when you're down on your luck
Old friends, old enemies
Don't matter at all cuz the next comes around
Well, the front crowd still phasing
But the memories still remain
Their ain't no friendly lullabies
There's just dust and grain
This ain't no story of what we've said and told
This is the time that we will battle for our souls
I know I'm not on time but there's one thing that I know
(No idea what this line says)
I won't sit back and watch my friends turn to foe
This is a chance to right this wrong so...
[Chorus]
Old times, come and go
Down seem the same when you've got no place to go-go
And old friends, are no more
Like an enemy, won't worry 'bout them no more
I'm downtown with a few dollars more
I take my cash on up to the record store
I can't believe all the hate that I saw
From the people I called mates once before
Well, I don't know much and I don't really care
Why should I care when I've got my true friends, yeah
See me in the streets, dancing in the light
Singing out loud, holding my dreams tight
Oh, I love punk rock, I know ya feel it
It keeps my head up, and it keeps my heart beating
I never went to school, they tried to tell me what to do
So I ditched to play guitar and the music shined on through
[Chorus]
OLD TIMES!!
MEMORIES!!
OLD FRIENDS!!
Let's go!
Well woke up in another year
To burn in silhouette sky will broken
And fallen trips upon my head
Then I saw a dozen comes out of their windows
From a building I broadcast open minds
Knows who wonder radio did dance
Oi oi oi
When the sun put to fly your loyal flag
Try to build up was a nationality
There's no stars and stripes but silver ferns
But I know
This is a place
Where I'm not just a face
And this part of the world I know call my home
Oi oi oi
I'm not ever gonna waste my time
Living life like all the rest
So here's my toast just for the coast
Oi oi oi
Sunny beaches and palm trees
Got a rhythmic diversity
Yeah my little brother there to me
And your nines down the road
And you don't bother me
I won't bother you
So no never mind what ya heard
Just come on sing along
I said come on sing this song because
We're not gonna live
Our life's like all the rest
So here's our toast just for the coast
Oi oi oi
We're not gonna live
Our life's like all the rest
So here's our toast just for the coast
Oi oi oi
I spend a lot time off the line
With a vampire that drains the blood
Then hit the surf head-on and I am
Driftwood, swallowed-up by a pioneer's flood
Breakers collide with eyes
Blurred by ever-hostile poetry
And the channel will open up again, just like
The parting of red sea
Alright!
We are the chorus of a dying anthem
Over 30 years on now
Submerged in the crash and
Swell of distinction and don't you
Forget it now
Nations will crumble away
When the pressure drops down (pressure drops down)
With heads underwater
Will we regret it somehow?
Yeah!!!
Now I reside in a slow decline
To the ocean of reckoning
Riding a wave with a lone desire
To glide on the crest of awakening
Sometimes when
I dream it's cold and the vessel is shrinking
Below the sea, where Poseidon's King, and the ship is
now sinking
Alright!
We are the chorus of a dying anthem
Over 30 years on now
Submerged in the crash and
Swell of distinction and don't you
Forget it now
Nations will crumble away
When the pressure drops down (pressure drops down)
With heads underwater
Will we regret it somehow?
Yeah!!!
There are those who are dead
And gone - I can hear them calling
Below the surface we float upon - can
You hear them calling?
On the seabed of enlightenment,
They fell like soldiers moving on and on and on…
We are the chorus of a dying anthem
Over 30 years on now
Submerged in the crash and swell of distinction
And don't you forget it now
We are the chorus of a dying anthem
Over 30 years on now
Submerged in the crash and swell of distinction
She always attempts to try and find the action
Like her life depends on it
Blood, sweat and tears - shocking reactions
In a world that wouldn't fit
She's got the power to make a change,
Transform a life often deranged
She's got the passion of a fighter
And a heart of gold that's inside her
She never gave up on herself
Never blamed somebody else
She had to start listening,
To the signs that warned she was fucking up time and
time again
And like diamonds glistening,
Her open-eyes will now reflect to you a better view
again
Another challenge to find the answer,
But she'll discover a way somehow
Blood, sweat and tears are often familiar,
But she won't let it drag her down
She's got a feeling of motivation,
Found herself through loyal dedication
The compassion of a lover,
Always putting others above her
She never gave up on herself
Never blamed somebody else
She had to start listening,
To the signs that warned she was fucking up time and
time again
And like diamonds glistening,
Her open-eyes will now reflect to you a better view
again
HEY HO
Smoking guns - coppers and thugs
SMOKING GUNS
The sun is coming up but the morning is still black
Union workers frown at the dealer selling crack
A stranger walks his dog and dogs walk the blind
Poor man sweeps the dirty streets
He don't seem to mind
Time to get out of this
Time to get out of this now
Out of this city
HEY HO
Blood and whiskey
Broken rules
Coppers and thugs
Broken homes
We've got our music - our only weapon
Drunken kid bottle in hand stumbles down the street
Walks straight past a homeless man
No shoes around his feet
Thugs down at the park with swatztika tattoos
Kick around and waste some time sitting sniffing glue
[Chorus]
Come on sing with us
Like you just don't care
Don't turn around man,
There's nothing good back there
Come on sing with us,
Like you just don't mind
Together in a crowd - it's one of a kind
It's my choice to make
With the things that I do
Cuz the way I play
I think it offers something new
But now the band's together, yeah
It's one common voice
Yer chance to be whatever
So you make the choice
Sing with me!
And I'll sing along with you
Save the day!
Together we'll see things through
[Chorus]
Well in the past, I made mistakes
But at the same time
They were mine to make
But now that times are better, kid,
Times are great!
I realised that I will determine my fate
Yeah, like he said,
Life's full of fuckin' hate,
But a lesson ya live
Is still a lesson ya learn
And nah, we're not sayin' listen man,
We're just sayin' try,
Cuz if ya wanna raise a finger,
Then ya better know why!
[Pre Chorus]
[Chorus]
I've been up, I've been down, I've been all around
I've been left, I've been right, there's no hope in sight
I hope that I will find a way
I hope that I will Break Away
You can try, you can try to break away
From your usual 9 to fucking 5
Slave away in a factory
Working for barely a little bit more than the dole!
[Chorus:]
You can try, you can try to break away
You can try, you can try to break away
(to break away)
you can try to break away
(to break away)
YEAH, WE'RE BREAKING AWAY!
I've been up, I've been down, I'm not the one with the frown
I've been left, I've been right, just to avoid a fight
You're afraid that I will break away
You can't admit that I have found a way
You can try, if you dare to break away
From your normal, boring fucking life
Waste away in a council flat
Living for nothing, but tell me, WHAT CAN YOU DO!?
[Chorus]
ALL RIGHT!
You can try, you can try...
You can try, you can try...
To break away...
To break away... [x2]
[Chorus]
LETS GO!
They may say, some day I’ll be an old man,
and they may say I’ll be feeding out of a trash can.
They may say, I’ve already had my chance,
But where there’s a will there’s a way so now I’m gonna have my say.
Where there’s will there’s a way, so I’m gonna have my say.
I’ll live to see a better day and I’m gonna start it today.
I’m gonna tell you that there’s no need to worry.
No need to apologize, so don’t be sorry.
Live for today, not for tomorrow.
Live for yourself and forget any sorrow.
[Chorus]
I remember a time so long a go
Seems like a lifetime - guess you already know
Days turned to weeks and weeks turned to years
It all ended in tears
You'd say "we're all outta hope - gonna go for a walk"
"And don't wait up cuz I don't wanna talk"
A lifetime a go - I still want you to know
We never had it at all
Out there on your own
Start again
I THREW THAT LOVE AWAY LONG A GO FOR SOMETHING NEW
YEAH AND I WANTED TO START AGAIN CUZ IT WASN'T RIGHT
ME AND YOU
Now those days are gone
Another chapter in our lives
I took the chances and left that
That life behind
Been searching for so long
Trying to find the truth in all that's wrong
We lost something along the way
When our paths went and crossed that day
[Chorus]
I wanted to start again
I'm sick and fuckin' tired
There's guns going off in the East
Murder "for the sake of peace"
So sign right here on the dotted line
Get your legs blown off by a hidden mine
All for the sake of money
SICK SICK SICK
And fuckin' tired
I'm fuckin' tired
I said I'm sick
Sick sick sick sick sick of political wars
Bombs falling down like acid rain
And you can taste the smell from the sewer drain
Torture - blood and death on your television screen
It's enough to make you scream
[Chorus]
We march off to war but nobody knows
What we're fighting and dying for
We march off to war but nobody knows
What the fuck we're fighting for
LEFT RIGHT - LEFT RIGHT
We march off to war
What are we fighting for
We march off to war
We’re burning in the fire of the spotlight tonight
If you can’t take the heat then get out of the kitchen
Feed off the pressure, a suffocated high no use for the
cloth
That’s made from bad stitching you know
They’ve only one reason for motivation
Oh but I never had time for delicate lies
Woven neatly into inspiration
Ablaze on the pyre in a timeless limelight the real
Heroes are stuck numb in the kitchen
Mother’s standing by to suffocate and die
Fathers neck's on the line, organized for the lynching
They’ve only got one dose of motivation
Oh but I’ll never resign and
Simply wait in line beside an apathetic population
They’re giving up
Yeah they’re breaking down
As we're rising up
And we tear it all down
So find your
Courage, have the heart of a lion while
You crawl like a rat to gratify a few
Freedom’s for sale, but we're not the ones
That are buying we're the ones who
Reinvent it for the kids to pursue
They’ve only had one dose of motivation
Oh but I never had time to sit and whine
About the state of my generation
They’re giving up
Yeah they’re breaking down
As we're rising up
And we tear it all down
I’ll stand alone this time
Even if I lose my mind
If you can't lead them, I don't
Believe then, that you are my kind
So lend the broken-hearted a shoulder
That they can cry
Well if you don't leave them, I do believe then, that
Are my kind
Let’s go!!!
Go let it burn
Let me remind you, you won't
Have it easy when things are going our
Way it will be pleasing
And I can tell now
There is no reason to turn your back
And celebrate the treason - we burn
We’re burning in the fire of the
Spotlight tonight and you can't take the
Heat son get out of the kitchen
We’re burning in the fire of the
Spotlight tonight and you can't take the
Heat son get out of the kitchen
We’re burning in the fire of the
Spotlight tonight and you can't take the
Heat son get out of the kitchen
We’re burning in the fire of the
Spotlight tonight and you can't take the
Heat son!!!
You’ve only got one dose of motivation
I just can't relate to you
Well the beat hits like
A steam-freight train,
A pedal to the metal in the fast-lane
Adrenaline, gasoline, tnt, dynamite - detonation is
Gonna electrify
An uninspired life
I’m not adjusting, I just can't relate to the new
I’m not suffering, I just can't
Shake this rock' n roll - fuck you
Well this is no techno-disco,
No auto-tuned fiasco
Well this is punk rock 'n roll -
Make a move, come on let's go the only
Thing it means is we're not living our
Lives way too slow
I’m not adjusting, I just can't relate to
The new
I’m not suffering, I just can't
Shake this rock' n roll - fuck you
I’m not suffering; I just can't seem to relate to you
I’ not adjusting, I just can't relate to the new
I’m not suffering, I just can't seem
To relate to you
So fuck you,
You damn
WOAH
JUST KEEP ON SEEKING
I'm on a mission to get out of here - yeah
This rollercoaster's dead and I ain't going anywhere
I won't sit around and watch my life
Fall right down the drain
Oh no - I don't wanna be just another name
WOAH
JUST KEEP ON SEEKING
There's a whole world out there waiting
And it's all hit and miss
Yeah I'm a simple man
But there's gotta be more than this
Well you've got one chance - you better do it right
When they kick you down - you better stand and fight
'Cause I was born in to a world where there ain't nobody free
But I won't live or die on my knees
[Chorus]
Oh no! - I'm so bored
Outta my skull on a Sunday morning
And all the TV's utterly boring
Searching in my pocket 50 cents in hand
Throw an egg in the frying pan
I'M BORED
WO-O-OH
OUTTA MY BRAIN
Someone wakes up and raids the beer
Then shoves a safety pin in my ear
Everybody's talking but they don't say much
And they all say I'm outta touch
[Chorus]
WE'RE BORED
WO-O-OH
OUTTA MY BRAIN
I'M BORED
WO-O-OH
Tommy was a friend of mine
Who was always doing things wrong
But times passed by and he asked me why
He started to think and why he was always with a drink
Well I made Tommy promise me
That we'd always be hooligans
But times passed by he was left behind
Still I won't crack no - I won't look back
I'll tell you a story of a two year legacy
Fist after fist couldn't break our backs so we dropped our baseball bats
A way-to-go Tommy with his boots & bike chain
We skated the streets to the Rancid beat
Spiked our hair every day of the week
VIVA
I say it with conviction
The boot boys
Long live the punk rock girls
And the hooligans
This is my tale of those two years
Yeah now he's left but I'm still here and I meant every single world
So I won't look back for Tommy 'cause I know that things change
For better or worse you can't rehearse the problems that come and go
[Chorus]
NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH
Don't tell me you were a boot boy
Tell me that you're still a boot boy
It's an energy that hits you like a nose bleed
On yer cocaine rush
It's a habit in yer lungs that you still feed
On your nicotine rush
You got yer pack of cigarettes
And a box of extra dry,
But ya still don't have a clue,
So tell me why?
So tell me it don't matter if you could read,
No money, no time.
So sit on yer ass and be free
And stop wasting my time.
[Chorus]
You got no cash for what you need
And no my friend,
You can't have mine
But yeah you got that fix indeed,
So that's just fine.
You got your nose, nose bleed!
I've got two tickets to the end of the world
and it's Armageddon
We're one million miles away, but it's the
end of everything you've ever known
From outer space we
paint catastrophe in a red sky,
with missiles swarming down
like flies
Regeneration of human trace, with every
stroke acrylic-demise, final
goodbye
I've got two tickets to the end of the world
and it's Armageddon
We're one million miles away, but it's the
end of everything you've ever known
Earth is my canvas, darkness applied, with lack of
colour as tone collides
From the edge of the universe life
unfolds like a blast in the
month of July,'65
I've got two tickets to the end of the world
and it's Armageddon
We're one million miles away, but it's the
end of everything you've ever known
Brush-strokes
define the world, as the nightsky
unfurls
You sit right at my
side as the amendment's bride
When everything is still and
the outline is fulfilled
We begin again my dear, from the
stratosphere
I've got two tickets to the end of the world
and it's Armageddon
We're one million miles away, but it's the
end of everything you've ever known
The bride of the
last day, one million miles away
One million, one million
Armageddon
I've got two tickets to the end of the world
Well there you were calling
One hand would, would dial your future
But with one foot in the grave
You turned into a slave, lost and depraved
First of all we fell in, head-first, and
When you go like that you know there's no looking back
You never would come back
From that side of the track
You tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're
down
I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town
They said "give me your money boy" and then took your
pride
You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a
fight
So you've found your medicine,
The poison messing with your head,
Like a bat out of hell
You're talking so cheap, in the nostalgia you dwell,
To addiction compelled
But tell me, if everyone's falling
In and out of consciousness, is worthiness
All but washed down the drain
To drown the pain, cause I've been and done that too
You tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're
down
I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town
They said "give me your money boy" and then took your
pride
You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a
fight
Watched you grow from an innocent boy
Into nothing but a drug-addled toy
Saw you sink but you couldn't swim,
I couldn't always be there to go out on a limb
I tried and tried to make you see the light,
Thought that in the end a friend could do right
But all that we stood for didn't matter at all,
You traded all for a score
Tell me you're hurting now and you tell me you're down
(Like gunshots destroying my heart, oh-oh)
I see you've been hanging on the wrong side of town
They said "give me your money boy" and then took your
pride (Like gunshots destroying my heart, oh-oh)
You gave them your rights and didn't bother to put up a
fight
Handed in your resignation for lifetime dreams (You
tell me you're down, the wrong side of town)
It's not what you did, it's what you didn't do that you
can't redeem
Forget your reservations, the demon's on your back (You
tell me you're down, the wrong side of town)
Will keep you company when you're roaming the wrong
I sang to an empty room as you sang to your empty dreams
And I told myself tonight wasn't as bad as it seemed
One guy nods along to the voices in his head
Oh yeah we had the floor
It was the night of the living dead
A guy sitting at a bar stool swears he's seen me before
Bloody red eyes I can't think straight anymore
The guy behind the counter gargles something I can't make out
Voices are getting louder and they begin to shout
LIVE BREATHING ZOMBIES SURROUND ME
AM I JUST PARANOID MIDNIGHT CATASTROPHE
The bass guitar chugs along I feel it pumping through my veins
Somebody drops their glass
Reminds me of blood steins
Hey if you're reading this I'm most probably dead
This is my epitaph and this what it say's
Well I got this band
And man I'm proud,
So don't try and bring
Me or my crew down
Oh no, oh no!
These are my true friends
And for that I say I'm proud!
Well I got this girl
And man she's fine
And when I'm with her
I'm havin' a good time!
Oh yeah, oh yeah!
Well ya said it once
And ya said it twice
Say it one more time
I'll have yer head in a vice
Oh yeah, oh yeah!
This is who I am!
I'm proud of who I am!
This is who I am
And I'm psycho!
Fuck you!
This is who I am!
I'm proud of who I am!
This is who I am,
With a rose in my hand, wipe
The tear from your eye
We'll rise above all like a swallow in flight
Braving the skies as the world passes by
In eyes as deep as the ocean's floor,
I forget the things that I fear and let
Go of my past
And nothing hurts anymore, though memories will last
With the grace of an Angel you stand
Before me, we shelter from the rain
Under a marquee
Only loved is what we desire to be
With a rose in my hand, wipe
The tear from your eye
We'll rise above all like a swallow in flight
Braving the skies as the world passes by
My fingers are weaved
In yours, romance will blossom and flower as never
before
Like a dream you'll seldom see
In this world anymore
If a promise means anything
At all to you,
I promise I'll be there, be there for you
And I know, in the end
You will see I am true
With a rose in my hand, wipe
The tear from your eye
We'll rise above all like a swallow in flight
Braving the skies as the world passes by
I will give and
I'll try, I commit and provide
We will live and we'll die, though our love
Will survive
I wanted to be like a
Thief in the night
Stealing your heart
As we slipped out of sight
But I couldn't be, though I shouldn't be
Anything more than myself tonight
You said it didn't matter, you said it
Was alright 'Cause it was me that you
Wanted from the very first sight
And we wouldn't be, though we couldn't be
Anything more than in love tonight
With a rose in my hand, wipe
The tear from your eye
We'll rise above all like a swallow in flight
Braving the skies as the world passes by
I will give and
I'll try, I commit and provide
We will live and we'll die, though our love
THIS WORLD IS DEAD
There's a dark moon rising overhead
And as it does it blacks out all the sun
Can you see the horror as you realise we've got nowhere left to run
WO OH
WO OH THIS WORLD IS DEAD
Violence and anger break out - suicide is at an all time high
There's nothing left for you to do this planet begins to die
WO OH
WO OH THIS WORLD IS DEAD
But if you ask me what it meant
Personally I'd tell you it's the way it's supposed to be
But what would you expect - anymore any less
A few years back you never gave a shit
So when the sea-bed blankets this country
And the sky is falling down
Your one option left is but to die
Your thinking back at things you could've done differently
And now you wanna try - but hey don't we all
All of the time simply say we will - false words like heroes fall
This world won't listen anymore
THIS WORLD IS DEAD
Here we are
Take it or leave it the choice is there to stay
We are strong
Through it all we never turned and walked away
JUST FOR YOU
Yeah it's true we're still here
Just for you we wrote this song
To those who wanna listen
Our music's still here after we're dead and gone
[Chorus]
We are young - We are free
Don't forget we're the new generation
SAY OH YEAH YEAH YEAH
We are young - We are free
Here's to us we're the new generation
SAY OH YEAH YEAH YEAH
HEY HEY HEY
Grey stars loose their light before I turned
The present to the past
Screaming children make me wonder
Where all expressions laid
A preacher's fairy-tale that makes me cry
You'll never be forgotten
You're always on my mind
I look into the mirror
A good friend is hard to find
Would anyone please tell me
If all was fixed before
This year spring comes to early
'cause God has failed once more
The pictures I have found
You're face looks still the same
Whenever I'm asleep
My heart will call your name
To tell about your life
Is all I can do for you
