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Enjoy, and make sure to buy the album! http://www.lessthanjake.com/ Tracklist: 01 -- Good Enough (0:00 - 2:50) 02 -- My Money is on the Long Shot (2:50 - 5:4...
Hello Rockview ( Capitol , 1998 ) Tracklist : 1. Last One Out Of Liberty City 2. Help Save The Youth Of America From Exploding 3. All My Best Friends Are Met...
Less Than Jake - Losing Streak [1996] http://www.discogs.com/release/3028901 01. Automatic 0:00 02. Happyman 2:06 03. 9th At Pine 4:06 04. Sugar In Your Gas ...
1. Welcome To The New South 0:00 2. The Ghosts Of Me And You 2:46 3. Look What Happened 6:08 4. The Science Of Selling Yourself Short 9:14 5. Short Fuse Burning 12:22 6. Motown Never Sounded So Good 14:41 7. The Upwards War and the Down Turned Cycle 17:20 8. Escape From The A-Bomb House 20:20 9. Best Wishes To Your Black Lung 23:52 10. She's Gonna Break Soon 26:47 11. That's Why They Call It A Union 30:01 12. Plastic Cup Politics 33:05 13. The Brightest Bulb Has Burned Out / Screws Fall Out 35:23 14. Surrender 40:17
2005 WMG The Science Of Selling Yourself Short (Video)
Less Than Jake's music video for 'The Rest Of My Life' from the album, In With The Out Crowd - available now on Sire Records. LYRICS I fell asleep last Satur...
Tracklist: 1. Magnetic North 0:00 2. Kehoe 3:00 3. Suburban Myth 6:06 4. Look What Happened 8:25 5. Hell Looks A Lot Like L.A. 12:07 6. Mr. Chevy Celebrity 14:41 7. Gainesville Rock City 16:23 8. Malt Liquor Tastes Better When You've Got Problems 19:31 9. Bad Scene And A Basement Show 22:04 10. Is This Thing On? 24:42 11. Pete Jackson Is Getting Married 27:51 12. 1989 29:46 13. Last Hour Of The Last Day Of Work 32:14 14. Bigger Picture 35:34 15. Faction 38:16 UK Bonus Tracks: 16. Help Save The Youth Of America From Exploding (Live) 41:47 17. Rock & Roll Pizzeria (Live) 45:08 18. Down In The Mission (Live) 47:23 19. Anchor / Sugar In Your Gas Tank (Live) 50:05 20. Just Like Frank (Live) 52:55 21. 9th At Pine (Live) 55:08 22. How's My Driving Doug Hastings? (Live) 57:32
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Less Than Jake live @ Area 4 Festival 30.8.2008 Setlist: Does The Lion City Still Roar? (0:37) Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts (3:08) All My Best Friends ...
Less Than Jake own the rights for these awesome songs. Tracklist : City of Gainesville - 0:00 The State of Florida - 1:56 Does the Lion City Still Roar? - 4:...
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Great song by Less Than Jake.
When discussing what to do for a video, Less Than Jake decided it'd be fun to ask all their friends to be in the bands video. This is what their friends sent...
A Fantasia-esque animated video for Less Than Jake's song "Do The Math"! Do The Math appears on See The Light as well as a 7" of the same name. Animated by M...
In this exclusive roundtable discussion, Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish discuss the state of ska music and the importance of the genre in today's musical landscape. They reminisce on Ska's heyday in the 1990s and why it's now considered a "dirty word." They also reveal their favorite new bands currently waving the banner for Ska. SUBSCRIBE to the channel! Twitter: http://twitter.com/rockitoutblog Facebook: http://facebook.com/rockitoutblog Instagram: http://instagram.com/rockitoutblog Website: http://consequenceofsound.net/video
This is a fair request, and I promise I will not judge any person only as a teenager. You will constantly remind yourself that some of my generation judges p...
Just talked to this girl, used to live, yea, on my street. (woah-oh-oh) After all these years you're here, and you remember me. (woah-oh-oh) She said her old...
Look What Happened live @ Camden Koko 9/3/15
Less Than Jake live performing "Look What Happened" at the day 1 2014 Vans Warped Tour webcast held June 13, 2014 in Houston, Texas. Catch the band this summ...
Lyrics: Do you think its strange, That theres a way of how you look at, How you act, And how you think, Pretend theyre not the same as you Did you know about...
Less than Jake - Gainesville Rock City.
Less Than Jake's Music video for the song dopeman.
Less Than Jake - Full Concert Set - Rhode Island.
Jan 15, 2015. Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO.
1. Plastic Cup Politics 2. Last One Out Of Liberty City 3. Johnny Quest 4. Welcome To The New South 5. Ghosts Of Me And You 6. Lockdown 7. Help Save The Yout...
Less Than Jake live performing "All My Best Friends Are Metalheads" at the day 1 2014 Vans Warped Tour webcast held June 13, 2014 in Houston, Texas. Catch th...
Less Than Jake live performing third song at the day 1 2014 Vans Warped Tour webcast held June 13, 2014 in Houston, Texas. Catch the band this summer on Warped. Tickets, dates, complete lineup and more can be found on vanswarpedtour.com
Less Than Jake- Anthem Pt. 4 Less Than Jake playing The Science of Selling Yourself Short from their 6 albums, 6 nights tour in Florida. On this night, they ...
Less Than Jake perform "The Rest of My Life" live on their 2006 World Tour.
Less Than Jake live performing "(Everything Is) Overrated" at the day 1 2014 Vans Warped Tour webcast held June 13, 2014 in Houston, Texas. Catch the band th...
Less Than Jake perform "History of a Boring Town" live from the United Kingdom on their 2006 World Tour.
live.
Less Than Jake's full set (except for half the last song when my phone died) at Van's Warped Tour 2014 in Houston, TX on June 13, 2014.
Less Than Jake performs "Automatic" live, on-stage in various cities on their ongoing, 2006 fall tour. This video was edited by Buddy of Less Than Jake. For ...
Less Than Jake- Anthem Pt. 3 Less Than Jake playing Look What Happened from their 6 albums, 6 nights tour in Florida. On this night, they played their record...
Less Than Jake- Anthem Pt. 6 Less Than Jake playing Motown Never Sounded So Good from their 6 albums, 6 nights tour in Florida. On this night, they played th...
This live show audio is taken from the series of six full-length album shows the band performed in Florida in February of 2007. The Losing Streak show took place at Jack Rabbits in Jacksonville on 02/02/2007. Originally recorded in 1996, Losing Streak is one of Less Than Jake’s most celebrated albums.
Recorded live at Nosturi, Helsinki, Finland.
Less Than Jake- Borders And Boundaries Pt. 12 Less Than Jake playing Last Hour of the Last Day of Work from their 6 albums, 6 nights tour in Florida. On this...
Less Than Jake in a Stripped Down Session for Punks in Vegas. See photos of this show here: http://www.punksinvegas.com/?p=9630 Find out more about Less Than...
___Losing Streak___ 00:00 Just Like Frank 02:40 Ask The Magic 8 Ball 04:55 Dopeman 07:30 Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore 11:00 Rock-N-Roll Pizzeria 13:15 Lockdown ______ 16:25 All My Best Friends Are Metalheads 20:00 Look What Happened 24:10 Plastic Cup Politics 26:45 Pac-Man Cereal band: Less Than Jake event: Big Pre-Fest in Little Ybor 2 (The Fest 13) venue: The Orpheum city: Ybor, Tampa, Florida date: Thursday, October 30th, 2014 Fest 13 artwork by Richard Minino aka HORSEBITES animations by Scotty Swemba
Less Than Jake- Borders And Boundaries Pt. 4 Less Than Jake playing Look What Happened from their 6 albums, 6 nights tour in Florida. On this night, they pla...
Exclusive backstage interview with Less Than Jake before their performance at The Rave on January 3, 2015.
Black Velvet caught up with Chris DeMakes of Less Than Jake when the band toured the UK in February 2014. Shari Black Velvet sat down with Chris at Birmingham O2 Academy and asked him questions inspired by the band's song titles. The full interview/article is in issue 80 (Black Velvet's 20 year anniversary issue). More info is at www.blackvelvetmagazine.com
Roger Lima of Less Than Jake sits down with Richie T at the 2014 Vans Warped Tour.
AudioFile: Band members Chris and JR reflect on two decades of Less Than Jake. Follow @ABCAudioFile on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ABCAudioFile For more, cli...
Takes place during the Ska Goes Solo Tour 2014! I think that's the right John Mayer song. Okay, maybe it was $3000. I should have texted myself so I didn't ...
A Rave exclusive interview with Less Than Jake 03.23.09. Visit http://www.therave.com for 300+ more Interviews, and over 50000 live concert photos.
InsideMilwaukee.com presents another great installment in the Summerfest Live 365 series.
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Our interview with Roger from Less Than Jake at Groezrock 2013! This time we used The 4 Cardinal Virtues as religious theme for our interview. More info: www...
Roger from Less Than Jake took the time to talk to George before their headline gig at Nottingham's Rock City with Reel Big Fish and Zebrahead. Fly FM is Not...
Vinnie Langdon Interviews LESS THAN JAKE at 2014 Vans Warped Tour. The Vinnie Langdon Show™ is a Music-Television series that features live performances, exclusive interviews, music news and more all on one Show since 2004! Official: http://www.vinnielangdonshow.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/vinnielangdonshow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/yovinnielangdon Tumblr: http://www.thevinnielangdonshow.tumblr.com MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/vinnielangdonshow Instagram: TheVinnieLangdonShow
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In the latest instalment of Exclaim! TV's Chatroom, ska-punk legends Chris DeMakes and Roger Lima of Less Than Jake, fielded queries about everything from what they've been listening to lately, to who inspired them to pick up their respective instruments. We also learned about the effects fatherhood has had on the band's tour life, why drummer Vinnie Fiorello shaved his beard, and the one piece of merch they've always wanted to put out, yet never have. Filmed and edited by Katherine Kwan Audio by Kyle Laurin
Kia is on tour for the seventh consecutive year as the Official Vehicle of the 2014 Vans Warped Tour. Follow us all summer long as our host Sammy takes us be...
Music - Less Than Jake live recording www.thegriff.ca
Check out my backstage interview with Less Than Jake lead singer Chris Demakes at Warped Tour 2011 Watch more of my Warped Tour interviews HERE: http://bit.l...
Less Than Jake live plus an interview, before they became household names. Live at AMH2, broadcast on Ground Zero cable access show. Chris, Vinnie, Roger, Go...
Damon Fizzy interviews Less Than Jake about Warped Tour at the day 1 2014 Vans Warped Tour webcast held June 13, 2014 in Houston, Texas. Catch the band this summer on Warped. Tickets, dates, complete lineup and more can be found on vanswarpedtour.com
BareBonesMusic.com sat down recently with Chris Demakes of LESS THAN JAKE. Agent eX spoke with Chris about the bands release of their TV/EP and what the band...
Chris DeMakes of Less Than Jake talks about their work on the Warped Tour CD compilation, the new album Gnv Fla, the update on making up a show that got snow...
So, I felt that there were no really good LTJ videos (or long in duration) on Youtube as of 15 June 2012 - so I decided to upload this video history of the b...
Less Than Jake 20th Anniversary from the High Dive Day 1 Gainesville, Florida 8/31/12 recorded from the stream they put online.
Less Than Jake 20th Anniversary from the High Dive Day 2 Gainesville, Florida 9/01/12 recorded from the stream they put online. Stream stuttered a little in ...
Not my footage but did a trade with someone for this back in the day.
Full live set from Less Than Jake at the Square Harlow Essex 22 Oct 2000.
Less Than Jake 2000-07-25 Main Event, Toledo, OH [FULL SET] Filmed by Mike Dutkewych
Footage of Less Than Jake's Sunday night set at their third annual Wake and Bake Weekend at the High Dive in Gainesville, Florida. Songs from the set in this footage include: -All My Best Friends Are Metalheads -The New Aulde Lang Syne -Pac Man Cereal Theme -Motto -History of A Boring Town -Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts -She's Gonna Break Soon -Give Me Something to Believe In -Plastic Cup Politics -Goodbye Mr. Personality -Look What Happened -Gainesville Rock City
Between 3rd Feb and 15th Feb 2014, my friends and I followed Less Than Jake around the country on their UK tour. We decided we were going to make a tour diar...
The date is part of the second leg of Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake's co-headlining tour ... Less ...
Lehigh Valley 2015-03-23KOKO in London. Monday 9th March 2015. 7:00 pm. The veteran rock bands are co-headline partners. Event Info. Venue.
Skiddle 2015-03-09Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake, Authority Zero ... The great thing about Less Than Jake, who took the ...
Houston Press 2015-02-09Reel Big Fish, Less Than Jake and Authority Zero performed Jan.
The Examiner 2015-01-18On Tuesday, it was announced that Reel Big Fish and Less Than Jake will stop in Des Moines in January ... com.
Atlanta Journal 2014-11-09Less Than Jake/Reel Big Fish have teamed up for a tour coming to the Pageant on Feb. 10 ... com.
STL Today 2014-11-04Less Than Jake and Yellowcard have announced that they will embark on a UK co-headline tour in March 2015.
Digital Spy 2014-10-08Aer, Less Than Jake and Ed Kowalczyk of LIVE will headline the Florida Music Festival April 24-26th in downtown Orlando.
San Francisco Chronicle 2014-04-08Less Than Jake - See the Light (Fat Wreck Chords): ... in love with Less Than Jake in the first place.
The Examiner 2014-03-28LOS ANGELES, November 14, 2013 — Less Than Jake is a punk-ska hybrid band out of Gainesville, Florida.
The Washington Times 2013-11-21Among those artists were Mustard Plug, Goldfinger, Mad Caddies, Suicide Machines, Middle Finger, and Less Than Jake.
The Examiner 2013-11-15Less Than Jake has released See The Light, its first album in five years.
Celebrity Café 2013-11-14In late 2012 Fat Wreck released "Greetings & Salutations" by Less Than Jake—not new material, ...
The Examiner 2013-11-02Less Than Jake is an American ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida, formed in 1992. The band consists of Chris Demakes (vocals, guitar), Roger Manganelli (vocals, bass), Vinnie Fiorello (drums, lyrics), Buddy Schaub (trombone) and Peter "JR" Wasilewski (saxophone).
Less Than Jake released their debut album, Pezcore, in 1995, following a series of independent seven-inch single releases. The band's subsequent two studio albums, Losing Streak (1996) and Hello Rockview (1998), were released on major label, Capitol Records, leading to increased exposure. The band's fifth studio album Anthem (2003) was their most commercially successful to date, featuring the singles, "She's Gonna Break Soon" and "The Science of Selling Yourself Short".
In 2008 the band founded its own label, Sleep It Off Records, and released its seventh full-length album, GNV FLA. The band has recently stated its preference for EP releases, and independently issued Greetings from Less Than Jake (2011) and its counterpart, Seasons Greetings from Less Than Jake (2012).
Dopeman, Dopeman's got another big plan
to sell it to you or anyone he can
because this is much better than minimum wage
no matter how things work he's still gonna get paid
think about it for a minute more
it's either work at McDonalds or the corner store
a quick money fix from a deal or two
when a decision comes down
what would you do?
You take, take a welfare state
or a dopeman's fate
and keep the cycle spinning around
Dopeman, Dopeman's got the upperhand
people wanna get as much as they can
because those reasons they'll always stay the same
and for some people it's the only way to stay sane
think about it for a minute more
a life of crime or hangin' round the liquor store
a quick drug fix to get you through
when the decision comes down
what would you do?
When the decision comes down
what would you do?
Dopeman, Dopeman
Dopeman, Dope-
Dope- Dopeman
Dopeman, Dopeman, got another big
Do you still believe in what you've never touched or seen
it's that one extreme
all out or in too deep
cause there's a difference
of what's true and the truth
and in an instant it gets the best of you
(Whoa oh)
Is it always right, is it always useless
(whoa oh)
it'll get me by, it'll get me through
cause the more we ask then the more we end up lost
It's not one side that makes it right
it's never black and white
it's what happens in the middle
it's not the one thing you decide
or what you think is right
it's what happens in the middle
(whoa oh oh)
It's follow, fall or lead
not programmed to be on repeat
we're balanced on a beam
can't see one side of things
cause there's a difference
of what's true and the truth
and in an instant it gets the best of you
(Whoa oh) Is it always right, is it always useless
(whoa oh)
it'll get me by, it'll get me through
cause the more we ask then the more we end up lost
It's not one side that makes it right
it's never black and white
it's what happens in the middle
it's not the one thing you decide
or what you think is right
it's what happens in the middle
(Whoa oh oh oh) It's never black and white
it's caught between the what you think is right
and up against the one thing you decide
it's what happens in the middle
Do you still believe in what you've never seen?
it's follow, fall or lead
not programmed on repeat
we're balanced on a beam
we always see one side of things
we always end up lost
Like quicksand, i'm always getting deeper
The more I struggle, the more I get in deeper
And here I am, out there doing time
Out on the mission, down on the mission line
Just good ol' boys
Never meaning no harm
Yeah, well all they ever saw was the trouble with the law
Since the day they were born
Flat in the curves
Straight on the hills
Someday the mountain might get'em
But the law never will
Making their way,any way they now how
I won't change the world with a song
perhaps it's futile to comment
on a revolution somewhere else
I won't change the world with these words
but it's just like me
to observe the dissolution somewhere
The war of locked minds
has subsided to these very different times
with the burning conflicts smothered
who will throw in a match from behind, yeah
I won't change the sway of politics
but if I could
I just might pick a revolution somewhere else
won't change the sway of govemment
the choice was made
and lives were spent on dissolution somewhere
Prepare and defend
as history storms in once again
whether we want it or not
a change is what we've got
There's a man who leads a life of danger.
To everyone he meets he stays a stranger.
With every move he makes,
Another chance he takes.
Odds are he won't live to see tomorrow.
Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
And taken away your name.
Beware the pretty faces that you find.
A pretty face can hide an evil mind.
Oh be careful what you say,
Or you'll give yourself away,
Odds are you won't live to see tomorrow.
Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
And taken away your name.
Swinging on the riviera one day.
Lying in a the bombay alley next day.
Oh no you let the wrong word slip,
While kissing persuasive lips
Odds are he wont live to see tomorrow
Secret Agent Man.
Secret Agent Man.
They've given you a number.
I could hear all the plans we had when the wind hits me just right
and i'm so sick of wanting all the things i'm haunted by
my sympathy goes to the oldest joke that's survived another year
i wonder where i'm going from where i'm at i wonder why i'm still here.
the writing on the subway walls reminds me why your words don't
console me anymore while i'm lying wide awake on my bedroom floor.
i'm the lucky one, i'm getting out of here this is my last chance to disappear.
i'm the lucky one, i'm getting out of here, i think i may freeze on the last
days of summertime. the local papers always opened up to obituaries
and engagements cause i keep track of all the fresh starts and he dying famous
and there's a hate of second-hand smoke underneath the summer stars
along with conversations we had on this subway car. the writing on the subway
walls reminds me why your words don't console me anymore while i'm lying
wide awake on my bedroom floor. i'm the lucky one, i'm getting out of here
this is my last chance to disappear, i'm the lucky one, i'm getting out of here,
i think i may freeze on the last days of summertime. remember when, when you said,
you said take these words and do what you want with them. the writing on the subway
walls reminds me why your words don't console me anymore, while i'm lying wide awake
on my bedroom floor. i'm the lucky one, i'm getting out of here this is my last
chance to disappear. i'm the lucky one, i;m getting out of here, i think
Downbeat, downbeats coming for you
Everythings gone that you once knew.
Trying to rely on what things used to be
And trying to live up to your responsibility.
Everythings fucked up that you see.
Downbeats coming for you
And it's coming for me.
Trying to rely
Downbeats coming and you can't hide
Standing on the front porch
While downbeats collide,
And downbeats coming up up
It's got a grin
And I'm left in this situation.
We have our master plan,
Bottled and canned
Living in the 352
Steps on and two,
Walk home drunk, wake up confused
With a stranger next to you.
The copied costumes and conversations
They seem to be constantly making this
Into a strip mall kind of town.
I use my credit card to buy alcohol,
Student loan spent at the mall,
And i may be going broke,
But im never broken down.
We have our history
Just you and me
But our future gets talked away
Steps 3 and 4,
Staying drunk and sit on this porch,
Planning out how to escape
We're two truck stops off the interstate,
The promised land with a twist of fate,
We're in a town for all the lost and found.
So sleep tight in your smokey room,
Still buzzed from this afternoon,
I ma be going broke,
Danny says,
that he got caught up,
in all the talk of
how it used to be.
And He says,
I never used to mind
that same way of life,
its just you and me.
Danny says,
that he's so bored now,
since he figured out,
that back in the day
he rarely says,
how I remember this,
and don't give a shit,
about what you have to say.
He's only 19,
burnt out on the scene, yea.
He's only 19.
Danny says,
that he got caught up,
in all the talk of
how it used to be.
And He says,
I never used to mind
that same way of life,
its just you and me.
Danny says,
that he's so bored now,
since he figured out,
that back in the day
he rarely says,
how I remember this,
and don't give a shit,
about what you have to say.
He's only 19,
burnt out on the scene, yea.
He's only 19.
He's only 19,
burnt out on the scene, yea.
He's just getting blind,
of the memories.
Woah-oh.
Woah-oh-oh-oh.
Woah-oh-oh-oh.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh.
He's only 19,
burnt out on the scene, yea.
He's only 19, only 19.
He's only 19,
burnt out on the scene, yea.
He's just getting blind,
of the memories.
Woah-oh.
Woah-oh-oh-oh.
Woah-oh-woah-oh-oh.
Stop the car and let me out
I've got a bad case, I can't stay here right now
Condition; my small town, Prognosis; let's get out
What's left except interstates and out-of-town plates
I'm more than all the cell phone towers
I'm more than all these warning baring streets
I'm more than all these small town skylines
More than they thought I'd turn out to be
Let me get this off my chest
Every bad idea I've had is starting to make sense
Feel emotionless, becoming powerless
What's left except making lists and late night double shifts
I'm more than all the cell phone towers
I'm more than all these warning baring streets
I'm more than all these small town skylines
I'm more than they thought
It's always I want more and what I wish for
It's the never-ending cycle of always being bored
Finding an antidote for the underdog
And an anthem for the idling side
I'm more than all the cell phone towers
I'm more than all these warning baring streets
I'm more than all these small town skylines
I'm more than they thought I'd turn out to be
Hey, where did we go
Days when the rains came?
Down in the hollow
Playing a new game
Laughing and a-running, hey, hey,
Skipping and a-jumping
In the misty morning fog well,
Our, our hearts a-thumping and you,
My brown-eyed girl
You, my brown-eyed girl.
Now whatever happened
To Tuesday and so slow
Going down to the old mine with a
Transistor radio.
Standing in the sunlight laughing
Hide behind a rainbow's wall,
Slipping and a-sliding
All along the waterfall with you,
My brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.
Do you remember when we used to sing?
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
La dee dah.
So hard to find my way
Now that I'm all on my own.
I saw you just the other day,
My, how you have grown!
Cast my memory back there, Lord,
Sometime I'm overcome thinking about
Rolling 'round in the green grass
Behind the stadium with you,
My brown-eyed girl,
You, my brown-eyed girl.
Do you remember when we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
By this time tomorrow
You'll be out on the streets of Chicago
Walking all the way home from commuter trains
By this time tomorrow
You'll be back home in Chicago
At the bars until they close
Back at the places that you've known and
It'l be skylines and rooftops
And it's gunna be crowded tourist stops
So it's goodbye
To your brand new life
So it's good luck
Best wishes to your black lung
By this time tomorrow
You'll be walking home thru Chicago
Past the nine to five crowds and underneath
Those unused fire escapes
By this time tomorrow
You'll be at the bars in Chicago
Back with people that you know
Going places you used to go
It's gunna be skyline and rooftops
And it's gunna be crowded tourist stops
So it's goodbye
To your brand new life
So it's good luck
Best wishes to your black lung
So when you're leaving the party just to beat the crowd
Sometimes my head gets so crazy from all
this contemplating
So different from the mistakes I've been making
And tragedies we're facing...
So tell me can money buy your point of view?
Even trophy boys and girls sing the blues
The things that you're haunted by; you're in so high
Inside your candy-coated life
When perfect isn't making sense,
When perfect makes you sick!
I'm so tired with my hands always shaking
And I've been concentrating
On how my seconds I can go without breathing
Or days i can go without feeling
So tell me again, how your parents fucked you up!
With traditions from the bluest blood!
The things that you're haunted by and lived so high
Inside your candy coated life
And perfect isn't making sense
And perfect's making you feel sick
Your life is in a constant panic
Perfect package turning tragic
Seems to make a perfect fit
Of how empty your perfect life has been
I'm so tired with my hands always shaking
And I've been concentrating
So different from the mistakes I've been making
And tragedies we're facing...
So tell me can money buy your point of view?
Even trophy boys and girls sing the blues
The things that you're haunted by, you're in so high
Inside your candy coated life
When perfect isn't making sense
When perfect's making you feel sick
Your life is in a constant panic
Perfect package turning tragic
Seems to make a perfect fit
Of how empty your perfect life has been...
Stayed awake all night
fighting the crimes
Weasell, Rock and an Evil Guy
Grandfather, Mandy, Wendel, Chip
help ninja boy be the best there is
Master Mogana, he'll never win
he's no match for his yo yo spin
Grandfather showed him all his tricks
there's not a problem he can't fix
and he's just getting started
Yo Yo Ninja Boy
go go Ninja Boy
And he'll fight till the trouble ends
Yomagana have sworn their revenge
he'll save the day so have no fear
'cause still your Ninja Boy is here
He'll be fighting crime until the end
(Yo Yo Ninja Boy)
with a little help from all his friends
(go go Ninja Boy)
Yo Yo Ninja Boy
go go Ninja Boy
This song is for everyone that said I was
Programed, hardwired, that I'd self-destruct
They'd say I was destined to always be desperate
They'd say I was destined to always fuck up
And I was voted the first one to crumble and break
I'd never have a chance, the biggest waste
But now I'm the one who's laughing last
Because you're the one that keeps looking back
You're the one that's fading away
So I say
This song is for everyone that said I was
Programed, hardwired, that I'd self-destruct
They'd say I was destined to always be desperate
They'd say I was destined to always fuck up
And I was voted the first one to crumble and break
I'd never have a chance, the biggest waste
But now I'm the one who's laughing last
Because you're the one that keeps looking back
You're the one that's fading away, fading away
So this is what it feels like when you finally lose the spark
And this is what it feels like when you finally sober up
The sentence was prison, bars are on me, camouflage
Is it a real choice, get locked away, past dirty thoughts
And if words on a page could save my world
I'd write all day
But words won't change mistakes
Or take away their consequences
When I go I'll leave this note
I've hit my all time low
From my toes up to my throat
I've hit my all time low
I'll live life till I've lost control and
I've hit my all time low
My last words carved out in stone and
I've hit my all time low
Either side feels like surrender but I have announced defeat
It's a prison cell block going toward the Middle East
I'm in between just who I was and who I'm supposed to be
The choice for me is where it calls me to interrogate me
And if words on a page could save my world
I'd write all day
But words won't change mistakes
Or take away their consequences
When I go I'll leave this note
I've hit my all time low
From my toes up to my throat
I've hit my all time low
I'll live life till I've lost control and
I've hit my all time low
My last words carved out in stone and
I've hit my all time low
Stay or go, I feel I'm at the end of my rope
Stay or go, I feel like I am never going home
I wish there was someone else to blame
I wish words could change the way I feel today
If words could save my world
I'd write all day, forever
I've hit my all time low
I'll live life till I've lost control and
I've hit my all time low
My last words carved out in stone and
I've hit my all time low
Summer loving had me a blast
Summer loving happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days drifting away to oh oh the summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
Did you get very far
Tell me more, tell me more
Like does he have a car
She swam by me she got a cramp
He swam by me got my suit damp
I saved her life she nearly drown
He showed off splashing around
Summer sun something's begun but oh oh the summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
Was it love at first sight?
Tell me more, tell me more
Did she put up a fight?
Took her bowling in the arcade
We went strolling drank lemonade
We made out under the dock
We stayed out till ten o'clock
Summer fling don't mean a thing but oh oh the summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
But you don't gotta brag
Tell me more, tell me more
Cause he sounds like a drag
He got friendly holding my hand
She got friendly down in the sand
He was sweet just turned eightteen
Well she was good you know what I mean
Summer heat boy and girl meet but oh oh the summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
How much dough did he spend?
Tell me more, tell me more
Could she get me a friend?
It turned colder that's where it ends
So I told her we'd still be friends
Then we made our true love vow
Wonder what she's doing now
Summer dreams ripped at the seams but oh those summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
does being in debt feel just like a long lost friend
well just wait around cause the desperation's kicking in, and its already starting to mix with one of my best peices of fiction
and it's called i'll be getting by and i'll make ends meet does the forty hour week have you bent at the knees and you can't even see that everything's kept just out of reach
ever get that funny feeling that your future is not going to be bought cheap, and that for sale sign thats hanging on your neck might as well spell defeat, yeah its already starting to mix with on of my best peices of fiction
and it's called i'll be getting by and i'll make ends meet does the forty hour week have you bent at the knees and you can't even see that everything's kept just out of reach
my american dream is to have it a little bit better than my parents ever had it
my american dream is to have it a little bit better than its just a force habit
Something that's inside of me
It's something that I cannot see
Like rules and regulations
Passed down for generations
I wish I had my very own flag,
And as I walk away
I can hear you say
Well I thought all my friends were sane
then I met this kid in the fourth grade
"let's go throw rocks through the neighbor's windows"
I never wanted to go but he would always make me
I wanna know what you were thinking
I wanna know what you were drinking
Mark Cruce
Have another drink Mark Cruce
He's the guy passing out and crashing on your couch
Mark Cruce Have another drink Mark Cruce
He's the guy pissing in the front yard of your house
Mark Cruce
Through all the years not a whole lot's changed
how 'bout that party where you stole the beer tap
off some burnout's keg
I really hope that you know
I almost got my ass beat
have another drink Mark Cruce
he's the guy with the bat that took your mailbox out
There's an old man at the very end
Of the parking lot leaning on his car and
Drinking beer and laughing out loud
Before my head starts spinning around,
As I try to find a place to take a stand
But only wind up sitting anyplace I can
With DIDJIT's song stuck in my head
I kinda think I might of said
Now I'm three quarts drunk and I'm out of time.
so i will, i'll be the one who's coming clean
with every single thing
and all my thoughts in between
i wonder if anyone is just like me
a walking talking catastrophe
another story of dependency
i never thought the face in the mirror would be me
hey 911 to anyone [x3]
i'm in a state of emergency
like a shot, a shot without a chaser
life's in a flash it moves way to fast
the most bitter pill you've ever tasted
i wonder if anyone is just like me
a walking talking catastrophe
another story of dependency
i never thought the face in the mirror would be me
i'm afraid of growing up and growing old
afriad of the past and present
and what my future might hold
hey 911 to anyone [x3]
i'm in a state of emergency
hey 911 to anyone [x3]
There was a time when I could say it right to you
that I was never going to leave this place
but now its "I was wrong"
and "I don't wanna fucking talk about it"
cause it feels like things have changed
Yeah well I could talk, talk, talk
and say I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
but I feel I'm in a place I've never known
and it feels like there's something wrong,
something wrong, something wrong
and I know that I don't wanna know...
I'm never going back again
there was a time when I would say I must be crazy
that I would say this place is looking strange
but now its "I'm kinda lost" and "I just don't remember"
On a Tuesday in the rain,
I never thought there'd come a day.
I never thought there'd come a day, yea.
If I put myself to the test,
would I ever raise a fist.
Would I just shut my mouth,
would I just block it out.
I've swore it a million times,
never to be left again with that feeling,
of hopelessness left standing.
Just nervous in the alley.
I've swore it a million times,
never to be left again with that feeling,
of hopelessness left standing.
Just nervous in the alley, woah.
Just nervous in the alley.
And when all is said and through.
Would I know just what to do.
Would I know just what to do, yea.
If I put myself to the test,
would I ever raise a fist.
Would I just shut my mouth,
would I just block it out.
I've swore it a million times,
never to be left again with that feeling,
of hopelessness left standing.
Just nervous in the alley.
I've swore it a million times,
never to be left again with that feeling,
of hopelessness left standing.
Just nervous in the alley.
Woah-oh...Just nervous in the alley.
Woah-oh...Just nervous in the alley.
Woah-oh...Just nervous in the alley.
Woah-oh..Woah-woah.
It's a change of heart,
that keeps us apart
(you say its true,
you know its true,
nothing left except for me and you)
It's not that strange,
with all I have to say,
I wonder what I'm fighting for, yea.
I've swore it a million times,
never to be left again with that feeling,
of hopelessness left standing.
Just nervous in the alley.
(Woooooaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh)
I've swore it a million times,
never to be left again with that feeling,
of hopelessness left standing.
Just nervous in the alley.
Woah-oh...Just nervous in the alley.
Woah-oh...Just nervous in the alley.
Woah-oh...Just nervous in the alley.
Trying not to hold my breath
But my lungs are filled inside this chest
I've been hopeless and I couldn't have cared less
Of anything that could or has been said
In the future past and present tense
Been my own best friend
Clouds over my head
Been on this sinking ship
Decided that it's sink or swim
Trying not to hold my breath
But my lungs are filled inside this chest
I've been hopeless and I couldn't have cared less
Of anything that could or has been said
And what those words mean or what they meant
In the future past and present tense
In two words or less I'll describe this mess
I've drank to forget, and never cared what they said
I'm on this ledge in crisis and I couldn't care less
Been my own best friend
Clouds over my head
Been on this sinking ship
Decided that it's sink or swim
When is common sense too much to ask?
And then when did consequences get left in the past
Is it just bad habits or a typical script
Is it all big plans then a swing and a miss
Can say my influence become by design
Or is science and cigarettes my compromise
I don't know by I'm blamed everyone else
Just as long as I never put the blame on myself
Cause I know, I've wasted way too many times
Living way too many lies
How can this be my fault, I'm always right
There's a devil in my DNA
Programmed parts from all the start
Or is there no one else to blame?
For my tangled up gears and my turnstile jobs
Fact is I'm just a living son of all my parts
When do instruments come with a catch?
And when is self-destruction just proven as a fact?
Is it blind faith or the family name?
Is it all by chance or completely ingrained?
Can I say it's an imbalance of the chemical kind
Or is my environment that becomes my only disguise
I don't know but I'm blaming everyone else
Just as long as I never put the blame on myself
Cause I know, I've wasted way too many times
Living way too many lies
How can this be my fault, I'm always right
There's a devil in my DNA
Programmed parts from all the start
Or is there no one else to blame?
For my tangled up gears and my turnstile jobs
Fact is I'm just a living son of all my parts
Cause I know, I've wasted way too many times
Living way too many lies
How can this be my fault, I'm always right
There's a devil in my DNA
Programmed parts from all the start
Or is there no one else to blame?
For my tangled up gears and my turnstile jobs
Every one of five fears and for my fatal flaws
Everything that I've had and haven't all chased
Dopeman dopeman's got another big plan
to sell it to you or anyone he can
because this is much better than minimum wage
no matter how things work he's still gonna get paid
think about it for a minute more -
it's either work at McDonalds or the corner store
a quick money fix from a deal or 2
when a decision comes down
what would you do?
you take - take a welfare state
or a dopeman's fate
and keep the cycle spinnin' round
dopeman dopeman's got the upperhand
people wanna get as much as they can
because those reasons they'll always stay the same
and for some people it's the only way to stay sane
and think about it for a minute more -
a life of crime or hangin' round the liquor store
a quick drug fix to get you through
when the decision comes down
It's never been so crystal clear that i've been dying six months a year arguing with strangers about why i'm still here. no on lets me forget questions about my relevance and i'm starting to believe their arguments in my self-defense it's just my self-destructiveness and always wasting all my breath and it's still a mystery to me why i'm doubting all my dreams all the things that i say will someday fade away when the message in the songs has kept me sane all along. the years hit like like fist to face and some days i've tried to replace this person with the same god-given name. some days i shake till noon i've tried to explain to overcrowded rooms across these states my narrow point of view. but what can i do it's just my self-destructiveness and always wasting all my breath and it's a mystery to me why i'm doubting all my dreams all the things that i say will someday fade away when the message in these songs has kept me sane all along.
I can see it all right now
his mom and dad so proud of his son and his new found wife
and I wonder if after all these years
will his dad still give him a pep talk for his wedding night?
I can smell his cousin's polo mixing with his grandpa's old spice and the
Swedish meatballs look so tempting that his two fat aunts might even fight
and his uncles have all gone drinkin'
highballs and hamms light in the parking lot
while the rest of his relatives are busy just tearing up the Manville Elks Lodge
I can smell his cousin's polo mixing with his grandpa's old spice and the mashed
potatoes look so tasty that his two fat aunts might even fight
on that day what else could I say?
I'd say here's to you staying drunk
here's to all your good luck
Two days before his mom moved him
To a trailer park in Florida from a suburb in Michigan
He left the house headed for someplace downtown
Thinking who needs them, cuz they brought me down
Out on the streets words burning in his brain
With his pulse pumping just like a freight train,
Wondering what he has to lose
What's to lose anyhow
If he throws this rock will it all be solved now
Throw the brick one more time
Thinking of the problems that I left behind
Who-o-oah!
Who-o-oah!
Who-oah!
Who-oah!
Who-o-oh!
Who-o-oh!
Who-oah!
Who-o-oh!
Who-o-oh!
Well I guess you could describe me by my fragile mental state
I've got one foot on the curb and one handhold in the brain
I've always been a dollar short, always a couple minutes late
Let me shake the hands of dreamers of this lucky liden state
And congratulate believers who all bet our twist of fate
On and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
Do your worst; I'll survive another year
It goes on and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
I live to tell the story of my last few years
This new year will be different but I'll end up sleeping in
Insignificant arrogance spawn out a realm of state
Let me shake the hands of dreamers of this lucky liden state
And congratulate believers who all bet our twist of fate
On and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
Do your worst; I'll survive another year
It goes on and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
I live to tell the story of my last few years
When I'm wasting away (is not good enough)
When there's one thing to say (I'm not giving up)
Starting over again I'm turning around
On and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
Do your worst; I'll survive another year
On and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
The story of what kind of was my last few years
On and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
I live to tell the story of my last few years
On and on and on and on and on
And on and on and on
The story of what kind of was my last few years
My last few years
(Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
Breaking down from every insult that you've taken
from one sided conversations
Burning out from all the minor misconceptions
that just play on your frustrations
your self doubt has your head so turned around
there's not a catch phrase that can save you
and it's not that hard to figure out
disappointment doesn't have to cut to a commercial now
I'm breaking down I'm burning out
and it's not funny like on television
when your self doubt turns you inside out
it's still not funny like on television
I'm passing time since I've been right
and it's not funny like on television
those times I've cracked with no laugh track
Sometimes, I think somethings
wrong with me because,
I was never one,
to believe in anyone or anything.
Its always been just me.
Its always been just.
And you know, they've always had,
always had big plans for you.
Just to walk you through
and cloud your views. Woah-oh-ho.
And I'll never say,
Everythings OK.
Don't wanna say that
you're giving up right now.
Just hold your ground,
and don't give up,
in what you believe.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.
Sometimes, I think somethings
wrong with me because,
I was never one,
to believe in anyone or anything.
I can't say I'll ever change.
Won't say I'll ever change.
And you know, they've always had,
always had big plans for you.
Just to walk you through
and cloud your views. Woah-oh-ho-oh-ho-oh.
And I'll never say,
Everythings OK.
Don't wanna say that
you're giving up right now.
Just hold your ground,
and don't give up,
in what you believe.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Don't be different,
when you can't be yourself.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Big plans.
Big crash.
Big plans.
Isn't it funny that it all comes down to money
Running on a treadmill, wasting time
Keeps you too busy to lose your mind
I was blindsided out on the street
The tension was so thick I could hardly even breathe
And I don't like the way things are going down
I don't like the way things are going down,
That's all, it's all
It's enough to knock me down
Man I was blindsided when a guy walked right past
Calls for help from this guy under the overpass
So I guess it's the "problem will go away if I block it out"
If only my problems were like water
they could be boiled away
and watching the steam drift upward,
watching my problems drift away.
And watch the steam turn and twist,
watch it all drift away.
Look how it rises and lifts
watch my problems drift away.
If only my problems were like water
they all could be washed away
and watch the water go downward
So here let's talk about the boomtown facts
You've got stick up kids coming right at my back
Two blocks of reasonable rent and it's only getting smaller
And the rest of boomtown is only getting taller
You've got ten miles of traffic and three hundred miles of roadway
And a million lights burning bright night and day
With all these lights going off like roman candles
It's getting too much for me to handle
Boomtown's only based on image torn down and built up from one man's Vision
When all the workers are all up and gone
Blue moon, you saw me standing alone
Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own
Blue moon, you knew just what I was there for
You heard me saying a prayer for someone I really could care for
And then suddenly appeared before me, the only one my arms could ever hold
I heard somebody whisper 'please adore me'
But when I looked, that moon had turned to gold - oh oh oh
Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone
Without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own
("Everyone to the bar!")
Don't call me Rich
don't call me George
just call me cheez
that's who
I am
not Rich, not George
I'm Cheez
Civilized until the keg runs dry
and he's tried
to drink from 9 to 5
and then from 5 to 9
always drunk and going crazy
(always) drunk, going
crazy
you better believe it
Chesterfield, where the keg's never dry
it's always filled
have another beer with fear
have another beer or two
then he'll show you his cheese tattoo
always drunk, going crazy
you better believe it
(alt: Don't call me Rich
don't call me George
just call me cheez
that's what I am
not Rich Allen George
i remember every bridge i ever jumped off blindly
And all my boring stories keep reminding me
'cause in all honesty i used to be an authority
on irony and remembering my broken dreams and everything that used to be around
and it's not so complicated to explaine why these feelings faded
please pass some sanity, saint of mediocrity and keep me out of my sobriety 14 and 23,
bridge and tunnel authority will keep me out of my sobriety
I say we just celebrate (I say we just celebrate)
And all my past mistakes and all my too little to lates
'cause in all honesty i used to be an authority
on irony and remembering my broken dreams and everything that used to be around
And did i ever mention that i've lost al my best intentions
please pass some sanity, saint of mediocrity and keep me out of my sobriety 14 and 23,
Watching the man up in the window
it always seems to me
that in 10 more years another someone may be watching me.
And do I really know what goes on inside?
As he dances down the street to the music in his mind,
time after time.
Watching the man up in the window
it always seems to me
that I'll be the one talking to myself as someone sits and watches me.
And do I really know what goes on inside
as I wonder what goes on in their little plastic minds,
Hello six pack of confidence
Been so many nights
since we first met
Glad to see you've brought
all your friends
For another night of
plastic cup politics
Hello Mr. Six Pack of confidence
I'm glad to see you've already met
Ms. Twelve ounces of loneliness
And Mr. Plastic cup politics
I see you're under the influence
Of warm beer and the comfort of
all your friends
And I see that Mr. Loud Mouth
has had his forty ounce
And will pass out
I have no doubt
So drop your plastic cup and
clear your clouded heads
I keep asking myself if they realize
That their fears are really just the
same as mine
Do they know all their insecurities
Are the same ones that are inside of me
As people come and go
Do they know they're really not alone?
And the life of the party just left
I guess I couldn't cure his emptiness
Like all the rest
So drop your plastic cups and clear
your clouded heads
Here we are, another wasted night and
I am right along side
of forty sets of bloodshot eyes
And plastic smiles miles wide match
plastic cups we'll leave behind
It's just another night of
plastic cup politics
So drop your empty cups and clear
I used to be a stereotype
Half alive with half open eyes
With a one track mind
And a flawed design
Feeling like I was lost
At sea at only the age of 19
Floating around in alcohol and apathy
Taking in too much caffeine and nicotine
If we make it outta here alive
Just say you won't look back to see
Just who we left behind (there might not be a next time)
With all the ups and downs and turn arounds (might not be a next time)
To the breaking up to breaking down (might not be a next time)
Yeah we were the ones to say (there might not be a next time)
I used to be a stereotype
Someone you'd never recognize
With fingers so yellow
That they matched the yellow skies
And there was a few things I memorized
From all those blurry times
Like bottles clinking under blinking signs
And a few last words from long lost friends of mine
If we make it out of here alive
Just say you won't look back to see
Just who we left behind (there might not be a next time)
With all the ups and downs and turn arounds (might not be a next time)
To the breaking up to breaking down (might not be a next time)
Yeah we were the ones to say (there might not be a next time)
And if we make it outta here alive (if we make outta here alive)
Just say you won't look back to see
Just who we left behind
Just who we left behind
After all the fuck ups and fallouts (there might not be a next time)
With all the ups and downs and turn arounds (might not be a next time)
Through all the breaking up to breaking down (there might not be a next time)
Yeah we were the ones to say (there might not be a next time)
There might not be a next time (might not be a next time)
Words to live by
I used to be a stereotype
Half alive with half open eyes
With a one track mind
And a flawed design
Feeling like I was lost
At sea at only the age of 19
Floating around in alcohol and apathy
Taking in too much caffeine and nicotine
If we make it out of here alive
Just say you won't look back to see
Just who we left behind
We're all doing just fine
We were always the ones laughing last
We were never the ones looking back
We were always the ones to say that
We're all doing just fine
I used to be a stereotype
Someone you'd never recognize
With fingers so yellow
That it matched the yellow skies
And there was a few things I memorized
From all those blurry times
Like bottles clinking under blinking signs
And a few last words from lost friend of mine
If we make it out of here alive
Just say you won't look back to see
Just who we left behind
We're all doing just fine
We were always the ones laughing last
We were never the ones looking back
We were always the ones to say that
We're all going just fine
Words to live by
I won't compete because I don't need to be
In front of someone that wants to compete with me
Who needs another aggravation
Or a fucked up situation
So you call me burnt out
Call me washed up
Or weaker cause I won't get up
Be first in another line
Just one more time,
Cause I won't compete again
Maybe I'm jaded and bored
Always looking for more
Wait around for the next big fix
I know I'm a wreck, I'm a mess
But I couldn't care less
Don't know what it would take to change me
Everybody's so afraid to be different
Please excuse me now if I don't get it
I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
Designer drugs and dead end jobs
And classic rock is so outdated
I'm so sick of therapy
And all the things it's done to me
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated
Maybe the problem is me
But I won't make believe
And I can't take this mediocrity
What if this is a test?
And I deserve what I get?
Will I wake up with all the answers?
Everybody's too afraid to be different
Please excuse me now if I don't listen
I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
Designer drugs and dead end jobs
And classic rock is so outdated
I'm so sick of therapy
And all the things it's done to me
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated
(Woah, woah).
When everything is overrated.
Can't stand the normal
Can't stand the ordinary
Find me anything that's extraordinary
Show me something
Show me anything
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?
I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
All my friends and family
They make my life so complicated
I'm so sick of apathy and TV show reality
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated.
Woah, woah.
Wonder what hold things together
Is it political positions or maybe superstitions
The list goes on forever
It seems to go on forever
Are old rituals necessary to stand by
How many things just to get us through the night
And can we say their wrong altogether
The world keeps going on forever
It still looks big
Can everything in some way help us understand
From mathematical problems to rubber bands
And can we say it's wrong altogether
The world goes on forever
By this time tomorrow
You€™ll be out on the streets of Chicago
Walking all the way home from commuter trains
By this time tomorrow
You€™ll be back at home in Chicago
At the bars until they close
Back at places that you€™ve known and
It€™ll be skylines and rooftops
And it€™s gonna be crowded tourist stops
So it€™s goodbye
To your brand new life
So it€™s good luck
Best wishes to your black lung
By this time tomorrow
You€™ll be walking home thru Chicago
Past the nine to five crowds underneath
Those unused fire escapes
By this time tomorrow
You€™ll be at the bars in Chicago
Back with people that you know
Going places you used to go
It€™s gonna be skylines and rooftops
And it€™s gonna be crowded tourist stops
So it€™s goodbye
To your brand new life
So it€™s good luck
Best wishes to your black lung
So when you€™re leaving the party just to beat the crowd
Just make sure that you€™re the first one out
I've been down
wandering past 2nd street
and looking at the ghosts
of you and me and thinking back on
all those memories of how we used to be
I've been hearing
hear those voices
of the noises of the breaking glass
and all those plans we had to get us through
they're never coming true
And I hope and hope
that you won't forget
and I hope you, hope you know
that I can clearly see
The ghosts of you and me
'cause I'm just a long-gone memory
and you're still alive
and I'm still getting by
on these dead end streets
the ghosts of you and me
I'm still talking
talk of what we'll do
to the ghosts of me and you
and I'm still looking back into the past
when we were all we had
And I hope and hope
that you won't forget
and I hope you, hope you know
that I can clearly see
the ghosts of you and me
Hope you won't forget
hope you know that I'll always regret
those things I said
hope you know that I can clearly see
the ghosts of you and me
Sit back and watch the train wreck,
Watch me jump off the deep end.
I won't lie, my mistakes take up every minute of my life.
It's been the down fall of me,
That misery just loves my company.
And this voice is scared to say that i don't really mind.
Cause it's the golden age of my negative ways,
I wouldn't want it any other way today.
I wouldn't want it any other way.
I'm just a co-dependent.
Unemployed and unimportant.
I won't lie, my missteps confuse everyone in my life.
I don't have an answer,
Of why I'm always going backward.
And this voice is scared to say that I don't really mind.
I always walk the line,
Between lows and highest highs.
And I don't mind.
Cause it's the golden age of my negative ways,
I wouldn't want it any other way today.
When is common sense too much to ask?
And then when did consequences get left in the past
Is it just bad habits or a typical script
Is it all big plans then a hit and a miss
Can say my influence becomes my design
Or is science and cigarettes my compromise
I don't know but I'm blaming everyone else
Just as long as I never put the blame on myself
Cause i know, I've waisted way too many times
Living way to many lies
How can this be my fault, I'm always right
There's a devil in my DNA
Programmed parts from all the start
Or is there no one left to blame?
For my tangled upgears and my turnstile jobs
Fact is I'm just a living sum of all my parts
When do instructions come with a catch?
And when is self-destruction just proven as a fact?
Is it just blind faith or the family name?
Is it all by chance or completly ingrained?
Can I say its an imbalance of the chemical kind
Or is my environment my only disguise
I don't kbow but I'm blaming everyone else
Just as long as I never put the blame on myself
Get yourself ready,
Hold your hand steady
Cause it's shaking from all this waiting.
Fingers bent your fist starts to clench,
As the pen signs the check today for the rent.
Dollars and cents, are not making sense.
We can tell em' all to go to hell. (tell them all go to hell)
Give em' our conviction notice.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Give em' our conviction notice.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Give em' our conviction notice.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Give em' our conviction notice.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Tell them all to go to hell.
Get yourself ready,
Hold your hand steady
Cause it's shaking from all this waiting.
Fingers bent your fist starts to clench,
As the pen signs the check today for the rent.
Dollars and cents, are not making sense.
We can tell em' all to go to hell. (tell them all go to hell)
Give em' our conviction notice.
Welcome to a place where rent meets debt,
It feels like a price on your head.
Money can't buy happiness ,
But it sure can pay the rent.
We always try to buy a better life,
I think we may have over spent.
Mixing pride and dollar signs,
Is easier said than done.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Give em' our conviction notice.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Give em' our conviction notice.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Give em' our conviction notice.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Tell them all to go to hell.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Give em' our conviction notice.
Na na na na, Na na na na.
Give em' our conviction notice.
Give em' our conviction notice.
So you say, all your white flags are up and that you've had enough and that you were tired of collecting dust, you say everything always looks the same and you made your brand new face to match your brand new place, you say all your distress calls have gone out and your ship is going down
Well I say it to myself all the time,
"Stop living half and a life and stop feeling like I'm half alive."
I can't get enough, I'm not satisfied, I've wasted my time with this daily grind, in single file line, is this real life, I've been telling myself sometimes, what matters is on the inside.
Do you remember when we had all the answers, and can you really remember when we wished for anything better, just to feel like it's been forever, does it feel like a broken record, a head full of yesterdays, you keep wishing your life away, you can't keep looking over you own shoulder, things'll never look up unless you start to move forward.
Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to
You give me something I can hold on to
I know you'll think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall
Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7-5 3 0 9)
Jenny, Jenny you're the girl for me
You don't know me but you make me so happy
I tried to call you before
But I lost my nerve
I tried my imagination
But I was disturbed
I got it (I got it), I got it
I got your number on the wall
I got it (I got it), I got it
Screams and nightmares of a
life I want
can't see living this lie no
a world I want
you've lost all control of my
heart and my soul
Satan holds the future
watch it unfold
I am the Antichrist
it's what I've got to be
your God left me behind
and set my soul to be free
Watching disciples of the
satanic rule
pentagram of blood
holds the jackal's truth
searching for the answer
christ hasn't come
awaiting the final moment
the birth of Satan's son
I am the Antichrist
all love is lost
insanity is what I am
What the fuck
the fuck have I become
I've become the product of the sum
caught in an endless circle
I've become the stupidest man in the world
"Chalk another one up to experience"
y'know it doesn't make any sense
to do it all over again
and then again
then do it all over again
I've become the stupidest man
I think I'm drawing a blank again
this dizziness never seems to end
never seems to end
you know it never seems to end
drunk and sitting in and thinking
Al said goodbye to his mom and dad
for the first time in his life.
Tonight, he left the house and
walked to the waiting car outside.
Yea, somehow he thought they'd never understand.
That nothing lasts, and he just knows that time,
is just spinning by, and life, is passing him by so fast.
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
like going nowhere's
like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels like going.
Al said to me a few days ago that he just thought
for the first time in his life.
He feels that the last few years
were only a waste of time (only a waste of time)
Yes, it was always a compromise,
of what he always felt inside.
His declaration,
under the orange street light.
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
like going nowhere's
like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels like going.
Yeah-ah.
He was the one,
who always did the right things.
He was the one who would always
listen to everything they say.
But today, he's never going back. (Woah-oh-oh)
And nobody said,
that there would be days like these,
there'd be days like these,
there'd be days....
And sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
like going nowhere's
like giving up.
Sometimes I think,
I'm the only one who feels
like going nowhere's
like giving up.
Woah-oh,
like giving up.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh
like giving up.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-oh
I'm not giving up.
This is a fair request, and I promise I will not judge any person only as a teenager.
You will constantly remind yourself that some of my generation judges people by their race,
their belief, or the color of their skin, and that this is no more right
than saying all teenagers are drunken dope-addicts or glue-sniffers.
You think its strange, that there's a way
of how you looked, and how you act, and how you think
pretend they're not the same as you.
You think its strange, that there's a way
of how you looked, and how you act, and how you think
pretend they're not the same as you.
Do you know about her strength in convictions
or how she puts all her faith in religion.
Did we take the time to really discover,
how little we know about each other.
Keep us from saying anything.
Can't separate from everything.
And all this really means is
you're one in a crowd
and you're paranoid of every sound.
You're not the friend
you won't miss anyhow.
You think its strange, that there's a way
of how you looked, and how you act, and how you think
pretend they're not the same as you.
Do you know about her strength in convictions
or how she puts all her faith in religion.
Did we take the time to really discover,
how little we know about each other.
Keep us from saying anything.
Can't separate from everything.
And all this really means is
you're one in a crowd
and you're paranoid of every sound.
Keep us from saying anything.
Can't separate from everything.
And all this really means is
you're one in a crowd
and you're paranoid of every sound.
You're not the friend
you won't miss anyhow.
Do you know about her strength in convictions
or how she puts all her faith in religion.
Did ya take the time to really discover,
how little we know about each other.
Keep us from saying anything.
Can't separate from everything.
And all this really means is
you're one in a crowd
and you're paranoid of every sound.
Keep us from saying anything.
Can't separate from everything.
And all this really means is
you're one in a crowd
and you're paranoid of every sound.
Paranoid of every sound.
Well the scene here he wants her back
he's trying to use the phone
she's hanging up he's given up
he should've known
looking lost then he wanders off
and tries to sing along to some song he's never heard
but just keeps mouthing all the words
It gets worse before it's all over
I know I'll get through this somehow
and nothing's gonna change her mind for now
Well the scene here he's still alone
another band goes on in this crowded basement
with too much smal talk and lame inside jokes
feeling useless out of excuses
he should've known to let it go
she said "it's done"
second chances seem to never come
After all the bad endings and misunderstandings
and all of the late night last hopes and lost time
and all that she left for me wasonly a memory
Your story sad to tell
A teenage ne'er do well
Most mixed up non-delinquent on the block
Your futures so unclear now
What's left of your career now
Can't even get a trade in on your smock
Beauty school dropout
No graduation day for you
Beauty school dropout
Missed your mid-terms and flunked shampoo
Well at least you could have taken time to wash and clean your clothes up
After spending all that dough to have the doctor fix you nose up
Baby get moving (Better get movin)
Why keep your feeble hopes alive
What are you proving (What are you provin)
You've got the dream but not the drive
If you go for your diploma you could join the steno pool
Turn in your teasin' comb and go back to high school
Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
Hanging around the corner store
Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
It's about time you knew the score
Well they couldn't teach you anything you think you're such a looker
But no customer would go to you unless she was a hooker
Baby don't sweat it (Don't sweat it)
You're not cut out to hold a job
Better forget it (Forget it)
Who wants their hair done by a slob?
Now your bangs are curled your lashes twirled but still the world is cruel
Wipe off that angel face and go back to high school
Baby don't blow it
Don't put my good advice to shame
Baby you know it
Even dear Abby'd say the same
Now I've called the shot, get off the pot, I really gotta fly
Gotta be going to that malt shop in the sky
Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
Go back to high school
Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
Go back to high school
Beauty school dropout (Beauty school dropout)
I think I know it all,
but can I be sure of the things I've grown to know,
and can I say I know it all,
when rules just guide me to blindly follow
and things are automatic when you see them everyday
is it the same routine
or my fucked up dreams,
that keep me walking mindless all the way?
I think, I think I know it all
but is our beliefs just stringing us along
and was there something wrong in what I heard,
Late at night
I can see so clearly
They see right through me
And I know that ten years before
I was the kid at the corner store and I still know
And at that age things are so confusing
And no matter what I tried
I still wound up losing. are things still that confusing?
And at that age, that awkward age
I knew someday that things would change
Have I been thinking too much tonight
When I think of how my life's gone by?
And at that age...
There were things that I never really knew
And I keep hearing my parents say:
"Do as I say, don't say as I do."
I remember that I kind of laughed at the sparks that spread the flames
Over all the ugly memories these past three years have made
Then I waited for the smoke to fill my lungs and suffocate my pain away
So I say goodbye and I just say so long
Almost feeling paralyzed
My still life with vital signs
And I'll just say so long
My good intentions felt so wrong
Left me feeling so far gone
Well I'm gone, woah, woah.
I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone
I remember when I found the place for the ends to list that normal scene
Living in this haunted house on this otherwise normal street
Postcards and photographs of who we were start to burn and fade away
So I say goodbye and I just say so long
Almost feeling paralyzed
My still life with vital signs
And I'll just say so long
My good intentions felt so wrong
Left me feeling so far gone
My good intentions felt so wrong
Left me feeling so far gone
Well I'm gone, woah, woah.
I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone
So I say goodbye and I just say so long
Almost feeling paralyzed
My still life with vital signs
And I'll just say so long
My good intentions felt so wrong
Left me feeling so far gone
And I'll just say so long
My good intentions felt so wrong
Left me feeling so far gone
This song is for everyone that said I was
Programed, hardwired, that I'd self-destruct
They'd say I was destined to always be desperate
They'd say I was destined to always fuck up
And I was voted the first one to crumble and break
I'd never have a chance, the biggest waste
But now I'm the one who's laughing last
Because you're the one that keeps looking back
You're the one that's fading away
So I say
This song is for everyone that said I was
Programed, hardwired, that I'd self-destruct
They'd say I was destined to always be desperate
They'd say I was destined to always fuck up
And I was voted the first one to crumble and break
I'd never have a chance, the biggest waste
But now I'm the one who's laughing last
Because you're the one that keeps looking back
There's not a doctor that can fix me,
My disease is chronic and I've lost all self-control.
Have you ever had your heart ripped out your throat?
Anxious and all alone, now stop and remember we're only human
I've tried it all to kill the pain, but nothing keeps me sane.
I'll pretend that I'm stable,
I'm left, lost and labeled
I'll pretend that I'm doing fine.
I'm so out of focus,
I'm hopelessly hopeless,
I'll pretend that I'm doing fine.
Theres not a pill that can make me happy
My complains nescient and I've lost touch with my soul
Have you ever had your words choking your throat?
Another thought up in smoke, now stop and remember we're only human.
I've tried it all to kill the pain, but nothing keeps me sane.
I'll pretend that I'm stable,
I'm left, lost and labeled
I'll pretend that I'm doing fine.
I'm so out of focus,
I'm hopelessly hopeless,
I'll pretend that I'm doing fine.
I've tried it all to kill the pain, but nothing keeps me sane.
I'll pretend that I'm stable,
I'm left, lost and labeled
I'll pretend that I'm doing fine.
I'm so out of focus,
I'm hopelessly hopeless,
I'll pretend that I'm doing fine.
I've tried it all to kill the pain, but nothing keeps me sane.
I'll pretend that I'm stable,
I'm left, lost and labeled
I'll pretend that I'm doing fine.
I'm so out of focus,
I'm hopelessly hopeless,
Can you build ?.
You know, its something
that keeps you sane.
And you can't explain what.
But you know, it's
what's left inside you.
And I know its something,
you know, its something
that keeps me sane.
And I can't explain why,
it's all I have,
left to hold on to.
And I say, that is every day.
you (you) know (know) what (woah-oh-oh-oh)
it means to me.
It's just a reason to wait.
From the something that keeps me sane.
I have a reason to wait
(Woah) Wait.
I have a reason to wait.
From the something that keeps me sane.
I have a reason to wait.
Can you build ?.
You know, its something
that keeps us sane.
And you can't explain what.
But you know, it's
what's left inside you.
And I know its something, (Woah---)
you know, its something (--oh---)
that keeps us sane.
And I can't explain why,
it's all I have,
left to hold on to.
And I say, that is every day.
schemes (schemes)
you (you) know (know) what (woah-oh--)
it means to me. (---oh-oh)
It's just a reason to wait.
From the something that keeps me sane.
I have a reason to wait
Wait.
I have a reason to wait.
From the something that keeps me sane.
I've never known what made you get up and go
And what pushed you over the edge,
When we were up on the roof
Was it the truth when you said
You never made a single difference.
Did you get it in your head
That things are better left unsaid
when you up and left town now?
Did you need to rearrange
Or did you need to make a change
Rather than just rotting the place
We used to hang around?
I know that things have gotta change,
I know your never coming back to this town.
I wonder where you've gone,
Who you're with;
I still ask myself,
Welcome home outcasts
Because I know how you have
Felt over the years
The truth is that
Looking at me is like
Looking in the mirror
And I know how it feels
To be the best part
Of a running joke
To all of your friends
And to be on the edge of your bed
With your head buried in your hands
Wishing that everything would end
I know how it feels to be the loneliest
Welcome back outcasts
Because I've told myself
That it would be alright
Probably about a million times
Over every minute of all of my life
I know how it feels
To be so confused
That you're so far out of control
And to be on the edge of your bed
With your head buried in your hands
Wishing that everything would end
I know how it feels to be the loneliest
So you sit and wait for a sign
That the coming days will be alright
And you drink
So you can forget another night
Bruised from the blackouts
And your blood red eyes
Try to start looking
For the brighter side
Wait for a sign
Wait for a sign
Wait for a sign
Welcome home
Everything will be alright
And I know how it feels
To be the best part
Of a running joke all of your life
Welcome home...
Outcasts welcome home
Outcasts welcome home
Outcasts welcome home
When you look around
What you got don't mean a thing...
Waiting, waiting, waiting - stop!
You gotta stand and pick yourself up...
Hanging around don't mean a thing
The world keeps on spinning.
Inside his head keeps on spinning.
Wishing he could be on top for once,
seems he hasn't spoke a word in months.
It's the complications that make him lazy
and it's the frustrations that make him so lazy.
Stayed awake all night
fighting the crimes
Weasell, Rock and an Evil Guy
Grandfather, Mandy, Wendel, Chip
help ninja boy be the best there is
Master Mogana, he'll never win
he's no match for his yo yo spin
Grandfather showed him all his tricks
there's not a problem he can't fix
and he's just getting started
Yo Yo Ninja Boy
go go Ninja Boy
And he'll fight till the trouble ends
Yomagana have sworn their revenge
he'll save the day so have no fear
'cause still your Ninja Boy is here
He'll be fighting crime until the end
(Yo Yo Ninja Boy)
with a little help from all his friends
(go go Ninja Boy)
Yo Yo Ninja Boy
I wish I could have it all
And even if I could and then I would take it all,
Start it new with one thing that I could do
One wish I'd take it all away
I'd take it all away from you
Josie's on a vacation far away
come around and talk it over
so many things that I want to say
you know I like my girls a little bit older
I just wanna use your love tonight
no, I don't wanna lose your love tonight
I ain't got many friends left to talk to
no one's around when I'm in trouble
you know I would do anything for you
stay the night, we'll keep it undercover
Try to stop my hands from shakin'
'cause somethin' in my mind's not makin' sense
it's been awhile since we've been all alone
can't hide the way I'm feelin'
As you're leaving please would you close the door
and don't forget what I told you
just 'cause you're right don't mean I'm wrong
another shoulder to cry upon
Tonight
I got chills they're multiplying
And I'm losing control
Cause the power you're supplying
It's Electrifying!
You better shape up cause I need a man
And my heart is set on you
You better shape up, you better understand
To my heart I must be true
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
The one that I need oh yes indeed
If you're filled with affection
You're too shy to convey
Meditate in my direction
Feel your way
I better shape up, cause you need a man (I need a man)
Who can keep me satisfied
I better shape up, if I'm gonna prove (you better prove)
That my faith is justified
Are you sure? Yes I'm sure down deep inside
You're the one that I want (You are the one I want)ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
The one that I need oh yes indeed
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
The one that I need oh yes indeed
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
The one that I need oh yes indeed
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
You're the one that I want(You are the one I want) ho ho ho honey
Dear "you won't answer me" did you honestly think i'd ever leave? if you'd somehow just believe me. you've gotta know right now that these words still sting...i've lost everything i've ever touched. the results were eating me up for once i've had enough. landmines-landslides no matter how i try. landmines-landslides every single, i fell asleep while watching tv while the living dead they walk my streets this evening this sitting target's been stuck on the couch again, pretending i'm stable as the panic sets in. the results were eating me up for once i've had enough. landmines-landslides no matter how i try. i'm destined for disaster a failure by design landmines-landslides every single time. i'm destined for disaster i'm trapped on every side. you know how hard i try sometimes, you can see it in my eyes it's always eating me alive the day to day of getting by self-control from all the helplessness i've known i'm a wreck lacking confidence there's no arguments you know.
landmines-landslides no matter how i try.
This Is Less Than Jake
This Is Less Than Jake
This Is Less Than Jake
This Is Less Than Jake
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Last one out of Liberty City,
Burn it to the ground.
I know, I know, I know.
I know just who I am.
It was in my head,
is that I don't really give a damn.
Just who you think I am.
Just who I am, just who I am.
(Just who I!)
I know there comes a time
when you lost faith
in what you believe inside.
(What you have inside.)
And did you know somehow,
its just not smart enough to start.
(It gets up from the ground.)
The other day, this girl
came up to me and asked.
If she used to go to school with me
I kinda laughed. She said
wasn't I the guy her friends always
called a waste of time.
I know, I know, I know.
I know just who I am.
It was in my head,
is that I don't really give a damn.
Just who you think I am.
Just who I am, just who I am.
(Just who I!)
Well it's time to think about
where I'll be ten years from now.
(Ten years from now!)
I wonder if the media knows
I call myself washed up, not watered down.
(Just water on the ground!)
The other night, this guy
came up to me downtown.
And can't believe after five years
I'm still around. And he said
wasn't I the guy who walked these streets all night,
such a waste of time.
I know, I know, I know.
I know just who I am.
It was in my head,
is that I don't really give a damn.
Just who you think I am.
Just who I am, just who I am.
(Just who I!)
Just who I am, just who I am.
(Just who I!)
Just who I am, just who I am.
(Just who I aaamammmm!)
I couldn't help but think back to the advice
that I got from my dad a few times
he said"...time goes by so fast in a blink of an eye
so never close your eyes..."
"...I always wanted something more than 50 hours every week
and a paid vacation on the jersey shoreline"
And he said
So when ambition turns into competition
I'll never be the better man
I can't help but think back to the time
he said "life goes right by"
And told me never think twice
"you can't second guess how to live your life"
All these years have been way too short
to be spent on some factory floor like me
I never went back again
I never looked back again
And he said
So when ambition turns into competition
I'll never be the better man
It's the last hour of the last day
don't fall so far behind now
you'll be another nameless face
Give us any chance we'll take it
Leave us any rule we'll break it
We're gonna make our dreams come true
Doin' it our way
Nothings gonna turn us back now
Straight ahead and on the track now
We're gonna make our dreams come true
Doin' it our way
There's nothing we won't try
Never heard the word impossible
This time there's no stopping us
We're gonna do it
On your marks get set and go now
Got a dream and we just know now
We're gonna make that dream come true
And we'll do it our way, yes, our way
Make all our dreams come true
And we'll do it our way, yes, our way
Make all our dreams come true
Tonight i'll be wiping my slate clean
I''ll be clearing out those clouded memories
cause i don't to keep living in the past
and i can't stand how i always do that
tonight because you know i'm sick to death with every last regret and what i've said
and now all i really have left is my head
and its just a mess
Tonight i will dance on the graves of all my darkest days
and erase all the worries of all the time i wasted my scars may never go away
but i'll learn not to mind them along the way
tonight because you know i'm sick to death with every last regret and what i've said
and now all i really have left is my head
and its just a mess
Tonight i will dance on the graves of all my darkest days
and erase all the worries of all the time i wasted my scars may never go away
but i'll learn not to mind them along the way
right now i am giving the last rights to all my sleepless nights
right now i am starting clean and i am going on with my life
Now listen up and hear what i'm saying
If he's not talking to himself
Then he must be praying
Shine my shoes and ask for a dime
Then pick my pockets while i'm in line
He keeps telling me the score
Going back and forth inside my shut up brain again
(You gotta let her go, gotta let her go)
Worlds apart, I'm torn apart, I'll stall up my senses
(You gotta let her go, gotta let her go)
Somehow through it all we've become defenseless
(You gotta let her go, gotta let her go)
I'm living this lie and I can't pretend
(You gotta let her go, gotta let her go)
And I know I'll get that feeling when we meet again
And I know I will be stronger in the end
I think I'm gonna lose my mind
'Cause I don't wanna say goodbye
Now we realize the compromises you and I
(You gotta let her go, gotta let her go)
You fell from heaven to heartbreak in the blink of an eye
(You gotta let her go, gotta let her go)
And I know I'll get that feeling when we meet again
And I know I will be stronger in the end
I think I'm gonna lose my mind
'Cause I don't wanna say goodbye
You gotta let her go, gotta let her go
When I leave right now, get up and walk away
Our yesterdays will begin to fade
You gotta let her go, gotta let her go
Nana, nana
I think I'm gonna lose my mind
'Cause I don't wanna say goodbye
You gotta let her go, gotta let her go
When I leave right now, get up and walk away
Our yesterdays will begin to fade
You gotta let her go, gotta let her go
It seems I can't explain it all
all the reasons gone and I just can't seem to shake
what I've been brought up on
and well it hard to say
and its hard to explain
that all the things I've known are feeling strange
I guess I'll always have tradition
to fall back on
and just what the hell
am I supposed to do
just accept someone else's point of view
and we could ramble on and on and still not know...
and what keeps rolling through my brain
it keeps running like a non-stop frieght train
its that tradition seems to stick to you
Ideals are like opinions and beliefs just like tradition
Sometimes both are not enough
Faded stickers and crumpled flyers They've become the reminder
that there's an anthem in us that fits
the flag we've flown for years
I've always had this same old song
Stuck in my head for so damn long
A soundtrack to whether I'm right or wrong
Ideals are like opinions beliefs just like tradition
Sometimes both are not enough
faded pictures and yellowed flyers
and memories so far behind us
there's an anthem in us that fits
the flag we've flown for years
Ideals and its actions
Beliefs and convictions
Faith and tradition
If I had a scheme for everything,
It seems I'd be sure that I could change it all,
If I had it in me to stop my random thoughts,
and my dumb dreams
I could deal with this nonstop spinning world.
If only I could say that everything's ok
take a good look
and look the other way,
frustration, hell, who needs it anyway.
I'd rather sit back,
and just smoke cigarattes.
be the one with the loudest mouth
Ideals are like opinions and beliefs just like tradition
Sometimes both are not enough
Faded stickers and crumpled flyers
They've become the reminder
that there's an anthem in us that fits
the flag we've flown for years
I've always had this same old song
Stuck in my head for so damn long
A soundtrack to whether I'm right or wrong
Ideals are like opinions beliefs just like tradition
Sometimes both are not enough
faded pictures and yellowed flyers
and memories so far behind us
there's an anthem in us that fits
the flag we've flown for years
Ideals and its actions
Beliefs and convictions
Faith and tradition
All my friends always talk about
The stories of moving on and getting out
Then packing up and heading south
Their heads full of hopes and dreams
They’re just like me
My friends aren’t going anywhere
My friends all act so unaware
Now that they have to face
Their best plans have all gone up in flames
They’re just looking for something to take
To break up the day to day and all its
Loneliness, vacant space
The tragedy of minimum wage
All my friends always talk about
The stories of moving on and getting out
Then packing up and heading south
Their heads full of hopes and dreams
They’re just like me
My friends are worried about last calls
And working jobs at shopping malls
Because they’re in between
A mixed up pride and apathy
So tonight they’ll talk of call in
Calling in with bitter grins
Laughing at the state they’re in
What a mess, I’m just like them
All my friends always talk about
The stories of moving on and getting out
Then packing up and heading south
Their heads full of hopes and dreams
They’re just like me
So they’re sleep walking their way through life
Sitting there and getting by
Like all the other friends of mine
Wishing for something more
Wishing for something more
All my friends always talk about
The stories of moving on and getting out
Then packing up and heading south
Their heads full of hopes and dreams
When it all came down, on that saturday night,
should I choose a side, at 9th at Pine.
Can we still say we're civilized,
watched some kid down at 9th at Pine...
which will it be? Sympathy or apathy,
which part of the human condition will I believe.
Tried then its tested
I've just decided
I failed
is it the crowd,
or the way this is going down?
Is being human watching all this without a sound?
Jenny who can I turn to
you give me something I can hold on to
now you think I'm like the others before
who saw you name and number on the wall
Jenny I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
867-5309, 867-5309, 867-5309, 867-5309
Jenny your the girl for me
you don't know me, but you make me so happy
I tried to call you before but I lost the nerve
I tried my imagination but I was disturbed
Jenny I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
867-5309, 867-5309, 867-5309, 867-5309
I got it, I got it, I got your number on the wall
I got it, I got it, for a good time, for a good time call
Jenny I got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
867-5309, 867-5309, 867-5309, 867-5309
Jenny who can I turn to
For the price of a dime I can always turn to you
Man this town will drive you insane
Check my thoughts to check my brain
Hold my wallet like it's glued
In one square block it'll tell you
What it thinks of you
And there's nothing you can do
And all that's left to say
And all that's left to say, now
Is feet don't fail me now
Man I must be out of my mind
This town can be so unkind
Forget about sleep there's nothing you can do
In 24 hours this town has become a living hell
And there's nothing you can do
10-9-8 forty ounces fill this place
7-6-5 then watch the bullets to stay alive
4-3-2 no one way out of this
Let me give you some insight into my insides
I haven't been this confused in such a long time
you can't believe I've spent just losing my mind
I can't believe that 10 years have really gone by
it's been a long time
Had a plan for every year I've been alive
a million more I've built up inside of me
there's a million more that I have bottled up
and that I've fucked up
do you feel like the hard times are mountains you've climbed lying awake
it still feels like it's '89 it's been along time
those mindless days the plans that I've made
the countless mistakes all the times I've changed
through the years I faced all that's kept me sane
Unless you could see inside my head,
you couldn't possibly understand
I'm happier when things are falling apart at the seems
and you'd never know just by looking at me
and I'm strung out on the future
and burnt out on the past
sometimes I'd rather just burn this place right to the ground
And y'know it just may be me
but the parking lot with all those creeps
keeps me convincing me myself I'm completely sane
with sleep over rated
and my ideal outdated
I know that I wouldn't have it any other way
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Not Rich, not George, I'm Cheeze!
Civilized...
until the keg runs dry.
Heavy stride...
to drink from 9-5.
And then from 5-9.
Always drunk and going crazy.
Always drunk and going crazy,
You'd better believe it.
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Not Rich, not George, I'm Cheeze!
Chesterfield....
where the kegs never dry.
It's always filled.
Have another beer or fear.
Have another beer or two.
He'll show you his cheese tattoo.
Always drunk and going crazy,
You'd better believe it.
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Don't call me Rich,
Don't call me George,
Just call me Cheeze,
Thats who I am!
Not Richard Allen George, I'm Cheeze!
Aye, aye, aye, aye!
Sinco-de-Mustache!
The kids that are hip,
they grow hair on their lip.
They don't have a razor,
they don't give a shit.
They grow, and grow, and grow...
So let your mustache show!
Well I'm happy to report,
My long standing last resort,
Ended by just stopping short,
Of me burning like a torch.
Step off, stand back.
Cause it's a fact I've got to match,
And all my fingers crossed behind my back.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause I'm breathing fumes I'll light the fuse.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause there's something that I need to prove.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause I'm breathing fumes I'll light the fuse,
And I'm gonna make the evening news.
Well I'm busy making plans,
With a flare gun in my hand.
Kerosene soaked through my pants,
The last words of my last stand.
Step up, step back.
Cause it's a fact I've gotta match,
And all my fingers crossed behind my back.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause I'm breathing fumes I'll light the fuse.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause there's something that I need to prove.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause I'm breathing fumes I'll light the fuse,
And I'm gonna make the evening news.
And I'm gonna make the evening news.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause I'm breathing fumes I'll light the fuse.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause there's something that I need to prove.
Give me some breathing room.
Cause I'm breathing fumes I'll light the fuse,
Give me some breathing room.
I'm on fire it's all ending soon,
And I'm gonna make the evening news.
Well Dick's son has his CD's in neat lines
and has a dad that reads every sign and says
"I only drive 62.5"
well I, yeah I don't really mind
his coordinated closet and his folded clothes
but who left the bullet in the mashed potatoes?
Well why's everybody sweating me
because I go to Dairy Queen
well why's everybody sweating me
I'm just the son of Dick Ramsbee
His dad boils water by time
and measures sugar by the line
who tours the country in a winnebago
well his dad's an anal guy
and his roomate's stalked by the FBI
"Who put the shotgun underneath the sofa?"
Hal put the shotgun underneath the sofa
I'm son of Dick
I'm son of Dick
Do you see me out there
Getting ready to go
Packing my frustrations away
I can always go for miles and still don't know
Why my disappointments always stay,
Packing all my frustrations away...
Why my disappointments always stay...
Am I wasting my time
I don't know what I will find...
Took eighteen years to realize
I don't know the reasons why!
The day I walked away
There's been borders and there'll be boundaries
and there's been times misidirection's found me
There's been clear heads and there'll be clean slates
and times we'd find we'd pass the night away thinking
Everyone here hates everyone here
for doing the same thing that they do
There's been new starts and they'll be no sleep
and there's been times when inspiration's found me
and there's been walls built and there's been worse days
and times we'd find we spent the night awake thinking
all those people they keep watching me
all those people that hate me
all those people they watch me
And I swear it's the last time and I swear it's my last try
and we'll walk in circles around this whole block
walk on the cracks on the same old sidewalks
and we'll talk about leaving town
yeah we'll talk about leaving
I swear it's the last time I swear it's my last try
We rode across that bridge all night
we talked our way through city lights
traced all the lines we're killing time
under those buzzing signs
from downtown to anywhere but here
tonight yeah I swear to these rooftops
and just hoped that car would never stop
we drove around this place all night
past closed signs and familiar sights
we're moving by passing time
counting those center lines
with 20,000 lines left to go
that lead to somewhere I don't know
it might be the time tha twe leave this all behind
there's been a few times
that we thought it felt right
to take all the westbound signs
I know you'll be around
short sighted and undecided
and you'll know where I'll be found
Just another day of smoking cigarettes
apathetic, and just plain pathethic
just like the day we met
and we're not growing up
and it's just my luck
A friend of mine he pointed out to me
that who I've become
is not the same person that I used to be
A friend of mine he pointed out to me
That I'm not the same as I used to be
And y'know he made me think twice about who I am
And now I think of how I lived my life
Sitting on the corner under the street light
What would I change?
What would I want to stay the same?
And I've decided that I won't decide
So I 'll sit on the curb watching the cars roll by
who the hell needs self doubt
This is the modern world
this is the modern world
What kind of fool do you think I am (whoa)
to think I know nothin' 'bout the modern world (whoa)
all my life is spent on spite
I won't turn my head in ?
is my inspiration dry
I know more than you'll ever know
even in school I felt quite sure
that one day I'd be on top
and I'd look down upon the ?
the teachers' descent don't mean a thing
This is the modern world that I've learned about
this is the modern world
we don't need no one
to tell us what's right or wrong
Say what you like 'cause I don't care (whoa)
I know what I am and going to
is somewhere I won't see you
don't have to explain myself to you
I don't give two fucks about your view
This is the modern world that I've learned about
this is the modern world
we don't need no one
to tell us what's right or wrong
modern world, this is, this is, this is
this is, this is, this is
no we don't need no one
to tell us what's right or wrong, wrong
This is the modern world
And I've been so busy trying
that I've only wound up living
weekend to weekend
getting by just simply "trying"
And I should be out looking for a job
but only wind up heading for a stiff drink
left with nothing else so I think
"it's time to stumble home"
So I say Hello to wasted hours
and I say bottoms up to better days
I've been so busy dying
that I've always wound up living
paycheck to paycheck
scraping by but hardly trying
what will it take to get me out of bed
when half the check goes to rent
the other half goes to debt
I should be out looking for another job
Instead I stumble home
Another day not trying
there's no one left to blame
it's just the routine and the repetition
1-2-3
When the sun goes down and the tide rolls out
and the people gather 'round and they all begin to shout
"Hey! Hey! Uncle Dud
it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud
it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud"
What a dance do they do
glory how I'm tellin' you
they don't need no band
they keep time by clappin' their hands
just happy as a cow chewin' on a cud
it's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi Mud
I'll keep my faith alive,
Cause this is paradise for parasites.
I can't believe this sight,
Streets full of blank faces and junky eyes.
The streets won't sleep tonight,
A lullaby for the half alive.
The city swings and whines,
To the double crime of drugs and hard time.
Lion city's sirens sing the night away, night away.
The city feels like a cage,
Feels like a powder keg.
That's almost set to explode.
Lion city's begun to rot.
It's a matter of time until the roaring stops.
The scene from the ground up,
From the painted walls to the rooftops.
Lion city's closed and locked,
While the pop of feet crack on sidewalks.
The haves and the have nots,
Fade to backdrops of drums and gunshots.
Lion city's sirens sing the night away, night away.
There's an overdose on 8th,
And he does the cocaine shake.
Cause the Lion city's sirens sing the night away.
The city seems like it's trapped,
Between its future and its past.
Life or death, of a city not coming back.
The city feels like a cage,
Feels like a powder keg.
And now it's gonna explode.
Lion city's sirens sing the night away, night away.
There's and overdose on 8th,
And he's wearing a blue face.
Cause the lion city's sirens sing the night away.
Sing the night away.
Something's not right
Urban sprrawl, from urban blight
something's not right
when history turn into a building site
locked out, fenced up, closed down without a sound
Something's not right
when downtown is just all blinking lights
Something's not right
Look at me I'm Sandra Dee
Lousy with virginity
Won't go to bed till I'm legally wed
I can't I'm Sandra Dee
Watch it! Hey, I'm Doris Day
I was not brought up that way
Won't come across even Rock Hudson lost
His heart to Doris Day
I don't drink I swear
I don't rat my hair
I get ill from one cigarette
Keep your filthy paws off my silky drawers
Would you pull that crap with Annette?
As for you Troy Donahue
I know what you wanna do
You've got your crust I'm no object of lust
I'm just plain Sandra Dee
Elvis, Elvis, let me be
Keep that pelvis far from me
Just keep your cool now your starting to drool
When I wake up, yeah I know Im gonna be,
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out yeah I know Im gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
And If I get drunk, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver whatever that means
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
When I'm working yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you
And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
Surrender
Surrender
When I'm lonely yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
When I'm dreaming yes I know I'm gonna dream
I gonna Dream about the time when I'm with you
And if I get drunk, yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man that gets drunk next to you
And if I haver, whatever the fuck that means
I'm gonna be the man who havers next you
And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
Surrender
Surrender
When I'm lonely, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man whos lonely without you
I'm gonna be the man whos coming home
Cuz I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
Surrender
Surrender
There was a kid so low, he couldn't stand up
No money, no respect and too much bad luck
Desperation had gotten to him at last
It was dark
Dark alley and a shot gun blast
And I knew a man everyone thought
Was out of his mind
He had a cane and seemed to be around all the time
And it's a shame, when a car rolls past
It was dark
Dark alley and a shot gun blast
Shotgun - no one ever thinks about it
There€™s a black cloud over this house
That€™s been around for three years now
There€™s a thunderstorm inside
And it won€™t go away
That€™s why they call it a union
That€™s why they call it a union
So both of you please forgive me tonight
That€™s why they call it a union
So please forgive me tonight
I remember him turning around
He said, €˜Son, I€™ll be leaving now,
I can€™t be the person that you want me to be€™
And then she said, €˜So things are ending now,
I knew you€™d be walking out,
You can€™t be the person that you want me to be.€™
Three years of all the arguments
Three years of all this silence
Has been enough, to last me a lifetime
Three years of all the arguments
Three years of all this pain
That€™s why they call it a union
That€™s why they call it a union
So both of you please forgive me tonight
That€™s why they call it a union
So please forgive me tonight
I can€™t look at the pictures anymore
Because I know how it€™s run it€™s course
And I know how the story ends
I know it ends
There€™s a black cloud over this house
That€™s been around for three years now
There€™s a thunderstorm inside
And another fight tonight
There€™s a black cloud over this house
That€™s been around for three years now
There€™s a thunderstorm inside
And it won€™t go away; no it won€™t go away
This is Less Than Jake (this is Less Than Jake)
this is Less Than Jake (it's Less Than Jake)
you're listening to 106.7 KROQ (KROQ)
Hometown Radio hates us
'cause we pissed off Barry Sides
but now we're doin' the jingle (doin' a jingle)
Son, take it from me, it's in the little victories
that keep you from shaking hands with defeat.
Son, I tell you reality isn't all it's cracked up to be
but the years go lightning fast that I just can't help but see.
We believe it's okay to leave
the words caught in your throat.
But you know that you're growing old,
you always do what you're told.
Going up in smoke, and you're a ghost.
You know in the end you'll be
walking the tight rope, walking the tight rope.
Son, take it from me, life's more than the floors of this factory,
and working forty hours every single week.
Son, I tell you reality isn't living down on your knees.
But my life's gone in a flash and I just can't help but see.
We believe it's okay to leave
the words caught in your throat.
But you know that you're growing old,
you always do what you're told.
Going up in smoke, and you're a ghost.
You know in the end you'll be
walking the tight rope, walking the tight rope.
Mouthfuls of rotting dynamite,
mouthfuls of rotting dynamite.
You call this living a normal life?
We're not living a normal life.
We still believe it's okay to leave
the words caught in your throat.
But you know that you're growing old,
you always do what you're told.
Going up in smoke, and you're a ghost.
You know in the end you'll be
walking the tight rope, walking the tight rope.
We still believe it's okay to leave
the words caught in your throat.
But you know you'll be walking the tight rope,
you always do what you're told.
Going up in smoke, and you're a ghost.
You know in the end you'll be
Each time we have a quarrel, it almost breaks my heart,
Cause I'm so afraid that we will have to part,
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?
One day I feel so happy, the next I feel so sad.
I guess I'll have to take the good with the bad.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
Why must I be a teenager in love?
I cried a tear for nobody but you,
And I'll be the lonely one, if you should say we're through.
Well, if you want to make me cry, that won't be so hard to do.
And if you should say goodbye, I'll still go on loving you.
Each night I ask the stars up above,
This blood that's in our veins it,
Carries all of these mistakes that we've ever made,
When we're not thinking straight.
Don't remember every name,
But it seems like every face is back at the place,
The same place they've tried to escape.
Tonight's a party for the misfits doing time. (woah)
Not giving up, just getting by.
Sticking it out through hardest times.
Tonight's a party for the misfits doing time.
Just standing in this crowded room,
Still makes me feel alive.
These thoughts stuck in our brains were,
Were razor sharp but all the years made them fade,
Or wrote them in a way.
It's years of sleeping late and drinking everyday and,
It's the same things we blamed,
The same things we've tried to escape.
Tonight's a party for the misfits doing time. (woah)
Not giving up, just getting by.
Sticking it out through hardest times.
Tonight's a party for the misfits doing time.
Just standing in this crowded room,
Still makes me feel alive.
This smokey crowded and cloudy room,
Flashes me back to my misspent youth.
So when i walk home drunk and I wake up bruised,
I'd like to thank each of you.
I'd like to thank each of you...
You.. you..
I'd like to thank each of you...
You.. you..
So let's hit the streets tonight
And I'll show you where I lost my job
and where I got chased by cops
so we'll jump the fence at 13th and 10th
to see where we played our first show
I told you everybody loses sight of
All the how it's been and never was
So let's hit the streets tonight
And I'll show you where I drank on the job
and hung out In that parking lot
left at the light there's park 16th on the right
and that's the place that we called home
That place you'll never get a chance to know
and all the people through the years you could've known
He says florida is slowly sinking, sinking into the ocean
He says the housing tracts are built on half facts and the rest half fiction
And i cant argue that statistics are becoming the definition of just standing
Still between glass and steel
Drowning in this quicksand
And the cities skyline hasnt looked the same,
Since the boom in south florida's real estate
Its turning into more than i can take.
Too much, too soon, too little, too late.
Between the garbage and the concrete, to the construction grounds under our feet.
A boomtown gone bust, a goldmine to dust thats disintegrating
Where latch key kids from divorces, transplants and the foreign tourists fill up vacation
Spots turned to trailer parks cause this state is fading.
And the cities skyline hasnt looked the same,
Since the boom in south florida's real estate
Its turning into more than i can take.
Too much, too soon, too little, too late.
And the cities skyline hasnt looked the same,
Since the boom in south florida's real estate
Its turning into more than i can take.
So you're feeling like you're just a waste of space now.
And you keep feeling like you're always out of place.
Don't you think it's strange you always feel the same now?
So you're feeling like you're just a waste of space now.
And you keep feeling like you're always out of place.
Don't you think it's strange you always feel the same now?
Who measure the desperate measures,
When it gets too much remember.
There is a space, they just can't touch.
And this pressures on to be good enough.
It's all the words,
That add weight trying to drag you down.
So you're feeling like you're just a powder keg now?
And you keep feeling like you've been a cast away.
Don't you think it's strange that it won't go away now.
So you think you're feeling like you can't be saved now?
And you keep feeling like everyone's taking aim,
Do you feel you're pushed and pulled and forced to change now?
Who measure the desperate measures,
When it gets too much remember.
There is a space, they just can't touch.
And this pressures on to be good enough.
It's all the words,
That add weight trying to drag you down.
So remember you're still bulletproof,
Remember the face stares back at you.
No matter what they say,
No matter what they do.
It can't be taken away from you.
It can't be taken away and that's the truth.
So you're feeling like you're just a waste of space now?
And you keep feeling like everyone's taking aim.
Don't you think it's strange you always feel the same now?
Who measure the desperate measures,
When it gets too much remember.
There is a space, they just can't touch.
And this pressures on to be good enough.
It's all the words,
That add weight trying to drag you down.
It's all the words,
That add weight trying to drag you down.
It's all just words that add weight,
I've never known what made you get up and go
And what pushed you over the edge,
When we were up on the roof
Was it the truth when you said
You never made a single difference.
Did you get it in your head
That things are better left unsaid
when you up and left town now?
Did you need to rearrange
Or did you need to make a change
Rather than just rotting the place
We used to hang around?
I know that things have gotta change,
I know your never coming back to this town.
I wonder where you've gone,
Who you're with;
I still ask myself,
I've come to my senses,
That I've become senseless,
I could give you lessons on how to ruin your friendships,
Every last conviction, I smoked them all away,
I drank my frustrations down the drain, out of the way,
So I sit and wait and wonder,
"Does anyone else feel like me?"
Someone so tired of their routines and disappearing self-esteems,
I'll sing along,
Yeah with every emergency,
Just sing along,
I'm the king of catastrophies,
I'm so far gone,
That deep down inside I think it's fine by me,
I'm my own worst enemy
I could be an expert on co-dependency,
I could write the best book on underage tragedy,
I've been spending my time at the local liquor store,
I've been sleeping nightly on my best friends kitchen floor,
So I sit and wait and wonder,
"Does anyone else feel like me?"
I'm so over-dosed on apathy and burnt out on sympathy.
Let the meaning slip away
Lost my faith in another day,
Self deprication seems okay,
I never thought I'd make it anyway
I fell asleep last Saturday
Underneath polluted skies
I walked alone on those Jersey nights, and I
Saw the boardwalk start to fall
The emptiness starts to drown
The quiet corners off this town, and I...
Late last night, I made my plans
It was the only thing I felt I could do
Said goodbye, to my best friend
Sometimes there's no one left to tell you the truth
It's gonna kill me... The rest of my life
Let me apologize while I'm still alive
I know it's hard to face all of my past mistakes
It's gonna kill me for the rest of my life
This is my all time low
Somehow it feels so familiar
Somehow it seems so familiar
I feel like letting go
And every second that goes by
I'm screaming out for a second try
Said goodbye, to my best friend
Sometimes there's no one left to tell you the truth
It's gonna kill me... The rest of my life
Let me apologize while I'm still alive
I know it's hard to face all of my past mistakes
I've got to live with them rest of my life
This is the mess I've made
These are the words I can't erase
This is my life support, shutting down, for the final time
And it twists like a blade
And kills me for the rest of my life
If you won't forgive me
The rest of my life
Let me apologize while I'm still alive
I know it's hard to face all of my past mistakes
I've been down
wandering past 2nd street
and looking at the ghosts
of you and me and thinking back on
all those memories of how we used to be
I've been hearing
hear those voices
of the noises of the breaking glass
and all those plans we had to get us through
they're never coming true
And I hope and hope
that you won't forget
and I hope you, hope you know
that I can clearly see
The ghosts of you and me
'cause I'm just a long-gone memory
and you're still alive
and I'm still getting by
on these dead end streets
the ghosts of you and me
I'm still talking
talk of what we'll do
to the ghosts of me and you
and I'm still looking back into the past
when we were all we had
And I hope and hope
that you won't forget
and I hope you, hope you know
that I can clearly see
the ghosts of you and me
Hope you won't forget
hope you know that I'll always regret
those things I said
hope you know that I can clearly see
the ghosts of you and me
You told me that your 20 years have gone by much too fast
And you've been hoping this year will be better than the last
You said you've been waging a war against the loneliest of nights
With the strongest drinks and longest lines, it's not that big of a surprise
That you're feeling more dead than alive
You're feeling more dead than alive
So I'll let you know if you need
Somewhere to go
I'll be listening when you call
And I'll be there if you fall off
If you need someone to believe in you I'll let you know I will
You said the hole in your head has gotten bigger than the whole that's in your chest
And you're stuck between the past and present tense
Said you've been waging a war against so many years of lies
With stronger drinks and longer lines, it's not that big of a surprise
That you're feeling more dead than alive
You're feeling more dead than alive
So I'll let you know if you need
Somewhere to go
I'll be listening when you call
And I'll be there if you fall off
If you need someone to believe in you I'll let you know I will
But sometimes you've gotta let it go
So this pen is starting to become
A pipe bomb and these songs
Have turned to anthems again
To everything that's changed and to everything that's gone away
Here are my condolences to the future I never met
It's gone and never coming back
It's never coming back
So don't hold onto your past
You've gotta let it go
'Cause friends leave as time fades away
The people and the places along the way
Without a doubt
Screws fall in and screws they fall out
Tomorrow's gone up in smoke
And I wonder when I'm alone
Where did my convictions go?
So to everyone that's gone away
Or fades away or stays the same
Here are my apologies to the person that I used to be
Before I burned down every bridge and every inch
Of everything I used to know
I gotta let it go
Friends leave as time fades away
The people and the places along the way
So don't hold onto your past
No, it's never coming back
The cycle circles, stalls, then spins.
Describes the current state I'm in.
It's like a nose dive then a crash,
With all my blackouts and scraped hands.
It's in the words caught in my throat.
It's in the how did I get home?
I'd like to sleep my life away.
There's a black cloud over this house
That's been around for 3 years now
There's a thunderstorm inside
And it won't go away
That's why they call it a union
That's why they call it a union
So both of you please forgive me tonight
That's why they call it a union
So please forgive me tonight
I remember him turning around
He said, "Son, I'll be leaving now,
I can't be the person that you want me to be
And then she said, "So things aew finally ending now,
I knew you'd be walking out,
You can't be the person that you want me to be."
3 years of all the arguments
3 years of all this silence
Has been enough to last me a lifetime
3 years of all the arguments
3 years of all this pain
That's why they call it a union
That's why they call it a union
So both of you please forgive me tonight
That's why they call it a union
So please forgive me tonight
I can't look at the pictures anymore
Because i know how it's run its course
And i know hoe the story ends
I know it ends
There's a black cloud over this house
That's been around for 3 years now
There's a thunderstorm inside,
And another fight tonight
There's a black cloud over this house
That's been around for 3 years now
There's a thunderstorm tonight
Mother told me, yes, she told me I'd meet girls like you.
She also told me, "Stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch."
Just the other day I heard a soldier falling off some Indonesian junk that's going round.
Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird.
Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away, ay, ay, ay.
Father says, "Your mother's right, she's really up on things."
"Before we married, Mommy served in the WACS in the Philippines."
Now, I had heard the WACS recruited old maids for the war.
But mommy isn't one of those, I've known her all these years.
Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird.
Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away, ay, ay, ay.
Whatever happened to all this season's losers of the year?
Ev'ry time I got to thinking, where'd they disappear?
When I woke up, Mom and Dad are rolling on the couch.
Rolling numbers, rock and rolling, got my Kiss records out.
Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird.
Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away, ay, ay, ay.
Away.
Summer loving had me a blast
Summer loving happened so fast
I met a girl crazy for me
Met a boy cute as can be
Summer days drifting away to oh oh the summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
Did you get very far
Tell me more, tell me more
Like does he have a car
She swam by me she got a cramp
He swam by me got my suit damp
I saved her life she nearly drown
He showed off splashing around
Summer sun something's begun but oh oh the summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
Was it love at first sight?
Tell me more, tell me more
Did she put up a fight?
Took her bowling in the arcade
We went strolling drank lemonade
We made out under the dock
We stayed out till ten o'clock
Summer fling don't mean a thing but oh oh the summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
But you don't gotta brag
Tell me more, tell me more
Cause he sounds like a drag
He got friendly holding my hand
She got friendly down in the sand
He was sweet just turned eightteen
Well she was good you know what I mean
Summer heat boy and girl meet but oh oh the summer nights
Tell me more, tell me more
How much dough did he spend?
Tell me more, tell me more
Could she get me a friend?
It turned colder that's where it ends
So I told her we'd still be friends
Then we made our true love vow
Wonder what she's doing now
Summer dreams ripped at the seams but oh those summer nights
I can't seem to recognize, either side of this modern version or
fading person i was, i tried to memorize dates and times of old
accidents and the failed attempts now, i'm still afraid of those
mistakes i've made. i'm mostly memories, most missed
opportunities, mostly minor tragedies, i'm mostly you and me.
i'm mostly memories, mostly missed opportunities, mostly
abnormalities, i'm mostly you and me, and you and you and
me. i can't seem to recognize, either side of my conversations or
contemplations i've done, i've tried to memorize the truth and
lies, of the facts and fictions and the half truth admissions i've
done. i'm still afraid of those mistakes i've made. i'm mostly
memories, mostly missed opportunities, mostly minor tragedies,
i'm mostly you and me. i'm mostly memories, mostly missed
opportunities, mostly abnormalities, i'm mostly you and me,
and you and you and me. out of luck and had enough
out of trust and out of touch, out of time i'm hanging up
i'm mostly memories, mostly missed opportunities, mostly
minor tragedies, i'm mostly you and me. i'm mostly memories,
mostly missed opportunities, mostly abnormalities, i'm mostly
I'm wondering around what used to be
downtown wet and feeling cold and kinda feeling old,
I'm walking around and I can almost hear the sound
of everyone I've known and all the people I've seen get up and go.
And there's nothing left to say when I look at friends and see how they've changed.
I kinda wish that it was years ago.
It's another missed connection,
another friend headed in the right direction?
Maybe it's the wrong one and when it's all said and done,
I don't think anybody knows and it goes to show that I'm lost at the edge of 18,
There's an old man at the very end
Of the parking lot leaning on his car and
Drinking beer and laughing out loud
Before my head starts spinning around,
As I try to find a place to take a stand
But only wind up sitting anyplace I can
With DIDJIT's song stuck in my head
I kinda think I might of said
Guess mine is not the first heart broken
My eyes are not the first to cry
I'm not the first to know there's
Just no getting over you
You know I'm just a fool who's willing
To sit around and wait for you
But baby can't you see there's nothing else for me to do
I'm hopelessly devoted to you
But now there's no where to hide
Since you pushed my heart aside
I'm outta my head hopelessly devoted to you
Hopelessly devoted to you
Hopelessly devoted to you
My head is saying fool forget him
My heart is saying don't let go
Hold on to the end that's what I intend to do
I'm hopelessly devoted to you
But now there's no where to hide
Since you pushed my love aside
I'm outta my head hopelessly devoted to you
Hopelessly devoted to you
I have this feeling inside that i wouldn't like me if i met me. it seems like a losing fight, if you can see thru my eyes then you'd believe me. the truth is that i'm overrated, I can't think straight I'm formulaic, the truth is that it's sad to say it, but you can't help me. you don't see me that way, you hear the words that i say, you just tell me that my heart's in the right place, it's the world that's confused and it's never too late to save a hopeless case i've always known a ghost like me, can disappear in a moment, i'm my own worst casualty, everything i touch can get broken, the truth is that i'm self-destructive, i'm insecure, i'm out of focus, the truth is that i've had enough but you still help me. you don't see me that way, you hear the words that i say, you just tell me that my heart's in the right place, it's the world that's confused and it's never too late to save a hopeless case. you're giving me perspective, it's better than mine, and i'll still be defective and you're wasting your time.
We go together
Like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Remembered forever
As shoobop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang shoobop
That's the way it should be, wha oooh, yeah
We're one of a kind
Like dip dadip dadip doowop da doobee doo
Our names are signed
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy shooby doowop shebop
Chang chang changitty chang shoobop
We'll always be like one, wa wa wa wah
When we go out at night and stars are shinin' bright
Up in the skies above
Or at the high school dance where you can find romance
Maybe it might be love
Rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Shoobop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang shoobop
Dip dadip dadip doowop da doobee doo
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy shooby doowop shebop
Sha na na na na na na na yippity dip de doom
Rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong
Shoobop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changitty chang shoobop
Dip dadip dadip doowop da doobee doo
Boogedy boogedy boogedy boogedy shooby doowop shebop
Sha na na na na na na na yippity dip de doom
Wop baba lumop a wap bam boom
We're for each other
Like wop baba lumop a wap bam boom
Just like my brother
Is sha na na na na na na na yippity dip de doom
Chang chang changitty chang shoobop
We'll always be together wha oooh, yeah
We'll always be together
We'll always be together
We'll always be together
It's time to put hard times behind
Get all the bad things off your mind
He's feeling good
she's feeling good
we're feeling good, yeah
Just hanging out
just having fun
we're number one
just hanging out
just having fun
I'm a dude
he's a dude
she's a dude
we're all dudes, hey
There's nothing better than your friends
there's no problem you can't win
someone who's always got your back
not giving about this and that
Just hanging out
just having fun
we're number one
just hanging out
just having fun
It's all about meeting new faces
a smile is on your face and
you can't erase it
partying on, it's going on
partying on, to the break of dawn
It's time to put hard times behind
Get all the bad things off your mind
Just hanging out
just having fun
we're number one
just hanging out
just having fun
Just hanging out
just having fun
we're number one
"Uh, wait what are we doing now?
Uh, yo, we're breaking it down...
We're not gonna take it
no, we ain't gonna take it
we're not gonna take it anymore
(No!)
We've got the right to choose and
there ain't no way we'll lose it
this is our life, this is our song
we'll fight the powers that be just
don't pick our destiny 'cause
you don't know us, you don't belong
Oh you're so condescending
your gall is never ending
we don't want nothin', not a thing from you
your life is trite and jaded
boring and confiscated
if that's your best, your best won't do
Whoa, who
we're right, yeah
we're free, yeah
we'll fight, yeah
you'll see
We're not gonna take it (no!)
no, we ain't gonna take it (your words are weak)
Hey Miss 'Die A Little'
Cuts and bruises will always heal
But you still pick your poisons
When you dream of alcohol and pills
Hey Miss 'Die A Little'
How do you expect yourself to live?
Punch me awake, we're the uninspired
There'll be no white flags over the heads
Of the sick and tired
This world is for the living not the dead
But we're still the uninspired
Hey Mr. 'Always Wonder'
Why's the inside of your head so filled?
Lest you can't see your future
Through all the walls that you've ever built
Hey Mr. 'Always Wonder'
How do you expect yourself to live?
Punch me awake, we're the uninspired
There'll be no white flags over the heads
Of the sick and tired
Maybe it's the standing still that kills
What's alive inside us?
This world is for the living not the dead
But we're still the uninspired
March me in with the rank and file
Bury me in deep denial
I'll sit here and gladly smile
With the rest of the uninspired
Punch me awake, we're the uninspired
There'll be no white flags over the heads
Of the sick and tired
Maybe its the standing still that kills
What's alive inside us?
This world is for the living not the dead
But we're still the uninspired
Jen thinks it isn't fair that I don't really care
If she likes me or not
And Jen doesn't like to settle
Until she makes me feel like Howie Reynolds
She thinks that I'm all that I've got
No Jen doesn't like me anymore
Jen doesn't like to go to the shows,
She doesn't like my whoa - whoa's.
Looking down the barrel of a gun
All the drinks are free and your x is gone
Another day in the sun has you all fucked up
Watch out this is gonna be good
Because Jay I can see it in your eyes
Theres somthing wrong with that disguise
As you devised, your mind would race
To that ever so destructive fucking place
Jay Frenzal broke our bus, he went and shit he smashed our bus
In Detroit Michigan, with a 2 by 4 and a shitty grin
Our bus, hey fuck face you owe us 500 bucks
I heard you say you're not my friend, I can't believe our friendship didn't end
When you leaned over to me and said "...Oh shit here comes your bus driver he's pissed..."
And your on his shit list-- A big redneck with a meth habit
And a large closed fist that's headed your way
Maybe you need a punch in the face...Jay
Jay Frenzal broke our bus, he went and shit he smashed our bus
In Detroit Michigan, with a 2 by 4 and a shitty grin
He's just like anyone
he's just like anybody
he's just like frank
and I know it
and he knows it
it's his one sided point of view
I know it when he says
it's my way, or the wrong way
and I don't care about you
but to see my side wouldn't be the worst thing he could do
when someone's politic blinds you
and binds you
to something you don't believe in
and he's just like anyone...
and I saw him walking on my way
path third street just the other day
Well I really don't know
if it matters at all so
but we try to keep the prices low
for our records and our shows
but is that
is that enough
or is (it) that we're not punk enough
or is (it) that you think ska just sucks
(but) Johnny Quest, he thinks we're what?
Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts, sellouts
Johnny Quest thinks we're sellin' out, (we're) sellin' out, yeah
Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts, sellouts
Johnny, yeah
Well I really don't know
if it matters at all so
but we try to keep the prices low
for our records and our shows
does it matter
that you see our shirts
besides going to school and going to work
or that you think that ska just sucks
Johnny Quest, he thinks we're what?
(He thinks we're sellin' out
sellin' out
yeah
sellin' out
I'm sleeping
right in the middle of a good dream
when all at once i wake up
from somethign that keeps knocking at my brain
before i go insane
i hold my pillow to my head
and spring up in my bed
screaming out the words i dread
I think I love you!
this morning i woke up with this feeling
i didnt kno how to deal with
and so i just decided to myself
id hide it to myself
and never talk about it
and did not go and shout
when you walked into the room
i think i love you
i think i love you
so what am i so afraid of
im afraid that im not sure of
a love that theres no cure for
i think i love you
is that what life is made of
though it worries me to say
that i've never felt this way
believe me
u really dont have to worry
i only wanna make you happy
and if u say hey go away i will
but i think better still
i better stare out and love you
do u think i have a case
let me ask you to your face
i think i love you
i think i love you
so what am i so afraid of
im afraid that im not sure of
a love that theres no cure for
i think i love you
is that what life is made of
though it worries me to say
that i've never felt this way
i dont kno what im up agaisnt
i dont kno what its all about
i got so much to think about
i think i love
so what am i so afraid of
im afraid that im not sure of
a love that theres no cure for
do you think u love me?
i think i love you
i think i love you
Friday night on coke with a crow bar,
left at two in the back of Doug's car,
without a plan and being fucked up,
looking' to get something for ourselves.
Friday night at three at a side door,
Doug said try to get the door just once more
I said man this all fucked up
just looking to get something
something for ourselves
feeling kinda weird and thinkin' to myself
fuck doug
I'm not going out like this
he said man I'm all I got and I won't be missed
this makes no sense
it makes no sense to me
When all the things that you've been thinking
has you so confused and so unglued
your head is spinning
well we've all felt the same inside
I've been on that ledge countless times
and I know what that feels like
you're on your own can't make it through this world all alone
is this thing on at all?
when all your friends don't have the answers
and you're so convinced that inch by inch
they've turned to strangers
yeah we've all seen the different sides
no one hears even though you've talked all night
and I know what you feel like
you're on your own can't make it through this world all alone
is this thing on at all?
can we really measure if we're any better
than that skyline that goes on and on forever on and on?
you're on your own can't make it through this world all alone
Rescue me from boring times it's a story
i know line by line different deep on the
inside, isn't different if you have to try
i'm borderline day after day waiting to
get knocked off my feet again time
passes by like a slow parade waiting to
get knocked off my feet again knocked
to my knees again. the measurements of
my success, are always measured in not
making sense my motivation's taking
bets it's apologies or arguments with a
head filled full of cans and can'ts. i try
and try and try to remember why i
think it's now or it's never. i'm borderline
day after day waiting to get knocked off
my feet again time passes by like a slow
parade waiting to get knocked off my
When I think of how things are
right now it feels like
yeah, it all feels like
some kind of circus show
and how this town
it keeps you pinned down
the same old song from years ago
I know
this place
will chew you up
and spit you out before you go
and when they drag you
kicking and screaming from the scene, you know
then it's time to leave
When I think of this town
right now it's filled with
speed freaks and assholes
and all kinds of creeps
and somehow every new face in every single case
in a year or two will be erased
When I think of how I'm feeling right now somehow
I still remember how I felt 4 years ago
and when I think of how things are right now
the same old song from years ago
I know this place
will chew you up
spit you out before you go
I know, I know
and when they drag you
kicking and screaming from the scene, you know
then it's time to go
then it's time to go
(alt: what do I know?
what do I know?
what do I know?
it's the same old song from years ago
the same old song from years ago
Well,
I think of how things are.
Right now it feels like,
yea, it all feels like
some kind of circus show.
And how this town,
it keeps you pinned down.
Same old song from years ago.
And how this place,
will chew you up.
Then spit you out
before you go-oh.
And when they drag you,
kickin' and screamin'
from the scene you know,
that it's time to leave.
Well,
I think of how this town,
right now it's filled with
speed freaks, and assholes,
and all kinds of creeps.
And some how every new face,
in every single case
in a year or two will be erased.
And how this place,
will chew you up.
Then spit you out
before you go-oh.
And when they drag you,
kickin' and screamin'
from the scene you know,
that it's time to leave.
When I think of how I'm
feeling right now, somehow.
I still remember how I
felt four years ago.
And when I think of how
things are right now,
the same old song
from years ago.
I know this place,
will chew you up.
Spit you out before you go.
I know, I know.
And when they drag you,
kickin' and screamin'
from the scene you know,
that it's time to go.
Give me some religion, pass the wine
cause this time I can't hold it in like I always did.
Give me some more T.V., make it loud, make believe.
I'm in desperate need for some company.
Attention this is not a test
help me get this moving target of my chest
from my closest friends.
Save me from this hopelessness
and talk some sense into this head.
Help stop this endless S.O.S.
Treading water with weights around my neck.
A shipwreck of reckless accidents.
Overboard and I'm about to quit.
Head first, high dive in this deep end.
Abandon ship cause it's sinking way too quick.
Give me some forgiveness, and I'll try
cause this time if I pull the pin I'll get blown to bits.
Give me some more music, I'll sit and read the lyrics
like a bible, a gospel, I'll sing along.
Attention this is not a test
swim to shore before unconsciousness.
My hands feel like they're made of bricks.
Save me from my recklessness
and talk some sense into this head.
Help stop this endless S.O.S.
Treading water with weights around my neck.
A shipwreck of reckless accidents.
Overboard and I'm about to quit.
Head first, high dive in this deep end.
Abandon ship cause it's sinking way too quick.
I can't listen to all the reasons
I just need one more thing to believe in,
the one thing that will keep me breathing.
I'll kiss the dirt when I hit dry land.
Treading water with weights around my neck.
A shipwreck of reckless accidents.
Overboard and I'm about to quit.
Head first, high dive in this deep end.
When I wake up, yeah I know Im gonna be,
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you
When I go out yeah I know Im gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you
And If I get drunk, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you
And if I haver whatever that means
I'm gonna be the man who's havering to you
But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
When I'm working yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you
And when the money, comes in for the work I do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you
When I come home yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you
And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you
And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
Surrender
Surrender
When I'm lonely yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's lonely without you
When I'm dreaming yes I know I'm gonna dream
I gonna Dream about the time when I'm with you
And if I get drunk, yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man that gets drunk next to you
And if I haver, whatever the fuck that means
I'm gonna be the man who havers next you
And I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
Surrender
Surrender
When I'm lonely, yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man whos lonely without you
I'm gonna be the man whos coming home
Cuz I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
To be the man who walked 1,000 miles
To fall down at your door
Surrender
Surrender
I always thought of music as more than words and sound,
something more like inspiration that picks you off the ground,
when your down...
And I, know that music will pull me through.
This one goes out to the kids
who drove 6 hours in a stolen car,
then missed the show.
This one goes out to never
losing sight of all the
"how it's been" and "how it was."
Here's to just sinking the ship
and not giving a shit.
Here's to sinking fast
with everyone else.
This one goes out to another
night with no sleep,
Crimpshrine records and
Gainesville streets
This one goes out to Mike,
Var, Mike and Tony,
All, Snuff, Jon, Terri,
Shaun, and Andre.
My lungs are aching
From the cold from being outside.
And the windows in my car
Have started to fog up.
And it's colder than I remember it ever being in Florida.
My stomach's burning
And the stereo in this car is screaming so loud.
It's 3 a.m.
I'm just starting to wake up.
And it's darker than I remember it ever being in Florida.
The saddest song always plays
On the radio on the coldest days,
So I'm saying goodbye in gasoline.
It's the only way I know
My head in spinning
And the engine is purring, yeah it's clicking in time.
To the pounding in my head
And this heart on my sleeve
And it's quieter than I remember.
And it can go on forever.
Do you know how many times
How many times I've counted the signs of State lines
and roads I've known.
I know, this time, feels like goodbye.
My lungs are aching
From the cold from standing outside.
After all this time I'm still fucked up.
Chorus:
Grandma got runover by a reindeer
walking home from our house Christmas Eve
you could say theres no such thing as Santa
but as for me and grandpa we believe
She'd been drinking too much egg nog
and we begged her not to go
she forgot her medication
and she staggered out the door into the snow
When we found her the Christmas morning
at the scene of the attack
she had hoofprints on her forehead
and incriminating claws marks on her back
(Chorus)
Now we're all so proud of grandpa
he's been taking this so well
see him in there watching football
drinking beer and playing cards with cousin Nel
It's not christmas without grandma
all the family's dressed in black
and we just cant help but wonder
should we open up her gifts or send them back?
send them back!
(Chorus)
Now the goose is on the table
and the pudding made of fig
and the blue and silver candles
that would just have matched the hair in grandmas wig
I've warned all our friends and neighbours
better watch out for yourselves
for they should never give a license
to a man who drives a sleigh and plays with elves
(Chorus)
Hey!
(Chorus)
but as for me and grandpa we believe (x2)
grandma got runover by a reindeer
walking home from our house christmas eve
you could say theres no such thing as santa
but as for me and grandpa we believe
(Merry Christmas!)
Something's out there and it takes me away
from a world too small to stay
something's out there
Another day in this place so small,
I'd rather be somebody else
maybe if my mind wasn't so tall,
I wouldn't be able to tell
and I've walked these streets
it seems like 10 million times
and I've seen things up and leave
time after time
(and its just another day) in this place so small
I'd rather be somebody else
She’s gonna break soon
Gonna break soon
Gonna break soon
She’s gonna break soon
Gonna break soon
Gonna break soon
With so many problems in her life it really comes as no surprise
She’s gonna break soon
Gonna break soon
She’s gonna break
Welcome to her busy dizzy life
Of going out and getting high
And following all the latest trends
While shedding all her oldest friends
It’s been weeks worth of weekends
when fake I.D.s and fake passions are her best friends.
She’s been thinkin’ wishin’ she could hide
From the girls with the comments passing by
It’s the boys in bars on Friday night
That replace the emptiness inside
She’ll be spending her whole weekend
Faking laughs and faking smiles with her fake friends
Promises you made back home
Are crumpled like the goodbye notes
And last night’s dirty clothes
Were on the floor next to the phone
And it’s been disconnected months ago
No calls from your friends back home
You lost your point of view and now
So what have we really learned today
that some things are easier when we walk away
and acting normal means acting like everyone eles
and you're better of by not acting like yourself
are we buy what they're selling
do we have our eyes open
life's not a fashion statement
it takes more than good intentions
It's just prefect day in our perfect lives
just as long as we have commericals and things to hide behind
it's a life so real you only watch it
on a moive screen getting so close you can almost touch it
are we buy what they're selling
do we have our eyes open
life's not a fashion statement
it takes more than good intentions
they never bought or sold you
they can't image and mold you
to chase something cause we think its new
thinking thats the best for you
are we buy what they're selling
do we have our eyes open
life's not a fashion statement
it takes more than good intentions
So she's been around
Lived in every town
And she always seems to know
So she does a zine
Says she's in the scene
And she goes to the cool punk rock shows
And it's not like I've seen the world
And it's not cuz she's a girl
It's just cuz no ones always right
And I'm almost never right so she can't be
Yeah he's been around
Likes to hear the sound
Of his voice annoying me
His shirt off at shows
Brand new punk rock clothes
Do you think that I have a choice to see
That I sometimes think he's wrong
And been talking way too long
In fact it's cuz no ones always right
And I'm almost never right
Man its really strange
this city never stays the same
its always
"I've got to keep on moving and I've got to keep on going"
but maybe it's to keep itself sane
that its always
"I've got to keep on going, so I don't have any feeling"
So I'm on my way out of this place that has me turning numb
I'm on my way,
all the feeling in this place has up and gone
so with one hand on the wheel
and the other out the window
with a smile on my face
and my middle finger up
with on hand on the wheel
this city's going crazy
without a care that its all fucked up
Man its really strange
this city never stays the same
its always
"I've got to keep on moving and I've got to keep on going"
but maybe it's to keep itself sane
that its always
"I've got to keep on going, so I don't have any feeling"
So I'm on my way out of this place that has me turning numb
I'm on my way,
all the feeling in this place has up and gone
so with one hand on the wheel
and the other out the window
with a smile on my face
and my middle finger up
with on hand on the wheel
this city's going crazy
Sit down, remind me how,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Sit down, remind me how,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
And just outside I can hear the sound,
of the early morning street,
becoming way too loud.
Yea the hum, of the engines in the cars,
on the street, Yea.
On the street.
And with this cigarette that I just lit,
as I passed the 53rd Street bridge.
Right now the world just seems too big,
the world just seems to big.
Sit down, remind me how,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Sit down, remind me how,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
And just outside, I can see my breath,
in between the words,
that fog my spinning head.
And I can see the sun coming up,
and its just light enough to see.
Another cigarette that I just lit,
as I passed the 53rd Street bridge.
Right now the world just seems too big,
the world just seems to big.
Sit down, remind me how,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Sit down, remind me how,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Sit down,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Sit down, (remind me how),
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Growing up and getting lost.
And all the late-night calls,
with all the lost hopes.
And all the missed connections (connections!).
And the lost directions.
Sit down, remind me how,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Sit down, remind me how,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Sit down,
this is the same old story
of growing up and getting lost.
Down-own, remind me how,
this is the same old story
Just talked to this girl,
used to live, yea, on my street. (woah-oh-oh)
After all these years you're here,
and you remember me. (woah-oh-oh)
She said her old boyfriend
packed up and headed back east.
But she always knew some day...
he would go.
She just got a new job
and she's down to her last. (woah-oh-oh)
So let's take a drink and never think, yea
here's to the past. (woah-oh-oh)
She said its so funny,
how life runs out so fast.
It's just another wasted day.
A boring life in a boring town
with the same old crowd. (woah-oh-oh)
When I used to say, that I'd never say
that I'm rotting here today. (woah-oh-oh)
With that same old crowd
thats always been around.
And I always thought I'd be
the first to go.
That same old crowd,
that drags me down.
Another day in a boring town.
That same old crowd,
that brings me down.
A boring life in a boring town.
Just talked to this girl,
used to live, yea, on my street.
After all these years you're here,
and its still just you and me.
Sometimes I can't believe after all these years
I just think I'll never leave here.
She said it's so funny,
how life runs out so fast.
Let's take another drink,
and here's to the past.
That same old crowd,
that drags me down.
Another day in a boring town.
That same old crowd,
that brings me down.
A boring life in a boring town.
And remember when they looked through you,
and then looked past me.
We were the ones they said would always leave.
So when you go, just think of me,
think of me. (woah-oh-oh)
A boring life in a boring town
with the same old crowd. (woah-oh-oh)
When I used to say, i'd never say
that I'm rotting here today. (woah-oh-oh)
With that same old crowd,
thats always been around.
And I always thought that...
yea how we always thought that..
and I always thought I'd be,
the first to go!
A boring life,
A boring town. (woah-oh-oh)
A boring life,
A boring town. (woah-oh-oh)
A boring life,
Don't call me Rich, don't call
Me George just call me Cheez
That's who I am. Civilized? Yeah
Until the keg runs dry and he's
Tried to drink from 9 to 5 then
From 5 to 9
Always drunk
And going Crazy you
Better believe it
Chesterfield where
The kegs never dry
It's always filled
Have beer with FEAR!
Have a beer or two then he'll
Show you his cheese tattoo
Drunk and going crazy, you
Better believe it
I've always watched the change,
watched without a sound,
and I have to wonder why,
I don't speak a word out loud.
Perhaps the world will stop for me,
and I can't stop for myself,
but I often wonder why the rest,
why they can't see themselves,
the change I have found,
that keeps me bound,
without a sound.
There's a process in the world,
and no one can stop the change.
There's a process all around us,
and things never stay the same.
They never stay the same.
There's a process in the world,
and no one can stop the change.
There's a process all around us,
How many things that you believe
Are straight out of TV and magazines
And when comfort comes before thruth
Can you say that you never knew,
Sitting in front of your TV,
Do you believe the lies
Given to us from another time
And can you say that everything is fine
when your ideology is only right half the time
Happyman smiles almost every single day,
too numb to notice that he's walking in a haze,
he's pushed himself here and doesn't know what to do.
choked by the clock and he doesn't know what to do.
I say, you say, you say its work yeah its work all day.
Happyman is mad at the world
Why this car is automatic
It's systematic
It's hydromatic
Why it's grease lightning (Grease lightning)
We'll get some overhead lifters and some four barrel quads
oh yeah
(Keep talking whoa keep talking)
A fuel injection cutoff and chrome plated rods oh yeah
(I'll get the money I'll kill to get the money)
With a four speed on the floor they'll be waiting at the door
You know that ain't no shit we'll be getting lots of tit
In Grease Lightning
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
Go grease lightning you're burning up the quarter mile
(Grease lightning go grease lightning)
Go grease lightning you're coasting through the heat lap trial
You are supreme the chicks'll cream for grease lightning
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go
Purple french tail lights and thirty inch fins
oh yeah
A Palomino dashboard and duel muffler twins
oh yeah
With new pistons, plugs, and shocks I can get off my rocks
You know that I ain't bragging she's a real pussy wagon
Grease lightning
Go grease lightning you're burning up the quarter mile
(Grease lightning go grease lightning)
Go grease lighting you're coasting through the heat lap trial
You are supreme the chicks'll cream for grease lightning
Go grease lightning you're burning up the quarter mile
(Grease lightning go grease lightning)
Go grease lighting you're coasting through the hit lap trial
You are supreme the chicks'll cream for grease lightning
Lightning, lightning, lightning
Lightning, lightning, lightning
So you think,
of what it could've been.
When time was all you lost,
it keeps burning through your head.
Now you fall asleep standin'
Lie up in your bed.
Watch the clock drag on,
and think of what you should've said.
(Woah)
It's for the better,
Your better halfs gone.
It's ok, you didn't need her anyway.
And I don't wanna hear ya say
nobody could take her place.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooohh.
And what more can I say
you don't need her anyway.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooohh.
And so you think,
of how it should've been.
And its just stubborn,
keeps goin' through yer head.
You're hearing all those words,
time and time again
watch the phone all night
and think of what you should've said.
(Woah)
It's for the better,
Your better halfs gone.
It's ok, you didn't need her anyway.
And I don't wanna hear ya say
nobody could take her place.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooohh.
And what more can I say
you don't need her anyway.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooohh.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooohh.
And I don't wanna hear ya say (Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooohh)
nobody could take her place.
Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooohh.
And what more can I say (Woah-oh-oh-oh-ooohh)
you don't need her anyway.
You know my best friend,
just left yesterday, and I know.
I know your girlfriend,
wasn't here to stay,
she just moved away.
Things are so the same.
And all I really care,
bring myself to say is that I know.
That I know, that I know.
And remember when they said,
just how long can your ideas
keep you warm, and
We just laughed that kind of nervous laugh.
We just sang along to that song that's on the radio.
To that song on the radio.
And, yea, just outside,
the conversation's getting old.
I know they're right,
Betting smokes that our end
is just as close
Things are so the same.
And all I really care,
bring myself to say is that I know.
That I know, that I know.
And remember when they said,
just how long can your ideas
keep you warm, and
We just laughed that kind of nervous laugh.
We just sang along to that song that's on the radio.
To that song on the radio.
And you were right about,
Just how we'd figure out,
things change, but beliefs stay the same
You were right about (woah-oh)
Just how we'd figure out, (woah-oh)
a change of ideas, I know.
That I know, that I know-oh-woah, that I know-oh-oh-oh.
And remember when they said,
just how long can your ideas
keep you warm, and
We just laughed that kind of nervous laugh.
We just sang along to that song that's on the radio.
To that song on the radio.
To that song....on the radio.
He got in his car and told himself to drive
gotta leave it all behind if he wants to feel alive
19 and lost and never thought he'd ever leave this place
vacant mind from endless grind so what's to lose anyways
Another fast food job?
Another 8 to 5 day?
Ten minutes and two miles is just a mile too many today
and you can see why it's easy to say
y'know that hell looks a lot like L.A.
six months ago was the last she felt alive
moved down from the north and told herself she'd try
18 and lost and never thought this place would change
ignored and bored the same feelings as yesterday
she said it's way too much more than she could take
it's one less car that's in the way
All my friends always talk about
The stories of moving on and getting out
Then packing up and heading south
Their heads full of hopes and dreams
They€™re just like me
My friends aren€™t going anywhere
My friends all act so unaware
Now they have to face
Their best plans have all gone up in flames
They€™re just looking for something to take
To break up the day to day and all it€™s
Loneliness, vacant space
The tragedy of minimum wage
All my friends always talk about
The stories of moving on and getting out
Then packing up and heading south
Their heads full of hopes and dreams
They€™re just like me
My friends are worried about last calls
And working jobs at shopping malls
Because they€™re in between
A mixed up pride and apathy
So tonight they€™ll talk of calling in
Calling in with bitter grins
Laughing at the state they€™re in
What a mess, I€™m just like them
All my friends always talk about
The stories of moving on and getting out
Then packing up and heading south
Their heads full of hopes and dreams
They€™re just like me
So they€™re sleep walking their way through life
Sitting there and getting by
Like all the other friends of mine
Wishing for something more
Wishing for something more
All my friends always talk about
The stories of moving on and getting out
Then packing up and heading south
Their heads full of hopes and dreams
They€™re just like me
Now if you want somethin' that's good and hot
just eat a hamburger it'll hit the spot
you can see 'em on the griddle
goin' flippety flop
makes you wanna do the boogie
to the hamburger hop
They're open up 24 hours a day
just waitin' and hopin'
all the folks would say
put a burger on the griddle
do a flippety flop
put an onion in the middle
and a pickle on top
There just ain't nothin' finer, no
nothin's quite so new
? the seasoning ?
like the burger's always do
You really should go
because it's swept the land
everybody's goin' to the hamburger stand
and they put 'em on the griddle
do the flippety flop
everybody does the boogie
to the hamburger hop
Got on the 47.
Transfer to the 89.
Left town, east-bound pass,
saw the city size.
You know its hard,
to leave your past behind,
as I pass the crummy bars,
and beat up cars,
nothing will change your mind.
By now, think I've found
Things changed just don't look
that way to me. Or it just looks
that way to me.
By now, think I've found
Things changed just look
re-arranged to me.
Never looked that way to me.
A Half-past 7,
now I'm on the 95.
Sick of malls, and alcohol
just passed the next state line.
I know its hard,
to leave your past behind,
as I think the corner creeps,
and dirty streets
nothing will change your mind.
There's no turning back this time.
By now, think I've found
Things changed just don't look
that way to me. Or it just looks
that way to me.
By now, think I've found
Things changed just look
re-arranged to me.
Never looked that way..
And when goin up's like goin' on
and never going back, no.
Its just like giving up, yea.
And when goin offs like goin' on
It feels like going nowhere,
going nowhere fast.
By now, think I've found
Things changed just don't look
that way to me. Or it just looks
that way to meeeeee!
By now, think I've found
Things changed just look
re-arranged to me.
Never looked that way to me.
By now, think I've found
(Never looked that way to me.)
Things changed just don't look
that way to me.
By now, think I've found
(Never looked that way to me.)
Things changed just don't look
that way to me.
By now, think I've found
(Never looked that way to me.)
Things changed just don't look
that way to me.
Frustration that I've been facing
I don't remember how but I've lost motivation
I can't stop this sinking feeling from creeping over me
I can't stop myself seeing the darkness in front of me
It's not that hard to just fall apart, fall apart.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, I'm falling apart.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, from the start.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, I'm falling apart.
Repeating, I keep retreating,
I don't remember how, but I lost all my meaning.
Can't stop mistakes I'm making from hanging over me,
Can't stop myself from facing the darkness in front of me.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, fall apart.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, I'm falling apart.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, from the start.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, I'm falling apart.
I remember when I'm reaching my breaking point,
Pressure pushing on me till I lost my voice,
I don't think I ever had a choice,
With this every day decay and destroy.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, fall apart.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, I'm falling apart.
It's not that hard to just fall apart, from the start.
And I
I wonder if you'd understand
if I said I'll never go never go along again
And if I told you all that I believe in
and gave you my reasons and always had an answer
an honest answer for all of them
sometimes you just want to belong
at any loss or any cost
yeah I've
I've made mistakes before
but I just can't seem to remember them anymore
and I've followed everyone's lead before
and I've made my own decisions
and I've never felt so strong before
I've never felt so strong before
sometimes you just want to belong
at any loss or any cost
sometimes your best defense is a good reminder
of your common sense
strike a match and hope it lasts
here's to following your own lead
it's the path that I have taken
after all the contemplation
it's the promise I have made
Woo!
Blasting our way through the boundaries of Hell
no one can stop us tonight
we take on the world with the hatred inside
mayhem the reason we fight
Surviving the slaughters and killing we've lost
then we return from the dead
attacking once more now with twice as much strength
we conquer then move on ahead
(Evil) My words defy
(Evil) has no disguise
(Evil) will take your soul
(Evil) my wrath unfolds
Satan our master in evil mayhem
he guides us with every first step
our axes are growing with power and fury
soon there'll be nothingness left
Midnight has come and the leather's strapped on
evil is at our command
we clash with God's angel and conquer new souls
Second street west of 39th
Tries to sleep
But he only winds up walking all night
Tries to remeber when his head was right...
Sees his breath in the corner light
He walks away from his life
He tries to find...
Third street east of 49th
Can't sleep
She always seems to cry all night
Smokes another as the neighbors fight
Can't seem to keep her head on right
She wonders where's her life
She tries to find...
And when your thoughts are all you're finding
This map hung up on the truck stop hallway door
is looking worn and I can hardly read it anymore
I feel like I'm a speck thrown on the map
and I can't help my urge to laugh
I never used to feel like that
Well I'm half awake half a world away
all my past mistakes and every wasted day
I wouldn't have it any other way
I'll try through my haze and half shut eyes
to count up all the reasons why
I should be back at home tonight
Half awake half a world away
all my past mistakes and every wasted day
proves that I'll never change
I'll always stay the same
Focus a moment
On the message sent
The anthem of a generation
Based on degredation and resent
Where money and power
And being the man of the hour
Has left communication
Left it standing out to sour
I could see it was a rough cut Tuesday
slow motion weekdays stare me down
her lipstick reflex got me wound
there were no defects to be found
snap shot and it froze without a sound
Thursday morning was a hot flash factor
her face still focused in my mind
test strip proof sheet love is hard to find
Friday night we danced the spotlight grind
stop time heart for me if she's not mine
Freeze frame, freeze frame
freeze frame, freeze frame
freeze frame, freeze frame
freeze frame, I freeze, yeah
Now I'm looking at a flashback Sunday
zoom lens feeling just won't disappear
close up, dark room, sweet talk in my ear
her hot spot love for me is strong
this freeze frame moment can't be wrong
Can't be wrong
Freeze frame, oh yeah
freeze frame, yeah
I freeze, you freeze
Freeze frame, yeah
freeze frame, yeah
I freeze, you freeze
freeze frame, yeah
Dear Mom and Dad,
I’ve been making plans
To leave this house and yes I’m sure
So lock the door, and turn the front porch lights out
After all the endless fights
The who’s been wrong and who’s been right
We just never saw eye to eye
So there’s no need to apologize
Don’t wait up, I’ll be fine
If you could see inside my head
Maybe you could understand
That I’m better off
I’m better off gone
Dear Mom and Dad,
I’ve been making plans
To leave your house and yes I’m sure
That nothing’s wrong, so just be strong on my way out
After all the endless nights
The who’s been wrong and who’s been right
We just never saw eye to eye
So there’s no need to apologize
Don’t wait up, I’ll be fine
If you could see inside my head
Maybe you could understand
That I’m better off gone
Step it up my life spent round the clock
has got me running on a treadmill with no time to stop
and competition has put a price on time,
see all the people you left behind
and step on all the people that have fell behind,
competition has put a price on time.
Man, I'm all I've got, like it or not, I'm all I've got.
I'm on a mission
To see what's been missing
My favorite song is on repeat
But it's just not helping me
My eyes have been wider but never been brighter
Something else is going on
I need a reminder of why I feel this way
There's a fine line between
Living a lie and feeling alive
There are times that I've been
Looking from the outside in
And here I go again
Falling behind losing my mind
I'm pretending it's alright
Listening to the soundtrack of my life
Wo-oh
Listening to the soundtrack of my life
I still believe in
Facing all my demons
And everything that people promise
Everything I've always wanted
My mouth has been open
My words have been stolen
It may have been used against me
It's starting to affect me
And now I feel this way
There's a fine line between
Living a lie and feeling alive
There are times that I've been
Looking from the outside in
And here I go again
Falling behind losing my mind
I'm pretending it's alright
Listening to the soundtrack of my life
Wo-oh
Listening to the soundtrack of my life
And it goes like this...
And it takes me back...
And it spins around
And round and round
And round and round
And it goes around
And always leads to black
There's a fine line between
Living a lie and feeling alive
There are times that I've been
Looking from the outside in
And here I go again
Falling behind losing my mind
I'm pretending it's alright
Listening to the soundtrack of my life
Wo-oh
There is a place not far from the city
Where old men go to die and bums are pissing
Last night no one checked out,
And I checked back in
While toothless winos
Watched and grinned
And they don't really care about you
Some things you can't tell
Sometimes I can't take the smell
Calling all mothers and fathers,
Come get your sons and daughters.
Right now they're on corners,
Finding ways to cure their boredom.
I'm sitting right here with them,
Waiting on those prescriptions.
Like it's our only mission.
Silver flasks and zip lock bags.
Vacant eyes and sweaty hands.
Cut in thirds then cut in half.
Money to monsters, exchanging hands.
Calling all mothers and fathers,
Come get your sons and daughters.
Right now they're feeling awkward,
Pills and powders in their lockers.
I'm standing right here with them,
Waiting on the voice of reason.
Glass pipes and tunnel vision.
Silver flasks and zip lock bags.
Vacant eyes and sweaty hands.
Cut in thirds then cut in half.
Money to monsters, exchanging hands.
Please excuse me while I sober up,
Hard to tell when you've taken enough
Silver flasks and zip lock bags.
Vacant eyes and sweaty hands.
Cut in thirds then cut in half.
Money to monsters, exchanging hands.
(aaa)
Giving' money to monsters, money to monsters.
(aaa)
So this pen is starting to become
A pipe bomb and these songs
Have turned to anthems again
To everything that's changed and to everything that's gone away
Here are my condolences tot he future I never met
It's gone and never coming back, it's not coming back
So don't hold on to your past, you gotta let it go
'Cause friends leave as time fades away
The people and the places along the way
Without a doubt
Screws fall in and screws they fall out
Tomorrow's gone up in smoke
And I wonder when I'm alone
Where'd my convictions go
So to everyone that's gone away
Or fades away or stays the same
Here are my apologies to the person that I used to be
Before I burned down every bridge and every inch
Of everything I used to know, I gotta let it go
Friends leave as time fades away
The people and the places along the way
So don't hold on to your past
i might as well just sleep it off
wishful thinking's got my wires crossed (whoa ho)
when i am desperate and alone
i know i know i know how low i go
so i'll drive and disapear
and maybe if i'm luck by this time next year
no one i know will know my name
it's either change or go or i'll explode today
i'll leave a note on my machine
unplug the phone and finish packing all my things
i found a photograph of me
its been such a slow decay
day to day i don't even recognize my own face
i had another breakdown
and i'm floating face down
i might as well just sleep it off
wishful thinking's got my wires crossed (whoa ho)
when i am desperate and alone
i know i know i know how low i go
i'm going to sleep it off
this sinking feeling of always feeling lost
hasn't been that long
six years worth of always being wrong
i met an old friend out on the street
trade stories and out of date memories
and she has a photograph of me it's been such a slow decay day to day
did we seem much happier in those days
its been a slow decay
day to day i don't even recognize my face
So it's sunrise
sober eyes
see my room spin around
crowded bars and crumbling town
I'm a mess
a monument
two clenching fists of helplessness
oblivious to all of it
situation hopeless
will all the assholes in this room
please raise your right hand
It's sunrise
sober eyes
see my room spin around
crowded bars and crumbling towns
I'm a mess
a monument
two clenching fists of helplessness
oblivious to all of it
situation hopeless
will all the assholes in this room
And I swear it's the last time and I swear it's my last try
and we'll walk in circles around this whole block
walk on the cracks of the same old sidewalks
then we'll talk about leaving town
yeah we'll talk about leaving
I swear it's the last time, and I swear it's my last try
We rode across that bridge all night
we talked our way through city lights
traced all the lines, we're killing time
under those buzzing signs
from downtown to anywhere but here
tonight, yeah, I swear to these rooftops
and just hoped that car would never stop
And I swear it's the last time and I swear it's my last try
and we'll walk in circles around this whole block
walk on the cracks of the same old sidewalks
and we'll talk about leaving town
and we'll talk about leaving
I swear it's the last time and I swear it's my last try
We drove around this place all night
past closed signs and familiar sights
we're moving by, passing time
counting those center lines
with 20,000 lines left to go
that lead to somewhere I don't know
it might be the time that we leave this all behind
And there's been a few times
that we thought it felt right
to take all the westbound signs
and just leave town tonight
And I swear it's the last time and I swear it's my last try
and we'll walk in circles around this whole block
walk on the cracks of the same old sidewalks
and we'll talk about leaving town
yeah we'll talk about leaving
I swear it's the last time and I swear it's my last try
and I swear it's my last try
and we'll talk about leaving town
If you had all the facts all the fictions
if you knew everything about science and all about religion
would you stand by your convictions
would you still make the right decisions
would you accept someone else's opinions in this life
because whatever it takes to get you by
well that's the right things to do in this crazy mixed up life
sad or sober or strong or with closed eyes
would you still make all the right decisions
would you accept someone else's forgiveness in this life
because its all a leap of faith
from white plastic saints to
to all those hard questions you have to face
every single day
if you had all the facts all the fictions
if you knew everything about science and all about religion
would you stand by your convictions
would you still make the right decisions
would you accept someone else's opinions in this life
because its all a leap of faith
from white plastic saints to
to all those hard questions you have to face
every single day
I've read all the books
and I still don't have all the answers
and thats fine whatever it takes to get you by
because its all a leap of faith
from white plastic saints to
to all those hard questions you have to face
These are all reasons why
I'll be exploding tonight
and why this chip on my shoulder
feels like a mile wide
it's from the overwork
overtime compromise
So I'm looking tonight
for some peace of mind
maybe then I'll find
Some strength inside
'cause I've lost any hope of ever changing
I'm a short fuse burning
And remember who I
who I used to be
Because this one-trick pony's
so strung on routine
yeah, stuck on repeat
like you wouldn't even believe
Hey, everybody don't forget me
Forget me
Hey, everybody don't forget me
I forgot who I used to be
And I'm a short fuse burning
I'm so close to exploding
So everybody don't forget me
I forgot who I used to be
Hey, everybody don't forget me
Forget me
Hey, everybody don't forget me
I forgot who I used to be
And I'm a short fuse burning
I'm so close to exploding
Hey, everybody don't forget me
Have you been feeling down, pushed around
Feeling like everything has been done before
Do I need to understand every word from every man
Or everything from every band
Can I say it's all been done before
Religion, science, similes to metaphors
Can it be that there's nothing new
When there's more ways of looking at the truth
The more things seem to change
The more they just stay the same
But now it's called a different name
Can you say things are new
When you look at magazines
For over half her life she's worked from 9 to 5,
Crossing T's and dotting I's the neon lights can't hide,
That she's lost her shine.
She says the mornings taste like turpentine,
She said she understands the point of sacrifice,
And so should I.
Pay cut but it's a paycheck.
Surviving is my best revenge.
What hurt you once won't hurt you again.
She meant what she said.
Weathered lines across her face were an even trade.
Finger prints worn down from overwork,
And underpay at minimum wage.
She said the overtime is worth these aches and pains.
But is it worth the precious time that ticks away?
Every second everyday.
Pay cut but it's a paycheck.
Surviving is my best revenge.
What hurt you once won't hurt you again.
She meant what she said.
She said woah-woah...
For over half her life she walked the straightest lines.
She only wanted to provide a future,
For my brother and I.
Pay cut but it's a paycheck.
Surviving is my best revenge.
What hurt you once won't hurt you again.
How does it feel
to be under the eyes
watching so closely
buy what you can't have
what'd you have
wish I could everything you have
and you wonder where your friends have gone
how's it feel to have
just a few ones
wish you had more than the one you had
everything that you ever had
I wish I could find a way
to wish it all away
and all that you want from me
can disappear
with your jealousy
How does it feel
to be under the eyes
watching closely
buy what you can't have
what'd you have
wish I could everything you have
and you wonder where your friends have gone
how's it feel to have
just a few ones
wish you had more than the one you had
everything that you ever had
Green eyes watching you
wishing they could be all of you
wait a little moment, take from me
You know my best friend,
just left yesterday, and I know.
I know your girlfriend,
wasn't here to stay,
she just moved away.
Things are so the same.
And all I really care,
bring myself to say is that I know.
That I know, that I know.
And remember when they said,
just how long can your ideas
keep you warm, and
We just laughed that kind of nervous laugh.
We just sang along to that song that's on the radio.
To that song on the radio.
And, yea, just outside,
the conversation's getting old.
I know they're right,
Betting smokes that our end
is just as close
Things are so the same.
And all I really care,
bring myself to say is that I know.
That I know, that I know.
And remember when they said,
just how long can your ideas
keep you warm, and
We just laughed that kind of nervous laugh.
We just sang along to that song that's on the radio.
To that song on the radio.
And you were right about,
Just how we'd figure out,
things change, but beliefs stay the same
You were right about (woah-oh)
Just how we'd figure out, (woah-oh)
a change of ideas, I know.
That I know, that I know-oh-woah, that I know-oh-oh-oh.
And remember when they said,
just how long can your ideas
keep you warm, and
We just laughed that kind of nervous laugh.
We just sang along to that song that's on the radio.
To that song on the radio.
Don't call me Rich
don't call me George
just call me cheez
that's who I am
Civilized?
yeah until the keg runs dry
and he's tried
to drink from 9 to 5
then from 5 to 9
always drunk and going crazy
you better believe it
chesterfield
where the kegs never dry
it's always filled
have beer with fear!
have a beer or two
then he'll show you his cheese tattoo
drunk and going crazy
(I met her in the morning, and my heart stood still
a doo ron ron ron, a doo ron ron
somebody told me that her name was Jill
a doo ron ron ron, a doo ron ron
yeah my oh my, yeah all the time
when I walked her home
a doo ron ron ron, a doo ron ron)
It's got me on the run, it's got my brain tied
it's got me down as the trains pass by
all these people crowding my sight
I wonder if my head was ever screwed on tight
concrete buildings are all that I see
I used to never let it bother me
I used to never let it bother me
last train, remember me
Walking past the cracks on 2nd street, watching
lights and sounds the city doesn't sleep, and I say
get this fucking city out of my brain, so I
guess I'll have to wait for the last train
remember me
Yeah, concrete buildings are all that I see
I used to never let it bother me
I used to never let it bother me
last train, remember me
Remember me
Last train, remember me
Remember me
You gotta remember me
You gotta remember
me, me, me, me, me
Downbeat, downbeats coming for you
Everythings gone that you once knew.
Trying to rely on what things used to be
And trying to live up to your responsibility.
Everythings fucked up that you see.
Downbeats coming for you
And it's coming for me.
Trying to rely
Downbeats coming and you can't hide
Standing on the front porch
While downbeats collide,
And downbeats coming up up
It's got a grin
If only my problems were like water
they could be boiled away
and watching the steam drift upward,
watching my problems drift away.
And watch the steam turn and twist,
watch it all drift away.
Look how it rises and lifts
watch my problems drift away.
If only my problems were like water
they all could be washed away
and watch the water go downward
I check the time, it's 4:00 a.m.
And I just passed the westside buildings
All the broken glass
As I try to shake the cold away, but anyways,
It's late at night and I'm about to crack
And decide to just walk the tracks
It was a cold december on 2nd ave and 6th st.
Too cold to think about anybody passing me
When I overheard 'I'm gonna tell you straight from the shoulder...
Boy... You better get running'
On the corner of 2nd and 6th and outta time,
With a cough, feeling lost and a bottle of cheap wine.
Just then I realized that I can't seem to understand
When I saw that guy heading for the dopeman.
It's just the same old story on the same old street
And it's just another worn down, worn out casualty
Of 2nd ave and 6th st.
On the corner of 2nd and 6th and feeling down
When I overheard 'I'm gonna take a gun and take you out'
Just then I realized that I can't seem to understand
How anyone can take the life of another man.
It's just the same old story on the same old street
And it's just another worn down, worn out casualty
Is this just like the young boy dreaming in the olden days
watching all the old time movies only Saturday
all those soldiers and the changes would my heroes men
who ran out of things to change
TV minute in
[Chorus:]
(Good) times have changed
TV lied
where's the good lives?
(Good) times have changed
before my eyes
where's the good lives?
It's just I'd rather watch the TV in these modern days
watching all the other movies every single day
stealers, pushers, small time dealers are my favorite friends
and all I do is watch TV
my only other friend
[Chorus]
Good time for change, hey (whoa)
and TV lied to me (whoa)
all I wanted to know
is this the good life?
[Chorus]
Whoa, whoa
This is not meant to apologize for any place or time
This is not meant to eulogize for years gone by
All the words I've used to get me by I've memorised
You can't control where lightning strikes
You'd better bet there's always a bright side
I've got a trophy case full of mistakes
Never came in second place
I've been a castaway, I'm flat on my face
Let me set the record straight
I never thought that I would be the one to give up
Doesn't matter anyway
I can't believe that I just made a mistake
O-o-o-o-oh
Guess I'm turning out OK
This is not for you to pick and choose for a better side
This is not meant to be used as proof when I've meant to lie
All the words I've used still hold true
I'll testify
Even black clouds have silver lines
You'd better bet there's always a bright side
I've got a trophy case full of mistakes
Never came in second place
I've been a castaway I'm flat on my face
Let me set the record straight
I never thought that I would be the one to give up
Doesn't matter anyway
I can't believe that I just made a mistake
O-o-o-o-oh
Guess I'm turning out OK
I've got a trophy case full of mistakes
Never came in second place
I've been a castaway I'm flat on my face
Let me set the record straight
I never thought that I would be the one to give up
Doesn't matter anyway
I can't believe that I just made a mistake
O-o-o-o-oh
Guess I'm turning out OK
I've got a trophy case full of mistakes
O-o-o-o-oh
Guess I'm turning out OK
I can't believe that I just made a mistake
O-o-o-o-oh
Doesn't matter anyway
I've been down
wandering past 2nd street
and looking at the ghosts
of you and me and thinking back on
all those memories of how we used to be
I've been hearing
hear those voices
of the noises of the breaking glass
and all those plans we had to get us through
they're never coming true
And I hope and hope
that you won't forget
and I hope you, hope you know
that I can clearly see
The ghosts of you and me
'cause I'm just a long-gone memory
and you're still alive
and I'm still getting by
on these dead end streets
the ghosts of you and me
I'm still talking
talk of what we'll do
to the ghosts of me and you
and I'm still looking back into the past
when we were all we had
And I hope and hope
that you won't forget
and I hope you, hope you know
that I can clearly see
the ghosts of you and me
Hope you won't forget
hope you know that I'll always regret
those things I said
hope you know that I can clearly see
the ghosts of you and me
Yeah
It's never been so crystal clear that i've been dying six months a year arguing with strangers about why i'm still here. no on lets me forget questions about my relevance and i'm starting to believe their arguments in my self-defense it's just my self-destructiveness and always wasting all my breath and it's still a mystery to me why i'm doubting all my dreams all the things that i say will someday fade away when the message in the songs has kept me sane all along. the years hit like like fist to face and some days i've tried to replace this person with the same god-given name. some days i shake till noon i've tried to explain to overcrowded rooms across these states my narrow point of view. but what can i do it's just my self-destructiveness and always wasting all my breath and it's a mystery to me why i'm doubting all my dreams all the things that i say will someday fade away when the message in these songs has kept me sane all along.
Maybe I'm jaded and bored
Always looking for more
Wait around for the next big fix
I know I'm a wreck, I'm a mess
But I couldn't care less
Don't know what it would take to change me
Everybody's so afraid to be different
Please excuse me now if I don't get it
I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
Designer drugs and dead end jobs
And classic rock is so outdated
I'm so sick of therapy
And all the things it's done to me
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated
Maybe the problem is me
But I won't make believe
And I can't take this mediocrity
What if this is a test?
And I deserve what I get?
Will I wake up with all the answers?
Everybody's too afraid to be different
Please excuse me now if I don't listen
I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
Designer drugs and dead end jobs
And classic rock is so outdated
I'm so sick of therapy
And all the things it's done to me
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated
(Woah, woah).
When everything is overrated.
Can't stand the normal
Can't stand the ordinary
Find me anything that's extraordinary
Show me something
Show me anything
Am I the only one?
Am I the only one?
I think sex is overrated
So is always getting wasted
All my friends and family
They make my life so complicated
I'm so sick of apathy and TV show reality
How can I be satisfied?
When everything is overrated.
Woah, woah.
When everything is overrated.