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+ | ====== Paroles ====== | ||
+ | ===== Rancid ===== | ||
+ | ==== MAXWELL MURDER ==== | ||
+ | Maxwell can tell | ||
+ | he's in hell he just wants you to visit him there same old game that he' | ||
+ | playing his rules are never fair nobody want to look back everybody want to get | ||
+ | high tonight before they run out of time where' | ||
+ | the name of the crook who committed the crime 999 if you really want the truth | ||
+ | dial 999 if you can't see it through he ain't jack the ripper he's your ordinary | ||
+ | crook calling maxwell murder for you maxwell got a hand in this plan he knows | ||
+ | who you are in this plan chop the rock before you bought it sickness maxwell | ||
+ | knows you caught it nobody want to look back everybody want to get high tonight | ||
+ | before they run out of time where' | ||
+ | committed the crime! | ||
+ | ==== THE 11TH HOUR ==== | ||
+ | Hey sister do you | ||
+ | know what time it was when you finally seen all your broken dreams come crashing | ||
+ | down your door they demand an answer and they demand it quick or the questions | ||
+ | fade and the wasted days come crawling back for more do you know where the power | ||
+ | lies? and who pulls the strings do you know where the power lies it starts and | ||
+ | end with you the face of isolation well well this one you recognize well you | ||
+ | can't get straight it's a lonely place and it's one you do despise boredom is | ||
+ | for sale now and helplessness you feel it's a wounded dove and the hawks are | ||
+ | above blood splattered on a reel to reel i was almost over my world was almost | ||
+ | gone in a sudden rush i coul almost touch the things that i'd done wrong my | ||
+ | sungle' | ||
+ | walk on through these mountains made of steel | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== ROOTS RADICALS ==== | ||
+ | Took the 60 bus | ||
+ | out of downtown cambell ben zandito he was on there he was waitin' | ||
+ | the punk rockers and the moon stompers are out on the wriers where they sparing | ||
+ | for change i started thinkin' | ||
+ | remember too much of that day somethin' | ||
+ | do you go now when your only is with the music execution and the talk of | ||
+ | revolution it bleed in me and it goes give 'em the boot the roots the radicals | ||
+ | give 'em the boot you know i'm a radical give 'em the boot the roots the reggae | ||
+ | on my stereo the radio was playin' | ||
+ | climb up the hill nothin' | ||
+ | unloving homes why even bother i pick up the bohle hey mr. bus driver please let | ||
+ | these people on rude girl carol was a mini-skirt girl my blurry vision saw | ||
+ | nothin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== TIME BOMB ==== | ||
+ | If you wanna make | ||
+ | the move then you better come in it's just the ability to reason that wears so | ||
+ | thin living and dying and the stories that are true the secrets to a good life | ||
+ | is knowing when you're through black coat, white shoes, clackhat, cadillac the | ||
+ | boy's a time bomb he's back in the hole where they got him living like a rat but | ||
+ | he's smarter than that nine lives like a cat take him to the youth authority | ||
+ | home first thing you learn is that you got to make it in this world alone now | ||
+ | he's gotten out he's gotten free he's gotta go gotta car 21 years old he' | ||
+ | runnin' | ||
+ | can move on in you know that kid's a creepin' | ||
+ | that's been tattooed below his eye his mother cries she knows that he is strong | ||
+ | enough to die he's rollin' | ||
+ | shots rung out the herd's deal the new king is crowned. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== OLYMPIA, WA ==== | ||
+ | Hangin' | ||
+ | lars on 6th street he knew i was in trouble i was feeling much like the devil | ||
+ | there was something burnin' | ||
+ | girls took us to the funhouse where we played a lonely pinball machine hangin' | ||
+ | on the corner of 52nd and broadway cars passin' | ||
+ | goin' my way new york city well i wish i was on a highway back to olympia...i' | ||
+ | having a hard time understanding it gets all too demanding she's all gone and | ||
+ | i'm stranded something burning deep inside of me all i know it's 4' | ||
+ | she ain't never showed up and i watched a thousand people go home from work how | ||
+ | many times will it take me before i go crazy before i lose everything something | ||
+ | burning deep inside of me ran into three puerto ricans those girls took us to | ||
+ | the funhouse i don't wanna be alone again. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== LOCK, STEP & GONE ==== | ||
+ | The ending isn' | ||
+ | here somethin' | ||
+ | feeling isn't fear there' | ||
+ | step i'm gone a fire on the corner and it's never gonna stop killer in the | ||
+ | neighborhood never got caught i lock up my door step out and i'm gone waitin' | ||
+ | for the buses but the buses won't come all the docks are quiet there' | ||
+ | wrong and there' | ||
+ | riot there' | ||
+ | the stop signs broken and the meters goin' down wild dogs are runnin' | ||
+ | into the ground everything was clear for that moment in time if i don't come | ||
+ | back well throw me a line well the docks are quiet something wrong and there' | ||
+ | no ships comin' in i lock step i'm gone where there once was a riot there' | ||
+ | whole lot of nothin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== JUNKIE MAN ==== | ||
+ | The common man | ||
+ | doesn' | ||
+ | adore our beautiful son he's ridin' on the river of babylon bootin' | ||
+ | up bring on the brightness see the son of god is comin' up and i see a likeness | ||
+ | internalize the lunacy of the misery is showin' | ||
+ | caught up in a system that's goin' no one answers no one takes that call from | ||
+ | you junkyman tell me what your story is... water i despise some parents house is | ||
+ | on fire slowly the house gonna burn to the ground the neighborhood will watch | ||
+ | will someone be a witness please tell me that he's crazy but he's not and they | ||
+ | know that and they can't get him cause he's not crazy beat lock him knock him | ||
+ | take him away his authority hit 'em, ship 'em, club 'em submitted conformity my | ||
+ | hand went blind clairvoyant i make love to my trance sister my trance sister | ||
+ | went on and my trance parents see from the balcony i looked out on the big field | ||
+ | it opens like the cover of an old brief and out come the wolves their plans | ||
+ | trampling the snow the asphalt i stand on my head and watch it all go away, | ||
+ | bootin' | ||
+ | and there' | ||
+ | brough up and caught up in a system that is goin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== LISTED M.I.A. ==== | ||
+ | Stuck in the sewer | ||
+ | beneath all the maggots i ain't foolin' | ||
+ | almost had it a way to get out of these dirty old ruins i'm checkin' | ||
+ | never comin' back i'm checkin' | ||
+ | had it threw me out the door and called me a faggot i ain't done i've only yet | ||
+ | begun west oakland is the place where i'm comin' from god damn it man i almost | ||
+ | had it well i did it again yeah i do it outta habit well i'm numb it ain't no | ||
+ | fun i'm less than zero when you add up the sum i'm checkin' | ||
+ | doubt yea a courtship built from anger is what it amounts i almost had it i came | ||
+ | so close man i almost had it i almost had it | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== RUBY SOHO ==== | ||
+ | Echos of reggae | ||
+ | comin' through my bedroom wall havin' a party up next door but i'm sittin here | ||
+ | all alone two lovers in the bedroom and the others start to shout all i got is | ||
+ | this blank stare and that don't carry no cloud at all destination unknown ruby | ||
+ | soho he's singin' | ||
+ | marquee but she will never understand once again he's leavin' | ||
+ | with a tear in her eye embraces with a warm gesture it's time to say good-bye | ||
+ | destination unknown ruby soho ruby's heart ain't bleedin' | ||
+ | feeling is gone she's not the only one who knew there' | ||
+ | lover' | ||
+ | disappears it's time, time to say good-bye destination unknown ruby soho | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== DALY CITY TRAIN ==== | ||
+ | He was an artist | ||
+ | and a writer and a poet and a friend in a man's life he will take a fall but how | ||
+ | low he goes it just depends he's shooting dope in the men's room at the station | ||
+ | daly city train have you ever seen an angel well i know i have they' | ||
+ | for a while and then they' | ||
+ | seen him when he rolled the dice he never thought twice never thought twice | ||
+ | about being here some grown up and some grow old but what about the kid who | ||
+ | never learned the rules spent all these years on this earth when you look back | ||
+ | it's just a flicker of time jackyl was one of the one's that he was one of the | ||
+ | one's that was already saved through all the evil and wreckage he maintained a | ||
+ | sense of himself some men are in prison even though they walk the streets at | ||
+ | night other men who got the lockdown are free as a bird in flight | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE EAST BAY ==== | ||
+ | Reconcile to the | ||
+ | belief consumed in sacred ground for me there wasn't always a place to go but | ||
+ | there was always an urgent need to belong all these bands and all these people | ||
+ | all these friends and we were equals but what you gonna do when everyone goes on | ||
+ | without you to the end i'll journey to the end started in '87 ended in '89 you | ||
+ | got a garage or an amp we'll play anytime it was just the four of us yea the | ||
+ | core of us too much attention unavoidably destroyed us four kids on tour three | ||
+ | thousand miles in a four door car not knowing what was going years it would turn | ||
+ | out like this hell no no premonition could have seen this my friend came from | ||
+ | far away from new orleans into the east bay he said this is a mecca i said this | ||
+ | ain't no mecca man this place is fucked three months go by he had no home he had | ||
+ | no food he was all alone matty said fool me once shame on you he said fool me | ||
+ | twice he went back to new orleans | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== SHE'S AUTOMATIC ==== | ||
+ | The way that she | ||
+ | moves well i was aroused empowered, impassioned by every move it's cold outside | ||
+ | we need a place to hide go into the club to thaw out for the night she' | ||
+ | automatic the way that she moves she asked me if i would stand by her side like | ||
+ | glue that i would till the end of the night my head was spinnin' | ||
+ | an hour the chance i was takin' i get anxious around her she put her head on my | ||
+ | shoulder i started to hold her swingin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== OLD FRIEND ==== | ||
+ | Look up you're in | ||
+ | cleveland again a solid line that never ends i've got stories you'll never | ||
+ | realize and i know it i wear it on my sleeve there must be somethin' | ||
+ | that i liked but right here in the rain you know it just don't seem right i | ||
+ | always go out i never hide but in cleveland i should have stayed inside good | ||
+ | morning heartache your like an old friend come and see me again testify my love | ||
+ | for you i know it runs deep through your body too from the cold blacktop to the | ||
+ | hot concrete the old tan van it ain't so sweet somewhere in america in the city | ||
+ | at night we were far from home but you know it was gonna be alright the | ||
+ | unfortunate get prayed on by vultures eyes 86 cents in these pockets of mine | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== DISORDER AND DISARRAY ==== | ||
+ | Business man come | ||
+ | shake my hand show me numbers that i understand your my candle i'm your burnin' | ||
+ | wick two sides comin' in quick say goodbye when you see me sign now i' | ||
+ | crucified crucify me the ground is fertile and the grass is green so many things | ||
+ | to be seen so many bands to be heard just for once can i be ignored | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== THE WARS END ==== | ||
+ | Little sammy was a | ||
+ | punk rocker you know his mother never understand him went to his room and | ||
+ | smashed his billy bragg record didn't want him to hear that communist lecture | ||
+ | you know his mother tried to take him to war sammy now the war is over now we' | ||
+ | at the wars end now it's time for you to leave home | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== YOU DON'T CARE NOTHIN' | ||
+ | A cat lies awake | ||
+ | when it sleeps was she conscious of her own miseries will the amount of her pain | ||
+ | win her to enlightenment and set conscience free do you really wanna know what' | ||
+ | happenin' | ||
+ | take a look around you better explore your heart and find out for yourself jenny | ||
+ | demilo you don't care nothin' | ||
+ | use for one before but now i know that there' | ||
+ | the unwise do you really wanna know what's happenin' | ||
+ | what's goin' on hey girl you better please take a look around you better explore | ||
+ | your heart and find out for yourself | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== AS WICKED ==== | ||
+ | I saw an old man | ||
+ | on the street he was in a dumpster lookin' | ||
+ | like a dyin' dream like a machinist who got caught in the machine i saw this | ||
+ | lady and she was cryin' she said it's hard when someone you love is dyin' i saw | ||
+ | this kid who was about 5 years old he was in the park all alone he was cold | ||
+ | there' | ||
+ | could be i know this girl she's barely alive she's all haggard she's only | ||
+ | twenty-five she said she never had a friend before i said & | ||
+ | friend but who's keepin' | ||
+ | mother comforts her from far from home the little girl was very hesitant her | ||
+ | best friend lie dead on the pavement i always end up back on the hill lookin' | ||
+ | down at the landfill i always go there when i can my friend marty said tim | ||
+ | you're a lucky man | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== AVENUES AND ALLEYWAYS ==== | ||
+ | I figured out the | ||
+ | problem but you can't take my heart it's in the city behind yea the problem is | ||
+ | you you didn't see us comin' now there' | ||
+ | change, change or step aside it's my point of view that took you by surprise the | ||
+ | sun's comin up yea the new dawn arrives a new generation standing stand with | ||
+ | anger in their eyes no love in the city because there' | ||
+ | stricken with disease a racial infection i'm a battering ram comin' through to | ||
+ | you in every alleyway on every avenue actions could erase all the fear that we | ||
+ | suffer people segregated no one understands each other he's a different color | ||
+ | but we're the same kid i will treat him like my brother he will treat me like | ||
+ | his well an eye for an eye yea a tooth for a tooth brother against brother | ||
+ | should be singin' | ||
+ | black and blue the power and the passion of a million youth figured out the | ||
+ | problem yea the problem is you you didn't see us comin' now there' | ||
+ | can do he's a different color but we're the same kid i will treat him like my | ||
+ | brother he will treat me like his all the blood that spills of all the guts that | ||
+ | fly the media paints a picture that stands pits dogs against cats now who is | ||
+ | responsible the power in the issue the force is unstoppable | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== THE WAY I FEEL ABOUT YOU ==== | ||
+ | Pick me back up | ||
+ | just to throw me back down apologies too like when you're up against the wall | ||
+ | compassion heals while duplicity kills you say i'm different the only thing | ||
+ | different is the way i feel about you you moved up the ladder at a very rapid | ||
+ | speed we mived methodically and calmly when you got to the top you see enemies | ||
+ | if i knew back then what i know that it would all turn out like this i'd sit | ||
+ | back and i'd watch you squirm cause you say i'm different the only thing | ||
+ | different is the way i feel about you.... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== NIHILISM ==== | ||
+ | Come in to the | ||
+ | union district drive down on sharmon palms white ghettos paint a picture broken | ||
+ | homes & broken bones i was so full of scotch i could not stand up i was hittin' | ||
+ | the shots and i moved to a cup release me from moral assumption total rejection | ||
+ | total destruction nihilistic feelings are moving if you try real hard you'll see | ||
+ | right through them nihilism walking a path of self destruction not affected by | ||
+ | the percussions lady on the billboard offer me a drink said not right now i need | ||
+ | time to think nihilistic feelings are movin if i try real hard i'll see right | ||
+ | through them | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== RADIO ==== | ||
+ | Never fell in love | ||
+ | until i fell in love with you never know what a good time was until i had a good | ||
+ | time with you if you wanna get the feelin' | ||
+ | music' | ||
+ | night i was drinkin' | ||
+ | he gave more love to his bottle of wine so i had to go out and find love of | ||
+ | another kind here it is here i am turn it up fuckin' | ||
+ | the music i gotta place to go radio clash magnificent 7 i was a choir bot you | ||
+ | showed me no heaven two tools surely lost no remorse ignoring the cost | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== SIDE KICK ==== | ||
+ | I had a dream i | ||
+ | was a vigilante' | ||
+ | dream i was a vigilante' | ||
+ | in oakland off of west grant st. joseph relief program a good place where good | ||
+ | people get food help your fellow man a good thing to do government agency said | ||
+ | be afraid of me i shut your doors down it won't phase me wolverine came through | ||
+ | left the agent for dead opened up the doors back up, everyone was fed do not | ||
+ | bill the abandoned buildings it's nice to sleep when you got a ceiling | ||
+ | neighborhood watch said we gotta put a stop said we can't have people livin' for | ||
+ | free call the cops here come the swat team & the m-16 shoot the walls in destroy | ||
+ | the building wolverine was sad & it made him mad every single cop got a bullet | ||
+ | in their head | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== SALVATION ==== | ||
+ | There' | ||
+ | neighborhood called blackhawk where all the rich people hide i was down on my | ||
+ | luck workin' | ||
+ | drive in to blackhawk & we pick up the offerings microwave ovens refrigerators | ||
+ | for the suffering i can't believe these people live like kings hidden estates | ||
+ | and diamond rings i'm a rat on a mission i'm in your front yard under suspicion | ||
+ | come on baby won't you show me what you got i want your salvation | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== TENDERLOIN ==== | ||
+ | Realize you' | ||
+ | dehumanised you criticize your existence it's your demise when no sun arise when | ||
+ | you're paralyzed by your lack of resistance she knows she is she knows she' | ||
+ | goin' down below where the fire's glowing tenderloin the tricks she gets them | ||
+ | she's not a victim she makes a list of them and reads them all alone for money | ||
+ | she's walkin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== AS ONE ==== | ||
+ | War between races | ||
+ | war between lies. war between something that was deep inside you were wrong all | ||
+ | along i was right you lied u. to the n. to the ity. straight down too late can | ||
+ | it kick the feelin' | ||
+ | out in the oakland winter. can't stand alone you can't stand together. no matter | ||
+ | what they do they' | ||
+ | down down the scale hook the anchor to the gates of hell. once you realize that | ||
+ | it was so simple. what you're given you can't take with you. i asked somebody if | ||
+ | they had the same vision. he said yeah i had the same vision.BURN | ||
+ | red and white stripes flyin' white for skin & red for dying why can't i walk on | ||
+ | through and not feel like one is in hell we don't need no water let the | ||
+ | motherfucker burn we don't need no water let the motherfucker burn | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== THE BALLAD OF JIMMY AND JOHNNY ==== | ||
+ | Jimmy & johnny are | ||
+ | two friends of mine skinheads what they claim outside similarities but they | ||
+ | don't feel the same johnny thinks jimmy' | ||
+ | jimmy listens to ska & johnny likes last resort jimmy & johnny in the trenches | ||
+ | went down tonight drinkin' | ||
+ | feel alright skinhead tats and a fred perry there' | ||
+ | to fight stop drinkin' | ||
+ | what you're seein jimmy had his two tone girl on the back of his scooter that | ||
+ | night johnny had a jacked up chevy that could blow you right off the line | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== I AM THE ONE ==== | ||
+ | Are you gonna be | ||
+ | ready to use it if you hesitate they' | ||
+ | question now the holy ghost in question what about the banks when they say go | ||
+ | standin at the top and can't let go standin can't take can't take that time when | ||
+ | i try sometime i can't stay high are you gonna be ready to use it if you | ||
+ | hesitate they' | ||
+ | bleedin' | ||
+ | that it holds and it holds no other with the lies of the brave the kid don' | ||
+ | matter | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== HARRY BRIDGES ==== | ||
+ | Bloody thursday | ||
+ | was july 6th the pigs killed three workers harry bridges grabbed the mic the | ||
+ | city shut down july 6th the workers outraged it was a general strike the media | ||
+ | claimed that the commies were taking over and some believed it was true 3 | ||
+ | uncompromising strikes paved the way minn sf. & toledo over and over again the | ||
+ | doors are locked and the windows are broken eddie worked for general motors & he | ||
+ | swore that he'd never lose his job again a union man who owned his own home in | ||
+ | beautiful flint, mich. eddie lost his job and eddie lost his wife so eddie lost | ||
+ | his self esteem last time i saw eddie he was livin' in the trailer park again i | ||
+ | believe eddie forgave too much too soon i got a letter about eddie & it was bad | ||
+ | news | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== BLACK & BLUE ==== | ||
+ | I starred watching | ||
+ | them all down the line keep steppin' | ||
+ | pull me in can't let that happen again they try to do it again all on me | ||
+ | sedation through the nation we're screamin', | ||
+ | blind leading the blind they told me i was dumb they said their security system | ||
+ | was too big to outrun but i broke away and i'm never goin' back for all the | ||
+ | souls they broke mine never cracked | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== ST. MARY ==== | ||
+ | She's got her | ||
+ | ticket and she's waitin' | ||
+ | her problems will arise as sure as the sun does shine she's got to get used to | ||
+ | living on the line now mary's out the door with a loaded .44 in her hand | ||
+ | shootin' | ||
+ | she was lookin' | ||
+ | the greyhound in to salinas i got a letter then that she dropped out of sight | ||
+ | shrouded in anger encompassed by pain he was your best friend and now you' | ||
+ | never ever ever see him again | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== DOPE SICK GIRL ==== | ||
+ | Dope sick girl hit | ||
+ | and run she took my money 87 dollars gone now she's running. how was i. i to | ||
+ | know that girl could take my heart every where she go. dope sick girl. a rig and | ||
+ | a ride she got no freedom little demon gonna hide inside she's gotta feed them. | ||
+ | how was i. i to know that girl could take my heart everywhere she go everywhere | ||
+ | everywhere she go. dope sick girl there she was at the methadone clinic drank a | ||
+ | cup. she called it a base coat. swore not to get back in it how was i. i to know | ||
+ | that girl could take my heart everywhere she go. dope sick girl gotta rig and a | ||
+ | ride to new york city gonna run away gonna watch it burn in the heart of new | ||
+ | york city how was i. i to know that girl could take my heart.... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== INTERNATIONAL COVER-UP ==== | ||
+ | Back down no back | ||
+ | down comin' up rise up no rise up showin' | ||
+ | international cover up what about the state of union what about the games | ||
+ | they' | ||
+ | you don't know what it's like what it's like what it's like... what about the | ||
+ | cage gettin' | ||
+ | are dreamin' | ||
+ | like... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== SOLIDARITY ==== | ||
+ | Solidarity love & | ||
+ | unity set me free with a bullet & a gun you said it was nothin' | ||
+ | somethin' | ||
+ | time gone about you - said your life's too long didn't see it coming your fears | ||
+ | were hunting 9 millimeter stops you running about you - said the pressure' | ||
+ | about you - said you can't go on about you - now you're long time gone about you | ||
+ | - so what went wrong solidarity love & unity set me free with a bullet & a gun | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== MIDNIGHT ==== | ||
+ | Midnight i know | ||
+ | where i am that's right i know where i'm goin' shut down - vacant city ghost | ||
+ | town - tensions risin' kick kick kick the door in look look look around and | ||
+ | affairs affairs of the nation when the pressure came down sustain authority | ||
+ | midnight - i know i can that's right - i ain't broken... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== NAME ==== | ||
+ | You don't know my | ||
+ | name man you don't know my name paint a number on my head work me till i'm dead | ||
+ | i can believe i've wasted all of these years i've tasted a million days & nights | ||
+ | all this pain and struggle all for what i ask all the hate & trouble punch drunk | ||
+ | from the punch clock opportunity never gonna knock no more blue collar all the | ||
+ | unions gettin' | ||
+ | what i ask all the hate and trouble... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== 7 YEARS DOWN ==== | ||
+ | There' | ||
+ | where i like to go when i got no food or i got no shelter it's a house where i | ||
+ | can get away for maybe three days to get off the drink and haze who's the | ||
+ | opposition i'm 7 years down the human spirit prevails yeah i'm down down down | ||
+ | woke up in the bushes 6:30 tuesday morning with an unopened heineken end ahead | ||
+ | that was burning for 7 years i walked the same path dream | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== ADINA ==== | ||
+ | I want to go where | ||
+ | the action is i wanna fly through the urban blight i wanna live like a shadow in | ||
+ | the dark and only move at night a story bought, a one story house that lets the | ||
+ | winter bleed 21 years old and no money to read (chorus) how did she know the | ||
+ | roof would cave in over and over again beat up bruised a record that's broken. | ||
+ | adina' | ||
+ | now one more hill or river to cross on on the way to another town crying in her | ||
+ | beer and always running away maybe not so much running, but hoping for better | ||
+ | days (chorus) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== HYENA ==== | ||
+ | I'm money broke | ||
+ | it's no joke can't cope use the rope this time knuckle up, buckle up the ride' | ||
+ | getting rough but i will not lose my mind i asked them if i could come in and | ||
+ | the first thing they said was no if i can't come in, that means i can't come | ||
+ | back that means i got nowhere to go (chorus) i'm a hyena fighting for the lion | ||
+ | share sometimes the lion share ain't there absent from political authority an | ||
+ | animal i've become total disorder and confusion is the lifestyle that i run | ||
+ | permit me to do what i want and i will i'm a nomad to travel concrete glass | ||
+ | stone and gravel (chorus) every time i turn around it's the same sad story | ||
+ | getting ganked i wish it would end and life's commissary i'm a bad missionary | ||
+ | with a wicked message i send who could i trust in a world of green? what i' | ||
+ | taught to take and not give | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== DETROIT ==== | ||
+ | I didn't know what | ||
+ | time it was when the sun went down detroit, mission the bus downtown last i was | ||
+ | fighting in the street but tonight i have a girl next to me in this cold world | ||
+ | she brings me heat (chorus) i gotta good feeling in a bad city tonight i gotta | ||
+ | good feeling that everything' | ||
+ | illegal custody spent the nite in jail with a drunken priest and a hooker $500 | ||
+ | bill nobody know who was standing in the street like that i hit the ground to | ||
+ | make a sound (chorus) bus dropped me off and i had to cough i couldn' | ||
+ | cuz i got ripped off i couldn' | ||
+ | and that's why i'm pissed off we had no money, we had no time she had the | ||
+ | champagne, i had the cisco wine she said & | ||
+ | because we'll have hell to pay (chorus) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== RATS IN THE HALLWAY ==== | ||
+ | Knock, knock come | ||
+ | in if you want to fight i'm gonna win i'll take you out in a minute step in my | ||
+ | flat see what's in it i live in the land of the welfare state my flat used to be | ||
+ | section p now it's a rat infested cocaine run my whole world plays like a broken | ||
+ | drum (chorus) drunken bum rats in the hallway again set up get put go away & | ||
+ | ride away sit up our bed up your bed to lay kick up our rip up this place apart | ||
+ | even when i finish i'm back at the start i'm out of line on adeline st. heat | ||
+ | don't keep this crooked beat 4 a.m. no waves breakin' | ||
+ | the a.m. has taken (chorus) outside my gate my crew is drinking a 40 oz. they | ||
+ | asked me if there' | ||
+ | weather they never change for the better this girl came up to me she said she | ||
+ | would do me no harm rolled up her sleeve and showed me the tracks on her arm i | ||
+ | said, & | ||
+ | higher.& | ||
+ | his own with no moral mr. high leave the body in comes mr. withdrawal pain is | ||
+ | the only thing the body will allow the kid wants to dance the gangster knows how | ||
+ | johnny bought some shit down on market st. shoot up boot up the human target he | ||
+ | hit the dirty spike when he hit the scene it's easy to stay dirty when nothing | ||
+ | is clean johnny' | ||
+ | shackles rout up shoot up some dope to go like legal currency it's money it' | ||
+ | like that rat tat tat kid got shot point blank in the back my land lord said not | ||
+ | to be bumming he was a cocaine stoop and he had it coming he was only 12 years | ||
+ | old he was in the blizzard he got shot for being cold it don't seem right | ||
+ | tonight hit the lights alright watch the roaches run into the darkest room | ||
+ | (chorus) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== ANOTHER NIGHT ==== | ||
+ | In the dark with | ||
+ | the oakland skyline as i cross the city i avoid the landmines all i wanna do is | ||
+ | make it through without dyin' all i wanna do is keep on tryin' (chorus) another | ||
+ | night in the streets for me no sanctuary another night come and watch me bleed | ||
+ | another night in the streets for me she wouldn' | ||
+ | she always knew the final battle was near if you got a bag of dope she'll give | ||
+ | it up for free if you got a song of hope it will help her see (chorus) in the | ||
+ | dark lookin' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== ANIMOSITY ==== | ||
+ | Break down the | ||
+ | fear i got my animosity i'm gonna break it down armegeddon is comin' so you | ||
+ | better start runnin' | ||
+ | you see thru the lies of the system that's rotten to the core high tech | ||
+ | surveillance paranoia & violence keeping the city at a calm break down, break | ||
+ | down tear it apart the thing' | ||
+ | down on me tonight my brother' | ||
+ | and harrassed in a power elite bought sun ain't arise so i abide by my route | ||
+ | (chorus) i remember a cold december when i heard the revolution rock didn't hear | ||
+ | what they were saying i ran thru the mayhem of a police state on my back high | ||
+ | tech surveillance... | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== OUT OF MY MIND ==== | ||
+ | You're workin' | ||
+ | like a monkey who's been trained by a sick junkie on a mission to get money for | ||
+ | a new suit and tie to where to a reception where they envy your deception and | ||
+ | one compliments and praises to the ones they despise. practising your smile in | ||
+ | the mirror all the while try to cultivate the style of the bastards in power i | ||
+ | know what they' | ||
+ | smellin' | ||
+ | my mind and i don't know why my brain was bleeding and my fingers were | ||
+ | proceeding through a notebook i was keeping since the dawning of time senses | ||
+ | were corroded you know that i was loaded you were dealing i was reeling from the | ||
+ | feeling and the madness was concealing like a siren song people that i trusted | ||
+ | would surely have me busted if they ever had a clue what was really going on. i | ||
+ | got alot of people telling me i'm out of my mind and i don't know why | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== WHIRLWIND ==== | ||
+ | Every cities got | ||
+ | an artery where the blind breaks down an avenue or a boulevard and a boy who | ||
+ | wears a crown indignant life styles implies simply lack of means dogmatical | ||
+ | authoritarians dictate the cities remain (chorus) a promise to go to heaven | ||
+ | won't put salvation in sight whirlwind is coming a promise to go to heaven won' | ||
+ | put salvation in sight whirlwind is comin' down on me when the factory shut down | ||
+ | so did the place he lived blood money for junk bonds by a white collar fugitive | ||
+ | all the tax free incentives ain't goin' to help him now generations of job | ||
+ | security gone out like the horse and plow my old man worked his troubled life in | ||
+ | a nowhere dead end he drank the pain away i'll be damned if that's me having my | ||
+ | dreams robbed the working class cries a country that has been rotting inside for | ||
+ | years the rigs cuffed my old man in the front yard i saw through my eyes of | ||
+ | tears | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== REJECTED ==== | ||
+ | I could not fit in | ||
+ | i was the one who got caught i was the one who got realized i was the one who | ||
+ | got dropped shut out banished and locked away the knife that did me in i carry | ||
+ | to this day (chorus) rejected- crossing bridges in the land of the forgotten | ||
+ | rejected distrust existed that i never saw deep seated distrust i was victim of | ||
+ | (chorus) unspoken among the more privileged or the so-called i was not good | ||
+ | enough not good enough at all at first out of loneliness i tried to conform but | ||
+ | all that bullshit left me all alone (chorus) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== INJURY ==== | ||
+ | Excuse me while i | ||
+ | pull a knife out of my back how could i ever trust a person like that alongside | ||
+ | the slow is someone moving faster behind the warm image is a cold cold bastard | ||
+ | corporate liberal bullshit ruling class take your money and shove it up your ass | ||
+ | take your lies i've had enough of you all the shit you put me through (chorus) | ||
+ | i'm injured injury- i look for the truth it's getting hard to find money | ||
+ | grabbin' | ||
+ | a buyer i believed in you you deceiving liar--- set me fucking free | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== THE BOTTLE ==== | ||
+ | Climb in, climb | ||
+ | in, climb inside of me-pain another night of drinkin' | ||
+ | of my head and i don't know where i was last night drinkin' | ||
+ | or an empty mind it makes no difference when i'm way out of line things i can' | ||
+ | remember come back to haunt me alot of people out there who seem to want me | ||
+ | climb in the bottle and never come out (chorus) i made no nothin' | ||
+ | at something i would drink until the sun comes up no more one of these days | ||
+ | gonna come outta my haze better hurry up it's getting harder to come back | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== TRENCHES ==== | ||
+ | 1987, at a 7-11 | ||
+ | police out lookin' | ||
+ | pigs so it seems to me this is not the land of love and liberty it's more like a | ||
+ | waiting room in hell drink a quart and watch me dwell (chorus) i got it right | ||
+ | out in the trenches tonight glass towers rise above the filth and the pain i'm a | ||
+ | moral degenerate feel my pain passed out on a squat on a mission that night i | ||
+ | was shocked in to submission straight down, straight down to hell i head system | ||
+ | of sewers is where i lay my head people on their way are like on a different | ||
+ | dimension i need no correction (chorus) some of my friends moved on a simple | ||
+ | domestic life they' | ||
+ | keep it the same (chorus) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== HOLIDAY SUNRISE ==== | ||
+ | So i packed | ||
+ | everthing i owned midnight christmas eve a kid could feel alone i drink my | ||
+ | scotch my mind goes away midnight christmas eve starts out in a way (chorus) i | ||
+ | cried when i had no shoes till' i met the man with no feet it's just a holiday | ||
+ | sunrise i suddenly realized i got no alibis holiday sunrise relatives of mine | ||
+ | said they were born again fucked up world has made me born against i'm a sinner | ||
+ | and my soul should be cleansed i'll take my chances when i'm dead | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== UNWRITTEN RULES ==== | ||
+ | Kick the kick drum | ||
+ | increase the weight of the sound the dialogue of maximum decibels is enough to | ||
+ | move the fucking ground i'm gonna amplify the rage of a class that's not | ||
+ | inferior the message in the volume this song's a carrier (chorus) unwritten | ||
+ | rules rules understood unwritten rules boomin' | ||
+ | hood i like to drink beer play music and go to shows it's not about paying your | ||
+ | dues if you do it out of love i'm not no jaded junkie runnin' | ||
+ | anything else i'll be playing until i die (chorus) | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE ==== | ||
+ | She's got her life | ||
+ | going she is still breathing it's not a proven fact it's just a feeling her old | ||
+ | man doesn' | ||
+ | i'm not the only one who's not afraid of you the homeless child is no roll she | ||
+ | played it is real as anything the system has made she's a monument forever | ||
+ | standing inner city exposure can be extremely demanding the pattern is circular | ||
+ | as we pass the wine she could no longer live with the lying her family tried to | ||
+ | control her feelings it just gave her new life a deeper meaning either you shut | ||
+ | up or you shut down i'm not the only one you mother fucker i'm not the only one | ||
+ | who's not afraid of you | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== BATTERING RAM ==== | ||
+ | Some people are | ||
+ | rotten deep down to the core some people got the kick of a bull and the lies of | ||
+ | a chronic thief in store some people try to take you out if they can but i'll go | ||
+ | right through them i'm a battering ram been running my whole life and i'm still | ||
+ | running integrity is something you never had reverence to your lies as a person | ||
+ | you're bad falsified living on the truth you're gonna choke i'll just sit back | ||
+ | and watch you cut your own throat back biting hypocrite you're a liar telling | ||
+ | lies is what fuels your fire once you get discovered the bull**** ends i ain' | ||
+ | stopping battering ram right on right on right on right on thru to you some | ||
+ | people got no reliance some people are **** some people got no validity not a | ||
+ | bit some people want to break down what's inside if they can but i go right thru | ||
+ | them i'm a battering ram been running my whole life and i'm still running the | ||
+ | man who talked **** i shut him down he's through beat down the lies till they' | ||
+ | black and blue he talked so much **** but not today i'm a siege engine get outta | ||
+ | my way i disregard the attempt to take me out i curse the thought of another | ||
+ | bout but it's my method i ain't stopping battering ram right on right on right | ||
+ | on right on thru to you to ****ing you some people are rotten deep down to the | ||
+ | core some people got the kick of a bull and the lies of a chronic thief in store | ||
+ | some people try to take you out if they can but i go right thru them i'm a | ||
+ | battering ram battering ram right on right on right on right on thru to you | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== THE SENTENCE ==== | ||
+ | My life the | ||
+ | blessing understand my aggression i don't regret nothing it's all been a lesson | ||
+ | me and my friend got the music like a loaded gun we're gonna use it tell us we | ||
+ | ain't **** i won't listen try to hit us but you keep on missing i knew the | ||
+ | sentence then i knew it was gonna blow don't say i didn't warn you apocalypse | ||
+ | radio sometimes i'm a total wreck i want to break someone' | ||
+ | subwoofer going four twelves get my blood stream going never saw it coming paid | ||
+ | my price in time it's been ten years or more with all the battle scars in my | ||
+ | mind i knew the sentence then i knew it was gonna blow don't say i didn't warn | ||
+ | you apocalypse radio | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== MEDIA CONTROLLER ==== | ||
+ | Another show with | ||
+ | a ****ed up promoter kids sent in by the media controller they arrived in a ' | ||
+ | ford with a gun rack case of bud and stiletto blade it's the kind of show you | ||
+ | end up at when you get stabbed by the blade big business made i wanna go boot i | ||
+ | wanna go blade the main controller tried to buy me out but i didn't buy it some | ||
+ | people did and there is nothing i could do about it they arrived in a '87 ford | ||
+ | with a gun rack case of bud and a stiletto blade it's the kind of show you end | ||
+ | up at when you get stabbed by the blade big business made i wanna go boot i | ||
+ | wanna go blade the kids unloads his glock into the urban blight bullets sprayed | ||
+ | the car as we drove into the night we lived to tell the story and i'm gonna tell | ||
+ | you the state of the union of the state of california i wanna go boot i wanna go | ||
+ | blade | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== IDLE HANDS ==== | ||
+ | Chaos discontent | ||
+ | i'm a lunatic thirty days in the street is how i'm doing it a life of no money a | ||
+ | quart of cisco the horses are loose i got mine let's go the enemy would not | ||
+ | expect an attack at this hour the moon is a sliver the darkness gives me power | ||
+ | come and find me i'm gonna be here come and find me i like it spent some time in | ||
+ | a shelter down on webster you think i'm going back you must be joking if i ever | ||
+ | forget how bad it was to be homeless i must still be high from the dope i was | ||
+ | smoking last night i was thinking early morning drinking the devil' | ||
+ | for idle hands spent some time in a shelter down on webster you think i'm going | ||
+ | back you must be joking if i ever forget how bad it was to be homeless i must | ||
+ | still be high from the dope i was smoking last night i was thinking early | ||
+ | morning drinking the devil' |