I. DOWN & OUT
Rotting corpse is all I am / you're eating out my heart again / experience is all a sham / I'm older but no wiser, man / "you'll get over it, you'll calm down" / but Pounding drum, I love the sound / Round and Round this sick old town / No one here wants you around and
How am I supposed to know what to do?
Or how to feel?
Why are we always left out?
And who is keeping all us down?
Down and out
Everything is hit or miss / It's not the time to take a piss / Cancer growing like a cyst / Someone get me out of this / Everything the same old song / well, I don't wanna sing along / I don't want to hear you say "Everything is still the same"
How am I supposed to know what to do?
Or how to feel?
Why are we always left out?
And who is keeping all us down?
Down and out
II. 21ST CENTURY GIRL
She got that AP magazine & she was gonna be a scene kid til she found out cutting hurt
She was feeling pretty shitty 'til she went psychobilly, got a Rezurex t-shirt
Now her upper lip is stiff and her boyfriend's got a quiff, picked herself out of the dirt
She's a twenty-first century girl
Born in 1990, barely got any clothes on
Does her hair like betty page and puts her fishnets on
Least she's looking good while she don't know where she belongs
She's a twenty-first century girl
Well she used to be a pinhead but now she is a skinhead, bomber and chelsea.
But her boyfriend was a loser, a drunken user, didn't like that scene
She aint black or white, brown, red, or yellow, she is in between
She's a twenty-first century girl
Born in 1990, barely got any clothes on
Does her hair like betty page and puts her fishnets on
Least she's looking good while she don't know where she belongs
She's a twenty-first century girl
Well her mommy got a facelift and an abortionist who is on call
Her daddy got a boyfriend, then a sex change, loves that demerol
Now it's getting pretty late, but don't ask her for a date, you'll get kicked in the balls
She's a twenty-first century out-of-her-head..
She's a twenty-first century girl
III. Mr. Hollywood
It's too bad, and so sad... you say you gave up everything you had
but now you've given up and you're gone.. never understood it or admit that you're wrong cuz
you whine, and you pout.. guess you never knew or cared what it's all about
You packed your shit and you ran away, but I've got a few things left to say
I thought you had class, but I was wrong.
Same old story, same pathetic song.
Walking in the street again, I'm all alone at 3am and I'm
still thinking about what you said, while all the decent people are home in bed
Ring the alarm and sound the bell, I got a funny feeling we're going to hell
Down on broadway the city creeps, just a night on the prowl in Long Beach
I thought you had class but I was wrong. Same old Story same pathetic song, cuz
We don't wanna, we don't wanna, we don't wanna be told what to do (because)
We are the kids of broken homes and broken dreams
We are the ones with no identity
IV. GONNA DO
What are you? What are you gonna do? What the hell are you gonna do?
Everything I hate.. it just goes on and on
I've become everyone I said I wouldn't be
You ask me where I'm going all I see is open road behind me
Face in the mirror asking me,
What are you? What are you gonna do? What the hell are you gonna do?
Everyone I know just wants to get away
I got nowhere to go, so I just stay
Bumming around cuz' I aint got no opportunity
Not that I'm lazy, I'm just insane
I'm sorry I ever walked into your life
All I cause is chaos, hurt, and pain
Just got back from London but I've got no plans waiting here for me
My only friend is my Anxiety
What are you? What are you gonna do? What the hell are you gonna do?
I don't know
V. MEDICATE ME
I don't know how many times I've been told that, "we aint got no place around here for you"
Seems like I spent so many nights thinking about how I don't belong with you
There's no place for your thoughts and opinions in a place you know that you're not allowed
I don't mind, It's been a long damn time since I realized I'm not a part of the crowd
You don't belong here
"No, you don't understand...."
I'm sick and tired of watching you pretend that you could have a clue where I'm coming from
I'm all wrong and I don't belong, I may be insensitive but I'm not numb
How could you know about a place you can't go? They gotta give me pills to think like you...
Sounds like a plan (but I) thrust 'em back in your hand, cuz why the fuck would I wanna be like you?
Don't want you to medicate me 'cause you drug what you can't understand
I didn't ask to be born this way, but that's just the way I am
I feel my mind just slipping away
I feel it all just drifting away
I hear your voice, just not what you say
cuz the channel, the channel, is starting to change
The channel is changing
Don't want you to medicate me 'cause you drug what you can't understand
I didn't ask to be born this way, but that's just the way I am
Don't want you to walk away because it wasn't in my plans
I don't want your sympathy, I just want you to understand
No, you don't understand
VI. POGO
For the sake of full disclosure, when you ask me... man, I'll admit I've had a few
Six years on a lot of us are gone but I'm still up here for you.
They tell me our scene is dead, nobody cares, and there's no one to sing along
But I'm still breathing and so are you, let's take a chance and prove em wrong
So GO! Let's go, I wanna see you move, c'mon, let's pogo
You laugh and say it's cliché, cuz you don't understand how to relax and have some fun
It's hard to sing along and move your body when you're trying to impress everyone
My life's depressing enough without worrying about making sure that I'm in sync
No matter what happens, I don't give a damn about what anybody thinks
We've got to take the responsibility
We've all got to say to ourselves that "If it dies, it's because of me"
VII. LOWLIFE
Light up on the corner, it'll be alright cuz I'm riding out the night
used to feel different now it feels the same so I'm a-looking for a fight
like when you hit the bottle for an empty dream and the darkness chokes the light
I'm trying to see if you even remember me but I ain't so sure tonight
Will it be ok? No.
Will it be alright? No.
I've come to realize I'm so shook up inside and where do I call home?
I have no opinion and I've got no pride, cuz I'm walking all alone
It burns me up to think about how they all lied and we're looking for the truth
You'll never hold me back no matter how you try cuz I'm finished with you
It's not gonna be ok, it's not gonna be alright
It's not gonna be ok tonight
It's not gonna be ok, it's not gonna be alright
VIII. 2009
Newspaper full of violence
But I ain't so good at violence
But I wanna smash Hilton's face like the window back at my place
These tabloids make me puke
All these bands I'd like to nuke
There ain't nothing today but bullshit and celebrity news
So what have we got?
Nothing, nothing to do.
Who's gonna take 'em down?
And rip off all their crowns?
Cuz I don't wanna hear Stephani or Beyoncé
Our minds have been impounded
and now we are surrounded
When he hears the radio does "Uncle Joe" turn in his grave?
So what have we got?
Nothing, nothing to do.
IX. PANIC!
I've seen a lot of things, but what can I say?
There's a lot of problems for the youth today
Lots of things in this world that are going wrong,
so come on everybody let's sing along
and do the Panic, let's Panic!
Panic! Everybody panic!
Panic! 'Cuz this isn't a test!
Paranoia, mind control, but what can I do?
There's not a lotta options left for me and you..
Terrorism, Nihilism, Violent warning.
Just when you thought your life was getting boring..
This isn't a test. This isn't a test.
Close your eyes for the last time
'Cuz this isn't a test
X. VICE
Everybody wants a piece of me
tell me what the hell you think you see
Cuz you're somebody's fool if you think I'm "cool"
and if you think you can rely on me
Cuz I'm a lazy worthless piece of trash
always the itch that you cant scratch
well nothing is fair, and I'll never care
I'll never be your friend Ill be your rash
Cuz I've got no good side
and I've got no bad side
I'm snotty and snide
and I'll be your landslide
Everybody wants me to play nice but
Dont you know I am the king of vice?
"No future for me," cuz I'm too damn crazy
I lost my head and my heart is made of ice
I drink too much and I'm so full of hate
How did I end up as the Rattlesnake?
When nothing is fair, and I never cared
I thought I was too young to be too late
XI. ANAHEIM
I'm living down by Linbrook bowl where things don't look so pretty
Cast your eyes up on the I-5 and Welcome to my city
where tourist's dont drive, out to the west side where no one walks alone
Fireworks that glitter ain't gold and Priced out of a home
What was once the knife's turning to gun
A coat of cheap new paint over the slum
The Neon's disappearing one by one
Remodel - remodel - and take out all my fun
I walk past Linda's and Chain, but nothing's going on
Feels like I could go insane, Mariachi blaring on
Well, Mickey Mouse don't love the poor when they're knocking on his door
Is it any wonder I can't take it anymore?
We're begging for a capitalist catastrophe
Drive past the unlucky ones you see
Rats in tunnels under Crescent street
Now living at the top of the palm tree
Follow me, I'm getting out
I don't want to stick around
Pack my bags forget this town
Anaheim is burning down
I. Ashes to Ashes
You're always telling lies
Don't try to change my mind
You never listen Honey
You better step in line
I've been through lots of pain
Now anger is my name
And I don't have the time now baby
to play your stupid game
I'll fight til the day I die
I'll try til the day I die
I'll believe til the day I die
You're not gonna rule my life
Ashes to Ashes, and Dust to Dust
Cold day in hell yeah baby before you have my trust
An old man asked me "what do you do it for?"
I said Liberation
Baby that's what I'm fighting for
II. Repression
I'm worried about my lungs I'm worried about my life
last night I found myself yelling at my wife
Anxiety, and loads of frustration,
another panic attack it's all just repetition
take me home I'm never coming back,
try to beat statistics of my back
I'm losing my grip, losing my life,
help me hold on cuz I'm drowning, drowning...
Are you tired of the Repression?
I’m freaking out – I’m going wild
And everybody treats me like a bastard child
I’ve been booted down Can’t take it anymore
I have an urgent message for the lost and the poor
Whoever loves me must lose his life
Prepare for persecution from the chain and the knife
I’m tired of this world But look at me now
I’m sick of this Repression and I’m getting out
III. Falling Down
Your mouth is big but your lips are numb
I'm out on the road to have some fun
Life is short and we all die
Don't have the time to listen to you whine
Get ready to run cuz It's all falling down
It's a long road home when everything is falling down
Your words have venom but they have no sting
Because to me they don't mean a thing
Try to Rob my pride cuz you're a thief
I have a right to my own beliefs
IV Lowlife
Light up on the corner it'll be ok cuz I'm riding out the night
It used to be different now it feels the same so I'm looking for a fight
Like when you hit the bottle for an empty dream and the darkness chokes the light
I'm trying to see if you'd even remember me cuz I ain't so sure tonight
Will it be ok? (No!) Will it be alright (No!)
Will it be ok? (No!) Will it be alright (No!)
I've come to realize I'm just shook up inside and
I'm looking for a home
I have no opinion and I got no pride and we're walking all alone
Burns me up to think about how they all lied and I'm looking for the truth
You'll never hold me back no matter how you try cuz we're finished with you
Will it be ok? (No!) Will it be alright (No!)
Will it be ok? (No!) Will it be alright (No!)
It's not going to be ok, It's not going to be allright
It's not going to be ok, It's not going to be allright
It's not going to be ok, It's not going to be allright
It's not going to be ok, It's not going to be allright...
V. YOU LIAR
Again and Again and Again You Lie
Always Telling Me examine speck in my eye
Again and Again and Again You Cry
So much repetition do you ever wonder why?
Again and Again and Again You Lie
Always suffocating and expanding the lie
Again and Again and Again You Lie
How does it feel to have no truth to your life
How long you been running
In a maze of your own fiction
It gets so complicated
But it just becomes addiction
No one can trust you
And when you lie you burn your bridges
I hope you realize
The only truth to you is that you LIE
Again and Again and Again I Fold
You just can’t win when the lie is told
While Again and Again and Again You Lie
All the brainwashing and those people lose their minds
Again and Again and Again, it flies
You’ll always find a faction who will love you for a lie
Again and Again and Again You Know
You’re just going to reap the death that you still sow
You know inside that you're nothing and you'll never win again
Cuz you can not admit that you're wrong if you don't wanna hear it
And the fantasy life you live keeps coming unglued because
You'll walk not after the truth unless You can steer it
VI. SUBMISSION
You'll take it any way she gives it
You'll do it any time she tells you
You'll like it but only if she says so
I don't know why..
She'll whip you right into submission
She'll put the fire in your eye
She'll whip you right into submission..
..and work you like a Dog until you die
You lost it only cuz She made you
You'll do it just because She takes you
You're working but She takes all the money
I don't know why..
VII. CLAUSTRAPHOBIA
I'm getting tired of the same thing every day
The scenery here just never seems to change
I need to get out on the road of city lights
I'm getting tired of the same place every night
I'm going stir crazy, I'm going to lose my mind
I'm going stir crazy, I'm going to lose my mind
I need a way out of the trap you got me in
You see my patience is starting to wear thin
I'm getting sick of your irritating voice
I'm getting tired of not having a choice
I'm going stir crazy, I'm going to lose my mind
I'm going stir crazy, I'm going to lose my mind
VIII. THOUGHT CRIME
There's no time to sit back, there's no time to relax
and let time just take it's toll
Restricted, Constricted
Restricted Constricted and there's no room to grow
I just can't get out I can't work it out and I'm feeling so alone
You call me a Liar and I'm feeling so tired and I guess I'm on my own
Another thought crime
I just can't make it I don't think I can take it and my mind is outta control
My thoughts are racing, I've been pacing and pacing, these Ideals are illegal
I try to embrace it but I just can't face it and I'm staring down the road
You're just trying to makeand it I hope it's the right way but now I'm dreaming of home
I guess it's just another thought crime
It just happens, it happens all the time
I don't think I can take it this make it or break it
and I... I'm losing my mind
Dear God, what's going on, have I been wasting all my time?
IX. MEANING
Do you remember the day you told me to come over?
I knocked and pounded and threw myself against his door.
Next time I saw you you wouldn't look at me no more...
Why do the good guys lose and does anyone keep score?
I don't know what It means...
I don't know what It means...
I don't know what It means...
I'm gonna find out what it means
Walking around uptown down Glenoaks avenue
Trying to buy during street war time and dodge the other crew
All the WSAS out here smoke up a dime or two
Why do I keep on living like there's nothing to lose?
We'll hit the road and head up to Hollywood and then
You know we'll cruise Melrose and we'll be back again
Next day we're on our way to Franklin and Highland
Old guy screams 'bout the end of time but no one understands
X. TROUBLED TIMES
Sometimes I wanna give up And I feel like giving in
And Now I've had enough, my patience wearing thin
I have no self esteem,
No Image for my pride
And now I guess it seems that I have nowhere to hide
Now it looks like cloudy skies
Now it feels like Troubled Times
Sun goes up and down and I'm still here
Trapped inside my own worst fears
We push it all deep down, And it all comes up again
Sometimes I wish I'd drown and let this suffer end
Sometimes I see the light
Sometimes I don't know how to keep up with my life
And make it out somehow