LONGVIEW
Sit around and watch the tube but, nothing's on
Change the channels for an hour or two
Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit
I'm sick of all the same old shit
In a house with unlocked doors
And I'm fucking lazy
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going BLIND!!!
And I smeel like shit
Peel me off this velcro seat and get me moving
I sure as hell can't do it by myself
I'm feeling like a DOG IN HEAT
Barred indoors from the summer street
I locked the door to MY OWN CELL
And I lost the key
I got NO MOTIVATION
Where is my MOTIVATION
No time for MOTIVATION
Smoking my INSPIRATION
Sit around and watch the phone, but no on'es calling
Call me pathetic, call me WHAT YOU WILL
My mother says to get a job
But she don't like the one SHE'S got
When masturbation's lost its fun
You're fucking breaking
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn BORED
I'm going blind
And loneliness has to suffice
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Slipping away to paradise
Some say, "Quit or I'll go BLIND."
But it's just a myth
WELCOME TO PARADISE
Dear mother, Can you hear me whining?
It's been three whole weeks
Since I left your home
This sudden fear has left me trembling
Cause now it seems that I am out here on my own
And I'm felling so alone
Pay attention to the cracked streeet
And broken homes
Some call it the slums
Some call it nice
I want to take you through a wasteland I like to call my home
Welcome to Paradise
A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go
Dear Mother, can you hear me laughing
It's been six whole months since
I have left your home
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go
BASKETCASE
Do you have the time to listen to me whine
About NOTHING and EVERYTHING all at once
I am one of those
Melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone
No doubt about it
Sometimes I give myself the CREEPS
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm CRACKING UP
Am I just PARANOID?
I'm just STONED
I went to a shrink
To analyze my dreams
SHE says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
I went to a whore
HE saud my life's a bore
And quit my whining cause it's bringing HER down
Grasping to CONTROL
So you BETTER hold on
WHEN I COME AROUND
I heard you crying loud allthe way across town
You've been searching for that someone and it's me out on the prowl
As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself
Don't get lonely now
Dry your whining eyes
I'm just roaming for the moment
Sleazin' my back yard so don't get so uptight you been thinking about ditching me
No time to search the world around
Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around
I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door
I'm a loser and a user so I don't need no accuser to slag me down because I know I'm right
So go do what you like
Make sure you do it wise
You may find out that your self doubt means nothing was ever there
You can't go forcing somehting if it's just not right
SHE
She screams in silence
A sullen riot penetrating through her mind
Waiting for a sign to smash the silence with the brick of self control
Are you locked up in a world
That's been planned out for you?
Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?
Scream at me until my ears bleed
I'm taking heed just for you
She's figured out all her doubts
Were someone else's point of view
Waking up this time to smash the silence with the brick of self control
J.A.R.
My friend drove off the other day,
And now he's gone and all they say,
Is you gotta live cause life goes on
But now I see i'm mortal too
I can't live my life like you
Gotta live it up while life goes on
And I think it's alright
That I do what I like cause that's the way I wanna live
And so I give
And i'm still giving
And now I wonder about my friend
If he gave all he could give
Cause he lived his life like I live mine
If you could see inside my head
Then you'd start to understand
The things I value in my heart
You know that,
I know that,
Your watching me
Gotta make a plan
Gotta do what's right
Can't run around in circles
If you wanna build a life
But I don't wanna make a plan
For a day far away
While i'm young and while i'm able
All I wanna do is....
GEEK STINK BREATH
I'm on a mission
I made my decision
To lead a path of self-destruction
A slow progression
Killing my complexion
And it's rotting out my teeth
I'm on a roll
No self control
I'm blowing off steam with
Meth Amphetamine
Don't know what I want
That's all that I've got
And I'm picking scabs off my face
Every hour my blood is turning sour
And my pulse is beating out of time
I found a treasure
Filled with sick pleasure
And it sits on a thick white line
I'm on a mission
I got no decision like a cripple
Running the rat race
Wish in one hand and shit in the other
And see which one gets filled first
BRAIN STEW
I'm having trouble trying to sleep
I'm counting sheep but running out
As time ticks by
And still I try
No rest for crosstops in my mind
On my own...here we go
My eyes feel like they're going to bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is numb
Fucked up and spun out in my room
On my own...here we go
My mind is set on overdrive
The clock i laughing in my face
A crooked spine
My sense dulled
Passed the point of delirium
On my own...here we go
JADED
Somebody keep my balance
I think I'm falling off
Into a state of regression
The espiration date
Rapidly coming up
It's leaving me behind to rank
Always move forward
Going "straight" will get you nowhere
there is no progress
Evolution killed it all
I found my place in nowhere
I'm taking one step sideways
Leading with my crutch
Got a fucked up equilibrium
Count down from 9 to 5
Hooray! we're gonna die!
Blessed into our extinction
WALKING CONTRADICTION
Do as I say not as I do because
The shit so deep you can't run away
I beg to differ on the contrary
i agree with every word that you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet's fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then I'll hit you again
I'm a smart-ass but I'm playing dumb
Standards set and broken all the time
Control the chaos behind a gun
Call it as i see it even if
I was born deaf, blind and dumb
Losers winning big on the lottery
Rehab rejects still sniffing glue
Constant refutation with myself
I'm a victim of a catch 22
I have no belief
But I believe
I'm a walking contradiction
And I ain't got no right
STUCK WITH ME
I'm not part of your elite
I'm just alright
Class structure waving colors
Bleeding from my throat
Not subservient to you I'm just alright
Down classed by the powers that be
Give me loss of hope
Cast out...Buried in a hole
Struck down...forcing me to fail
Destroyed...giving up the fight
I know I'm not alright
What's my price and will you pay it
If it's alright?
Take it from my dignity
Waste it until it's dead
Throw me back into the gutter
Cuase it's alright
Find another pleasure fucker
Drag them down to hell
HITCHIN' A RIDE
Hey mister, where you headed?
Are you in a hurry?
I need a lift to happy hour.
Say oh no.
Do you brake for distilled spirits?
I need a break as well.
The well that inebriates the guilt.
1, 2. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Cold turkey's getting stale, tonight I'm eating crow.
Fermented salmonella poison oak no
There's a drought at the fountain of youth, and now I'm dehydrating.
My tongue is swelling up, as say 1, 2. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Troubled times, you know i can not lie.
I'm off the wagon and I'm hitchin' a ride.
There's a drought at the fountain of youth, and now I'm dehydrating.
My tongue is swelling up, I say Shit!
TIME OF YOUR LIFE
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road.
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to do.
So make the best of this test, and don't ask why.
It's not a question, but a lesson learned in time.
It's something unpredictable, but in the end is right.
I hope you had the time of your life.
So take the photographs, and still frames in your mind.
Hang it on a shelf of good health and good time.
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial.
For what it's worth, it was worth all the while.
I hope you had the time of your life.
I hope you had the time of your life.
REDUNDANT
We're living in repetition.
Content in the same old shtick again.
Now the routine's turning to contention,
Like a production line going over and over and over, roller
coaster.
Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice.
I'm speechless and redundant.
'Cause I love you's not enough.
I'm lost for words.
Choreographed and lack of passion.
Prototypes of what we were.
Went full circle 'til I'm nauseous.
Taken for granted now.
Now I waste it, faked it, ate it, now i hate it.
Now I cannot speak, I lost my voice.
I'm speechless and redundant, 'cause I love you's not enough.
I'm lost for words, now I cannot speak.
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
Nice guys finish last.
You're running out of gas.
Your sympathy will get you left behind.
Sometimes you're at your best, when you look the worst.
Do you feel washed up, like piss going down the drain
Pressure cooker pick my brain and tell me I'm insane.
I'm so fucking happy I could cry.
Every joke can have its truth and now the joke's on you.
I never knew you were such a funny guy.
Oh nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast.
Don't pat yourself on the back, you might break your spine.
Living on command.
You're shaking lots of hands.
Kissing up and bleeding all your trust, taking what you need.
Bit the hand that feeds.
You kill your memory
MINORITY
I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
down with the moral majority
'cause I want to be the minority
I pledge allegiance to the underworld
one nation under dog
there of which I stand alone
a face in the crowd
unsung, against the mold
without a doubt,
singled out
the only way I know
I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
down with the moral majority
'cause I want to be the minority
stepped out of the line
like a sheep runs from the herd
marching out of time
to my own beat now
the only way I know
one light, one mind
flashing in the dark
blinded by silence of a thousand broken hearts
"for crying out loud" she screamed unto me
a free for all
fuck 'em all
"you are your own sight"
I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
down with the moral majority
'cause I want to be the minority
WARNING
This is a public service announcement
this is only a test
emergency evacuation protest
may impair your ability to operate machinery
Can't quite tell just what it means to me
keep out of reach of children
Don't talk to strangers
get your philosophy from a bumper sticker
Warning: Live without warning
Warning: Live without warning
better homes and safety- sealed communities?
Did you remember to pay the utility?
Caution: police line: you better not cross
Is it the cop or am I the one that's
really dangerous
Sanitation, Expiration date, Question Everything?
Or shut up and be the victim of authority
Warning: Live without warning
Warning: Live without warning
better homes and safety-communities?
Did you remember to pay the utility?
Caution: police line: you better not cross
Is it the cop or am I the one that's
really dangerous?
Sanitation, Expiration date, Question Everything?
Or shut up and be the victim of authority
Warning: Live without warning
Warning: Live without warning
This was a public service announcement
this was only a test
WAITING
I've been waiting a long time
for this moment to come
I'm destined
for anything...at all
Downtown lights will be shining
on me like a new diamond
ring out under the midnight hour
no one can touch me now
and I can't turn my back
It's too late ready or not at all
I'm so much closer than
I have ever known...
wake up
Dawning of a new era
calling...don't let it catch you falling
ready or not at all
so close enough to taste it
almost...I can embrace this
feeling...on the tip of my tongue
I'm so much closer than
I have ever known...
wake up
better thank your lucky stars...
I've been waiting a lifetime
for this moment to come
I'm destined for anything at all
Dumbstruck
colour me stupid
good luck
you're gonna need it
where I'm going if I get there...
at all...
wake up
better thank your lucky stars...
MACY'S DAY PARADE
Today's the Macy's Day Parade
the night of the living dead is on its way
with a credit report for duty call
It's a lifetime guarantee
stuffed in a coffin "10% more free"
Red ligth special at the mausoleum
Give me something that I need
satisfaction guaranteed to you
what's the consolation prize?
economy sized dreams of hope
when I was a kid I thought
I wanted all the things that I haven't got
oh, I learned the hardest way
Then I realized what it took
To tell the difference between
thieves and crooks
when all along it was me and you
Give me something that I need
Satisfaction guaranteed
Because I'm thinking about
a brand new hope
the one I've never known
'cause now I know
it's all that I wanted
what's the consolation prize?
economy sized dreams of hope
Give me something that I need
Satisfaction guaranteed
Because I'm thinking about
a brand new hope
the one I've never known
and where it goes
and I'm thinking about
the only road
the one I've never known
and where it goes
Because I'm thinking about
a brand new hope
the one I've never known
'cause now I know
it's all that I wanted
MARIA
She smashed the radio with the board of education
Turn up the static left of the state of the nation
Turn up the flame, step on the gas
Burning the flag at half mast
She's a rebel's forgotten son
An export of the revolution
She is the first voice of the last ones in the line
She'll drag the lake to keep the vendetta alive
Bring in the head of the government
The dog ate the document
Somebody shot the President
And no one knows where Maria went?
Maria,
Maria,
Maria, where did you go?...
She questions what your offering
Your breath lacks the convicion
Drawing the line in the dirt
Because the last decision...is NOOO!
She smashed the radio with the board of education
Turn up the static left of the state of the nation
Turn up the flame, step on the gas
Burning the flag at half mast
She's a rebel's forgotten son
An export of the revolution
Maria,
Maria,
Maria, where did you go?...
(UNKNOWN SONG)
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