1. Knowledge
2. Sound System
3. Jaded
4. Take Warning
5. The Crowd
6. Bombshell
7. Unity
8. Vulnerability
9. Bankshot! (Instrumental)
10. Walk All Over You (Nancy Sinatra cover
song)
11. Gonna Find You
12. Bad Town
13. Smiling
14. Caution
15. Freeze Up
16. Artificial Life
17. Room Without A Window
18. Big City
19. Missionary
20. Junkies Running Dry
21. Here We Go Again
22. Hoboken
23. Yelling In My Ear
24. Sleep Long
25. Healthy Body
26. Officer
27. I Got Nothing In Mind
Knowledge
I know that things are getting tougher when you
cant get top off from the bottom of the barrel wide open road of my future
now... its looking fucking narrow All I know is that I dont know nothing
we get told to decide just like as if im not gonna change my mind all I
know is that I dont know nothing whatcha gonna do with yourself boy better
make up your mind whatcha gonna do with yourself boy you're running out
of time this time I got it all figured out all I know is that I dont know
nothing... and thats fine.
Sound System
sound system gonna bring me back up one thing that
I can depend on try to describe to the limit of my ability: its there for
a second then it's given up what it used to be contained in my music somehow
more than just sound, this inspiration coming and twisting things around
Because you always know that its gonna have to go. you always know
that you'll be back in the cold. point of depatrure sublimated in
a song its always coming to give me that hope for just a second then its
gone but static pulse inside of music bringing us escape its always temporary
changing nothing in its wake just a second where were leaving all this
shit behind just a second but its leaving just this much in mind: to resist
despair that second makes you see to resist despair because you cant change
everything to resist despair in this world is what it is to be free wake
up turn my box on bust the shade let the sun in times getting tougher bout
time to start runnin box in my hand music by my side skanking to the rhythm
of the music by my side.
Jaded
something breaks inside of you with the spectacle
of all the shows with fifteen fights and your six bucks has gone up some
promoters nose jaded eyes see clearly but only half of whats there good
old days are left behind whats left is boredom and despair but sometimes
every once in a while its beautiful I would say, I wouldn't have it any
other way if I said different it would be a lie what was once rebellion
is now clearly just a social sect but are you just upset because your own
social clique has left leave when you want because I know that someday
I will too but I wont burn my bridges and be just another jaded fool.
Take Warning
stand by your freinds, wrong or right can't call
that justice when its just a stupid excuse to fight single out and attack
the ones who got no defense you call that a new way of thinking i call
it regression to ignorance take warning theres a new generation coming
and we really gotta stand up to them nobodys got a thing against you unless
youve got something to prove we dont need no set of standards, we dont
need a new set of rules heard all that shit before about stomping out any
difference we say stand together (not to fight just to exist) take warning
intimidation coming and we really gotta say no to them enough is enough
is enough why dont you just ease up I saw another beat down last nite take
warning who's the next to hit the ground tonite take warning.
The Crowd
wrenched into the world, deanaesthetized blurry
images fiht their way through halfway opened eyes awakened by alarm fifteen
minutes of hygeine twenty minutes of eating thirty seconds to the door
I looked outside I looked into the eyes of the impersonal mob I've seen
a thousand times before feeling under covers like books on a shelf if we're
scared of one another must be scared of ourself more than just another
crowd we need a gathering instead drink drink in the badland liquid bread
for the poor another member of the crowd goes down to drown at the liquor
store choose your escape in the heartland of product and demand when you
feel like a wasp in the swarm you gotta get away anyway that you can.
Bombshell
She, she, she, she's a bombshell.
She, she, she, she's a bombshell.
Down in South Oakland, off East 14th its raining.
Oh yeah.
Six a.m. on sunday and the bums are praying.
Oh yeah.
Met her at a party, we were drunk, now we're sober.
Oh yeah.
She said its cold, got a long walk home, come over.
Oh yeah.
She's a bombshell.
She's a bombshell.
She's a bombshell.
I've retraced my steps a thousand times. Oh
yeah.
Seems I've spent hours asking all my freinds about
her. Oh yeah.
Been six months, but I'll never be the same.
Oh yeah.
Nobody... nobody remembers her name. Oh yeah.
She's a bombshell.
She's a bombshell.
She's a bombshell. Oh yeah.
She, she, she, she's a bombshell.
She, she, she, she's a bombshell. Oh yeah.
She, she, she, she's a bombshell.
She, she, she, she's a bombshell. Oh yeah.
She's a bombshell.
Unity
theres a war going down between my brothers tonight
I dont want no war going down tonight civilization ha I call it as I see
it I call it bullshit you know I still cannot believe it our evolution
now has gone the way of hate a world evolved resolved in this stupid fate
stop this war all so different yeah I say were all the same all caught
you know in the division game self destruction fast impending like a bullet
no one can stop it once its fired no one can control it stop this war a
final word, wait it's not a call to action we aint no sect we aint no fucking
faction unity unity youve heard it all before this time its not exclusive
we want to stop a war unity as one stand together unity evolutions gonna
come.
Vulnerability
I saw this guy go down wasn't time for fear before
his body hit the ground our vulnerability is all our insensitivity car
that hit him pulled to a stop driver hid the bottles he anticipated cops
crowd assembled to take a look at death shattered skull fragile body blacktop
running red people looked bored like expecting more people looked bored
like expecting more and sympathy is only freindships whore you know and
maybe we dont know who we are anymore another spectacle and its respectable
to take it lightly like another tv show so desensitized so dehumanized
why stop and think when you can find someplace to go were drowning and
its gonna be the death of us just you wait and see.
Bankshot! (Instrumental)
Walk All Over You (Nancy Sinatra cover song)
Gonna Find You
well i saw this kid get beaten down because he
was out of luck in the lottery of acceptance in the school of growing up
saw a bunch of convicts doing time inside a cage got locked in factories
w/in the school of paid wage saw this boy so strung out that his body sweats
and shakes from his field education in the school of cheap escapes got
told the school of human thinking teaches only truth and one of its educations
is gonna find you saw a civilization where grabbing onto wealth was the
only guarantee of freedom peace and health dollar sign value system upheld
as the truth and if you cant find a place its gonna find you saw the paranoid
response to all of the examples of the ones that dont fit in this way of
living geting trampled success is obedience to a structured way of life
you cant ignore the structure because were all within its sight.
Bad Town
they call it a scene I call it disaster down here
the kids grow up faster scared they're scared to the bone like a pack of
wolves they don't run alone one on one they won't look you in the eye but
when the pack's together there's a battle cry I saw it fifteen on one when
the crowd dispersed the kid was done no (no more) no (bad town) no more
bad town yeah down there you gotta have a label just like a cattle in a
stable knee jerk reaction I call it violence why speak out when you could
be silenced down there on the dance floor too much violence I dont want
more down there out on the street I can see the air I can see the heat.
Smiling
at the party at the bus stop at the bar you're
looking at women because your score is under par when you find her it doesn't
mean anything you wonder why yourr life is so boring a mind is a terrible
thing to waste you would gladly waste it just to save face her desire is
your wish with out it you are lost integrity is fragile but you ignored
the cost smiling when your freinds are watching you one night stand car
keys in hand you've fullfilled your gender's sexual demand are you feeling
insecure and empty when you're rushing to report it to your peers?
Caution
caution is a word that i cant understand c-a-u-t-i-o-n
was a word i could not understand walked the dog with a real short leash
turned around saw the dog walk me stainless steel and painted glass give
me a pulse like a hammer and a mind to match no relief no food no sleep
when you're king for a day you're a whore for a week I didnt get it then
I think I got it now caution my freind dont step in the water 'til you
know you can swim.
Freeze Up
empty factories to the east and all our waste the
shape of things that came shows on the broken workers face to the west
you'll find our silicon promised lands where machines replace our minds
for systematic profit plans the course of human progress staggers like
a drunk its steps are quick and heavy and its mind is slow and blunt I
look for optimism but I just dont know its seeds are planted in a poison
place where nothing grows its 1989 stand up and take a look around weathers
bitter tension it seems is sinking down drunk with power and fighting one
another every hour shows the winter getting harder theres a freezeup coming
one nation stands the tallest radiating blinding light plastic and fluorescent
energy robbing us of sight set in our way content with our decay we wave
the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade ever ask yrself wheres my
place in this hell but no ones there to tell you cuz they dont know that
themselves the well rehearsed lines from our elated politicians no longer
offer solace we can see the self destruction just one political song to
drop into the list that is years and years long.
Artificial Life
hes got a song about a love thats gone away sometimes
his eyes shed tiny teardrops when he plays his touching ballads are just
there sitting to buy they call it music but it seems more like a lie artificial
life in the marketplace epic ballads by the musical whores life is so boring
project theirs onto yours hear the anthems of the pepsi generation see
the martyrs of our spiritual degradation artificial life in the marketplace
american culture disneyland freak show screen in your living room a window
for your tomb if you cant compare to the world sitting there repress your
insecurities watch and escape give me artificial give me superficial give
me a commercial life that can't be bought this I say to you what I say
is true emotions aren't a product to sell and cannot be consumed coming
attraction its coming real soon prince is having lunch with pat boone want
to know where all the bullshit goes it goes down the sewer to be disposed.
Room Without A Window
the position being taken is not to be mistaken
for attempted education or righteous accusation only a description just
an observation of the pitiful condition of our degeneration walls made
of opinions thru which we speak and never listen ceiling made of pride
vicious and self satisfied door thats made of rage hard and slowly aged
always closing tighter with every war that's waged room without a window
cant see out... floor is made of lives wed gladly end to stay inside corners
made of borders, borders made of law and order painted with the words of
politicians and religion plastered with the wreckage of our cultural division
room without a window cant see out...
Big City
concrete and chaos rise up spiderweb across the
land like a giant rash forests lie down below foundations of buildings
in a bed of ash some people here got it real good cuz the glass towers
bring prosperity other people starve in the street because concrete knows
no sympathy big city its a wishing well, big city its a living hell this
town its fucking insane how one will starve and another will gain like
a giant mechanical brain and the people are cells and the streets are veins
it thinks only of itself a thousand limbs crawling as it expands and grows
and still the concrete sits there sits there stark grey and cold and I
think I wanna be a brick layer so I can put another brick in the wall its
sanitary rational happy and sane growing like a flower to surround us all.
Missionary
I start it, I end it I kill and words will defend
it got big plans blood stained hands wanna see my name on the map on my
way to save the world got a brand new set of words the going rate is cheap
unconditional devotion unquestioning belief words carved in stone chiseled
in with sharpened bones of the ones who thought my righteousness was something
to oppose can you see the flag rising up beyond the smoke of dying authors
burning books there was a problem with what they wrote the flag is hard
to read because all flags start to look the same when covered w/the blood
of the faithless and insane man of many names but the motives stay the
same my actions are a means to an end my actions are a means to...
Junkies Running Dry
I always looked up on the ones who walked away
choosing themselves over preset ways of looking at a future that had no
room for the questions they lived for always knew i never could have walked
away myself my self worth was beyond any help and i didnt care to test
it against the rejection i had seen before but those i loved so much they
underwent a change they're working fourty hours they got caught in the
game like junkies running dry, the vulnerability they're always there on
time we're never satisfied like junkies running dry this wonderful generosity
a third of our lives to do what we please doesn't look that great to me
in fact it doesnt even look fair they call it youthful idealism and even
I would have to agree with them except some of us grow up and its still
there I grow up too slow I don't wanna go but now i'm working just like
everyone else but i'll get out of here.
Here We Go Again
it's not the ending its the beginning the ground
is moist and it rained last night smells like smoke and it smells so clean
the sun is shining down like a freindly white light here we go again analyzed
the world I was born into but I could never understand knew I never wanted
to grow up if that meant being a "man" dominating strict competition is
the meaning of our lives stomping on the weak keeps us the winner of the
battle in our minds tensions in our lives that are attacking our minds
unite themselves together to make our conciousness blind conditioned to
self-interest with emotions locked away if that's what they call normal
i'd rather be insane relax yourself from giving what you want to do with
your life ease up from giving up things like control of your own mind if
you never ask any question then you're never gonna get no answer always
be wondering what do you want while you keep getting older faster here
we go again another test of manhood just when you thought youd won the
more we keep competing the more the battle has just begun.
Hoboken
i'm in this prison built for you in this situation
I don't know what to do can't make a connection get a reaction there's
this wall and I can't get through you're dying some guilt with no words
what did I say what did I do youth hostels I lodged kept seeing you as
a mirage flashesof you were everywhere hoboken new jersey I'm in this prison
built for you in this situation I don't know what to do always something
makes me think things dont have to be so wrong you put up walls with nothing
spoken in your weakness you're so strong.
Yelling In My Ear
never had a reason for the attack it's impulsive
and insane when I wanna talk sense to you it's like spitting back at rain
I've come to know that when i first saw you I should
have ran away I've kicked myself a thousand times but now its too late
yelling in my ear you try to control me you look but you don't see yelling
in my ear you got a big mouth are you ever gonna get a clue youre loud
obnoxious when youre gone I still hear you always spewing shit with you
irritating voice I dont wanna listen but I got no choice quit acting like
youre nuts, just shut the hell up.
Sleep Long
one day I saw a man asleep in a doorway on the
street thru walls of sheltered inhibition I perceived his condition dying
of hunger and exposure, food and shelter two blocks over within this place
we breed and dwell in we've created living hell sleep long sleep well only
to awake in hell city sleeps and pigeons flutter vagrant dies in the gutter
pride.
Healthy Body
expensive vitamin pills and wheat germ on your
windowsill your schedules hectic and you got no time to kill you're earning
money and spending it the right way you're just in such a rush you dont
know if its night or day 5:30 get up and you run, run, run then you work
eight hours slaving under the gun your little world's based on lies lies
lies always rushing but youre never ever satisfied healthy body sick mind
youre working overtime healthy body sick mind too hectic too hectic healthy
body sick mind its just a matter of time sick body sick mind the money
you spend on running shoes could feed me for a week your plans are laid
so well you cant even sleep pursuit of happiness got your life locked up
under martial law you got everything to lose so you're paranoid about some
fatal flaw.
Officer
I Got Nothing In Mind