1. Adina
2. Hyena
3. Detroit
4. Rats In The Hallway
5. Another Night
6. Animosity
7. Outta My Mind
8. Whirlwind
9. Rejected
10. Injury
11. The Bottle
12. Trenches
13. Holiday Sunrise
14. Unwritten Rules
15. Union Blood
16. Get Out Of My Way
Adina
i want to go where the action is i want to fly
through the urban blight i want to 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 how did she know the roof would cave in over
and over again beat up bruised a record that's broken adina's crying again
beat up chevy whit a trailer in tow is what they call home 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 hopin' for better
days how did she know the roof would cave in over and over again beat up
bruised a record that's broken adina's crying again.
Hyena
im money broke and its no joke cant core use the
rope this time knuckle up buckle up the ride's getting rough but i will
not loose my mind i asked em if i could come in and the first thing they
said was no if i cant come in that's mean that i cant come back that means
i got nowhere to go im a hyena fighting for lion share sometimes the lions
share ain't there absent from political authority an animal i've become
total disorder and confusion is the life style that i run permit me to
do what i want and i will im a nomad to travel concrete class stone and
gravel every time i turn around it's the same sad story getting ganked
i wish it could end in life's commissary im a bad missionary with a wicked
message i sent who can i trust in a world of greed when im taught to take
and not to give.
Detroit
i didn't know what time it was until the sun went
down detroit mild on the bus downtown last i was fighting on the street
but tonight i have a girl next to me in this cold world she brings me heat
i got a good feeling in a bad city tonight i gotta good feeling everything's
gonna be alright some run some fight detained in illegal custody spent
the night in jail with a drunken priest and a hooker $500 bail nobody knew
who was who standing in the street like that i hit the ground to make a
sound bus dropped me off and i had to cough i couldn't breath cause i got
ripped off i couldn't realize by being satisfied cause it runs so thin
and that's why im pissed off we had no money we had time she had the champagne
i had the cisco wine she said do you want to come you better hurry because
we'll have hell to pay.
Rats In The Hallway
knock knock come in you wanna fight im gonna win
ill take you out in a minute step in my flat see what's in it i live in
the land of welfare state my flat used to be section 8 now its a rat infested
cocaine run my whole world plays like a broken drum drunken bum rats in
the hallway again get up get out go ahead and ride away sit up our bed
up your bed to lay kick up our rip up this place apart even when im finished
im back at the start im out of line at adeline st. heat don't keep the
crooked beat 4 a.m. no waves breaking what's left of the pm the am has
taken drunken bum drunken bum rats in the hallway again outside my gate
my crew is drinking a 40 oz the asked my if there's still rats in the hallway
i said something's ain't like the 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 shoved me the tracks on her arm i said what's your name she
said mya she said tim wanna take you higher junkie drunken bum rats in
the hallway again zombie walking kid out on his own with no morals mr.
high leaves the body in comes mr. withdrawn pain is the only thing the
body will allow the kid wants to dance the gangsters knows how johnny bought
some shit down on market street shoot up boot up the human target he hit
the dirty spike when he hit the scene its easy to stay dirty when nothing
is clean johnny's a writer who tags up jackal jackal just clamped on unclampable
shackles rout up shoot up some dope to go like legal currency its money
its like that rat tat tat kid got shot point blank in the back my land
lord said not to be bumming he was on cocaine stoop and he had it coming
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 drunken bum rats in the hallway
again.
Another Night
in the dark with the oakland skyline as i cross
the city i avoid the landlines all i wanna do is make it through without
dying all i wanna do is keep on trying another night in the streets for
me another night no sanctuary another night come and watch me bleed another
night in the streets for me she wouldn't move until the coast was clear
she always knew the final battle was near if you have a bag of dope she
give it up for free if you got a song of hope it will help her see.
Animosity
break down the fear i got my animosity im gonna
break it down armageddon is coming so you better start running cause the
big wave is coming to the shore no suprise that you see through the lies
of the system that's rotten to the core high tech surveillance paranoia
and violence keeping the city at a calm break it down tear it apart the
city's going off like a bomb helicopters coming down on me tonight my brother
selling cocaine he knows how to fight hounded and harassed in a power elite
bought sun ain't arise so i abide by my route i remember a cold december
when i heard the revolution rock didn't hear what they were saying i ran
through the mayhem of a police state on my block high tech...
Outta My Mind
you're working like a monkey who's been training
by a sick junkie on a mission to get money for a new suit and tieto wear
to a reception where they envy your deception and one compliments praises
to the ones they despite practicing your smile in the mirror all the while
try to cultinate the style of the basterds in power i know what they're
selling cause their nervous twitch is telling you're coming off smelling
like the pig of the hour i got a lot of people telling me that im outta
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 a lot of people telling me im out of my mind
and i don't know why.
Whirlwind
every city got an artery where the blood breaks
down an avenue or a boulevard and a boy who wears a crown indignant live
styles implies simply lack of means dogmatical authoritarians dictate the
cities remains a promise to go to heaven wont put salvation in sight Whirlwind
is coming 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 going to help him now generations of job security gone
out like the horse and plow a promise to go to heaven wont put salvation
in sight Whirlwind is coming down on me 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 robed the working class carries 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 a promise to go to heaven wont put salvation
in sight Whirlwind is coming down on me.
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 was carry to this day rejected
crossing the bridges in the land of the forgotten rejected distrust existed
that i never saw deep seated trust i was a victim of rejected... 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 alone.
Injury
excuse me while i put i knife out of my back how
could i 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 and put me through im injured injury i look for the truth
its hard to find money grabbing dragon and the tie you hide behind im so
fucking stupid with you i was a byer i believed in you you deceiving liar
set me fucking free.
The Bottle
climb in side me... pain another night of drinkin'
another night of being out of my head and i don't know where i was last
night drinkin' on a empty stomach or an empty mind it makes no difference
when im way out of line things i cant remember comes back to haunt me a
lot of people out there who seem to want me climb in the bottle and never
come out i may know nothing but im good at something i will drink till
the sun comes up no more one of these days gonna come out of my haze better
hurry up its getting harder to come back.
Trenches
1987 at a 7-11 police out looking for problems
but im no average hoodlum still running from the pigs so it seems to me
this is not the land of love and liberty its more like a waiting room in
hell drink a quart and watch me dwell i got it right out in the trenches
tonight glass towers rise above the filth and the pain im a moral degenerate
feel my pain pass out in a squat on mission that night i was shocked into
submission straight down straight down to hell i head systems of sewers
is where i lay my head people on their way are like on a different dimension
i need no correction i got it right out in the trenches tonight some of
my friends moved on a simple domestic life they're all gone only a few
of us remain only few of us want to keep in the same i got it right out
in the trenches tonight.
Holiday Sunrise
so i packed everything i owned midnight christmas
eve a kid could feel alone i drink my scotch my mind goes astray midnight
christmas eve starts out in a way i cried when i had no shoes 'til 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 im a sinner and ny soul should
be cleansed i'll take my chances when im dead.
Unwritten Rules
kick the kick drum increase the weight of the sound
the dialog of maximum decibels is enough to move the fucking ground im
gonna amplify the rage of a class that's thought inferior the message in
the volume this song a carrier unwritten rules rules understood unwritten
rules booming out the speakers and amps in the hood i like to drink beer
play music and go to shows its not about paying your dues if you do it
out of love im not a jaded junkie running dry i don't know anything else
i'll be playing till i die.
Union Blood
Bloody thursday was july 6th the pigs killed 3
workers harry bridges grabbed the mic The city shut down july 6th the workers
outrage it was a general strike The media clamed that the commies were
taking over and some believed it was true 3 uncompromising strikes was
paved the way Minn, S.F., and Toledo But on the situation But on the street
sometimes You're gonna hit the cold concrete.
Get Out Of My Way
Go ahead start causing trouble Get outta my way
get outta my way... Don't want your lies and I don't want your... I don't
see any fun In getting fucked up around this place I played as much as
you Get outta my way get outta my way Rich kid rich kid get outta my hair
Get outta my way get outta my way I'll sing what I'll sing and I'll wear
what I'll wear Get outta my way get outta my way I try to love mankind
and I try to do what's right But I can't do anything... Get outta my way
get outta my way Go ahead start causing trouble Get outta my way get outta
my way... Who do you think you are Do you think you're some kinda cop Why
did you come along you're a fuckin' cop! Kid get outta my way kid
get outta my way Kid get outta my way kid get outta my way Get out of my
way.