What Did You Expect? Live

Archers Of Loaf What Did You Expect? Live Lyrics
1.Audiowhore

Audiowhore, sucking on sound,
Sucking my voice, dragging me down.
Audiowhore, taking up my time.
Why can't you make up your mind?

Running on and on about nothing.
Sucking from a pump, but it fails to draw,
Do it so much, fill up the space you get,
Carry on the back of the ones who sets the pace

Audiowhore (3 times)

Audiowhore, sucking on sound,
Sucking my voice, dragging me down.

Audiowhore, taking up my time.
Why can't you make up your mind?

Audiowhore (3 times)


2.Harnessed In Slums

Too harnessed in slums, to rock you wrap your throat.
Standing over your common ground.
Snuff the leader with the bad assed plan.
Take what you want from the palm of his hand.

We're running joke, running jokes, running dry.
Strip the color from the meat of my eye.
Lick the loser, just don't make him stick.
Lay it on heavy and make the wrong size fit.

I want waste.
We want waste.
They want waste.
Slaves want waste.

Too harnessed in slums, to rock you wrap your throat.
Standing over your common ground.
We're running joke, running jokes, running dry.
Strip the color from the meat of my eye.

I want waste.
They want waste.
We want waste.
They want waste.

Side to side, with the tired smile
Cut into your face.
They let me down for the second time straight.
With thugs and scum and punks and freaks,
They're harnessed in slums but they want to be free.

Snuff the leader with the bad assed plan.
Take what you want from the palm of his hand.
Lick the loser, just don't make him stick.
Lay it on heavy and make the wrong size fit.

I want waste.
We want waste.
They want waste.
Slaves want waste.

Side to side, with the tired smile
Cut into your face.
You let me down for the second time straight.
With thugs and scum and punks and freaks,
They're harnessed in slums, but they want to be free.

(repeat)


3.Greatest Of All Time

They caught and drowned the front man
Of the world's worst rock & roll band.
He was out of luck, because nobody gave a fuck.
The jury gathered all around the aqueduct.
Drinking and laughing and lighting up.
Reminiscing just how bad he sucked, singing

Throw him in the river.
Throw him in the river.
Throw him in the river.
Throw the bastard in the river.

And way up in the sky,
Is the leader of the greatest band of all time.
Blasted from a plane,
Heading back home to the U. S. A.
The people gathered all around the radio.
To hear the transmissions from the devil's soul.
Locked and stunned and sick and cold.

Toasting to their hero.
Toasting to their hero.
Toasting to their hero.
A toast to their dead hero.

The underground is overcrowded. (4 times)

The people gathered all around the radio.
To hear the transmissions from the devil's soul.
Locked and stunned and sick and cold.

Toasting their dead hero.
Toasting their dead hero.
Toasting their dead hero.
A toast to thier dead hero.


4.Lowest Part Is Free

There they go, fucking up the ratio.
Biting on the skin that hangs off a hangnail.
Biting on the skin that hangs off a blister.
On the helping hand.

Strike up the band, turn up the radome.
Calling out to the A&R, A&R.
Strike up the band, turn up the radome.
Calling out to the A&R, A&R.

Got nothing to say, and you say it anyway.
In addition to your own weight.
Drive it into the ground, and you sing in a drone.
At the wrong time and at the wrong time.

Strike up the band, turn up the radome.
Calling out to the A&R, A&R.
So full of shit, let's write some hits.
Here come the A&R, A&R.

The lowest part is free, but he can't leave home.
Cause he can't leave the signal alone.
The lowest part is free, but he can't leave home.
He can't leave the signal alone.

(repeat the last two)


5.Freezing Point

Distance is up, static is down.
And all the east coast, has burned out.
Save for me, save for you.
There's nothing here to fucking do.

Sleep in shit, and stinking too, freezing point, free to choose.
Woke up dead, in my bed, too much shit in my head
No I could never, think of you again.
No, no, no, no I could never, think of you again.

Guitar.

There was a sign, it's all mine.
And there's some reason I might find.
Got some plans, follow through.
Find something that I could do.

It's always the east coast, always the asshole.
Doing the wrong thing at the right time.
Hanging half drunk, everytime,
Anytime, all the time.

No I could never, think of you again.
No, no, no, no I could never, think of you again
No, no, no I could never, think of you again.
No, no, no, no I could never, think of you again.


6.What Did You Expect?

Unwanted space
Put it back together
Put it in your face
Scatter your salt
Get your own solution
Don't blame me for all of your confusion

Cause you word is shot
Your speech is shut
Don't dig my throat
It's a running sore

Don't set me back
Shave my brain
Your steps too short
Plain and insignificant

It's a running sore
It's the rope
It's the rubbing
Can't do nothing cause I'm all tied up

Drown that face
Look at that slobber
Looks like goiter
and I'm all tied up

(repeat last two)

Spread out flat
What did you expect?
Why's the man always trying to keep me down?
Hated at home,
What did you expect?
Why's the man always trying to keep me down?

Cause your word is shot,
Your speech is shut,
Don't dig my throat,
It's a running sore.

Don't set me back,
Shave my brain,
Your steps too short,
Plain and insignificant.

It's a running sore,
It's the rope ,
It's the rubbing,
Can't do nothing cause I'm all tied up.

Drown that face
Look at that slobber
Looks like goiter
and I'm all tied up

It's a running sore,
It's the rope ,
It's the rubbing,
Can't do nothing cause I'm all tied up.

Drown that face
Look at that slobber
Looks like goiter
and I'm all tied up

(repeat last two in the background)

You aren't listening
To what you're saying
When you say the things you're saying.

When you walk
The way you talk


7.Worst Defense

They're running on their worst defense, defenses.
They're running on their worst defense, defenses.
They're running on their worst defense, defenses.
They're running on their worst defense, defenses.

No light,
Guides you.
Leads you on.
Blinds you.

The voice that cracks the latest pressure.
Chips, their finest phrase that pays you
Off, with hands you can't depend on
For the best defense.


8.Attack Of The Killer B's


9.You And Me

I've been so down lately.
You've been so low lately.
Nothing seems to work out for you and me.
For you and me.

I've been so down lately.
You've been so low lately.
Nothing seems to work out for you and me.

Sister says we can buy it all back at the grocery store.
Baby brother really fucked it up this time.
This isn't fun anymore, it's not as fun as it was.
It's just the girl in her says it doesn't matter anyway. (?)

I've been so down lately.
You've been so low lately.
Nothing seems to work out for you and me.


10.Might

With all of my might,
With all of my might I do this.
It's a waste of my time to pursue this.
I'm so full of self-indulgence to think that you'd like this
song.

Jot it down and I stuck it in the basement,
Underneath the living room floor.
For some reason I don't think I'm gonna make it.
For some reason I don't think about it anymore.

Get so bored with the radio, bored with the video.
You've got to make a _______, just to let'em know.

With all of my might,
With all of my might I do this.
It's a waste of my time to pursue this.
I'm so fucked self-indulgent to think you'd like this song.


11.Bacteria

Drew a line to keep your place,
Expecting too much from you.
And I can hardly see your face.
It's all covered with Noxema.
If you decide one day to concentrate.
Skip to take the easy way.
All certain, you think you break.
It's destroyed, by your guitar.

By your guitar,
The stereo's blaring me,
You scream, but I can't hear what your saying.
There comes a time to defeat your friends.
'Cause you make it so easy for me, easy for me.

But you know,
Everytime that I think that I've gone somewhere,
I haven't gotten anywhere at all.
I only think south 'cause I know you'd never get there to fight.

And blame me for the things I said.
Beating on something that's already dead.
Killing every part of it that's in your head,
Your....

Shove the mike slime in your brain.
The thought led into use (?).
And I can kinda hear them grate
All aided by bacteria.

If you decide one day to concentrate.
(whistle)
And though I certainly think you great.
You're so stupid and easy to fool!

By your guitars.
The stereo's blaring me,
You scream, but I can't hear what your saying.
There comes a time to defeat your friends.
'Cause you make it so easy for me, easy for me.

But you know
Everytime I think that I want to share.
I realize I haven't got a spare.
At least I make belive it.
Try to conceal it 'til you find.

And blame me for the things I said.
Beating on something that's already dead.
Killing every part of it that's in your head...
Your head...
Your head...
Your head...
Your head...


12.Web In Front

Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
Lost your friction and you slid for a mile.
Overdone, overdrive, overlive, override.

You're not the one who let me down,
But thanks for offering.
It's not a voice and I'm not around.
But thanks for picking it...

Up, on the radio.
Sampled your rust from a faucet, I know.
I've got a magnet in my head,
A magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way it was wasted.

And there's a chance that things'll get weird.
Yeah, that's a possibility.
Although I didn't do anything,
No, I didn't do anything.

All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted,
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.

(repeat)

And a mouth kept shut and a tongue twist tie.
You're the web in front, you're the favorite lie.
You're a buck my lip, you're a lash my lie.
You're the web in front of a favorite lie.

Stuck a pin in your backbone.
Spoke it down from there.
All I ever wanted was to be your spine.
I've got a magnet in my head, a magnet in my head.
Extra thick, extra long, the way it was wasted... wasted.


13.Nostalgia

I've got the skin of a shark
And I'm gonna make a muscle.
Just holding onto filth
Of the pornagraphic slut.
I've got an ill will
And a pair of brass knuckles.
Cutting through ribs.
It's a tour de'force.

Nostalgia (4 times)

on to grease
Cause grease is the word
And I'm never never sure
But I'm sure you're never right.
It's the secret agent man,
And a cartoon hero.

Nostalgia (4 times)


14.Slow Worm

There's a worm in your head,
Squirming over on me.
Leaves a paper thin scab
And you're laughing.

It's too crowded
With the skull cap on.
When you're amplified.

And everybody's tired of the noise that you make,
And everybody's tired of the voice you're faking.
Nobody's counting, cause everybody's fine.
And everybody's whistling because everybody's blind.

There's a page of your face from the xerox machine.
Gray matter, bending, blending.
Makes me sleepy when you can't define
How far you're trailing behind.

You're always sedated.
You're simplified.
Picking off the scabs
From the skin of your lies.

And nobody's counting, cause everybody's fine.
And everybody's buying it cause everybody'd blind.


15.Wrong

You've got it all wrong,
You can't get it right.
Why don't you come down
From off my back.
And won't you get yourself a job somewhere away from me?

Cause I don't want you to see your face anymore.
Cause I don't want you on my case in the morning.
I'm just being honest,
It's the least I could do.
You say I'll never be honest with you,
Cause you don't deserve it anyway.

No I do not think that you could love me anyway,
Because you are inferior to me.
And no I do not think that you could love me anyway,
Because you are superior in all aspects to me.

(repeat)

No I do not think that you could love me anyway,
Because you are superior in all aspects to me.

She gets what she wanted (4 times)


16.Plumb Line

You can go out and destroy,
What's already spent.
You can blame on your hat,
The faults in your head.
The more you pass through my pores
The worse it gets.

At or in,
What place did you think
Your mind would fit?
When did you realize
That you couldn't follow this out
Through to the end.

Clearly this is your loss.
Clearly it's not my loss.
Clearly it's just bad luck.
Clearly it doesn't mean a thing.

Cause she's an indie rocker
And nothing's gonna stop her.
Her fashion fits.
Cause she's an indie rocker
And nothing's gonna stop her.
Plumbline says she's a bitch.

And that's a lot to reject
If that's the best you can do.
And that's a lot to accept
If that's the best you can do.
You've got a great collection of things
Cause that's the best you can do.

Clearly this is your loss.
Clearly it's not my, my loss.
Clearly it's just bad luck.
Clearly it doesn't mean a thing, mean a thing, mean a thing.

She's an indie rocker
And nothing's gonna stop her.
(Mean a thing)

(repeat 3 times)


17.Revenge

Revenge, smarter than the radio,
Better than the gossips taken from your mouth.
Revenge, looking for some better shit.
Looking for a thumb tack for your back.

You're living like a jerk, living like a jerk.
Saying one thing just to prove another.
Revenge, instant satisfaction,
Sweet success for the working class.

Revenge, working like a dynamo.
Better than the gossips taken from your mouth.
Revenge, looking for some better...
Looking for a thumb tack for your back.

You're living like a jerk, living like a jerk.
Saying one thing just to prove another.
Revenge,instant satisfaction.
Sweet success for the working class.


18.Scenic Pastures

Scenic Pastures, nervous from your service marked conversation.
Seen it happen, a million times before.
Why do you want me to go?
Why don't you want me to know?
Why?
Scenic Pastures, nervous from before me

Scenic Pastures, nervous from your service marked invitation.
Seen it happen, a million times before.
Why do you want me to go?
Why don't you want me to know?
Why?
Scenic Pastures, nervous from before me


19.1985/Fabricoh

Fabricoh is the favorite sound around.
Watch the wholesale slaughter of the whole downtown.
Stepping off the ship in limbo.
It's the spit on his chin that makes us nervous.
It sets the high price from the crowd that's gathering
Cutting off the false communication.

And we missed the registration.
In our mental hibernation.
Well the strangest violation of all.

Fabricoh will have his say someday.
What's to the ones in the way.
Swearing off his occupations.
Yes it's the spit on our chins that makes us strong.
It's the sounding off of a crowd that's gathering.
Rocking out, rocking out.


You go past the bronx station.
To get the strangest violation of all.

Yes it's the spit on his chin that makes us nervous.
Yes it's the spit on our chins that makes us numb.
It's the high price from the crowd that's gathering.
Cutting off the false communication.

Slipping off the ship in limbo.
Getting out of a crowd that's rocking.
Rocking it out (10 times)


20.All Hail The Black Market

Bought off and sold
make use of your enemies
line em up single file and gouge out all their eyes
all fingers point in the wrong direction
set up your example of the ones that we despise
i'm not grounded i'm not reactive
so uptight it's so unattractive
forced out of use, forgotten for a long time
superficial motherfucker wasting sign of want from off
all hail the black market
getting what we want when we want it so bad
all fingers point, all fingers pry
stick out your thumb and watch them drive on by
i'm not grounded i'm not reactive
so uptight it's so unattractive
forced out of use, forgotten for a long time
superficial motherfucker wasting


21.Dead Red Eyes

Dead red eyes flickering half bright went on for ride
In slick silk. They were on to my circumstantial slide,
Blow by blow chipped off shell and bone. Tripped and talked
around
It could not fall through the crowd of careful lies busting open
wide.
Sensible fact of favor, watch us fall from your favor.
Since you knew too much about it dressed in wax you lit the town
in
Candlelight, flickering half bright. Well I held it in my hands
and now it's
Gone gone gone.
Saw it with my own two eyes, just pass me by.

Took a walk through a town of half stoned
Bound and gagging. Joke by joke they spot erase you,
Heard their news but it did not phase you one little bit,
Not one little bit. So I meet you by the light of main street
Stranded ghosts where I've been waiting. Kill it 50 times or
more,
Before I'm through I'll kill it 50 times more, just to bring it
back to life,
And bust it open wide again. Well I held it in my hands and now
it's
Gone gone gone.
Blinded by the neon in your dead red eyes.


22.Strangled By The Stereo Wire

Strangled by the stereowire
Cut and depressed in the victim's eye.
With a public finger on a false alarm.
Pulling down in a rush of irreversible lies.

A cold so thick that the static glows.
Leaks off her chest so the people know.
Splintered and strained as the rupture grows.
Is all cynically thrown down a swallowing throat.

Strangled by the stereowire
Cut and depressed in the victim's eye.
With a public finger on a false alarm.
Pulling down in a rush of irreversible lies.

A cold so thick that the static glows.
Leaks to the press so the people know.
Splintered and strained as the rupture grows.
Is all cynically thrown down a swallowing throat.

Is all cynically thrown down a swallowing throat.
A swallowing throat...


23.Form And File

Crossing some creek or small river somewhere in north, northwest
boder of Germany, something like that. Uhm, Yeah, I think its
_____ there something to the right, right, right, yeah. Yeah, I
don't know, man. The morale here is pretty fucking low alright.
I think we might be breaking up. No, no, not that it's what's
best or anything, but I, uhm, it might not be a matter of
choice, you know. Uhm, yeah just, yeah, right, right, just uh,
just see what you can do on your end about sending in some help
and in the meantime I will just do my best to keep losses and
such kept to a minimum here. And if there's any, any sure way to
secure a sort of refuge where the folks are more friendly, so
whatever, right, let me know, or anything else, anything else,
let me know this first.

Laughing at your good advice
Formula unfolding city wide.
Cycles overtaking form and file.
Erased in spite of your good advice.
Defaced and tired of your good advice.

Crossing some creek or small river somewhere in north, northwest
boder of Germany, something like that. Uhm, Yeah, I think its
_____ there something to the right, right, right, yeah. Yeah, I
don't know, man. The morale here is pretty fucking low alright.
I think we might be breaking up. No, no, not that it's what's
best or anything, but I, uhm, it might not be a matter of
choice, you know. Uhm, yeah just, yeah, right, right, just uh,
just see what you can do on your end about sending in some help
and in the meantime I will just do my best to keep losses and
such kept to a minimum here. And if there's any, any sure way to
secure a sort of refuge where the folks are more friendly, so
whatever, right, let me know, or anything else, anything else,
let me know this first.

Laughing at your good advice
Formula folds city wide.
Cycles over form and file.
[Erased in spite of your good advice.
Defaced in spite of your good advice.]

(Repeat last part 3 times.)


24.Let The Loser Melt

The first time,
Was the worst time.
The second time,
Was worse than the first.
The last time was a great crime
On all things, great and small,
But this time is gonna be the best.
It's gonna take the other ones off my chest.

It was just in a rut,
To fall into a rut.
To fall into a plan greater than mankind.
All the others hate it,
All the others set you up.
Can't you smell the satisfaction on thier breath?

It's too bad that your music doesn't matter,
Your music doesn't matter in a favorite dress.

Sure it wins a blue one.
Stick it on a runner-up.
That's the way to let the loser melt your...

All the others hate it,
All the others set you up.
Can't you smell the satisfaction on their breath?

All the others hate it,
All the others set it up.
Can't you smell the satisfaction on their breath?

Sure it wins a blue one.
Stick it on the runner-up.
Pick the way to let the loser melt your mouth.

It's too bad that your music doesn't matter.
I can smell the satisfaction on your breath.


25.Step Into The Light

Step into the light.
So tired of being in the dark and all alone.
Step into the light.

Step into the light.
So tired of being in the dark and all alone.
Step into the light.

Step into the light.
So tired of being in the dark and all alone.
Step into the light.

Step into the light.
So tired of being in the dark and all alone.
Step into the light.


26.Smoking Pot In The City