1.Wake Up (And Smell The Facism)
I was the kid with the backpack full of revolution
Listing the crimes like genocide, slavery and
Mass pollution
With footnotes and documentation
So I could argue with confidence at hockey rinks
And bars
Alone against the relentless machine in mercy
I put myself to sleep
Yeah I'm ashamed, I put myself to sleep
Wanna change the world wake up
Wanna make a difference wake up
Wanna save the world
Wanna change the human nature
Wake up and smell the facism
What with it take to wake you from contented slumber？
Will you notice a jet crashing through your building？
Did you notice so many hate us？
Do you doubt they have just cause？
Do you see lies falling from mouths of politicians
Like turds filling a litterbox, they scratch
But each new movement pushes up an old lie
One world, one voice, one currency,
One dream, one cause, one emperor,
One boss, one king, one dictator
Can you sleep through this？
Why do you think all empires fall？
Happy cheese comes from happy cows
They're so utterly happy, just f'en ask them.
2.Kicked Out Of Kindergarten
Outside of Vons
Gabrielle and I crouched behind her dad's Plymouth Duster
Sharing Ding Dongs
With chocolate smeared on both our chins and noses
Her Dad wore a frown as he
Dragged me in to say sorry to the manager who made me walk
Around in shiny handcuffs
He grabbed the microphone announced my story
No longer drawing on the wall or pooping in the trash can
A three-year-old red-handed thief and anyone could guess
Someday I'd get
Kicked out, kicked out of Kindergarten Kicked out
I started school
Saw the principal for crimes like blowing bubbles in milk or
Having mud fights or spitting on blonde braided Karen Edwards
'Next time you'll get swats,' he growled I'd be good for a week.
Until one day, the red... plastic box said 'pull' I had to pull
it
The ringing bells poured kids out every building
The office lady cried out 'There's a family that's burning
While all the fire trucks race here to douse your false alarm.'
That day I was Kicked Out...
Is it my genes？ Or some faulty wiring in my head？
Maybe mom skipped church one week when she was sixteen
And I'm her punishment.
All through my schools
Every teacher knew my name on the first day of class
I learned the paddle hung on the office wall was not symbolic
At ten voted president but then impeached for a peace
Sign I flashed in the 6th grade panoramic student photo
I got 3 days to contemplate my outlook
My Mom told me repent and read The Miracle of Forgiveness
But how could I start fresh and join upright society？
I knew I was Kicked Out...
3.She Looks Like
She looks like the type of girl who could ride a dirt bike
She looks like the type of girl who'd go wherever I like
We could talk about Freud and motorcycle leather
No matter what I say she'll laugh and think I'm clever
And all I gotta do is get the guts to walk up and see
If she's the type of girl who'd talk to me...
She looks like the type of girl who could skate a half pipe
She looks like the type of girl, who could win a cat fight
And I bet she likes dogs and would never hurt a creature
She'd snowboard so high that I almost couldn't reach her
She'd never tell a lie and she'd leave her friends to be with me
That's the way I bet it's gonna be...
What if, what if, she ignores me？
What if, what if she laughs？
What if, what if she talks, like, like, like a valley girl？
She looks like the type of girl who can play a guitar
She looks like the type of girl who could be a pop star
But she'll only sing for me in our room down in the basement
Her parents won't insult me and her friends won't push
replacements
And everyone will know that we are meant to be
Her eyes will light up she'll glow when we're together
I'll never have to sulk and we'll laugh and play forever
I guess I'll never know cuz I doubt that she would be
The type of girl who'd wait for me
4.Rachel Corrie
You heard of Rachel Corrie？
The press won't tell her story
Caught between a house and bulldozer
She found out that Israel
Hates gardens and it will kill
Americans who help rebuild the Gaza Strip.
Let's pretend that everything will be ok
It's not our fault let's look the other way
And go to films or dance lessons or baseball
Games at night
And trust elected leaders to choose right
I hurt for Rachel's father
To bury his young daughter
And her belief in human goodness
He taught her to fight violence
Now all that's left is silence
And the memory of her dignity
Let's pretend...
Rachel I hope you find justice or even a
Garden where anyone can grow some food in peace
No guns, no need to fight. No poor, no black no white,
Heaven, you deserve a break from misery
5.Black And Blue
You're so cold
Trapped inside
Your private hell a slave to need
I don't know
What it's like
To be most likely to succeed
Only your boyfriend uses you said, black resin
On your hands
Your skin started looking yellow,
Eyes deep hollow circles
No need to lie to me ....I was just a friend
Still you wouldn't admit it ....till the night I
Found you
Black ＆ Blue up your whole arm
Blood and tears both stain the marble floor
Nothing but a shadow where my friend once stood
God it must feel good
For you to throw your life away
You were evicted I too you in... to nurse you back to life
Repaid by a night in a jail cell, for your stash in my car
Outside the bank I knew
You wouldn't pay me back
Gave you one last present
Then I sent you packing
Black ＆ Blue up your whole arm...
Two whole years
Not one word
I wonder where you are right now
Are you incarcerated doing time？
Are you popping uppers in a mental ward？
Are you dragging a red shopping cart down Sunset Boulevard
Puffing a smoke found at the bus stop？
Are you strapped down at a hospital while doctors check your
bile
Waiting for a heart, liver or kidney？
Are you passed out in a park bathroom head bleeding on the
floor？
Are you over it？
6.Last Call For Russell's Balls
Russell's new uptight trust-fund princess reigns
Stares down her coke-burned nose and sets new rules
Forbids his listening to punk rock music
Tried to burn his copy of The People's History
His face is blank, bloodless, inexpressive,
All passion drained by the unhallowed leech
Last Call for Russell's Balls
The Demon must be fed
Last Call for Russell's Balls
They're hanging by a thread
Russell says it's true love more like sick games
A bitter brawl at midnight in the street
Some cars have stopped to watch the loud commotion
Laughing at the wicked witch of West Hollywood
Strings held tight a dancing marionette doll
A painted smile on a wooden face
Last Call...
A phone call woke up Russ in the middle of the night
As she reached down his trousers with sharp scissors
And a light
Caught the blades before the amputation was complete
It seems the rearview mirror's where she would've
hung the meat
Born-again with pride, Russ hands her the broomstick
Says it's time for her to fly away forever...
Last Call saved Russell's balls
The Demon's face turned red
Smoke shot out her ears
When he kicked her of bed
He saved himself this time
From the evil bride-to-be
So clearly serpentine
Now she's just a memory
7.With You By My Side
With you by my side I feel intoxicated.
Your perfume invades my senses.
Each breath, like inhaling gas fumes,
Asphyxiates the inner voice that begs me to leave.
Angry acids lay siege upon my stomach,
The mere thought of food repulsive to me.
When I force myself to eat, even my favorite dishes
Taste like I'm feasting upon your cigarette ashes.
Withe you by my side, I feel my heartbeat racing
Like I'm fleeing dogs sent to attack.
Each breath, shorter than the last one,
Triggers thoughts of flat lines in emergency rooms.
Don't think my life has ever been so threatened.
My flesh crawls, wants to leap off this frame.
Cover you like a net so I can claim you at last-
No more nights wondering what you did with your ex-boyfriend.
Our first months together made me feel complete.
I thought I'd finally found her- the woman of my dreams.
With you by my side, I feel light as ether,
My body begins to disappear.
A shot wakes me from my slumber-
Can't survive another day withe you by my side.
8.Still Believe
So the walls are closing in to suffocate you
Like you're trapped and flailing blindly in a garbage bag
You're sinking in a tar pit like a saber tooth...
You struggle but the blackness sticks to you
Like a disease that you can't wash off
So you go into the kitchen for a carving knife
But you've tried to cut it out before
It only left you hurting more
I still believe in you
I hope that you'll pull through
Don't let this moment last
Let's put it in the past
If you believe in me
Sit down and try to breathe
Let this dark moment go
Turn back to the you I know
You're convinced your friends are hatching plots against you
And your family conspires to watch your misery
Everyone keeps saying it's just chemical
Can't they see that chemicals are killing you？
Just as surely as heart failure
Why not another failure now you're on a roll
Odd that the thought of dying makes you cry
When all you dream about is suicide
9.Your World
Yeah I thought that we were
A team that we both would fight for
A common goal a common dream
Holding out as I sacrifice more
So confused when you pound on my door
Outstretched hand, harsh demand,
ice cold smile as you show me that
It's your world I'm just a satellite
You're a star I'm just an asteroid
When you turn your head I disappear until you look my way
Gone until you call me back, into your world
I guess I ignored signs
I wanted it to work so bad I
Denied that you don't care for me
Thank you for helping me to see that
Now I can move along no regret
It's only Tim, it's all mine
Thank you for reminding me that...
10.Heaven And Hell
Mother makes a bath and smiles
While she watches her five children drown without a sound
Love in sickness and in health
Her tearful husband pleas in her defend,
'She lost her sense'
Don't need to look beyond, take a look around
From the time we're born 'til we join the ground
Heaven and Hell always close by
Two worlds made on earth while we're still alive
Boy and girl in summer grass
Sun as witness, promise from the heart to never part
Family has to move away
'Forever' now a cold wind in the past,
love couldn't last
Don't need to look beyond...
Don't need to look beyond, take a look around
From the time we're born 'til we join the ground
Heaven and Hell always close by
No surprises when we die
Heaven and Hell always close by
Our first kiss and last goodbye
11.The Quest
Watching old home movies, the seeds so evident
Little did I know back then what my tapping fingers meant
A compulsive urge to hum a tune, to touch a piano key
In every sound and rhythms cape, I found a piece of me
The picture began to become more clear,
My purpose more firmly grounded
The day I sat at my brother's drums,
Picked up his sticks and pounded
I felt the ceiling open up, heart and mind were lifted
This primal force convincing me, my goals in life had shifted
Then I learned a few guitar chords just to seal the deal
The power of music I could not ignore, the surge inside
Me real
I plucked away at Misfits' tapes 'til I could play along
Then came the happiest day I've known- when I wrote my first
song
A few interruptions since, I'm back where I belong-
Pen and paper, sticks and strings, the quest for the
Perfect song
12.Toss It All
I took this job cuz it was my dream
And I work hard for it
You congratulated me for not settling for a lesser life
And you followed dreams of your own and I love you for it
But now success is bittersweet, it swept you up, and
Took you far away
Now we simply take it day by day
But days without you go slow
And someday in a week or nine
Our paths will cross and for a time
You'll hold me like you'll never let me go
By day it's clear my mission's here
Three thousand miles feels like a few
At night alone I hold the phone
I'd toss it all to be with you
My friends laugh when we're out sometimes
A girl gets aggressive
She'll rub my leg I'll hit the street
She can't compete cuz no one can touch you
Now I'm spoiled by all the things you do
I'm ruined and it shows
And someday...
In my mind, there will be a time when we can stay
Together like I know we're meant to
It's all right
I keep telling myself if I wait then someday we'll be
Close if I hold on
The thought of us together makes me strong
I'm stronger than you know
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