1.Broken Home Kids
Where did you go？
It was another Saturday
I'll wait alone
Out on the road
Where'd we go wrong？
And why did you push me away
Why does everybody that I love
Always come from broken homes
And why does everybody that I trust
Have no one to love
Tell me its not so
Lie so I wont know
I'll let you go
And I hope you find your way
There all alone
Out on the road
What leads you on？
And why did I push you away？
Well I turned back towards the skyline
That we stared at back as kids
Where the boulevard hits the river
And we would play stickball at the bridge
It's a place we always ran to
When we needed to be rid
Of the bullshit that the world
Would always rain onto our heads
And the old men playing chess would
Always sigh and leave their bench
They knew before
We ever did
That we were fucked up kids
2.Power Of The Dollar (Baby)
(It starts with)
Do you ever think about each dollar that you spend
About how it's a fucking ballot you just went and handed in
It's more than just a dollar for that sandwich or that drink
It says I support your brother I hope you're looking out for me
You're more responsible
Than you ever thought you were today
At the risk of sounding rude
We wanna know who's lookin' out for you
If their intentions aren't true
Go line the pockets of the ones who do
(It ends with)
Everyone expecting you to act a certain way
Why bitch about the little things when life seems oh so great
Don't worry about the people you support or leave behind
America the beautiful, you helped them tell the lie
It's gotta start with me
And that's the price you pay
If everything you want is fucken free
3.Any BS Is Better Than IBS
No i never got given nothing for free
(No I never got nothing for free)
No I never got nothing handed to me
(I guess they all forgot about me)
So if I ever ask for anything you can be sure its something
I really need
Yeah if I gotta get my hands on it id prefer if it was
earned by me
And everyone seems so fucking greedy to me
Always bitching bout some shit that they don't need
And we can't help it cuz
We learn from example in society
(They been trying to brainwash me)
Make you associate happiness with things
(violence with letting off steam)
So I make up my mind finally that I'm gonna live bullshit
free(bullshit)
And then I go and waste another dollar on a god damned
useless thing
This American inside of me its so hard to control
its so filled with greed
I can't help it if it's all that I see cuz its all that
was ever shown to me
4.Benson, NC (The Bummerizor)
It takes a couple of nights on the road
Of watching the lines come and go
Of wiping the sweat from my eyes
And watching the sun start to rise
It's a feeling in my chest
That my selfish little quest
Has led me here to this
And my common sense protests
I've been thinking I've got miles to go
(A bunch of fucked up kids just looking for
a home)
We might just find it there, at the next show
(You never know)
Because I'm back, back on the road again
So far, far from my home and friends
I'd rather be stuck in Benson
Than ever go back to fucking work again
It takes a couple of nights on the road
For the hours to begin to slow
For the minutes to convert to miles
For me to let go of the radio dial
If someone stirs in back
And we can have a laugh
This drive won't seem so bad
And then the voice comes back (saying)
I've been keeping score in my head
Marking with blues and reds
Counting the times I've felt alive
While subtracting the ones where I'm dead
And it comes around again
The little feeling that I get
That I've got to make the best
Of this time we've been given
Well I'm not anything like them
I'm tired these are now my friends
Can't stop Can't go home again
And this is what I cried that night
If you're tired of your home and friends
But need a place to go yeah
I know a place in Benson come meet me
And we'll never go home again
5.An Assembly Of Likeminded Individuals
For the ones who cheered the losing team
You're just like me
For the ones not following a lead
You're just like me
For the shows you went to in your teens
You're just like me
For the times the fuckers cut you
Ya didn't let 'em see, ya bleed
For the jobs you lost and hate you've seen
For the shakes you have every morning
For the ones so drunk that they can't see
You're just like me
For the ones who passed out in the street
You're just like me
Fed up with restricted rights
The endless work weeks and the cost of life
For the ones who wanna smash it up tonight
Well all fucking right
We're the starting line on the losing team
We're the ones so drunk that we can't see
We're the lost and damned in revelry
And you know their eyes are open
But the fuckers never see
You'll scream
Don't walk away from me
And I know my ears are open
But these walls don't talk to me
You'll see
You're just like me
6.Boys You're Shakin' (The Table)
Dan and I met back in 99
With a bunch of kids wrestling
Just to kill time
(to all friends past and present this ones for you)
Started a band with no plan
Or any avenue
Couple of foul-mouthed kids
With nothing to prove
(it's not about what you say it's more what you do)
And if I fall down
I'll pick you up
And you are here now
When times are rough
Dan and I still hang all the time
With the Wing and Four Horsemen
We are one big tribe
(To all my harbor rats this one's for you)
Times they change
But we all stay the same
(Drinking all night long don't get boring with you)
To all of my brothers
This goes out to you
Who do you love？ (I love every single one)
Well who do you trust？ (Just a few that are
2nd to none)
Because a brother who is true
Is a rare prize to be won
So don't forget who was there for you when
it wasn't fun
7.Monster Hands
I must admit that on the 12th
They had me glued to a TV wondering
When the bomb was gonna find little old me
But as time went on and all my friends
Had signed their names on papers
My view shifted
And it seemed a little strange
If only once
The roles reversed
In their shoes walking
Probably my heart would break
And I would stop talking
I say this not from experience
Just from what I've seen
But at least I'm not lying through my teeth
Well another kid dies there over seas
(Dies there for nothin')
And were never gonna satiate their greed
Do you feel
Like you might have been exploited
Do you think, your life is forfeit to their greed
Can you see
That from the moment you were born
That you've always had to say it could be me
So take this message back to bars
On the street where you were born
That the horrors you have faced
Have made you twice the man they are
And the man that sent you off to die
For his billion dollar war
Should feel the pain of every kid
He stranded there on foreign shores
8.Lies
So tell me what you think of me
Am I a bastard？
A sinner？
A child prodigy？
Yeah am I everything you wanted baby？
Well I think that's a lie
I think that's a lie
Well I'm back and its time I settled the score
No one's looking down on to me anymore
My life's
No open book for you read
Well I'll be coming back again
(Cuz I'm still breathing)
Enjoy this well it ends today (my way)
Well I'll be coming back again
Enjoy this well it ends today
So tell me what you were thinking
When you watched me fall apart
And just laughed and spit on me
Well was it all in fun and meant nothing？
And I think you're a lie
Your whole life's a lie
9.Technojunkie
I can't imagine what it's like
To not be home on a Friday night
Bathed in the glow of the TV's light
And a PC humming by my side
More than addiction it's my right
Yeah fuck your world I'll live in mine
This time
I'm never gonna see the light
This technology
Yeah it's the only life for me
And if you've got something to say to me
You'd better say it through an LCD
Shut the doors
Fuck the light
No ones leaves or comes inside
Wired in to my whole life
Plugged in brain dead up all night
That's right!
More than addiction it's my right
So fuck your world I'll live in mine
This time
I'm never gonna see the light
Well I ain't jokin'
This is my life
So just shut my door
Lock me inside
And don't expose me to
The fuckin' light
And feed me info
To survive
I ain't jokin'
This is my life
So just shut my door
Lock me inside
This time
I'm never gonna see the light
10.The Importance Of Watching Ernest
There's got to be more payoff then I've gotten so far
I've toured for so many years and all I've got
to show for it is scars
(Maybe I should stay safe at home watching TV)
I try to be mundane but, it just doesn't work for me
I'm free to say what I like
But I'm not free to spend my time
Cause the bills keep flying my way
It makes me envy small children and look towards the end of days
Okay
They say that 2012 is gonna be the end of the world
They say the setting sun's last acts gonna be
to watch all of us burn
(Well if its really the end, we say bring it on)
Well if it all comes crashing down, at least I
can quit my fucking job
And in reality I find
(More wasted time)
All these things that distract me
(Feed my empty mind)
I just spend too much of my
(Dollars, minutes, brain cells)
Locked up in my own hell
Find that you're just wasting your time
11.I'll Sleep When I'm Tired
I'm lying awake
I'm lying awake again
Sleep just won't come to me
For my own sake
For my own sake oh yeah
I just lay and hope to dream
I try to face each day through open eyes
It seems I'm destined for the night
I'm lying awake
I'm lying awake again
Sleep just won't come to me
Opportunity
I'm gonna waste it yeah
I just lay and hope to dream
I always said that I would sleep when I was tired
Never thought that it would ever be me
Lying sleepless through the night and being wired
To go back home for another night of no sleep
I always said
I always said that I would sleep
Sleep when I was tired
12.1,000 Beers
Well I owe everyone I know, about a thousand
beers or so
In every single city every state
Well I owe everyone I know, because I'm always
fucking broke
And I'll never break this habit of drinking
Well I know
What I know
And I know that I wont
Ever go back home
Cuz there's free booze on the road
Well I'm sorry
Yes I'm sorry
And I never meant for it to be this way
Well I know I should say no
But you know that I wont
And I will owe
Ill always owe
Everyone that I know
I can't stop drinking!
13.Brendan Kelly's Got A Blog
I look out over the spot
We turned into a parking lot
And I grow tired
The days have grown too long
They play their iPods out of speakers
Dance music and auto tuned singers
And they don't get the joke
No they don't see the irony
And there was nothing there for me
Although I thought that there would be
And I'm broken down and tired
So thanks for the opportunity
We don't give a fuck about a market or how
we might saturate it
We wrote this song to play it so book another
show in your basement
I find I'm thinking of home a lot
And I'm drinking more than I thought
And I've grown tired
Because these days have grown too long
I didn't start a band for drugs and chicks
I started a band because I'm young and pissed
But you don't get the joke
No you don't see the irony
Do you remember when you were 16？
When the words you wrote were the main thing
When you shoulder tapped for beers and
You chase the dreams in your head
When the show was all you needed
When you sat with friends and you said
We don't give a fuck about a market or how
we might saturate it
We wrote this song to play it so book another
show in your basement
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