I won't fight,
cuz I can't win.
They took my work,
and cashed it in.
Help me out,
one more time,
I found my hate,
and lost my mind.
I owe my life, a little bit, to everybody,
take it now.
But save my spine and use it for the antibodies.
Grind it down.
Cold canned soup,
and self control,
could set me free,
and buy my soul.
You're gonna take me out.
Track Name: Let Go
Home from the road and nothing feels the same.
Color fades from everything when it rains.
Just a visitor in your homeland.
Waiting to leave is all you can stand.
And all your dirty habits far outweigh your shame.
Don't be afraid you can't let go,
don't be afraid they told you so,
don't be afraid,
don't be afraid to just let go.
It's all over now and you know that you must move on.
Everyone will miss you when you're gone.
It takes guts to say that everything has gone your way,
and you've been doing nothing for so long.
All your old fade-out friends won't get you by,
when the grass on the other side has caught your eye.
You're in a rocking chair, you go back and forth, you don't go nowhere.
And if you ever stop moving, then you'll die.
Track Name: Speakeasy
I put my left eye socket in my right front pocket and then,
Winked one last time ‘for I dug the right out with a pen.
Now I see no more.
I’m blind to the world like I was blind to the world before.
And yes sir, I say:
Ain’t it great to be back I said I’m glad to be back, I am!
With a plan of attack, I got plans of attacking them.
Paid four and a quarter for a deep dark porter and then,
I bought a twenty-piece set of the cheapest cigarettes again.
Now I sway no more. Cuz I’m lying in the middle of my best friends living room floor.
Now a bit run over, with a heart hungover to show,
Give me five minutes, I got half a pint a beer to go.
Nod and smile, hold yourself together it’s the best you’ll be in a while.
Nothing in my wallet, well I guess I’ll call it a day.
I gotta pick three scabs so I can settle up my tab and say:
One for the road! And two for the friend who’s intent on driving me home.
Track Name: Cold-hearted Killer
My life is a disaster,
I'm a master of wasting my time.
I do it faster than you.
I didn’t think I would,
I put my best friend in the ground.
I didn’t think I could,
I liked when he was around.
They’ll never catch me,
Never suspect me.
I got away with murder today.
I’m a cold-hearted killer and I’ve settled the score.
I got a new time filler, I can’t see anymore.
Maybe someday I’ll go back and I’ll dig up the remains.
When the heat is off my back and the blood no longer stains.
Track Name: I Feel Free
Thought I’d change my mood, Bought some food, Too bad I didn’t eat it.
Got some medicine, For my head, Too bad I didn’t need it.
God gave me a sign. I feel fine, And I didn’t read it.
Sittin’ all alone and listenin’ to the radio.
I do what I like, I’d ride a bike, But I don’t like moving.
I’ll just stay right here, A case of beer. I find it kinda soothing.
I’ll play my guitar, Strum a bar that can get me grooving.
Sittin on the porch and listenin’ to the radio.
I know something man,
I know me,
And I ain’t much deeper than what you see.
I feel something man,
I feel free,
And I don’t gotta care no more.
Got myself a date with a lady turns me up and over,
She ain’t got no beef telling me she likes me better sober.
Still I piss her off, my hacking cough has a whiskey odor.
Sleeping all alone and listening to the radio.
Got myself a job serving mobs greasy meat and taters,
Listening to the moans and the groans of the upset waiters.
I don’t have to pay, I’ll never say, hey man I’ll see you later.
Sit and sip my drink and listen to the radio.
I just finished school, like a fool, now I’m educated.
Got a big degree, it wasn’t free, and it’s overrated.
They gave me some dough, it doesn’t show, but I am corporate tainted,
Sit inside my cube and listen to the radio.
Track Name: Come On
Stung by the way you’re emphasizing what you say,
You’re talking down now. You’re talking down.
Have faith in yourself, you can depend on no one else,
Look what I’ve found now. Look what I’ve found.
I can’t help but believe you.
Don’t let my pleasure deceive you.
A great big part of me needs you, so come on.
It’s been too long, I can’t remember what was wrong,
And looking back does me no good.
My problems are new and they got shit to do with you,
Think you can help me, I feared you would.
And you've been making choices lately,
You're shutting down and it's devastating.
I wanted to take you on.
Respect the way I see, and expect nothing from me,
There’s simple ways to make you proud.
I am the way you’ve been, and you live the way I live,
There’s nothing left to figure out.
I can’t help but believe you.
Don’t let my pleasure deceive you.
A great big part of me needs you, so come on.
Track Name: Turd Lipstick
Coolest kid in the neighborhood,
Turd lipstick made you look good.
Paper covers rock with bad reviews.
Nobody I know reads the news.
Ran the well empty
I ran the well empty
I ran the well empty
I hung it all out to dry.
On behalf of the people you berate,
You can fucking choke on unborn children I create.
Daddy bought your dictionary,
Daddy paid for school.
Daddy bought you sunglasses,
But that don’t make you cool.
Track Name: Pain Relief
Spend time in line,
For a taste of pain relief.
It’s me, I need,
Just a little pain relief.
And I do it to make me whole.
Lie down you’ll hurt yourself.
Wake up, throw up.
Then a little pain relief.
Show up, half drunk.
Then a little pain relief.
And I do it to make me whole.
Track Name: Short Sleeves
A stitch in your side and a wound in your head,
The line that I walk is the breadth of a thread,
Talk about tact and all due respect,
You heard a smile, did you hear what I said?
I got something to say.
Sometimes I wonder what it all really means,
When I feel like the holes in an old pair of jeans.
Keeping in style, supporting the team,
But it signals the end and the failing of seams.
I got something to say,
And I’ll say what I mean with my heart on my sleeve,
I got something to say.
Blacked-out shouting and pent up rage,
Just one more sign of the coming of age.
Said it behind you and said it to your face,
Bottle it cork it and leave it backstage.
Track Name: Die Together
When I stumble can you comfort me,
Less than two feet in front of me,
Riding out the nasty weather,
And we all die, just a little bit together.
Lay it all out for the world to see,
Lay our hearts out in make-believe.
Our loves turn out just that much better,
When we all die, just a little bit together.
It’ll all be alright
When we die, just a little bit together
When it’s time to walk away, we’ll walk away.
But sure as hell remember the day,
When we smiled hard at all the great pretenders.
And we all died, and we all died, and we all died,
Just a little bit together.
Track Name: Marvin
How cliché I think.
A man lying on the brink.
And in the dark he struggles on,
And into death he sinks.
He’s plugged into machines,
In the empty air he screams,
Only falling on my ears,
And he’s busting at the seams.
But he fights a valiant fight,
Not gentle to the night,
And with fury in his eyes he marches on.
He throws an eye my way,
As he tries so hard to say,
Where’s my sister Betty?
Is she visiting today?
Well, no. I whisper soft.
I’m sure you’re in her thoughts,
And you can be quite certain
She’ll be here to see you off.
Cuz you fight the valiant fight,
Not gentle to the night,
And with fury in your eyes you’re marching on.
Close your eyes and rest,
Doctor says that that’s what’s best,
And don’t you even worry about anything you’ve missed.
You’re older than me,
You’ve seen things I haven’t seen,
And I can’t visualize
The life through which you’ve been.
But he fights a valiant fight,
Not gentle to the night,
And with fury in his eyes he marches on.
Track Name: Wrong By You
You want time I haven’t got.
You want memories I forgot.
It’d be nice if all my lies rang true,
But I just can’t stop doing wrong by you.
Pack your things, be on your way.
You shoulda done it yesterday.
I’ve got nothing I need to prove,
And I just can’t stop doing wrong by you.
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey Hey Now!
Sucker punch your best defense.
It doesn’t make a difference.
I’ve worn holes in all my shoes,
And I just won’t stop doing wrong by you.
Call you up to calm you down.
I know you don’t need me around.
I see it’s hard but get a clue,
I just won’t stop doing wrong by you.
Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey Hey Now!
Track Name: Ladder
Alice sits alone on her bed with all her pets,
When she’s feeling low she takes the medicine she gets,
She’d give her life for billy, he won’t give her time of day,
He’s got too many others who would throw themselves away.
Billy is oblivious, and he’s a football star,
And no one’s supposed to know it but it paid for his new car,
He’s the kind of guy who’d wear a big ol’ toothy grin,
As he throws you to the ground and he kicks you in the chin.
And the list continues on,
Like the sun from dusk to dawn,
With every lover shunned along the way,
If you don’t believe it’s true,
Take a look at who loves you,
And you’ll find I’m being honest when I say:
The one you love don’t love you back.
They want someone else.
And if the one you love don’t love you back,
You can only blame yourself.
Travis is a man with his future in the air,
He’s going slowly nowhere but he really doesn’t care.
He thinks the world of Alice and he has since age thirteen,
But Alice will have none of him, her face is seldom seen.
Susan makes her living in a good and honest way,
But she’s hung up on Travis and she’s living day to day.
At one time they dated, but it never qute worked out,
He thought someday maybe, but she never had a doubt.
And the list continues on,
Like the sun from dusk to dawn,
With every lover shunned along the way,
If you don’t believe it’s true,
Take a look at who loves you,
And you’ll find I’m being honest when I say:
The one you love don’t love you back.
They want someone else.
And if the one you love don’t love you back,
Stay with someone else.
Track Name: Don't You Walk
Woke up this morning,
God, what did I do?
Reached my arm over and,
Where were you.
The best thing I had going and I threw it all away.
I sat up and cried. And the sky went grey.
Patching up is easy,
But we must refrain.
We could probably benefit from a little pain.
A heart as hard as mine can be so tragic in your mind.
But stone has no defense against the hands of time.
Oh don’t you walk
Oh baby won’t you talk.
Don’t you walk
Oh baby won’t you talk to me now, cuz I still need you.
I can’t be held responsible
For what might have been.
I can be invincible after a little sin.
Tear my clothes off of me and you’ll see what I’ve become.
A shallow freak unable to stand up for what he’s done.
Track Name: Salud
Been something lately inside my head affecting my balance and I can't put my finger on it.
My skin is torn open and my guts are falling out and the more I think about it I should've put a bandaid on it.