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"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
let's the winter bleed
21 years old and no money to read

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 with a trailer in town
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
may be 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

[repeat 4x]
Hey Hey

she's crying again

"Damnation"

Lets go down town
Tell me what your seeing
Tell me what it's like
To get that old cold feeling
Spend all night just looking at the ceiling
Living in a blown out hotel building
All the machines are broken down
It's a narrow path
Between evil and good
Watch the strong man
In his decline
Another man dying
Is misunderstood

All I see is Damnation
Whole worlds gone to hell [x2]

Don't see things
the way the were
Only see things
the way they are now
Realize now that it's gone to far
Look into the eyes
of the dead and gone
Now all the machines
are broken down
It's a song and dance
between evil and good
Early stages of final decline
All alone misunderstood
Whole worlds gone to hell

All I see is Damnation
Whole worlds gone to hell [x2]

Whole worlds gone to hell
Whole worlds gone
Whole worlds gone
Whole worlds gone
Whole worlds gone to hell

"I Ain't Worried"

I ain't worried about a god damn thing
I hear them talking. I ain't listening
Listening

How many times did you tell me I was wrong
But I didn't listen to you and I only stayed strong
In a world where people don't hang on too long
I belong - I belong
Prove me wrong - Prove me wrong

I ain't worried about a god damn thing
I hear them talking. I ain't listening
Listening

Out come the wolves in the lunar light
Final flight you're wrong, I'm right
Talk to me straight man, but be polite
You hear my scream cause this one bites

I ain't worried about a god damn thing
I hear them talking. I ain't listening
Listening

I'm Matt Freeman I'm coming in quick
I got a 64 Merc and a clutch that won't slip
I don't give a god damn what they say
I'm born and raised in the east bay

I ain't worried about a god damn thing
I hear them talking. I ain't listening
Listening

I take chances that most won't take - Right
I get knocked down I won't break
Get it clear and make no mistake
This town's filled with rattlesnakes

Black Brown White we're all punk rock
We're the kings of the low income block
Worn out sneakers skinheads mohawk
When we all get together yeh the music won't stop

I ain't worried about a god damn thing
I hear them talking. I ain't listening

"Disconnected"

Where's my girl
Where has she gone
She once was
Beautiful and Innocent
I can't believe
In what she says
I look at her
And she looked the other way

Disconnected, From feeling alright
Disconnected, And it ain't black and white
Disconnected, There's a sword through the dove
Disconnected, From the country I love

I remember you
When you we young and strong
In your summer dress
and legs so long
My memories are only for me
I prefer them to reality

Disconnected,From feeling alright
Disconnected,And it ain't black and white
Disconnected,There's a sword through the dove
Disconnected,From the country I love

You think it's over
But you better think again
Neither grace nor sweetness
Just malicious intent
It's you and me baby
So we better watch our back
Cause if we are standing together
We ain't never gonna crack
And we took the greyhound
into the night
With the city on the left
and the country on the right
And I knew when I saw you
I read it in your eyes
I heard your voice break
When you we're
trying not to die

Disconnected,From feeling alright
Disconnected,And it ain't black and white
Disconnected,There's a sword through the dove
Disconnected,From the country I love

Disconnected,Disconnected,Disconnected
Disconnected,From the country I love

"Last One To Die"

Everybody saying we gotta take a chance
And telling me what the hell went wrong
We only listen to the words that we sing
Now a million are singing along

(Last one)
We got it right, you got wrong,
We’re still around (Last one to die)
We’re going up, you’re going down
We’re still around (Last one to die)

No rules in a
Scandalous world
... a path to find
We sit on top of the world
And we’re proving it every night

(Last one)
We got it right, you got wrong,
We’re still around (Last one to die)
We’re going up, you’re going down
We’re still around (Last one to die)

Thru the storm and the gigs
And the good and the bad
There ain't no doubt
We knew from the very first show, what it was all about

(Last one)
We got it right, you got wrong,
We’re still around (Last one to die)
We’re going up, you’re going down
We’re still around (Last one to die)

(Last one to die)
(Last one to die)
(Come on)
(Come on)
(Come on)
(Last one to die)
(Come on)
(Come on)
(Come on)

"Up To No Good"

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

NO one is safe here
We're all in danger
through the corridor
I see a stranger
Robbin and Ransacking
I see him walking
Lock your doors now
I hear him knocking

Up to no good
Up to no good
Like a spark on a wire
or a splinter in wood
best intentions get misunderstood
but that motherfucker is
Up to no good [x6]

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

Quick like a snake
He's good at stealing
He'll even steal the plaster
off the ceiling
Cloaked in darkness
I see him standing
Making moves in the night
He's a ghost man

Up to no good
Up to no good
Like a spark on a wire
or a splinter in wood
Best intentions get misunderstood
but that motherfucker is
Up to no good [x6]

Criminals I understand them
Watch your back
Cause we'll come at random
Born to lose
And you end up in the system
He's our friend
Now we're gonna miss him

Up to no good
Up to no good
Like a spark on a wire
or a splinter in wood
best intentions get misunderstood
but that motherfucker is
Up to no good [x8]

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8

"This Place"

This place is a tale of terror
This place is a ghost town now
This place has lost its people
This place has lost its charm

The coals on the fire ain't burnin' no more
In the lake shore foundries
The workers mislead by corporations
That knows no boundries

This place is a tale of terror
This place is a ghost town now
This place has lost its people
This place has lost its charm

The land of liberty has been betrayed by
The monster corporations
The monster won't stop 'till
It lays waste to everything

This place is a tale of terror
This place is a ghost town now
This place has lost its people
This place has lost its charm
This place
This place
This place
This place

"East Bay Night"

Another East Bay Night
(East Bay Night [x3])

When the sun goes down
and the night come around
and the fog come a rolling in,
When you cast a line
to go dance one time
and an old friend invites you in,
hear a punk rock song
and we sing along
Everything gonna be alright

Another East Bay Night
(East Bay Night [x3])

Well gramma stands on
the very same land
on the old house
up on the hill,
you can see the San Francisco bay
Alcatraz albany landfill,
and reminisce on the front porch
under a yellow light

Another East Nay Night
(East Bay Night [x3])

Earthquakes shake and fires
take from this view
I've seen it all,
I've tasted smoke
as the hills burned
I heard the freeway fall,
when there's nothing to say
just look into the bay
you know some things
they just feel right

Another East Bay Night
(East Bay Night [x3])

"The Highway"

Night clubs and one night stands
Play a show then I'm off again
This is my life
Living on the highway
It's all I've ever done
All I've ever known
Just wanna play one more show
Make some music with my friends
I am working class culture

Seen the bleak side
of the American experience
Scatter in the streets and show me
what you got
This is no set of ideas
This is flesh and blood

Night clubs and one night stands
Play a show then I'm off again
This is my life
Living on the highway
It's all I've ever done
All I've ever known
Just wanna play one more show
Make some music with my friends

Opinions are hard to put in prison
I tell the truth that won't be told
Uprising and rebellion
Social change with flesh and blood

Night clubs and one night stands
Play a show then I'm off again
This is my life
Living on the highway
It's all I've ever done
All I've ever known
Just wanna play one more show
Make some music with my friends [x3]

Living On The Highway

"Locomotive"

Locomotive won't stop
Locomotive ain't never gonna quit
Locomotive made of iron and steel
Locomotive I am you

From the East Bay garage
to the radio dial
We've been noted
for our combative style
You never give up
with no chance to win
We know who you are
And we've been where you've been

Locomotive won't stop
Locomotive ain't never gonna quit
Locomotive made of iron and steel
Locomotive I am you

The Wall Street Bailout
is crooked and stacked
The burdens gonna end up
on the working man's back
I know times are changing
and there's a new sound
I'm glad you all made it
It's good to have you around

Locomotive won't stop
Locomotive ain't never gonna quit
Locomotive made of iron and steel
Locomotive I am you

I am you

"That's Just The Way It Is Now"

Car Lights flash my eyes
Blinded, Hypnotized
Lord knows I'm living
and I'm never coming back
Now one generation dies
Next one wins the prize
and that's the big surprise
There's demise in all of their lies
It's never to late to realize

That's just the way things are
That's just the way it is now [x2]

I walk through the cemetery
It's all empty
Now I put a rose
on the grave of a fallen hero
And I look out into the wild
All I see is emptiness
So much loneliness
I just want forgiveness

That's just the way things are
That's just the way it is now [x2]

When dreams fade away
It won't be long
End up singing the same old song
What went right, What Went Wrong
Bad times here, Good times gone
First rule they always sell
Second rule never tell
Third rule straight to hell
White collar criminals
Living in jail
It's all that they gave
Sold your soul to get paid
Buy you end up in an early grave
Your own neck you can't save
It's a letter that you can't send
It's a wound that will never mend
Pain level peaks at ten
Some stand out Some stand in

That's just the way things are
That's just the way it is now [x2]

"You Want It, You Got It"

You want it, We got it
This is the place
Where everyone can belong
You want it, we got it
Kicking up a riot
Won't you all sing along

Can't tell you
where I was going so tired
It was showing
like the wind I'm blowing
Every town man I'm know in

You want it, We got it
This is the place
Where everyone can belong
You want it, we got it
Kicking up a riot
Won't you all sing along

Some live a life
of indecision
Strung out in the petty schisms
I heard GBH
I made a decision
Punk Rock is my religion

You want it, We got it
This is the place
Where everyone can belong
You want it, we got it
Kicking up a riot
Won't you all sing along

I sit back
and I think its funny
You we're so worried
about the money
Cloudy days are looking sunny
So why don't you come
and stick with me honey

You want it, We got it
This is the place
Where everyone can belong
You want it, we got it
Kicking up a riot
Won't you all sing along

To all our friends
BY this I swear

You want it, We got it
This is the place
Where everyone can belong
You want it, we got it
Kicking up a riot
Won't you all sing along

"Liberty And Freedom"

Out in the open
They ain't gonna hide
Police state upon us
Prepare to collide

They're gonna keep you down
step on your neck
Can't move no more
The weapon of their choosing
is censorship and war
And I can see the line up now
Everyone one is just partisan
You see one side claims victory
But it's just a zero sum

Liberty and Freedom
In quotations spray painted on the wall
Verbalized explosion
we will come back some day

If your ideas are suspect
Now your in contempt
Report to the committee
No one is exempt
And the zealots and crusaders
They can't justify with threats
and intimidation
Designed to terrify

Liberty and Freedom
In quotations spray painted on the wall
Verbalized explosion
we will come back some day [x2]

"Dominoes Fall"

Hey ho, let the bombs blow
Let the dominoes fall
I ain't got control [x2]

No control of destiny
Wake me up to reality
I can just see Anarchy
And there ain't no telling
who's in charge here

Hey ho, let the bombs blow
Let the dominoes fall
I ain't got control [x2]

Dead men they tell no tales
Satan finally broke out of hell
and everybody's got
Something to sell
cause there ain't no good
that I can see here

Hey ho, let the bombs blow
Let the dominoes fall
I ain't got control [x2]

People going crazy
Situation Code red
and the whole worlds
Out of control
The walls and the fences
are being torn down
And the bodies of the murdered
are getting cold
Wild dogs gone mad
smell the blood of their own kill
The weakest of the pack
Nothing is the way
that it seems around here
Very clear its a very deadly trap

Let the dominoes fall
I ain't got control [x2]

"Lulu"

Lulu
ah ah ah ah ah
Lulu
ah ah ah ah ah

Where the middle class breaks up
The working class better wake up
When America was dreaming
Some pigs stole our country

Lulu stands by her family
With harmony and history
There's two kinds of stories
Either comedy or tragedy

Lulu
ah ah ah ah ah
Lulu
ah ah ah ah ah

Lulu works all day long
She goes 9 to 5 just to stay alive
She'll do anything just to walk the line
Ain't no time to wine and dine

Her war time now in the USA
Her husband goes far away
Afghanistan to Iraq
Her husband now ain't comin' back

Lulu
ah ah ah ah ah
Lulu
ah ah ah ah ah

America the beautiful
That's what the sign said
And I welcome every single one
Cause I want them all to stay
And I'll travel and I'll travel
til my very last day
Through the New York harbor
To the San Francisco bay

ah ah ah ah ah
ah ah ah ah ah

Lulu Lulu Lulu Lulu

"L.A. River"

1951 Small town kids
got nothing to do
But dream all night
of movie stars and Cadillac cars
And beautiful girls
and big city lights

LA River dragnet coming down
LA River dragnet coming down

From every corner
of this great old nation
Good kids succumb
to the depths of temptation
Homecoming queens
get lost in the cracks
and Quarter Back Heroes
Get strung out on Smack

LA River dragnet coming down
LA River dragnet coming down

You wake up one day
with a monkey on your back
With foil on all your windows
and you're hiding all your tracks
The sheriff's shotgun don't make a sound
When it's pointed at your corpse
After he shot you down

LA River dragnet coming down
LA River dragnet coming down

"Skull City"

She's my go-go baby
She's my honky tonk girl
She dances on my table
She dances on a pole

Some cities Born, Some cities Burn
Some cities Die, Some cities Learn
Some cities take the worst of the turn
And if it ain't your business
then it's not your concern
Listen, Brick buildings
Broken windows, smoke stacks
Tell me somethings broken
And there's blood tracks
And if you see the train coming
You're gonna relax
So tell the facts Ma'am
only the facts
Stand down what you gonna do
She's a wild one
I'm a wild one too

She's my go-go baby
She's my honky tonk girl
She dances on my table
She dances on a pole [x2]

Midnight and I'm rolling on
Nobody sees me coming home
And out here man
A lot of things can go wrong
Shhh Listen to my song
The Morgue is busy
day after day
Stick it on the line
and throw it away
And if you see it coming on
Then you got it made
And the Grave Diggers laugh
As they rot and decay

Say it loud,
What you gonna do
She's a wild one
And I'm a wild one too

She's my go-go baby
She's my honky tonk girl
She dances on my table
She dances on a pole

I'm a wild one
I'm a wild one

"The Bravest Kids"

The teleprompter is read
by the telegenic dead
And it goes out across the nation
There ain't no war information

The Bravest Kids I know
Are the one's that got to go
fighting over there [x2]

All channels pre-emptied
Another socialite is gonna get arrested
Pop culture transition
taking over my television

The Bravest Kids I know
Are the one's that got to go
fighting over there [x2]

"The Sentence"

My life the blessing
Understand my aggression
I don't regret nothing
It's all been a lesson
Me and my friend got the music
Like a loaded gun we're gonna use it
Tell us we ain't shit I won't listen
Try to hit us but you keep on missing
I KNEW THE SENTENCE THEN
I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BLOW
DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU
APOCALYPSE RADIO
Sometimes I'm a total wreck
I want to break someone's neck
I get a subwoofer going
Four twelves get my blood stream going
Never saw it coming paid my price in time
It's been ten years or more with all the
battle scars in my mind
I KNEW THE SENTENCE THEN
I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BLOW
DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU
APOCALYPSE RADIO

"Stop"

Small sacrifices or otherwise few
Unity for the sake of the many forms
Oh they use imagination only few can go
Touch of madness only few ever know

Well you can go on your way
Or you can stagger through hell
You can lie on your back
Or you can stand up tall
In a state of confusion
Got nothing to do
I was connected respected
Watching you make it through

And all this rhetoric
They tell me to sing along
They said that you were dying
But I know that they were wrong

Second generation melting pot
You're ripped apart but you're never done
There she goes
It's all right
Nothing to do
Waste your time

And all this rhetoric
They tell me to sing along
They said that you were dying
But I know that they were wrong

Well you can go on your way
Or you can stagger through hell
Or you can lie on your back
Or you can stand up tall

State of confusion
You got nothing to do
Connected respected
I'll watch you make it through

And all this rhetoric
They tell me to sing along
They said that you were dying
But I know that they were wrong

"Stickin' In My Eye"

[Originally by Nofx]

When I look 'round, I only see outta one eye
As the smoke surrounds my head, the sauna
I hear the voices, but I can't make out their words
Saying things, saying things that
I got something sticking in my eye
Got something sticking in my eye
Got something sticking in my eye
I feel unusual from thinking
About the underground decay, God help me
Kill beneath the camera, watch the world begin to cry
It's not from pity, it comes from
What's been sticking in my eye
Got something sticking in my eye

"Something's Going To Die Tonight"

This is one of the good times when
When his brains lies on the pavement
With a broken bone in his hand
And another in his back

Do you feel alright
Oi oi oi
Someone's gonna die tonight
Oi oi oi
Do you feel alright
Oi oi oi
The boys are out tonight

Was it something that he said
??
With a broken bone in his hand
He will never understand

Do you feel alright
Oi oi oi
Someone's gonna die tonight
Oi oi oi
Do you feel alright
Oi oi oi
The boys are out tonight

This is one of the good times when
When his brains lies on the pavement
With a broken bone in his hand
And another in his back

Do you feel alright
Oi oi oi
Someone's gonna die tonight
Oi oi oi
Do you feel alright
Oi oi oi
The boys are out tonight

"Media Controller"

Another show with a fucked up promoter
Kids sent in by the media controller
They arrived in a '87 Ford with a gun rack
case of Bud and stiletto blade
It's the kind of show you end up at
when you get stabbed by the blade
big business made
I WANNA GO BOOT I WANNA GO BLADE
The main controller tried to buy me out but I didn't buy it
Some people did and there is nothing I could do about it
They arrived in a '87 Ford with a gun rack
case of Bud and a stiletto blade
It's the kind of show you end up at
when you get stabed by the blade
big business made
I WANNA GO BOOT I WANNA GO BLADE
The kids unloads his glock into the urban blight
Bullets sprayed the car as we drove into the night
We lived to tell the story and I'm goona tell you
The State of the Union of the State of California
I WANNA GO BOOT I WANNA GO BLADE

"Idle Hands"

Chaos discontent I'm a lunatic
Thirty days in the street is how I'm doing it
A life of no money a quart of Cisco
The horses are loose I got mine let's go
The enemy would not expect an attack at this hour
The moon is a sliver the darkness gives me power
Come and find me I'm gonna be here
Come and find me I like it
Spent some time in a shelter down on Webster
you think I'm going back you must be joking
If I ever forget how bad it was to be homeless
I must still be high from the dope I was smoking
LAST NIGHT I WAS THINKING
EARLY MORNING DRINKING
THE DEVIL'S GOT WORK FOR
IDLE HANDS
Spent some time in a shelter down on Webster
you think I'm going back you must be joking
If I ever forget how bad it was to be homeless
I must still be high from the dope I was smoking
LAST NIGHT IW WAS THINKING
EARLY MORNING DRINKING
THE DEVIL'S GOT WORK FOR
IDLE HANDS

"I'm Not The Only One"

She's got her life going she is still breathing
It's not a proven fact it's just a feeling
Her old man doesn't own her like he did before
He once was so clear but now he's a blur
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO'S NOT AFRAID OF YOU
The homeless child is no roll she played
It is real as anything the system has made
She's a monument forever standing
Inner city exposure can be extremely demanding
The pattern is circular as we pass the wine
She could no longer live with the lying
Her family tried to control her feelings
It just gave her new life a deeper meaning
Either you shut up or you shut down
I'm not the only one
you motherfucker
I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO'S NOT AFRAID OF YOU

"Battering Ram"

Some people are rotten deep down to the core
Some people got the kick of a bull
and the lies of a chronic thief in store
Some people try to take you out if they can
But I'll go right through them I'm a battering ram
Been running my whole life and I'm still running
Integrity is something you never had
Reverence to your lies as a person you're bad
Falsified living on the truth you're gonna choke
I'll just sit back and watch you cut your own troat
Back biting hypocrite you're a liar
Telling lies is what fuels your fire
Once you get discovered the bullshit ends
I ain't stopping
BATTERING RAM
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON
THRU TO YOU
Some people got no reliance some people are shit
Some people got no validity not a bit
Some people want to break down what's inside if they can
But I go right thru them I'm a Battering Ram
Been running my whole life and I'm still running
The man who talked shit I shut him down he's through
Beat down the lies till they're black and blue
He talked so much shit but not today
I'm a siege engine get outta my way
I disregard the attempt to take me out
I curse the thought of another bout
but it's my method I ain't stopping
BATTERING RAM
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON
THRU TO YOU
To fucking you
Some people are rotten deep down to the core
Some people got the kick of a bull
and the lies of a chronic thief in store
Some people try to take you out if they can
But I go right thru them I'm a Battering Ram
BATTERING RAM
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON
RIGHT ON RIGHT ON
THRU TO YOU