MARIA
Billy Joe, it certainly is exciting to meet you here at the
recording studio right after you just made your very first record!
How does it feel?
Uhh.. wonderful!
She smashed the radio with the board of education
Turn up the static left of the state of the nation
Turn up the flame, step on the gas
Burning the flag at half mast
She's a rebel's forgotten son
An export of the revolution
She is the first voice of the last ones in the line
She'll drag the lake to keep the vendetta alive
Bring in the head of the government
The dog ate the document
Somebody shot the President
And no one knows where Maria went?
Maria, Maria, Maria
Where did you go?
Be careful what your offering
Your breath lacks the conviction
Drawing the line in the dirt
Because the last decision.. is no
She smashed the radio with the board of education
Turn up the static left of the state of the nation
Turn up the flame, step on the gas
Burning the flag at half mast
She's a rebel's forgotten son
An export of the revolution
Maria, Maria, Maria
Where did you go?
Maria, Maria, Maria
Where did you go?
POPROCKS AND COKE
Wherever you go, you know I値l be there
If you go far, you know I値l be there
I値l go anywhere, so I値l see you there
You place the name, you know I値l be there
You name the time, you know I値l be there
I値l go anywhere, so I値l see you there
I don稚 care if you don稚 mind
I値l be there not far behind
I will dare
Keep in mind
I値l be there for you
Where there痴 truth, you know I値l be there
Amongst the lies, ou know I値l be there
I値l go anywhere, so I値l see you there
I don稚 care if you don稚 mind
I値l be there not far behind
I will dare
Keep in mind
I値l be there for you
Alright
If you should fall
You know I値l be there
To catch the call
You I値l be there
I値l go anywhere
So I値l see you there
I don稚 care if you don稚 mind
I値l be there not far behind
I will dare
Keep in mind
I don稚 care
I値l be there for you
I値l be there for you
LONGVIEW
Sit around and watch the tube, but nothing's on
Change the channels for an hour or two
Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit
I'm sick of all the same old sh*t
In a house with unlocked doors
And I'm f*cking lazy
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like sh*t
Peel me off this velcro seat and get me moving
I sure as hell can't do it by myself
I'm feeling like a dog in heat
Barred indoors from the summer street
I locked the door to my own cell
And I lost the key
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored I'm going blind
And I smell like sh*t
I got no motivation
Where is my motivation?
No time for the motivation
Smoking my inspiration
Sit around and watch the phone, but no one's calling
Call me pathetic, call me what you will
My mother says to get a job
But she don't like the one she's got
When m*sturbation's lost its fun
You're f*cking lazy
Bite my lip and close my eyes
Take me away to paradise
I'm so damn bored, I'm going blind
And loneliness has to suffice
Bite my lip and close my eyes
I was slipping away to paradise
Some say quit or I'll go blind
But it's just a myth
WELCOME TO PARADISE
Dear mother, can you hear me whining?
It's been three whole weeks since that I have left your home
This sudden fear has left me trembling
Coz now it seems that I am out here on my own
And I'm feeling so alone
Pay attention to the cracked streets
And the broken homes
Some call it the slums, some call it nice
I want to take you through a wasteland
I like to call my home
Welcome to paradise
A gunshot rings out at the station
Another urchin snaps and left dead on his own
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go
Pay attention to the cracked streets
And the broken homes
Some call it the slums, some call it nice
I want to take you through a wasteland
I like to call my home
Welcome to paradise
Dear mother, can you hear me laughing
It's been six whole months since
Since that I have left your home
It makes me wonder why I'm still here
For some strange reason it's now
Feeling like my home
And I'm never gonna go
Pay attention to the cracked streets
And the broken homes
Some call it the slums, some call it nice
I want to take you through a wasteland
I like to call my home
Welcome to paradise
BASKET CASE
Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
About nothing and everything all at once
I am one of those melodramatic fools
Neurotic to the bone no doubt about it
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid or am I just stoned?
I went to a shrink to analyze my dreams
She says it's lack of sex that's bringing me down
I went to a whore she said my life's a bore
So quit my whining cause it's bringing her down
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid or am I just stoned?
Grasping to control
So I better hold on
Sometimes I give myself the creeps
Sometimes my mind plays tricks on me
It all keeps adding up
I think I'm cracking up
Am I just paranoid or am I just stoned?
WHEN I COME AROUND
I heard you crying loud
All the way across town
You've been searching for that someone
And it's me out on the prowl
As you sit around feeling sorry for yourself
Well don't get lonely now
And dry your whining eyes
I'm just roaming for the moment
Sleazin' my back yard so don't get so uptight
You been thinking about ditching me
No time to search the world around
Coz you know where I'll be found
When I come around
I heard it all before
So don't knock down my door
I'm a loser and a user so I don't need no accuser
to try and slag me down because I know I'm right
So go do what you like
Make sure you do it wise
You may find out that your selfdoubt
Means nothing was ever there
You can't go forcing something if it's just not right
No time to search the world around
Cause you know where I'll be found
When I come around
When I come around
When I come around
When I come around
SHE
She...
She screams in silence
A sullen riot penetrating through her mind
We...
Wait for a sign
To smash the silence with the brick of self-control
Are you locked up in a world
Thats been planned out for you?
Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?
Scream at me until my ears bleed
I'm taking heed just for you
She...
She's figured out
All her doubts were someone else's point of view
We...
Walking up this time
To smash the silence with the brick of self-control
Are you locked up in a world
Thats been planned out for you?
Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?
Scream at me until my ears bleed
I'm taking heed just for you
Ahh!
Are you locked up in a world
Thats been planned out for you?
Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?
Scream at me until my ears bleed
I'm taking heed just for you
J.A.R. (JASON ANDREW RELVA)
My friend drove off the other day
And now he's gone and all they say
Is you gotta live coz life goes on
But now I see I'm mortal too
I can't live my life like you
Gotta live it up while life goes on
And I think it's alright
That I do what I like coz that's the way I wanna live
And so I give
And I'm still giving
And now I wonder about my friend
If he gave all he could give
Cause he lived his life like I live mine
If you could see inside my head
Then you'd start to understand
The things I value in my heart
And I think it's alright
That I do what I like coz that's the way I wanna live
And so I give
And I'm still giving
You know that
I know that
You're watching me
And I think it's alright
That I do what I like coz that's the way I wanna live
And so I give
And I'm still giving
Gotta make a plan
Gotta do what's right
Can't run around in circles
If you wanna build a life
But I don't wanna make a plan
For a day far away
While i'm young and while I'm able
All I wanna do is...
GEEK STINK BREATH
I'm on a mission
I made my decision
To lead a path of self destruction
A slow progression
Killing my complexion
And it's rotting out my teeth
I'm on a roll
No self control
I'm blowing off steam with methamphetamine
Don't know what I want
That's all that I've got
And I'm picking scabs off my face
Every hour my blood is turning sour
And my pulse is beating out of time
I found a treasure
Filled with sick pleasure
And it sits on a thin white line
I'm on a roll
No self control
I'm blowing off steam with methamphetamine
Don't know what I want
That's all that I've got
And I'm picking scabs off my face
I'm on a mission
I got no decision
Like a cripple running the rat race
Wish in one hand shit in the other
And see which one gets filled first
I'm on a roll
No self comtrol
I'm blowing off steam with methamphetamine
Don't know what I want
That's all that I've got
And I'm picking scabs off my face
BRAIN STEW
I'm having trouble trying to sleep
I'm counting sheep but running out
As time ticks by
And still I try
No rest for crosstops in my mind
On my own... here we go
My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is numb
F*cked up and spun out in my room
On my own... here we go
My mind is set on overdrive
The clock is laughing in my face
A crooked spine
My senses dulled
Passed the point of delerium
On my own... here we go
My eyes feel like they're gonna bleed
Dried up and bulging out my skull
My mouth is dry
My face is numb
F*cked up and spun out in my room
On my own... here we go
JADED
Somebody keep my balance
I think I'm falling off
Into a state of regression
The expiration date
Rapidly coming up
It's leaving me behind to rank
Always move forward
Going straight will get you nowhere
There is no progress
Evolution killed it all
I found my place in nowhere
I'm taking one step sideways
Leading with my crutch
Got a fucked up equilibrium
Count down from 9 to 5
Hooray we're gonna die
Blessed into our extinction
Always move forward
Going straight will get you nowhere
There is no progress
Evolution killed it all
I found my place in nowhere
Always move forward
Going straight will get you nowhere
There is no progress
Evolution killed it all
I found my place in nowhere
Nowhere, nowhere
WALKING CONTRADICTION
Do as I say not as I do because
The sh*t so deep you can't run away
I beg to differ on the contrary
I agree with every word that you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet's fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then I'll hit you again
I'm a smart *ss but I'm playing dumb
Standards set and broken all the time
Control the chaos behind a gun
Call it as I see it even if
I was born deaf, blind and dumb
Losers winning big on the lottery
Rehab rejects still sniffing glue
Constant refutation with myself
I'm a victim of a catch 22
I have no belief
But I believe
I'm a walking contradiction
And I ain't got no right
Do as I say not as I do because
The sh*t so deep you can't run away
I beg to differ on the contrary
I agree with every word that you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet's fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then I'll hit you again
I'm a smart *ss but I'm playing dumb
I have no belief
But I believe
I'm a walking contradiction
And I ain't got no right
I have no belief
But I believe
I'm a walking contradiction
And I ain't got no right
STUCK WITH ME
I'm not part of your elite I'm just alright
Class structures waving colors
Bleeding from my throat
Not subserviant to you I'm just alright
Down classed by the powers that be
Give me loss of hope
Cast out... buried in a hole
Struck down... forcing me to fall
Destroyed... giving up the fight
Well, I know I'm not alright
What's my price and will you pay it if it's alright?
Take it from my dignity
waste it until it's dead
Throw me back into the gutter coz it's alright
Find another pleasure f*cker
Drag them down to hell
Cast out... buried in a hole
Struck down... forcing me to fall
Destroyed... giving up the fight
Well,I know I'm not alright
Cast out... buried in a hole
Struck down... forcing me to fall
Destroyed... giving up the fight
Well, I know I'm not alright
HITCHIN' A RIDE
Hey mister, where you headed?
Are you in a hurry?
I need a lift to happy hour
Say oh no
Do you break for distilled spirits?
I need a break as well
The well that inebriated the guilt
1, 2... 1, 2, 3, 4
Cold turkey's getting stale
Tonight I'm eating a crow
Fermented salmonella poison oak no
There's a drought at the fountain of youth
And now I'm dehydrating
My tounge is swelling up as say
1, 2... 1, 2, 3, 4
Trouble times
You know I cannot lie
I'm off the wagon
And I'm hitchin' a ride
There's a drought at the fountain of youth
And now I'm dehydrating
My tounge is swelling up
I say... SH*T!
Trouble times
You know I cannot lie
I'm off the wagon
And I'm hitchin' a ride
Hitchin' a ride, hitchin' a ride
Hitchin' a ride, hitchin' a ride
Hitchin' a ride, hitchin' a ride
Hitchin' a ride, hitchin' a ride
GOOD RIDDENCE (TIME OF YOUR LIFE)
F*ck...
Another turning point
A fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist
Directs you where to go
So make the best of this test
And don't ask why
It's not a question
But a lesson I learned in time
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
So take the photographs
And still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf in good health and good time
Tattoos of memories and dead skin on trial
For what it's worth
It was worth all the while
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
It's something unpredictable
But in the end it's right
I hope you had the time of your life
REDUNDANT
We're living in repetition
Content in the same old shtick again
Now the routine's turning to contention;
Like a production
Like going over and over and over roller coaster
Now I cannot speak
I lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
Coz I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words
Choreographed and lack of passion
Prototypes of what we were
Went full circle till I'm nauseous
Taken for granted
Now I waste it, faked it, ate it, now I hate it
Coz I cannot speak
I lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
Coz I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words
Now I cannot speak
I lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
Coz I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words
Now I cannot speak
I lost my voice
I'm speechless and redundant
Coz I love you's not enough
I'm lost for words
NICE GUYS FINISH LAST
Nice guys finish last
You're running out of gas
Your sympathy will get you left behind
Sometimes you're at your best, when you feel the worst
Do you feel washed up, like piss going down the drain
Pressure cooker pick my brain and tell me I'm insane
I'm so f*cking happy I could cry
Every joke can have its truth and now the joke's on you
I never knew you were such a funny guy
Oh nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast
Don't pat yourself on the back, you might break your spine
Living on command
You're shaking lots of hands
Kissing up and bleeding all your trust,
Taking what you need
Bite the hand that feeds
You lose your memory to kill the shame
Pressure cooker pick my brain and tell me I'm insane
I'm so f*cking happy I could cry
Every joke can have its truth and now the joke's on you
I never knew you were such a funny guy
Oh nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast
Don't pat yourself on the back, you might break your spine
Oh nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast
Don't pat yourself on the back, you might break your spine
Oh nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast
Don't pat yourself on the back, you might break your spine
Oh nice guys finish last, when you are the outcast
Don't pat yourself on the back, you might break your spine
MINORITY
I wanna be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Coz I want to be the minority
I pledge allegiance to the underworld
One nation under dog
There of which I stand alone
A face in the crowd
Unsung, against the mold
Without a doubt,
A single doubt
The only way I know
I wanna be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Coz I want to be the minority
Stepped out of the line
Like a sheep runs from the herd
Marching out of time
To my own beat now
The only way I know
One light, one mind
Flashing in the dark
Blinded by silence of a thousand broken hearts
"For crying out loud" she screamed unto me
A free for all
F*ck em all
You are your own sight
I wanna be the minority
I donケt need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Coz I want to be the minority, hey
One light, one mind
Flashing in the dark
Blinded by silence of a thousand broken hearts
"For crying out loud" she screamed unto me
A free for all
F*ck em all
You are your own sight coz...
I wanna be the minority
I donケt need your authority
Down with the moral majority
Coz I want to be the minority
I wanna be the minority
I wanna be the minority
I wanna be the minority
I wanna be the minority
WARNING
This is a public service announcement
This is only a test
Emergency evacuation protest
May impair your ability to operate machinery
Can't quite tell, just what it means to me
Keep out of reach of children
Don't talk to strangers
Get your philosophy from a bumper sticker
Warning, live without warning.. I said
Warning, live without warning
Without... alright
Better homes and safety-sealed communities
Did you remember to pay the utility?
Caution: police line, you better not cross
Is it the cop or am I the one that`s really dangerous?
Sanitation, expiration date, question everything!
Or shut up and be the victim of authority
Warning, live without warning.... I say
Warning, live without warning.... I say
Warning, live without warning.... I say
Warning, live without warning.... I say
Without... alright
Better homes and safety-sealed communities
Did you remember to pay the utility?
Caution: police line, you better not cross
Is it the Cop or am I the one that`s really dangerous?
Sanitation, expiration date, question everything!
Or shut up and be the victim of authority
Warning, live without warning... I say
Warning, live without warning... I say
Warning, live without warning... I say
Warning, live without warning... I say
This was a public service announcement
This was only a test
WAITING
I've been waiting a long time
For this moment to come
I'm destined
For anything at all
Downtown lights will be shining
On me like a diamond
Ring out under the midnight hour
No one can touch me now well
And I can't turn my back
It's too late ready or not at all
Well I'm so much closer than
I have ever known...
Wake up!
Dawning of a new era
Calling... don't let it catch you falling
Ready or not here at all
So close enough to taste it
Almost... I can embrace this
Feeling... on the tip of my tongue
Well I'm so much closer than
I have ever known...
Wake up!
Better thank your lucky stars
Well I'm so much closer than
I have ever known...
Wake up!
Better thank your lucky stars
I've been waiting a lifetime
For this moment to come
I'm destined for anything at all...
Dumbstruck
Colour me stupid
Good luck
You're gonna need it
Where I'm going if I get there at all
Wake up!
Better thank your lucky stars
MACY'S DAY PARADE
Today's the Macy's Day Parade
The night of the living dead is on it's way
With a credit report for a duty call
It's a lifetime guarantee
Stuffed in a coffin "10% more free"
Red light special at the mausoleum
Give me something that I need
Satisfaction guaranteed to you
What's the consolation prize?
Economy sized dreams of hope
When I was a kid I thought
I wanted all the things that I haven't got
Oh but I learned the hardest way
Then I realized what it took
To tell the differnce between thieves and crooks
A lesson learned to me and you
Give me something that I need
Satisfaction guaranteed
Because I'm thinking about
A brand new hope
The one I've never known
Coz know I know
It's all that I wanted
What's the consolation prize?
Economy sized dreams of hope
Give me something that I need
Satisfaction guarnteed
Coz I'm thinking about a brand new hope
The one I've never known
And where it goes
And I'm thinking about the only road
The one I've never known
And where it goes
And I'm thinking about
A brand new hope
The one I've never known
Coz now I know
It's all that I wanted