Artist: Operation Ivy Album: Individual Songs

Expensive vitamin pills and wheat germs on your windowsill
Your schedule's hectic and you got no time to kill
Earning money and you're spending it the right way
Just in such a rush you don't know if it's night or day

5:30 get up - run, run, run
Then you work eight hours slaving under the gun
Little world's based on lies, lies, lies
Always rushing but you're never ever satisfied

Healthy body, sick mind
Working overtime
Healthy body, sick mind
Too hectic, too hectic
Healthy body, sick mind
Well, it just a, it's just a matter of time
Sick body, sick mind

Money you spend on running shoes could feed me for a week
Plans are laid so well that you can't even sleep
Pursuit of happiness got your life locked under martial law
You got everything to lose so you're paranoid about some fatal flaw

5:30 get up - run, run, run
Then you work eight hours slaving under the gun
Little world's based on lies, lies, lies, lies, lies, lies
Always rushing but you're never ever satisfied

Healthy body, sick mind
Working overtime
Healthy body, sick mind
Too hectic, too hectic
Healthy body, sick mind
Well, it just a, it's just a matter of time
Sick body, sick mind

It's not the ending, it's the beginning
The ground is moist - it rained last night
Smells smoke and smells so clean
Sun is shining down like a friendly white light
Here we go again

Analyzed the world I was born into, but I never could understand
Knew I never wanted to grow up if that meant being a man
Dominating strict competition is the meaning of our lives
Stomping on the weak keeps us the winner of the battle in our own minds

Tensions in our lives that are destroying our minds
Unite themselves together to make our consciousness blind
Conditioned to self interest with emotions locked away
If that's what they call normal, then I'd rather be insane

Relax yourself from giving what you want to do with your life
Ease up from giving up things like the control of your own mind
If you never ask any question, then you're never gonna get no answer
Always be wondering what do you want while you keep getting older faster

Tensions in our lives that are destroying our minds
Unite themselves together to make our consciousness blind
Conditioned to self interest with emotions locked away
If that's what they call normal, then I'd rather be insane
Insane, insane

Tensions in our lives that are destroying our minds
Unite themselves together to make our consciousness blind
Conditioned to self interest with emotions locked away
If that's what they call normal, then I'd rather be insane

Relax yourself from giving what you want to do with your life
Ease up from giving up things like the control of your own mind
If you never ask any question, then you're never gonna get no answer
Always be wondering what do you want while you keep getting older faster

Here we go again
Here we go again
Another test of manhood
Here we go again
Just when you thought you'd won
Here we go again
The more we keep competing
Here we go again
The more the battle has just begun

I'm in this prison you built for you
In this situation I don't know what to do
Make a connection, get a reaction
There's this wall and I can't get through
Dying of some guilt without no words
What'd I say, what'd I do

Youth hostels I lodged
See you as mirage
Flashes of you were everywhere
Hoboken, New Jersey

I'm in this prison you built for you
In this situation I don't know what to do
Always something makes me think
Things don't have to be so wrong
You put up walls with nothing spoken
In your weakness you're so strong

Youth hostels I lodged
See you as mirage
Flashes of you were everywhere
Hoboken, New Jersey

I'm in this prison you built for you
In this situation I don't know what to do

Youth hostels I lodged
See you as mirage
Flashes of you were everywhere
Hoboken, New Jersey

I'm in this prison you built for you
In this situation I don't know what to do
I'm in this prison you built for you
In this situation I don't know what to do
Let's go

When you're dying - giving up hope
Living for smoking dope
Singing same old song
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's always the same
When you're dying - giving up hope
Living for smoking dope
Singing same old song
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's always the same

I got no, I got no, I got no
Nothing in mind
I got no, I got no, I got no
Nothing in mind

I was trying a new adventure
Buying that old peer pressure
Wasting my mind away
But I saved it just in time
No reason I was going mad
I was hating my mom and dad
I was riding a sinking ship
Thank god I never did slip

I got no, I got no, I got no
Nothing in mind
I got no, I got no, I got no
Nothing in mind

When you're dying - giving up hope
You're living for smoking dope
Singing same old song
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's always the same
When you're dying - giving up hope
And living for smoking dope
Singing same old song
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's always the same

I got no, I got no, I got no
Nothing in mind
I got no, I got no, I got no
Nothing in mind

I always looked up to the ones who walked away
Choosing themselves to the preset ways
Of looking at a future that had no room
For questions they lived for

Always knew I never could have walked away myself
My self worth was beyond any help
I didn't care to test it against
The rejection I had seen before

But those I loved so much, they underwent this change
They're working forty hours, they got caught in the game
Like junkies running dry, the vulnerability
Like junkies running dry, they're always there on time
Like junkies running dry, they can't be satisfied
Like junkies running dry

This wonderful generosity, third of our lives doin' what we please
Doesn't look that great to me - it doesn't even really look fair
Call it youthful idealism and even I would have to agree with them
Some of us grow up, and it's still there

But those I loved so much, they underwent this change
They're working forty hours, they got caught in the game
Like junkies running dry, the vulnerability
Like junkies running dry, they're always there on time
Like junkies running dry, we can't be satisfied
Like junkies running dry

I grow up too slow, I don't wanna go
I grow up too slow, I don't wanna go
I grow up too slow, I don't wanna go
I grow up too slow, I don't wanna go

But those I loved so much, they underwent this change
They're working forty hours, they got caught in the game
But now I'm working just like everyone else
But I'll get out, I'll get out of here
Like junkies running dry, the vulnerability
Like junkies running dry, they're always there on time
Like junkies running dry, we can't be satisfied
Like junkies running dry

Fuck you

Pick it up
Do you have to force yourself with power and control
Do you feel the need to live your life playing up a role
Intimidating people with your wall of sight and sound
You and your kind destroy our underground

All the happiness that you have destroyed
All the brutal tactics that you always employ
All the fucking bullshit, when will it ever stop
The comparison is obvious - you're just a fucking cop

Officer - you act like an animal, you're out of control
Officer - what the hell is wrong with you, yeah

Wear a tie if you want to wear a uniform
Join the army if you want to conform
Tough guy, big man, do what you can
Whatever you destroy we'll create it again

All the happiness that you have destroyed
All the brutal tactics that you always employ
All the fucking bullshit, when will it ever stop
The comparison is obvious - you're just a fucking cop

Officer - you act like an animal, you're out of control
Officer - what the hell is wrong with you

Officer, officer, officer
Why don't you, why don't, why don't you fucking stop

Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell
Sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awake in hell

Day I saw a man asleep in a doorway on the street
Walls of sheltered inhibition I perceived his condition
Dying of hunger and exposure
Food and shelter two blocks over
Within this place we breed and dwell
We've created living hell

Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell, let's go
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell

City sleeps and pigeons flutter
Vagrant dies in the gutter
Prideless death somehow befitting
To life spent working on forgetting
Riding on the bus I looked outside and thought about death
Passing cars the only tribute to his gasping final breath

Sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awake in hell
Sleep long, sleep well, sleep well
Only to awake in hell, let's go

Then I went home to get my mind off things
I decided to watch television
Constant subliminal brain immersion
Subconscious death wish coercion
Buy and consume and want and need
Never fall from the trap of greed

Listen up, sleep long, sleep well

I thought about the bitter pain
Of jail cells and falling rain
I thought ahead and I looked away
What can you do anyway
Sheltered youth, our pretension
Avert our eyes to divert attention
Only to see the human victims
Always there to remind us

Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell
Sleep long, sleep well
Only to awake in hell
Only to awake in hell

Never had a reason for the attack
It's impulsive and insane
When I wanna talk sense to you
It's just like spitting back at rain
I've come to know that when I first saw you
I should have ran away
Kicked myself a thousand times
But now it's too late

Yelling in my ear
You try to control me
Yelling in my ear
You look but you don't see
Yelling in my ear
Yelling in my ear
Yelling in my ear

You got a big mouth
Are you ever gonna get a clue
You're loud, obnoxious
When you're gone I still hear you
Always spewing shit with your irritating voice
I don't wanna listen but I got no choice

Yelling in my ear
You try to control me
Yelling in my ear
You look but you don't see
Yelling in my ear
Yelling in my ear
Yelling in my ear

Ah, quit acting like you're nuts
Just shut the hell up

Yelling in my ear
You try to control me
Yelling in my ear
You look but you don't see
Yelling in my ear
Yelling in my ear
Yelling in my ear, right