Short on Ideas

Have you been feeling down, pushed around Feeling like everything has been done before Do I need to understand every word from every man Or everything from every band Can I say it's all been done before Religion, science, similes to metaphors Can it be that there's nothing new When there's more ways of looking at the truth The more things seem to change The more they just stay the same But now it's called a different name Can you say things are new When you look at magazines And things you've seen in the news.

Shotgun

There was a kid so low, he couldn't stand up No money, no respect and too much bad luck Desperation had gotten to him at last It was dark Dark alley and a shot gun blast And I knew a man everyone thought Ws out of his mind He had a cane and seemed to be around all the time And it's a shame, when a car rolls past It was dark Dark alley and a shot gun blast Shotgun - no one ever thinks about it Util your out of your head

Soundcheck

I always thought of music as more than words and sound, something more like inspiration that picks you off the ground, when your down... And I, know that music will pull me through. So it's a soundcheck to an empty room.

St. James Hotel

There is a place not far from the city Where old men go to die and bums are pissing Last night no one checked out, And I checked back in While toothless winos Watched and grinned And they don't really care about you Some things you can't tell Sometimes I can't take the smell St. James Hotel

Sugar in Your Gastank

If I had a scheme for everything, It seems that I'd more content with it all, If I had it in me to stop my random thoughts, and my dumb dreams I could deal with this nonstop spinning world. If only I could say that everything's ok take a good look and look the other way, frustration, #$!!, who needs it anyway. I'd rather sit back, and just smoke cigarattes. be the one with the loudest mouth be the most closed minded that I could get

This is Going Nowhere

I'm walking around what used to be downtown wet and feeling cold and kinda feeling old, I'm walking around and I can almost hear the sound of everyone I've known and all the people I've seen get up and go. And there's nothing left to say when I look at friends and see how they've changed. I kinda wish that it was years ago. It's another missed connection, another friend headed in the right direction? Maybe it's the wrong one and when it's all said and done, I don't think anybody knows and it goes to show that I'm lost at the edge of 18, keep losing track of what seems to have been 5 mintues ago.

Throw the Brick

Two days before his mom moved him To a trailer park in Florida from a suburb in Michigan He left the house headed for someplace downtown Thinking who needs them, cuz they brought me down Out on the streets words burning in his brain With his pulse pumping just like a freight train, Wondering what he has to lose What's to lose anyhow If he throws this rock will it all be solved now Throw the brick one more time Thinking of the problems that I left behind Throw the brick

Time and a Half

It was a cold december on 2nd ave and 6th st. Too cold to think about anybody passing me When I overheard 'I'm gonna tell you straight from the shoulder... Boy... You better get running' On the corner of 2nd and 6th and outta time, With a cough, feeling lost and a bottle of cheap wine. Just then I realized that I can't seem to understand When I saw that guy heading for the dopeman. It's just the same old story on the same old street And it's just another worn down, worn out casualty Of 2nd ave and 6th st. On the corner of 2nd and 6th and feeling down When I overheard 'I'm gonna take a gun and take you out' Just then I realized that I can't seem to understand How anyone can take the life of another man. It's just the same old story on the same old street And it's just another worn down, worn out casualty Of 2nd ave and 6th st.

Where in the #$!! is Mike Sinkovich

I've never known what made you get up and go And what pushed you over the edge, When we were up on the roof Was it the truth when you said You never made a single difference. Did you get it in your head That things are better left unsaid when you up and left town now? Did you need to rearrange Or did you need to make a change Rather than just rotting the place We used to hang around? I know that things have gotta change, I know your never coming back to this town. I wonder where you've gone, Who you're with; I still ask myself, Where the #$!! is Mike Sinkovich?

Whipping Boy

The world keeps on spinning. Inside his head keeps on spinning. Wishing he could be on top for once, seems he hasn't spoke a word in months. It's the complications that make him lazy and it's the frustrations that make him so lazy. He's the whipping boy.

Wish Pig

I wish I could have it all And even if I could and then I would take it all, Start it new with one thing that I could do One wish I'd take it all away I'd take it all away from you I'd wish it all away...

Who Holds the Power Ring

When you look around What you got don't mean a thing... Waiting, waiting, waiting - stop! You gotta stand and pick yourself up... Hanging around don't mean a thing Unless you hold the power ring.

107

Unless you could see inside my head, you couldn't possibly understand I'm happier when things are falling apart at the seems and you'd never know just by looking at me and I'm strung out on the future and burnt out on the past sometimes I'd rather just burn this place right to the ground And y'know it just may be me but the parking lot with all those creeps keeps me convincing me myself I'm completely sane with sleep over rated and my ideals outdated I know that I wouldn't have it any other way and I can't explain what this place races through my mind

24 Hours in Paramus

Man this town will drive you insane Check my thoughts to check my brain Hold my wallet like it's glued In one square block it'll tell you What it thinks of you And there's nothing you can do And all that's left to say And all that's left to say, now Is feet don't fail me now Man I must be out of my mind This town can be so unkind Forget about sleep there's nothing you can do In 24 hours this town has become a living #$!! And there's nothing you can do 10-9-8 forty ounces fill this place 7-6-5 then watch the bullets to stay alive 4-3-2 no one way out of this It's been 24 hours in paramus

Three Quarts Drunk

There's an old man at the very end Of the parking lot leaning on his car and Drinking beer and laughing out loud Before my head starts spinning around, As I try to find a place to take a stand But only wind up sitting anyplace I can With DIDJIT's song stuck in my head I kinda think I might of said Now I'm three quarts drunk and I'm out of time.

9th at Pine

When it all came down, on that saturday night, should I choose a side, at 9th at Pine. Can we still say we're civilized, watched some kid down at 9th at Pine... which will it be? Sympathy or apathy, which part of the human condition will I believe. Tried then its tested I've just decided I failed is it the crowd, or the way this is going down? Is being human watching all this without a sound? tried...

Ask the Magic 8 Ball

What the %#&$ the %#&$ have I become I've become the product of the sum caught in an endless circle I've become the stupidest man in the world "Chalk another one up to experience" y'know it doesn't make any sense to do it all over again and then again then do it all over again I've become the stupidest man I think I'm drawing a blank again this dizziness never seems to end never seems to end you know it never seems to end drunk and sitting in and thinking change it never seems to come when I'm thinking

Automatic

I think I know it all, but can I be sure of the things I've grown to know, and can I say I know it all, when rules just guide me to blindly follow and things are automatic when you see them everyday is it the same routine or my %#&$#! up dreams, that keep me walking mindless all the way? I think, I think I know it all but is our beliefs just stringing us along and was there something wrong in what I heard, for every hour of the day?

Awkward Age

Late at night I can see so clearly They see right through me And I know that ten years before I was the kid at the corner store and I still know And at that age things are so confusing And no matter what I tried I still wound up losing. are things still that confusing? And at that age, that awkward age I knew someday that things would change Have I been thinking too much tonight When I think of how my life's gone by? And at that age... There were things that I never really knew And I keep hearing my parents say: "Do as I say, don't say as I do." What could I do?

Big

Wonder what hold things together Is it political positions or maybe superstitions The list goes on forever It seems to go on forever Are old rituals necessary to stand by How many things just to get us through the night And can we say their wrong altogether The world keeps going on forever It still looks big Can everything in some way help us understand From mathematical problems to rubber bands And can we say it's wrong altogether The world goes on forever It still looks big

Black Coffee on the Table

If only my problems were like water they could be boiled away and watching the steam drift upward, watching my problems drift away. And watch the steam turn and twist, watch it all drift away. Look how it rises and lifts watch my problems drift away. If only my problems were like water they all could be washed away and watch the water go downward watch it all go down the drain.

Blindsided

Isn't it funny that it all comes down to money Running on a treadmill, wasting time Keeps you too busy to lose your mind I was blindsided out on the street The tension was so thick I could hardly even breathe And I don't like the way things are going down I don't like the way things are going down, That's all, it's all It's enough to knock me down Man I was blindsided when a guy walked right past Calls for help from this guy under the overpass So I guess it's the "problem will go away if I block it out" It's all enough to knock me down

Boomtown

So here let's talk about the boomtown facts You've got stick up kids coming right at my back Two blocks of reasonable rent and it's only getting smaller And the rest of boomtown is only getting taller You've got ten miles of traffic and three hundred miles of roadway And a million lights burning bright night and day With all these lights going off like roman candles It's getting too much for me to handle Boomtown's only based on image torn down and built up from one man's Vision When all the workers are all up and gone It feels like I'm sitting on a ticking time bomb.

Dopeman

Dopeman dopeman's got another big plan to sell it to you or anyone he can because this is much better than minimum wage no matter how things work he's still gonna get paid think about it for a minute more - it's either work at McDonalds or the corner store a quick money fix from a deal or 2 when a decision comes down what would you do? you take - take a welfare state or a dopeman's fate and keep the cycle spinnin' round dopeman dopeman's got the upperhand people wanna get as much as they can because those reasons they'll always stay the same and for some people it's the only way to stay sane and think about it for a minute more - a life of crime or hangin' round the liquor store a quick drug fix to get you through when the decision comes down what would you do?

Downbeat

Downbeat, downbeats coming for you Everythings gone that you once knew. Trying to rely on what things used to be And trying to live up to your responsibility. Everythings %#&$@! up that you see. Downbeats coming for you And it's coming for me. Trying to rely Downbeats coming and you can't hide Standing on the front porch While downbeats collide, And downbeats coming up up It's got a grin And I'm left in this situation.

Down in the Mission

Like quicksand, i'm always getting deeper The more I struggle, the more I get in deeper And here I am, out there doing time Out on the mission, down on the mission line I'm down in the mission

Econolodged

Step it up my life spent round the clock has got me running on a treadmill with no time to stop and competition has put a price on time, see all the people you left behind and step on all the people that have fell behind, competition has put a price on time. Man, I'm all I've got, like it or not, I'm all I've got. I'm Econolodged.

Glumble

Second street west of 39th Tries to sleep But he only winds up walking all night Tries to remeber when his head was right... Sees his breath in the corner light He walks away from his life He tries to find... Third street east of 49th Can't sleep She always seems to cry all night Smokes another as the neighbors fight Can't seem to keep her head on right She wonders where's her life She tries to find... And when your thoughts are all you're finding Can't you feel your gears are grinding you into the ground.

Growing up on a Couch

How many things that you believe Are straight out of TV and magazines And when comfort comes before thruth Can you say that you never knew, Sitting in front of your TV, Do you believe the lies Given to us from another time And can you say that everything is fine when your ideology is only right half the time I'm growing up on the couch

Happyman

Happyman smiles almost every single day, too numb to notice that he's walking in a haze, he's pushed himself here and doesn't know what to do. choked by the clock and he doesn't know what to do. I say, you say, you say its work yeah its work all day. Happyman is mad at the world (green grasses, picket fences, liquid lunches lost his senses)

How's My Driving Doug Hastings

Friday night on coke with a crow bar, left at two in the back of Doug's car, without a plan and being %$&#@! up, looking' to get something for ourselves. Friday night at three at a side door, Doug said try to get the door just once more I said man this all %#&$&@ up just looking to get something something for ourselves feeling kinda weird and thinkin' to myself %#&$ doug I'm not going out like this he said man I'm all I got and I won't be missed this makes no sense it makes no sense to me this isn't the way its supposed to be

Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore

Jen thinks it isn't fair that I don't really care If she likes me or not And Jen doesn't like to settle Until she makes me feel like Howie Reynolds She thinks that I'm all that I've got No Jen doesn't like me anymore Jen doesn't like to go to the shows, She doesn't like my whoa - whoa's. Jen doesn't like me anymore.

Just Like Frank

He's just like anyone he's just like anybody he's just like frank and I know it and he knows it it's his one sided point of view I know it when he says it's my way, or the wrong way and I don't care about you but to see my side wouldn't be the worst thing he could do when someone's politic blinds you and binds you to something you don't believe in and he's just like anyone... and I saw him walking on my way path third street just the other day why doesn't he understand views keep changing?

Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts

Well I Really don't know If it matters at all so, But we try to keep our prices low For records and our shows But is that enough, Or is it that we're not punk enough, Or it that you think ska just sucks, But Johhny Quest, he thinks we're what? Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts

Krazy Glue

It seems I can't explain it all all the reasons gone and I just can't seem to shake what I've been brought up on and well it hard to say and its hard to explain that all the things I've known are feeling strange I guess I'll always have tradition to fall back on and just what the #$!! am I supposed to do just accept someone else's point of view and we could ramble on and on and still not know... and what keeps rolling through my brain it keeps running like a non-stop frieght train its that tradition seems to stick to you just like krazy glue

Last Train

I met her in the morning, and my heart stood still A do run run run, a do run run Somebody told me that her name was Jill A do run run run, a do run run Yeah my oh my, yeah all the time When I walked her home A do run run run, a do run run Its got me on the run, its got my brain tied Its got me down as the trains pass by All these people crowding my sight I wonder if my head was ever screwed on tight Concrete buildings are all that I see I used to never let it bother me Last train remember me Walking past the cracks on 2nd street, watching Lights and sounds the city desn't sleep, and I say Get this city out of my brain, so I Guess I'll have to wait for the last train Remember me...

Liquor Store

Now listen up and hear what i'm saying If he's not talking to himself Then he must be praying Shine my shoes and ask for a dime Then pick my pockets while i'm in line He keeps telling me the score Down at the liquor store

Lockdown

Something's not right Urban sprrawl, from urban blight something's not right when history turn into a building site locked out, fenced up, closed down without a sound Something's not right when downtown is just all blinking lights Something's not right when strip malls and condos are at your every side

Lucky Day

Do you see me out there Getting ready to go Packing my frustrations away I can always go for miles and still don't know Why my disappointments always stay, Packing all my frustrations away... Why my disappointments always stay... Am I wasting my time I don't know what I will find... Took eighteen years to realize I don't know the reasons why! The day I walked away That was my lucky day!!!

Mixology of Tom Collins

A friend of mine he pointed out to me That I'm not the same as I used to be And y'know he made me think twice about who I am And now I think of how I lived my life Sitting on the corner under the street light What would I change? And I've decided that I won't decide So I 'll sit on the curb watching the cars roll by who the hell needs self doubt When it's always the same $#!% that goes around town

My Very Own Flag

Something that's inside of me It's something that I cannot see Like rules and regulations Passed down for generations I wish I had my very own flag, And as I walk away I can hear you say I wish that I had my own flag

Never Going Back to New Jersey

There was a time when I could say it right to you that I was never going to leave this place but now its "I was wrong" and "I don't wanna %#&$!#$ talk about it" cause it feels like things have changed Yeah well I could talk, talk, talk and say I'm wrong, wrong, wrong but I feel I'm in a place I've never known and it feels like there's something wrong, something wrong, something wrong and I know that I don't wanna know... I'm never going back again there was a time when I would say I must be crazy that I would say this place is looking strange but now its "I'm kinda lost" and "I just don't remember" because things never stay the same...yeah, well I could talk, talk...

One Last Cigarette

I check the time, it's 4:00 a.m. And I just passed the westside buildings All the broken glass As I try to shake the cold away, but anyways, It's late at night and I'm about to crack And decide to just walk the tracks That I just walked yesterday.

Out of the Crowd

I won't compete because I don't need to be In front of someone that wants to compete with me Who needs another aggravation Or a %#&$!@ up situation So you call me burnt out Call me washed up Or weaker cause I won't get up Be first in another line Just one more time, Cause I won't compete again I can't hear a sound that's out of the crowd.

Pez King

Watching the man up in the window it always seems to me that in 10 more years another someone may be watching me. And do I really know what goes on inside? As he dances down the street to the music in his mind, time after time. Watching the man up in the window it always seems to me that I'll be the one talking to myself as someone sits and watches me. And do I really know what goes on inside as I wonder what goes on in their little plastic minds, time after time.

Robo

So she's been around Lived in every town And she always seems to know So she does a zine Says she's in the scene And she goes to the cool punk rock shows And it's not like I've seen the world And it's not cuz she's a girl It's just cuz no ones always right And I'm almost never right so she can't be Yeah he's been around Likes to hear the sound Of his voice annoying me His shirt off at shows Brand new punk rock clothes Do you think that I have a choice to see That I sometimes think he's wrong And been talking way too long In fact it's cuz no ones always right And I'm almost never right So you can't be.

Rock-n-Roll Pizzeria

Man its really strange this city never stays the same its always "I've got to keep on moving and I've got to keep on going" but maybe it's to keep itself sane that its always "I've got to keep on going, so I don't have any feeling" So I'm on my way out of this place that has me turning numb I'm on my way, all the feeling in this place has up and gone so with one hand on the wheel and the other out the window with a smile on my face and my middle finger up with on hand on the wheel this city's going crazy without a care that its all %#&$@# up

Shindo

Something's out there and it takes me away from a world too small to stay something's out there Another day in this place so small, I'd rather be somebody else maybe if my mind wasn't so tall, I wouldn't be able to tell and I've walked these streets it seems like 10 million times and I've seen things up and leave time after time (and its just another day) in this place so small I'd rather be somebody else old habits die hard