lyrics

Frat Cars
Heartbeat
Movies
Mutant Rock
Detectives
Out Of Focus
Psycho
Red/ Green
In The City
Nightbeat
After 12:00
Security
T.V.
I Don't Wanna Dance
Identity Crisis
Thin Line
Advice
Complete Control
Work Without Pay
Spit
Act/ Reaction
Self Contortion
Wise Up
History
Nervous
Apolitical
Hollywood Swinging
Prison
We Got Soul
Fun Fun Fun
We Got Your Money
Lesson
Funk Off
I'm Sorry
We're Not In It To Lose
Sound on Sound
Fight Back
Brick Wall
Jump the Fence
Assault
Manipulation
Same Old Blues
Gator Fuckin'
White Nigger
Baby Let's Play God
No
Narrow View
I Do Care
Listen
What's the Word?
Common Beat
No Love
Which Way To Go
Killing Time
Work
PIL Beach
Shut Up
Authority
GM
Distance
Influence
Rules
Damage 43 (a.k.a. The Big Picture)
The Seed
Wipe Out
New Wave Slave

FRAT CARS
(Gates, Kerr)

Cruisin' in their big cars
And wastin' lots of gas
When are they gonna learn
That don't give 'em no class
Big lots full of mama's wagons,
Marquis, Trans-Ams, and Jeeps
All paid for by daddy
Ain't this life too cheap?

Frat cars, frat cars
I can't stand those frat cars
Crowding up the streets
With all those stupid Greeks
Fuckin' with the freaks
Let's tow them away!

Hangin' out their T- tops
And thinkin' that they're cool
And drinkin' beer in Izods
And actin' like a fool
Frat cars, they're so useless
Who needs them in our town
If we get rid of those frat cars
They'rell be no more frats around

Frat cars, frat cars
I can't stand those frat cars
Crowding up the streets
With all those stupid Greeks
Fuckin' with the freaks
Let's tow them away!

 

HEARTBEAT
(Gates, Kerr)

Here we are
It's insane
You and me
For the time
Did you know
Did you say
I won't go
Will you stay

Your heartbeat
I'm watching
Your heartbeat
I'm talkin'
Your heartbeat
I'm watching
Your heartbeat
I'm talkin'

Here we are
It's insane
You and me
For the time
Did you know
Did you say
I won't go
Will you stay

Your heartbeat
I'm watching
Your heartbeat
I'm talkin'
Your heartbeat
I'm watching
Your heartbeat
I'm talkin'

 

MOVIES
(Kerr)

All alone city streets
Late at night off the beat
Hear footsteps more than two
Someone might be after you

It only happens in the movies
This is life it's not the movies
It only happens in the movies
Oh my god it's not the movies

In your car drivin' home
Hitchhiker all alone
Pick him up to be nice
Toothy grin a butcher knife

It only happens in the movies
This is life it's not the movies
It only happens in the movies
Oh my god it's not the movies

Out of gas a stormy night
Big old house with just one light
Knock on door if you dare
Go on in there's no one there
Walk into a crowded room
It's deathly still it's like a tomb
People never move their heads
They don't talk cause they're all dead

It only happens in the movies
This is life it's not the movies
It only happens in the movies
Oh my god it's not the movies

 

MUTANT ROCK
(Turner, Kerr)

When the world is blown away and mutants are the thing
There won't be a government they'll just elect one king
He will play guitar and lead a brand new type of band
Mutant rock will be the rage and it will sweep the land

I'm livin' for that mutant rock
I wanna dance to the mutant rock
I'll be there when the mutants rock
So gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme mutant rock

It will be a different style, a different kind of beat
You will hear it everywhere, they'll play it in the streets
Mutants on their way to work and on their way to school
Carrying their radios to hear the king's new rules

I'm livin' for that mutant rock
I wanna dance to the mutant rock
I'll be there when the mutants rock
So gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme mutant rock

It's OK, the king's alright cause rhythm is the rule
Layin' down those rockin' laws, this kingdom has no fools

I'm livin' for that mutant rock
I wanna dance to the mutant rock
I'll be there when the mutants rock
So gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme mutant rock

 

DETECTIVES
(Turner, Kerr)

Detective, you're acting just like a detective
You've always got to see
You've always got to follow me

Why don't you go away and leave me alone
You've even gone and bugged my telephone
Detective

History, you want to know all my history
You want to know where I've been
My life before and after ten

Why don't you go away and leave me alone
You've even gone and bugged my telephone
Detective

Why don't you go away and leave me alone
You've even gone and bugged my telephone
Detective

Why me, why are you always behind me
Is there something you will learn
That you can use to make me burn

Why don't you go away and leave me alone
You've even gone and bugged my telephone
Detective

Do you, do you think you'll ever change me
I've gotta be what I've gotta be
Your rules will never set me free

Why don't you go away and leave me alone
You've even gone and bugged my telephone
Detective

 

OUT OF FOCUS
(Gates)

Stop, crowding me
Stop, your mystery
Stop, the way you are
Stop, no time for that

Stop, look around
Stop, get a grip
Stop, see the ground
Stop, you get the picture

It's all out of focus, no one notices
It's all out of focus, no one cares
It's all out of focus, no one gives a shit
The real world is...over

Stop, pictures from home
Stop, life on thin ground
Stop, bordering on overtime
Stop, nonsense
Stop

 

PSYCHO
(Kerr)

Two strings and two tones
Here I sit and I'm all alone
I'd like to meet you
I'd like to reach you
Hear your voice on the telephone
Hello...

In my cell everyday
I get my food from a little tray
I'm killing people on my wall
There's a psycho inside us all

I confuse them all and they don't see
Sometimes it's Mommy, sometimes it's me
Sometimes it's Auntie with her ax
I lose control and then I get it back

Tomorrow at 3:00 I get out
I fooled them all, and there's no doubt
Auntie says that we're not through
Let's make it number twenty-two
I'm gonna kill you...

 

RED/GREEN
(Kerr)

Shoot em up, bang bang
Stick the needle in the vein
Coming down is the worst
Well if the drugs don't get you first

Red/Green
Red/Green
Red/Green
Stop and go

Nobody wants to hear or see
Don't cause a scene baby that's the key
It's like a drug that takes control
Mechanical clones without a soul

Red/Green
Red/Green
Red/Green
Stop and go

And the people everyday
They're building walls and drifting away
Keep the volume and the picture the same
Step out of line and they get your name

Red/Green
Red/Green
Red/Green
Stop and go

 

IN THE CITY
(Kerr)

In the city, everybody moves fast
Push and shove, and don't you get caught last
In the city, everybody says go
And they get you, if you go too slow

Same old chorus, 4 4 time
Same old words, A and B rhyme
In the city, no one cares
In the city, no one stares

In the city, there's lots to do
In the city, let's see who is who
Out the window, everyday
Out the window, is the only way

In the city, God it's great at night
All the people and all of the sights
In the city, there's a great pulse beat
In the city, they all talk with their feet

 

NIGHTBEAT
(Turner, Kerr)

Nightbeat, it's what I'm talking about
Nightbeat, I yell and scream and shout
Nightbeat, from my head to my toes
Nightbeat, you know I really let go

Nightbeat, it's what I'm living for
Nightbeat, give me more and more
Nightbeat, you know I can't get enough
Nightbeat, it's got a crazy touch

Night Beat

Nightbeat, I've got it in my feet
Nightbeat, I can't stay in my seat
Nightbeat, you know I'm feeling so good
Nightbeat, the only way they should

Night Beat

 

AFTER 12:00
(Gates, Kerr)

Love in monotone, one note for two
Suspended motion suspended by you
I can't move forward, and I can't move back
There's no feeling with no contact, no contact



SECURITY
(Kerr)

Got a job Got a house
Got a car Got a kid

Got some clothes Got a smile
Got some $ Got some friends

Got a gun Got your locks
Got some dogs Got your alarms
I got me!

 

T.V.
(Turner, Gates, Kerr)

I want to be on your T.V. so
That you might notice me...
You don't notice nothing
Else except that box that's
On your shelf

What's on T.V. I Love Lucy
What do you see? Big Boy T.V.

Good Morning America
Sonny and Cher Show
Mary Tyler Moore Show
Rocky & Bullwinkle

 

I DON'T WANNA DANCE
(Gates, Kerr)

I don't wanna be
I don't wanna see
I don't wanna dance
But you can

I'm so chic
I'm so neat
I don't wanna dance
But you can

I'll be myself
Be no one else
Cause I don't wanna dance
But you can

 

IDENTITY CRISIS
(Turner, Gates, Kerr)

I don't know why when I'm walking down the street
That I get so many stares you know I think
I'm coming down with an

Identity Crisis....Who am I
Identity Crisis....I don't know why
Identity Crisis....What's my name

You can't be different without causing a scene
And no matter what you look like
There's always someone staring

There's always someone looking and they're
Always gonna snicker and they're always
Gonna point and they're gonna give you an
IDENTITY CRISIS

 

THIN LINE
(Turner, Gates, Kerr)

You walk this line with an outlook so bleak
Never knowing why you're so weak
Go where you're told do what you're told to do
A black silhouette just passing thru

The thin line of real is lost
Content to live in Hell on Earth
You're fading slowly into the past
The thin line of real is lost

You're in a trance from media lies
Out of focus camera's eyes
You've only got yourself to blame
You keep supporting a worthless game
It's safe to say that you're going nowhere
You stand alone and you never care
I keep expecting you to wake from the dream
So silent you never scream

Take control and give reason to being
Three dimensional hearing and seeing
Time is now you must awaken
The signs are telling you
The earth is shaking

 

ADVICE
(Turner, Kerr)

And they tell you
You're a mess How to dress
What you've found About your sound

And they tell you
How to wear your hair How to care
How to live your life
And I say screw your cheap advice

And they tell you
Everything's OK
To live their way
About what's right
About white might
Advice

 

COMPLETE CONTROL
(Kerr)

You want us to talk
But you're not gonna listen
You make it seem that we have a choice
It's not that easy
You just can't grant us favors
If you turn words around
Then it's an assault

You want complete control
As long as we don't know
You want complete control
Don't let the others know
You got complete control
As long as we don't know
You want complete control
Don't let the others know

Tell me again
How I have my freedom
You get your say
And we'll compromise
Business is fun
You have to outsmart them
I'll be your friend
If you let me hold the gun

 

WORK WITHOUT PAY
(Gates, Kerr)

Work without pay
Work without thinking
Daily routines
God I'm sinking

Monotony surrounds me
Monotony astounds me
I can work for hours
And never use my mind

Bum job just for money
They should give you extra
Instead of their choices
Quit or stay forever

 

SPIT
(Turner, Gates, Kerr)

Don't watch the band baby
Watch your feet
You look at us
And you might miss the beat
At the bar they got nothing to do
If all the customers are watching you

Don't be visual
Just play
Be a robot
And pick up your pay

You hired another band
That's just a little weird
Mr. Big is worried
Over not selling beer
Pleasing customers is not your show
Getting the money
Is all you know

You want a band
That's a total bore
You never care
How fun we are
We don't care
If you don't ask us back
People won't hear us
Is the only drag

 

ACT/ REACTION
(Turner, Gates, Kerr)

People killing people
Without any reason
Put the gun to your head
If you're alone
There's no thought when your feelings
Start taking over
Just react to the scene
You were just shown

Act, act reaction
Act, act reaction
Act, act reaction
Act, act reaction

A sudden moment
And you've gone too far again
You're not yourself
Anymore
Bright day changes
Into a dark moon
It will never be
As before

 

SELF CONTORTION
(Gates, Kerr)

I believe that you see
More than you tell
Eyes that hear hands that talk
Build your own jail
Gather up all the things
You call your own
A walking book telephone
You're all alone

You accuse me
Take for granted
Self contortion
I'm enchanted

 

WISE UP
(Gates, Kerr)

You think that you
Got it made
You think you're on top
You can drive your
Daddy's car
God, you're just so pop

Kid wise up
Your life sucks
Kid wise up
Your life sucks

Hey, my dad's a lawyer
My dad owns a bank
Let's go out and
Find some girls
My car's got
A full tank

Mommy gave it all
To you
10 credit cards or more
They haven't bought
You anything
Cause you are
Still a bore



HISTORY
(Kerr, Gates, Turner, Washam)

We all talk about world peace
But then war comes again
Dr. King and the Kennedys
Murder takes another friend
Korea, 'Nam, El Salvador
The name is never the same
Laser guns and germ warfare
New toys but the same old game

History repeats itself

And people are starving everyday
The poor and sick are going uncured
While Mr. Big's huge bank account
Lets him rest so assured
The 1920s and the 1950s
No one was singin' the blues
Depression came and took it away
You're always paying dues

History repeats itself

And punk rock's not so far removed
From Little Richard or the early Stones
Look around and see how much
And just how little we've grown
Sometimes the scene's so very good
Sometimes there's nothing to do
The past's a circle going round and round
The future's up to you

 

NERVOUS
(Turner, Gates, Kerr)

You make me nervous and I go insane
Too many problems seem to drain my brain
I had a heart but I don't anymore
You make me nervous and I crawl the floor

You make me nervous and I crawl the floor

Question shapes are all I can see
Blank face robots always haunting me
You make me nervous I can't stand anymore
Broke down my mind and I crawled the floor

You make me nervous and I crawl the floor

You never touch you never even try
I open up and you go run and hide
You're walkin' backwards through an open door
You make me nervous and I crawl the floor

You make me nervous and I crawl the floor

Distrust and mistrust are all I can see
You're always trying to put something over on me
You're all alone in a boat with no shore
You make me nervous and I crawl the floor

You make me nervous and I crawl the floor
You make me nervous and I crawl the floor

 

APOLITICAL
(Turner, Kerr)

If radiation hasn't changed the glory boys from
their goal range and real facts just won't sway
the few you think that there's something you can do?

I'm Apolitical I'm Apolitical

I don't care El Salvador can blow itself right off
the world and Reagan there with all his plans is
is just another yes-no man

I'm Apolitical I'm Apolitical

It's hard for me to take a stand when everyone
has got the plans to push the button on the bomb it's
just a scene and I'm a pawn

I'm Apolitical I'm Apolitical

Leave me alone you pamphleteers give it up
and buy me a beer so many causes in the world today
they just get in the way

I'm Apolitical I'm Apolitical

 

HOLLYWOOD SWINGING
(Kool and the Gang)

Hey hey hey
Whatcha got to say
Hey hey hey
Whatcha got to say
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging

Say I remember
Not too long ago
I went into a theater baby
I saw the Kool and the Gang show
I always wanted
To be in a band
To sing my songs
And be a bad piano playin' man
So here I am
In this Hollywood city
The city of the stars, women, music, and cars
I guess I guess I'll be a star

Hey hey hey
Whatcha got to say
Hey hey hey
Whatcha got to say
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging

Hollywood swinging
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood swinging

Say I remember
Not too long ago
I went into a theater baby
I saw the Kool and the Gang show
I always wanted
To be in a band
To sing my songs
And be a bad piano playin' man

Hey hey hey
Whatcha got to say
Hey hey hey
Whatcha got to say
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging
Hollywood
Hollywood swinging

 

PRISON
(Gates, Kerr)

Forgetting all the numbers
You're turning your back
Reject the possibility
That you could be off track

Conflict...value judgement
Conflict...barriers crumble

Refuse to fit in your mold
Makes us stronger still
Breaking ranks all the time now
Unclassifiable still
Everything in categories
Put the same with same
What about the one that's different?
He's not in the game

Have to have a category so you will understand...that's your problem

Using terms to fit yourself
You're building your own tomb
Close your eyes and give your judgement
You're giving us no room

Have to have a category so you will understand...that's your problem
Have to have a category so you will understand...that's your problem
Have to have a category so you will understand

 

WE GOT SOUL
(Fawns, Gates, Kitto, Gates, Kerr)

we got soul
we got soul
we got soul
let's take control

we got soul, let's take control
we got soul, let's take control
we got soul, let's take control
we got soul, let's take control

 

FUN, FUN, FUN
(Gates)

You don't understand a word we say
You don't listen to us anyway
All of this it's just for fun
We're not out to hurt no one

Fun, Fun, Fun that's what we play
Fun, Fun, Fun that's what we say
Fun, Fun, Fun no matter what they say
Fun, Fun, Fun we'll have some anyway

I'm a punk and I like SHAM
COCKNEY REJECTS are the world's greatest band
But I like JOY DIVISION, PUBLIC IMAGE too
Even though that's not what I'm supposed to do

Fun, Fun, Fun that's what we play
Fun, Fun, Fun that's what we say
Fun, Fun, Fun no matter what they say
Fun, Fun, Fun we'll have some anyway

 

WE GOT YOUR MONEY
(Kerr, Gates, Turner)

I want to be a problem
I want to cause a scene
I want to get reactions
And wake you from you dream
I don't care if you don't like it
Or you think that it's the best
As long as you remember
Then we're up with all the rest

I want to be different
I want to make you see
I want to make you wonder
Is it you or is it me?
I'm the big question
You'll never understand
And to all you frat boys
WE GOT YOUR MONEY IN OUR HANDS
(hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha)

 

LESSON
(Kerr, Gates)

Fantasies are over now
Yours is not the only way
Accept that there's some other views
And leave if you don't want to stay

What's the matter? Are you scared
Your stance may not be so strong?
Get rid of the competition
Easier to prove them wrong
Worried about your so-called "image"
It's the way then what's to fear?
Give you an alternative-
Only if you come in here

 

FUNK OFF
(Kerr, Gates)

We're all free to do the things man wants us to do
Push too far, they'll take your car and what belongs to you
There's a law that they can find to stop most anything
The pressure's here, the subtle fear makes you scream

People always getting stopped for stepping out of bounds
Don't give up just get back in and go another round
Don't give them what they expect, let's keep them on their toes
There's many things that we can do-so here we go

 

I'M SORRY
(Kerr, Gates)

I'm no better than you
You're no better than me
Don't give me that bullshit
Just because we don't agree

I'M SORRY

It's become a case
What am I supposed to do?
Change the way I feel
Just because of you?

I'M SORRY

 

WE'RE NOT IN IT TO LOSE
(Gates)

The time has come to say what you mean
No more sitting around or hiding behind schemes
The time has come-and you've got to say
No matter what you do, we won't go away

WE'RE NOT IN IT TO LOSE-FUCK YOU!

Use any excuse to try and keep us down
We know that you're scared of what you see all around,
We don't fit your dream, your safe reality
But we'll do what we want,
Because we got to be free

 

FIGHT BACK
(Kerr, Gates)

Sick to death, I'm sick of you
Sick of me, what's left to do?
Slit your wrist, what will that prove?
One point for them, and us we lose

OPPRESSION DEPRESSION OPPRESSION
FIGHT BACK!

Everything is going bad
Kind of seems like we've been had
I've had enough, how about you?
This depression-is it through?

Are you ready to take a stand?
Make a fanzine-make a band
You're telling me you got something to say
Quit your bitching, there's a way

 

SOUND ON SOUND
(Kerr, Gates)

I'm behind you, you don't see me
I watch you when you're near me
You say words the sound is missing
I just look, and watch and listen

SOUND ON SOUND

Love is just infatuation
You are me and I am you
Looking back it's just reflections
It's just something else to do

 

BRICK WALL
(Kerr, Gates, Turner)

Let's all yell so we'll be heard
You talk louder and I'll talk louder

BRICK WALL-BRICK WALL-BRICK WALL-BRICK WALL!

I smash your head to get this in
You don't agree I'll fucking hit you harder

I'll stay here as long as you
Scream and yell 'till I turn blue

Testing on my belief
Volume makes my point, not thought

Comfortable, I'm comfortable
Comfortable, I'm comfortable
Comfortable, I'm comfortable
I DON'T REALLY GIVE A FUCK!

 

JUMP THE FENCE
(David Fenster)

The sound I'm hearing
Should not be spoken
It enters my mind
All rules are broken
It's the voice of reason
Speaking as my conscience
There will be some treason
Same old sort of nonsense

AMBIVALENCE
I ALWAYS JUMP THE FENCE

Look at the good things
Not good for long
I thought I had it
I was all wrong
But now my mind is made up
Everything is final
Until the time I change it
There is no denial

You want to want
One step removed
To have, to have
To be improved
But now if doubt is out
And intuition is in
In an instant out of instinct
I'll start all over again

 

ASSAULT
(Kerr, Gates, Turner)

I'm walking down the street
And everywhere I go
Fools are always yelling-
They won't leave me alone
You think you've got a right
To scream and yell at me?
You never realize that
What you do is wrong

ASSAULT ASSAULT
ASSAULT ASSAULT

Common sense tells you to
Mind your own business
You go out of your way
To cause a scene
Why do they say the U.S.A. is
The land of the free?
Don't tell me that my freedom
Is just another dream

ASSAULT ASSAULT
ASSAULT ASSAULT

 

MANIPULATION
(Kerr)

I was thinking about the things I heard today
And did they tell you, most are rumors anyway
Conversation, leads to feelings up or down
And I can lead you by the way my wording sounds

MANIPULATION it's always in the news
MANIPULATION it always seems to cause the news

The written word could drop a hundred bombs
And break up close friends, break the strongest, closest bonds
Conversation, leads to feelings up or down
And I can lead you by the way my wording sounds

 

SAME OLD BLUES
(Kerr)

Talk about the problems and talk about the girls,
Talk about the war and the end of the world,
Talk about the boredom cause it's all the same,

Talk about the boredom cause it's all around,
Songs are just words that go with the sound

WHAT CAN WE DO? CHANGE IT
WHAT CAN WE SAY? CHANGE IT
WHAT CAN WE DO? CHANGE IT
WHAT CAN WE SAY? CHANGE IT

Religion sucks and so do all the rules,
You just learn to FIT IN when you go to school,
Rich people laugh while the poor people crawl,
We try to walk and the pigs bust us all

Things are falling, we walk down the line,
Nobody's perfect, we're all serving time,
Things all get built up just to fall down,
A big fucking circle that always goes round

 

GATOR FUCKIN'
(Gates, Turner)

Gator boys and gator girls
Living in an Izod world
A million clones, they're all the same
Rich little assholes with no brains

GATOR FUCKING BOYS
GATOR FUCKING GIRLS
GATOR FUCKING YOU
GATOR FUCK THEIR WORLD

All their lives they've never seen
Protected in their little dream
They don't know what's going on
They don't know what's going wrong

 

WHITE NIGGER
(Kerr, Gates, Turner)

Don't you know you put me down
You try to make me live a frown
But my life is looking up
I'm having fun-I'm not in a rut

WE ARE ALL WHITE NIGGERS
WE ARE ALL WHITE NIGGERS
WE WON'T BE WHITE NIGGERS NO MORE

Someone always pushing me
Oppressor man, why won't you let me be?
Things won't seem half as bad
If you get to rocking with your rocking dad

 

BABY LET'S PLAY GOD
(Kerr, Gates)

Baby, let's play God
You do everything I say
And if you're real nice to me
I might let you be the pope someday

GOD, GOD, GOD
BABY, LET'S PLAY GOD

What's this with this complex in you?
When you say jump, we're all supposed to move
I've turned the tables now and I've got the gun
And God is pissed so you better run!

GOD, GOD, GOD
BABY, LET'S PLAY GOD

Baby, let's play God,
And I'll be God so who are you?
It's not important what you want anyway
When you're God you get the final say

GOD, GOD, GOD
BABY, LET'S PLAY GOD

 

NO
(Kerr, Gates, Washam)

My head's about to bust
If something doesn't happen I'm gonna blow
So many things I wanna do and say
And everyone keeps telling me
They keep saying No.., No.., No

It's not easy anymore
When we were kids we could smile it off
But now it's all about responsibilities
And anything goes wrong it's gonna set me off
No.., No

Different feelings come and they go
Sometimes they make you want to lose control
Sometimes they take control of you
If I'm not responsible what am I supposed to do
No.., No

 

NARROW VIEW
(Gates)

I'm so tired of all this sittin' around
I'm so tired of all this bringin' me down
I'm so tired of all the rules of the game
I'm so tired of all this same old thing

Now I know, now I know, it's just a narrow view
Now I know, now I know, all's you can see is you
Now I know, now I know, it's just a narrow view
Now I know, now I know, nothing will ever change you

I'm so bored of all this young stupidity
I'm so bored of all this wreckin' the scene
I'm so bored of all this fighting with you
I'm so bored of all this try and take it through

 

I DO CARE
(Kerr, Gates, Washam)

Hands up in the air
Don't come near me I can do it
Pull the trigger on this gun
End it now I swear it's coming

It's a statement it's a fact
An idea it's just ideas
You've got yours and I've got mine
I don't care I do care

 

LISTEN
(Gates)

Oh, listen
Oh, listen
You must be deaf
You never hear a single word I say
And still you look at all the facts
And then you don't see anyway

Hear what you will
See what you will
Say what you will
That's not my problem
Hear what you will
See what you will
That's not my problem
You never listen anyway

Oh, listen
Oh, listen
You miss so much
I know it just can't be me
And still you insist
Why can't you see

Hear what you will
See what you will
Say what you will
That's not my problem
Hear what you will
See what you will
That's not my problem
You never listen anyway

Oh, listen
Oh. listen
There's no point
In going on with this game
No winners, no losers
It's always the same

 

WHAT'S THE WORD
(Kerr, Gates)

Dance Life is just a party
Dance Life is just a party
Dance Life is just a party
Dance Life is just a party

Attitudes, not 1,2,3
Attitudes the way to be
Ask the people on the street
What's the word that's in their feet?

If you got the word the shout it out
If you got the word the shout it out
If you got the word the shout it out
The word is funk!

Dance Life is just a party
Dance Life is just a party
Dance Life is just a party
Dance Life is just a party

Close your ears and close your eyes
Lose your weapon of disguise
Sneaks upon your sneak attack
It's the word that's in your back

If you got the word then shout it out
If you got the word then shout it out
If you got the word then shout it out
If you got the word then shout it out

Attitudes, not 1,2,3
Attitudes the way to be
Ask the people on the street
What's the word that's in their feet?

If you got the word then shout it out

 

COMMON BEAT
(Turner, Gates, Washam, Kerr)

It's a common beat
When the school is the street

 

NO LOVE
(Gates, Kerr)

There is nothing left inside of me
Nothing, I do not feel
There is nothing left inside of me
Only a rage I can't conceal

There is no love
No love left inside of me
There is no love
And no place to hide
No love

I find myself going through the motions
But I don't care anymore
I try and I try to make it happen
But I'm not even sure what for

There is no love
No love left inside of me
There is no love
And no place to hide
No love

So there's nothing left
Deep inside of me
It rained on my house for too long
And I don't care about anything
And still this shit goes on

There is nothing left inside of me
Nothing, I do not feel
There is nothing left inside of me
Only a rage I can't conceal

There is no love
No love left inside of me
There is no love
And no place to hide
No love

 

WHICH WAY TO GO
(Gates, Kerr)

What can I do or say
To let you know the state I'm in
And just what will that prove
How can you ever understand
I'm sittin' in the sun
Waitin' for the rain to come
Looking into the dawn
And wishing that this day was done

I don't know which way to go
I just don't know which way to go

My all my everything
And now even that is gone
And still I try to sing
But the same old words still come
When will there be something
To take the place of all this
Or is it me that's died
And the rest of the scene still exists

I don't know which way to go
I just don't know which way to go

 

KILLING TIME
(Kerr, Gates, Washam)

This killing time
Is killing me
It's killing you
It's killing me
It's killing time
Is killing me
Is killing me
It's killing time

 

WORK
(Gates)

I work and slave for my pay
Do things I hate for a living
I want my freedom before it's too late
Economic circumstances cause misgivings

I know you know what we all want
A life of leisure it's not too much
I know you know what we all want
What is your pleasure, what is your pleasure

40 hours what do I live for?
A trailer and a weekend somewhere
Just to be happy and free from doubt
Situations that we can share

I could get a job 9 to 5
In some office somewhere
And settle into a comfortable life
And rot my brain, but where's the fun of it?

 

PIL BEACH
(Kerr)

(Instrumental)

 

SHUT UP
(Gates)

You talk and talk and talk so endlessly
You know you talk so much that I just can't see
All the news your telling me, I've heard before
I've got to get away, I just can't take anymore

Shut up, why don't you
Shut up, you never
Shut up, why don't you

There's so many people talking in this world
Isn't it amazing no one's ever heard
Still they go on babbling all through their days
Don't they realize that words just get in the way

Why do I keep listening to the same old mess
I said, all this constant chatter's boring me to death
The nonsense that you're saying, it means nothing to me
Why don't you just shut up and just let me be

All the noise you make just ain't no fun
Don't you understand it don't interest no one
All this fuckin' racket always going on
I said you better shut up, I'm gonna turn you off

 

AUTHORITY
(Kerr, Turner)

I hate authority
Can't stand authority
Don't like authority
I hate authority, yes I do

Don't tell me what to do
Don't tell me what to think
Don't tell me what to see
You've got no hooks in me, no you don't

There's no reason for you
To mess in my affairs
Get away from my face
You'll wish that you weren't here, get away

 

GM
(Kerr)

I've got hands and I've got feet
I've got ears to hear the beat
I've got ears and I can see
Everything I do is me

Money it exchanges hands
Money it can change a man
I won't bow to no man's hip
What you see is what you get
Public product
Not for sale

I'm not for sale
Public product
Not for sale

Fame is what you find inside
Fuck the others, you can't hide
From the fact that when it's through
All you've got yourself is you
Public product
Not for sale

 

DISTANCE
(Kerr, Gates)

(Instrumental)

 

INFLUENCE
(Kerr, Gates)

Influence, swinging to the left and right
Influence, taking out the wrong from right
Influence, questions to your point of view
Influence, things I'd like to try and do

The answers, you have them, tell me what I should know
Each day now, I'm changing, and my reflection shows

Influence, everybody has their own
Influence, changing points of view you're shown
Influence, questions to your points of view
Influence, things I'd like to try and do

 

RULES
(Kerr)

Who's in charge here
Is this cool, am I cool
Well it's not right then who cares
Fuck a bunch of rules

It's just another faction
Your rules, what rules
It's just another idea
It's not a fuckin' set of rules

It's just another idea
C'mon man, gimme a chance it's just another idea
Everyone of us have got an idea we can share it
Gimme a break it's something I thought about

We're all here because we want to be free
We're tired of other people's formalities
Set an example don't set a rule
Think for yourself no one person rules

Divide us we fall
It could kill it all
It's the truth!

I do what I can you do what you must
Live and let live is the idea of no rules
I think what I think you think what you think
Freedom to choose is what sets us apart


DAMAGE 43 (a.k.a. THE BIG PICTURE)
(Turner, Kerr, Gates)

Why can't you see the big picture
Your view of life, is like looking backwards through a telescope
Talking to you is useless, there's no talking to you because the blinders are already on

I don't understand how you can be so radical, and then again be so narrow minded
You hate everybody, just like everybody hates you
Hey man, I can't see why you can't see the fuckin' big picture

Your view of life, is like looking backwards through a telescope
All you see and all you do is useless
Hey man, there's no talking to you because the blinders are already on

 

THE SEED
(Kerr, Gates, Turner)

The hiss of the candle
That casts your black shadow
Catches fire all around you
And burns your soul to the ground
The many tongued demon
Is calling out the devil
His words twist your body
Screams are your only sound

Cast your spell oh devil
You cast your spell on me
Cast your spell oh devil
You're pulling me in far too deep

Your strange little house
So deep down inside you
The windows are all bolted
The locks are on the doors
Where other world's secrets
Are set into their motion
Pictures of your life
Are all jagged and torn

A dirty little alter
You etched into those old walls
You said your prays my friend
Unto a pile of bones
The madness overcomes you
As the flames grow higher
The seeds of evil my friend
The seeds of evil's been sown

 

WIPE OUT
(Surfaris)

(Instrumental)

 

NEW WAVE SLAVE
(Kerr)

Fuck the normals, they ain't worth a damn
Fuck the president, throw the congress in the slam
Fuck the schools, and stick their fuckin' rules
Fuck education, degeneration

New wave salve, I'll dig the new wave grave
They'll never make me behave, yes I'm a new wave slave

Fuck the companies, and their fuckin' oil
They'll rape the planet 'til it fuckin' spoils
Fuck the flag, the little Nazi rag
Fuck the chic, they're all social geeks