RANCID (self titled)
Adina Hyena Detroit Rats in the hallway Another night
Animosity Out of my mind Whirlwind Rejected Injury
The bottle Trenches Holiday sunrise Unwritten rules
Situation Get out of my way
ADINA top
I wanna go where the action is I wanna fly through the urban blight
I wanna live like a shadow in the dark and only move at night
A story bought, a one story house that lets the winter bleed
21 years old and no money to read
How did she know the rook 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 tow is what they call home now
One more hill or river to cross on on the way to another town
Crying in her beer & always running away
Maybe not so much running but hoping for better days
How did she know the rook would cave in
Over and over again
Beat up bruised a record that's broken
Adina's crying again
I wanna go where the action is i wanna fly through the urban blight
I wanna live like a shadow in the dark and only move at night
A story bought, a one story house that lets the winter bleed
21 years old and no money
How did she know the rook would cave in
Over and over again
Beat up bruised a record that's broken
Adina's crying again
She's cryin again
HYENA top
Here we go!
I'm money broke it's no joke can't cope use the rope this time
Nuckle up buckle up the ride's getting rough but i will not lose my mind
I ask them if i could come in & the first thing they said was no
If i can't come in that means i can't come back
I got nowhere to go
I'm a hyena fighting for the lions share:
Sometimes the lions share ain't there
Absent from political authority an animal i've become
Total disorder and confusion in the lifestyle that i run
Permit me to do what i want and i will i'm a nomad to travel
Concrete class stone and gravel
I'm a hyena fighting for the lions share:
Sometimes the lions share ain't there
Everytime i turn around it's the same sad story getting ganked i wish it would end
In lifes comisary i'm a bad missionary with a wicked message i send
Fighting like kids losing my shit that's not the way i wanna live
Who can i trust in a world of green when i'm taught to take and not give
Who can i trust when i'm taught to take and not give
I'm money broke it's no joke can't cope use the rope this time
Nuckle up buckle up the ride's getting rough but i will not lose my mind
Remember i do what i want and i will cause i'm a nomad to travel
Concrete class stone and gravel
So there's nothing you can say that's gonna change my mind
Fuck you
I'm a hyena fighting for the lions share:
Sometimes the lions share ain't there
Sometimes the lions share ain't there
DETROIT top
I didn't know what time it was til the sun went down
Detroit, Michigan on the bus downtown
Last night i was fighting on in the street
But tonite i have a girl next to me in this cold world
She brings me heat
I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
I gotta good feeling everything is gonna be alright
Some run some fight
I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
Detained in illegal custody spent the night in jail
With a drunken priest and a hooker 500 dollars bail
Nobody knew who was who standing in the street like that
I hit the ground to make a sound and it just goes like that
I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
I gotta good feeling everything is gonna be alright
Some run some fight
I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
Bus dropped me off and i had to cough
I couldn't breathe cause i got ripped off
I couldn't realize by being satisfied cause it runs so thin
And that's why i'm pissed off
We had no money we had time
She had the champagne i had the cisco wine
She said "do you want to come you better hurry because
We'll have hell to pay"
I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
I gotta good feeling everything is gonna be alright
Some run some fight
I got a good feeling in a bad city tonight
RATS IN THE HALLWAY top
Stop! Here we go!
Knock knock, come in
You wanna fight, i'm gonna win
I'll take you out in a minute
Step in my flat see what's in it
I live in the land of the welfare state
My flat used to be section 8
Now it's a rat infested cocaine run
My whole world plays like a broken drum
Junkie drunken bum yeah yeah yeah rats in the hallway again
Get up get out go ahead and ride away
Sit up our bed up your bed to lay
Kick up our rip up this place apart
Even when i finish i'm back at the start
I'm out of line on Adeline street
Heat don't keep this crooked beat
4 a.m. no waves breakin
What's left of the p.m. the a.m. has taken
Junkie drunken bum yeah yeah yeah rats in the hallway again
Outside my gate my crew is drinking a 40 oz
He asked me is there's still rats in the hallway
I said some things ain't like the weather
They never change for the better
This girl came up to me she said she would do me no harm
Rolled up her sleeve and showed me the tracks on her arm
I said "what's your name" she said "it's Mya"
She said "Tim i wanna take you higher"
Junkie drunken bum yeah yeah yeah rats in the hallway again
Zombie walking out on his own with no moral
Mr High leaves the body in comes Mr Withdrawl
Pain is the only thing the body will allow
The kid wants to dance the gangster knows how
Johnny bought some shit down on Market street
Shoot up boot up the human target
He hit the dirty spike when he hit the scene
It's easy to stay dirty when nothing is clean
Johnny's a writer who tags up Jackel Jackel
Just clamped on unclampable shackles
Rout up shoot up some dope to go like legal currancy
It's money it's like that rat tat tat kid
Got shot point blank in the back
My land lord said not be bumming
He was a cocaine stoop and he had it coming
He had it coming? He was only 12 years old
He was in the blizzard he got shot for being cold
It don't seem right tonight hit the lights alright
Watch the roaches run into the darkest room
Junkie drunken bum yeah yeah yeah rats in the hallway again
Junkie drunken bum yeah yeah yeah rats in the hallway again
ANOTHER NIGHT top
In the dark with the Oakland skyline
As i cross the city i avoid the landmines
All i wanna do is make it through without dyin
All i wanna do is keep on tryin
Another night in the streets for me
Another night no sanctuary
Another night come and watch me bleed
Another night in the streets for me
She wouldn't move until the coast was clear
She always knew the final battle was near
If you got a bag of dope she'll give it up for free
If you got a song of hope it will help her see
Another night in the streets for me
Another night no sanctuary
Another night come and watch me bleed
Another night in the streets for me
In the dark lookin up at the skyline
As i cross the city i avoid the landmines
All i wanna do is make it through without dyin
All i wanna do is keep on tryin
Another night in the streets for me
Another night no sanctuary
Another night come and watch me bleed
Another night in the streets for me
ANIMOSITY top
Break down the fear i got my animosity i'm gonna
Break down the fear i got my animosity i'm gonna
Break it down i'm gonna break it down
Armageddon is comin so you better start runnin
Cause the big wave is comin to the shore
No surprise that you see thru the lies
Of the system that's potten to the core
High tech survailance paranoia and violence
Keeping the city at a calm
Break it down break down tear it apart
The city's goin off like a bomb!
Break down the fear i got my animosity i'm gonna
Break down the fear i got my animosity i'm gonna
Break it down i'm gonna break it down
Helicopter's comin down on me tonight
My brother's sellin cocaine he knows how to fight
Hounded and harassed in a power elite bought
Sun ain't arise so i abide by my route
Helicopter's comin down on me tonight
My brother's sellin cocaine he knows how to fight
Break down the fear i got my animosity i'm gonna
Break down the fear i got my animosity i'm gonna
Break it down i'm gonna break it down
Tonight's the night!
I remember a cold december
When i heard the revolution rock
Didn't hear what they were saying
I ran thru the mayhem of a police state on my block
High tech survailance paranoia and violence
Keeping the city at a calm
Break it down break down tear it apart
The city's goin off like a bomb!
Break down the fear i got my animosity i'm gonna
Break down the fear i got my animosity i'm gonna
Break it down i'm gonna break it down
OUT OF MY MIND top
You're workin like a monkey who's been trained by a sick junkie
On a mission to get money for a new suit and tie
To wear to a reception where they envy your deception
And give compliments and praises to the ones they despise
Practicing your smile in the mirror all the while
Try to cultivate the style of the bastards in power
I know what they're sellin cuz their nervous twitch is tellin
You're comin off smellin like the pig of the hour
I got a lot of people tellin me i'm out of my mind and i don't know why
I got a lot of people tellin me i'm out of my mind and i don't know why
My brain was bleeding and my fingers were proceeding
Through a notebook i was keeping since the dawning of time
Senses were coroaded you know that i was loaded
Like a ???
You were dealing i was realing from the feeling
And the madness was consealing like a siren song
People that i trusted would surely have me busted
If they ever had a clue what was really going on
I got a lot of people tellin me i'm out of my mind and i don't know why
I got a lot of people tellin me i'm out of my mind and i don't know why
I don't know why
Go!
You're workin like a monkey who's been trained by a sick junkie
On a mission to get money for a new suit and tie
To wear to a reception where they envy your deception
And give compliments and praises to the ones they despise
Practicing your smile in the mirror all the while
Try to cultivate the style of the bastards in power
I know what they're sellin cuz their nervous twitch is tellin
You're comin off smellin like the pig of the hour
I got a lot of people tellin me i'm out of my mind and i don't know why
I got a lot of people tellin me i'm out of my mind and i don't know why
WHIRLWIND top
Every cities got an artery where the blood breaks down
An avenue or a boulevard and a boy who wears a crown
Indignant live styles imply lack of means
Dogmatical authoritarians dictate the cities remains
Ohh a promise
To go to heaven won't put salvation in sight
Whirlwind is comin, whirlwind is comin
A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight
Whirlwind is comin down on me
When the factory shut down so did the place he lived
Blood money for junk bonds by a white collar fugitive
All the tax free insentives ain't going to help him now
Generations of job security gone out like the horse and plow
Ohh a promise
To go to heaven won't put salvation in sight no
Whirlwind is comin, whirlwind is comin
A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight
Whirlwind is comin down on me
My old man worked his troubled life in a nowhere dead end
He drank the pain away I'll be damned if that's me having my dreams robed
The working class carries a country that has been rotting inside for years
The rigs cuffed my old man in the front yard i saw through my eyes of tears
Whirlwind is comin, whirlwind is comin
A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight no
Whirlwind is comin down on me
REJECTED top
I could not fit in, i was the one who got caught
I was the one who got realized
I was the one who got dropped
Shut out banished and locked away
The knife that did me in i carry to this day
Rejected, rejected
Crossing bridges in the land of the forgotten
Rejected
I could not fit in, i was the one who got caught
I was the one who got realized
I was the one who got dropped
Distrust existed that i never saw
Deep seated distrust i was a victim of
Rejected, rejected
Crossing bridges in the land of the forgotten
Rejected
Unspoken among the more privilegied or the so called
I was not good enough not good enough at all
At first out of lonliness i tried to conform
But all that bullshit left me all alone
Rejected, rejected
Rejected, rejected
INJURY top
Excuse me while i pull a knife out of my back
How could i ever trust a person like that?
Alongside the slow is someone movin faster
Behind the warm image is a cold cold bastard
Corporate liberal bullshit, ruling fuckin class
Take your fuckin money and shove it up your ass
Take your fuckin lies, i've had enough of you
And all the shit that you put me through
I'm injured, injury yeah yeah yeah
I'm injured, injury woho..
I look for the truth it's getting hard to find
Money grabbin dragon and the tie you hide behind
I'm so fuckin stupid, with you i was a buyer
I beleived in you, you deceiving liar
Excuse me while i pull a knife out of my back
How could i ever trust a person like that?
Corporate liberal bullshit, ruling fuckin class
Take your fuckin money and shove it up your ass
I'm injured, injury yeah yeah yeah
I'm injured, injury woho..
Set me fucking free
THE BOTTLE top
Climb in, climb in, climb inside me paaaaaain
Climb in, climb in, climb inside me paaaaaain
Another night of drinkin, another night of being
Out of my head i don't know where i was last night
Drinkin on an empty stomach or an empty mind
It makes no difference when i'm way out of line
Things i can't remember come back to haunt me
A lot of people out there who seem to want me
Climb in the bottle and never come out
Climb in, climb in, climb inside me paaaaaain
Climb in, climb in, climb inside me paaaaaain
I may know nothin but i'm good at something
I will drink until the sun comes up no more
One of these days gonna come out of my haze
Better hurry up it's getting harder to come back
Things i can't remember come back to haunt me
A lot of people out there who seem to want me
Climb in the bottle and never come out
Climb in, climb in, climb inside me paaaaaain
Climb in, climb in, climb inside me paaaaaain
Climb in, climb in, climb inside me paaaaaain
Climb in, climb in, climb inside me paaaaaain
TRENCHES top
1987, at 7:11
Police out lookin for problems
But i'm no average hoodlum
Still runnin from the pigs so it seems to me
This is not the land of love and liberty
It's more like a waiting room in hell
Drink a quart and watch me dwell
I got it right, out in the trenches tonight
I got it right, out in the trenches tonight
Glass towers rise above the filth and the pain
I'm a moral degenerate feel my pain
Passed out in a squat on mission
That night i was shocked into submission
Straight down straight down to hell i head
System of sewers is where i lay my head
People on their way are like on a different dimension
I need no correction
I got it right, out in the trenches tonight
I got it right, out in the trenches tonight
Some of my friends moved on
A simple domestic life, they're all gone
Only a few of us remain
Only a few of us wanna keep it the same
Wanna keep it the same
I got it right, out in the trenches tonight
I got it right, out in the trenches tonight
HOLIDAY SUNRISE top
So i packed everything i owned
Midnight christmas eve a kid could feel alone
I drink my scotch my mind goes astray
Midnight christmas eve starts out in a way
I cried when i had no shoes til i met the man with no feet
It's just a
Holiday sunrise
I suddenly realized
I got no alibis
Holiday sunrise
Relatives of mine said they were born again
Fucked up world has made me born against
I'm a sinner and my soul should be cleansed
I'll take my chances when i'm dead
I cried when i had no shoes til i met the man with no feet
It's just a
Holiday sunrise
I suddenly realized
I got no alibis
Holiday sunrise
VERSE 3??
I cried when i had no shoes til i met the man with no feet
It's just a
Holiday sunrise
I suddenly realized
I got no alibis
Holiday sunrise
UNWRITTEN RULES top
Kick the kick drum, increase the weight of the sound
The dialog of maximum decibles is enough to move the fucking ground
I'm gonna amplify the rage of a class that's thought inferior
The message in the volume, this song's a carrier
Unwritten rules, rules understood
Unwritten rules, boomin out the speakers & amps in the hood
I like to drink beer play music and go to shows
It's not about paying your dues if you do it out of love
I'm not no jaded junkie runnin dry, hell no
I don't know anything else, i'll be playing til i die
Unwritten rules, rules understood
Unwritten rules, boomin out the speakers & amps in the hood
SITUATION (missing)
GET OUT OF MY WAY top
I don't wanna hurt you or cause any trouble
Get out of my way
Get out of my way
I'm trying to dance here move little devil
Get out of my way
Get out of my way
Don't want your lies and i don't want your rat race
I don't see any fun, any fun in dropping space
I paid as much as you
Get out of my way
Get out of my way
Rich kid rich kid get outta my hair
Get out of my way
Get out of my way
I'll sing what i'll sing and i'll wear what i'll wear
Get out of my way
Get out of my way
I try to love mankind and i try to do what's right
But i can't do anything, anything with you standing in my light
You got a uniform what you need is a bitch
Get out of my way
Get out of my way
I don't wanna hurt you or cause any trouble
Get out of my way
Get out of my way
I'm trying to dance here move little devil
Get out of my way
Get out of my way
Who do you think you are, do you think you're some kinda cop?
Why did you come along? You're a fuckin cop!
Kid get outta my way kid get outta my way
Kid get outta my way kid get outta my way...
Get out of my way!