| L YRICS TO RANCID (2000) |
1. Don
Giovanni Don Giovanni Don killed Anna's father You're making enemies Well the old man came back from the dead Disgruntled And gradually arodes world technology Reflect something, of course you descend And gradually arodes world technology If the police come across the state It's Quite Alright It's all right When ignorance manifests like that So that's all right Let Me Go It ain't impossible, it ain't easy Correction I need no direction You can burn a book if you don't like the answers Correction I need no direction Bad generations, polorized view Correction I need no direction Correction I need no direction I Am Forever He said, my dear mother, I let you down Riding the freight all the while Doors burst open, doors slam shut Poison Some people are poison Admissions of liabilities Some people are poison The violent aspects of the tattered man Some people are poison Loki It can go either way, you never know 'Cause Loki's playing tricks again Blackhawk Down Conflict in Somalia never came to an end Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down below Conflict in Somalia never came to an end Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down below Blackhawk! Rwanda Tune in the transistor and listen to the news Rwanda, your moon shines bright It's complicated when facts come slow Rwanda, your moon shines bright Corruption The atheists get in line await the coming destruction (no god, no
truce) No restoring order in a full scale attack (no god, no truce) Antennas When you plan that your antennas are pointed in the right direction Oh they talk to you, oh you're the town man When you plan that your antennas are pointed in the right direction Rattlesnake You're a rattlesnake Fuck that shit, I don't wanna hear it You're a rattlesnake You talk that shit about our crew, we hate you You're a rattlesnake You're a rattlesnake Not To Regret Everybody tells me to look within It's like a modern day Sodom and Gomorrah Everybody tells me to look within Some people say I'm fucking crazy Everybody tells me to look within Radio Havana It's a fugitive from time, Radio Havana Afraid to sing, you gotta make a choice It's a fugitive from time, Radio Havana Yeah I got it right (yeah I got it right) It's a fugitive from time, Radio Havana Yeah I got it right (yeah I got it right) Axiom Got a gun and a knife staring back at you
No security force or vigilante's Got a gun and a knife staring back at you Black Derby Jacket But I got a new perspective of you I never needed much, I never liked to loom But I got a new perspective of you Ford Econoline, September '93 But I got a new perspective of you Meteor of War John Brown…
John Brown set the tone, he was a meteor in a guilty land John Brown…
Dead Bodies Dead bodies everywhere Reoccurring rotting dreams from this place the demons speak Dead bodies everywhere In this oblong box that's eating you Dead bodies everywhere Dead bodies
Rigged on a Fix It's true A unique one triggered implosion It's true I've been hypnotized by all of you Young Al Capone Well the succubus latches on and won't let me go Army of Babylon In the darkness among lonely spirits Okay Tim, take this one home
2. Disgruntled
3.
It's
Quite Alright
4. Let
Me Go
5. I
Am Forever
6. Poison
7.
Loki
8.
Blackhawk
Down
9. Rwanda
10.
Corruption
11.
Antennas
12.
Rattlesnake
13.
Not
To Regret
14. Radio
Havana
15. Axiom
16.
Black
Derby Jacket
17. Meteor
of War
18. Dead
Bodies
19. Rigged
on a Fix
20. Young
Al Capone
21. Reconciliation
22.
Golden
Gate Fields
You're making enemies
Like Don
Giovanni
You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
In a brutal sword fight
The old man
regrouped
And came back from the dead
Like Don Giovanni
You're making enemies
Like
Don Giovanni
And dragged Don Giovanni to
hell
So don't fuck with me kid!
If the police come across the
state
And there's a straight crisis and malay
Let it go, let it go, let it go,
disgruntled
And gradually arodes world technology
Let it go, let it go,
let it go, disgruntled
Fighting conflict running
fugitive
Let it go, let it go, let it go,
disgruntled
And gradually arodes world technology
Let it go, let it go,
let it go, disgruntled
And there's a straight crisis and
malay
If the police come across the state
And there's a straight crisis
and malay
I can tell you how it
will go down
But only you can tell me how it will end
All systems can stop
right here
All we are is pretend
So many things can be a mystery
But
what we are seeking is freedom
We realize Mr. Reality
I'm gonna be there
to greet him
It's quite all right with me
It's hard to stop
Under developed,
don't lose your balance
And then take a divine drop
If you find my name in
regards to danger
I urge you all to take heed
Causation, the end of the
world
Gonna set me free
It's quite all right with me
Yeah, with me!
Okay, check this out…
Opportunities shifting here
So far
the strategy ain't working
The facts are in, it's so very clear
I do what
I want, I can't predict the future
And those who can I know that they are
lying
And then the truth can be hard to swallow
In a soap opera, world
leaders are crying
Let me go just one last time
Spent my
whole life searching for direction
Let me go just one last time
Or join forces with an
axe to grind
USA protecting your cancers
A list of hatred is easy to
find
Well there's a growing sentiment in America
If you listen closely you
can hear them all
Right is right, wrong is wrong
And the evil considered
bad behavior
Let me go just one last time
Spent my
whole life searching for direction
Let me go just one last time
No one leaves home to go and help
you
Watch CNN and then you know
US Bombs come down and what you gonna
do?
Boom boom boom, look around
There's no more roof, no more house, no
street, no town
Shot down, burn it black and brown, electrical
meltdown
You hear the sound of the US Bombs all around
Oh it's a
shakedown, it's a breakdown
Atomic sundown and then you know
Let me go just one last time
Spent my
whole life searching for direction
Let me go just one last time
Let me go just one last time
Spent my
whole life searching for direction
Let me go just one last time
I am forever is what he
said
Lost in a dream he never had
Doors burst open, doors slam shut
The
key to change is time
No one wants to be a burden on a
loved one
Doors burst open, doors slam shut
The key to change is time
You're building the fucking
tracks
Doors burst open, doors slam shut
The key to change is time
The key to change is time
Like Chancer's Canterbury Tales
When three
men find a pot of gold
And end up killing one another in the name of greed
Under my skin like opium
And I'll stare in their
eye to annoy them
They're poison, they're poison
I'm living in my own private Cold War
In a
room full of spies and I cannot find the door
Under my skin like opium
And I'll stare in their
eye to annoy them
They're poison, they're poison
Let me respond to that if I
can
Illuminated manuscripts written by hand
Accusations have been made
from the very beginning
Under my skin like opium
And I'll stare in their
eye to annoy them
They're poison, they're poison
They're fucking poison
Set out to mislead, set out to murder
False
appearance is everything to him
Is he good today or is he evil?
In a
violent craze spewing words of madness
Conditioned to deceive and that's how
he likes it
With all the guns going off, who can say no to the guy
Watch
out, who's fucking next?
Loki's playing tricks again
Loki's
playing tricks again
Loki's playing tricks again
Blackhawk down, Blackhawk
down, Blackhawk down below
Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down
below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu, American government
issue
Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down below
Strife in Sudan, ongoing
contention
Battle in Sierra Leon, hostilities in the Congo
Who knew the
coup explosion's at zero
Explosions at zero
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu,
American government issue
Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down
below
Strife in Sudan, ongoing
contention
Battle in Sierra Leon, hostilities in the Congo
Who knew the
coup explosion's at zero
Explosions at zero
Blackhawk down,
Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu,
American government issue
Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down, Blackhawk down
below
Blackhawk!
Blackhawk down!
Rwanda, your moon shines bright
Rwanda,
over planned genocide
Rwanda, won't you be strong
Like a lion
'Cause once a week it hits
ya heartbroken and blue
It's the voice over Africa so stop
peregrination
So listen very closely to a half a million dead souls
Rwanda, over planned genocide
Rwanda,
won't you be strong
Like a lion
Mass destruction, mass
confusion
What's the difference to the orphans, orphans of the dead
When
no more machine guns striking and there's silence instead
Rwanda, over planned genocide
Rwanda,
won't you be strong
Like a lion
A fire from the sky rains brimstone
from above (no god, no truce)
A whole world implosion got too close to the
sun (no god, no truce)
Veins of a power struggle explode into a bloody mess
(no god, no truce)
Rupturing the nation's core bursting from the stress (no
god, no truce)
Religious dogma corrupted and corrupter (no god, no truce)
With a
man made of sin leads a full scale invasion (no god, no truce)
Drains the
life from the skin's abrasion (no god, no truce)
There's no
fucking vision, there's no voice, it's all black (no god, no truce)
And then
you break down with a villainous call (no god, no truce)
Puss bleeding
profusely from the city walls (no god, no truce)
You're selling sexism, you're selling
racism
You're selling anything you get your fucking hands on
An
understanding, you gotta plan in
A presentation to advertisers who demand it
You
make a deal in any situation
So with no evacuation
Let California fall
into the fucking ocean
High profile Hollywood
scumbag
It's a done deal, signed and sealed
Deal makers making it all
happen
You
make a deal in any situation
So with no evacuation
Let California fall
into the fucking ocean
Let California fall into the fucking ocean
For weeks you're falling, that's it
my darling
You hear them calling, drawing you back
Sawing you in two using
me using you
What can you do?
Watch out Mack, he's a rat
Falling off
the track, fade to black
Back on flashback, hit the feedback
Don't you
know we hate that?
And you're full of shit
You're a
rattlesnake
You're a rattlesnake
I cannot bare it when you blare
it
I hate your band, you understand?
You got no passion, it's all
fashion
Well you come you can, come come true
Calm down, flames red or
blue
You don't know, got no clue
I see through
And you're full of shit
I fucking hate
you
You're a rattlesnake
You said you know us, we
don't know you
Jump on the next bandwagon
What's the next fad in, I heard
you bragging
You ain't shit, you get frustrated
We never hesitated
To
call you a charlatan
'Cause we hate you!
And you're full of shit
I fucking hate
you
You're a rattlesnake
And you're full of shit
I hate you
You're a
rattlesnake
Some people say I'm fucking
crazy
But it don't phase me, it's just amazing
Someone shout
Hallelujah
Roulette spinner, blackjack winner
She was a miniscule
miniskirt hiked up
And if you like that you walk a tightrope
Blood of
Jesus gonna cleanse you
So let's begin to put down a wager
But I'll look within the city of
sin
I'm gonna tell you one thing, it's not to regret
In the city of sin,
in the city of sin
Bus station, no
hesitation
For some poor bastard it's a ruin
It's like a coffin, a desert
Kremlin
If you're lucky then you'll fucking hit it
You take an audit with
the money then you split it
It don't matter if you win there
It's just to
be there rather than elsewhere
But I'll look within the city of
sin
I'm gonna tell you one thing, it's not to regret
In the city of sin,
in the city of sin
But it don't phase me, it's just
amazing
Someone shout Hallelujah
Roulette spinner, blackjack winner
But I'll look within the city of
sin
I'm gonna tell you one thing, it's not to regret
In the city of sin,
in the city of sin
El Diablo is like a
soundtrack
A concurrent playback
'57 Chevy with the radio on
It's a sad
song that goes on and on
Fugitive from time, Radio Havana
He got the leather skin and a
velvet voice
The New York Times read that it ain't over yet
You can't
forget 'cause you'll never forget
Fugitive from time, Radio Havana
Going down tonight (going down
tonight)
Oh where'd you go (oh where'd you go)
Going down below (going
down below)
Fugitive from time, Radio Havana
Going down tonight (going down
tonight)
Oh where'd you go (oh where'd you go)
Going down below (going
down below)
On the cusp of an explosion
I answer with
evil, that's the way that I play it
Street Turks, multiple contusions
I
gnash, spit, I grind my teeth
Overwrought ego can dethrone
me
Ostracized if not otherwise
Left to my own device, you'll surely see
Got a gun and a knife staring
back at you
Books of Emerson, books
on Thoreau
But all I read was maps of the road
I was three thousand miles
away from you
All the while I was twenty-two
What do you do to know who
you are?
The best way for me to drop out on tour
You went Upstate New York
to go to school
To secure your roll with your parents
All the good and bad that we went
through
I know you better than you know you
Because I got a new
perspective of you
But a gesture can get me from
across the room
The first night we talked while the sun caught
up
Transparent people melting all around us
You left in a plane, I left in
a van
Played night clubs, house parties, and auditoriums
Saw Germany,
England with my band
I know you better, girl, than your new friends
All the good and bad that we went
through
I know you better than you know you
Because I got a new
perspective of you
Driving ten hours 'til my eyes get
blurry
Three packs of Winstons and a bag of seeds
Tapes of X and a thermos
of coffee
Six weeks on and ten days off
Then I go back on the road for
another show
This is all I've ever done
Girl, I've got nothing to fall
back on
All the good and bad that we went
through
I know you better than you know you
Because I got a new
perspective of you
John Brown set the tone, he was a
meteor in a guilty land
Abolutionists understand freedom to the despondent
man
Grant said you're either one, a patriot or a traitor's son
A
sanguinary conclusion, a sanguinary conclusion
Abolutionists
understand freedom to the despondent man
Grant said you're either one, a
patriot or a traitor's son
A sanguinary conclusion, a sanguinary conclusion
Disfigured and oblique from the
appetite that I seek
I'm a hungry cannibal, I'm a rabid animal
My remains
are being scattered, I've been bludgeoned, I'm in pain
Stomach pains are
coming and they strike with demon speed
Piles of blood, entrails, and hair
I'm bleeding
from the inside
From the Armageddon outside
My skin
exfoliates, my patience terminates
Unfold to unholy urges unearthed with
urgency
The Holocaust was nothing compared to my lividity
Piles of blood, entrails, and hair
I'm bleeding
from the inside
From the Armageddon outside
There's nothing, nothing you can do
Piles of blood, entrails, and hair
I'm bleeding
from the inside
From the Armageddon outside
Charles van Doren never seemed
to want it
Sixty-four thousand dollar question
It was rigged on a fix, end
of innocence
The original TV scandal
You're through
Fuck you!
Outrage, disgrace, condemnation
Nine
hundred channels, one million scandals
I've been hypnotized by all of you
You're through
Fuck you!
I've been hypnotized by all of you
In the army of Babylon I'm a
young Al Capone
Myself an outlaw in the eyes of the Lord
Good man lose and
the bad man win
The blind and the sick, I attenuate them
Barrels of
concrete and melted steel
Black smoke rised like a ghost in the
field
Hardened lungs keep breathing the air
That stings the life from
within me
The leprosy sets in and
you got no glue
The third world working on the factory floor
It's so dark
in there you can't see the sun no more
Cold and bent are the frostbitten
hands
Leaves you like a flower that's been pulled from the sand
Rabid dogs
chewing at my feet
Trying to protect their side of the street
Young Al Capone
Hopeless atmosphere steel gates spear
it
So simplistic, so realistic
So sadistic, yeah you love it all
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