THE DEATH OF JOHN SMITH
i've got respect from the community i've got my bridge game to look forward to i've got this chance, a golden opportunity as long as i keep doing what i'm supposed to you see my wife and kids, they depend on me to provide them with nothing but the best i feel it's my duty, my obligation to live up to the standards society suggests so i'll keep on working for their benefit and i'll keep on drinking i'll keep on believing in my life another year of slaving and smiling, buying and trading living the life of a wealthy man but somehow i don't feel so rich inside but that doesn't make sense i just had a two week vacation as soon as i get this operation taken care of, i'll start enjoying the good things in life so i'll keep on working for the benefits and i'll keep on drinking i'll keep believing in my life when the pity spins your mind, darkness fills your heart, and i won't be around when you're feeling all alone then you'll know it's time, to go into the ground when the pity spins your mind, darkness fills your heart, and i won't be around i've got my family, friends, and associates to stand by me as the threshold comes near within their faces i see grave concern as i ask myself if their thoughts are sincere after all these years of being complacent what do i get? tenderness, affection, a true sense of love? no! just a pain through a body chalk full of regret i'll keep on believing my life still has value and i'll keep on laughing why can't i stop laughing? i can't stop the laughing.
THE LONGEST LINE
in the darkest tunnel it's nice to see a light not just a headlight like the one that's heading right for me it would be nice if things could turn out right turn out right yeah don't think i'll ever see the day i must have done something wrong or maybe pissed off god i think of chinese food when i think of life that's sweet and sour my life is sweet as saccharine you know 3 week old milk and grapes are not not the same, no i am the one johnny carcinogen i must have fucked with some witch in turn she cursed me, cursed my life at the end of the longest line that's where i will always be if you need to find me, just go to the end of the longest line but officer that was a yellow light the light was red, son insubordination, reckless driving i must be wrong, this can't be right i don't belong, this world is much to dangerous for someone lacking luck, like me at the end of the longest line that's where i will always be if you need to find me, just go to the end of the longest line at the end of the longest line that's where i will always be at the end of the longest line
STRANDED
she once told me not to listen find the answers, intuition follow no-one, trust your instincts face the world, find out it stinks don't come crying, don't come crying don't come cry to me i'm not your friend, i'm just your lover don't put your faith, don't put your faith in me you cut me up and rob me blind but now i'm fine she told me about the places i could never find she told me how to walk while by her side don't be fooled by teardrops they're worth a thousand lies when i saw them running down her face i believed in her stranded, ah ah stranded, ah ah hit me in the gut like a brick through a window left me in the gutter like a wet news rag sitting alone, thinking out the times we never had cause you were my life she told me if and whether we'd spend the night together she made so many promises i believed in her
REMNANTS
wasting your life on the sidewalk when you can be out on the street, dodging cars as they go by, the wind goes right through you life on the edge of a razor never knowing when you're to fall sure as hell beats never gambling at all life's too short to just barely exist wide spread mediocracy will suck you up, resist another number on a list i don't want it, you can have it you can try, but you won't make me feel the things you feel i'll take my chances, till i find a better deal i'll take my chances, along with all the rest the snail goes over the razor blade the suicide squad of lemmings parade to their kingdom, where they've made reservations i have no reservation i don't think my seat's been saved i'll take my chances, here, right
KILL ALL THE WHITE MAN
the white man call himself civilized cause he know how to take over the white man come to pillage my village now he tell me i have to bend over oh yeah, kill all the white man no i don't like the white man up in me he rape my people as he rape my country everything i love and cherish, he try to take away we will be rid of him, soon come the day oh yeah, kill all the white man oh yeah, kill all the white man oh yeah, kill all the white man oh yeah, kill all the white man