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Transistor lyrics

Transistor
Artist/Band: 
311
Album release date: 
1997.08.05
Album producers: 
Scotch Ralston and 311
Album guest musicians: 
Nicholas Hexum - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion SA Martinez - Vocals, Scratches Timothy J. Mahoney - Guitar P-Nut - Bass Chad Sexton - Drums, Percussion, Programming Eric Bobo - Percussion (Running, Strangers, Stealing Happy Hours)
Album distributor: 
BMG
Album description: 
Recorded and mixed by Scotch Ralston at NRG Studios. Mastered at Ocean View by Joe Gastwirt. Commenting on the title of the album, Hexum said "We are all transistors of the same energy from the sun." Rewind about two minutes before the first track to hear what is referred to as the "Transistor Intro", an instrumental 311 used to open some of their live shows during that era. According to the band, the noises at the end of the last track are sounds recorded in outer space. The first 5,000 copies of this CD included four 311 stickers inside the package. "Light Years" contains a sample of "I Wanna Be Black" written and performed by Michelle Clinton, courtesy of New Alliance Records. "Strangers" contains a sample of "Hands On Experience" written and performed by The High and Mighty, courtesy of Eastern Conference Records. "Electricity" was originally titled "Fuck the KKK".
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Transistor lyrics

If you want more beats for you buck there's no luck [4x]
Then there's no luck
Then again if you came for drama then I can't understand a
Music critics [2x]
Not afraid of a guy who'll tell you he's never been in a mix
Been in a mix [2x]
We're from the grassroots so big up to our friends
Every crew, every click, and every posse
Big up to all the heads not of hypocracy

You're a transistor

Prisoner lyrics

Whoa oh prisoner
My pretty oh oh prisoner

A black ocean is the sky above
Tiny lights bob what star you from

Trapped in material plane
She wants to fly and they think she's insane
But she knows what she know
Give that girl wings and that's all she wrote

Twilight zone [2x]
I'm floating in the dark alone and
Is there any love out here let me know

A laser lights pinpoints the top of my dome

Galaxy lyrics

Between Mars and Jupiter there's a gap
For another planet now way back yeah
Maybe a mad man just blew the shit out of it
Now were tryin' to get back in alignment
Explains why we go through cycles
Always tryin' to find it
Closin' into the age of Aquarius
Crazy weather floods tornadoes
Low jet streams not gettin' better
Enterin' a twilight zone
Activities grown every single day

Beautiful Disaster lyrics

Today seems like a good day to burn a bridge or two
The one with old wood creaking that would burn away right on cue
I try to be not like that but some people really suck
Some people need to get the axing chalk it up to bad luck

I know a drugstore cowgirl so afraid of getting bored
She's always running from something so many things ignored

Inner Light Spectrum lyrics

When I shadow box inside my skull
Bothered by the senselessness
I wish for the messiah
Indian woman, Babylon

There is one thing I will say on life
We are livin' yeah
Let it flow
Cuz it won't stop

And when the kind consiousness yes come unto you
You will know and it won't stop

When I wipe the sleep from my eyes
Will my fondest dream please come true
Crush my heart with a hammer

Electricity lyrics

This song started as a rant against haters
But that'd be giving in to the instigators
If there is one thing I'd like to pull off
When someone steps with hate all I do is just scoff
You can't burn me [2x]

The same force that flows through every circuit
The juice that's spent everytime you work it
Every life form is based on this simplicity
The soul that you have is electricity

What Was I Thinking lyrics

The word that I heard was so absurd
I can't believe it slipped from my lips
The tongue with which it was sung was so dumb [2x]
I wish to pull it from my skull

What the fuck was I thinking [8x]

Jupiter lyrics

Sometimes the only thing that saves you
Think of bad things luck never gave you
And although your true love has just left you
Well at least you mother kept you

Be sure that a dreams alive
There only short burst in life
Are you able to be satisfied
Do you expect fun all the time

Hey we can rock it easy and lay it in the fold
Hey we can shake you simply just by being cold

Use Of Time lyrics

With the words staying me slow
The verbs that just don't flow
Confusing use of time
Partial stoning of the heart
Waiting for something to start
Confusing use of time

But the trying again
Makes me think it's all gonna end
Confusing use of time

But everytime I turn the volume down
All the I hear is the deafening sound
Of you hearts pound

But the trying again
Makes me think it's all gonna end

The Continuous Life lyrics

When things are outta whack
And they might collapse
And at the end of the day
You still can't relax
And physically you ache
Like a cavity feelin' the bind
On your mind and the rest
Of your body
Listen to your heartbeat
Flow and imagine
Become Jackson Pollack
Air brush Chinese dragons
On a sky blue convertion
Van or an electra
Buick of the mind full of
Fuminous matter
And slowly all the pressure

No Control lyrics

Do you want me to cry
Cry for you
How can you say that you're blue
A rich rock star you are
Yet you still complain, that's insane
Imagine if you had a child of two
You're a single mom, son named Tom
You work a long hard day just to bill pay
With no time to play then what would you say

Still in this world what it means to me
Losin' my grip as I trip on anomalies

Running lyrics

Here in the world feel it flowing
River of life on a human journey
Don't be afraid of becoming the sea
Don't worry yourself [3x]
Many stories will
Be left untold
But understand everything must go

Slow slow lover
Rub you down
We don't want no one
Hurting don't make a sound
Oh livin' is a journey
Waking believing running
For shelter now
Slow slow lover
Rub you down
We don't want no one

Light Years lyrics

You're a thousand light years runnin' through my brain
Reminding me that no one's sane
Not all the time
Yes

You're a thousand light years runnin' through my brain
Reminding me that no one's sane
Not all the time
Yes I still remember you
In a way that you'd want me to
I man a man you know see
Who will do right for you

Never let your regret make you wish we had not met

Creature Feature lyrics

I wanna do what's right
Be kind to every single body
Open up to light
Just let it flow through
My body

But sometime's
I'm unsure [2x]
I tell my baby

I'm slippin' into darkness
I'm creepin' into darkness
I don't want to start this
I'm attracted to darkness

Be positive with love
Just see the good in everybody

But sometimes
I'm unsure [2x]
I tell my baby

There's something going on

Tune In lyrics

You're a power spot rotating
Everchanging
Transmitting like a radio wave
Frequently feeling
What's goin' on
Times are weird all this static
Things erratic
Seems like we lost the magic
See hear how clear
Is inner quality
A yin and yang type of thang
Sacred geometry
Ascending mad
Energy crazy bad
You're something NASA
Fuckin' wish they had

Tune in for those who are wantin'

Rub A Dub lyrics

Ooh, what else can I do [2x]
Ooh, face in a screw
Ooh, racing to prove
You never remember
The blossom sender
Still in a rub a dub style

Long time you don't know what I'm doing whoa
Long time see troubles are brewing yeah
Stick to the way you rock it and know that
You'll cope with that
Not gonna let it sit til I say
How dope was that
Keep you head pumping til you get in the zone

Starshines lyrics

I am a music lover some how I get paid
This song would still exist if no money was made
That's the difference
I summed it up in a sentence
I'm sittin' here perfectly still cuz I've got no place to go
Be about two months until we light up
The show follow me now
I sing of spring it's a marvelous thing
What else swing the thing you bring

Yo I got to say hola
Orange County to Angola

Strangers lyrics

Now I don't know you you don't know me
But I can show you where's the beat [2x]
And you can do as you feel as long as you move
Two perfect strangers sharing a groove

Suckers step up and want to cause friction
But violence is for those who can't handle diction
Competion is waning circumnavigate the draining
Complaining about those who are steady maintaining the jam

Borders lyrics

There are days I wanna leave LA
I wanna break out the maze
Escape the dark haze these days
So many kids I know your feelin' crazed
Crave material thangs and makin' slave wages
Baggy pockets only got laundry fluff
Livin' where rich people always buyin' some stuff
So you try to act tough and hide whats inside
Hold your head high gettin' fucked up and throwin' dice

Stealing Happy Hours lyrics

Massive laminate fortress
Hazy cannibus porches
Saying no to the bores
It's not mine or yours then I said
The wait sucks I don't mind waiting
Once you get here there's no more gates and I gotta say

Stealing happy hours [4x]

Don't wait on minute more to ask me
You make me feel like Hank Chinaski
In war all the time war war all the time
No one else can seem to find

Stealing happy hours [4x]

Down lyrics

Chill light on my sight as my ego becomes
a funky child with some words on my tongue
be like intake of breath and my mouth gets loose
while I scatter my spit I dream of juice
Have you ever made out a dark hallways
displayed a kiss that made your day or say
played a track from your record collection
it's your mix congratulations

We've change a lot and then some- some

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