Rancid lyrics

i want to go where the action is
i want to fly through the urban blight
i want to live like a shadow in the dark
and only move at night

a story bought a one story house that
let's the winter bleed
21 years old and no money

how did she know the roof 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 town

I'm money broke and it's no joke can't core use the rope this time (Hey !!)
nuckel up buckel up the ride's getting rough but i will not loose my mind (Hey !!)
i asked'em if i could come in and the first thing they said was no (Hey !!)
if i can't come in thats mean that i can't come back that means i got nowhere to go

[repeat 2x]
i'm a hyena fighting for lion share

i didn't know what time it was until the sun went down
Detroit mild on the bus downtown
last night i was fighting on the street
but tonight 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's gonna be alright
some run some fight
i got a good feeling in a bad city tonight

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 wellfare state
my flat used to be section 8
now it's a rat infested cocaine run
my whole worls plays like a broken drum

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

in the dark with the okland skyline
as i cross the city i avoid the landlines
all i wanna do is make it through without dying
all i wanna do is keep on trying

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

break down the fear
i got my animosity
i'm gonna breake it down

armageddon is coming so you better start running
cause the big wave is coming to the shore
no suprise that you see throu the lies
of the system that's rotten to the core

high tech survailance
paranoia and violence
keeping the city at a calm
break it down
tear it apart
the city's going off
like a bomb

break down the fear

you're working like a monkey
who's been training 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 complements and praises to the ones they despite

practicing your smile in the mirror all the while
try to cultivate the style of the bastards in power
i know what theyç£â€“e selling

every city got an artery where the blood breaks down
an avenue or a boulevard and a boy who wears a crown
indigant live styles mplies simply lack of means
dogmatical authoritarians dictate the cities remains

a promise
to go to heaven wont put salvation in sight

Whirlwind is coming down on me

when the factory shut down so did the place he lived

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 was carry to this day

rejected
crossing the bridges in the land of the forgotten
rejected

distrust existed that i never saw
deep seated trust i was a victim of

rejected...

excuse me while i put i knife out of my back
how could i ever trust a person like that
along side the slow is someone moving faster
behind the warm image is a cold cold bastard

corporate liberal bullshit ruling fucking class
take your fucking money and shove it up your ass
take your lies i've had enough of you
and all the shit that you put me through
i'm injured

injury

climb in
climb in
climb inside me.. pain

another night of drinkin'
another night of beeing
out of my head and i don't know
where i was last night
drinkin' on a empty stomach
or an empty mind
it makes no difference when i'm way out of line
things i can't remember comes back to haunt me
a lot of people out there who seem to want me
climb in the bottle and never come out

1987 at a 7-11
police out looking for problems
but i'm no average hoodlum
still running 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 qwart and watch me dwell
i got it right out in the trenches tonight
glass towers rise above the filth and the pain
im a moral degenerate feel my pain
pass out in a squat on mission

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

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 a carrier

unwritten rules
rules understood
unwritten rules

boomin' out the speakers and amps in the hood
i like to drink beer play music and go to shows

Go ahead start causing trouble
Get outta my way get outta my way...
Don't want your lies and I don't want your
I don't see any fun
In getting fucked up around this place
I played as much as you

Get outta my way get outta my way

Rich kid rich kid get outta my hair

Get outta my way get outta my way

I'll sing what I'll sing
I'll wear what I'll wear

Get outta my way get outta my way

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

When you plan that
Your antenna's are pointed in the right direction
You make a deal in any situation
So with no evacuation
Let California fall into the fucking ocean

Oh they talk to ya, oh you're the town man

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
Got a gun and a knife
Staring back at you
No security force or vigilante's
overweight ego can dethrone me
Ostracized if not otherwise
Left to my own device you'll surly see
Got a gun and a knife
Staring back at you
Got a gun and a knife

Books on Emerson
Books on Thoreau
But all I read was maps of the road
And 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 to Upstate NxY (New York) to go to school
To secure the roll with your parents

I got a new perspective on you
All the good and bad that we went through

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

Conflict in Somalia,
Never came to an end
Strife in Sudan,
Ongoing contention
Battle in Sierra Leone
Hostilities in The Congo,
Who drew up the coup
Explosions at zero,

No God, no truce

A fire from the sky rains brimstone from above
A whole world implosion got too close to the sun
A vein from a power struggle explode into a bloody mess
Rupturing the nation's core blushing from the stress

The atheists get in line awaiting the coming destruction
Religious dogma corrupted and corrupter
With a man made of sin leads a full scale invasion

Dead bodies everywhere
Piles of blood, entrails and hair
I'm bleeding from the inside
From the armageddon outside

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

Reoccuring rotting dreams

If the police come and tromp the state
And there's a strait crisis and maley
And gradually arodes world technology
Let go, let go, let go, disgruntled
And gradually arodes world technology
Let go, let go, let go, disgruntled
Reflect something of course you descend
Fighting conflict, running fugitive
And gradually arodes world technology
Let go, let go, let go, disgruntled

You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
Don killed Anya's father in a brutal swordfight
The old man regrouped and came back from the dead
You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
You're making enemies
Like Don Giovanni
Well the old man came back from the dead and dragged
Don Giovanni to hell
So don't fuck with me..kid!

This is not Churchhill downs this is not Hollywood Park
When the field is wide open
I'll pick the horse that's got the biggest heart
Let em run let em ride let em roll down the track
Let em win place and show
Let em one dollar exact
Six furlongs four phillys
Three mares three years and up
Who measures up
Well I wish you luck
Who measures up
Well I wish you luck

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

He said my dear mother, I let you down
No one wants to be a burden on a loved one

Doors burst open, doors slam shut
The key to change is time

Riding the freight train
All the while you're building the fuckin' tracks

I can tell you how it'll go down
But only you can tell me how it'll end
All systems can stop right here
And all we are is pretend
So many things can be a mystery
And all we are seekin' is freedom
We realize Mr. Reality
I'm gonna be there to greet him

It's alright
It's quite alright with me

When ignorance manifests like that
It's hard to stop
Underdeveloped: don't lose your balance

OK, check this out...

It aint impossible, it aint easy
Opportunities shiftin' here
So far the strategy aint workin'
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 lyin'
And then the truth can be hard to swallow
In a soap opera world leaders are cryin'

Correction, I need no direction
Let me go just one last time

Set out to mislead, sets 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

It can go either way, you never know
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 fuckin' next

'Cause Loki's playin' tricks again

Loki's playin' tricks again
x3

John brown set the tone he was a meteor in a guilty land
Abolitionist understand freedom to the despondent man
Grant said you're either one, a patriot or a traitor's son
It's a Sanguinary conclusion
a Sanguinary conclusion
Sanguinary conclusion..yeah
John brown, (John brown) John brown, (John brown) John brown, (John brown)

Some people say I'm fuckin crazy
But it don't phase me
It's just amazing
Someone shout out Hallelujah
Roulette spinner blackjack winner
She was a minuscule miniskirt hiked up
And if you like that you walk a tight rope
Blood of Jesus gonna cleans ya
So lets begin to put down a wage
Everybody tells me to look within but I'll look within the city of sin

Like Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales
When three men find a pot of gold
And end up killing one another in the name of greed

Some people are poison
Under my skin like opium
I'll stare in their eye to annoy them
Well, they're poison
Yeah, they're poison

Admissions of liabilities
I'm livin' in my own private cold war
In a room full of spies
And I can't find the door

Some people are poison

El Diablo is like a soundtrack
All concurrent playback
'57 chevy with the radio on
It's a sad song
That goes on and on

It's a fugitive of time Radio Havana
It's a fugitive of time Radio Havana

A friend that said you gotta make a choice
He's got the leather skin and the velvet voice
The New York Times read that it aint over yet
you can't forget, cause you'll never forget

For weeks your falling, that's my darling
Hear them calling drawing you back
Sawing you in two, using me, using you
What can you do?
Watch out Mack, here's a rat
Falling off the track, fade out black
Black in feedback, hit the flashback
Don't you know we hate that?
Your a rattlesnake
And your full of shit
Your a rattlesnake
Your a rattlesnake
Fuck that shit, I don't wanna hear it

Reconciliation in what they already knew
Humanities lost when the powers vested in a few

Spread out like a million locusts covering the sun
Protagonists and infidels gonna speak out on the run
Deep rooted back and forth failed from both sides
Triggered a sudden excitement into the battle night

Shadow of Robin Island cloud the symbol of change
Nelson spent 18 years on Robin Island estranged

Charles Van Doren never seemed to want it
A 64,

Rwanda yeah your moon shines bright
Rwanda over planned genocide
Rwanda, won't you be strong like a lion

Tune in the transistor
And listen to the news
Cause once a week it hits ya
Heart broken and blue
It's the voice over Africa
so stop peregrination
So listen very closely to half a million dead souls

Rwanda yeah your moon shines bright
Rwanda over planned genocide

Creeps burn and run their life too calm too windy
To form a wasteland
Atomic blow
A total nothing
Totaled completely
You filth's are discovered but you eyes are boiling
It's a Sick Sick World so what do you do kid?
Come on down, it's your turn, yeah it's your turn!
A night at the goat is the name of the band
A total giant glass ought to make the plan
This song's about when you go back-to-back

In the army of Babylon I'm a young Al Capone
My self 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 rises like a ghost in the field
Hardened lungs deep breathing the air
That stings the life from within me
Succobus catches on and it won't let me go
The leprosy sets in and you got no glue

My life the blessing

Understand my aggression

I don't regret nothing

It's all been a lesson
Me and my friend got the music

Like a loaded gun we're gonna use it

Tell us we ain't shit I won't listen

Try to hit us but you keep on missing

I KNEW THE SENTENCE THEN

I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BLOW

DON'T SAY I DIDN'T WARN YOU

APOCALYPSE RADIO

Sometimes I'm a total wreck

Another show with a fucked up promoter

Kids sent in by the media controller

They arrived in a '87 Ford with a gun rack

case of Bud and stiletto blade
It's the kind of show you end up at

when you get stabbed by the blade

big business made

I WANNA GO BOOT I WANNA GO BLADE

The main controller tried to buy me out but I didn't buy it

She's got her life going she is still breathing

It's not a proven fact it's just a feeling

Her old man doesn't own her like he did before
He once was so clear but now he's a blur

I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO'S NOT AFRAID OF YOU

The homeless child is no roll she played

It is real as anything the system has made

She's a monument forever standing

Chaos discontent I'm a lunatic

Thirty days in the street is how I'm doing it

A life of no money a quart of Cisco

The horses are loose I got mine let's go
The enemy would not expect an attack at this hour

The moon is a sliver the darkness gives me power

Come and find me I'm gonna be here

Come and find me I like it

Spent some time in a shelter down on Webster

Some people are rotten deep down to the core

Some people got the kick of a bull

and the lies of a chronic thief in store

Some people try to take you out if they can

But I'll go right through them I'm a battering ram
Been running my whole life and I'm still running

Integrity is something you never had

Reverence to your lies as a person you're bad

(Check this out.)

War between races, war between lies,
War between something that lays out deep inside,
The deadliest one, come blazin' and identified,
(Yeah) How many must lay, before we realize?
(And I say,) How many must lay, before we realize?

I caught... (I caught,)
a glimpse, I caught a glimpse of things to come.
I was jolted, I caught a glimpse of things to come.

[Originally a Blitz song 'Someone's gonna die tonight']

This is where the good times went
With his brains lying on the pavement

With a broken bottle in his hand

And another in his back

[chorus:]

Do you feel alright? Oi! Oi! Oi!

Someone's gonna die tonight Oi! Oi! Oi!

Do you feel alright? Oi! Oi! Oi!

The boys are out tonight!

Was it something that he said?

Whatcha gunna do now that ya been blacklisted?
Whatcha gunna do now that ya been blacklisted?
Blacklisted, oh yea
Blacklisted, oh yea

He didnÂt see it comin until it was too late
He had a bad feelinÂ, canÂt hesitate
And at the end of the day he was so tired
And he looked at the television
"Now whos the fuckin liar"?

He hates society, thinks itÂs to big
ItÂs just about killin a man with his ring
And he knew what was happening, millions in gold

I saw - a new generationcoming

Under - the smoke over Oakland

In and out - the streets are breathing

Under - the smoke over Oakland

Chaos disorder looting and loiter

From a blind man praying for some silence - for some silence

???Take a loot on the moon not a foot in the room???

My best intentions always ended in a fight - in a fight

You can send me to hell expose me I'll tell

i get violent when i'm fucked up

i get silent when i'm drugged up

want excitement, don't get none, i go wild

i don't know what can be done about it

if you play the game you get nothing out of it

find out for yourself try bein' a goody goody

you better cheat cheat

no reason to play fair

cheat cheat or don't get anywhere

cheat cheat if you can't win

Hey you in the red dress,

I know you're not trying to impress me.

In line from a distance,

Too scared at all to ask your name.

All alone in the dark summer night,
And I regret to this day,

That I never got your name.

Do you wanna dance with me?

Do you wanna dance, rude girl?

Do you wanna dance with me?

Do you wanna dance, rude girl?

Waiting so patient.

[Originally by Sham 69]

For once in my life I've got something to say

I wanna say it now cause now is today
A love has been given to grab and enjoy

So let's all grab and let's all enjoy

If the kids are united they will never be divided

If the kids are united they will never be divided

Just take a look around you

What do you see ?

Kids with feelings like you and me

There's four of us here and that's always worked

good and evil, they don't mean dirt

one of 'em naked and one's no where

one of us went back in the hotel

on and on

just a feeling, it don't seem right

just a feeling, it don't seem right

just a feeling, it don't seem right

just a feeling

hurry up please, I'm broken God

well I don't know, I don't know about you

yeah yeah yeah

When I walked into the hotel room

I had an old case in my hand

It was 1962 Fender Acoustic Guitar

Now, You've been my friend
Through sick and thin

Where do i begin

To tell you what we've seen

Together all over the world

Could not make it without you

(Chorus)

Stranded (x4)

Stranded All Over Again

Stranded All Over Again With You

Hanging out in the East Bay

Well I heard you say something about friendship and loyalty

When you can't can't can't can't can't realize

That tears comes down anydays

My love to you is true

A tattoo

Ain't never going off

I'll wait for the truth to show

I'll take a loss at any cost

When we met you listened and you critizised

Every single thing that I did

[Originally by Jimmy Cliff]

Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky

Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die

They never seem to hear even your cry

So as sure as the sun will shine

I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine

And then the harder they come

The harder they fall, one and all

Ooh, the harder they come

You said protect me

And you left me

On Christmas Eve

I feel so empty

Don't call me
Don't stall me

Christmas Eve well she got up and left me

You broke my heart girl

You made me cry

We fell apart girl

I don't know why

I buy you a house

And a diamond ring

I buy you pretty much everything

You said protect me

And you left me

On Christmas Eve

I feel so empty

California sun has sunk
Behind the Anaheim Hills, here comes the night
I was high on junk
And the warm winds of Santa Ana feel all right

Will every crimmin' hood make a bargain with the world
Seats are successive when you're shot to the curb
I spend my day in blackness, at night I get my vision
Dodgy, cause there are no one indecision
Cause it's wild, well it's Wild wild wild wild

I saw a man get the beat down
Took his money and his wallet, left him dead on the ground
I saw them gather, celebrate the crime
Teaching us the laughter, another lesson of mankind
I raised my hand, I got another question
If I start to riot, will I get protection
'Cause I'm a kid who's got a lot of problems
If i throw a brick maybe the brick will go and solve them

Oh, yeah, I wanna riot

Yeah yeah

The ladies on the corner selling extacy.

The ? ? ? get up fucked up part of my disease
Miner's in the disco takes his first drink

Cops on the lawn waitin' for the kids to leave.

Where they go to brothels where they have to spend

Where they have the friends they have everything you need

Where they go to brothels where they have to spend

Bloody thursday was july 6th

the pigs killed 3 workers

harry bridges grabbed the mic
The city shut down july 6th

the workers outrage it was a general strike

The media clamed that the commies were taking over and some believed it was true

3 uncompremising strikes was paved the way Minn Sf and Toledo

But on the situation

But on the street sometimes