Warning This is a public service announcement This is only a test Emergency evacuation protest May impair your ability to operate machinery Can’t quite tell just what it means to me Keep out of the reach of children Don’t talk to strangers Get you philosophy from a bumper sticker Warning: live without warning Warning: live without warning Better homes and safety-sealed communities? Did you remember to pay the utility? Caution: police line: you better not cross Is it the cop or am I the one that’s really dangerous? Sanitation, expiration date, question everything? Or shut up and be the victim of authority Warning: live without warning Warning: live without warning Better homes and safety-sealed communities? Did you remember to pay the utility? Caution: police line: you better not cross Is it the cop or am I the one that’s really dangerous? Sanitation, expiration date, question everything? Or shut up and be the victim of authority Warning: live without warning Warning: live without warning This was a public service announcement This was only a test *** Blood, Sex and Booze Waiting in a room All dressed up and bound up and gagged To a chair It’s so unfair I won’t dare to move, for the pain She puts me through is what I need So make it bleed I’m in distress, oh mistress I confess so do it one more time These handcuffs are too tight You know I will obey, so please Don’t make me beg For blood, sex and booze you give me Some say I’m disturbed But it’s what I deserve, another lesson To be learned… from a girl called kill My head is in the gutter Thank you sir, strike up another mandolin Of discipline Throw me to the dogs Let them eat my flesh down It feels so good *** Church On Sunday Today is the first day of the rest of our lives Tomorrow is too late to pretend Everything’s al right I’m not getting any younger as long As you don’t get any older I’m not going to state that yesterday never was Bloodshot deadbeat and lack of sleep Making your mascara bleed Tears down you face Leaving traces of my mistakes If I promise to go to church on Sunday Will you go with me on Friday night? If you live with me, I’ll die for you And this compromise I hereby solemnly swear to tell The whole truth And nothing but the truth is what I’ll ever hear from you “trust” is a dirty word that comes only from such a liar but “respect” is something I will earn… if you have faith *** Fashion Victim He’s a victim of his own time In his “vintage suit” and tie He’s a casualty dressed to the teeth In the latest genocide The new seasons come and go At the dog and pony show Gonna sit and beg and fetch the names And follow the dress codes WHAT’S IN A NAME?..HEY! She’s a scented magazine Looking sharp and living clean Living well and dressed to kill But she looks like hell to me So when you’re dancing through the wardrobe Do the anorex – a go-go Cloaked with style For the pedophiles as the credit card explodes You auctioned off you life For the “most” expensive price Going once… Going twice… Now it’s gone (youth crew) You auctioned off you life For the “most” expensive price Going once… Going twice… Now it’s gone What’s in a name, hey? What’s in a name, hey? What’s in a name? *** Castaway I’m on sentimental journey Into sight and sound Of no return and no looking back or down A conscientious objector to the War that’s in my mind Leaving in the lurch and I’m Taking back what’s mine I’m on a mission Into destination unknown An expedition Onto desolation road (were I’m a … Castaway – going at it alone Castaway – now I’m on my own Castaway – going at it alone Castaway – now I’m on my own Lost and found, trouble bound Castaway I’m riding on the night train and Driving stolen cars Testing my nerves out on the blvd. Spontaneous combustion in the Corners of my mind Leaving in the lurch And I’m taking back what’s mine I’m on a mission Into destination unknown An expedition Onto desolation road (were I’m a … Castaway – going at it alone Castaway – now I’m on my own Castaway – going at it alone Castaway – now I’m on my own Lost and found, trouble bound *** Misery Virginia was a “lot lizard” from F.L.A. She had a compound fracture in the “trunk” It started when she ran away Thumbs out on the interstate She hitched a ride to misery “Mr. Whirly” had a catastrophic incident he fell into the city by the bay he liquidated his estate now he sleeps upon the Haight panhandling misery He’s gonna get high When he’s low The fire burns from better days And she screams why I said I don’t know The catastrophic hymns from yesterday Of misery Vinnie was a hustler our of Amsterdam He ran the drug cartel in “tenseltown” They found him n a cadillac Bludgeoned with a baseball bat in the name Of misery Gina hit the road to New York City Mysteriously the night Vinnie croaked She stopped in Vegas to elope With Virginia and the dope And kissed the bride eternally And they’re gonna get high When they’re low The fire burns from better days And he screamed why I said I don’t know The catastrophic hymns from yesterday Of misery Hell hounds on you trail now once again…boy It’s groping on you leg until it sleeps The emptiness will fill you soul with sorrow Because it’s not what you make…it’s what you leave And we’re gonna get high When I’m low And the fire burns up better days And she screamed why I said I don’t know The catastrophic hymns from yesterday Of misery *** Deadbeat Holiday Wake up, the house is on fire And the cat’s caught in the dryer Philosophy’s a liar when Your home is your headstone “icon” is the last chance for hope your faith lied in the ditch that you dug yourself in last chance to piss it all away nothing but hell to pay when the lights are going down deadbeat holiday – celebrate your own decay there’s a vacant sign that’s hanging high on a noose over you home deadbeat holiday – get on you knees and pray there’s a vacant sign that’s hanging high but at least you’re not alone Christmas lights in the middle of August Grudges comes back to haunt us Your oldest allies are you long lost enemies Grounded in a duplex to find that You’re living on a landmine Vacation hotspots is a cemetery drive Last chance to piss it all away Nothing but hell to pay When the lights are going down Deadbeat holiday – celebrate your own decay there’s a vacant sign that’s hanging high on a noose over you home deadbeat holiday – get on you knees and pray there’s a vacant sign that’s hanging high but at least you’re not alone Last chance to piss it all away Nothing but hell to pay when all you Want to do is… not to…give up… *** Hold On As I stepped to the edge Beyond the shadow of a doubt With my conscience beating Like the pulse of a drum That hammers on and on Until I reach the break of day As the sun beats down on The halfway house Has my conscience beating The sound in my ear The will to persevere As I reach the break of day When you lost all hope and excuses And the cheapskates & the losers Nothing’s left to cling onto You got to hold on to yourself A cry of hope A plea for peace And my conscience beating It’s not what I want for It’s all that I need To reach the break of day So I run to the edge Beyond the shadows of a doubt With my conscience bleeding Here lies the truth The lost treasures of my youth As I hold on to the break of a day When you lost all hope and excuses And the cheapskates & the losers Nothing’s left to cling onto You got to hold on to yourself *** Jackass To know you is to hate you So loving you must be like suicide I don’t mind if you don’t mind I’m not the one that’s going to die I guess I just can’t listen To this one sided conversation again ‘cause I don’t care no one ever said that life is fair everybody love a joke but no one likes a fool and you’re always cracking the same old lines again you’re well reheard on every verse and that was stated clear but no one understands you verity the center of attention got an honorable mention once again congratulations and salutations you’re a figment of your own imagination everybody love a joke but no one likes a fool and you’re always cracking the same old lines again you’re well reheard on every verse and that was stated clear but no one understands you verity to know you is to bait you and you fell victim to your own denial I don’t mind if you don’t mind If you’re wasting all your time *** Waiting I’ve been waiting a long time For this moment to come I’m destined For anything…at all Downtown lights will be shining On me like a new diamond Ring out under the midnight hour No one can touch me now And I can’t turn my back It’s too late ready or not at all I’m so much closer than I have ever known… Wake up Dawning of a new era Calling…don’t let it catch you falling Ready or not at all So close enough to taste it Almost…I can embrace this Feeling…on the tip of my tongue I’m so much closer than I have ever known… Wake up Better thank you lucky stars… I’ve been waiting a lifetime For this moment to come I’m destined for anything at all Dumbstruck Colour me stupid Good luck You’re gonna need it Where I’m going if I get there… At all… Wake up Better thank your lucky stars… *** Minority I want to be the minority I don’t need you authority Down with the moral majority ‘cause I want to be the minority I pledge allegiance to the underworld One nation under dog There of which I stand alone A face in the crowd Unsung, against the mold Without a doubt, Singled out The only way I know I want to be the minority I don’t need you authority Down with the moral majority ‘cause I want to be the minority stepped out of the line like a sheep runs from the heard marching out of time to my own beat now the only way I know one light, one mind flashing in the dark blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts “for crying out loud” she screamed unto me a free for all fuck ‘em all “you are you own sight” I want to be the minority I don’t need you authority Down with the moral majority ‘cause I want to be the minority *** Macy's Day Parade Today’s the Macy’s Day Parade The night of the living dead is on its way With a credit report for duty call It’s a lifetime guarantee Stuffed in a coffin “10% more free” Red light special at the mausoleum Give me something that I need Satisfaction guaranteed to you What’s the consolation prize? Economy sized dreams of hope When I was a kid I thought I wanted all the things that I haven’t got Oh, I learned the hardest way Then I realized what it took To tell the difference between Thieves and crooks When all along it was me and you Give me something that I need Satisfaction guaranteed Because I’m thinking about a brand new hope The one I’ve never known ‘cause now I know its all that I wanted What’s the consolation prize? Economy sized dreams of hope Give me something that I need Satisfaction guaranteed Because I’m thinking about a brand new hope The one I’ve never known And where it goes And I’m thinking about The only road The one I’ve never known And where it goes Because I’m thinking about a brand new hope The one I’ve never known ‘cause now I know its all that I wanted