The Singles
  1. New Radio
  2. Rebel Girl
  3. Demirep
  4. In Accordance To Natural Law
  5. Strawberry Julius
  6. The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation
  7. Rah! Rah! Replica
  8. I Like Fucking
  9. I Hate Danger



New Radio

I'm the little girl at the picnic
Who won't stop pulling her dress up
It doesn't matter who's in control now
It doesn't matter 'cause this is new radio

What the fuck is written
All over your pretty face?

The gaps in teeth, the dirty nails
Baby boy, you can't kill what's fucking real
Turn that song down, turn the static up
Come here, baby, let me kiss you like a boy does

Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah

Let's wipe our cum on my parents' bed
Come on

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Rebel Girl

That girl thinks she's the queen of the neighborhood
She's got the hottest trike in town
That girl, she holds her head up so high
I think I wanna be her best friend, yeah

Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl, you are the queen of my world
Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl
I think I wanna take you home
I wanna try on your clothes, uh

When she talks, I hear the revolution
In her hips, there's revolution
When she walks, the revolution's coming
In her kiss, I taste the revolution

Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl, you are the queen of my world
Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl
I know I wanna take you home
I wanna try on your clothes, uh

That girl thinks she's the queen of the neighborhood
I got news for you – she is!
They say she's a dyke, but I know
She is my best friend, yeah

Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl, you are the queen of my world
Rebel Girl
Rebel Girl
I know I wanna take you home
I wanna try on your clothes

Love ya like a sister always
Soul sister, Rebel Girl
Come and be my best friend
Will you, Rebel Girl?
I really like you
I really wanna be
Your best friend
Be my Rebel Girl

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Demirep

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back
She asked her mother, mother, mother
For fifteen cents, cents, cents
To see the elephants, elephants, elephants
They jumped the fence, fence, fence
They jumped so high, high, high
They reached the sky, sky, sky
And never came back, back, back
'Til the fourth of July, lie, lie... liar!


I'm sorry that I'm getting chubby
And I cannot always be happy for you
And I am not some lame sorority queen
Takin' you home to meet my daddy

You collect your trust fund, baby
And I'll be a whore
And we'll pretend we're just the same but
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know that I
I am hiding
The you I show to you is just a lie
You take what you want, you get what you take
You take what you want, you get what you take
But I got something, man, that your fuckin' money cannot buy

You never know, never know, never know what
You never know, never know, never know what
You wanna take it, but you can't have it
You don't know what it's like to be alive

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack
All dressed in black, black, black
With silver buttons, buttons, buttons
All down her back, back, back...


I could scream my truth if I wanted
Right thru your lies
But your baseball bat words
Razormouth carves your initials bloody in my thighs

They jumped so high, high, high...

[Joan Jett:]  Alright.
[Kathleen:]  See, I knew it that time.
[Joan Jett:]  You knew what that time?
[Kathleen:]  They're laughin' at us.
[Joan Jett:]  I know.
[Kathleen:]  God.
[Joan Jett:]  We're havin' fun.

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In Accordance to Natural Law [Vocals by Tobi Vail]

"All men are evil except my boyfriend,"
Said the sound of the spectacle
I read it in a fanzine
It wasn't even in a big, dumb, glossy magazine

Everything
Everything
Everything we ever said
Everything
Everything
Everything we might have done

Well, none of that means shit anymore
We contradicted ourselves
I guess we're all hypocrites
Just 'cause we like to get our kicks
In this one way sometimes
You tell me

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Strawberry Julius

C'mon, c'mon
C'mon, c'mon

It's you
All over my skin
Taking invisible streets
To the fake place where we win, yeah yeah
Watch me now
From the back of the room
Just don't touch me with your bare hands
Whatever you do

I wanna burn, baby, burn
Baby black and blue
Burn it, baby, burn it, baby
Burn with the truth
Ask you what the fuck
What the fuck
What the fuck
What the fuck did they do to you?

C'mon
Who needs a beat when the beat just goes?

I gotta tell you something
I gotta tell you something
Your palm
The back of my neck
It means more than any porn
I wanna forget
Maybe baby, I just wanna forget

I'll say something wrong
Say something wrong, wrong, right
Say it so wrong
Say it wrong
Say it right
Just stay here and be with me, for real
Stay in your body tonight

I'll be your mama, your sister
I'll be your fuckin' dad
I'll be the best little baby
That you ever had, had
'Cause I got more tongues
Than just this one
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

C'mon
Who needs a beat when the beat just goes?

I've got to go now

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The Anti-Pleasure Dissertation

Maybe I love you
Maybe I do

Maybe I felt something real
For just a moment
Was I wrong to trust anyone?
Tell me, tell me
Did you tell them everything I said?
Did you tell them everything?
Did you tell them everything I said?
Did you tell them everything I said?

Did you tell them?

Did you get a good laugh?
Tell me, was it good?
Was it good?
Was it good for you?
Did you win that race?
Did you score that point?
Are you so fucking cool, fucking cool now?

Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?
Did ya?

Go tell your fucking friends!
What I saw and how I felt
How punk-fucking-rock my pussy is now?

Why don't you tell them?

I don't care, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care

Honey, baby, baby
This I know
Maybe I like you
Maybe I do

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Rah! Rah! Replica

I caught my boyfriend kissing a replica
Oh god, she looked just like me
Only nice, and sweet, and better
But she's not bacon, boy
She's fucking Sizzlean, yeah

She burnt my dresses and she cut my hair
She burnt my dresses and she cut my hair
He burnt my dresses and he cut my hair
Doused out the fire in my stare

1, 2!

Now I'm livin' on a new street, baby
Now I'm livin' on a new street, yeah
Now I'm livin' on a new street, baby
Address double zero and the place is nowhere

Don't you try to fake me out

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I Like Fucking

Hey!
Do you believe there's anything beyond troll-guy reality?
I do, I do, I do


It gets so hard
Just to be okay
Sometimes being happy, baby
Is what I'm most afraid of

Baby, you know
It gets so hard for me to fight
I don't know how I guess I never did
Why don't you show me now how to lose control?

She's so very, I don't care
She's so very, I don't care

Just 'cause my world, sweet sister
Is so fucking goddamn full of rape
Does that mean my body must always be
A source of pain?

No, no, no
No
No, no, no

She's so very, I don't care
She's so very, I don't care

Just 'cause I named it right here, sweet chickadee
Don't mean for a minute you should think
I'm the opposite of anything
But if you wanna know for sure, I'll tell you

We're not gonna prove nothing, nothing
Sitting around, watching each other starve
What we need is action/strategy
I want, I want, I want, I want
I want it now

Now, now, now

I believe in the radical possibilities of pleasure, babe
I do, I do, I do


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I Hate Danger [Vocals by Tobi Vail]

I said, "I wanna come over"
You said, "Okay, just come over"
Your friends are all on the couch
Your friends said, "Let's walk around"

I'll pretend your friends are my friends
And kinda try not to offend them
But I won't let you see anything real
Let you know, there's limits to...

I stopped talking an hour ago
I stopped talking an hour ago
I stopped talking an hour ago
I stopped talking an hour ago


It's one particular point of view
This group dynamic caters to
It's a predictable point of view
I think you know when it caters to you

And if you do know, don't act like you don't, 'cause it's really annoying.
And if you don't know, well
Let's just say you're a lot, lot stupider than I thought.


I'll pretend your friends are my friends
But I don't wanna hear you defend them
In fact, that kind of insults me and
I kinda don't really wanna be here right...

I stopped talking an hour ago
I stopped talking an hour ago
I stopped talking an hour ago
I stopped talking an hour ago
, ago

Okay, your whole thing put me in negative space for way too fucking long.
The only thing I managed to say during that time was, "I hate danger."
What I really should have said is,
"You're so not dangerous — you're so not what you say you are at all."


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