"RANCID" LYRICS

RANCID
ADINA I want to go where the action is I wanna fly through the urban blight I wanna live like a shadow in the dark and only move at night A story bought, A one story house that lets the winter bleed 21 years old and no money to read (Chorus) 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 tow is what they call home now One more hill or river to cross on On the way to another town Crying in her beer and always running away Maybe not so much running, but hoping for better days (Chorus)
HYENA I'm money broke It's no joke Can't cope Use the rope this time Knuckle up, buckle up The ride's getting rough But I will not lose my mind I asked them if I could come in And the first thing they said was NO If I can't come in, that means I can't come back That means I got nowhere to go (Chorus) I'm a hyena fighting for the lion share Sometimes the lion share ain't there Absent from political authority An animal I've become Total disorder and confusion is the lifestyle that I run Permit me to do what I want and I will I'm a nomad to travel Concrete glass stone and gravel (Chorus) Every time I turn around it's the same sad story Getting ganked I wish it would end And life's comisary I'm a bad missionary with a wicked message I send Who could I trust in a world of green? What I'm taught to take and not give
DETROIT I didn't know what time it was when the sun went down Detroit, Mission the bus downtown Last I was fighting in the street But tonight I have a girl next to me In this cold world she brings me heat (Chorus) I gotta good feeling in a bad city tonite I gotta good feeling that everything's gonna be alright Some run, some fight Detained in illegal custody spent the nite in jail With a drunken priest and a hooker $500 bill nobody know who was standing in the street Like that I hit the ground to make a sound (Chorus) Bus dropped me off and I had to cough I couldn't breath cuz I got ripped off I couldn't realize by being satisfied cuz it runs so thin and that's why I'm pissed off We had no money, we had no time She had the champagne, I had the cisco wine She said "Do you want to come, you better hurry because we'll have hell to pay (Chorus)
RATS IN THE HALLWAY Knock, knock come in if you want to 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 the welfare state My flat used to be section P Now it's a rat infested cocaine run My whole world plays like a broken drum (Chorus) Drunken bum Rats in the hallway again Set up get put go away & ride away Sit up our bed up your bed to lay Kick up our rip up this place apart Even when I finish I'm back at the start I'm out of line on Adeline St. heat Don't keep this crooked beat 4 A.M. no waves breakin' What's left of the P.M. the A.M. has taken (Chorus) Outside my gate my crew is drinking a 40 oz. They asked me if there's still rats in the hallway I said some things ain't like the weather They never change for the better This girl came up to me She said she would do me no harm Rolled up her sleave and showed me the tracks on her arm I said, "What's your name?" she said "I'm Mya." She said "Tim I wanna take you higher." Junkie drunken bum Rats in the hallway again Zombie walking kid out on his own with no moral Mr. High leave the body In comes Mr. Withdrawal Pain is the only thing the body will allow The kid wants to dance The gangster knows how Johnny bought some shit down on Market St. Shoot up boot up the human target He hit the dirty spike when he hit the scene It's easy to stay dirty when nothing is clean Johnny's a writer who tags up jackal Jackel just clamped on unclampable shackles Rout up Shoot up some dope to go like legal currency It's money it's like that rat tat tat Kid got shot point blank in the back My land lord said not to be bumming He was a cocaine stoop and he had it coming He was only 12 years old He was in the blizzard He got shot for being cold It don't seem right Tonight hit the lights alright Watch the roaches run into the darkest room (Chorus)
ANOTHER NIGHT In the dark with the Oakland skyline As I cross the city I avoid the landmines All I wanna do is make it through without dyin' All I wanna do is keep on tryin' (Chorus) Another night in the streets for me 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 If you got a bag of dope she'll give it up for free If you got a song of hope it will help her see (Chorus) In the dark lookin' up at the skyline...
ANIMOSITY Break down the fear I got my animosity I'm gonna break it down Armegeddon is comin' So you better start runnin' 'cause the big wave Is comin' to the shore No surprise that you see thru the lies of the system that's rotten To the core Hight tech surveilance Paranoia & violence Keeping the city at a calm Break down, break down Tear it apart The thing'g going off Like a bomb (Chorus) Helicopter's come down on me tonight My brother's sellin' cocaine He knows how to fight Hounded and harrassed In a power elite bought Sun ain't arise So I abide by my route (Chorus) I remember a cold December When I heard the revolution rock Didn't hear what they were saying I ran thru the mayhem of a police state On my back high tech surveilance...
OUT OF MY MIND You're workin' like a monkey Who's been trained by a sick junkie On a mission to get money for a new suit and tie to where to a reception Where they envy your deception and one compliments and praises to the ones they despise. Practicing your smile in the mirror All the while try to cultivate the style of the bastards in power I know what they're sellin' cuz their nervous twitch is tellin' You're comin' off smellin' like the pig of the hour I've got a lot of people tellin' me I'm out of my mind and I don't know why My brain was bleeding and my fingers were proceeding through a notebook I was keeping since the dawning of time Senses were coroaded you know that I was loaded You were dealing I was reeling from the feeling and the madness was concealing like a siren song People that I trusted would surely have me busted if they ever had a clue What was really going on. I got alot of people telling me I'm out of my mind and I don't know why
WHIRLWIND Every cities got an artery where the blind Breaks down an avenue or a boulevard And a boy who wears a crown Indignant life styles implies simply lack of means Dognatical authoritarians dictate the cities remain (Chorus) A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight Whirlwind is coming A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight Whirlwind is comin' down on me When the factory shut down so did the place he lived Blood money for junk bonds by a white collar fugitive All the tax free incentives ain't goin' to help him now Generations of job security gone out like the horse and plow My old man worked his troubled life in a nowhere dead end He drank the pain away I'll be damned if that's me having my dreams robbed The working class crries a country that has been rotting inside for years The rigs cuffed my old man in the front yard I saw through my eyes of tears
REJECTED 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 carry to this day (Chorus) Rejected- crossing bridges in the land of the forgotten Rejected Distrust existed that I never saw Deep seated distrust I was victim of (Chorus) Unspoken among the more privelaged or the so-called I was not good enough Not good enough at all At first out of loneliness I tried to conform But all that bullshit left me all alone (Chorus)
INJURY Excuse me while I pull a knife out of my back How could I ever trust a person like that Alongside the slow is someone moving faster Behind the warm image is a cold cold bastard Corporate liberal bullshit Ruling class take your money and shove it up your ass Take your lies I've had enough of you all the shit you put me through (Chorus) I'm injured injury- I look for the truth It's getting hard to find Money grabbin' dragon And the tie you hide behind I'm so fucking stupid With you I was a buyer I believed in you You deceiving liar--- Set me fucking free
THE BOTTLE Climb in, climb in, climb inside of me-pain Another night of drinkin' Another night of being out of my head and I don't know where I was last night Drinkin' on an empty stomach or an empty mind It makes no difference when I'm way out of line Things I can't remember come back to haunt me Alot of people out there who seem to want me Climb in the bottle and never come out (Chorus) I made no nothin' but I'm good at something I would drink until the sun comes up no more One of these days gonna come outta my haze Better hurry up It's getting harder to come back
TRENCHES 1987, at a 7-11 Police out lookin' for problems But I'm no average hoodlum Still runnin 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 quart and watch me dwell (Chorus) I got it right Out in the trenches tonight Glass towers rise above the filth and the pain I'm a moral degenerate feel my pain Passed out on a squat on a mission That night I was shocked in to submission Straight down, straight down to hell I head System of sewers is where I lay my head People on their way are like on a different dimension I need no correction (Chorus) Some of my friends moved on A simple domestic life They're all gone Only a few of us remain Only a few of us want to keep it the same (Chorus)
HOLIDAY SUNRISE So I packed everthing I owned Midnight Christmas Eve A kid could feel alone I drink my scotch My mind goes away Midnight Christmas Eve Starts out in a way (Chorus) I cried when I had no shoes Till' 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 I'm a sinner and my soul should be cleansed I'll take my chances when I'm dead
UNWRITTEN RULES Kick the kick drum Increase the weight of the sound The dialogue of maximum decibles is enough to move the fucking ground I'm gonna amplify the rage of a class that's not inferior The message in the volume this song's a carrier (Chorus) 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 It's not about paying your dues If you do it out of love I'm not no jaded junkie runnin' dry I don't know anything else I'll be playing until I die (Chorus)

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