*** 12:00 A.M. ***

It's midnight and she standing on the corner
Her time is money and that's fucking up the order
That's right she's crossing all the borders
Standing in the shadows
There's nothing else for her
She doesn't know if she's gonna make it through the night
She don't care - she's sick and tired of this life
A car rolls up so she shakes her ass
The best she can
5:00 AM in Gould's they found her stuffed in a garbage can

Are you gonna play the roles
Society wrote for you?
Are you gonna play the roles?
Don't play the roles
Never play the roles

He never felt right
Holding down a 9-5
It made the ends meet
But it never made him feel alive
He filled his house with everything that he could buy
Buy but more the possessions filled his house
The emptier he felt inside
And then he cracked
He's in a world
That all his own
He left it all his friends his family and his home
It's dark outside
Now it's cold it's raining and the wind is blowing
Living in a cardboard shack it's the only thing
He calls his own

Are you gonna play the roles
Society wrote for you?
Are you gonna play the roles?
Don't play the roles
Don't play the roles
Never play the roles

*** All Fall Down ***

"It's all hopelessness, but we add hope
in a sea of...of hopelessness."

The air stings my eyes
The water burns my skin
I've seen the reactions through my actions
But I don't try to change a thing at all
We're taught to close our eyes
And conditioned to believe their lies
As we watch them rape the land and skies
To build the things that own our lives
And we'll never stop
Were driven by greed
We'll never stop
We take more than we need
And we'll never stop
Our society
And they'll never stop
The politicians with their lies
The corporations won't compromise
Still we refuse to change our lives
And we all fall down
All fall down
We all fall down
All fall down
All fall down
And we all fall down
All fall down
We all fall down
All fall down
We do what is convenient for
Ourselves without regard for our surroundings
Or each other and take what we want
And discard
The rest never looking back at the damage
That we've done
Always moving forward
Closer to oblivion
And we all fall down
All fall down

*** At Our Expense ***

We're holding banners - And they're holding guns
Keeping our rebellion to a minimum
As we watch them gain behind this barbed wire fence
It's so insane - It's at our expense
And the media distorts the truth
And the media distorts the truth
We never had a choice
We never had a voice
You make decisions that affect us all Put us in a position that we don't belong
All of our resources have been spent
And it's at our expense
Now you're punching holes in the sky
With plutonium powered rockets that fly
To probe what can be reached and suck it dry
And it's at our expense It's at our expense
It's at our expense
It's at our expense
And it's all at our expense

*** Daddy's Little Girl ***

She used to stand with a knife in her hand
At the foot of his bed
She wanted him dead
For what he stole from her when she was only 10
Now it's 4 years later and it happens much too often
Her bed he visits when he's drunk
And it feels more like a coffin
And if she gouged out of his fuckin' eyes
Would it help him see all the pain
The shame
And the fuckin' misery
She hates this fuckin' world
She's daddy's little girl
Now she's a wreck
We can't connect
I don't know what she's feelin'
She concealed their little secret
But it's more than her body he's stealing
I wanted to die the day she cried in my arms
When she broke down now she flinches when I touch
Her and she don't want me around

*** Justification ***

How do you sleep at night?!
'Cause I lie awake
And burn inside
When I think of all the shit you've done
When I think of all the times
I've tried to understand your motives
But they are not justified
Because you're only thinking of yourself
But your choices affect all our lives
Justify your actions
How does it fell to always
Think you're right?
you're never wrong
It's not your fault
Well who's gonna take the blame tonight?
I'm lost again on I-10
But it feels like home to me I don't know where I'm going
But I know where I want to be

*** Keep Trying ***

I offer little resistance
It's a pitiful existence
Your industry is polluting me and my mind
And I can barely find the time
To read the signs
Of things to come
That's what they want you to know
That's what they want another song
Won't change a thing
A revolution I could sing
But that never changed any fuckin' thing
Your contempt and disregard
For human rights outrage us all
I keep tryin' that's all I can do
You've made a mockery of justice
With your systems and your laws

*** The Mayhem & The Pain ***

Louie's living with a fire in his blood
And it burns like a mother fucker
I've picked him up off the ground
When his cells were down
And now its getting tougher
To stay
Motivated when the ends in sight
And the world keeps dragging you down
Everyday is another fight
Things aren't the same 'cause he's not around
Sometimes life is like a circle pit
You keep running round and round
And sometimes you just fall down
And you fall flat on the ground
Sometimes life is like a pile of shit
But one thing that stays the same
Is the mayhem and the pain
That keeps running through my veins
I watched my friend, Greg, slip away
With a bump and a bottle I watched him decay
And I could have tried to stop him yesterday
Now his ashes are floating in Biscayne Bay
And I listen to the music we once made
Everytime his face starts to fade
A part of me died in the van that day
On tour I missed his funeral by just one day

*** Sk8 Rock ***

Don't try to understand it
The most destructive high
Shoots my nerves into the sky
Everybody's lookin' for something
I know just what I need
I'm addicted to the speed
Rent-A-Cops try to stop me - I wanna see you try
I just want to skate or die
Faster than lightning and out of sight
Like a demon in the night
I grab my skate and catch some air
I'm grinding my life away but I don't care
'Cause skating for me is more than a feeling
Run for cover - I hear somebody squealing
Stupid Rent-A-Pig, you try to make me stop
You better back off or I'll knock you off your block
I'm a prisoner of life
A slave to the grind
I slide into the future and leave my worries behind

*** Stand In Line ***

You've worked your whole life
And you've got nothing to show
Stuck in your life and you've got caught in the undertow
Goin' down and gonna drown and
There's one thing I know I don't wanna be like
You hate yourself and you hate what you've become
And I hate it, too
And I hate you
And everyone that tries to stand in my way
Because I won't succumb
Don't wanna be like you
Give up your dreams
And stand in line wasting your life
And you're wasting time
Give up your dreams and stand in line
What happened to all you're hopes and dreams
You're not the same
And now it seems you've forgotten
Who you once were
That's so routine
Do you brag about it to you friends?
How rebellious you once were when it was the trend
But now it seems so adolescent
To offend
Don't wanna be like you

*** Toby ***

Toby was a friend of mine
I met him back in school
We had a bottle of liquor and a skate board ramp
There was nothing else for us to do
We got ourselves in and out of trouble every fuckin'day
We had C.S.I. and outdoor suspensions for all the games that we would play
Sometimes I feel like it's my fault
Not a day goes by that I don't see his eyes
I'll never understand the choice that Toby made
Why did he die? Why did he die? Why did he die?
Summer rolled around, I spent my nights getting drunk and staying out late
Toby lived on the other side of town
I didn't see him all summer so I couldn't wait
To see him when school let in
I could believe what my friend said
Their words still echo in my head
Suicide
Toby's dead

*** Watered Down & Passive ***

They didn't control you
And so they stole you
Away with the media
And now they're feeding you
Out to the masses
Now you're watered down and passive
Today

*** We Don't Need You ***

Don't ask for what I won't give
Watered down rebellion to sell to the kids
I'm frustrated 'cause I keep myself down
But I've been moved by the movement
And possessed by the sound
And we don't need you
Because the meaning gets lost in the translation
And I can't explain it to you
Your motives you can't hide
Because I've seen it before
And it's like the rising tide
And you say I'm stuck
In the sand plain basement shows
Across the land

*** What the Fuck'd You Expect ***

She didn't need him
She couldn't feed him and his father gets drunk
And then he beats them
They're living in a run-down trailer park he
Slips out at night when it gets dark
He's just gotta get outta there
He's gotta get away
And he doesn't really care what you think - He needs another drink
'Cause tonight he's getting an arm full of ink
Cause he got a beatin' and he'll wear it on his skin
Tthey're more of a family
Than home has ever been
What the fuck'd you expect
Him to do
He had no choices
And you have no clue
What the fuck'd you expect him to do?
In a world full of hate it's nothing new
He found a feeling that he'd never have in the bottom of a spoon
He's moving forward cause there ain't no turning back
He gotta gat from a Cutler Ridge car jack
Now he's rolling down the avenue
Well what the fuck'd you expect him to do?
A nickel rock - A gun shot In a parking lot
Somebody dropped
Well what the fuck'd you expect him to do?
Get a job like you?
When all he ever knew
Was surving the streets of Goulds
We were close when we were kids
But he's gotta be hard 'cause thats the way he lives
Now he's locked in a cage so no one has to see him
He's easy to forget - society don't need him
So they had him locked away
But were the ones that pay
'Cause they're selling his image to kids everyday
Now he's locked in a cage so no one has to see him
He's easy to forget - society don't need him

*** When The Rain Begins To Fall ***

Why do you see us as a threat?
We're only helping those that you
Forget or maybe you haven't forgotten
The needy at all but their votes
Just don't add up so the don't amount
To much at all
Shut us up and shut us down
You can't shut us down
your political agenda has managed
To fail us all and if we organize
Ourselves the police will get involved
We'll fight you in your courts and
We'll fight you in your halls
We'll fight you 'til you fuckin' fall!
You can attack food not bombs
You can attack ABC but it won't be
Long before you'll have to answer
To us all because you're the scum
That's washed off the streets
When the rain begins to fall