Best punk rock lyrics, post em here

In Toronto it would be "Gilmour scores"

I always get a kick out of the lyrics of NOFX - Franco Un-American...

Don't know what I was thinkin... NOFX is definitely at the top as well for best all time lyrics.

GBH's "Sickboy"

I'm a sick boy and there's no cure.
I'm a sick boy, there should be more.


;-)

classic Rancid, Journey to the End (of the east bay)

Reconcile to the relief
consumed in sacred ground for me
there wasn't always a place to go
but there was always an urgent need to belong

Clutch always has some intriguing lyrics i.e. this excerpt from 10001110101


Ribonucleic acid freak out, the power of prayer.
Long halls of science and all the lunatics committed there.
Robot Lords of Tokyo, SMILE TASTE KITTENS!
Did you not know that the royal hunting grounds are always forbidden?

NOFX - The Longest Line

In the darkest tunnel, it's nice to see a light,
Not just a headlight,
Like the one that's heading right for me.
It would be nice if things could turn out right,
Turn out right yeah,
Don't think I'll ever see the day.

I must have done something wrong,
Or maybe pissed off God.

I think of Chinese food when I think of life,
That's sweet and sour,
My life is sweet as saccharine.
You know 3 week old milk and grapes are not,
Not the same, No,
I am the one Johnny Carcinogen.

I must have fucked with some witch,
In turn she cursed me, cursed my life.

At the end of the longest line,
That's where I will always be,
If you need to find me, just go to,
The end of the longest line.

But officer that was a yellow light,
The light was red, son,
Insubordination, reckless driving,
I must be wrong, this can't be right,
I don't belong, this world is much to dangerous,
For someone lacking luck, like me.

At the end of the longest line,
That's where I will always be,
If you need to find me, just go to,
The end of the longest line.

At the end of the longest line,
That's where I will always be,
At the end of the longest, line.

descendents lyrics are fun

Lunachicks- Jerk Of All Trades

She can dance
She can sing
She can do most anything
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades
She can built
She can fight
She can bust at your light
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades

Never ever ever ever underestimate
She will kill you kill you with her hate
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades
She can write
She can pose
She can punch you in your nose!

She can dance
She can sing
She can do most anything
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades
She can built
She can fight
She can bust at your light
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades

Never ever ever ever underestimate
She will kill you kill you with her hate
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades
She can write
She can pose
She can punch you in your nose!

With a hammer and nails
Or lipstick and tails
She is Woman!

She can dance
She can sing
She can do most anything
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades
She can built
She can fight
She can bust at your light
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades

Never ever ever ever underestimate
She will kill you kill you with her hate
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades
She can write
She can pose
She can punch you in your nose!

With a hammer and nails
Or lipstick and tails
She is Woman!

She can dance
She can sing
She can do most anything
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades
She can built
She can fight
She can bust at your light
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades

Never ever ever ever underestimate
She will kill you kill you with her hate
She is the jerk the jerk of all trades
She can write
She can pose
She can punch you in your

Some of my favorites:

NOFX - Separation of Church and Skate ( last verse )

I want conflict! I want dissent!
I want the scene to represent...
Our hatred of authority,
our fight against complacency
stop singing songs about girls and love!
You killed the owl! You freed the dove!
confrontation and politics...
Replaced with harmonies and shticks
When did punk rock become so tame?
These fucking bands all sound the same
We want our fights we want our thugs!
We want our burns we want our drugs!
where is the violent apathy?!
These fucking records are rated G!

Also Leaving Jesusland:

We call the heartland not very smartland, IQ's are very low but threat levels are high
They got a mandate, they don't want man-dates, they got so many hates and people to despise

In the Dust Bowl, cerebral black hole, the average weight is well over 200 pounds
I hate to generalize, but have you seen the thighs, most haven't seen their genitalia in a while

Maybe that's why they're so scared of us (Maybe that's why they're so pissed at us)
We've concerns other than fear and hunger pains (They're all jealous we're having better sex)

Queers, transgends, and lesbians, vegans and vegetarians
All you brownish red and yellow ones come and join us on the coast

No longer svelte, they gotta punch new holes in the bible belt
They've blown out the fire under the melting pot, the red blood of America is starting to clot
No compromise, no sight thru others' eyes, they're just flies spreading pieces of shit
You gotta emigrate, stop living in hate, what makes this country great is dwelling on either side

They don't want visitors in Jesusland
They want life canned and bland in the fatherland

We want people with college degrees, drug use experience and STD's
People with open-minded philosophies, come hug California trees
Cultural revolution now, neo-conservatives run outta town
We're gonna burn Orange County down,
And then we're off to Riverside, Bakersfield and Fresno too,
then we're comin' after you

The fear stricken, born again Christian,
They got a vision a homogenized state
Textbook decline, Intelligent Design (Texas textbooks, Bibles, and prayer books,)
They got Bill Nye on the list to execrate (They want them memorized, but don't want you to think)

They don't want visitors in Jesusland
They want life canned and bland in the fatherland

Punk Rockers and emo kids, people doin' things the church forbids
Buddhists, agnostics, and atheists we're moving out of Jesusland
Art students and thespians, - excluding country - all the musicians
We want all hookers and comedians, nihilists are welcome too

No longer svelte, they gotta punch new holes in the Bible belt

"Punk Aint No Religious Cult, Punk Means thinking for yourself!!"
Dead Kennedys

"Dont care what you may say, we got that attitude!
Don't care what you may do, we got that attitude!"
Bad Brains

"World Peace Can't Be Done, It Just Can't exist"
Cro Mags (more Hardcore than punk, but whatever)

The greatest ever punk rock lyric -- single line, I should say -- was written way before "punk rock" was born:

"I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."

Thank you Johnny Cash.

Bad Religion-Operation Rescue

it is an s.o.s. sent out telepathically, signs of our distress don't
allow complacency, we need restoration now of our integrity and a
drastic bold reminder of our morality, the rectifying troop is here,
the ones we have needed all these yers to stop the heious wrongdoings
and verify our moral benevolence as a people, operation rescue,
they're here to right our fall, they have heard a troubled call,
operation rescue, you may wonder where they come from, but i just
wonder why they're here at all, life ever-after is what they're in the
business for, see them brandish the key to their kingdoms door, it's
persuasive, it's a part of yoy and me but it's not overwhelming as
they wish it to be, if no one believed in fairy tales there would be
nothing they could do but fail yet everywhere we look someone is
trying to reassure our moral benevolence as a poeple, operation
rescue..., you may wonder where they come from, but i just wonder what
compels them all

Fugazi-Suggestion

Why can't i walk down a street free of suggestion?
Is my body the only trait in the eye's of men?
I've got some skin
You want to look in
There lays no reward in what you discover
You spent yourself watching me suffer
Suffer you words, suffer your eyes, suffer your hands
Suffer your interpretation of what it is to be a man
I've got some skin
You want to look in
She does nothing to deserve it
He only wants to observe it
We sit back like they taught us
We keep quiet like they taught us
He just wants to prove it
She does nothing to remove it
We don't want anyone to mind us
So we play the roles that they assigned us
She does nothing to conceal it
He touches her 'cause he wants to feel it
We blame her for being there
But we are all guilty

Crass - Bloody Revolutions

You talk about your revolution, well, that's fine
But what are you going to be doing come the time?
Are you going to be the big man with the tommy-gun?
Will you talk of freedom when the blood begins to run?
Well, freedom has no value if violence is the price
Don't want your revolution, I want anarchy and peace

You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

But what about those people who don't want your new restrictions?
Those that disagree with you and have their own convictions?
You say they've got it wrong because they don't agree with you
So when the revolution comes you'll have to run them through
You say that revolution will bring freedom for us all
Well freedom just ain't freedom when your back's against the wall

You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

Will you indoctrinate the masses to serve your new regime?
And simply do away with those whose views are too extreme?
Transportation details could be left to British rail
Where Zyklon B succeeded, North Sea Gas will fail
It's just the same old story of man destroying man
We've got to look for other answers to the problems of this land

You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

Vive la revolution, people of the world unite
Stand up men of courage, it's your job to fight

It all seems very easy, this revolution game
But when you start to really play things won't be quite the same
Your intellectual theories on how it's going to be
Don't seem to take into account the true reality
Cos the truth of what you're saying, as you sit there sipping beer
Is pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldn't care

You're far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you
What's the freedom of us all against the suffering of the few?
That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jews
Just the same false logic that all power-mongers use
So don't think you can fool me with your political tricks
Political right, political left, you can keep your politics
Government is government and all government is force
Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course
Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for
You romanticise your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now

Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created
It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated
Nothing's really different cos all government's the same
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game

Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created
It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated
Nothing's really different cos all government's the same
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game
There's nothing that you offer but a dream of last years hero
The truth of revolution, brother................... is year zero.

Bad Religion is fucking ownage. I like the voice of god is government:


"Voice Of God Is Government"

Neighbors, no one loves you like he loves you,
And no one cares like he cares.
Neighbors, let us join today in the holy love of God and money,
Because neighbors, no one loves you like He loves you.
And what better way to show your love than to dig deep into your pockets.
Dig real deep, until it hurts. Alleviate your guilt,
Free yourself once again, because he gave to you, brothers and sisters.
Please give a 10, 25, or 50 dollar tax-deductible donation,
And I assure you your modest pledge will be used to censor TV and radio,
Ban questionable books, and contribute to many other Godly services.
No longer will young Christian Americans hedonistically indulge
In masochistic submission to rhythmic music, for with your monetary support,
There is no end to what we can achieve in this country.
The voice of God is government. The voice of God is government.
The voice of God is government. In God we trust, sinners repent!
(1,2,3,4)
Can't you see what we believe in, all our thoughts, all our reasons,
Pursuit of life and liberty and happiness we cannot see?
Speak of truth with a mighty voice, but politics are your real choice.
Hire men to change the law, protect and serve with one small flaw.
Voice of God is government. The voice of God is government.
Voice of God is government. In God we trust, sinners repent!
If we shun God and Jesus Christ, religious love is sacrifice.
Love for God is shown in cash, the love they send is mailbox trash.
With every pamphlet we receive, more money asked for Godly needs.
Build a million dollar church, with money spent on God's research.
Voice of God is government. The voice of God is government.
Voice of God is government. In God we trust, sinners repent!
On late night TV, God can heal, a certain force you cannot feel.
Love for money in God's name, religion's now a TV game!
Build a million dollar church, with money spent on God's research.
Build a million dollar church, with money spent on God's research.
Voice of God is government. The voice of God is government.
Voice of God is government. In God we trust, sinners repent!
Yeah!
Voice of God is government. The voice of God is government.
Voice of God is government. In God we trust, sinners repent!

My dedication to Penny

Cheri Love Affair - GG Allin

Hangin on the corner with all the boys, watch me girls
You're looking really good, tonight I'll be your bundle of joy

Sometimes I want you around, and other times I don't know where to be found
Hanging out can surely get me down

All the guys say you're really keen, but I know, I've seen
They think that I'm feeling them, but I know what you're selling men

Sometimes I want you around, and other times I don't know where to be found
Hanging out can surely get me down

You're looking good and your looking neat, oh baby you're looking sweet
Oh baby your looking hot, I want you baby, what you got

Sometimes I want you around, and other times I don't know where to be found
Hanging out can surely get me down

Oh baby, oh yea, looking at you is like a cheri love affair
Mean magazines, film supremes, looking at you make me cream in my jeans
You got a nice body, got a real nice face, I'd like to take you to a real nice place

Sometimes I want you around, and other times I don't know where to be found
Hanging out can surely get me down

People need to listen to more Crass, all their lyrics are great...

Download Crass - Bloody Revolutions MP3

Sex Pistols
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex... (1977)
Bodies

She was a girl from Birmingham
she just had an abortion
she was a case of insanity
her name was Pauline she lived in a tree

She was a no-one who killed her baby
she sent her letters from the country
she was an animal
she was a bloody disgrace

Body I'm not an animal
Mummy I'm not an abortion

Dragged on a table in a factory
illegitimate place to be
in a packet in a lavatory
die little baby screaming

Body screaming fucking bloody mess
it's not an animal it's an abortion

Body I'm not an animal
Body I'm not an abortion

Throbbing squirm, gurgling bloody mess
I'm not a discharge I'm not a loss in
protein I'm not a throbbing squirm Ah!


Fuck fhis and fuck that
fuck it all and fuck the fucking brat
She don't wanna baby that looks like that
I don't wanna baby that looks like that.

Body I'm not an animal
Body i'm not an abortion

Mummy! Ugh!

"God save the queen she aint no human being " sex pistols

punks not dead
it just deserves to die
when it becomes another stale cartoon
a closed minded self centered
social club
ideas don't matter its who you know
if the musics gotten boring
its because of the people
who want everyone to sound the same
who drive the bright people out
of our so called scene
till all thats left is just a meaningless fad ...

You wanna jump me in the pack
Rat Pack, rat pack
My crew has got my back
Rat pack, rat pack
Been through this shit before
Rat pack, rat pack
Now you've got a fucking war
Rat pack, rat pack

I got my pride, glory's on my side
I got my pride, glory's on my side

See you alone you start to run
Rat pack, rat pack
Take your chances one on one
Rat pack, rat pack

I got my pride, glory's on my side
I got my pride, glory's on my side

cant fuck with sick of it all 20 years and still raw

AJC... I LOVE Crass... Feeding of the 5000 was their best IMO. What was the name of that first "song"... starts out... "I am no feeble Christ... "

And I thought Cheri Love Affair was from the Chemical People?

Laws Against Laughing - The Crucifucks

Some really good friends of mine,
They blew up a factory.
No one really knows
How it happened
And they are still running free,
And I think it's funny...

Just like the Berlin disco,
And the chumps inside,
And the stupid space shuttle,
And the fools that cried.

I've got a mind to build a
Fucking bomb of my own,
But my nitroglycerin
Is out on loan,
And I'd rather not talk
About this on the phone,
But it's funny...

And nobody wants to know
What the hell they are doin',
All the trash that they buy
And the planet they're screwin.


Corporate Deathburger - MDC

Ronald laughs as millions starve
And profits forever increase
Your stenching farts as they smile
They say they try to please
Plastic chairs and fake shakes
To help it all go down
Polluting your children with their lies
And trying to destroy your mind

Corporate deathburger, Ronald McDonald

Change from your five
Ankles deep in blood
Make it your career
Sell billions every year

Golden arches and Ronald smiles

Ronald laughs as billions starve
And profits forever increase
Feeding all your grain to cows
Dead children rest in peace
The stench of humans rotting
Smells just like fish filet
Your sign neglects to mention
50,000 starved today

Corporate deathburger, Ronald McDonald

Change from your five
Torture camps for cows
Slaughter and starvation
From death Corporation

Golden arches and Ronald Smiles

You say you're Christians but you're a fake
Multinationals on the take
Starving children deserve a break today



and one for the adult industry Casting Couch - Dayglo Abortions

lisa she's an actress,
she's got the look and great big tits,
she knows one day she'll be a star,
because her tits are gonna take her far.

oh oh oh oh oh!
sitting on that casting couch,
oh oh oh oh oh!
sucking dick into her mouth!
this ain't no fuckin' game,
you pay the price if you want the fame!

lisa finally got her part,
he said it was just a start,
he said that she could be a hit,
fuck the camera shake those tits,
hike that ass up in the air,
shake and moan as if you care,
let that cum roll down your chin,
then wipe it off and do it again!

oh oh oh oh oh!
sitting on that casting couch,
oh oh oh oh oh!
sucking dick into her mouth!
this ain't no fuckin' game,
you pay the price if you want the fame!

Reality Asylum. There's a lot of history behind that song. Those words were more than just lyrics, those were pure fucking poetry

could be a Chemical People song too. i know Cheri Love Affair was on Always Was, Is, & Always Shall be by GG though...

Were you ever fortunate / crazy enough to see GG in concert before he OD'd?

The Mentors

"free fix, for a butt fuck..."



Anal Cunt (the song titles alone are second to none)

here is one AC classic:

Rancid Sucks (And The Clash Sucked Too)

Ska is gay, Reggae is gay
You?re fucking gay and you?re not punk
You say you hate corporations, but you were on NBC
London?s calling and they?re calling you gay

[Chorus:]
Rancid sucks, Rancid sucks, Rancid sucks, and The Clash sucked too [x2]

If Kenny G had a Mohawk, he wouldn?t be punk
If Yanni had dumb tattoos, he wouldn?t be punk
If Garth Brooks pierced his nose, he wouldn?t be punk
If Liberace sounded like The Clash, he wouldn?t be punk

no, lol. but i would haved to been there. providing i didn't get caught by any stray poop flinging

Live fast die GG... he ruled

My contribution to the thread. "I love livin' in the city" - FEAR

For once liners I have to go with "I'll believe in god when one and one are five" from "Do What You Want" Bad Religion

Also like Skyscraper...

come let us make bricks
and burn them hard,
we'll build a city with a tower for the world
and climb so we can reach
anything we may propose,
anything at all

build me up, tear me down
like a skyscraper,
build me up, then tear down
these joining walls
so they can't climb at all

I know why you tore it down that day,
you thought, that if you got caught
we'd all go away,
like a spoiled little baby
who can't come out and play,
you had your revenge

build me up, tear me down
like a skyscraper,
build me up, then tear down
these joining walls
so they can't climb at all

well madness reigned
and paradise drowned
when Babel's walls came crashing down
now the echoes roar
a story writ
that was hardly understood
and never any good

build me up, tear me down
like a skyscraper,
build me up, then tear down
these joining walls
so they can't climb at all

I love Deftones

"Change (In the House of Flies)"

I've watched you change
Into a fly
I looked away
You were on fire
I watched a change
In you
It's like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So Alive
I've watched you change
I took you home
Set you on the glass
I pulled off your wings
Then I laughed
I watched a change
In you
It's like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never
Had wings ahhh ahh ahhh
I look at the cross
Then I look away
Give you the gun
Blow me away
I've watched a change
In you
It's like you never
Had wings
Now you feel
So Alive
I've watched you change.
Now you feel Alive
You Feel Alive
I've watched you change
It's like you never
Had wings ahhh ahh ahhh

Maybe not the best, but the funniest tune I've had stuck in my head recently. After all these years they still continue to amuse.


NOFX- Idiot Son of an Asshole

He's not smart, a C student
And that's after buying his way into school
Beady eyes, and he's kinda dyslexic
Can he read? No one's really quite sure
He signs stuff and he executes people
Maybe that's why, he doesn't have any friends
Cocaine and a little drunk driving
Doesn't matter, when you're the Commander in Chief.

Idiot son of an asshole
He's the idiot son of an asshole
Idiot son of an asshole
He's the idiot son of an asshole

Put on some make-up, turn on the 8-Track,
I'm putting a week back on the shelf,
Suddenly I'm the President, of the United States,
But then I woke up, and realized I'm still me.

He's too dumb, to eat pretzels, apparently smart enough to fix an election.
Moved boldly into the White House,
but most people voted against him.
He likes naps, He really likes naptime, A couple of naps and then a nap and then he's ready for bed,
He may be from Bush descent, but he's always gonna be the unpresident.

Idiot son of an asshole
He's the idiot son of an asshole
Idiot son of an asshole
He's the idiot son of an asshole
Idiot son of an asshole
He's the idiot son of an asshole

He's our president!

Ahh too bad. I'm actually chatting with someone right now that saw him the week before he died. Amazing.

Fear is another great band with quotable lyrics. Actually would have been awesome to be in the audience in the "decline" movie... was only 11 at the time tho lol...

I loved the deftones.... right up until that song

woman - anti nowhere league

Woman
I'm in love in you
My love is deep
My love is true
To you, woman, I'm in love

Your hair's so soft
Your eyes are blue
Your skin is warm
And I'll be true to you
Woman, I'm in love with you

You came to me in a dream, I'm sure
You gave your love, you gave much more to me
Woman
Will you marry me?

Do you take this woman
To be your lawful wedded wife
To love and to cherish
And in sickness and in health
Till death do you part?
I do.

Till death us do part [6x]

What's that you just said to me
You didn't love me like this yesterday
Woman
I don't understand

And what's that you did say to me
I guess this love is just more to me
Woman
You're annoying me

Yeah, you're sitting on your arse in your dirty clothes
You're looking a mess, you're picking your nose
Woman
You're a fucking mess

Your tits are big but your brains are small
Sometimes I wonder you got any brains at all
Woman
Ah stuff yourself

Well fuck you, fuck you
Don't you tell me what to do
Woman
Ah fuck off

I've got my deed, I've married you
What did I do to deserve you?
Woman
Why me?

Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
Woman
I hate you

one of my favorite punk songs of all time

Antiheroes - Hate Edge

From dawn to dusk I pound the earth, Looking for meaning to give live its worth
But what I love just tastes like shit, And I wonder how stupid can you get
The more I see the less I get, My life smoulders out like a cigarette
The more I need, the less I want, I want to live but I know I won't
Roses are red and violets are blue, Money is green and I hate you
Humans are humans but their blood is so red, I'm gonna put a bullet through my head

[Chorus]
{Hate edge, hate edge, I hate you, Hate edge, hate edge I hate you too. Hate Edge}

No one understands anything till its dead, Under the human lampshade they'll never shed
You'll never know what its like not to be shunned, I think you're all fucking scum
Watching dead bodies on the news, saw my friends burned up like jews
Spilt my soul for what it would bring, But now I hate everything
Ashes are ashes and dust is dust, Fuck each other with your power lust
Humans are humans but their blood is so red, I'm gonna put a bullet through my head

thats funny some idiot listed rancid as punk hahahah maybe if you shop at hot topic...


Greg from Bad Religion will always have the best lyrics.. he has more degrees than 99% of people on this board.. im just surprised that the idiots here understand em....

aw lol I like it. It's a song I have to be in the mood for, like laid backish.

jesus, now that I am reading this thread it amazes me what some people consider "punk"

Think that I'm a loser
'Cause my pants are really too low
Think that I'm a slob
'Cause I got holes in my shoes
Think my cock is like
I like my dirty shirt
Well you can f**k off
'Cause I'm working sixty a week
You think that life is really tough
When your pappy won't buy
You a brand new car
Take a girl out she won't f**k you
After you just brought her a gram of coke
You spent all your money on shitty coke
I'm not a loser! That's right,
I'm not a loser!
Cruise down the boulevard
Wasting mommy's gas while you're
Looking for kicks on Friday night
You're only goal in life
Is to smoke a joint
And decide how you're gonna get
Laid tonight
You are a f**king son-of-a-bitch
You arrogant asshole
Your pants are too tight
You f**king homo
You suck, Mr. Buttf**k
You don't belong here
Go away you f**king gay
I'm not a loser!

and OMG crass, haven't heard them in AGES

Fuck the politically minded, here's something I want to say,
About the state of nation, the way it treats us today.
At school they give you shit, drop you in the pit,
You try, you try, you try to get out, but you can't because they've fucked you about.
Then you're a prime example of how they must not be,
This is just a sample of what they've done to you and me.

Do they owe us a living?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a living?
Of course they do, of course they do.
Owe us a living?
OF COURSE THEY FUCKING DO.

CRASS LYRICS PWN OWN OTHER PUNK LYRICS

Big A Little A - Crass


Big A, little A, bouncing B
The system might have got you but it won't get me

1 - 2 - 3 - 4

External control are you gonna let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to ba yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Hello, hello, hello, this is the Lord God, can you hear?
Hellfire and damnation's what I've got for you down there
On earth I have ambassadors, archbishop, vicar, pope
We'll blind you with morality, you'd best abandon any hope,
We're telling you you'd better pray cos you were born in sin
Right from the start we'll build a cell and then we'll lock you in
We sit in holy judgement condemning those that stray
We offer our forgiveness, but first we'll make you pay

External control are you gonna let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Hello, hello, hello, now here's a massage from your queen
As figurehead of the status quo I set the social scene
I'm most concerned about my people, I want to give them peace
So I'm making sure they stay in line with my army and police
My prisons and my mental homes have ever open doors
For those amongst my subjects who dare to ask for more
Unruliness and disrespect are things I can't allow
So I'll see the peasants grovel if they refuse to bow

External control are you gonna let them get you?
Do you wanna be a prisoner in the boundaries they set you?
You say you want to be yourself, by christ do you think they'll let you?
They're out to get you get you get you get you get you get you get you

Introducing the Prime Sinister, she's a mother to us all
Like the dutch boy's finger in the dyke her arse is in the wall
Holding back the future waiting for the seas to part
If Moses did it with is faith, she'll do it with an army
Who at times of threatened crisis are certain to be there
Guarding national heritage no matter what or where
Palaces for kings and queens, mansions for the rich
Protection for the wealthy, defence of privilege
They've learnt the ropes In Ireland, engaged in civil war
Fighting for the ruling classes in their battle against the poor
So Ireland's just an island? It's an island of the mind
Great Britain? Future? Bollocks, you'd better look behind
Round every other corner stands P.C. 1984
Guardian of the future, he'll implement the law
He's there as a grim reminder that no matter what you do
Big brothers system's always there with his beady eyes on you
From God to local bobby, in home and street and school
They've got your name and number while you've just got their rule
We've got to look for methods to undermine those powers
It's time to change the tables. The future must be ours

Big A, little A, bouncing B
The system might have got you but it won't get me

Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do
I am he and she is she but you're the only you
No one else has got your eyes, can see the things you see
It's up to you to change your life and my life's up to me
The problems that you suffer from are problems that you make
The shit we have to climb through is the shit we choose to take
If you don't like the life you live, change it now it's yours
Nothing has effects if you don't recognise the cause
If the programme's not the one you want, get up, turn off the set
It's only you that can decide what life you're gonna get
If you don't like religion you can be the antichrist
If your tired of politics you can be an anarchist
But no one ever changed the church by pulling down a steeple
And you'll never change the system by bombing number ten
Systems just aren't made of bricks they're mostly made of people
You may send them into hiding, but they'll be back again
If you don't like the rules they make, refuse to play their game
If you don't want to be a number, don't give them your name
If you don't want to be caught out, refuse to hear their question
Silence is a virtue, use it for your own protection
They'll try to make you play their game, refuse to show your face
If you don't want to be beaten down, refuse to join their race
Be exactly who you want to be, do what you want to do
I am he and she is she but you're they only you

i love LAJ's punk rock threads... reading these is bringing back so many memories... insane!

i started thinking of my favorite lyrics and decided it will take me all day to think about the best... i must say Op Ivy, Face to Face, Rancid, NoFX, old school Blink, the Crumbs, Pennywise, Screeching Weasel, Unwritten Law, Descendents (my first show) and for sure the Triple Lindy's all had some amazing lines to live by. and i'm sure i missed a bunch in there.

One of my favorites thats sticking out in my head right now...

Rancid - Radio
...
If you wanna get the feeling and you wanna get it right
Then the music's gotta be loud
for when the music hits I feel no pain at all...

Radio, Radio, Radio, Radio
Radio, Radio, Radio
When I got the music
I got a place to go

RANCID (1993) and Let's Go! (1994) are some of my favorite albums and i don't shop at hot topic

"When the going gets tough, the tough get drunk. And when the tough get drunk, they don't give a fuck" - The Loose Skrews

Holds a special place in my heart...and liver

Good Call Chauncy!

I Want to Conquer the World is one of my favorites:

Hey mr. diplomat with your worldly aspirations,
Did you see the children cry when you left them at the station?
Hey moral soldier youve got righteous proclamation,
And precious tomes to fuel your pulpy conflagrations.

And I want to conquer the world,

Greg Grafffin is by far the smartest person in the music biz period and has written some of the most profound and socially important lyrics ever.

That being said yes Rancid is a punk band the were spawned from operation ivy who is was one of the most important bands of the late 80's punk scene

how about some Face to Face..
Dissension was my favorite song when i was in high school


And you might think it's possible
For me to think the same way that you do
I've figured out there's nothing I can do
To change my life
And nothing ever will
And you might think it's reasonable
For me to just accept the way it is
I've heard it said
There's nothing I can do
To change this world
I wish it wasn't true
There are those who say
The world is ending every day
But I want the chance
I've been waiting here
I try to hide this pain and fear
So give me a chance
And I believe it's rational
To never want to see things
The way they are
I've heard it said
That we all carry something to believe
And some can let it go

Black Flag - TV Party

Ive got nothing better to do then watch tv and have a couple of brews