The Offspring

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This album contains explicit depictions
Of things which are real.
These real things are commonly known as life.
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On the way
Trying to get where I'd like to say
I'm always feeling steered away
By someone trying to tell me
What to say and do
I don't want it
I gotta go find my own way
I gotta go make my own mistakes
Sorry man for feeling
Feeling the way I do
On yeah, Oh yeah
Open wide and they'll shove in
Their meaning of life
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
But not for me I'll do it on my own
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Open wide and swallow their meaning of life
I can't make it work your way
Thanks but no thanks

By the way
I know your path has been tried and so
It may seem like the way to go
Me, I'd rather be found
Trying something new
And the bottom line
In all of this seems to say
There's no right and wrong way
Sorry if I don't feel like
Living the way you do
On yeah, Oh yeah
Open wide and they'll shove in
Their meaning of life
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
But not for me I'll do it on my own
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Open wide and swallow their meaning of life
I can't make it work your way
Thanks but no thanks

Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Open wide and swallow their meaning of life
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
But not for me I'll do it on my own
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Open wide and swallow their meaning of life
I can't make it work your way
Thanks but no thanks

Mota!
Everyday, well it's the same
That bong that's on the table starts to call
My name
I take a hit and zone out again
I'll be paranoid and hungry by a quarter to ten
Watching reruns on my TV
I'm laughing off my ass at Three's Company
I don't know if I'm understood
Buy hearing Jimmy Buffett never sounded so good
Your memory's gone and so is your life (your life)
Mota Boy
But losing out just never felt so right
Your enemy's you and so is your life (your life)
Mota Boy
But losing out might feel okay all night
Mota!
I'm driving down to the barrio
Going 15 miles an hour cause I'm already stoned
Give the guy a twenty and wait in the car
He tosses me a baggie then he runs real far
I take a hit but it smells like a clove
Oh fuck I got a baggie of oregano
This ritual is destroying me
But I guess it could be worse
It could be methedrine
Your memory's gone and so is your life (your life)
Mota Boy
But losing out just never felt so right
Your enemy's you and your couch is your life
(Your Life)
Mota Boy
But losing out might take
Losing out might take you all night
Mota!
Losing out might feel okay all night
Yeah losing out might feel okay all life

She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain

Me and my old lady
Lay in bed all day
And when I say I love her well
she rolls the other way
But really she don't mean it
Everything she says
Still if I believe in love
There's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong with my head

Me and my old lady
Sit and sip on wine
when she says she loves me will
I say that love is blind
But really I don't mean it
Everything I say
Still if she believes in love
There's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong with her head
So what if we're making a scene now
You know she don't give a shit
When she's pawin and
grabbin on me now
You know I don't mind a bit
It's all good and we
Ain't gonna change now
The world is unaware
So if you want to go on and stare
Cause we don't care
we don't care
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and
She ain't no ball and
Me and my old lady
Suck each other dry
And when in that position I'm
the luckiest man alive
Quenching our libidos
Passing time away
Now that I believe in love
There's nothing wrong
There's nothing wrong with my head
my head

So what if we're making a scene now
You know she don't give a shit
When she's pawin and
grabbin on me now
You know I don't mind a bit
It's all good and we
Ain't gonna change now
The world is unaware
So if you want to go on and stare
Cause we don't care
we don't care
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and chain
She ain't no ball and
She ain't no ball and

I hate a lot of things
I hate a lot of people that are lame
I like to hate stuff
Cause then I don't have to try and make
A change
I hate teachers
I hate school
I hate the cheerleaders
And anyone who's cool
I hate the office
I hate the Quad
Don't wanna learn nothing
I want to be a slob
It's cool to hate
I don't like nothing and I like that fine
It's cool to hate
I don't like nothing and I like that fine
Yeah I hate everything
I even hate you too
So fuck you

I'm always thinking bad
I never have nothing good to say
I'd rather tear things down
Than build them up It's easier that way
I hate the jocks
And I hate the geeks
I hate the trendies
But I also hate the freaks
I hate Dr. Martens
And Muscle T's
I'm only happy when I'm in my misery
It's cool to hate
I don't like nothing and I like that fine
It's cool to hate
I don't like nothing and I like that fine
Yeah I hate everything
I even hate you too So fuck you

I'll cut you down and give you lip
Being positive's so unhip
I'll cut you down cause I'm a fool
Being positive's so uncool

I hate the jocks And I hate the geeks
I hate the trendies But I also hate the freaks
I hate your band And I hate TV
I'm only happy when I'm in my miser
It's cool to hate
I don't like nothing and I like that fine
It's cool to hate
I don't like nothing and I like that fine
Yeah I hate everything
I even hate you too So fuck you

Rage burns can't push it aside now
Can't forgive this grudge is alive now
All the rage eats you up inside
Can you leave it behind
What a surprise --
You're fucked with again Yeah
It's a way of life you need to get over
All the rage just eats you alive
Can you leave it behind
I don't know where it'll end
The sun has set
And I can't be friends
I don't know if I can forgive
The day is long
But you were so dead wrong

Maybe in another life
I could find you there
Pulled away before your time
I can't deal it's so unfair
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it feels
Yeah it feels like
The world has grown cold
Now that you've gone away

Leaving flowers on your grave
Show that I still care
But black roses and Hail Mary's
Can't bring back what's taken from me
I reach to the sky
And call out your name And if I could trade
I would
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold Now that you've gone away

I reach to the sky
And call out your name And if I could trade
I would
And it feels
And it feels like
Heaven's so far away
And it stings
Yeah it stings now
The world is so cold Now that you've gone away

Look at me I'm fallin
Off of a cliff now
I can still hear my mama yelling
No No No
But the words mean nothing
Can't catch up to me now
And the view is so beautiful
All the way down
When I was a little boy
Suckin juice from a bottle
Believing my perceptions were
oh so real
But I don't know nothing
Still knowing nothing
Was just enough for me
know the way i feel
This is life
What a fucked up thing we do
What a night mare come true
Or a play ground if we choose
And I choose

Look at me i'm swollen
Like a banana fish now
I'm never gonna make it make it
out of my hole
But I keep on laughing
Doesn't really matter
There's dozens of reasons for
explaining my soul
When I was a teenager suckin
booze with the Vatos
Discussing who was gonna
live to be 21
They said
they wouldn't make it
They didn't make it
We're all naked when the
day is said and done
This is life
What a fucked up thing we do
What a night mare come true
Or a play ground if we choose
And I choose

Don't know who
made this all come true
now are you
You just gotta do
what you gotta do

Now if I
wasn't such a weenie do you
think you'd still love me
Pretending I'm an airplane on the
living Room floor
like a lovely generator
You stand right by me
words were wisdom i'd be
talking Even more
So I keep on falling
As I'm looking back above me
Watching as my mama just
becomes a little dot
Now I'm
like De Niro
I'm amarillo
And I'll never know when
I hit the ground
This is life
what a fucked up thing we do
What a night mare come true
Or a play ground if we choose

And I choose

"Intermission"

Welcome to intermission

yea.... Intermission

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ahhhhhhhhhhhh......

Day after day your home life's a wreck
The powers that be just
Breathe down your neck
You get no respect
You get no relief
You gotta speak up
And yell out your piece
So back off your rules
Back off your jive
Cause I'm sick of not living
To stay alive
Leave me alone
I'm not asking a lot
I just don't want to be controlled
That's all I want
All I want

How many times is it gonna take
Till someone around
you hears what you say
You've tried being cool
You feel like a lie
You've played by their rules
Now it's their turn to try
So back off your rules
Back off your jive
Cause I'm sick of not living
To stay alive
Leave me alone
I'm not asking a lot
I just don't want to be controlled
That's all I want
All I want
I said it before
I'll say it again
If you could just listen
Then it might make sense
So back off your rules
Back off your jive
Cause I'm sick of not living
To stay alive
Leave me alone
I'm not asking a lot
I just don't want to be controlled
That's all I want
All I want

Nothing changes
cause it's all the same
The world you get's
the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line
There is a chain
that's never broken
You know the story
it's sad but true
An angry man gets
drunk and beats his kids
The same old way
his drunken father did
What comes around well
it goes around
Nothing changes cause
it's all the same
The world you get's
the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line

At 17 Shannon is pregnant
As young as her mom
when she had her
Her kid is never gonna have a dad
The same old way that
Shannon never had
What comes around well
it goes around
Nothing changes cause
it's all the same
The world you get's
the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line
And all the things you learn
when you're a kid
You'll fuck up just like
your parents did
It all just happens again
Way down the line

And welfare moms
have kids on welfare
And fat parents
they have fat kids too
You know it's never gonna end
The same old cycle's
gonna start again
What comes around
well it goes around
Nothing changes cause
it's all the same
The world you get's
the one you give away
It all just happens again
Way down the line
And all the things you learn
when you're a kid
You'll fuck up just like
your parents did
It all just happens again
Way down the line

I saw a little kid As he walked around
He picked a candy bar up Off the ground
He chowed about a half
Then his face turned blue
Turned out that candy bar was doggy-doo
Don't pick it up I say
Unless you can throw it away
Don't pick it up I say
You're gonna be bummed that you went that way
You're out there makin' bacon No scrutiny
You mess around too much And you got VD
You know you never think And you're sore today
You're gonna take it back to California
Don't pick it up I say
Unless you can throw it away
Don't pick it up I say
You're gonna be bummed that you went that way
My friend was kinda hurtin' For a girl to try
He saw one that looked like Pat On Saturday Night Live
It had a pair of thingies But a mustache too
Not clearly male nor female So now what to do
Don't pick it up I say
Unless you can throw it away
Don't pick it up I say
You're gonna be bummed that you went that way

Sometimes I think I'm gonna drown
Cause everyone around's so hollow
I'm alone
Sometimes I think I'm going down
But no one makes a sound They follow
And I'm alone

Yeah if I make it I'd be amazed
Just to find tomorrow
One more day and I'd be amazed
Just to see it waiting
And if I make it I'm still alone
No more hope for better days
But if I could change
Then I'd really be amazed

And when you know you can't relate
To one more shiny face Your heart breaks
No one cares
And when you know you can't go on
Cause everything is wrong Your heart breaks
But no one's there

Yeah if I make it I'd be amazed
Just to find tomorrow
One more day and I'd be amazed
Just to see it waiting
And if I make it I'm still alone
No more hope for better days
But if I could change
Then I'd really be amazed

Yeah if I make it I'd be amazed
Just to find tomorrow
One more day and I'd be amazed
Just to see it waiting
And if I make it I'm still alone
No more hope for better days
But if I could change
Then I'd really be amazed

I see the way the salesmen stare into the sun
I stood and watched them as they fell off one by one
And everyone's so blind
They're not to help mankind
Reach into your bag of tricks and pull another one
You don't want to change the world
Like you say
You're in it for yourself
No one else
You're ready
Saving yourself
You're gonna change the world
You're ready
Saving yourself
You're gonna change the world
Now when the day is set they'll line up all the same
And those that need the most will never get or gain
The ones you call your friends
Are failing you again
Reach into your bag of tricks and make it go away
You don't want to change the world
Like you say
You're in it for yourself
No one else
You're ready
Saving yourself
You're gonna change the world
You're ready
Saving yourself
You're gonna change the world
And since you ain't what you say
Then just go away
Cause some don't lie
Some don't lie
Go on now they won't tell
Go on now and save yourself

Come Out Swinging
You brace and hold it all inside
It's more than you can stand
No one around even tries
Tries to understand

Don't turn away, don't turn away
Come out swinging
Come out alone
They're in your way
But as long as you're swinging
Strong then you'll get by

Your pacing's wearing out a line
Right beside your bed
The scene replays a million times
Stuck inside your head

And though you stand in place
Your mind escapes
Read between the lies
Smile's on your face
You fake like you're ok

Don't turn away, don't turn away
Come out swinging
Out on your own
They're in your way
You may be stinging
But you'll get by
Don't turn away, don't turn away
Come out swinging
Never alone again
The pain inside can guide your way

Midnight, no sleep
Inside, you scream to
No one, hears you fall
Daylight, prove me today
One more try

Don't turn away, don't turn
Come out swinging
Come out alone
They're in your way
You may be stinging
But you'll get by
Dont turn away, don't turn away
Come out swinging
Never alone again
Pain inside
Leads you through so you'll get by

Until the break of dawn
Life Life and I quote by the letter
Time Time Prozac can make it better
Noise, Noise, any kind will do
Can you feel it slip away
Well it's all on you

Crime, crime, rockin' like Janet Reno
Time Time 18 and life in Chino
Freud Freud all along its true
Well you see the common day
Catches up to you yeah

*Knock down the walls
Its alive in you
Knock down the place
You alone it's true
Knock down the walls
Its alive in you
Youre gonna keep your head
Up through it all
Youre gonna bust out ohh
Original Prankster
Break out yeah
Original yeah
Bust out ohh
Original Prankster
You'll never stop now stop now
That's what the main men say

You can do it

You know it smells like shit goddamn
Tag team the double header
Son of Sam fire always makes it better
Navigate with style and aplumb
Cos wherever you're at

Lies lies says hes down at the Bahamas
Tries tries all you little hoochy mammas
No way none of this is true
When you see it coming down
When the joke's on you

* Repeat

Hey
You can do it
Time time so cool to see ya
Nein nein dont wanna be ya
Dime dime so cool to see ya
Nein nein dont wanna be ya
Crime crime fine sensamilla
Crime crime fine sensamilla
Crime crime fine sensamilla
You'll see the common day
Catching up to you

* Repeat

If you could only read my mind
You would know that things between us
Ain't right
I know your arms are open wide
But you're a little on the straight side
I can't lie

Your one vice
Is you're too nice
Come around now can't you see

I want you
All tattooed
I want you bad

Complete me
Mistreat me
Want you to be bad

If you could only read my mind
You would know that I've been waiting
So long
For someone almost like you
But with attitude, I'm waiting So come on

Get out of clothes time
Grow out those highlights
Come around now can't you see

I want you
In a vinyl suit
I want you bad

Complicated
X-rated
I want you bad

Don't get me wrong
I know you're only being good
But that's what's wrong
I guess I just misunderstood

I want you
All tattooed
I want you bad

Complicated
X- rated
I want you bad

I mean it
I need it
I want you bad

There was a time
Looking through myself
Wanted to pretend
If I escaped
I could feel myself
I dont think you can
Been far and wide
But that hole inside
Never really leaves

I went away
But I really lost
Left behind was me

Install in me
Clear me on my way

Ohhhhhhhh
Ohh oh oh, ohh oh oh
A Million Miles Away
(Ohh oh oh, ohh oh oh)
A Million Miles Away

I can't stay
I can't stay
(Ohh oh oh, ohh oh oh)
A Million Miles Away

Each passing day
Every passing face
Seems like such a gloom
I long to be
Home silently
Lying next to her

Just to get back
By her side is all,
All I need to be

I went away
What I really lost
Left behind was me

I need to be
Getting on my way

Ohhhh oh oh oh
Ohh oh oh, ohh oh oh
Ohh oh oh, ohh oh oh
A Million Miles Away
(Oh oh oh, oh oh oh)
A Million Miles Away

I can't take
I can't take
(Oh oh oh, oh oh oh)
A Million Miles Away

INTERLUDE (guitar solo)

Install in me
Turn me on my way

I cant take, I cant take
A Million Miles Away

I cant take, I cant take
A Million Miles Away

I cant take, I cant take
A Million Miles Away

Oh oh oh
Oh oh oh
I cant take
I cant take
A Million Miles Away

Hey, come inside
While I stand here acting bold
Can't stand to feel this way
Clear out the cobwebs in my soul

This time I turn around
And things have changed
Now I don't feel the same

Start a fight
I can't defend
One more time
Dammit, I changed again

Now I don't see
Things the way I did before
Can't stand to feel this way
Things important yesterday
Don't matter anymore
It doesn't make any sense
To feel so different day to day
(Can't stand to feel this way)
When nothing's changed except for me

This time I turn around
And things have changed
Now I don't feel the same

Start a fight
I can't defend
One more time
Dammit, I changed again (3x)