1. Welcome
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2. Have You Ever
Falling, Iīm falling
Have you ever walked through a room
But it was more like the room passed around you
Like there was a leash around your neck that pulled you through
Have you ever been at someplace
Recognizing everybodyīs face
Until you realized that there was no one there you knew
Well I know
Some days, my soulīs confined and out of mind
Sleep forever
Some days, Iīm so outshined and out of time
Have you ever
Falling, Iīm falling
Have you ever buried your face in your hands
Cause no one around you understands
Or has the slightest idea what it is that makes you be
Have you ever felt like there was more
Like someone else was keeping score
And what could make you whole was simply out of reach
Well I know
Someday Iīll try again and not pretend
This time forever
Someday Iīll get it straight but not today
Have you ever
Falling, Iīm falling
Some days, my soulīs confined and out of mind
Sleep forever
Some days, my darkest friend is me again
Have you ever
Someday Iīll try again and not pretend
This time forever
Someday Iīll get it straight but not today
Have you ever
When the truth walks away
Everybody stays
Cause the truth about the world is that crime does pay
So if you walk away
Who is gonna stay
Cause Iīd like to think the world is a better place
When the truth walks away
Everybody stays
Cause the truth about the world is that crime does pay
So if you walk away
Who is gonna stay
Cause Iīd like to make the world be a better place
When the truth walks away
Everybody stays
Cause the truth about the world is that crime does pay
So if you walk away
Who is gonna stay
Cause Iīd like to think the world is a better place
Iīd like to leave the world as a better place
Iīd like to think the world
3. Staring At The Sun
Maybe life is like a ride on a freeway
Dodging bullets while youīre trying to find your way
Everyoneīs around, but no one does a damn thing
It brings me down, but I wonīt let them
If I seem bleak
Well youīd be correct
And if I donīt speak
Itīs cause I canīt disconnect
But I wonīt be burned by the reflection
Of the fire in your eyes
As youīre staring at the sun
When I ran I didnīt feel like a runaway
When I escaped I didnīt feel like I got away
Thereīs more to living than only surviving
Maybe Iīm not there, but Iīm still trying
Though you hear me
I donīt think that you relate
My will is something
That you canīt confiscate
So forgive me, but I wonīt be frustrated
By destruction in your eyes
As youīre staring at the sun
4. Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
You know itīs kind of hard
Just to get along today
Our subject isnīt cool
But he fakes it anyway
He may not have a clue
And he may not have style
But everything he lacks
Well he makes up in denial
So donīt debate, a player straight
You know he really doesnīt get it anyway
Heīs gonna play the field, and keep it real
For you no way, for you no way
So if you donīt rate, just overcompensate
At least youīll know you can always go on ricki lake
The world needs wannabeīs
So do that brand new thing
He needs some cool tunes
Not just any will suffice
But they didnīt have ice cube
So he bought vanilla ice
Now cruising in his pinto, he sees homies as he pass
But if he looks twice
Theyīre gonna kick his lily ass
Now heīs getting a tattoo
Heīs gettinī ink done
He asked for a ī13ī, but they drew a ī31ī
Friends say heīs trying too hard
And heīs not quite hip
But in his own mind
Heīs the dopest trip
So donīt debate, a player straight
You know he really doesnīt get it anyway
Heīs gonna play the field, and keep it real
For you no way, for you no way
So if you donīt rate, just overcompensate
At least youīll know you can always go on ricki lake
The world needs wannabeīs
The world loves wannabeīs
So letīs get some more wannabeīs
And do that brand new thing
5. The Kida Arenīt Alright
When we were young the future was so bright
The old neighborhood was so alive
And every kid on the whole damn street
Was gonna make it big and not be beat
Now the neighborhoodīs cracked and torn
The kids are grown up but their lives are worn
How can one little street
Swallow so many lives
Chances thrown
Nothingīs free
Longing for what used to be
Still itīs hard
Hard to see
Fragile lives, shattered dreams
Jamie had a chance, well she really did
Instead she dropped out and had a couple of kids
Mark still lives at home cause heīs got no job
He just plays guitar and smokes a lot of pot
Jay committed suicide
Brandon odīd and died
What the hell is going on
The cruelest dream, reality
6. Feelings
Feelings
Nothing more than feelings
Trying to forget my
Feelings of hate
Imagine
Beating on your face
Trying to forget my
Feelings of hate
Feelings
For all my life Iīll feel it
I wish Iīd never met you
Youīll make me sick again
Feelings, oh oh feelings
Of hate on my mind
Feelings
Feelings like I never liked you
Feelings like I want to kill you
Live in my heart
Feelings
Feelings like I wanna deck you
Feelings like Iīve gotta get you
Out of my life
Feelings, oh oh feelings
The hateīs in my eyes
Feelings, oh oh feelings
Youīre not very nice
7. Sheīs Got Issues
Iīm seeing this girl and she just might be out of her mind
Well sheīs got baggage and itīs all the emotional kind
She talks about closure and that validation bit
I donīt mean to be insensitive, but I really hate that shit
Oh man sheīs got issues
And Iīm gonna pay
She thinks sheīs the victim
Yeah
Now I know sheīll feel abandoned
If I donīt stay over late
And I know sheīs afraid to commit
But itīs only our second date
Oh man sheīs got issues
And Iīm gonna pay
She thinks sheīs the victim
But she takes it all out on me
I donīt know why youīre messed up
I donīt know why your whole life is a chore
Just do me a favor
And check your baggage at the door
Now she talks about her ex nonstop, but I donīt mind
But when she calls out his name in bed
Thatīs where I draw the line
You told me a hundred times how your father left and heīs gone
But I wish you wouldnīt call me daddy
When weīre gettinī it on
Oh man sheīs got issues
And Iīm gonna pay
Sheīs playing the victim
And taking it all out on me
My god sheīs got issues
And Iīm gonna pay
If you think Iīm controlling
Then why do you follow me around
If youīre not co-dependent
Then why do you let others drag you down
I donīt know why youīre messed up
I donīt know why your whole life is a chore
Just do me a favor
And check your baggage at the doo
8. Walla Walla
Goodbye my friend, youīve messed up again
Youīre going to prison, youīre off to the pen
Youīve gotten off easy so many times
But I guess no one told you how to get a life
The judge wasnīt lenient like he was before
You got three to five and a kick out the door
The public defender really did try
Too little, too late, you didnīt get a life
Hey, in walla
Iīll see you in walla walla
Slap on the wrist? well, not this time
Hey, in walla
Iīll see you in walla walla
Folsom prison is the destination
Hey, in walla
Iīll see you in walla walla
Slap on the wrist? well, not this time
In the scheme of life, weīre all just brothers
Rehabilitate with all the others
Well, Iīll see ya
That car looked so tempting, so easy to drive
Just like that apartment that you burglarized
You started to run, but didnīt get far
Cause under your arm was a vcr
Ho ho, not this time my friend
Youīll be in lockdown by ten
Iīm afraid you canīt talk your way out of this one, son
Now four walls are your 24-hour-a-day, constant companions.
Hey, in walla
Iīll see you in walla walla
Slap on the wrist? well, not this time
Hey, in walla
Iīll see you in walla walla
Folsom prison is the destination
Hey, in walla
Iīll see you in walla walla
Slap on the wrist? well, not this time
In the scheme of life, weīre all just brothers
Rehabilitate with all the others
Well, Iīll see ya
Have a nice life
9. The End Of The Line
When the sirenīs flash is gone
And weīre left to carry on
All the memories are too few
When the pastorīs music plays
And that casket rolls away
I could live again if you
Just stay alive for me
Please stay now, you left me here alone - itīs the end of the line
Please stay I canīt make it on my own - itīs the end of the line
Make it on my own
Itīs the end of the line
Now that you are dead and gone
And Iīm left to carry on
I could never smile cause you
Wonīt stay alive for me
Finally,
Your final resting day
Is without me
I weep
And think of brighter days
What about me?
You canīt take back, the one mistake
That still lives on after life it takes
In that one day, that changed our lives
And bitter memories are left behind
10. No Brakes
Lay awake
I donīt give a shit
If I even ever wake up in the morning
Down below
Thereīs a pile of sin
Always waiting for a
Waiting for a warning
Burned at the stake
Inside Iīm blistering
Not a whisper
Looking in youīd never know it
Miles below
I look up again
When you snap they say
Before you never show it
Someone said itīs all right
Save it now, donīt say it for my sake
Someone said itīs all right
Faster now, you know I got no brakes
Fuses glow
Wounds festering
Till the wind comes up
And takes it to the last pow
Back and forth
Staring at the wall
This roomīs a cage
I know that somethingīs got to give now
Someone said itīs all right
Save it now, donīt say it for my sake
Someone said itīs all right
Faster now, you know I got no brakes
No brakes
11. Why Donīt Get A Job?
My friendīs got a girlfriend
Man he hates that bitch
He tells me every day
He says "man I really gotta lose my chick
In the worst kind of way"
She sits on her ass
He works his hands to the bone
To give her money every payday
But she wants more dinero just to stay at home
Well my friend
You gotta say
I wonīt pay, I wonīt pay ya, no way
Why donīt you get a job
Say no way, say no way, no way
Why donīt you get a job
I guess all his money, well it isnīt enough
To keep her bill collectors at bay
I guess all his money, well it isnīt enough
Cause that girlīs got expensive taste
I wonīt pay, I wonīt pay ya, no way
Why donīt you get a job
Say no way, say no way, no way
Why donīt you get a job
Well I guess it ainīt easy doing nothing at all
But hey man free rides just donīt come along
Every day
Let me tell you about my other friend now
My friendīs got a boyfriend, man she hates that dick
She tells me every day
He wants more dinero just to stay at home
Well my friend
You gotta say
12. Americana
Well Iīd like to tell you all about my dream, itīs a place
Where strip malls abound and diversionīs mere moments away
Where cultureīs defined by the
Ones least refined
And youīll be left behind
If you donīt fit in
Itīs all distorted
In americana my way
Well my dream has come true
My vision has come true
Now give me my cable, fast food, four-byīs, tatīs right away
I want it right now cause my generation donīt like to wait
My futureīs determined by
Thieves, thugs, and vermin
Itīs quite an excursion
But itīs okay
Everythingīs backwards
In americana my way
Well my dream has come true
My vision has come true
Iīm a product
Of my environment
So donīt blame me, I just work here
My rights are denied by
Those least qualified
Trading profit for pride
But itīs okay
Everythingīs backwards
In americana my way
My nightmare has come true
My nightmare has come true
Yeah, itīs all coming true
13. Pay The Man
See the way the wind blows
Lives are intertwined
Watch the way the world goes
The man deals out our plight
Jester in the corner
Laughs without a sound
Jester in the corner
Malady abounds
In our souls
See the way the sun sets
Twilight of this life
The man is making little bets
Playing with our lives
All that I believe now
Anything is possible
A simple explanation
For the evil in this world
And in our souls
In our souls
Come down to sorry and sable
Itīs always the man
Always keeping you down
Bow down cause I see it before me
Shadow and light
That always keeps you running
Shut up you talk too much
Pay the man
Shut up you talk too much
Look at you and your struggle for freedom
But you ainīt nothing
We all pay the man for living
Wouldnīt it be nice for a change now
To be unchained
My life is for me now
But this is life
Pay the man
Shut up you talk too much
Pay the man
Shut up you talk too much
Pay the man
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