Machine Head

Supercharger - 2002

1. Declaration
2. Bulldozer
3. White-Knuckle Blackout!
4. Crashing Around You
5. Kick You When Youīre Down
6. Only The Names
7. All In Your Head
8. American High
9. Brown Acid
10. Nausea
11. Blank Generation
12. Trephination
13. Deafening Silence
14. Supercharger



1. Declaration


-no lyrics



2. Bulldozer


Into the battles, making cages rattle
Thereīs a pain thatīs inside us and weīre letting it out
Charge right in, we dare to fail
No one is giving in, always we live to win
A hunger turns and burns inside of all of us
And it will not be denied

Walking a path untraveled to reach higher level
Challenging always going against the grain
Blood for blood - that is the rule
And we will make the rules, never be fortuneīs fool
Thereīs right and wrong in almost everything we do
For us we do what is right

Bulldozer feeds upon the weaker as they fall
Bulldozer crushes all

Somebody told me I should do what they told me
But thereīs a hole in that plan and Iīm tearing it down
Trust our guts, follow our hearts
No one can break these nuts, these lips ainīt kissing butts
The path of most resistance tests all of our strength
This strength will not be denied

Bulldozer feeds upon the weaker as they fall
Bulldozer crushes all
Bulldozer feeds upon the weaker as they fall
Bulldozer crushes all

Walking on paths untraveled
Challenging one and all
Deeper into the battles
Alone and standing tall
The more evolving changes
The more we stay the same
Full steam against the odds
Go headfirst against the grain

Full steam we go against the odds
Headfirst we go against the grain

Bulldozer goes against the odds
Bulldozer goes against the grain

Against the odds, against the grain
We go against the odds, against the grain

This is the bulldoze



3. White-Knuckle Blackout!


Veins are a racetrack for fuel that I need
Life on the edge is the bread which I feed
Standing alone, open for all to see
My tunnel vision for life, it drives me

Focus in closer
Releasing the fear

White - knuckle blackout, adrenaline rush
Wide-eyed and red-faces, my skin hot and flushed
The hair stands up down the backside of my neck
Bloodīs beginning to boil the beads of sweat

Fear has its place in the scars that I bear
Deep in the mine, behind everything shared
Fixate my sickness as long as thereīs air
Headstrong Iīll forcibly change what was there

By focusing closer
Releasing the fear

White - knuckle blackout, adrenaline rush
Wide-eyed and red-faces, my skin hot and flushed
The hair stands up down the backside of my neck
Bloodīs beginning to boil
These beads of sweat Iīll dry, out of my eyes
And blacken everything except the goal out

Adrenaline is my fuel when Iīve obstacle to climb
Adrenaline is the lubrication , focusing my mind
Adrenaline is telling me when someoneīs thinking theyīre too cool
To raise my middle fingers up and say "fuck you"

Adrenaline is fueling my mint to focus my climb
Reaction evoked at the challenge provoked out of you
Adrenaline is fire to fuel
You wanna fire my fuel?
Iīll fire back a fuck you!



4. Crashing Around You


I am your nightmares, true scares
That dream when you canīt stop from falling
Canīt fight, canīt run
Canīt stop the person youīve become

I am your heartbreaks, mistakes
That place inside your hate
I am that shadow following every move, reminding you
That itīs never good enough, never good enough
Even though youīll try and try
Iīm gonna call your bluff
Because I am the thing bringing the feelings when...

Your world comes crashing around you
Smashes down around you
When will you see that you cannot hide from me?

When you feel darkness, hopeless
Canīt cope with all the stress
Iīll make you hate life bring strife
Remember failures hardened stare
And itīs never gonna change, never gonna change
Always theyīll be judging you
Compared to who and who
You trust in me but I only live to see

Your world come crashing around you
Smash down around you
When will you see that you cannot hide from me?

When I come for you
When I see through you
When I eat through you
When I destroy you

Youīll think youīre betrayed, astray
Iīll leave you ripped and torn so bad you
Canīt trust, canīt love
Canīt understand why lifeīs so fucked
Iīm deep inside your mind
In constant remind
If you leave your thoughts to me, believe
Iīll make sure that I see

Your world come crashing around you
Smash down around you
When will you see that you cannot hide from me?

Iīll make your world come crashing around you
Smash down around you
Iīll let you see why cannot hide from me
Because I am you



5. Kick You When Youīre Down


Love for my love, hate for my hate
Strength for my strength, pain for my pain
Pride for my pride, match it inside
Trust that I find in you
But itīs hard and itīs brutal, itīs nasty and rude and
Itīs dirty and mean when they treat you like yesterdayīs
News
They want to keep us all down town, frowned, underground
But no one is keeping me down
Fuck no

Iīll keep my head high

Cause they will always kick you when youīre down

Life for my life, soul fore my soul
Truth for my truth and heart for my heart
Drive for my drive, match it inside
Fight for this fight and donīt you ever never
Give up, give up - you gotta play like a master of chess
Itīs a long road and itīs mental endurance stress test
Sometimes you fight and you win, sometimes you fight and
You lose
Itīs the fighter in you
Not to lose

So keep you head high

Cause they will always kick you when youīre down

You have to trust in yourself
You must believe in yourself
You have to follow your heart
You overcome, improve, endure

Love for my love, hate for my hate
Strength for my strength, pain for my pain
Pride for my pride, match it inside
Keep up your drive and fight to fight
Because some shit ainīt right
Donīt lose our sight
Get our heads right
Shine our star too bright
Nothing in life is for sure
Itīs just a gamble
So play it for all that itīs worth

And donīt forger to keep our heads high

Cause they will always kick you when youīre down
They will always kick you when youīre down
And donīt you let their kicking get you down

You have to trust in yourself
You must believe in yourself
You have to follow your heart
You overcome, improve, endure



6. Only The Names


Welcome in my friend
Out of the cold where itīs warm
Please step in
Whatīs your name my friend
My nameīs the same
What a strange coincidence
Glad youīre come to this place
Whatīs the pleasure you chase
Oh, you like playing with speed
Well I have all the answers you need

I can take you
High and make you
Invincible
Iīll never leave you

Welcome in my friend
Try some of this
What youīll feel is amazing
Tap a tiny blast
In a crease of foil
Place this flame beneath it
White smoke you will inhale
A speed rush you will exhale
The goose bumps prickle your skin
Just enough to dig the hooks in

I can take you
High and make you
Invincible
But now youīre hollow

Youīre crawling on the floor
But youīll be back for more... yeah

Hello there my friend
Back for the sweet poison so soon again
But this lie must end
I must collect for those pleasures gave
When I first told you my name
I told you ours were the same
And thatīs not really a lie
My real name is your addiction

I will bring you
Down and break you
Burn right through you
Wonīt regret you



7. All In Your Head


You tell me, Iīve been walking on a railing
Been excelling at failing
That I think wrong, I donīt belong
I donīt fit, I donīt give a shit
Take my guitar and microphone, pour out my fuckinī soul
Insecurity, Iīll strip it down to the bone - fuck it
I ainīt a stranger, just strange
Iīll be find so leave me alone

You canīt see the things that make
Your happiness go away, well I can

Itīs all in your head
Itīs in your head
Sad but itīs true
Itīs inside you
Keep wallowing in your misery
Itīs all in your head

I know that Iīm a weirdo and Iīm messed up
And the lord knows that Iīve fucked up
But I donīt need you to point out
Every mistake that I make
Iīm sick of all your negatives, something has gotta give
Got me thinking you need to stop overthinking
Brink of losing my mind and going blind
Iīll be fine, leave me alone

You canīt see the things that make
Your happiness go away, well I can

Itīs all in your head
Itīs in your head
Sad but itīs true
Itīs inside you
Keep wallowing in your misery
Itīs all in your head

Why canīt you see itīs you
Itīs just inside of you

You canīt see the things that make
Your happiness go away, well I can
Honestly youīre driving me insane, again

Because itīs all in your head
Itīs in your head
Sad but itīs true
Itīs inside you
Someday youīll see who youīre unhappy
Someday youīll see that itīs not me
Itīs all in your head

Itīs just inside of you



8. American High


I was that kid sittinī over
in the corner,
smiling with a shit-eating
grin
And I was that kid smilinī in
the back of class
īcause Iīm fryinī on mescaline
I was that kid drinkinī 40īs
on the bleachers
getting drunk after school
Gettinī home too late,
fallinī on my face,
way too drunk to skate
and actinī a fool

I was that kid never doing
good at
nothing except for maybe
at P.E.
And I was that kid getting
bullied by the
filipinos rollin with ABT
Me and my friends reading
the satanic bible thinking
we should start a band
Cutting class to jam,
cutting class to jam
In my dadīs garage we
learned to

Act a fool - donīt need to
be cool
Pissed off too and
breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in
school
donīt rock īn roll
But this is my american
high

I was that kid that was
crank-calling
your girlfriend, couldnīt
get a goddamn date
And I was that kid that was
getting hella busted for
pissinī on the bart train
I fuckinī hated school
except for hanging out
with my friends, the
outcast that was
startinī up a band
Fremont was the town,
California-bound,
bay area sound, taught me
to

Act a fool - donīt need to
be cool
Pissed off too and
breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in
school
donīt rock īn roll
But this is my american
high

Iīm that kid you tried to
punk in english class
Now Iīm in a band and
youīre kissing my...

Asteroids beat out homework
Slayer beat out Zeppelin
Not the sharpest noggin
thatīs why Iīm in this band

And what you got against
me, I donīt need a new job
What you got against me,
Iīll get by on my own
Tellinī me Iīm never getting
by from my songs
I love it when youīre
proven wrong

Act a fool - donīt need to
be cool
Pissed off too and
breaking the rules
Mama told me stay in
school
donīt rock īn roll
But this is my american
high

Act a fool - donīt need to
be cool
Break the rules
īcause this is my american
high.



9. Brown Acid


-no lyrics



10. Nausea


One more time youīve
gotten into my head
Iīve let your words get
into me
Every time I try to talk,
you never listen
You got the answers,
I donīt know a thing
But you ask me what these
lights are in my eyes

Theyīre a freight train
ahead
And theyīre straight
coming your way
Youīve tied yourself down
to the tracks
Now you want help from me
to cut you free
If it was me
my hour of need
Youīd leave me there to
bleed

Iīm fucking sick of you
and all that shit youīre
pulling
Your fuckinī attitude
had better go on

You cheat and you lie
and you stole and denied
And you turned on your
friends
when you burned all those
bridges

This time you wonīt be
getting under my skin
What you had Iīve taken
away
Tell me what youīre gonna
do, it doesnīt matter
Youīre always talking, it
donīt mean a thing
So ask me what these
lights are in my eyes

Theyīre a freight train
ahead
And theyīre straight
coming your way
Youīve tied yourself down
to the tracks
Now you want help from me
to cut you free
If it was me
my hour of need
Youīd leave me there to
bleed

Iīm fucking sick of you
and all that shit youīre
pulling
Your fuckinī attitude
had better go on

You cheat and you lie
and you stole and denied
And you turned on your
friends
when you burned all those
bridges

Well you sat there and
cried
As these words came to
glide
through your delicate skin
leaving blood on these
pages
So how does it feel
to be at one with the fate I
seal

Theyīre a freight train
ahead
And theyīre straight
coming your way
Youīve tied yourself down
to the tracks
Now you want help from
me to cut you free
If it was me
my hour of need
Youīd leave me there
to bleed

Iīm fucking sick of you
and all that shit youīre
pulling
Your fuckinī attitude
had better go on

You cheat and you lie
and you stole and denied
And you turned on your
friends
when you burned all those
bridges.



11. Blank Generation


They say we been
going down and going
down
Been traveling on the road
to nowhere
Going down, round and
round
Trying to get to the place
where we started

When I was just a boy
at four years old thought
the world was joy
As a kid Iīd play, just
create the day
as I saw it my way

But time blows by

And strips us to the bone
poisoned wind of woe
Teach us that weīre
alone in this world
We learned to see all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
A toast to our blank generation

They say we been
going down, been going
down
Been traveling on the road
to nowhere
Going down, round and
round
Trying to get to the place
where we started

When I was seventeen
realizing the world wasnīt
what she seemed
Underneath the night San
Francisco sky
I would see, too clearly

But time blows by
And strips us to the bone
poisoned wind of woe
Teach us that weīre
alone in this world
We learned to take all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
A toast to our blank generation

So hereīs to our collagen
lips and saline tits
To our growth hormones
and antibiotics
To the Hollywood world
we made out of Barbie doll
hearts
After we melted them down
so we could make our new
start
Hereīs to a generation
scared and always
wondering why
Instead of playing doctor,
we play shoot each other
and die
Instead of ring around the
Rosie, we play hide from
Mommy
īCause Mommyīs been drinking
again and we donīt
want to get beat
Even with all our tattoos,
and all our cheap thrills
thereīs still a hole inside
of us that may not ever get
filled
So we give back a little bit
of what the worldīs given
us
Giving back a bit of never
giving a fuck

Hereīs to the justice never
dealt, to innocent, proven
guilty
Hereīs to bad cops turning
cheeks when real cops are
on the street
Hereīs to the rat-tat-n-tat
of gun shots, and your life
is shattered
Hereīs to "Gimme me your
cash or your brains is
gettinī splattered"
Hereīs to mad cow disease
and all that yummy MSG
Hereīs to Mickey dīs serving
all those mutant chick-a-dees
This is a toast to celebrate
the end of our innocence
This is a toast to celebrate
how...
Weīve become desensitized
if life is to grow
some life must die

We learned to take all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
our generation
We now embrace all the
corruption
and greed, all its hate, all
its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
our blank generation.



12. Trephination


I used to want to take a
drill to my head
Let the pain out of the hole
I used to want to cut the
veins in my neck
Cool the blood boiling my
soul
When I wondered, why my
daily headaches thundered
Tried to buffer, pushing
down the pain I suffered
Mutilated, feeling so
humiliated
Cannot wash the dirt off
underneath my skin

There was a part of me left
far behind
When at the age of five
years old
I had my innocence taken
from me
Emptiness would fill the
hole
Now a second grader,
thinking why I donīt feel
better
Why Iīm filthy, why the hell
I feel so guilty
When drawing stick men
of pornographic men and
women
Thinking all the time
thereīs something wrong
with me

Everyday for three years
from dawn ītil dusk a
migraine
would take me and break me
And itīd cripple me so
much that
In dreams, itīd seem, with
a hole in my temple
that I could probably make
my headaches finally go
away

Trephination
trephination
The enemy inside of me
wonīt let me free
wants me to bleed

And after three years now
my headaches wear off
For reasons not quite to
me known
The acupuncture needles
sticking my skin
Pushed them down as far
as theyīd go
But now Iīm older and now
inside my anger smolders
from depression, to fighting
Taking out my vengeance
Consequences, now Iīd
question during sex if ...
Is this how it fucking feels
or am I faking it ?

No longer the child that
you left there at the bart
tracks
Iīm now at 17, left in an
empty blackness
On drugs, with thugs, and
thinking "Goddamn ?"
Iīm ending up in a failure,
in the gutter passed out

Trephination
trephination
This enemy inside of me
wonīt let me free
wants me to bleed

Now Iīm older and in this
man an anger smolders
Now Iīm thinking a hole in
you is what Iīm seeing
Your depression, is the
dent I kick in you in
vengeance
Consequences are the pain
Iīd give to you

I know that Iīm dreaming,
but in this dream I go in
go through it, and end it
And though Iīd never do it
Iīm killing you, hand on
the trigger - pull it
Your final thoughtīll be a
bullet in your fuckinī head

Trephination
trephination
This enemy inside of me
Iīm now killing
to make me free.



13. Deafening Silence


She looked right into my
eyes and said to me
The hurt that you try to
hide is killing me
You drink a thousand lies,
to freeze the past in time

Iīve tried to fill this
silence up
But now itīs back again

See the pain in my eyes
see the scars deep inside
My God, Iīm down in this
hole again
With the laughter I smile
with the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
called life

She says that Iīm insecure,
I guess sheīs right
īCause just when I think
Iīm sure, alone at night
the agonies come back, this
pain wonīt let me be

I try to fill the silence up
but now itīs back again

See the pain in my eyes
see the scars deep inside
My God, Iīm down in this
hole again
With the laughter I smile
with the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
called life
Donīt need your sympathy
I just want for this silence
to stop killing me

Itīs deafening
itīs deafening
this silence inside me

I try to fill the silence up
but now itīs back again
Itīs empty like a suicide
this pain inside

See the pain in my eyes
see the scars deep inside
My God, Iīm down in this
hole again
With the laughter I smile
with the tears that I cry
Keep going down this road
called life
Donīt need your sympathy
I just want for this silence
to stop killing me.



14. Supercharger


Electricity is pulsing
through our veins a charge
is racing
A chain reaction through
the four of us,
to you, will make
the transformers begin
converting into overdrive

Power surge now
exploding through
Energy, filling the ominous
void within you
No need to live your life in
that gap
Got what you need right
here on lightning tap, so

Charge me, charge you
charge us, charge through
Amplify, terrify
supercharger electrifies

Getting under skin, weīre
like a rash
Spreading over your body
we are the itch you
scratch
That doesnīt seem to go
away
Protons, neutrons, electrons
synchronizing into one

In sheer power all will
pale
heaviness off the Richter
scale
Forever crushing the
competition in their tracks
100,000 Volts we blast, so

Charge me, charge you
charge us, charge through
Amplify, terrify
supercharger electrifies

Your - little sticks of
dynamite
Weīre - the fuse and
weīre the light

Electricity is pulsing
through our veins a
charge is racing
A chain reaction from the
four of us,
to you, has made
it crystal clear weīll win
this war
Destiny...Victory

Braveheart - mindset, full
attack
Kamikaze, never look back
in this war, a victory is if
you feel this too
You feed off us, and we
feed off you, so

Charge me, charge you
charge us, charge through
Amplify, terrify
supercharger electrifies

Charge me, charge you
charge us, charge through
Supercharger


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