Rancid

[fox69]

"Cash, Culture And Violence"

"Cash, Culture And Violence"


Yeah!

She says his power is what's happening
Well I'll be sure to be respecting nothing's stopping him
And to move up for him about crushing them
And I'll kick you plain and simple it's a sin man

Leave it to the coroner to detect this
And I'm sure the U.S.A. to wreck this
He drives a tricked out tricked out tricked out Lexus
And he looks at the city says I can take this

It's high into a corner where the one leads
Well it's so fucking high that your nose bleeds
They watch you break the nose out of respect
You broke the nose that is correct

The gates of hell are they closing in
The victim's family going condemn him
He said, "Ah don't trust them"
Yeah he'll show them

The sword, the jewel, imagination
Cash, culture and violence
Violence, wealth and knowledge
Cash, culture and violence
Oh you're ridng and you're riding on the wings of destruction
Cash, culture and violence
It's the sword, the jewel, imagination
Cash, culture and violence

Poisoned like a rat who drank some strychnine gin
How many men can say they been allow this to happen
Bureaucratic military federation
Living dead will need to rise again

The delicate skipped it heard the rumble
And the legions that are timid lord they crumble
And consequently nothing but a concrete jungle
And lord I wonder

The sword, the jewel, imagination
Cash, culture and violence
Violence, wealth and knowledge
Cash, culture and violence
Oh you're ridng and you're riding on the wings of destruction
Cash, culture and violence
It's the sword, the jewel, imagination
Cash, culture and violence

Nickels, diamonds, can't be found
There's no one, nothing, come straight down
Psychosomatic, come straight down,
You stopped cold from your nervous breakdown

Yeah!!!

The sword, the jewel, imagination
Cash, culture and violence
Violence, wealth and knowledge
Cash, culture and violence
Oh you're ridng and you're riding on the wings of destruction
Cash, culture and violence
It's the sword, the jewel, imagination
Cash, culture and violence

(Cash!!!... Culture!!! Violence!!!)

 

[fox69]

"Civilian Ways"

"Civilian Ways"


I hold the cold steel of my rifle
as I dream of foreign lands
And I promise myself
I will cherish every moment I can
But there's ghosts that follow me around
Everywhere I am
When I say goodbye
I try to be strong
Now I'm going back to the U.S.
where I belong

I ain't never alone
The war seems to follow me home
No longer an active soldier
When I walk down the street
I'm shaking hands
with everyone that I meet
And I watch everyone
wondering what they see

Civilian ways are now
what's foreign to me
I came off a long tour
I left this place in two o three
May we never forget the sacrifices
My friends made for me

I live in Marysville
out on the county line
And my Brother and my Mother
both visit me all the time
And visions of you
are always running right through my mind
We always talk about
what we're gonna do
when the war is won
We're gonna fix up them old cars
and ride them into the sun
When I heard you're no longer with us
Man I was done

Civilian ways are now
what's foreign to me
I came off a long tour
I left this place in two o three

May we never forget the sacrifices
My friends made for me
[x3]

 

[fox69]

"Cocktails"

"Cocktails"


Broke, dough, dope, the line is choked
Smoked the last dollar to her name
Are you buying?
Are you selling girl?
Talking square never change
And if I really wanna know
What it means for her to be free
Oh she's mixing cocktails
In a squat down Avenue C
(Lord have mercy!)

The parasitic clean on the most list easy
Ah, don't give her a fight
The ditch is shallow so I know
There won't be no fucking rainbow inside
And they deny allegations so strenuously
Oh man, don't get outta control
She was left wrestling in her silent anger
So hell I can't be there for her

I ain't looking for answers
I don't want nothing is for free
I sure don't want your respect
I just wanna know who's talking to me
I just wanna know who's talkin' to me

I know she's jackin, homegirls mackin'
Tried to make sure, am I in love?
So she fixes them, oh to confuse them
Oh I know that, girl that's what you do
She made relationships and then runs the other way
Unstoppable for you and me
She won't relinquish herself to you, and I sense an emergency

She can cry, she can hide in the lower east side
There's a road in the fast lane cursed
Above all the infamous, wicked circus of the fools
And if I really want to know how the pernicious stay on top
Oh they don't break, no they don't fake
They make her wake
They don't stop

I ain't looking for answers
I don't want nothing is for free
I sure don't want your respect
I just wanna know who's talking to me
I just wanna know who's talkin' to me

Yeah

I just wanna know who's talkin' to me
I just wanna know
I just wanna know who's talkin' to me

 

[fox69]

"Collision Course"

"Collision Course"


[Tim:]
Did I mention to you about my punk rock radio?
Words don't apply on my push it up stereo
Transistor party, but the fader's right
They're gonna speak, come and blast it on a reggae, all the night

Whoo!

Sham 69, roots reggae on my temple
With a 45 record too, on the turntable
With the turntable kicking, man, it took away, yeah
When the sun come a rising and let the song begins

Singing!

We're on a mission, got no remorse
One hundred miles an hour, collision course

[Lars:]
With the glow of the light on my radio dial
For better beats from the record file
I dropped the needle watching creetons drop
While I'm playing Pac-man at the record shop

Deep in the night and the chaos comes
My rhythm gets driven by the beat of drums
45, 33 RPM,
Hey, Mr DJ, let us in!

[Tim:]
Check it!

We're on a mission, got no remorse
One hundred miles an hour, collision course

We're on a mission, got no remorse
One hundred miles an hour

We're on a mission, got no remorse
One hundred miles an hour, collision course

 

[fox69]

"Coppers"

"Coppers"


Yeah Rancid and Buju drop, imagine that
All punk rock masters move inside, all trick masters move inside.
Come out to Brooklyn Town in Coyote Studios..

[repeat 2x]
London you're gonna find them, New York, L.A., back to Kingston
All I see is youth fighting, all I see is youth fighting

Well, in sympathy, there's some integrity, but in
Humility I've come to find a whole lot more
I'm not one to judge, nor I carry a grudge, but I
Refuse to budge my determinating vow

London you're gonna find them (London town)
New York, L.A., back to Kingston (Waterhouse)
All I see is youth fighting (youth them all are fightin)
All I see is youth fighting (youth them all are fight)

London you're gonna find them (Brixton)
New York, L.A., back to Kingston (Kingston, JA)
All I see is youth fighting (youth them all are fightin)
All I see is youth fighting (youth them all are fight)

Come I said put down your ratchet now, Rudeboy set down your gun
L.A., Kingston, New York and London, Move, nobody fight, form together as one
This gun pressure soon all be over and done
Refuse a life controlled by Satan, fight back from that with love vibration
Pull out, division, racism, and schism; we gonna make 'em flee, run

Easy, you know it ain't easy, got to make a decision..
Got to learn to say no, no, no...
I burn from inside all the walls, a dead man can't hear all the calls
Who lives like a sheep in the city concrete
Never runs deep and dies from the heat

Coppers and hoods, dead man's stood
It ain't no good when you're misunderstood
When you're rotting in jail, wish you would be
Out on the street like Robin Hood
All those who fall, those who try
Let them go, oh victimize
You see you ain't gonna take their power, demise
Not in your lifetime see more hypnotized, come again

London you're gonna find them (London town)
New York, L.A., back to Kingston (waterhouse)
All I see is youth fighting (youth them all are fightin)
All I see is youth fighting (youth them all are fight)

London you're gonna find them (Brixton)
New York, L.A., back to Kingston (Kingston, JA)
All I see is youth fighting (youth them all are fightin)
All I see is youth fighting (youth them all are fight)

Come I said put down your ratchet now, Rudeboy set down your gun
L.A., Kingston, New York and London, Move, nobody fight, form together as one
This gun pressure soon all be over and done
Refuse a life controlled by Satan, fight back from that with love vibration
Pull out, division, racism, and schism; we gonna make 'em flee, run

Easy, you know it ain't easy, got to make a decision..
Got to learn to say no, no, no...
I burn from inside all the walls, a dead man can't hear all the calls
Who lives like a sheep in the city concrete
Never runs deep and dies from the heat

Heat... heat... heat...heat...

[repeat 4x.]
London you're gonna find them (London Town)
New York, L.A., back to Kingston (Kingston, JA, see)
All I see is youth fighting (all the youth a fight)
All I see is youth fighting (all the youth a fight)

London you're gonna find them (London Town)
New York, L.A., back to Kingston (Kingston, JA)
All I see is youth fighting (waterhouse)
All I see is youth fighting (all the youth a fightin)

London you're gonna find them (London Town)
New York, L.A., back to Kingston (Kingston, JA)
All I see is youth fighting (all the youth a fightin)
All I see is youth fighting (all the youth a fightin)

All I see is youth fighting
All I see is youth fighting
All I see is youth fighting...

 

[fox69]

"Corazon De Oro"

"Corazon De Oro"


It's over before it starts, oh don't you know
So on your marks, stand by; Ready, go
From London to New York, Montreal to Tokyo
I see visions of her everywhere I go
What have I become?
Now that I'm all alone

I'm just looking for a way to break through these walls and
I'm just looking for a place that I can call my home and
Is anybody out there got a soul?
'Cuz I'm just looking for a girl, the girl with a heart of gold

She overturns once again with her, oh with her champagne taste she goes
Straight down the rathole with her total recklessness
Tomorrow will come on through, and I got nothing but a bad intention (?)
Nothing but a sillouette girl - Met her in darkness

I say.. What have I become?
Now that I'm all alone

I'm just looking for a way to break through these walls and
I'm just looking for a place that I can call my home and
Is anybody out there got a soul?
'Cuz I'm just looking for a girl, the girl with a heart of gold
I said I'm just looking for a girl, the girl with a heart of gold

Yeah I'm in the corner I start over - I start the whole thing clean, yeah
All the pain and heartache in all my years, I was always to blame
And I dream of this girl - yeah an angelical ghost
I met dancing through neighborhood
I'm a down member in a front line - Don't let me be misunderstood
Oh, I'm a downtown member in a front line - Don't let me be misunderstood

(Heart of gold!)

I'm just looking for a way to break through these walls and
I'm just looking for a place that I can call my home and
Is anybody out there got a soul?
'Cuz I'm just looking for a girl, the girl with a heart of gold
I said I'm just looking for a girl, the girl with a heart of gold

 

[fox69]

"Corruption"

"Corruption"


A fire from the sky rains brimstone from above (no god no truce)
A whole world implosion got too close to the sun (no god no truce)
Veins of power struggle explode into a bloody mess (no god no truce)
Rupturing the nation's core, bursting from the stress (no god no truce)
The atheists get in line await the coming destruction (no god no truce)
Religious dogma corrupted and curruptor (no god no truce)
With a man made of sin leads a full scale invasion (no god no truce)
Drains the life from the skins abrasion (no god no truce)
No restoring order in a full scale attack (no god no truce)
There's no fucking vision, There's no voice it's all black (no god no truce)
And then you break down with a villainous call (no god no truce)
Puss bleeding profusely from the city walls (no god no truce)

 

[fox69]

"Crane Fist"

"Crane Fist"


And the fighting and the robbing induce slavery
A decision, a descention into insanity

Oh no!!!
Some people live illegal - What you got you can't keep here
Oh no!!!
Some people live illegal - All their lives led in evil

Humility will hold you and never let you go
To all my friends well, much gratitude
And to all the wicked, I've got my eyes on you
And everyone stands in confusion

Oh no!!!
Some people live illegal - What you got you can't keep here
Oh no!!!
Some people live illegal - All their lives led in evil

(To do the job, you've got to prepare yourself to die.. die... die...)

Put 'em up, put 'em in, run 'em out, run quicker
Cool to the breath, G, quicker than liquor
Quicker than any motherfucker that I know
Rack 'em up and stomp 'em wherever he will go
Rancid blank, I'm a blast it
Blasted lyrics everlasted
With a 12 gauge double barrel lyric gun
Shoot 'em up free and smack down

(Go... go ... go)

Reconcile with the culturalist
Proclamation to the nihilist
Down to the propagandist
Take me off of that fucking list

Open the jails and set the men free
Well the devils and witches are looming on me
And the fighting and the robbing induce slavery
A decision of dissension into insanity

Oh no!!!
Some people live illegal - What you got you can't keep here
Oh no!!!
Some people live illegal - All their lives led in evil

(Go... go... go...)

Oh no!!!
Some people live illegal - What you got you can't keep here
Oh no!!!
Some people live illegal - All their lives led in evil

 

[fox69]

"Daly City Train"

"Daly City Train"


He was an artist and a writer
and a poet and a friend
In a man's life he will take a fall
but how low he goes it just depends

He's shooting dope in the men's room
at the station daly city train
Have you ever seen an angel well I know I have
they'll stay here for a while and then they'll fly away

[Chorus: x2]
Jackyl had a beer in his hand last time I seen him
When he rolled the dice he never thought twice
never thought twice about being him

Some grown up and some grow old
but what about the kid who never learned the rules
Spent all these years on this earth
when you look back it's just a flicker of time

Jackyl was one of the one's that perished
He was one of the one's that was already saved
Through all the evil and wreckage
he maintained a sense of himself

[Chorus x2]

Some men are in prison even though they walk the streets at night
Other men who got the lockdown are free as a bird in flight

[Chorus x2]

 

[fox69]

"Damnation"

"Damnation"


Lets go down town
Tell me what your seeing
Tell me what it's like
To get that old cold feeling
Spend all night just looking at the ceiling
Living in a blown out hotel building
All the machines are broken down
It's a narrow path
Between evil and good
Watch the strong man
In his decline
Another man dying
Is misunderstood

All I see is Damnation
Whole worlds gone to hell [x2]

Don't see things
the way the were
Only see things
the way they are now
Realize now that it's gone to far
Look into the eyes
of the dead and gone
Now all the machines
are broken down
It's a song and dance
between evil and good
Early stages of final decline
All alone misunderstood
Whole worlds gone to hell

All I see is Damnation
Whole worlds gone to hell [x2]

Whole worlds gone to hell
Whole worlds gone
Whole worlds gone
Whole worlds gone
Whole worlds gone to hell