Rancid

[fox69]

"Beauty Of The Pool Hall"

"Beauty Of The Pool Hall"


Welcome home workers, comrade in beers
She collected muses while she dared
She'll sketch your portrait under the streetlight
The cardboard palace she calls home

I'm talking 'bout Angel
Beauty of the pool hall
Oh, I'm talking 'bout Angel
Beauty of the pool hall
Yeah

She's got compassion, not to get pushed around
Her existing constraints
Kindness, a language that she always spoke
Lord, the way she could communicate

I'm talking 'bout Angel
Beauty of the pool hall
Oh, I'm talking 'bout Angel
Beauty of the pool hall
Yeah

We searched North Beach
And she wasn't there
Down on Market Street
Then up to Union Square
And they said, "Have you seen her?"
She was nowhere

I'm talking 'bout Angel
Beauty of the pool hall
Oh, I'm talking 'bout Angel
Beauty of the pool hall
Yeah

 

[fox69]

"Black & Blue"

"Black & Blue"


I started watchin' them all down the line
Keep steppin' and rejectin' all the time
They try to pull me in
Can't let that happen again
They try to do it again all on me

Sedation through the nation
We're screaming black and blue
Intoxication of a generation
We're screaming black and blue

The blind leading the blind
They told me i was dumb
They said their security system was too big to outrun
I broke away and i'm never goin' back
For all the souls they broke
Mine never cracked

Sedation through the nation
We're screaming black and blue
Intoxication of a generation
We're screaming black and blue

 

[fox69]

"Black Derby Jacket"

"Black Derby Jacket"


Books on emerson books on thoreau
But all I read was maps of the road
And I was three thousand miles away from you
All the while I was twenty-two
What do you do to know who you are?
The best way for me to drop out on tour
You went to Upstate NxY (New York) to go to school
To secure the roll with your parents
I got a new perspective on you
All the good and bad that we went through
I know you better than you know you
'Cause I got a new perspective on you
I never needed much, I never liked to loom
But a gesture can get me from across the room
The first night we talked until while the sun caught up
Transparent people melting all around us
You left in a plane, I left in a van
Played nightclub house-parties and auditoriums
Saw Germany England Italy with my band
I know you better than your new friends
I got a new perspective on you
All the good and bad that we went through
I know you better than you know you
'Cause I got a new perspective on you
Ford Econdlane September '93
Driving 10 hours until my eyes are blurry
3 packs of Winstons and a bag of seeds
Tapes of "x" and a thermos of coffee
6 weeks on and 10 days off
Then I go back on the road for another show
This is all that I've ever done
Girl I got nothing to fall back on
"But I got a new perspective on you All the good and bad that we went through
I know you better than you know you 'Cause I got a new perspective on you"

 

[fox69]

"Black Lung"

"Black Lung"


Sign a petition under working condition
Union is in bed with the coal operators (call of berettas)
Carry are freedom looking for something
To get you family better life for every single day

Some things keep me going
Well I got no one to blame
Five o'clock is comin'
Do you feel the same?
When a lonely whistle
Calls out your name?

What a man likes to see
When they come after mine
No prejudice for the mighty black lung
Rank and file workers, rank and file minds
Take off the gloves and sock it to 'em

Some things keep me going
Well I got no one to blame
Five o'clock is comin'
Do you feel the same?
When a lonely whistle
Calls out your name?

Hey young believer/unbeliever (Hey)
Black lung fever (Hey)
Transmit receiver (Hey)
Stand up deceiver (Hey)
Well I don't like it either (Hey)
We're all presidents for the (Hey)
Black lung fever (Hey)

Some things keep me going
Well I got no one to blame
Five o'clock is comin'
Do you feel the same?
When a lonely whistle
Calls out your name?

 

[fox69]

"Blackhawk Down"

"Blackhawk Down"


Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu American Government issue
Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
Conflict in Somalia never came to an end
Strife in Sudan on going contention
Battle in Sierra Leon
Hostilities in the Congo
Who threw the coup explosion's at zero
Explosion's at zero
Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu American Government issue
Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
Conflict in Somalia never came to an end
Strife in Sudan on going contention
Battle in Sierra Leon
Hostilities in the Congo
Who threw the coup explosion's at zero
Explosion's at zero
Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
There's a blackhawk down in Mogadishu American Government issue
Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
Blackhawk down blackhawk down blackhawk down below
Blackhawk...blackhawk...blackhawk down......

 

[fox69]

"Bloodclot"

"Bloodclot"


Hey Ho, Hey Ho, Hey Ho, Hey Ho, Hey Ho

Well I'm a crazy upsetter (Driving me insane)
Yea I'm a street wise professor (Who am I to blame?)
Now if you listen to the record (Do you feel the same?)
Well it don't get any better (Going backwards again)

Whoa swing your fists, whack stitches in the face
Fuck ups on me I feel sorry I work here
Never been like them with this society
Life protects me feeling the finality

Now my guns are blazin'
Bloodclot I can see 360
Now my guns are blazin'
Pick it back up and start it all over again

Hey Ho, Hey Ho

Well I'm a bad motherfucker (Driving me insane)
So don't you even bother (Who am I to blame?)
Cause when I listen to the record (Do you feel the same?)
And it don't get any better (Going backwards again)

I read your words, I read your banner of hope
Well I kick my way in it seems to piss you all off
Well I try to shut the gates the walls are fading
I climb from the depths of hell I'm escaping/unscathed

Now my guns are blazin'
Bloodclot I can see 360
Now my guns are blazin'
Pick it back up and start it all over again

Hey Ho, Hey Go

Now my guns are blazin'
Bloodclot I can see 360
Now my guns are blazing
Pick it back up and start it all over again

Bloodclot
Oh yeah
Well I can see 360
I can see all around me
Ah yeah
Nah na na nah nah
Hey Ho, Hey Ho, Hey Ho
Nah na na nah nah
Well I can see 360
Hey Ho, Hey Ho!

 

[fox69]

"Born Frustrated"

"Born Frustrated"


Is it you?
Is it you who's been orchestrated?
Is it you?
Is it you who's born frustrated?

Hey! Hey! Hey!
Is it you?
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Is it you?
Is it you who's born frustrated?

American shopping malls,
Where a product is sold and bought here,
Euthanizing the public,
While the dead walk the escalators,
They come from the loudspeakers,
They hear a subliminal message,
An ad entices you, the consumer,
And there's no way to find it.

Is it you?
Is it you who's been orchestrated?
Is it you?
Is it you who's born frustrated?

Hey! Hey! Hey!
Is it you?
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Is it you?
Is it you who's born frustrated?

Is this human freedom,
Hedonistic excess?
Junky consumerism,
Mass-production, toxic sickness,
Everyone is wearing now,
Plastic masks that they hide behind,
Marketing massive sales of nothing,
Everything is selling.

Is it you?
Is it you who's been orchestrated?
Is it you?
Is it you who's born frustrated?

Hey! Hey! Hey!
Is it you?
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Is it you?
Is it you who's born frustrated?

The arrogance,
Lost me with nonsense,
Well, it's so aggressive,
Yet so repulsive,
Well, it's a noxious culture,
Of the swarming vultures!
And I an imposter,
And he's coming to get you!

Is it you?
Is it you who's been orchestrated?
Is it you?
Is it you who's born frustrated?

Hey! Hey! Hey!
Is it you?
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Is it you?
Is it you who's born frustrated?

 

[fox69]

"Bovver Rock And Roll"

"Bovver Rock And Roll"


Big heavy shoes and rolled up jeans
Motorcycle boots, cheap gasoline
Detroit engine knows how to scream
Two times the chaos American dream
Cambodia is now on fire
Richard Nixon is a goddamn liar
Silver coffins flying back from the bay
Dirty Harry just shot the SLA

(Hey now) bovver rock n roll
(Hey now) and we got the soul
(Hey now) always outta control
Bovver rock and roll, bovver rock and roll

Charlie O won three in a row
Green and gold just stole the show
Inflation rise take it to the bank
Two block lines just to fill the tank
Rock and roll need an eight-track tape
Peace and love is now war and hate
Sun's coming now we did alright
Let's do it again next Saturday night

(Hey now) bovver rock n roll
(Hey now) and we got the soul
(Hey now) always outta control
Bovver rock and roll, bovver rock and roll

(Hey now) bovver rock n roll
(Hey now) and we got the soul
(Hey now) always outta control
Bovver rock and roll, bovver rock and roll

(Hey now) bovver rock n roll
(Hey now) yeah we got the soul
(Hey now) now always outta control
Bovver rock and roll, bovver rock and roll

 

[fox69]

"Buddy"

"Buddy"


I get nostalgic every time I think about you
Like the time we took the Bart train to San Francisco just for the view
And the rain came down like fire
And the fire messed the ocean tide

And the moon sang a melody
Well, it shined down on you

I get by in time, well, 'cause we're here for a very short run
And hold the gate 'cause we're comin'
There'll be room for everyone
By the time that train was leavin'
We were stranded at the end of the line

And the moon sang a melody
Well, it shined down on you

Tangled up and troubled
Man, life ain't an easy road
You see, there's always time to get in trouble
And you will always make it back home

Well, the life starts on St. Paco
And I walked up to Albany Hill

And the moon sang a melody
Well, it shined down on you
And the moon sang a melody
That shined down on...you!
You know that it's true!
Shined down on you
It's true!
Shined down on you
Take it, Lars!

 

[fox69]

"Burn"

"Burn"


13 red and white stripes flying
White for skin and red for dying

Why can't i
walk on through
And not feel like
one is in hell

We don't need no water
Let the motherfucker burn