It's Not Cool To Be A Punk Anymore...


Re-Issued

Kill Your Parents

hey, mom and dad, you've kind of pissed me off
I see now there is a LAW that will help me to get off
I can't wait for fate to give me just reward
welcome to the afterlife, give levesque my regards

kill your parents...get your inheritance
why live in dreams, make others pay
kill your parents...get you inheritance
kill your parents...what a stupid LAW

hey, mom and dad, I said you made me mad
there is a house with crystal chandeliers I've always wanted to have
plus I want your porsche, your boat and cottage too
you never thought the LAW would help me get to you

why should I slave and work so hard or pay these interest rates
unless I cut it to the quick I'd never get me any breaks
so now I grab my hatchett, cut you up, clutch my rewards
and wehn I'm let out those prison gates
I'll be NAMELESS and free to drive your cars

Praise Education

why do they make cars so much better than we do
maybe it is the six days a week they send their kids to school
hey my kids don't want to go to school, to that they leave no doubt
I lost my job last week and my sons kicked me out

praise education, get down on your knees
we gotta keep up with the Japanese

bought my kids a microcomputer and all the software too
but all they are doing is smoking drugs and skipping off from school
while Japanese kids are studying and learning something new
I can't learn nothing because my brain is almost glue

their economic system is different, don't matter what you say
they don't lay off their workers, no time for severance pay
they don't have time to lose skills because they don't get laid off
they are trained to use new skills and that is why they are on top

No Use

you go to school, work your butt off
land a degree, it ain't worth squat
you beg a job, now you wear the coporate tie
the poor say "you're lucky", ooh, you're alive

no use

home with your pay, never enough anyway
co-workers step on you, your family life is a mess
put in the years, you rose to the top
next thing you know, the company has closed shop

head to the cottage, too bad the lake is acid
need a vacation but your credit limit is tapped
head home a day early to find your vivacious wife in bed with strangers
your life is fucked

Subway Suicide

attention, TTC passengers
attention, delay on this line

it's another subway suicide, why do you have to delay my ride
you want to take your life, well that is fine
but why don't you waste someone else's time

you won't be getting any glory
the SUN won't print your sad story
no-one will be feeling sorry
because you're just too bloody gory

just another subway suicide, wish you didn't have to delay my ride
if you want to waste your life, that is your personal crime
I've got my own way to spend my time

life was going down the drain
I couldn't stand the awful pain
now you've made me late again
and you're just a bump on the subway train

This Whole World

family unit has disappeared, couldn't afford itself
all the people I know live in fear, hey buddy, that's my bunker
nuclear war hangs over our hreads, push a button, we'll all be dead
took some drugs to alter my life, I might as well use a knife

this whole world is going insane
this whole world is going down the drain

people driving on the street of L.A.
cut them off and they will blow you away, it's called self defense
terrorist attacks from Iran, people starving in Afghanistan
pick up the paper everyday, there is someone new we've put away
politicians trying to corrupt the pope, God bless you
big business in charge, have we got any hope, welcome to Dallas
oil has come to pollute our seas
I live in a city and I can't breathe

S.O.L.

so you want to grow-up and make a million bucks
have a beautiful big house in the swank part of town
drive the best cars and wear diamond studds
though you sit on your ass and twiddle your thumbs

S.O.L., you're shit outta luck

heard you want to marry the prettiest girl you've seen
escort her around to the finest spots in town
dress her up in expensive minks and jewels
bet you haven't even got the guts to ask her out

you dream of being given life on a silver platter
even though you work at a joe-job that doesn't even matter
dreaming up schemes but never following through
well we got news for you, boy, you're shit outta luck

heard you want to wake up owning a million dollars
have a great big house and land in the best part of town
so you wish to marry the prettiest girl in town
you'd be so cool standing next to her in her wedding gown

Killer Weed

killer weed, in Russia

in Russia they speak the blues
talk everyday in capitalist hues
could not be worse air than here
eye of Chernobyl, breathe in fear

come visit Russia, it's not bad
got lots more vodka than you'll ever have
look around, it's teenage blues
go to market, hear new news

Throw It Away

Noriega is in Panama, gets a brown package at the door
from the USA, the post mark's due
and I know what I'd fucking do

throw it away
why don't they

the pope sends a package to the CIA it's full of bomb and handgrenades
gets intercepted by the IRA, blow up some protestants today
gets intercepted by the KGB, they're after you and they're after me
kicking foreign spys out of native lands
hmmm, I think I'll go give them a hand

so now the brown package shows up at my front door
full or heroin and so much more, a shit-load of crack
I don't know about you, but I know what I'd fucking do

Take Our Flag

in bed with Reagan that's where he is
just another matter of a new love affair
going to take our flag, going to give it away
going to take our flag, going to run it up the pole

Brian and Ronald sleep together
Brian and Ronald take our flag

pretends he cares about acid rain
when all he really cares about are weapons in space
Brian is quiet when Ronald speaks
know that he will sleep better if he is

giving away our natural resources
like throwing money on race horses
Brian is blind to what Ronald does
Ronald pulls the covers over his head

no America North

Terrorist Attack

he comes from a country with many problems
wants to spill his blood on the rest of the world
thinks he has the right to end our lives
even though his fight is half a world away
standing in the airport, waiting for a flight
the bomd goes off, the lights go out
blood and debris surround your face

terrorist attack, he's got a gun/bomb
terrorist attack, he's having fun
terrorist attack, he's got a gun/bomb

he comes from a country with many problems
wants to spill his blood on the rest of the world
thinks he has the right to end our lives
he pretends we haven't heard his cries
he is in pain and wants to inflict pain on the rest of the world
takes his flight from east to west
how can we stop this terrorist

It's Okay

it's okay if you want to be a slave
do a mindless job for a nothing wage
get fucked up and you throw it away
wake up tomorrow, you do it again

it's okay, it's alright
go through life, don't put up a fight

it's okay if you want to be a slave
do a mindless job for a nothing wage
wait until Friday, get your pay
go out that night and drink it away

Drunk Driving

business man gets paid on Friday ends up in a bar
he's smart enough and drunk enough to jump into his car
walking through the parking lot, thinks of all the beers he has tasted
jumps into his car even though he's fucking wasted

drunk driving murder
drunk driving, it's murder

six young lovely teenagers coming from a dance
not looking for trouble just looking for romance
heading up to a lover's leap to try and have some fun
drunk driver, wrong side, kills them one by one

get them to the hospital where blood samples are taken
they get them all mixed-up and the blood sample is mistaken
drunk driver gets away with the insurance policy and his life
half a guilty conscience and a new fur coat for his wife

Stealing Food

how much money goes to charity, how much of your money spent
how much goes to feed a nation of to the purpose to which it was meant
most of it goes to the fat man, the guy with his stomach full
it goes to line his pockets, his mansion and his swimming pool

stealing food from Ethiopians
to line the pockets of businessmen

giving money to a starving nation, or paying for a businessman's vacation
how much money really goes to the poor, they're like scavengers...
now new wave bands do the same, Bob Geldoff finally got some fame
enhancing thier careers, so what can you do
but tonight thank God it's them instead of you

Pull The Switch

in a liberal society, it's just not fair
to let this man escape the electric chair
he gets three years for taking three lives
and three square meals a day while others starve

nobody wants to do it, but I'll pull the switch

a child's hope, faith and honesty
lost to a man who they set free
makes me sick to see them get away with lies
give me a black mask, I'll pull the switch

prison rights, prison reform
rehabilitate people who have done no harm
but to take a child's life at the end of a knife
give me a black mask, I'll end his life

Borrowed Time

living on borrowed time the future isn't on your side
if you don't take the action to keep the balance right
the children of the future won't have a place to live
the world has a cancer that's got to be cured

living on borrowed time the future isn't on our side

closing down the beaches and cutting down the forests
we're sitting on a timebomb that is about to explode
take a look at the oceans and see the new seas
the world has a cancer and it's got to be cured

take a look at the toxic cities and the acid rain
the water in the oceans and the water that we drink
don't be afraid to stand up and take some action now
the world has a cancer that has got to be cured

All Songs © 1993 Random Killing (SOCAN)


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