words

ummm... quite frankly, our lyrics change a little almost everytime we play one of our songs, so i'll just write out the most frequently used lines....oh yeah, don't be alarmed by the lack of song titles, we never realy anounce them or call them anything, we just play them....(yeah it's weird) and if you're going to read this, *READ EVERYTHING* it's a waste of time if you don't.

these are the lyrics for Joe's solo:

(Verse)

I-Can't-pay-attention, My minds astray

Complete disorder disaray

You pull me back, make me stay

so I waste another day

Nonsense, I don't need help

If you want to judge then judge yourself

Hypocrite! I see through the lies

See the world through others eyes

(Chorus)

Why can't I be like other kids?

When I will I get the clue

I disrespect and mock you say

but what do I ask of you

School days all get so routine

Leave ambition at the door

But I don't care what you say

I won't do it anymore

(Verse)

Destroy another mind!

Just another of "that kind"

Cleanse him of evil thoughts

A generation of robots

Wasted! the time I've spent

Can't express the things I meant

Break out! scholastic tomb

These four walls will seal my doom

This song was written to vent my frustration with

school systems and the lack of genuine education

provided to us (not to mention the lack of respect). I

want to learn information that would help me make the

world a better place. I don't want to learn what will

make me rich and complacent. I get so fed up with it

that the only thing I can do sometimes is stare out

the windows at the trees and wish I were elsewhere.I

know I am not alone in feeling like this and I am not

the only one who feels that their potential and skill

are being put to waste by doing tedious boring things

such as the memorization and regurgitation of bits of

information. If anyone has anything they would like to

say about this please put it on the message board. I

want to see if anyone really does feel like I do and

if there is anything we can do so that our future

generations aren't wasted and brainwashed just like

much of ours has been. -Julio

(track 5 on the split CD)

The TV screen's your only window to the whole wide world!

They feed you what they want and you devour to you hurl!

These corporate ads these marketing schemes have got you so confused,

I only wish that they could feel like the youth that always lose.

We sit in front of our TV's and watch the evening news,

fuss about the foods we eat while others starve and lose,

another brand another scam another wasted mind,

another scared to stand alone and so they step in line.

We're all actors in this play, our script we practice every day.

I'm tired of being told my place, i want to destroy this stage.

(second part of track 6)

never had an urge to pay, respect towards school authourity

power trip, hypocrisy, everytime they'd talk to me

never really understood, why they said i never could

act the way i do today, still i do it anyway

time to time my mind goes blank, and i look in on my fish tank (life)

i dare to tap the glass, that which i can never pass

(ummm..then i yell some kinda chorus that has to do with the whole idea of our lives basically being like a fish tank, and even thought it's not specificaly spoken of, the general idea is that everything in our lives that we have and know, either exists in our somewhat immediate or accesable suroundings, or is given to us by some other person, or the media or what have you. so the life inside the fishtank is pretty much personal expeiriences, and the life outside is stuff we can only see through the glass. And tapping the glass is like expnading your expeiriences, getting out and observing life and the real world for yourself. i guess that sort of explains what i was getting at. it would be really awesome if you would email me and tell if you understand or feel the same way or anything at all. thanx)

back to the song....

lie in bed i cannot sleep, schooled by what i can't defeat

system i cannot deny, of thought that rules our daily lives

(the next two lines i literaly make something up everytime, or just act like i'm saying something relevant if i can't think of anything)

back to chorus.

Carbonated Water

i know the words to this song, but i gotta check with Julio cuz' i think he's yellin different stuff now.

Beneath the surface

again, gotta ask julio, really cool song though

Narrow minded education

Let me out of this locked up cage

i'm feeling trapped i need escape

i try to fly but you catch me

i'm not a machine i'm not a machine

my argument is my entrapment

can't express the things that i meant

narrow minded education is the source of my frustration

(shoutings)

all our lives will go to show, this is all we'd ever know

our hopes and dreams will squander in the shadows searching for success.

you will not, exploit our hopes and dreams...

(i never yell this stuff)

stating facts formed from opinion

i question, you say rebellion

drunk with power on a mission

confiscating all ambition

always demand my submission

always under your condition

simple knowledge never wisdom

anti-independent system

all we're tought is preperation

for a life of regulation

set us up to take the fall

money, greed, consumes us all

their armor is power and control

the battle is the real world

money is the primary weapon

the strategy is misconception

all we're going to do is watch

simple hopes and dreams are lost

other song

(yeah, ok, it seems like another typical "blah blah police this police that song" but it's about a specific incident that i was rather angry about, so emotions had a big role in exagerating the expeirience)

american society has given you the right

the right to pick and choose who's going to go to jail tonight

well i already know you've got some pre-defined opinion

so i don't have to ask it's automatically rebellion

"protect and serve" is a euphamism and i know you know

yeah i'm already wrong cuz you're the cop and you said so

there's nothing you can do because you know they're always right

and if you disagree well then you looking for a fight

(there's more to this song but that's about all i really say, and another thing, i see it wrong for a police officer, or any other person of "authorative power" to exploit their powers and "trust" to suit their own personal pleasure, police harrasment/brutality is a HORRIBLE and unacceptable tragedy,and should be ended in any case, however, just as you would not judge a person by the color of their skin, or a "punk" by the way they dress, we should not judge every single police officer in the country becuase of one incident, or one precinct or what have you,you do not need to kill an entire tree just to get rid of a few bad branches, i do not beleive that we, society as a whole, are currently responsible enough to live completly without figures of authority, it is better to be fighting towards the correction of the ones we already have, than jump to the next step and do without them at all)

(first part of track 6)

-Joe wrote this song-

My dear society i let you down

My sweet hypocrisy, I AM NOT BOUND

Whats the point in the rebellion

Whats the point when you follow the millions

-Drop the system, It feeds you lies

Loose the system, It covers your eyes

Make your system, Be yourself

Fuck the system that cares for wealth

We've all heard you can't judge by a cover

But this society can judge by the color

No more respect for the authority

Just more neglect to the minority

Corporate cash machines make your holidays

No real reson, just for the money

Obtain your freedom and use it well

Don't be oppressed by the fucking system cell

i dont really know what i was thinking when i worte this, i guess i was just in a "rebellious" mood. It my favorite song though, i thought it turned out very nicely. - Joe

at this very moment i'm just writing the lyrical stuff i know, i'll have all the rest of our stuff up in a day or two once i check up with the other guys - Fred