All Fall Down

  1. All Fall Down
  2. 12:00 A.M.
  3. Justification
  4. Keep Trying
  5. At Our Expense
  6. Stand in Line
  7. Toby
  8. We Don't Need You
  9. The Mayhem & The Pain
  10. Louder Than Words
  11. What the Fuck'd You Expect
  12. Daddy's Little Girl
  13. Sk8 Rock
  14. Watered Down & Passive
  15. When the Rain Begins to Fall

  1. All Fall Down

    2. "It's all hopelessness, but we add hope
    in a sea of...of hopelessness."

    The air stings my eyes
    The water burns my skin
    I've seen the reactions through my actions
    But I don't try to change a thing at all
    We're taught to close our eyes
    And conditioned to believe their lies
    As we watch them rape the land and skies
    To build the things that own our lives
    And we'll never stop
    Were driven by greed
    We'll never stop
    We take more than we need
    And we'll never stop
    Our society
    And they'll never stop
    The politicians with their lies
    The corporations won't compromise
    Still we refuse to change our lives
    And we all fall down
    All fall down
    We all fall down
    All fall down
    All fall down
    And we all fall down
    All fall down
    We all fall down
    All fall down
    We do what is convenient for
    Ourselves without regard for our surroundings
    Or each other and take what we want
    And discard
    The rest never looking back at the damage
    That we've done
    Always moving forward
    Closer to oblivion
    And we all fall down
    All fall down

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  2. 12:00 A.M.

    3. It's midnight and she standing on the corner
    Her time is money and that's fucking up the order
    That's right she's crossing all the borders
    Standing in the shadows
    There's nothing else for her
    She doesn't know if she's gonna make it through the night
    She don't care - she's sick and tired of this life
    A car rolls up so she shakes her ass
    The best she can
    5:00 AM in Gould's they found her stuffed in a garbage can
    Are you gonna play the roles
    Society wrote for you?
    Are you gonna play the roles?
    Don't play the roles
    Never play the roles
    He never felt right
    Holding down a 9-5
    It made the ends meet
    But it never made him feel alive
    He filled his house with everything that he could buy
    Buy but more the possessions filled his house
    The emptier he felt inside
    And then he cracked
    He's in a world
    That all his own
    He left it all his friends his family and his home
    It's dark outside
    Now it's cold it's raining and the wind is blowing
    Living in a cardboard shack it's the only thing
    He calls his own
    Are you gonna play the roles
    Society wrote for you?
    Are you gonna play the roles?
    Don't play the roles
    Don't play the roles
    Never play the roles

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  3. Justification

    4. How do you sleep at night?!
    'Cause I lie awake
    And burn inside
    When I think of all the shit you've done
    When I think of all the times
    I've tried to understand your motives
    But they are not justified
    Because you're only thinking of yourself
    But your choices affect all our lives
    Justify your actions
    How does it fell to always
    Think you're right?
    you're never wrong
    It's not your fault
    Well who's gonna take the blame tonight?
    I'm lost again on I-10
    But it feels like home to me I don't know where I'm going
    But I know where I want to be

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  4. Keep Trying

    5. I offer little resistance
    It's a pitiful existence
    Your industry is polluting me and my mind
    And I can barely find the time
    To read the signs
    Of things to come
    That's what they want you to know
    That's what they want another song
    Won't change a thing
    A revolution I could sing
    But that never changed any fuckin' thing
    Your contempt and disregard
    For human rights outrage us all
    I keep tryin' that's all I can do
    You've made a mockery of justice
    With your systems and your laws

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  5. At Our Expense

    6. We're holding banners - And they're holding guns
    Keeping our rebellion to a minimum
    As we watch them gain behind this barbed wire fence
    It's so insane - It's at our expense
    And the media distorts the truth
    And the media distorts the truth
    We never had a choice
    We never had a voice
    You make decisions that affect us all Put us in a position that we don't belong
    All of our resources have been spent
    And it's at our expense
    Now you're punching holes in the sky
    With plutonium powered rockets that fly
    To probe what can be reached and suck it dry
    And it's at our expense It's at our expense
    It's at our expense
    It's at our expense
    And it's all at our expense

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  6. Stand In Line

    7. You've worked your whole life
    And you've got nothing to show
    Stuck in your life and you've got caught in the undertow
    Goin' down and gonna drown and
    There's one thing I know I don't wanna be like
    You hate yourself and you hate what you've become
    And I hate it, too
    And I hate you
    And everyone that tries to stand in my way
    Because I won't succumb
    Don't wanna be like you
    Give up your dreams
    And stand in line wasting your life
    And you're wasting time
    Give up your dreams and stand in line
    What happened to all you're hopes and dreams
    You're not the same
    And now it seems you've forgotten
    Who you once were
    That's so routine
    Do you brag about it to you friends?
    How rebellious you once were when it was the trend
    But now it seems so adolescent
    To offend
    Don't wanna be like you

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  7. Toby

    8. Toby was a friend of mine
    I met him back in school
    We had a bottle of liquor and a skate board ramp
    There was nothing else for us to do
    We got ourselves in and out of trouble every fuckin'day
    We had C.S.I. and outdoor suspensions for all the games that we would play
    Sometimes I feel like it's my fault
    Not a day goes by that I don't see his eyes
    I'll never understand the choice that Toby made
    Why did he die? Why did he die? Why did he die?
    Summer rolled around, I spent my nights getting drunk and staying out late
    Toby lived on the other side of town
    I didn't see him all summer so I couldn't wait
    To see him when school let in
    I could believe what my friend said
    Their words still echo in my head
    Suicide
    Toby's dead

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  8. We Don't Need You

    9. Don't ask for what I won't give
    Watered down rebellion to sell to the kids
    I'm frustrated 'cause I keep myself down
    But I've been moved by the movement
    And possessed by the sound
    And we don't need you
    Because the meaning gets lost in the translation
    And I can't explain it to you
    Your motives you can't hide
    Because I've seen it before
    And it's like the rising tide
    And you say I'm stuck
    In the sand plain basement shows
    Across the land

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  9. The Mayhem & The Pain

    10. Louie's living with a fire in his blood
    And it burns like a mother fucker
    I've picked him up off the ground
    When his cells were down
    And now its getting tougher
    To stay
    Motivated when the ends in sight
    And the world keeps dragging you down
    Everyday is another fight
    Things aren't the same 'cause he's not around
    Sometimes life is like a circle pit
    You keep running round and round
    And sometimes you just fall down
    And you fall flat on the ground
    Sometimes life is like a pile of shit
    But one thing that stays the same
    Is the mayhem and the pain
    That keeps running through my veins
    I watched my friend, Greg, slip away
    With a bump and a bottle I watched him decay
    And I could have tried to stop him yesterday
    Now his ashes are floating in Biscayne Bay
    And I listen to the music we once made
    Everytime his face starts to fade
    A part of me died in the van that day
    On tour I missed his funeral by just one day

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  10. Louder Than Words

    11. You treat the symptoms not the sickness and condemn a whole race for the benefits your system's
    Offering you attack the class
    And claim you support their ass
    And still you defend the system
    That perpetuates your hate
    Your institutions are corrupt
    Your way of thinking sucks
    We've had enough
    But our voices go unheard
    And if we all screamed "Fuck the system!"
    Well it's just a dream if our actions never
    Speak as loud as our words
    Louder than words
    Your ethnocentric and racial slurs unmask your ignorance
    Your front is falling down
    Your contempt for the lower classes
    On your soapbox above the masses
    You think you're so goddamn profound

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  11. What the Fuck'd You Expect

    12. She didn't need him
    She couldn't feed him and his father gets drunk
    And then he beats them
    They're living in a run-down trailer park he
    Slips out at night when it gets dark
    He's just gotta get outta there
    He's gotta get away
    And he doesn't really care what you think - He needs another drink
    'Cause tonight he's getting an arm full of ink
    Cause he got a beatin' and he'll wear it on his skin
    Tthey're more of a family
    Than home has ever been
    What the fuck'd you expect
    Him to do
    He had no choices
    And you have no clue
    What the fuck'd you expect him to do?
    In a world full of hate it's nothing new
    He found a feeling that he'd never have in the bottom of a spoon
    He's moving forward cause there ain't no turning back
    He gotta gat from a Cutler Ridge car jack
    Now he's rolling down the avenue
    Well what the fuck'd you expect him to do?
    A nickel rock - A gun shot In a parking lot
    Somebody dropped
    Well what the fuck'd you expect him to do?
    Get a job like you?
    When all he ever knew
    Was surving the streets of Goulds
    We were close when we were kids
    But he's gotta be hard 'cause thats the way he lives
    Now he's locked in a cage so no one has to see him
    He's easy to forget - society don't need him
    So they had him locked away
    But were the ones that pay
    'Cause they're selling his image to kids everyday
    Now he's locked in a cage so no one has to see him
    He's easy to forget - society don't need him

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  12. Daddy's Little Girl

    13. She used to stand with a knife in her hand
    At the foot of his bed
    She wanted him dead
    For what he stole from her when she was only 10
    Now it's 4 years later and it happens much too often
    Her bed he visits when he's drunk
    And it feels more like a coffin
    And if she gouged out of his fuckin' eyes
    Would it help him see all the pain
    The shame
    And the fuckin' misery
    She hates this fuckin' world
    She's daddy's little girl
    Now she's a wreck
    We can't connect
    I don't know what she's feelin'
    She concealed their little secret
    But it's more than her body he's stealing
    I wanted to die the day she cried in my arms
    When she broke down now she flinches when I touch
    Her and she don't want me around

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  13. Sk8 Rock

    14. Don't try to understand it
    The most destructive high
    Shoots my nerves into the sky
    Everybody's lookin' for something
    I know just what I need
    I'm addicted to the speed
    Rent-A-Cops try to stop me - I wanna see you try
    I just want to skate or die
    Faster than lightning and out of sight
    Like a demon in the night
    I grab my skate and catch some air
    I'm grinding my life away but I don't care
    'Cause skating for me is more than a feeling
    Run for cover - I hear somebody squealing
    Stupid Rent-A-Pig, you try to make me stop
    You better back off or I'll knock you off your block
    I'm a prisoner of life
    A slave to the grind
    I slide into the future and leave my worries behind

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  14. Watered Down & Passive

    15. They didn't control you
    And so they stole you
    Away with the media
    And now they're feeding you
    Out to the masses
    Now you're watered down and passive
    Today

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  15. When The Rain Begins To Fall

    16. Why do you see us as a threat?
    We're only helping those that you
    Forget or maybe you haven't forgotten
    The needy at all but their votes
    Just don't add up so the don't amount
    To much at all
    Shut us up and shut us down
    You can't shut us down
    your political agenda has managed
    To fail us all and if we organize
    Ourselves the police will get involved
    We'll fight you in your courts and
    We'll fight you in your halls
    We'll fight you 'til you fuckin' fall!
    You can attack food not bombs
    You can attack ABC but it won't be
    Long before you'll have to answer
    To us all because you're the scum
    That's washed off the streets
    When the rain begins to fall

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