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(ALL LYRICS BY ISAAC IRVINE) I'M A BUM Sit around all day, remote control glued to my hand, just waiting for a visit from Ed McMahon. Opportunity is knocking but I can't open the door 'cause I'm shit-faced drunk passed out on the kitchen floor. I'm a bum. Waiting for my fortune to fall into my lap bit if I gotta work for it, I'd rather take a nap. I can't eat, I can't sleep. I can play Nintendo. But if you paid me to go to work I still wouldn't go. I'm a bum, I'm a bum. Sit round all day and get nothin' done. I'm a bum, I'm a bum. That's right I'm a bum. The boobtube replaced the dog as mans best friend. It doesn't shit on the floor and always has an ear to lend. Nacho Supreme, a pizza, ten hours of TV is all my life will ever be. I'm a bum, I'm a bum. Sit around all day and get nothin' done. I'm a bum, I'm a bum. If I could pick lotto numbers like I pick my nose, I could escape the life of being an average Joe. 'Til then I'll sit round all day, remote control in hand. Just waiting for a visit from Ed McMahon. I'm a bum, I'm a bum. Sit around all day and get nothin' done. I'm a bum, I'm a bum. I'm a dirty stinkin' bum. KING OF THE CASTLE Got a leaky faucet, the water comes out brown. The handle falls off the toilet when I push it down. Stains on the floor, glass for a front door. Home sweet home. Mildew in the shower, mildew in the sink. Something in the fridge is really startin' to stink. Got a couple bugs, neighbors all on drugs. Home sweet home. King of the castle, yeah that's me. And I can think of a few places I would rather be. But I'm here to stay for now and I call this dump home somehow. No hot water, I take my showers cold. Fridge doors fallin' off and the oven's really old. Airplanes overhead awake the living dead. No food in the cupboards, the roaches are gettin' mad screamin' roach abuse cause' they say I treat them bad. Their rents never paid, so out comes the raid. Home sweet home. King of the castle, yeah that's me. And I can think of a few places I would rather be. But I'm here to stay for now and I call this dump home somehow. Home sweet home. FORK IN THE ROAD A time not to long ago, friends would come and go. But one or two would seem to stick around. Hangin' out like every day, seems they'll never go away. Best friends are forever, they'll always be down. It seems we're at the start of where things fall apart. It won't be long before we go our separate ways. you've changes and so have I, I think I know the reasons why but I can't take us back to the good old days. How could you change so much, you changed so drastically. It wasn't long ago that you agreed with me. You wanted to have fun, to live life was to play. What could have happened to make those feelings go away. Go away, go away, go away. How could you change so much, you changed so drastically. It wasn't so long ago that you agreed with me. You wanted to have fun, to live life was to play. What could have happened to make those feelings go away! STRUGGLE You can keep a good man down if he won't stand up and fight. It's time to wake up. It's time to see the light. Equality doesn't exist it's just an ideal in the mind. There's not enough to go around so take what you can find. Mud on your face, "kick me" sign on your back. They took it all. It's time to take it back. Do unto others and watch them beat you down. Don't fall below the surface they'll let you drown. They'll let you down. Black and blue, tattered and torn, You've been getting stepped on since the day that you were born. They say give up, 'cause you can't win. You're stuck on the outside and they won't let you in. I took all the crap I can, and I can't take no more. If they won't let me in I'm breaking down the door. Disregard the rules. Disregard the laws. They'll get you nothing, I want it all. They'll lead you to believe that you're doing just fine. They'll live like kings and you'll fall further behind. I remember a song I used to sing when I was ten...This land is your land, this land is my land. And I believed what they said, and you believed what they said, and we believed what they said. But they lied to me. And they lied to you too. And they'll go on denying. And we'll go on dieing. I'm not afraid to die. Just afraid to never have lived. And the struggle goes on and on and on. $4.25$ I make 4.25. Barely enough to stay alive. It sucks making minimum wage, the same as people half my age. My brain is turning into crud and my name might as well be mud. What self respect I had was lost when I call a primate boss. $4.25$ Over 40 billion served, and still you say what I deserve is the few dollars that I make, with all the profit that you take. I'm just another soldier in your army without a face. Who cares how I feel 'cause I can easily be replaced. $4.25$ The next time you eat at a burger joint just stop and think about the money they're making for the shit they're taking and just how much that stinks. Someone with an attitude comes along and says these pickles don't belong. No sauce, no onions, easy on the mayo. Driving me buggy have me singing Day-O Day-a-e-o, woman want a cheeseburger but she don't want no cheese. $4.25$ I have a dream and here's how it goes. One day we'll all band together. The young, and the old, and the mentally slow won't work another day ever. Ronald, Jack, the King, and Wendy too, will be the ones saying "May I help you?" I hope to see that day when I'm alive, but for now I'm making 4.25. $4.25$ SCAM Help. There's a girl in my bed. Thoughts are running through my head. Something must be said. I think she wants to spend the night. I don't mind but her boyfriend might, something don't feel right. WORLD'S LAST SUPERPOWER Welcome to the U.S.A., yeah we're still number one. But we're waiting to explode just like a loaded gun. Land of the free, home of the brave, but every other child ends up in an early grave. The children are the future. Or so they say. But the parents had a party and now the kids must pay. The world's last superpower finally falling to it's darkest hour. Welcome to the U.S.A. we're slippin' through the cracks. Walkin' on a mountain of our old folks broken backs. They did their time. ROMEO AND JULIET Born without a chance in hell, condemned from the womb, on a one-way trip, destination an early tomb. Two kids from the hood. Two numbers on a chart. He didn't finish high school. She didn't even start. Mommy got herself pregnant to keep him around. But daddy left anyway and she's finding out what single motherhood is all about. The statistics are frightening, the odds are stifling, you may not like what you hear. Offspring's of the have-nots have even less, a world of anarchy is near and we're told we have nothing to fear. Born without a chance in hell, condemned from the womb, on a one-way trip, destination an early tomb. Two kids from the hood. Two numbers on a chart. He didn't finish high school. She didn't even start. Mommy got herself pregnant to keep him around. But daddy left anyway and she's finding out what single motherhood is all about. The statistics are frightening, the odds are stifling, you may not like what you hear. Offspring's of the have-nots have even less, a world of anarchy is near and we're told we have nothing to fear. A few years later mom and son don't have a place to rest their head. While daddy rots in San Quentin with free room and bed. Mommy O.D.'s in an empty garbage bin and her son's picture's on an empty mile carton. While the politicians play with their million dollar toys we're losing handfuls of little girls and boys. The statistics are frightening, the odds are stifling, you may not like what you hear. Offspring's of the have-nots have even less, a world of anarchy is near and we're told we have nothing to fear. NO DIRECTION Don't know what I'm doing, don't know where I'm going. Don't have a clue and now it's finally showing. Won't somebody give me a hint or two. Tell me what the fuck I'm supposed to do. Don't have a compass, don't have a map. Got a diploma, still lying on my back. The right track, hell I don't know where it is . It's like I didn't study for some big pop quiz. No direction. So many decisions, I can't decide. So many people, in whom do you confide. There are no signs to tell you what to do. The path you're gonna take, that's up to you. The road less traveled leads to certain death. you might succeed but I wouldn't hold my breath. So conform to the system work your life away. Wonder what might have been until your dying day. No direction. Don't know what I'm doing, don't know where I'm going. Don't have a clue and now it's finally showing. Won't somebody give me a hint or two. Tell me what the fuck I'm supposed to do. Don't have a compass, don't have a map. Got a diploma, still lying on my back. The right track, hell I don't know where it is . It's like I didn't study for some big pop quiz. No direction. I GOT ABDUCTED BY ALIENS One day as alien landed in my backyard. At first I thought it was Captain Picard, but then I saw green tentacle things and I knew it wasn't good tidings that they bring. I got abducted by aliens. They electro beamed me up to their ship. Strapped me to a table and I heard something rip. It was my skull they cut it in half. Tickled my brain and made me laugh. I got abducted by aliens. Blubbering like a bay I confessed all my sins. In my arms and legs they stuck some pins. Jabbed a metal probe up my butt and back on Earth they call me a nut. I got abducted by aliens. They dropped me off and then they cruised. As I lay there feeling used and abused and now they say my brain is out of whack. Just because I'm waiting for my alien friends to come back. Come back Come back, Come back. I got abducted by aliens. FADED You came into my life through a revolving door. There for a short time and then you're there no more. You will always be a small part of me, but friends again we can never be. You were there yesterday but now you're gone. We used to be so happy and then something went wrong. You were always there. You were a part of me. Now you're nothing more than a faded memory. See you every now and then in my photo book and then I turn the page and you don't get a second look. I must admit that I wonder what you're doing now. Looking back to yesteryear I can't see how we got so crazy. Sometimes I almost lost my mind. We were young and foolish, were so naive. Growing up can be so unkind when yourself you can not find. Go ahead and live your own life knowing I don't blame you. I was also in the wrong. Two birds of different feathers never meant to get along. CYCLE OF UNCERTAINTY Cycle of uncertainty spinning 'round and 'round. When will it ever stop? When I'm six feet underground. Mom I wanna be just like you, smoking crack. Dad I wanna end up like you, with a bullet in my back. 15 and pregnant, a kid with a kid. Don't blame me I'm just living like my parents did. Poverty breeds poverty. Want living proof? Just look at me. Another piece of ghetto trash is all that I'll ever be. Cycle of uncertainty spinning 'round and 'round. When will it ever stop? When I'm six feet underground. I can't see past these inner city walls. Got no need for rules and I got no need for laws. I steal, I kill to make it through the day. I got so many problems and they won't just go away. Nowhere to run. I got nowhere to go. Just trying to make it to tomorrow. Can't you see what's going on? Fucked up parents making fucked up kids. Cycle of uncertainty spinning 'round and 'round. When will it ever stop? When I'm six feet underground. |
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