Well you came up short when you staked your claim to fame When you walked downtown and you anted up to their game They said to set your throwaway feelings To th...

Early in the morning to an afternoon of toil and despair You're always shooting yourself in the foot From the food you eat, right down to the clothes you wear A...

[Originally by The Replacements] God, what a mess, on the ladder of success Where you take one step and miss the whole first rung Dreams unfulfilled, graduate ...

My self effacing charity and gluttonous prosperity Don't move mountains of misery or stone My never-ending loyalty to hypocritical royalty Has cut my sense of b...

Fire up the propaganda mills We're going in for the kill Just as recklessly as before I've seen you as you've filled the streets With slogans and careless poetr...

I'm not theirs in product or in name But I've got no true discretion I can speak of You can make your own distinctions but it's all the fucking same It's servit...

Cast aside and asunder But before they put me under I'll make a deal with the bounty hunter For the price upon my head Walked home to angry faces So I laced up ...

Broke every bone in your body For all I know Gone halfway to heaven before the devil's seen you go The years are changing From far away And I'll wake up in Nebr...

Johnny was a man of his word he said "I've never been locked down before Now I'm sitting in this fucking box And I know there's gotta be more I don't really giv...

Pound for pound we carry out threats better than anyone around Mean what we say even when we lie The heavyweights of the insolent class No counterweight to our ...

Spent a buck for every dime I earned It's the story of my life Down on my luck and now it's time I learned Everything has it's price But broken hearts and empty...

I don't come around during waking hours To see a dog like you You'd do everything in your power To always stay brand new You ain't worth my worries You ain't wo...

From this distance clarity is a laughable ideal Words shouted aloud, no audible appeal The machines keep rolling, the show must go on The kings strategically sa...

I've seen it before and it will happen again Resources tapped, production comes to an end And if the suits paid the price wouldn't that be nice But I know who's...

I'm feeling so low tonight I feel like there's no respite From the boredom in my mind I think that I'll never see The things that I need to be Encompassed by lo...

I turned to him and said "There's gotta be a better way Than chomping at the bit, wasting away" There's no outlets and I'm blowing my fuses Drowning in despair,...

I've seen the opposition I've seen what they call clout I've seen some days when I should have just stayed down for the count I choose my battles, I fought 'til...

I've seen the better part of a worse day I'd crawl out of this hole if I could only change my ways I've spent some years on bended knees A thousand kids all sha...

From the one-two punch of the days of '19 To the clear and present danger of the modern scene Nonsensical fools with centrist views wanna crucify their saints A...

Backlash, once again a stiff reaction to imagined stimuli Outside, we are tied and you're a victim of your pride I know just how you feel when you pretend you'r...

When your hopes are batted down like your eyelids Where the streets all sparkle like the eyes of kids And you rise and wipe the sleep and the stupor from your e...

I think I must be crazy to feel this way I'm so lazy, I sleep all day I'm too stupid to understand, why did it happen? I wear it like a brand I'm straight outt...

I'll go for a walk and I'll start chewing rocks And I'll leave all this mess in my wake Right down the block, outlined in chalk There's a man who still looks ha...

I got my education in the ivory halls Found the pulse of the nation in truck stop toilet stalls And we're running out of time because we're running out of patie...

Another day goes by you lay your head down And you count yourself the richer for the grief Those rare moments of joy and painless laughter Will pass you by like...

My anger has acheived a sort of permanence Revenge is sweet but it's all at my expense Bipolar treatment has got me feeling blue I'm paralyzed and I don't know ...