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Rancid lyrics
Album: Let's Go [1994]
| Nihilism | |
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Come into the union district
Drive down on sharmon palms
White ghettos paint a picture
Broken homes and broken bones
I was so full of scotch I could not stand up
I was hittin the shots and I moved to a cup
Release me from moral assumption
Total rejection total destruction
Nihilistic feelings are moving if I try real hard
I'll see right through them
Nihilism!
Walkin a path of self destruction
Not affected by the repercussions
Lady on the billboard offer me a drink
Said not right now I need time to think
Nihilistic feelins are movin
If you try real hard
You'll see right through them
I was so full of scotch I could not stand up
I was hittin the shots and I moved to a cup
White ghettos paint a picture
Broken homes and broken bones
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| Radio | |
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Never fell in love
Until I fell in love with you
Never know what a good time was until I had a good time with you
If you wanna get the feeling and you wanna get it right
Then the music gotta be loud
For when the music hit I feel no pain at all
Warm summer night I was drinking with my dad
He tried to give me the love that I never had
But he gave more love to his bottle of wine
So I had to go out and find love of another kind
Here it is
Here I am
Turn it up
Fuckinī loud
Radio, radio, radio...
When I got the music
I got a place to go
Radio clash
Magnificent 7
I was a choir boy
You showed me no heaven
Two tools surley lost
No remorse ignoring the cost
Here it is
Here I am
Turn it up
Fuckinī loud
Radio, radio, radio...
When I got the music
I got a place to go
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| Side Kick | |
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I had a dream I was a
Vigilantes side kick my
Name is tim I'm a
Lesser known character
I had a dream I was
A vigilantes side kick
Fighting crime in the
Streets together down in
Oakland off of west
Grand st.joseph relief
Program a good place
Where good people get
Food help your fellow
Man a good thing to do
Goverment agency
Said be afraid of me i
Sut you doors down
It wont phase me
Wolverine came through
Left the agent for
Dead opened up the
Doors back up,every
One was fed do not
Bill the abandoned buildings
It's nice to sleep when
You got a celling neighbor
Hood watch said we.
Gotta put a sotop cant have
People livin' for free call
The cops here come the
Swat team & the m 16 shoot
The walls in destroy the
Building wolverine was sad
& it made him mad every single
Cop got a bullet in their head
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| Salvation | |
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Come on baby wonīt you show me what you got
I want your salvation
Thereīs a neighborhood called blackhawk
Where all the rich people hide
I was down on my luck working for the salvation army
The shelter is where I reside
Everyday we drive into blackhawk
And we pick up the offerings
Microwave, refrigerator for the suffering
Come on baby wonīt you show me what you got
I want your salvation
I canīt believe these people live like kings
Hidden estates and diamond rings
Iīm a rat out on a mission
Iīm in your front yard under suspicion
Come on baby wonīt you show me what you got
I want your salvation
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| Tenderloin | |
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Realize youīre dehumanized
You critisize your existance
Itīs your demise when no sun arise
When youīre paralized by your lack of resistance
She know she is
She knows sheīs going
Down below where the fireīs glowing
Tenderloin
The tricks she gets them sheīs not a victim
She makes a list of them and reads them all alone
For money sheīs walking down on larkin'
In t.i. theyīre rocking all night long
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| Let's Go | |
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Jimmy said he could handle this
Ohhhh, he's from los angeles ohh!
Jimmy said he could handle this
Born and raised in west los angeles
Dad's a lawyer, mummy's sleep,
Runs down the family can't ya see,
One thing seems very clear
Daddy's got no connection here,
Everything's reject and demanded,
Lived your life and thought handled it
Let the dying shorten this rythmmmm!!!
Let's go! where the shores are green
Let's go! where the music's loud
Let's go! where there ain't no problems, fuck this, fucking transit
I ain't forty, I like your stories
Keep them coming cause it's kind a boring
It ain't coming you have to find it
'cause all of a sudden you got grounded
You didn't care, you just did
At the sign that said: all beware,
In and out and said: 'oi, tik, tok',
I'm glad you got away of me
Let the dying shorten this rythmmmm!!!
Let's go! where the shores are green
Let's go! where the music's loud
Let's go! where there ain't no problems, fuck this, fucking transit
Yeah, yeah, yeah!!!
Yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah!! yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
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| As One | |
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War between races
War between lies
War between something that was deep inside
You was wrong all along
I was right you lied
U to the n to the ity
Straight down too late can it kick the feeling
Looking from the bottom I canīt see the ceiling
Shots rang out in the oakland winter
Canīt stand alone you canīt stand together
As one, as one, as one
No matter what they do theyīll try to divide you
Fear you up what's inside you way down down down
The scale hook the anchor to the gates of hell
Once you realize that it was so simple
What you given you canīt take with you
I asked somebody if if they had the same vision
He said yeah I had the same vision
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| Burn | |
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13 red and white stripes flying
White for skin and red for dying
Why canīt i
Walk on through
And not feel like
One is in hell
We donīt need no water
Let the motherfucker burn
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| The Ballad Of Jimmy & Johnny | |
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Jimmy and johnny two friends of mine
skinheads what they clamed
Outside simalarities but they don't feel the same
Johnny thinks jimmy is a mod
and jimmy thinks johnny's a punk
Jimmy listens to ska
and johnny likes last resort
Jimmy and johnny in the trenches
We down tonight
Drinking guiness smoking 555's
Once you're in the middle you feel alright
Skinheads tats and a fred perry
There's a was in the cemetary
Start to fight stop drinking
What the fuck were they thinking
Jimmy and johnny tell me what you're seeing
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Jimmy had his two tone girl on the back of his scooter that night
Johnny had a jackes up chevy that could blow you right off the line
Skinheads tats and a fred perry
There's a was in the cemetary
Start to fight stop drinking
What the fuck were they thinking
Jimmy and johnny tell me what you're seeing
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
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| Gunshot | |
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Everybody wants to come down
But no one wants to pay
I try to show 'em
But they do anyway
I was nock shock nock nock down to my knees
Same thing for my duty quiz
Gunshot! gunshot! gunshot through my heart
Sometimes there are guys
Who can deal with me
Everything's imperive
But I don't fucking need
I know where you are but I don't care
I thought I'd use my no decision
Gunshot!
Gunshot!
Gunshot through my heart
Gunshoooooooooooot!
Gunshoooooooooooot!
Gunshoooooooooooot!
Gunshoooooooooooot!
Gunshot!
Gunshot!
Gunshot through my heart
Gunshot!
Gunshot!
Gunshot through my heart
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| I Am The One | |
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Are you gonna be ready to use it
If you hesitate theyīll pursue it
Put the gun to the dome no question
Now the holy ghost in queston
What about the banks
When they say go
Standing at the top and canīt let go
Standinī canīt take canīt take that time
When I try sometime I canīt stay high
Are you gonna be ready to use it
If you hesitate theyīll pursue it
Good and evil erme from above
Death peace eternal love
Bleeding at the gates and I canīt come in
Courage that abates a life of sin
Sure that it holds and it holds no others
With the lies of the brave and the kid donīt matter
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| Gave It Away | |
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I went to Mary
Far to, too long
Jubilee was cold as fuck
Why do they make it that cold
Atand aside while she
picked me for you
for the time you gave it away
You gave it away
You gave it away
You gave it away
I seen you finish
I saw you at the start
I remember you straight from my heart
You'd ask me and I'd say "What'd you say?
"You gave me your heart and then you're taking it
You gave it away
You gave it away
You gave it away
You gave it away
You gave it away
You gave it away
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| Ghetto Box | |
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Ghetto box talkin' (time for the back streets)
Cocaine's rockin' (time for the back streets)
And I'm not finished talkin' (time for the back streets)
And the punx say stop it (time for the back streets)
Let go of my hand
I don't understand
Street lights comin' through
Time for the back streets with you!
Cadallic rollin' (time for the back streets)
Police are patrolin' (time for the back streets)
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (time for the back streets)
Mississippi highway (time for the back streets)
? ? ? with a k-9 unit
Nazi cops fuck you!
Time for the backstreets with you.
Ghetto box talkin' (time for the backstreets)
Cocaine's rockin' (time for the backstreets)
And the four were stalkin' (time for the backstreets)
And the punx say stop it!!! (time for the back streets)
Let go of my hand
I don't understand
Street lights comin' through
Time for the back streets with you!
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| Harry Bridges | |
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Bloody thursday was july 6th
The pigs killed 3 workers harry bridges grabbed the mic
The city shut down july 6th the workers outrage it was a general strike
The media clamed that the commies were taking over and some believed it was true
3 uncompremising strikes was paved the way
Minn sf and toledo
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
Eddie worked for general motors and he swore
That heīd never lose his job again
A union man who owned his own home
In beautiful flint michigan
Eddie lost his job and eddie lost his wife
So eddie lost his self esteme
The last time I saw eddie
He was living in the trailer park again
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
I believe eddie for gave too much too soon
I got a letter from eddie and it was bad news
Over and over again the doors are locked
And the windows are broken
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| Black & Blue | |
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I started watchinī them all down the line
Keep steppinī and rejectinī all the time
They try to pull me in
Canīt let that happen again
They try to do it again all on me
Sedation through the nation
Weīre screaming black and blue
Intoxication of a generation
Weīre screaming black and blue
The blind leading the blind
They told me I was dumb
They said their security system was too big to outrun
I broke away and I'm never goinī back
For all the souls they broke
Mine never cracked
Sedation through the nation
Weīre screaming black and blue
Intoxication of a generation
Weīre screaming black and blue
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| St. Mary | |
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She's got a ticket and she's waiting at the station
She's got to get away as far as she can
Her problems will arise as sure as the sun shine
She's got to get used to living on the lam
Now marry's out the door with a loaded 44 in her hand
Shooting down the law that shot down her dear departed man
When i last saw her she was looking trouble
She said this is the 90's i'm gonna be alright
She took the greyhound into salinas
I got a letter that she dropped out of sight
Now marry's out the door with a loaded 44 in her hand
Shooting down the law that shot down her dear departed man
Shrouded in anger encompassed by pain
He was your best friend and you will never ever ever see him again
Now marry's out the door with a loaded 44 in her hand
Shooting down the law that shot down her dear departed man
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| Dope Sick Girl | |
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This song is about a girl
Who has been off
She was dope sick
Dope sick girl hit and run
She took my money
87 dollars gone
Now sheīs running
How was I i to know
That girl could take my heart
Everywhere she go
Dope sick girl a rig and a rid she got no freedom
Little deamon gonna hide inside sheīs gotta feed them
How was I i to know
That girl could take my heart everywhere she go
Everywhere, everywhere she go
Dope sick girl there she was at the methadone clinic
She drank a coup called it a base coat
She swore not to get back in it
How was I i to know
That girl could take my heart everywhere she go
Dope sick girl gotta rig and a ride to new york city
Gonna run away gonna watch it burn in the heart of new york city
How was I i to know
That girl could take my heart everywhere she go
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| International Cover-up | |
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(repeat 2x)
Back down no back down cominī up
Rise up no rise up showin up
Lock down no lock down cominī up
International cover-up
What about the state of the union
What about the guns theyīre using
What about the kids that donīt matter
What about a genaral strike
You donīt know what itīs like
Whats itīs like what itīs like...
(repeat 2x)
Back down no back down cominī up
Rise up no rise up showin up
Lock down no lock down cominī up
International cover-up
What about the cage getting rattled
What about the international battle
What about the kids who are dreaming
What about the kid who got stopped
You donīt know what itīs like
Whats itīs like what itīs like...
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| Solidarity | |
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Solidarity love and unity
Set me free with a bullet and a gun
You said it was nothing
I knew it was something
It was no surprisin' I saw you cryinī
About you
Said what went wrong
About you
Said you canīt go on
About you
Said itīs a long time gone
About you
Said your lifeīs too long
Solidarity love and unity
Set me free with a bullet and a gun
Didnīt see it coming
Your fears went hunting
9 millimeter
Stops you running
About you
Now youīre long time gone
About you
So what went wrong
Solidarity love and unity
Set me free with a bullet and a gun
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| Midnight | |
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Midnight
I know where I am
That's right
I know where I'm going
Shut down
Vacant city ghost town
Tensions rising
Kick kick kick the door in
Lock lock lock around
And affairs affairs of the nation
When the presure came down
Sustain autority
Midnight
I know I can
That's right
I ainīt broken
Shut down
Vacant city ghost town
Tensions rising
Kick kick kick the door in
Lock lock lock around
And affairs of the nation
When the presure came down
Sustain autority
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| Motorcycle Ride | |
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If you wanna make a move then you better come in
It's just the ability to reason that wears so thin
Living and dying and the stories that are true
The secret to a good life is knowing when your through...
...before she died
I bit the bullet on a motorcycle ride
...if you wanna make a move then you better come in
It's just the ability to reason that wears so thin
If you wanna make a move then you better come in
It's just the ability to reason that wears so thin
...before she died
I bit the bullet on a motorcycle ride
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| Name | |
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(repeat 3x)
You donīt know my name
Man you donīt know my name
Paint a number on my head
Work me ītil I'm dead
I canīt believe iīve wasted
All these years iīve tasted
A million days and nights all this pain and struggle
All for what I ask all the hate and trouble
You donīt know my name
Man you donīt know my name
Punch drunk from the punch clock
Opportunity never gonna knock
No more blue collar
All the unions gettinī smaller
A million nights and all the pain and struggle
All for what I ask all the hate and trouble
You donīt know my name
Man you donīt know my name
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| 7 Years Down | |
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Thereīs a place where I like to go
When I got no food or I got no shelter
Itīs a house where I can get away
For maybe 3 days
To get off the drink and stay off the haze
Whoīs the opposition iīm 7 years down
The human spirit prevails
Yeah I'm down down down
Woke up in the bushes 6:30 tuesday morning
With a unopenned heineken a head that was burning
For 7 years I walked the same path
Dreams of being loved was all I ever had
Whoīs the opposition iīm 7 years down
The human spirit prevails
Yeah I'm down down down
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