1.Al's War

Al said goodbye to his mom and dad for the first time in his
life
tonight left the house and walked out to the waiting car outside
and somehow he thought they'd never understand that nothing
lasts
and he just knows that time is just spinning by
and life is passing him by so fast
And sometimes I think I'm the only one
that feels like going nowhere is like giving up
Al said to me a few days ago
that he just thought for the first time in his life
he feels the last 10 years were only a waste of time
and that it was only a compromise of what he always felt inside
his declaration of independence
said to me under the orange street lights
he was the one
who always did the right thing
he was the one that listened to everything they'd say
but today he's never going back


2.Johnny Quest Thinks We're Sellouts

Well I
Really don't know
If it matters at all so,
But we try to keep our prices low
For records and our shows
But is that enough,
Or is it that we're not punk enough,
Or it that you think ska just sucks,
But Johhny Quest, he thinks we're what?
Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts


3.My Very Own Flag

Something that's inside of me
It's something that I cannot see
Like rules and regulations
Passed down for generations

I wish I had my very own flag,

And as I walk away
I can hear you say
I wish that I had my own flag


4.Liquor Store

Now listen up and hear what i'm saying
If he's not talking to himself
Then he must be praying
Shine my shoes and ask for a dime
Then pick my pockets while i'm in line
He keeps telling me the score
Down at the liquor store


5.Jen Doesn't Like Me Anymore

Jen thinks it isn't fair that I don't really care
If she likes me or not
And Jen doesn't like to settle
Until she makes me feel like Howie Reynolds
She thinks that I'm all that I've got
No Jen doesn't like me anymore
Jen doesn't like to go to the shows,
She doesn't like my whoa - whoa's.
Jen doesn't like me anymore.


6.Last One Out Of Liberty City

I know there comes as time when
You lose faith in what you believe inside
And waht you have inside.
And did you know somehow it's
Just a spark that's a start
That keeps us from the crowd

The other day this girl came up to me
And asked if she used to go to school with me
And kinda laughed
And she said wasn't I the guy her
Friends always called as waste of time.
I know just who I am and what's in my head
Is that I don't really give a damn
Who you think I am

When I stop and think about
To where I'll be in 10 years
From now I wonder if the me of now would call
Myself washed up or
Watered down or
Part of the crowd?

And the other night
This guy came up to me
Downtown and can't believe
That after 10 years I'm sill around
And he said, wasn't I the guy
Who walk these streets all night?

It's such a waste of time.


7.Son Of Dick


8.Where The Hell Is Mike Sinkovich

I've never known what made you get up and go
And what pushed you over the edge,
When we were up on the roof
Was it the truth when you said
You never made a single difference.
Did you get it in your head
That things are better left unsaid
when you up and left town now?
Did you need to rearrange
Or did you need to make a change
Rather than just rotting the place
We used to hang around?
I know that things have gotta change,
I know your never coming back to this town.

I wonder where you've gone,
Who you're with;
I still ask myself,
Where the hell is Mike Sinkovich?


9.Robo

So she's been around
Lived in every town
And she always seems to know
So she does a zine
Says she's in the scene
And she goes to the cool punk rock shows
And it's not like I've seen the world
And it's not cuz she's a girl
It's just cuz no ones always right
And I'm almost never right so she can't be

Yeah he's been around
Likes to hear the sound
Of his voice annoying me
His shirt off at shows
Brand new punk rock clothes
Do you think that I have a choice to see
That I sometimes think he's wrong
And been talking way too long
In fact it's cuz no ones always right
And I'm almost never right
So you can't be.


10.Rock-N-Roll Pizzeria

Man its really strange
this city never stays the same
its always
'I've got to keep on moving and I've got to keep on going'
but maybe it's to keep itself sane
that its always
'I've got to keep on going, so I don't have any feeling'

So I'm on my way out of this place that has me turning numb
I'm on my way,
all the feeling in this place has up and gone

so with one hand on the wheel
and the other out the window
with a smile on my face
and my middle finger up
with on hand on the wheel
this city's going crazy
without a care that its all fucked up


11.Whipping Boy

The world keeps on spinning.
Inside his head keeps on spinning.
Wishing he could be on top for once,
seems he hasn't spoke a word in months.
It's the complications that make him lazy
and it's the frustrations that make him so lazy.
He's the whipping boy.


12.867-5309

Jenny Jenny who can I turn to
You give me something I can hold on to
I know you'll think I'm like the others before
Who saw your name and number on the wall

Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number

Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine
Jenny Jenny you're the girl for me
You don't know me but you make me so happy
I tried to call you before but I lost my nerve
I tried my imagination but I was disturbed

Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny don't change your number
Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine

I got it (I got it) I got it
I got your number on the wall
I got it (I got it) I got it
For a good time, for a good time call

Jenny I've got your number
I need to make you mine
Jenny I've called your number

Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine

Jenny Jenny who can I turn to
(Eight six seven five three oh nine)
For the price of a dime I can always turn to you
(Eight six seven five three oh nine)

Eight six seven five three oh nine
Eight six seven five three oh nine
five three oh nine...


13.Cheeze


14.Automatic

I think I know it all,
but can I be sure of the things I've grown to know,
and can I say I know it all,
when rules just guide me to blindly follow
and things are automatic when you see them everyday
is it the same routine
or my fucked up dreams,
that keep me walking mindless all the way?
I think, I think I know it all
but is our beliefs just stringing us along
and was there something wrong in what I heard,
for every hour of the day?


15.Growing Up On A Couch

How many things that you believe
Are straight out of TV and magazines
And when comfort comes before thruth
Can you say that you never knew,
Sitting in front of your TV,

Do you believe the lies
Given to us from another time
And can you say that everything is fine
when your ideology is only right half the time

I'm growing up on the couch


16.Just Like Frank

He's just like anyone
he's just like anybody
he's just like Frank

and I know it
and he knows it
it's his one sided point of view

I know it when he says
it's my way, or the wrong way
and I don't care about you

but to see my side wouldn't be the worst thing he could do
when someone's politic blinds you
and binds you
to something you don't believe in
and he's just like anyone...
and I saw him walking on my way
path third street just the other day
why doesn't he understand views keep changing?


17.You're The One That I Want


18.We Go Together


19.Soundcheck

I always thought of music as more than words and sound,
something more like inspiration that picks you off the ground,
when your down...
And I, know that music will pull me through.
So it's a soundcheck to an empty room.


20.Fucked

Focus a moment
On the message sent
The anthem of a generation
Based on degredation and resent
Where money and power
And being the man of the hour
Has left communication
Left it standing out to sour
We fucked ourselves again


21.Mixology Of Tom Collins

A friend of mine he pointed out to me
that who I've become
is not the same person that I used to be
A friend of mine he pointed out to me
That I'm not the same as I used to be
And y'know he made me think twice about who I am
And now I think of how I lived my life
Sitting on the corner under the street light
What would I change?
What would I want to stay the same?
And I've decided that I won't decide
So I 'll sit on the curb watching the cars roll by
who the hell needs self doubt
When it's always the same shit that goes around town.


22.Modern World


23.Short On Ideas

Have you been feeling down, pushed around
Feeling like everything has been done before
Do I need to understand every word from every man
Or everything from every band
Can I say it's all been done before
Religion, science, similes to metaphors
Can it be that there's nothing new
When there's more ways of looking at the truth

The more things seem to change
The more they just stay the same
But now it's called a different name
Can you say things are new
When you look at magazines
And things you've seen in the news.


24.One Last Cigarette

I check the time, it's 4:00 a.m.
And I just passed the westside buildings
All the broken glass
As I try to shake the cold away, but anyways,
It's late at night and I'm about to crack
And decide to just walk the tracks
That I just walked yesterday.