Kids On The Street

Thrilla in manilla, frazier and ali, can of olives, bag of chips, a case of genesee
Daddy's unemployment check is all we got; i need a long sleeve helmet just to cover all my thought

Go after the neighbors now you must protect your home
Tears of rage are streaming down your drunken muzzle
Paranoia foaming from the things your brother stole
If you can intimidate then you can control, yeah

Say it to my face
Say it to my face you fuckin' coward
Say it to my face
If you're gonna talk you better say it to my face

I hearted when you farted; it smelled like rubber bands
Is that the sound of boiling fat or is it clappin hands
I'm a little blacker then the other sheep
I dreamed i'ze makin love to dolphins when i'ze dumpin in my sleep

How now say it to my face, i'm in a bad bad way
I'll find a cow and i'll buck it a rodeo
I'll put your battery on my tongue
Go fetch a knife and then off with your thumbs
Say it to my face
Say it to my face you fuckin' coward
Say it to my face
If you're gonna talk you better say it to my face

Face!

Thought i was strong, turned out i was wrong, i lost a friend, three on a match again.
Three on a match again, looks like i lost a friend; i'll never go three on a match again.
(yeah)
Three on a match again, looks like i lost a friend; i'll never go three on a match again.

When we were young, and glitter rock was done, we played guitars, small spiders from mars
Three on a match again, looks like i lost a friend; i'll never go three on a match again.

I'm drinkin hard cuz this ain't easy, wakin up with my best friend's girl
I want to go, i feel so sleazy is that what they said, what they said now
I feel this woman around me, to fill this empty need, but i know i've got to go
Hey baby with this book a matches strike one and burned all three
Well i know i've got to learn, please forgive me, please forgive me, please forgive me,
Please forgive me.

Caught in a revolving door and my lungs are suffocating.
Working hard is my reward and my job is so frustrating.
I'm a martyr to myself and a hero to my family. i can feel a breaking point, a longing to be free
But instead i'll hang in there and suffer with the rest. i'm a drunk and a sentimental man
So dust off a bottle of your best irish whiskey and drink with me to departed friends, to departed friends

In the middle of the night i wake up, my heart is pounding
I expected more from life than a house and tv watching
Cuz i wimped out on myself, take it out on my friends and family
Cuz they don't appreciate i sacrificed my dreams
Hey there guys i'm not the enemy it's just shared frustration that makes us fight
It's a long way to drive to not make any money, merry christmas, at least we gotta try

He's my evil twin
He's the enemy inside me
It's me against him and i hate his wicked grin
But we're brothers to the end
He will break your heart but i'll do my best to stop him
He's ticking like a bomb
I adore you but he forks his tongue
I'm just not myself today

I try to smile, but the creature lurks right below
I just can't keep the lid on of the enemy in my soul
He tears down all the things i worked so hard for
I'm gonna get my gun and kill the enemy within

Round and around i go
Caught by the undertow
I can't escape myself at midnight
Footsteps and shadows swirl
The prince of the underworld chases me through the fog at midnight

He wants you to approve
Fears he will be called a failure
He plays cat and mouse with you
But i don't know who is more the fool
His jekyll or his hyde
Fly above the multitudes
Or just give them what they're used to
He's lit by candlelight
His quill is full of blood and spite

It's time for a new understanding, if you're one of the many the family has let go
Hold on stay together when crashin' selling fake hits of acid to a college asshole

I can tell i disgust ugly old faces i see
You call us mallrats; the town is callous to the kids on the street

I know like an animal's knowledge, what you never acknowledge, and prefer to ignore
I go like a brick through a window, there may be no tomorrow, i don't care anymore

Here i am, i ruined your wall, talk responsibility, ugliness, mallrats
The town is callous to the kids on the street

Smarmy people, i'd like to blow them all away, vacant faces and a language of cliches
Hypocrites aspiring to be all the same, i will act on all my dreams and take things to extremes

I this time of new understanding, with the darkness descending and your money all gone
I will hang tough making weirdness a virtue; i will never desert you in your quest for the dawn

Buried in a field of crosses, the ghost of an american son
Seventeen at vicksburg when he heard the thunder of the guns
And his friends were all there with him when they laid him beneath the frost
The preacher said ..the brotherhood of battle is always greater then the cause

Nightmare of blastin' light, ashes in the wind
I couldn't find him to say goodbye; he was my only friend
All the kinfolk met the train that carried luther lane
I had a few in his name; i got good and drunk for luther lane

Six white horses pulled the carriage the band played nearer my god to thee
And all the children were starin', luther, the missing part of me
I got an all of a sudden taste for whiskey as i was cold and it was gettin' late
I know i shouldn't have done it but i nicked a buck off the collection plate

Gendarme he grabbed my arm and dragged me off to jail
I'm sittin here one-legged luther
I know you woulda posted bail

All the kinfolk met the train that carried luther lane
I had a few in his name; i got good and drunk for luther lane

You sure did make it tough for job and me, my lord
Two bodies fell as one casualty of war
I shoulda gone down under the ground with all the corps
When you've survived enough it's not enough for some lord i know

Here comes the snake and he circles your leg
He's come to play and make your
Body parts shake
He comes swervin' down your hall
It'll feel so good when he gives it his all

He's like a jail and you need an escape
Want you to come get a file in your cake
I know he did you wrong and i'm here to give ya what you wanted all along
Here comes the snake

Yes, i believe but i'd rather not pray
What i believe in i'd rather not say baby
Did your god show you the door
Well, i'm here to eat your apple to the core
Here comes the snake

Hurt your pride, staggered into bed and fell asleep by your side
Gone all night numbing my brutality, you sleep with your back to mine
Vanity fair, vanity fair it's all a game for us.
A come on to remain unaware. open your eyes hook up your hair, paint on a face
For all the good times like a sign that you care.

Everybody's got so many things to say i can make a face and take off, hate me i don't care

Time your strike, strike your prime forget it the pi