Crack In The System

Welcome to the riot, it's saturday night
I'm workin' on red eyes but i'm feeling alright
Ain't it like a living end, and burning like a flame
I take it to the limit before the glory fades
You say our music's brainless-boring punk rock
A psychedelic nightmare, but when they gonna stop
Andrew's on daniel's, toody's on bliss
It's all i ever wanted, the best it ever gets
My head's a little scattered 'cause i'm working on the dead line

There's a panic going backstage, something just broke
Edwin's got a flashlight, looking through the smoke
Monitors squeeling and i just broke a string
And andrew's got beer sprayed all over everything
Someone tripped the power, the lights are going dim
People hanging outside trying to get in
Toody's yelling something, i must be out of tune
That's the least of my problems, can't hear nothing in this room
My head's a little scattered 'cause i'm working on the dead line

Yeah, my life's a broken wire but i'm getting my kicks
Another night of chaos with edwin on the mix
Time to load equipment, where the hell did andrew go ?
Weeden's got the t-shirts, and records on the floor
Hans and ruud are talking, man, i need a cigarette
They say we're playing vera, if we don't get in a wreck
Toody holds the lighter, when someone has to ask
"so why's the candle burning ?" "cause nothing ever lasts"
My head's a little scattered 'cause i'm working on the dead line

I was poor born out in tin town
I'd sing along with jerry lee records
Trying to get my moves down
I was skinny, i was big-nosed
The only thing i had on my mind
Was trying to do the "please don't"
I'm pissed off, pissed off, pissed off
It's just the way i am

I was wasted, i was dumb-struck
I'd wake up in the bottom of something
Being loaded in a dump truck
I was so gone, i was dead-eyed
I've been screaming at the top of my lungs
Since 1965
I'm pissed off, pissed off, pissed off
It's just the way i am

I've been rocked out, i can't cool down
I've got a woman who still makes me crazy
With the shake of her nightgown
I'm still nervous, i ain't been broken
I'm still churning and burning inside
And i can't stop smokin'
I'm pissed off, pissed off, pissed off
It's just the way i am

You own the stations and it's one against one
Turn it up or get it off
You've got the power and the money and the guns
So what's the deal ? it's only bucks

You say your cause is the wreckage of the judged
Do it right or cut it out
You use excuses like you're working with a crutch
Don't play dumb, so what's one

So this is your page, shot down twice
Afraid to take chances that can burn up your life
And you hang in the balance 'cause nobody cares
I've seen your ways, they're going nowhere
Break out the jack, you could've been a rolling stone

You've gotten older but you still feel like a kid
Go back to back, do what you did
You're just a passenger and life is but the course
Break some rules, be a force
Back to back

Come gather 'round people wherever you roam
And admit that the waters around you have grown
And accept it that soon you'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin'
Ahh you better start swimmin' or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'

Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen
Keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
And don't speak too soon for the wheel's still in spin
There's no tellin' who that it's namin'
The loser now will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin'

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land
Don't criticize what you can't understand
Your sons and daughters are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin'
So get out of the new one it can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'

Day after day we threw our cares away
Waiting for tomorrow, never living for today
We lined up in the trenches, holding higher ground
We looked away for answers but nothing could be found

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And i swear, we won't keep standing still
Here to take your heat
The rain's about to fall
We're taking to the streets

Day after day nothing ever changed
Was it any wonder we all began to stray
Some of us for money, some of us for fame
Our goals were so impossible no one could take aim

Day after day the hours wore away
Regretting what we'd missed, closer to the grave
We're the broken generation, we don't know who we are
Fought for every losing cause and now we hide the scars