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Jaded
03:08
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When it's time for you to leave
Focus on what you need
We used to be popping pills & snorting speed
Are you feeling lost in your life
Can you not seem to make up your mind
Dropping acid to shut out the chatter
Cause you feel like your choices dont matter
And they say,
"Whatcha gonna do with your life?
Gotta get high,
Just to survive,
Sleeping on the cold ground,
Of your friends kitchen floor!"
Chain smoking on through the night,
On the corner of Broad Street and 9th,
From the outside looking in once more...
Are you feeling jaded and lost,
Do you wanna get out at all costs,
But you've got no place to go,
You've been kicked out of your own home!
Insufflated our last hope,
It seems all we do now is smoke dope,
I guess I knew that this day would come,
But maybe one day I too will move on!
Did you run away from your home,
Or did they send you away?
Whichever it was old friend,
We'll grab some pavement and lay...
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2. |
McCorporateland
03:09
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Well I pick up my belongings and I flee McCorporateland
Where everybody toils away slaving for the white man
Where you're told lift yourself up by the hard work of your hands
But the money it don't go to you and your boss buys your land
The fascist pigs in blue go to break up all your crew
And the presidents they cherish it cause theyre all fascists too
And the Klan has a tight rule run by old white men in suits
They say that they're not racist but we all know the truth
We live in a world today
Where your value is your pay
Don't dream of being a free man
It'll never happen in McCorporateland
A young man got deported by the McCorporate ICE
For failing to pay his 3 bucks for a cherry Icee
And everyone around that town all they had to say
Was it wouldn't have happened if he came over the legal way
But theres not a legal way in a country made of stolen land
Where the towns were built on labor of the African stolen man
And we could tear down borders if we stand hand in hand
And throw Molotov cocktails at the McCorporate Klan
The sign says private property trespassers stay out
But what if what I wanted was to just kick the damn door down
And sleep in one of the countless abandoned houses in our town
Because yknow I dont have my own and its unsafe to do without
You're kicked out in the cold if you can't pay your rent
The only right we have in life is the right to stay silent
For anything you say or do can be used to go against
Lets band together and agree to never pay for housing again!
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3. |
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You've got a letter bomb
Sitting on your lawn
Cause I can't get along
With what's been going on!
And I can't wait to see
Your spine and your spleen,
Smashed to bits in your front yard!
See it's hard,
Yeah it's hard,
To survive!
And I'll be having a blast,
When I blow your ass,
Down to sand!
And I'll be having a blast,
When I see the mass,
Panic I cause "the man"!
And I'll strap a bomb to my chest,
I'll take you on down with the rest,
I'm punishing you for my stress,
I'm one fucker that you don't want to test!
You should've let me have my way,
Cause now you all are gonna pay!
You put me through hell,
So bid your ass farewell,
You're gonna die,
You won't survive!
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4. |
Run
01:40
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When I was a kid,
I upped and tried to run away
From Western Kentucky,
All the way to Philly, PA (Berkeley, CA, Boston, MA, wherever)
And it didn't work,
But that don't mean I gave up hope,
That one day I'd be free of this place,
And that I might shirk dope
Tried to escape the middle class hell I was born into,
Where a dichotomy of office work that seems like prison life entraps you,
I thought to myself,
"Theres gotta be more to life than this,
Cause everywhere I turn
Everybody just feels like shit!"
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5. |
Aids Was A Mistake 2
02:32
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Aids was a mistake,
It wreaked havoc on the American state,
Ronald Reagan thought it would be a funny prank,
Until his daughter came out as gay!
Now we know that Nancy Reagan was a dope whore,
We know Nancy Reagan hated the blacks,
We know that Ronald Reagan was the American Hitler,
And he stabbed you in the back!
So they thought that it would be a funny idea
To ship crack to downtown L.A.
What we didn't expect was Contra terrorists,
Being funded by the C.I.A.!
Goddamnit, Shoelace, I thought I told you we aren't fuckin' Led Zeppelin!
Well, I guess you'll do whatever you want anyways and I can't stop you
But y'know, lately I've been thinking about,
How grateful that I am that Reagan's grave is always open to public visitation,
So that I'll always know that I have a nice, clean, gender-neutral bathroom,
To piss outside on top of his grave!
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When Johnny comes marching home again
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Back from a foreign war again
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Iran or Korea whatever the stakes
Installing dictatorships for the states
And all in Uncle Sam's name
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Where are you legs that used to run,
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Where are your legs that used to run,
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Where are your legs that used to run,
When you first went to carry a gun,
All blown off for corporate fun,
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Off to the boot camp one by one
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Our drones in the desert will see that you're done,
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
We defeated the Nazis but what does that mean
If we cant tell ourselves from the Reich's regime
Supremacy isn't just Hitler's disease
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
The soldiers come marching one by one
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Here to tell us about wars fun
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
Concussion grenades and PTSD
Alcoholism is the only reason that you sleep
But you see there's alot of oil that we need
Hurrah!
Hurrah!
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7. |
Separation Anxiety
02:42
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I look at you,
Tell me what should I do?
I'm afraid soon,
That I'll start to wear thin
So when you look at me
I cant help but wonder who could you see?
And I'm afraid,
I fear I'll blow it again
And all this doubt is bringing me down
It's you I want I think of you now
So now I built up these walls
And maybe we can watch them fall
But now I'm thinking of you
You seem so unsure too
I'll do whatever you ask
I'll treat you better than your last
But if I want to be with you then,
I've got to let you in
But when I look upon your face
I feel the wonders of your grace
And when I look into your eyes
I can't help but to begin to form a smile
And when I start to think of you
I begin to wonder what could I ever do
To even begin to deserve someone,
Someone like you!
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I watch them circle for an hour
But they don't ever reach a point
The clock ticks closer to my exit
I'm sorry to disappoint
But that's all I can seem to do
I've stayed up days searching for truth
A million hours pacing frantically
Alone in our old room
But in my darkest dreams
I meant everything I never said
And I still mean all the things I did
And I'll remember you and think of you
Until the day I'm dead
From the bottom of my heart
So now I stare at all the things
That you just left behind
A future that we dreamed of
But will never be yours and wont be mine
The shattered memories
Cut into me like they were glass
I wish you all the best
And hope one day again we'll cross each others paths
And I can't sleep at night
I've smoked ten thousand cigarettes
From the endless nights of longing
To the whiskey on my breath
And your side of the bed
Well it's still staying empty
I just lie down on the other side
Wondering, "do you ever miss me?"
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Little Dylan got caught cheating by his teacher today
Well with him in her class she's gonna earn her pay
A little 10 year old terror with 3 missing teeth
Who lost his lunch money so he's going hungry
And now the big kid in class who got 3 times held back
Doesn't like little Dylan so he makes his eye black
And it just gets worse when Dylan gets home
All he does is fight with mom and sit in his room alone
Shaggy hair on his head,
Cigarette in his mouth,
He's a pint-sized delinquent,
Without any doubt!
He's hitting back at the rules,
That hit him 12 times before,
Even though he's a genius
He really hates school!
Dylan got caught with a bottle of whiskey,
He says he hates his life less when he's feeling tipsy,
See mom's in a rage from her Ambien,
And he's too antsy from his Ritalin,
He can't even eat he's twacked from medication,
3 Tramadol a day to keep him under sedation,
Up his daily Zoloft, Xanax and Prozac,
We have control of his mind and we'll never turn back
I saw a report on the news
That said the kids are huffing glue,
And it freezes their brain,
Til they're paralyzed and miserable,
But I noticed Dylan's gone through,
All of the modeling glue,
And I found alot
In a paper bag t-t-t-too
Well Dylan is 16 and we told him to get out,
He brought acid in so we couldn't condone that,
Every day he'd sit alone and he would be frying
Every word hed say he would be lying
We're sending Dylan off to an institution
The person there said it was the only solution
So that he won't get his hands on that beer swill,
The only buzz that he'll catch is gonna come from a pill!
And if you run we're gonna chase you
You'll never get away
We got parental custody
From the law of the state
For 15 grand we'll make his life a wreck
We'll make him sleep on the ground if you can write us a check!
Ch-ch-ch-ch-check
Ch-ch-ch-ch-check
CHECK! CHECK! CHECK! CHECK! CHECK! CHECK! CH-CH-CH-CH-CHECK
Check...
Oh check...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-check...
Get the money,
Dolla dolla bill y'all,
CH-CH-CH-CH-CHECK!
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A breath of fresh air,
Yo, listen up, man,
I yanked the powder right out of my nose,
And I'm ready to accept now,
How little I truly know,
This comes with one condition,
It needs a full admission,
I'm not the only one who's clueless
So don't tell me how to do this
My mind weighs on my fractured spirit,
My thoughts still drift to you but,
It's been so long,
I just thought that maybe we could catch up,
I know that we were young,
And then you drank until your heart went numb,
And then I drank until my heart was broken,
We didn't leave that door real open
And so I wipe my mind
A clean slate
I pretend, hope, wish,
Desperately that I've,
Got myself in a good state,
To introduce my new ideas
Sometimes I don't even know,
Why I try to speak my mind,
When all I do is repeat myself,
I hope desperately that this sells...
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11. |
If I Freeze
00:46
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Lately I've been thinking about
What would happen if I ran out
Of words to write,
Or weed to smoke,
Or jokes to tell
And such!
The pressure that's inside of me,
Is twisting my reality,
Like, "If I was broke and hungry,
Would you cover for my lunch?"
And I'm thinking about everyday
And I'm thinking about all the ways
That's why I won't go out of my way
For you today!
Yeah my friends they surround me,
And sure there's probably 2 or 3,
Who'd probably have my back,
If my life went into the dumps!
But if I was freezing on the street,
No jacket and snot on my cheeks,
Would you take a second look,
Or put a quarter in my cup?
If I freeze to death out on the streets,
Don't pretend you knew me
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12. |
Along The Way
02:44
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As someone asked me,
"Why is it that you don't seem to care that you are crazy?"
Along the way
And so I looked down at my shoes and said,
"I'm sorry, I guess I'm too lazy"
Along the way!
But I find no motivation,
In a hollow organization,
Who's rules I cannot believe apply,
Who's authority I must defy!
As someone told me that I was wasting away my mind and my future!
Along the way
She said, "Kip, as a friend, I must warn you, you're gonna fail and of that I am sure!"
Along the way!
Can someone tell me what I am supposed to find?
Can someone tell me why I should defy my mind?
I cannot help this angst,
I cannot understand,
And I do not comprehend
But I guess that it's something I must find
But I'll find it down the road,
And along the way...
As someone asked me "Why is it that you don't seem to care that you are crazy, along the way..."
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Loud Leaf Bowling Green, Kentucky
We're a punk band from Kentucky. We make fast music for you to jump up and down to. We'll play in your town, if you
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Loud Leaf's current lineup consists of:
Kip -vocals & guitar
Shoelace-guitar & backup vocals
Twan- Bass
Cantu-drums
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