We Were Here First

Chorus 1:

UNTIED WE STOOD!
Divided we fell with spectacular force we descend into hell
Minority ruled while minorities cried we will never forget when democracy died
The swing states swung, the swing states missed, the unpopular rule of a misogynist
Through sorrow and rage we began to protest true feelings exposed and the whole world wept


Verse 1:
How did we end up as the opposition the health of a union in critical condition
How did we ever think we’d think the same?
Why did we bother to try to co-author
The constructs and by-laws of our white forefathers
Freedom could mean many different things

Bridge 1:
To many separate people, those not considered equal to the rest
Fractured disposition, will not give up position
We’re no longer united, opinions are divided
The concepts of our nation are gone.

Chorus 2:
United we stood
Divided we fell with spectacular force we descend into hell
Minority ruled while minorities cried we will never forget when democracy died
The swing states swung (SWUNG), the swing states missed (MISSED), the unpopular rule of a misogynist
Through sorrow and rage we began to protest true feelings exposed and the whole world wept

Verse 2:
Transgender surrender as the Jews remember
Living in fear of a God-like pretender
How did we ever let it come to this?
The Muslims now cower, the king’s in his tower
As colorful people stand up to white power
One by one civil liberties stripped away

Bridge 2

Outro x2

Ohhh ohhh ohhh ohhh x3
Ahhh ahh ahhh ahh ahh ahhh

Don't come to California and gripe about the traffic, there was one less car on the road before you moved to town
Don't come to California and bitch that there's no water, there used to be much more when the population was down

You came here to get famous, you came out here to make it, admit that it was selfish to those already here.
(aaaaahhh aaaaaahhh aaaaaahhh) We didn't have a choice, it's our home and we were born here. We'll see if you are useful when the next big earthquake hits

You love the perfect weather and proximity to Oceans
You're drinking in the night life and gazing at the girls
You're telling all your friends about the new restaurant that you found....
You're feeling safe you're feeling sound
Till it all comes crashing down

There's only so much gas that fills before a tank explodes, and there's only so much weight a bridge can hold before it folds.
The canoe will fill with water and we all are sure to drown
You're feeling safe you're feeling sound till it all comes crashing down x3

Verse 1:
Flannel shirts and baggy pants, memorized the Humpty Dance
OJ Simpson, William Clinton, Coolio was on a mission
Starter jackets, hackey sacks, shave the sides and shave the backs
Were there problems I don’t know

The Nineties were a long long time ago


Chorus 1:
Oh-oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time ago
Oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time

Verse 2:
Ross and Rachel, George Costanza, Mr. Feeny and Topanga
Alternative was pretty common, New Wave had been long forgotten
The Sixties just had half our Woodstocks, Snoop was still Snoop Doggy Dogg
Ecstasy was the new blow

The Nineties were a long long time ago

Chorus 2:
Oh-oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time ago
Oh-oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time ago
Oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time ago
Oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time

Verse 2:

People liked ska and swing music
People wore backwards overalls
Sedale Threatt was on the Lakers
And Scottie Pippen lead the Bulls
(all by himself)
You could actually make money selling records

Solo

Music played on MTV

The Nineties were a long long time ago

Chorus 3:
Oh-oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time ago
Oh-oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time ago
Oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time ago
Oh-oh-oh
The Nineties were a long long time

You worked so hard with no complaint as your third decade of life melted away
You only wanted your just due
For forty hours every week plus fifteen hours on the streets
Plus all the unpaid work you did at home

YOU’RE AT YOUR Wit’s End x2

PreChorus:

You know it’s time to change yourself you know the situation’s bleak
When you can’t find the motivation to continue the routine
You Paid your dues and now it’s time for something else
The Risk is never greater than the prize

Chorus:

Bet you never thought that you would see the day
When it took every fiber to restrain yourself
From packing up all of your things and taking a chance on what the future brings
Bet you’d never guess you’d want to run away
From a goal it took you so long to obtain of course
You know I’ll be the by your side and having your back whatever you decide to do

The management that you distain the endless navigation of a game
You never win yet never lose
And dealing with the cards you’re dealt yet never claiming pity for yourself
Your fighting spirit punches through

Pre Chorus 2

Chorus X2 BV’s 2nd time only

I’m with you, I’m with you

Till wits end, till our wits end

Verse 1:
He don't dig the 7th on a major chord
If the 1/8th notes swing well then he's already bored
If you don't like Kiss than you're a total spazz
And that's just some of the reasons that Lenny hates jazz.

Chorus 1:
Lenny hates jazz woah-o
Lenny hates jazz

Verse 2:
He'll turn off a song if there are too many chords
He'll tune it out if he hears there's no words
AC/DC is totally rad
And that's just one of the reasons that Lenny hates jazz

Chorus 2:
Lenny hates jazz woah-o
Lenny hates jazz
Lenny hates jazz woah-o
Lenny hates jazz
Lenny hates jazz woah-o
Lenny hates jazz
Lenny hates jazz woah-o
Lenny hates jazz

Bridge:
Hey! Hey! Hey!
FUCK HORNS! FUCK FLUTES!
It's not good music if you're wearing suits
Nothing's implied, his favorite bands are still alive
The swing feel sucks, his life is rock n roll, chicks and drugs
He don’t understand
He don't understand
And those are most of the reasons that Lenny hates jazz

Outro:
Lenny Hates Jazz
(Lenny Hates Jazz)
Lenny Hates Jazz
(Lenny Hates Jazz)
Lenny Hates Jazz
(Lenny Hates Jazz)
Lenny Hates Jazz
(Lenny Hates)

Jazz

Chorus 1:
You’re a special kind of asshole in your BMW
And if you drive a Beemer, than this term applies to you cause you paid
Such a hefty ransom for your German vehicle
It’s just so hard to fathom that it has no turn signal

Verse 1:
You swerve around me on the freeway cause I was doin’ 85
Nearly clipped my rearview off and I’m lucky to be alive
Change six lanes without warning, drive a quarter car length back
I’ve done scientific research and it’s an undisputed fact that you’re a

Chorus 2

Verse 2:

You run through every stop sign, as if it were a question
Treat the speed limit like it’s the minimum suggestion
You’re driving on the shoulder, just to get two cars ahead
And it’s totally worth it if just three others wind up dead cause you’re a

Chorus 3

Solo

Bridge:

You magnificent bastard, you think that you’re so cool
Doing 97 while driving by a school
Nobody really likes you, we wish you would explode
You and all your brethren, just cinders on the road

(aaaah ahhh ahhh, ahhh ahhh, ahhh, ahhhh etc. Woah-ooh)

Pre Chorus:

And we’ll get to work faster and we’ll get to places safer
No BMW’s, means way less tailgaters
And we’ll commute with courtesy and respect the right of way
We’ll drive around in harmony and sing songs of the day you were a

Out Chorus:
Special kind of asshole in your BMW
And if you driove a Beemer, than this term applied to you cause you paid
Such a hefty ransom for your German vehicle
It’s just so hard to fathom
It’s just so hard to fathom
It’s just so hard to fathom
that it has no turn signal

Verse 1:
The A word the B word the C word the D word
Especially the F word the S word the T word
Intending to be offending
Purposely condescending

I'm hoping and praying that you feel badly
Attacking your ego intensely and madly
Sticks and stones will not do
I'm trying to insult you

Chorus:

Spewing forth profanity
Shouting phrases obscenely
Hatred and Vulgarity
Four letter words

Angry thoughts and racial slurs
An ugly rant a spiteful curse
Bitter Cussing ardent swearing
Unfiltered and overbearing
(Some disgusting oversharing)

Verse 2:
Clever descriptions of sexual positions
Slang terms for feces or human appendage
Low IQ don't know your father
Language intends to bother

A genome of donkey a female dog
Besmirched by the slander of a demagogue
You love someone of your gender
Articulating a foul temper

Chorus 2
Outro:
Aggressive Alliteration
Oral Obliteration
Violent Vociferation
Irritated Indignation

Verse 1:
Well I don’t wanna sing too loud cause you might hear my voice
In a world where talent’s looked down upon
And you don’t wanna think too hard cause then you’ll have a choice
If you like it or not, and then we’ll have to practice a lot so

Chorus 1:
Is this catchy enough for you?
And tell me if I feel the same way too
Don’t know I waste I my time with different chords
When three are all you need to make a song

Verse 2:
I couldn’t wait till we sold out
Until we finally got our wish
To be a bunch of cheap-ass punk-ass corporate hypocrites
Like Blink 182 or Good Charlotte

Chorus 2

Solo

Verse 3:

Now you might all say that this song’s not very good
And one might even say it sucks
But we’re no longer in it for the money anymore (we’re only in it for the love)
No longer in it for the bucks, the bucks

Chorus 3:

Is this catchy enough for you?
And tell me if I feel the same way too
Don’t know I wasted time with different chords
When three are all you need to make a song

Verse 1:
When you're presented with a question and you can't afford the answer
Because you're built into the system that's designed to keep you down
Because you're running without funding and you haven't got a sponsor
There's an oppressive boot pressed to your head that's keeping you on the ground

Pre-Chorus 1:
Now you should know exactly what the money means to me
It means that I could buy my life back independently
Now if you feel inclined to do whatever I might say
We will pay you back someday

Chorus 1:
Give us money (you know you want to)
Don't ask questions (surmise the answers)
Here's the problem (no solution)
Exists in our society

Verse 2:
Your tax refund's back and it's negative $6,000
And you're wondering why’d did you bother to even work at all
You could have made less income and ended with the same thing
And the hours that were wasted so callous and banal

Pre-Chorus 2

Solo

Chorus 2

Verse 1:
Mc Pick
Sounds like Dick Pick
Why are the kids in the McDonalds commercials so cool

Advertising makes us envy
unbridled energetic enthusiasm of youth

Pre-Chorus 1:
I'd like a side of obesity
corporate greed cooked up with a side of cheese
Loosely based definitions of food

Chorus 1:
There's quite a drastic difference between the portrayal of McDonalds in commercials and actually eating at the restaurants
Everyone so young and hip
No one’s fat or has a zit I'm loving it
But not exactly buying it

Bridge 1:
Where are the lower class families?
Paying with their EBTs
Where are the overweight 40 something's eating by themselves
(aaaahhhh) (aaaahhhh)
Not every single table represents a very diverse group of friends

Verse 1:
When you're younger you can eat there
You think everything they have on the menu tastes good
When you're older and you're wise already
you begin to take notice of the FDCs advisory

Pre-Chorus 2:
Warning the coffee is cancerous
Eating the fries can be hazardous
Sustainably sourced Mcfish is farmed

Chorus 2

Bridge 1:
Where are the screaming children crying over happy meals
Subliminally hypnotized by cartoons in commercials
(aahhhhhh) (aaaahhhhhh) (aaaahhhhhh)
The marketing masters deftly planting seeds at the youngest age

Verse:
The curtain rises as we see the scene is set
The preface and the exposition, characters are met
His introduction as the dialogue unfolds
The hero of the only story that’s ever been told
(Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh)

Chorus:
I am the protagonist
(I am the main character in this tale
Welcome to my perspective
See through one pair of lenses
(I am the leading role in the novel)
Everything is relative
My thinking process dictates
My opinions become facts
I’m the protagonist and
You’re the audience
Enjoying my third act

Verse:
Falling backwards falling quickly
Was I tripped or was I pushed
As I hit the ground

Chorus 1:
Can't seem to move I am trapped in a damp pool of water
There's a circular wall made of stone
There's a rope at the top with a bucket
Won't you lower it down

Channel:
So I must leave you here my friends
Cause I'm falling in the well again
Every chapter has an end
Every time that we pretend
Help will soon be on the way
Please arrive before it's too late
Will this really be my fate
I am stuck therefore I wait

Bridge:
Like a coin tossed in a fountain
I am just a wish away
When cloudy skies begin to break up
When the dark night turns into day (turns into day)
Hope's a mandatory feeling
When everything is surely lost
Giving in is not an option
You just have to pay the cost

Chorus 2:
Can't seem to move I am trapped in a damp pool of water
There's a circular wall made of stone
There's a rope at the top with a bucket
Won't you lower it down
Won't you lower it down
Won't you lower it down

Verse 1:
I think I've lost it have I wrote too many songs?
The inspiration doesn't hit me like it used to
And everything I write just keeps on coming out all wrong
The subtext of a topic that I've used too

Pre-Chorus 1:
I'm constantly concerned whether the music has progressed enough
Meticulous perfectionism in the past creative thoughts would flow
Need to assure myself the writing's getting better

Chorus 1:
I tried giving up but it was too difficult
I was trying to quit found it too challenging
I threw in the towel jumped in got it back
I am too lazy to fail

Verse 2:
Wearing resources out and self doubt is creeping in
Is there even any reason to try this thing again
The pool's preciously shallow the weary thoughts grow thin
And yet I lack the motivation for ever giving in

Pre-Chorus 2

Chorus 2

Verse 1:
You’re not scared that a criminal could punch you in the face and then rob you of your valuables and make a getaway
You’re not scared that a metro bus could run the yellow light and be aimed directly at you as you’re riding on your bike
The seatbelt doesn’t work, the stove left on all night
Innocent victims of somebody else’s fight
You’re not concerned with that, think it’s ridiculous
Think your life is safe you’re lasting longer than the hourglass

Pre-Chorus 1:
You only have one problem
Apocalyptic

Chorus 1:
Zombie-liever
You’re aiming for the head
You’re a Zombie-liever
You only fear the walking dead a
Zombie-liever
Not prepared for an earthquake or a flood, just a virus in the blood
That causes the dead to rise -1x only

Verse 2:
You don’t think that terrorists could bomb the place you live and be headed up to Allah as you’re searching for your limbs
You don’t think that riots could be forming in the streets in response to the injustice of police brutality
That’s no concern of yours, worries irrelevant
Highly unlikely to be trampled by an elephant
I got bad news for you, these things happened before
You’re in your house you’re feeling safe with unlocked doors

Pre-Chorus 2:
You’re terrified of one thing
An unrelenting

Chorus 2

Bridge:
This is the worst thing you could do
Preparing for something that’s not true
Accepting the plotlines on TV
Making that your reality x2

(aaaaaaah)

Chorus 1:
You’re a Zombie-liever
What is wrong with you
You’re a Zombie-liever
Panic when you think you have the flu
Zombie-liever
Stocking up on ammo for your gun
I hope you just have one
I hope you will have fun