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1992 Epitaph

fat mike:-------bass, vocals
el hefe:--------trumpet, guitar, vocals
eric melvin:----guitar
erik ghint:-----drums





Songs

1. it's my job to keep punk rock elite
2. kids of the k-hole
3. murder the government
4. monosyllabic girl
5. 180 degrees
6. all his suits are torn
7. all outta angst
8. I'm telling Tim
9. champs elys�es
10. dad's bad news
11. kill rock stars
12. eat the meak
13. the desperation's gone
14. flossing a dead horse
15. quart in session
16. falling in love

Lyrics

Punk rock elite

Indiscriminate I'd rather be elite
I'll choose my own shit scene
Unsubstantiated rumors flown are true
I'm here for me not you

Nonconglumurate I mean what I say
I'm not your fucking scape
Goat apparently I've alienated some
It seems my job's half done

You'll never understand it
Try to buy and brand it
I win, you lose, cause it's my job
To keep punk rock elite

This music ain't your fucking industry

Kids of the k-hole

Everybody needs some time away
Just stuck in the k-hole again
An 18 hour holiday
Just stuck in the k-hole again, just once again

Mrs. Kitty Ketamine your perseverance may
Outlast my ambition to go home
Infatuation with your dark side I obey
Forbidden pleasures, I have grown to loathe/love

Somewhere between eden and North utopia
Somewhere beneath the astral plain
I've taken residence on sybaritic soil
You won't be seeing me again
You won't be seeing me again

Dropping crumbs and flying thumbs
Won't help me get back home
The home is where the heart is, I've been tols
'Cause I promised my heart to her
She cooked it medium well
Then proceded to swallow it whole

It may sound good to you
It may sound oh so wrong
Just stuck in the k-hole again
Winter's broken, summer's gone
Just stuck in the k-hole again
Just once again

Murder the government

i wanna see the constitution burn
wanna watch the white house overturn
wanna witness some blue bloods blood bleed red
wanna tar and lynch the kkk
wanna pull and shoot the nra
wanna pay the lobbyists to kill themselves
I wanna dose the dea
I wanna join th cia(not really)

It just seems so fucking easy to make this
country a better place to live
Illegalize guns and lobbying(jail murderers and
extortionists)... Legalize drugs and prostitution(free
salesmen and saleswomen)...

Murder the government Murder the government
Murder the government and then do it again yeah
Murder the government Murder the government
Murder the government and then
Murder the government

Monosylabic girl

I take her to the aquarium, she says shark
I take her to the planetarium, she says dark
I take her to the seaside
where she likes to spin and twirl
She says sure and cool and yeah
She's my monosylabic girl

I take her to the university, she says huh
I take her to our anniversary, she says one
I take her to the jewelry store
I say diamonds, she says pearls
Oh everyone knoxs I'm in love
With a monosylabic girl

180 degrees

It's so easy to defend the status quo
With everyone so cool and cynical
But when you see the end don't justify the means
It's just that 180 degrees

The great thing about bein' a human
The ability to reason
But reasoning don't work when no one cares
2 parts apathy, one part despair

Guess what, this might come as a surprise
I'll no longer roll my eyes
A change of heart to let the conscience breath
One quick twist, just 180 degrees

Yeah, I know now the right thing to do
Yeah, anti-tradition tried and true
Yeah, a world where wrong has right of way
Yeah, fuck that world, fuck that hierarchy

Go ahead, work, waste your life away
Fuck that world, go fuck that right away

All his suits are torn

Billy Cobin lost it all
We knew he would eventually
Some wonder why he took the fall
Others just ask who the hell is he
And why should we care for him?

A baggy man with baggy clothes
A face made of paper mache
He lost his humor years ago
Along with his molars
His head planted beneath his shoulders

Kill the pain, integrity don't keep you warm and sane
Don't throw me out with the bath water
Don't wanna be, anyone who would wanna know me

Billy Cobin had a time, Billy Cobin had a place
Following his fifteen minute climb
Billy took a seven second leap a cannonball
Plunge off the deep

All outta angst

I'm not insane, I'm not bummed out
I got no one to blame, nothing to change
I got no evil to fight

One thing's for sure, I'm all outta angst
Society don't bother me
And there's something wrong with that

So I'm off to pakistan, learn the laws of islam
Fundamentalism, forget that rock'n'roll
No cigarette, no drink, in fact
It's difficult to think about getting laid
When you don't even get to see her face
I'm not insane

I'm not insane, I'm not liquored
I got nothin' to do, nothin' to lose
I got no place to call home
One thing's for sure, I'm all outta angst
Society don't bother me, there's something wrong with that

Next stop mongolia
Don't get to golf or fuck or bowl with ya
Throw out that handicap
No stepping out, till spring, in fact it's
Difficult to sing when it's 20 below
And that's during the day
I'm not insane

I'm telling Tim

You better watch out you better not cry
You better put out records DIY
Cause it's not what you've done it's what you've been
If you fuck up I'm telling Tim

Take you out of book your own life part six
You won't play again at ABC
You're gonna get obstracized like Lawrence
When I tell Tim I'm telling Tim
I'm telling TIm telling Tim

Champs elys�es(Joe Dassin)

Je m'baladais sur l'avenue le coeur ouvert � l'inconnu.
J'avais envie de dire bonjour � n'importe qui
N'importe qui et ce f�t toi, je t'ai dit n'importe quoi,
Il suffisait de te parler, pour t'apprivoiser.

Aux Champs-Elys�es, aux Champs-Elys�es
Au soleil, sous la pluie, � midi ou � minuit,
Il y a tout que vous voulez aux Champs-Elys�es

Tu m'a dit "J'ai rendez-vous dans un sous-sol avec des fous,
Qui vivent la guitare � la main, du soir au matin".
Alors je t'ai accompagn�e, on a chant�, on a dans�
Et l'on n'a m�me pas pens� � s'embrasserAux Champs-Elys�es, aux Champs-Elys�es
Au soleil, sous la pluie, � midi ou � minuit,
Il y a tout que vous voulez aux Champs-Elys�es

Hier soir deux inconnus et ce matin sur l'avenue,
Deux amoureux tout �tourdis par la longue nuit.
Et de l'Etoile � la Concorde, un orchestre � mille chordes,
Tous les oiseaux du point du jour chantent l'amour

Aux Champs-Elys�es, aux Champs-Elys�es
Au soleil, sous la pluie, � midi ou � minuit,
Il y a tout que vous voulez aux Champs-Elys�es

Dad's bad news

Don't belive a word your grandfather says
he's been classified grade a psycotik
you can see it from the hole in his head
a saner man would have used a bigger gun

degeneration ah ah ah ah ah
the lunatic clause was written for you
The story spoken is a story unheard
by you so listen cause it's unbelievable
a certain trait has passed while centuries turned
this certain trait has been a family tradition

No simple way to tell you son
we share the same red tainted blood
I'm gona kill me, you're gona kill you
killing you

Don't belive a word your grandfather says
Don't belive a word your grandfather says
Don't belive a word your grandfather says
he's a psycotik, grade a psycotic

Kill rock stars

"Kill the rockstars" how ironic, Kathleen
you've been crowned the newest queen
kinda like the punk rock Gloria Steinham
you can't change the world by laming men
can't change the world by hating men

Just cause I don't know the reason you're so pissed
don't dare tag me mysoginist
I thought the goal here was mutual respect
not constructing a seperate sect
I wish I could have seen Courtney
demonstrate some real mysoginy
cant change the world ba hating men

Eat the meak

Y mussed oui stay wear wee dont bee long
Y mussed oui stay wear wee dont bee long

Because there 's never gona be enough space
so eat the meek, enjoy the waste
it's allways gonna be a delicacy
lick your chops and eat the meek

Y mussed oui stay wear wee dont bee long
Y mussed oui stay wear wee dont bee long

The factory mass production fear, bottled,
capped, distributed near and far
sold for a reasonable price
and the people, they love it, they feed it
brush with it, bathe with it, breath it
inject it direct to the blood
it seems to replacing love

Y mussed oui stay wear wee dont bee long
Y mussed oui stay wear wee dont bee long


Because there always gonna be token truth
forgotten code discaret youth
you know there's always gonna be pedigree
one own the air one pay to breath

Y mussed oui stay wear wee dont bee long
Y mussed oui stay wear wee dont bee long

The desperation's gone

Trip down the stairs into hell
cathay de I miss your smell
a mixture of puke, beer, stale piss
fuck, sweat, and fear
adrenaline addicted, the blood leak
from my head kinda concerned my friends
but at the time it felt so right
the music blaring on, now the desperation's gonne

Turn, tune the knob K-go
some alterna radio
strategic marketing hype, media, stereopype
has our music been castrated? yes
to you it may sound good
to me it sounds all wrong
the notes and chords sound similar
the same forbidden beat, but
the desperation's gone (the song's the same)
but the desperation's gone

Flossing a dead horse

Instrumental

Quart in session

It's funny how nothing seems much fun
anymore to me now that I quit the drink
'cause soberness, it might be what I need
but it's certainly not how I wanna be

Nothing seems much fun anymore to me

Consequence never had anytime to think
about what coulda, should, happen to me
C-common sense my parents said I
didn't have any, but now look whose
got the dough

No longer born to lose
put away my party shoes
missin' the alcohol
don't feel like goin' out
nothing worth singin' about
missin' the alcohol
without tonic n gin
without no vicodin

Nothing seems much fun anymore to me (x4)

Falling in love

Blast oxygen masks, smoke filled cabin
depressurize, don't be afraid, hold onto me
we're going down, but not our love

Death don't seem so bad, 'cause I'm with you
my only love, so close your eyes
kiss me on the last time, we're gonna
die, but not our love, not our love