1. Youth gone wild
2. 18 and life
3. Piece of me
4. I remember you
5. The threat
6. Psycho love
7. Monkey business
8. Quicksand Jesus
9. Slave to the grind
10. Into another (Remix)
11. Frozen (Demo 1994)
12. My enemy (Remix)
13. Breakin' down (Remix)
14. Beat yourself blind (Live from
The Astoria, London, England 1995)
15. Forever (1988 previously unreleased)
16. Fire in the hole (Demo 1991 -
Previously unreleased)
Youth gone wild
1. Since I was born they couldn't hold me down
Another misfit kid another burned out town
I never played by the rules and I never really cared
My nasty reputation takes me ev'rywhere
Well I look and see it's not only me
So many others have stood where I stand
We are the youth (hey!) so rise your hands!
Ref. They call us problem child
We spend our lives on trial
We walk an endless mile
We are the youth gone wild!
We stand and we won't fall
We're one and one for all
The writing's on the wall
We are the youth gone wild!
2. Boss' screamin' in my ear about who I'm supposed to be
Get a three-piece Wall Street smile and son you'll look just like me&
I said "Hey man there's something you oughta know
Well I'll tell ya Park Avenue leads to Skid Row!"
Well I look and see it's not only me
We stand in stall ain't never a doubt
We are the youth (hey!) so shot it out!
(Back to Ref.)
Well let me hear you get wild!
(Solo)
(Back to Ref.)
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18 & life
1. Ricky was a young boy, he had a heart of stone
Lived 9 to 5 and he worked his fingers to the bones oh
Just barely out of school, came from the edge of town
Fought like a switchblade so no one could take him down no
He had no money, no, no good at home
Walked the street a soldier and he fought the world's alone and now it's
Ref. Eighteen and life you've got it
Eighteen and life you know
Your crime is time and it's
Eighteen and life to go
Eighteen and life you've got it
Eighteen and life you know
Your crime is time
and it's eighteen and life to go.
2. Tequila in his heartbeat, his veins burned gasoline
It kept his motor runnin', but it never kept his clean
They said he loved adventure, "Ricky's the wild one"
He married trouble, had a courtship with a gun
Bang bang shoot them up, the party never ends
You can't think of dyin' when the bottle's your best friend and now it's
(Back to Ref. )
"Accidents will happen", they all heard Ricky say
He fired his six-shot to the wind, that child blew a child away…
(Solo)
(Back to Ref.)
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Piece of me
1. Sleazin' in the city
you know I'm lookin' for a fight
I'm on my heels and lookin' pretty
on a Saturday night, night, night
Good God, bless my soul
I need a fix of Rock n' Roll
Come on baby you've gotta wait and see
You better hurry
to get a piece of me.
2. Caught a lonely lady
she's cryin' on a cigarette
I've got nasty, nasty habits
and that's all she's gonna get on me
Ref. One for the money, two for the show
Around and around and around we go
Take a look at what you might need
You better hurry
to get a piece of me.
I don't have looks, I don't have money
but I know one thing for sure
One night ain't enough for my love
she wanted more, more, more…
(Solo)
(Back to 1 & Ref.)
To take a piece of me
To get a piece, a piece of me
To take a piece of me…
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I remember you
1. Woke up to the sound of the pourin' rain
the wind would whisper and I'd think of you
and all the tears you cried that called my name
and when you needed me I came through.
I paint the picture of the days gone by
when love went blind and you would make me see
I stared a lifetime into your eyes
so that I knew that you were there for me
time after time you were there for me.
Ref. Remember yesterday
walkin' hand in hand
love letters in the sands, I remember you
Through the sleepless nights
through ev'ry endless day
I wanna hear you say "I remember you", oh...
2. We spent the summer with the top rolled down
wished ever after would be like this
You said "I love you baby" without a sound
I said I'd give my life for just one kiss
I'd live for your smile and die for your kiss.
(Back to Ref.)
We've had our share of hard times
but that's the price we paid
And through it all we kept the promise that we made
I swear you'll never be lonely…
(Solo)
Woke up to the sound of the pourin' rain
washed away a dream of you
But nothing else could ever take you away
'cause you'd always be my dreams come true
Oh my darling, I love you…
(Back to Ref.)
Remember yesterday
walkin' hand in hand
love letters in the sands, I remember you
Through ev'ry sleepless night
through ev'ry endless day
I wanna hear you say
I remember, I remember you… oh yeah.
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The threat
1. Well I've been convicted, with and without reason
tarred and feather like a piper on a killin' spree
and felt the anger of generations
and been a target for the cheap shots of authority.
So you think you cut me down to size
Well there's something you should realize
It's gonna take more than a break in the law
to make me smile pretty for the wreckin' ball.
Ref. Won't beg
won't bleed
the end of sacrifice is a threat to society
Hard line
you'll see
once you've made your mark you've made a threat to society…
2. I wasn't put here to be treated
like some disease you hoped would go away if left alone
Yeah you can sweep me, under the carpet
but I'll still infect your need to use me as a steppin' stone.
So you think you cut me down to size
Well there's something you should realize
It's gonna take more than a break in the law
to make me smile pretty for the wreckin' ball.
(Back to Ref.)
(Solo)
So you think you cut me down to size
Well there's something you should realize
It's gonna take more than a break in the law
to make me smile pretty for the wreckin' ball…
(Back to Ref. 2 times)
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Psycho love
1. Check out Clementine, cleanin' needles in her wine
face down in her one-eye world with her brain death valentine
She'll be your zombie, your livin' death
Her sweet corruption, it's gonna make you, gonna break you
she said that
Ref. Haunt my house of pain, and feel my psycho love
You better shine and pray for rain, to heal my psycho love.
2. Legs at ten and two, chain her down that's what you do
King Tout and snake-eyed slut in the pink but screamin' blue
I'll taste you crazy, you smell instance
I'm just another ghost inside your spirits hall of fame.
(Back to Ref.)
Ooh as the warm smooth soul chases through the cold silence of a body
a body of touch not feel
One question: Is she a stone in the devil's garden
or a speck in an angel's dust?
Ashes to ashes, and lust to lust...
(Solo)
She'll teach you true love, watchin' you turn blue love
she'll wrap you in a choke hold and suck your spirit dry.
(Back to Ref.)
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Monkey business
Well outside my window there's a
whole lot of trouble comin'
the cartoon killers and the rag covered clones
Stack heels kickin' rhythm
of social circumcision
can't close the closet on a shoe box full of bones… Come on!
1. Kangaroo lady with her bourbon in a pouch
can't afford the rental on a bamboo couch
collectin' back her favors 'cause her well is runnin' dry
I know her act is terminal but she ain't gonna die, no.
Slim Intoxicate drinkin' dime store hooch
is always a circle with his past time pooch
Little creepy playin' dollies on the New York rain
thinkin' Bowie's just a knife, oh the pain.
I ain't seen the sun since I don't know when
The freaks come out at nine, and it's twenty to ten
What's this funk, that you call junk
to me it's just monkey business… get back!
2. A blind man in the box that will probably die
the village kids laugh as they walk by
A psycho on the edge of this human garbage dump
and the vulture is the sewers are tellin' him to jump
into fire from the fryin' pain
trippin' on his tongue for a cool place to stand
Where's this shade, that you've got it made
to me it's just monkey business.
Ref. Monkey business, it's slippin' on the track
Monkey business, the jungle in the black
Ain't you business, if I got no monkey on my back.
(Back to Ref.)
The Vaseline gypsies and the silicone soul
dress to the sociality
Hypocrite heartbeat and cheap alibis
can't get you by that monkey… monkey, monkey!
(Back to Ref. 3 times)
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Quicksand Jesus
1. She caught the meltin' sky
It burned but still the winter passes by and by
to the other side
A slow parade of wind
that blows through trees that wilted with the season's children
Are we saved by the words of bastard saints?
Do we live in fear or faith?
Tell me now, who's behind the rain?
2. A maze of tangled grace
The symptoms of "for real" are crumblin' from embrace
but still we chase
the shadows of belief
and new religion clouds our visions of the roots
of our souls…
Are we ashamed of our own fate
or play the fool for our own sake?
Tell me who's behind…
What do we need?
Where do we go
when we get where we don't know?
Why should we doubt
the virgin white of fallen snow
when faith's our shelter from
the cold?
(Solo)
Oh…What do we need?
Where do we go
when we get where we don't know?
Why should we doubt
the virgin white of fallen snow
when faith's our shelter from
the cold?
Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away without you
Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away without you oh
Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away, away
Quicksand Jesus I'm so far away yeah
Quicksand Jesus I need you
Quicksand Jesus I believe you
Quicksand…
I'm so far away yeah... take me away...
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Slave to the grind
1. You've gotta force to give my lids in two
I'm still stuck inside this rubber room
I've gotta pull the clock that leads the blind
I'm just another gear in the assembly line, oh no.
The noose gets tighter around my throat
But I ain't at the end of my rope 'cause
Ref. I won't be the one left behind
You can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind
Tear down the rat racial slime
You can't be king of the world if you're slave to the grind.
Get it!
2. A routine injection a lethal dose
but my day in the sun ain't even close
There's no need to waste your prayers on me
you better mark my words 'cause I'm history, yes indeed
You might beg for mercy, to get by
but I'd rather tear this thorn from my side 'cause
(Back to Ref.)
3. They swallowed their daggers by turnin' their tricks
they tore my intention apart brick by brick
I'm sick of the jive, you talk verbal insecticide...
(Solo)
(Repeat 3)
(Back to Ref.)
Well I say slave to the grind
Slave to the grind
Slave to the grind…
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Into another
1. Slowly I heal the love that's found its way
onto another path in times of change
Crossin' a bridge unknown,
hopin' our strange will hold
Should they both let go then let me lay
Let me lay…
Ref. Show me a sign
to a light that shines
One direction into another
shelter peace of mind.
No…
2. Somewhere I lost a piece of memory
Somehow I know my legs will carry me yeah
Searchin' for circles end,
hopin' the wound will mend
Should this scar, then it was meant to be.
(Back to Ref.)
(Solo)
(Back to Ref. 2 times)
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Frozen
1. As I stare into the fire
all my thoughts go up in flames
Here I stare into the fire
I'll be waitin' on the rain.
The box I keep myself in, closes out my air
So I build a fire, so I can sit and stare...
Ref. Can it be I'm frozen
Can it be I'm frozen
Can it be I'm frozen
Can it be I'm frozen?
2. As I stare into the weather
my eyes dryin' from the cold
As I stare into the weather I sense my thoughts growin' old.
I listen to the prophets, predict the stem of tides
I stare into the weather that's keepin' me inside...
(Back to Ref.)
(Solo)
3. As I stare into the fire
will the prophets change my mind?
While I stare into the fire
all the colors treat me kind...
I'll dust away the fallings, the winter leaves for me
I'll stare into the fire, and set tomorrow free...
(Back to Ref. 2 times)
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My enemy
1. Play the fence, one way you're gonna fall
Sometimes I don't know who you are at all
Your opinion is something that you've got inside
but I see the loyalty has upped and died.
You skeletons, my skeletons,
life is only getting' shorter
You can be my enemy and I don't care
Keep throwin' stones at yourself.
2. Stories run in circles that have no end
I hit on luck, then you burn me out again
There's a way that you keep the truth in check
Scratch the surface and treat it like a broken neck
Keep the peace when face to face with the scene
Got a hunch that ain't what you really mean
Weather's fair, does that change where you stand?
My back is turned and the knife is in your hand.
Your genocide, my genocide,
life is only gettin' shorter
You can be my enemy and I don't care
Keep throwin' stones at yourself
You can be my enemy, I don't care
You try too hard, I cannot tell.
(Solo)
Your genocide, my genocide,
life is only gettin' shorter
You can be my enemy, I don't care
Keep throwin' stones at yourself
You can be my enemy, I don't care
You try too hard, I cannot tell.
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Breakin' down
1. What was it you once said
that there would be things in life
that couldn't be
Not for a second did I believe you
Not for a minute did I believe that
Within your need you lie alone
This empty space you call your home…
Ref. If you just let me in
I wouldn't let you break down
I'm breakin' down…
2. As if you thought the rain
could wash away the day
and could heal you
Not for a second did I believe it
Not for a minute did I believe that
Within your need you lie a lone
This empty space you call your home…
(Back to Ref. 2 times)
(Solo)
What was it you once said
that there would be things in life
that couldn't be
Not for a second did I believe you
Not for a minute did I believe that...
(Back to Ref. 2 times)
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Beat yourself blind
1. Give me a minute 'cause I'm wrapped in superstition
Pour me a chemical to take away the edge
Don't make up anything that's breakin' all your fingers
Just slack around a bit of what it takes to pledge.
Carry out another stone as a slave
Ask general-know-it-all who's jugglin' the earth
(Tease all) the natives that will walk across your grave and
shove aside your nation all for what it's worth.
Beat yourself blind (5x)
2. Look at the suit in suspended animation
A faded outline that used to be a man
A piece of paper that's fallin' out a window
has got a better chance to know where it lands...
Beat yourself blind (5x)
To bleed in vain, to bleed in vain
Under my eyes are painted skies...
(Solo)
Down at the bone yard they're diggin' up the relics
Handfuls of parasites thrown into the machines
I've got the phone call they're tearin' down the mission
The zombies had a ball but they don't know what it means...
No, they don't know what it means...
Beat yourself blind...
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Forever
1. Remember when we were young
just two kids on the run
with our fists full of dreams
Took it awhile, playin' it cool
stayed out late cuttin' school
all cigarettes, lyin' James Dean
In the backseat of my Chevrolet
where the radio would play and play
and all the world would fade away.
Ref. Together we stand
well it's just you and me
so baby, hold on and you'll see
Forever we stand
and we'll make it through
'cause I know I can't live without you
No...
2. They said we're growin' up too fast
what we had would never last
so we left without goodbyes
And then some times, well, they got tough
roads ahead looked kinda rough
and all we had was you and I
We prayed to God on those cold, dark nights
and then we knew that it would be alright
we'd go through hell just to hold each other tight.
(Back to Ref.)
As long as the world keeps turning,
as long as there's another day
together, forever, we'll stay... yeah.
(Solo)
In the backseat of my Chevrolet
where the radio would play and play
and all the world would fade away... yeah.
(Back to Ref.)
Forever
Forever
Forever we stand
Forever
Forever
Forever we stand...
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Fire in the hole
1. Why not just skin me like a yankee pig?
This neo-nazi stuff just ain't my gig
Still ain't sure what you had in mind
I picked it from the stench you left behind
Steady drip out of memory for my head
Bet you got jealousidal tendencies
Could I wind up dead?
Ref. There's something goin' around, then there's fire in the hole
Cover me I'm goin' down, then there's fire in the hole yeah yeah.
2. Unlucky white kid didn't leave with the blues
Paintballs of fire he had a ball with Dio
Give us love while we're covered in blood
Flyin' high but ain't sure which way is up
Crash landin' in the submarines
Belly up to the enemy
Ref. There's something goin' around, then there's fire in the hole
Cover me I'm goin' down, then there's fire in the hole
Am I even sinkin' fast on the ship of souls
Cover me I'm goin' down, then there's fire, there's fire...
(Solo)
There's somethin' going around, then there's fire in the hole
Cover me I'm goin' down, then there's fire in the hole
Am I even sinkin' fast on the ship of souls...
Cover me I'm goin' down
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