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Lyrics to Rancid's first album (Rancid)

@ARTIST: RANCID
@ALBUM: s/t

Guitars and Vocals- TIM ARMSTRONG
Bass and Vocals - MATT FREEMAN
Drums and back Vocals-BRETT REED

@SONG: ADINA
I want to go where the action is
I wanna fly through the urban blight
I wanna live like a shadow in the dark and only move at night
A story bought, A one story house that lets the winter bleed
21 years old and no money to read
(Chorus)
How did she know the roof would cave in over and over again
Beat up bruised a record that's broken.
Adina's crying again
Beat up chevy with a trailer in tow is what they call home now
One more hill or river to cross on
On the way to another town
Crying in her beer and always running away
Maybe not so much running, but hoping for better days
(Chorus)

@SONG: HYENA
I'm money broke
It's no joke
Can't cope
Use the rope this time
Knuckle up, buckle up
The ride's getting rough
But I will not lose my mind
I asked them if I could come in
And the first thing they said was NO
If I can't come in, that means I can't come back
That means I got nowhere to go
(Chorus)
I'm a hyena fighting for the lion share
Sometimes the lion share ain't there
Absent from political authority
An animal I've become
Total disorder and confusion is the lifestyle that I run
Permit me to do what I want and I will I'm a nomad to travel
Concrete glass stone and gravel
(Chorus)
Every time I turn around it's the same sad story
Getting ganked I wish it would end
And life's comisary
I'm a bad missionary with a wicked message I send
Who could I trust in a world of green?
What I'm taught to take and not give

@SONG: DETROIT
I didn't know what time it was when the sun went down
Detroit, Mission the bus downtown
Last I was fighting in the street
But tonight I have a girl next to me
In this cold world she brings me heat
(Chorus)
I gotta good feeling in a bad city tonite
I gotta good feeling that everything's gonna be alright
Some run, some fight
Detained in illegal custody spent the nite in jail
With a drunken priest and a hooker
$500 bill nobody know who was standing in the street
Like that I hit the ground to make a sound
(Chorus)
Bus dropped me off and I had to cough
I couldn't breath cuz I got ripped off
I couldn't realize by being satisfied cuz it runs so thin and that's why
I'm pissed off
We had no money, we had no time
She had the champagne, I had the cisco wine
She said "Do you want to come, you better hurry because we'll have hell to pay
(Chorus)

@SONG: RATS IN THE HALLWAY
Knock, knock come in if you want to fight
I'm gonna win
I'll take you out in a minute
Step in my flat see what's in it
I live in the land of the welfare state
My flat used to be section P
Now it's a rat infested cocaine run
My whole world plays like a broken drum
(Chorus)
Drunken bum
Rats in the hallway again
Set up get put go away & ride away
Sit up our bed up your bed to lay
Kick up our rip up this place apart
Even when I finish I'm back at the start
I'm out of line on Adeline St. heat
Don't keep this crooked beat
4 A.M. no waves breakin'
What's left of the P.M. the A.M. has taken
(Chorus)
Outside my gate my crew is drinking a 40 oz.
They asked me if there's still rats in the hallway
I said some things ain't like the weather
They never change for the better
This girl came up to me
She said she would do me no harm
Rolled up her sleave and showed me the tracks on her arm
I said, "What's your name?" she said "I'm Mya."
She said "Tim I wanna take you higher."
Junkie drunken bum
Rats in the hallway again
Zombie walking kid out on his own with no moral
Mr. High leave the body
In comes Mr. Withdrawal
Pain is the only thing the body will allow
The kid wants to dance
The gangster knows how
Johnny bought some shit down on Market St.
Shoot up boot up the human target
He hit the dirty spike when he hit the scene
It's easy to stay dirty when nothing is clean
Johnny's a writer who tags up jackal
Jackel just clamped on unclampable shackles
Rout up Shoot up some dope to go like legal currency
It's money it's like that rat tat tat
Kid got shot point blank in the back
My land lord said not to be bumming
He was a cocaine stoop and he had it coming
He was only 12 years old
He was in the blizzard
He got shot for being cold
It don't seem right
Tonight hit the lights alright
Watch the roaches run into the darkest room
(Chorus)

@SONG: ANOTHER NIGHT
In the dark with the Oakland skyline
As I cross the city I avoid the landmines
All I wanna do is make it through without dyin'
All I wanna do is keep on tryin'
(Chorus)
Another night in the streets for me
No sanctuary
Another night
Come and watch me bleed
Another night in the streets for me
She wouldn't move until the coast was clear
She always knew the final battle was near
If you got a bag of dope she'll give it up for free
If you got a song of hope it will help her see
(Chorus)
In the dark lookin' up at the skyline...

@SONG: ANIMOSITY
Break down the fear
I got my animosity
I'm gonna break it down
Armegeddon is comin'
So you better start runnin'
'cause the big wave
Is comin' to the shore
No surprise that you see thru the lies of the system that's rotten
To the core
Hight tech surveilance
Paranoia & violence
Keeping the city at a calm
Break down, break down
Tear it apart
The thing'g going off
Like a bomb
(Chorus)
Helicopter's come down on me tonight
My brother's sellin' cocaine
He knows how to fight
Hounded and harrassed
In a power elite bought
Sun ain't arise
So I abide by my route
(Chorus)
I remember a cold December
When I heard the revolution rock
Didn't hear what they were saying
I ran thru the mayhem of a police state
On my back high tech surveilance...

@SONG: OUT OF MY MIND
You're workin' like a monkey
Who's been trained by a sick junkie
On a mission to get money for a new suit and tie to where to a reception
Where they envy your deception and one compliments and praises to the ones
they despise.
Practicing your smile in the mirror
All the while try to cultivate the style of the bastards in power
I know what they're sellin' cuz their nervous twitch is tellin'
You're comin' off smellin' like the pig of the hour
I've got a lot of people tellin' me I'm out of my mind and I don't know why
My brain was bleeding and my fingers were proceeding through a notebook
I was keeping since the dawning of time
Senses were coroaded you know that I was loaded
You were dealing
I was reeling from the feeling and the madness was concealing like a siren song
People that I trusted would surely have me busted if they ever had a clue
What was really going on.
I got alot of people telling me I'm out of my mind and I don't know why

@SONG: WHIRLWIND
Every cities got an artery where the blind
Breaks down an avenue or a boulevard
And a boy who wears a crown
Indignant life styles implies simply lack of means
Dognatical authoritarians dictate the cities remain
(Chorus)
A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight
Whirlwind is coming
A promise to go to heaven won't put salvation in sight
Whirlwind is comin' down on me
When the factory shut down so did the place he lived
Blood money for junk bonds by a white collar fugitive
All the tax free incentives ain't goin' to help him now
Generations of job security gone out like the horse and plow
My old man worked his troubled life in a nowhere dead end
He drank the pain away
I'll be damned if that's me having my dreams robbed
The working class crries a country that has been rotting inside for years
The rigs cuffed my old man in the front yard
I saw through my eyes of tears

SIDE 2

@SONG: REJECTED
I could not fit in
I was the one who got caught
I was the one who got realized
I was the one who got dropped
Shut out banished and locked away
The knife that did me in I carry to this day
(Chorus)
Rejected- crossing bridges in the land of the forgotten
Rejected
Distrust existed that I never saw
Deep seated distrust I was victim of
(Chorus)
Unspoken among the more privelaged or the so-called
I was not good enough
Not good enough at all
At first out of loneliness I tried to conform
But all that bullshit left me all alone
(Chorus)

@SONG: INJURY
Excuse me while I pull a knife out of my back
How could I ever trust a person like that
Alongside the slow is someone moving faster
Behind the warm image is a cold cold bastard
Corporate liberal bullshit
Ruling class take your money and shove it up your ass
Take your lies
I've had enough of you all the shit you put me through
(Chorus)
I'm injured injury- I look for the truth
It's getting hard to find
Money grabbin' dragon
And the tie you hide behind
I'm so fucking stupid
With you I was a buyer
I believed in you
You deceiving liar---
Set me fucking free

@SONG: THE BOTTLE
Climb in, climb in, climb inside of me-pain
Another night of drinkin'
Another night of being out of my head and I don't know where I was last night
Drinkin' on an empty stomach or an empty mind
It makes no difference when I'm way out of line
Things I can't remember come back to haunt me
Alot of people out there who seem to want me
Climb in the bottle and never come out
(Chorus)
I made no nothin' but I'm good at something
I would drink until the sun comes up no more
One of these days gonna come outta my haze
Better hurry up
It's getting harder to come back

@SONG: TRENCHES
1987, at a 7-11
Police out lookin' for problems
But I'm no average hoodlum
Still runnin from the pigs so it seems to me
This is not the land of love and liberty
It's more like a waiting room in hell
Drink a quart and watch me dwell
(Chorus)
I got it right
Out in the trenches tonight
Glass towers rise above the filth and the pain
I'm a moral degenerate feel my pain
Passed out on a squat on a mission
That night I was shocked in to submission
Straight down, straight down to hell I head
System of sewers is where I lay my head
People on their way are like on a different dimension
I need no correction
(Chorus)
Some of my friends moved on
A simple domestic life
They're all gone
Only a few of us remain
Only a few of us want to keep it the same
(Chorus)

@SONG: HOLIDAY SUNRISE
So I packed everthing I owned
Midnight Christmas Eve
A kid could feel alone
I drink my scotch
My mind goes away
Midnight Christmas Eve
Starts out in a way
(Chorus)
I cried when I had no shoes
Till' I met the man with no feet
It's just a
Holiday Sunrise
I suddenly realized
I got no alibis
Holiday sunrise
Relatives of mine said
They were born again
Fucked up world has made me born against
I'm a sinner and my soul should be cleansed
I'll take my chances when I'm dead

@SONG: UNWRITTEN RULES
Kick the kick drum
Increase the weight of the sound
The dialogue of maximum decibles is enough to move the fucking ground
I'm gonna amplify the rage of a class that's not inferior
The message in the volume this song's a carrier
(Chorus)
Unwritten rules
Rules understood
Unwritten rules
Boomin' out the speakers and amps in the hood
I like to drink beer play music and go to shows
It's not about paying your dues
If you do it out of love
I'm not no jaded junkie runnin' dry
I don't know anything else
I'll be playing until I die
(Chorus)

@SONG: GET OUT OF MY WAY
(The lyrics weren't in the fraggin' thingamajig)

(And there's a hidden track)

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