Less Than Jake Album

I think I think I know it all,
but can I be sure of the things I've grown to know about,
and can I say I know it all,
when rules just guide me to blindly follow

and things are automatic when you see them everyday
is it the same routine
or just my fucked up dreams,
that keep you walking mindless all the way?

I think, I think I know it all
but is our beliefs just stringing us along
and was there something wrong in what I heard,
for every hour of the day?

bad things are automatic when you see them everyday
is it the same routine
or just your fucked up dreams,
that keep you walking mindless all the way?

i think, i think i kno it alfuck (2x)

bad things are automatic when you see them everyday
is it the same routine
or just your fucked up dreams,
that keep you walking mindless all the way?'

Happyman smiles almost every single day
too numb to notice that he's walking in a haze
put himself here and doesn't know what to do
no, no, no

Choked by the clock
everything they put him through
he's put himself here and he doesn't know what to do
he doesn't know what to do
no no no

I say, you say
you say its work, say its work all day, yeah yeah yeah
I say, you say
you say its work all day (work all, work all day)
yeah

Happyman smiles almost every single day
too numb to notice that he's walking in a haze
put himself here and doesn't know what to do
no he doesn't know what to do

Choked by the clock
and everything they put him through
put himself here and he doesn't know what to do
he doesn't know what to do
no no no

I say, you say
you say its work, say its work all day, yeah yeah yeah
I say, you say
you say its work, say its work all day
you say its work, say it's work all day
you say its work (work all, work all day), you say it's work all day
you say it's work all day

No matter what he does
no matter where he goes
it's the only thing
the only thing he knows
Happyman is mad at the world, oh yeah (x2)
he's mad at the world, oh yeah
mad at the world, oh yeah

Which will it be, sympathy or apathy,
Which part of the human condition will I believe?
Tried than it's tested, if I just decided,
Tried than it's tested, if I have decided,
I fell

When it all came down on that Saturday night,
Should I choose a side at 9th and Pine?
Can we still say we're civilized?
Watch a kid go down.

Is it a crowd?
Or the way it's going down,
Is being human watching all day’s without a sound.
Tried than it's tested, if I just decided,
Tried than it's tested, if I have decided,
I fell

When it all came down on that Saturday night,
Should I choose a side at 9th and Pine?
Can we still say we are civilized?
Watch a kid go down at 9th and Pine

When it all came down on a Saturday night,
Should I choose a side at 9th and Pine?
Can we still say where civilized?
Watch a kid go down at 9th and Pine
Watch a kid go down at 9th and Pine
Should I choose a side at 9th and Pine?

If I had a scheme for everything,
It seems I'd be sure not not to change it all
If I had it in me to stop my random thoughts,
and my dumb dreams
I could deal with this nonstop spinning world.
If only I could say that everything's ok
take a good look
look the other way,
frustration, hell, who needs it anyway.
I'd rather sit back,
just smoke cigarettes.
be the one with the loudest mouth
be the most closed minded that I could get

Something's out there
and it takes me away
from a world too small
too small to stay
something's out there
yeah, something's out there
something's out there
and it takes me away
from a world too small
too small to stay
something's out there (x2)

Another day in this place so small
I'd rather be somebody else
maybe if my mind wasn't so tall
I wouldn't be able to tell
and I have walked these streets
it seems like ten million times
and I've seen things
up and leave time after time
another day in this place so small
I'd rather be somebody else
(old habits die hard
and old habits die hard)

Something's out there
and it takes me away
from a world too small
too small to stay
something's out there (x2)
(x2)

Another day in this place so small
I'd rather be somebody else
maybe if my mind wasn't so tall
I wouldn't be able to tell
and I've walked these streets
it seems like ten million times
and I've seen things
up and leave time after time (time after time)
another day in this place so small
I'd rather be somebody else (old habits die hard
and old habits die hard)

Something's out there
and it takes me away
from a world too small
too small to stay
something's out there (x2)
(x2)
yeah

Unless you could see inside my head
You couldn't possibly understand
I'm happier when things are falling apart
But you'll never know just by looking at me

Strung out on the future
Burnt out on the past
Sometimes I'd rather burn this place right to the ground

You know, it may be me
But the parking lot with all those creeps
Keeps me convincing myself I'm completely sane
With sleep overrated and my ideals outdated
I know that I wouldn't want it any other way

Can't explain when this place races through my mind
Can't explain but I know why, I know why

We're going down. . .

Well I really don't know
if it matters at all so
but we try to keep the prices low
for our records and our shows
but is that
is that enough
or is (it) that we're not punk enough
or is (it) that you think ska just sucks
[but] Johnny Quest, he thinks we're what?

Chorus:
Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts, sellouts
Johnny Quest thinks we're sellin' out, [we're] sellin' out, yeah
Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts, sellouts
Johnny, yeah

Well I really don't know
if it matters at all so
but we try to keep the prices low
for our records and our shows
does it matter
that you see our shirts
besides going to school and going to work
or that you think that ska just sucks
Johnny Quest, he thinks we're what?

(Chorus) (x2)

[He thinks we're sellin' out
sellin' out (x5)
yeah
sellin' out (x6)
yeah]

It seems I can't explain at all..
All the reasons gone, I just can't seem to shake,
What I've been brought up on!
Well it's hard to say,
And it's hard to explain,
That every thing I've knows been feeling strange.
I guess we'll always have tradition,
to fall back on!

Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick to you..
Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick to you, Just like Krazy Glue!

Just what the hell,
Am I supposed to do?
Am I just going to accept,
Someone else's point of view?
Yeah, well, we could ramble on and on!
We could ramble on and on!
And still not know...
Still not know...
Just what keeps rolling through my brain?
It just keeps running like a non-stop freight train!
It's that tradition sticks to you!

Just like..
Just like..
Krazy.. Krazy..
Glue! Krazy Glue.

Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick to you just like Krazy Glue!
Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick to you just like Krazy Glue!
Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick,
Traditions seem to stick to you just like Krazy Glue!

There was a time when I could say it right to you
that I was never going to leave this place
but now its "I was wrong"
and "I don't wanna fucking talk about it"
cause it feels like things have changed

Yeah well I could talk, talk, talk
and say I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
but I feel I'm in a place I've never known
and it feels like there's something wrong,
something wrong, something wrong
and I know that I don't wanna know...

And I feel it's like "I'm never going back now"
"I'm never going back now",
And I feel it's like "I'm never going back again"
"I'm never going back again"

There was a time when I would say I must be crazy
that I would say this place is looking strange
but now its "I'm kinda lost" and "I just don't remember"
because things never stay the same...

Yeah,well I could talk, talk, talk
and say I'm wrong, wrong, wrong
but I feel I'm in a place I've never known
and it feels like there's something wrong,
something wrong, something wrong
and I know that I don't wanna know...

And I feel it's like "I'm never going back now"
"I'm never going back now",
And I feel it's like "I'm never going back again"
"I'm never going back again"

Right!

Friday night on coke with a crow bar,
Left at two in the back of Doug's car,
Without a plan and being fucked up,
Looking for somethin', somethin', yeah, for ourselves.

Friday night at three at a side door,
Doug said "Try to get the door just once more."
I said "Man, this all fucked up.
Looking for somethin', somethin', yeah, for ourselves."

Feelin' kinda weird and I'm thinkin' to myself,
Feelin' kinda weird and I'm thinkin' to myself,
"Fuck, Doug,
I'm not going out like this."
He said "Man, I'm all I got and I won't be missed."
And this makes, this makes no sense to me
It ain't the way,
the way its supposed to be.

Right!

Friday night on coke with a crow bar,
Left at two in the back of Doug's car,
Without a plan and being fucked up,
Looking for somethin', somethin', yeah, for ourselves.

Feelin' kinda weird and I'm thinkin' to myself,
Feelin' kinda weird and I'm thinkin' to myself,
"Fuck, Doug,
I'm not going out like this."
He said "Man, I'm all I got and I won't be missed."
And this makes, this makes no sense to me
It ain't the way,
the way its supposed to be.
Yea hey

How's my driving?

He's just like anyone
he's just like anybody
just like anyone
he's just like frank
and I know it
and he knows it
it's his one sided point of view
I know it when he says
it's my way, or the wrong way
and I don't care about you
but to see my side wouldn't be the worst thing he could do
when someone's politic blinds you
and binds you
to something you don't believe in
and he's just like anyone...
and I saw him walking on my way
path third street just the other day
why doesn't he understand views keep changing?

What the fuck
the fuck have I become
I've become the product of the sum
caught in an endless circle
I've become the stupidest man in the world
"Chalk another one up to experience"
y'know it doesn't make any sense
to do it all over again
and then again
then do it all over again
I've become the stupidest man
I think I'm drawing a blank again
this dizziness never seems to end
never seems to end
you know it never seems to end
drunk and sitting in and thinking
change it always seems to come when I'm thinking

Dopeman dopeman's got another big plan
to sell it to you or anyone he can
because this is much better than minimum wage
no matter how things work he's still gonna get paid
think about it for a minute more -
it's either work at McDonalds or the corner store
a quick money fix from a deal or 2
when a decision comes down
what would you do? you take - take a welfare state
or a dopeman's fate
and keep the cycle spinnin' round dopeman dopeman's got the upperhand
people wanna get as much as they can
because those reasons they'll always stay the same
and for some people it's the only way to stay sane
and think about it for a minute more -
a life of crime or hangin' round the liquor store
a quick drug fix to get you through
when the decision comes down
what would you do?

Jen thinks it isn't fair that I don't really care
if she likes me or not
1-2-3-4
and Jen doesn't like to settle
till she makes me feel like Howie Reynolds, yeah
she thinks that I'm all that I've got

Chorus:
No Jen doesn't like, like me anymore
no she doesn't, no
Jen doesn't like to come to my shows
she don't like my whoa-whoa's

Yeah Jen, she don't like me anymore
no Jen, she don't like me anymore
(x2)

Now Jen thinks it isn't fair that I don't really care
if she likes me or not
1-2-fuck-you [alt: 1-2-3-4]
and Jen doesn't like to settle
till [alt: until] she makes me feel like Howie Reynolds, yeah
she thinks that I'm all that I've got

(Chorus)
(fuck you)

Yeah Jen, she don't like me anymore
no Jen, she don't like me anymore
no Jen, Jen, Jen, she don't like me anymore
no Jen, Jen, Jen, she don't like me anymore

Jen, Jen, Jen
Jen, Jen, Jen
no she doesn't fuckin' like me anymore
(x5)
[no, Jen don't like me anymore]

Man its really strange
this city never stays the same
its always
"I've got to keep on moving and I've got to keep on going"
but maybe it's to keep itself sane
that its always
"I've got to keep on going, so I don't have any feeling"
So I'm on my way out of this place that has me turning numb
I'm on my way,
all the feeling in this place has up and gone
so with one hand on the wheel
and the other out the window
with a smile on my face
and my middle finger up
with on hand on the wheel
this city's going crazy
without a care that its all fucked up

Something's not right
Urban sprawl, from urban blight
something's not right
when history turn into a building site
locked out, fenced up, closed down without a sound
Something's not right
when downtown is just all blinking lights
Something's not right
when strip malls and condos are at your every side