"Infefted"
 
Now here I go,
Hope I don't break down,
I won't take anything,
I don't need anything,
Don't want to exist,
I can't persist,
Please stop before I do it again,

Just talk about nothing,
Let's talk about nothing,

Let's talk about no one,
Please talk about no one, someone; anyone!

You and me
Have a disease
You affect me,
You infect me
I'm afflicted,
You're addicted
You and me,
You and me

I'm on the edge,
Get against the wall,
I'm so distracted,
I love to strike you,
Here's my confession,
You learned your lesson,
Stop me before I do it again

Just talk about nothing,
Let's talk about nothing,

Let's talk about no one,
Please talk about no one, someone; anyone!

You and me
Have a disease
You affect me,
You infect me
I'm afflicted,
You're addicted
You and me,
You and me

You're clear
As a heavy lead curtain
Want to drill you
Like an ocean,
We can work it out,
I've been running out,
Now I'm running out
Don't be mad about it baby,

Yeah, yeah, yeah [x7]

You and me
Have a disease
I want to tie you, (You affect me)
Crucify you (You infect me)
Kneel before you, (I'm afflicted)
Revile your body (You're addicted)

You and me
We're made in heaven (Have a disease)
I want to take you, (You affect me)
I want to break you (You infect me)
Supplicate you, (I'm afflicted)
With thorny roses (You're addicted)

You and me
Are incurable (Have a disease)
I want to bathe you, (You affect me)
In holy water (You infect me)
I want to kill you, (I'm afflicted)
Upon the alter (You're addicted)
You and me
You and me

"Television"

Featuring Tim Armstrong of Rancid
 
Television, television, television, television
Television, television, television, television

I know, oh yeah! I want to bask in your golden light,
submerge in electric waves,
I need my connection to the world outside

The world outside is buzzing like an angry wasp in summer,
the candidates are running, and soon the son of God is coming,
crackle mental convolutions tune in to the revolution,
whereby everyone's included so we'll never have to be alone

Television, television, television, television
Television, television, television, television

You know, oh yeah! I want to bask in your golden light,
submerge in electric waves,
I need my injection to the world outside

Yeah! Every atom of my body, blood and sinew, bone and fibre,
I can't distil you from my blood, you're a hungry germ inside of me,
you're my lover, my heroine, my conscience and my voice,
and I know that I have learned to let you in I'll lever have to be alone

Television, television, television, television
Television, television, television, television

We know, oh yeah! I want to bask in your golden light,
submerge in electric waves,...

I'd take after my mother but she's from a different generation,
I prefer my big brother he's so gentle and understanding,
and I learn what I can from him by the television light,
so that when I'm all alone I know everything's gonna be alright
yeah alright!

Television, television, television, television
Television, television, television, television

"Individual"
 
individuals run for cover,
for the multitudes of thoughtless clones have reached a critical mass,
individuals hide in fear, under cover,
sheltered by the wafer thin veil of intelligence

individuals, nowhere to be seen

urbana is oozing like a bloated carcass,
with maggots cooking in the desert heat,
oozing, with progeny writhing and desperate
for input from someone more determined

congregating in invisible circles,
half apart and half apart,
all too aware of the insignificance,
pushing on with soul and heart

individuals don't pray for forgiveness,
when pinned up against the wall under siege of persecution,
individuals command exception,
and accept dichotomy,
maybe you can't choose anymore

procreation without gain or purpose,
languid wills and torped minds,
catapulted ever faster by the arrow of time

"Hooray For Me..."
 
Well I can see my teenage father
Standing straight on a desolate corner
In the shadow of tentacled towers
By the red light of America
I imagine how his mother felt
When she heard that her husband was dying

And that underground heroes of the tarmac
Shooting smack were blowing up worlds
and damned out loud
Hey, can you tell me how does it feel?

Yeah, tell me
Can you imagine
For a second
Doing anything
That you don't have to?
Well, that's what I'm accustomed to
So Hooray for Me…
And fuck you!

When I slept with stony faces on the riverbank
my angel-devil reveler shook me desperately in dying
I don't exactly want to apologize for anything

And now we're all mad and tangled
In secret rooms with roman candles
On an endless graveyard train

Yeah, tell me
Can you imagine
For a second
Doing anything
Just cause you want to?
Well, that's just what I do
So Hooray for Me…
And fuck you!

Yeah, I was dreaming through the "how’s life",
Yawning car black in my mind
When she told me "Mad and meaningless as ever..."
And a song came on my radio like a cemetery rhyme
For a million crying corpses in their tragedy
Of respectable existence

Tell me
Can you imagine
For a second
Trying half the things
You ever wanted to?
Well, that's just what I do
So Hooray for Me…

Oh, yeah
I'm unrespectable
Never sensible
Maybe incredible
So damned irascible, and
I like the things I do
So Hooray for Me…
And fuck you!

"Slumber"
 
So, you're feeling unimportant,
'Cuz you've got nothing to say.
And your life is just a ramble
No one understands you anyway

Well, I got a piece of news son,
That might make you change your mind
Your life is historically meaningful
And spans a significant time

Slumber will come soon
And you are helping to put it to sleep
Side by side we do our share
Faithfully assuring
That slumber will come soon.

Well, now do you feel a little better
Lift up your head and walk away
Knowing we're all in this together
For such a short time anyway

There is just no time to parade around
Sulking, I would rather laugh than cry
The rich, the poor, the strong, the weak
We share this place together
And we pitch into help it die
We pitch into help it die!

I'm not too good at giving morals
And I don't fear the consequence
If life makes you scared and bitter
At least it's not for very long

Slumber will come soon.

"Marked"

Featuring Jim Lindberg of Pennywise
 
if I'm a monster,
I am a willing one,
this roller coaster ride is an enticing one,
on the tip of a continuum flowing wavelike
through disorder carry me like a vessel to water

everything you see leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you feel leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you make leaves a mark on your soul

if I can touch it,
I can destroy it,
if it's imaginable to some degree,
I can become it,
like a hungry turning vortex that just flickers to existence,
consuming bits and pieces until I'm finally extinguished

everyone you see leaves a mark on your soul,
everyone you bare leaves a mark on your soul,
everyone you touch leaves a mark on your soul,
everyone you love leaves a mark on your soul

everything you take leaves a mark on your soul,
everything you give leaves a mark on your soul,
and all the fear and loneliness that's impossible to control,
and every tear you cry leaves a mark on your soul

"Inner Logic"
 
Automatons with business suits swinging black boxes,
sequestering the blueprints of daily life
contented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ritual
as they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky

I don't ask questions, don't promote demonstrations,
don't look for new consensus, don't stray from constitution
if I pierce the complexity I won't find salvation
just the bald and overt truth
of the evil and deception

there is an inner logic,
and we're taught to stay far from it
it is simple and elegant,
but it's cruel and antithetic
and there's no effort to reveal it

graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos
in sagacious dialog they despise their average ways
betraying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution
where they practice exclusion on the masses every day

decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavement
simulating tyranny under red alert
protecting the opulent and staging moral standard
they expect redemption of character and self-growth

(no equality, no opportunity,
no tolerance for the progressive alternative...)

"What It Is"
 
there's a purpose, there's a goal,
there's a virtuos, and immoral,
there's a reason for all of this,
and I don't know what it is

I am one, and plural too,
I accept them but they exclude,
I could make sense of all of this,
but I don't know what it is

the seeds of inspiration never germinated in my mind,
the beacon of awakening is somewhere that I can't find, so
I don't know what it is

there's a beginning, and there's an end,
there's a climax, some would contend,
there's a way to signify this,
but I don't know what it is

"21st Century (Digital Boy)"

"Stranger Than Fiction" Version
 
I can't believe it, the way you look sometimes
Like a trampled flag on a city street, oh yeah
And I don't want it, the things you're offering me
Symbolized bar code, quick ID, oh yeah

Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to live but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery? Yeah

I can't explain it,
the things you're saying to me
It's going yayayayayayaya, oh yeah

Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to read but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery? Yeah

Tried to tell you about no control
But now I really don't know
And then you told me how bad you had to suffer
Is that really all you have to offer?

Cause I'm a 21st century digital boy
I don't know how to live but I've got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle class intellectual
My mommy's on valium, so ineffectual

Cat's Foot, Iron Claw (21st century digital boy)
Neuro-surgeons scream for more (21st century digital boy)
Innocents raped with napalm fire (21st century digital boy)
Everything I want I really need (21st century digital boy)

Ain't life a mystery? Yeah

The Gray Race (1996)



1.   The Gray Race
2.   Them And Us
3.   A Walk
4.   Parallel
5.   Punk Rock Song
6.   Empty Causes
7.   Nobody Listens
8.   Pity The Dead
9.   Spirit Shrine
10.   The Streets Of America
11.   Ten In 2010
12.   Victory
13.   Drunk Sincerity
14.   Come Join Us
15.   Cease