Destruction By Definition (1996)



1.   New Girl
2.   S.O.S.
3.   Break The Glass
4.   No Face
5.   Hey!
6.   Our Time
7.   Too Much
8.   Islands
9.   The Real You
10.   Face Values
11.   Punk Out
12.   Vans Song
13.   Insecurities
14.   Inside/Outside
15.   Zero
16.   So Long
17.   I Don't Wanna Hear It / Hidden Track

"New Girl"
 
Yeah!

Well, I can't wait to tell you all about her.
All about my new girl.
(He can't wait to tell you 'bout his new girl.)
And I can't wait for you to hear me shout it.
All about my new girl.
(He can't wait to tell you 'bout his new girl.)

Ahhh

When we were together,
You tried to break my heart.
So, you always did your best
To keepin' us apart.
And now you're dead and gone.
I got a new thing going.
Can't wait to see your face
When you and your friends show up.

So, I got a (A NEW GIRL!) [4x]

Something makes you think that you're some kind of winner.
So, you wanna get married and cook somebody's dinner?
So, you're makin' fun of my 'cause I'm young and got no money.
You've got no time for school 'n books.
You've got no time to study.

Well, I can't wait to tell you all about her.
All about my new girl.
(He can't wait to tell you 'bout his new girl.)
I can't wait for you to hear me shout it.
All about my new girl.
(He can't wait to tell you 'bout his new girl.)

THE NEW GIRL!

So, I got a (A NEW GIRL!) [x4]

Hey! [x16]
Ahhhhhhhhh

You're the type of girl that any guy would die for.
That's the way it looks
And I'm really glad to think so.
Sunk into my friends and your popularity.
But you never ever took the time to see the real me.

Well, I can't wait to tell you all about her.
All about my new girl.
(He can't wait to tell you 'bout his new girl.)
I can't wait for you to hear me shout it.
All about my new girl.
(He can't wait to tell you 'bout his new girl.)

THE NEW GIRL!

So, I got a (A NEW GIRL!) [x4]

He can't wait to tell you all about.. (THE NEW GIRL!) [x4]
THIS ONE!
NEW GIRL!

"S.O.S."
 
I take a look around I don't like what I see
A bunch of people who don't know shit about UNITY
I see right through your skin, you say you see through mine
Then please explain to me why we fight all the time

I can't take it anymore, this is bothering me
Got people killing each other
Why does this have to be?

I wish I knew, I really wish I knew
How people see there's no real difference between me and you

It's a bomb with a short fuse
And I know it seems like no use
The tension's building a reaction
This is a call to action
S.O.S. we need help [4x]

Man's inhumanity towards another man
It's man's insanity and ignorance again
And now the time has come to stop what's going on
The hatred's build up, exploding like a bomb!

It's a bomb with a short fuse
And I know it seems like no use
The tension's building a reaction
This is a call to action
S.O.S. we need help [4x]

Say bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb it's gonna pop
Say bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb it's gotta stop
[4x]

It's a bomb
It's a bomb!

(Go!)

It's a bomb with a short fuse
And I know it seems like no use
The tension's building a reaction
This is a call to action
S.O.S. we need help [4x]

Drop! [8x]

"Break The Glass"
 
There's somethings about myself I can't control yet
It happens time and time again when I'm trying to be
Well I smash it down I break it down when I'm trying to be
Well it's a shame it's sad to say there's nothing to see there

Well I don't wanna talk about it
You know I can't live without it
It's a stupid fucking shame
and every time I think about it I think that I'm so lame

I break the glass
I break it down
[x4]

Go!

What's your story? What's your sign? No I can't agree
Well you know you'll never get it in this life for free
You can blow it down and break the glass, break my heart in two
But you better be prepared, it's such a shock there's nothing there

Fill me up because I'm empty.
Why couldn't I just have kept me?
You know it really fucking sucks...
and when I try to talk about it the words seem to get stuck

I break the glass
I break it down
[x4]

Down!

I break the glass
I break it down
[x4]

"No Face"
 
I know, They know
Don't drink, Drive slow
Insane, No Brain
Dress down, Look Plain
Big Fun, No gun
No girl, Gotta run
flipside, Can't hide
Can't think suicide

Is there anybody out there?
Does anybody know?
Is there anybody out there?
(DOES ANYBODY) Does anybody know?

Been there, No where
done that, get square
I'm hip, No lip
Dig this, my tip
Punk's dead, see red
Life sucks, DEADHEAD!
No race, No face
still there, same place!

Is there anybody out there?
Does anybody know?
Is there anybody out there?
(DOES ANYBODY) Does anybody know?

Well, I don't know where I went wrong
And I don't know if I can wait that long
But every time I hear that another kid died
Through a senseless act of violence it makes me wanna cry

Is there anybody out there?
Does anybody know?
Is there anybody out there?
(DOES ANYBODY) Does anybody know?

"Hey!"
 
Hey! What's goin' on?
Hey! What went wrong?
Hey! I don't know why?
Hey! I might as well try!

Let's go!

Well, I looked around this crazy world and tried to make some sense of it
Robbed a bank and stole a car and tried to put some dents in it
And everybody is playing games I don't know what to make of it
Don't play your stupid games 'cause you know I don't need that fucked up shit

Well, no one ever told me I was gonna get older
Turned 21 and I thought my life was over
Took a long time to get to where I am now
And I'm not gonna sit around wondering how, NO!

Well I listen to your fuckin' shit I can't make any sense of it
'Cause what goes in does not come out, you've gotta put two cents in it
You're just a blob of fuckin' jell you're brain is floating out in space
and if your eyes was worth a quarter - I'd get twenty-six cents back in change!

Well, no one ever told me that the grass would be greener
I've done a lot of things since the last time that I seen her
No one ever told me it would be this way
That's why you can't make any sense out of anything I say, NO!

(Junkie little punk!)

My world is crumbling and I don't know what to do
It's falling down around me 'cause I'm thinking of you
If we take a look at what we call our world today
Are our morals on decline or have we all gone insane?

Insane, (INSANE) [3x]

Hey! What's goin' on?
Hey! What went wrong?
Hey! I don't know why?
Hey! I might as well try!

"Our Time"
 
I got no time!

(I got no time!)
How can it end when it never began?
Said why can't I win when I know that I can?
Said it seems that we've forgotten about the mess were in
Which way do we go, and was there ever a plan?

Well, it seems I'm gettin' old ya see
And I can't avoid responsibility
Stuck in a box of popular belief
And it feels like somethings wrong with me!

I've got no, I've got no time!
(I've got no time for myself)
I've got no, I've got no time!
(I've got no time for myself)
I've got no, I've got no time!
(I've got no time for myself)
I've got no, I've got no time!
(I've got no time for myself)

Do we have a function?
Tell me, is there something?
Is this my assumption?
Tell me, is there something?
Do we have a function?
Tell me, is there something?
{Life is} nothing but consumption
Tell me, is there something there!
Oh yeah!

(I got no time!)
How can we help when we don't know where to begin?
You say you're fighting the system yet you got sucked in
You say you dropped out of the race, cause you never fit in
It a racist power structure, do we call it human?

Well, it seems I'm gettin' old ya see
And I can't avoid responsibility
Stuck in a box of popular belief
And it feels like somethings wrong with me!

I've seen through all the years
(and through all the tears)
I've seen my share, it makes me feel like
No one even cares
I've seen through all the years
(and through all the tears)
I've seen my share, it makes me feel like
No one even cares

Do we have a function?
Tell me, is there something?
Is this my assumption?
Tell me, is there something?
Do we have a function?
Tell me, is there something?
{Life is} nothing but consumption
Tell me, is there something there!
There!
There!

Seems like no one even cares!

"Too Much"
 
When the extra weight hits my brain I feel like I'm going insane-
that's when the hand of god cuts my cord,
that's when I feel like Jah the Lord
My heart is pumping blood into my head,
It feels just like a thousand pounds of lead
And, the right half of my body has gone numb...
I think it's too much, a little too much for me
I think it's too much for ME!
When the monster inside my head is tellin me I'm better off dead
That's when my mind's turned upside down
that's when you wish you weren't around
My head is telling me that it's not right,
your face is such an unfamiliar sight
And, when I'm flying high as a fuckin kite,
I think it's too much, a little too much for me
I think it's too much for ME!
Take another drag to kill the pain of your
meaningless existence this godforsaken
place, where everyones a sellout but
they're also a fuckin burnout, they---
thought it would be the best way
to enhance your mind, Jay.
See, I went home and I turned on the T.V. cause I had the time
I look at all this bullshit, all this muggin and crime
war, death,disease,famine what's it all worth!
I started to lose it by the time I started losin my mind
So I got to the JAH, and I got to the J.
I get to the spliff, and I got in his way
the same frame of mind!

"Islands"
 
You tell me that you've found a better way
I tell you that it isn't fucking sane
Everything that I wanted has broke down
They all think that I'm just a fucking clown

Everybody's telling me I gotta move faster.....
Everybody's telling me I'm a fucking bastard!
All my dreams were just islands in the sky. [4x]

I tell you that the world's a scary place
You tell me we're caught up in the same race
Everybody's worried that they'll never get their share
I get left behind cause I wasn't ever there

Everybody's telling me I gotta move faster.....
Everybody's telling me I'm a fucking bastard!
All my dreams were just islands in the sky. [4x]

They all think I'm mad
Everything I just had broke down.
[x2]

Everybody's telling me I gotta move faster.....
Everybody's telling me I'm a fucking bastard!
All my dreams were just islands in the sky. [4x]

"The Real You"
 
The word "real" is defined as what really lies inside
you're not the person I once knew,
You're not the you that I'm used to
all this wool is buggin' my eyes and I never realized
behind that plastic shell, you cannot even tell.
I can't come in 'cause you won't let me break through the mask of who you really are.

You let down your shield, it's your best defense,
It won't devastate you, it's really hard...
For me to tell you everything I want to say to you
But you never knew the real me....
and I'm sure I never knew the real you

I wanna see the real you! [x6]

Conflicting spheres of interest pose a threat to who we are.
And where we want to be, we just can't see
We throw the walls up around ourselves.
Our visions are dulled and doubtful
It's our double standards
That'll wrap us up inside ourselves and never let us out....

I wanna see the real you! [x6]

Motherfucker!
Fucking Bitch!
Hypocrite!
Ahhh!
The Real You!
I wanna see the real you! [x6]