If You Got The Money

Put your money on the dresser
And get yourself clean

You can borrow my razor

If you know what I mean

Take the stash from the night-stand

And cut me a line

If you got the money

Then I got the time

I can stay if you want to 

I got nowhere to be

We can stay up late talking 

Or drift off to sleep

We'll make love in the morning

You can finish inside

If you got the money

Then I got the time

Don't you say that you love me

I ain't got the cause

To be nursing a heart that's

As battered as yours

Leave your money on the dresser

And it'll be fine

If you got the money 

Then I got the time

All You Fascists Bound To Lose

 Let me tell you fascists

'Cos it ain't getting through

It ain't white lives don't matter

It's that black lives matter too

You're bound to lose

You fascists are bound to lose

So you're coming for the black folk

You're coming for the Jews

Rest assured your overlords

Will be coming for you too

You're bound to lose

You fascists are bound to lose

Let's take back our country

Says the leader of the whites

And you know he's got your back

Because that's where he keeps his knives

You're bound to lose

You fascists are bound to lose

I see you at the stock exchange

I see you printing press

I see you running scared

From the educated left

You're bound to lose

You fascists are bound to lose

There's good and bad in all of us

That's the human condition

But you push the good too far

And man you're gonna wish you didn't

You're bound to lose

You fascists are bound to lose

I Fucking Hate Everything

I fucking hate everyone

I fucking hate everyone

They say, always be merry as you can

For few will delight in a sorrowful man

But I fucking hate everyone

I got a whole-world-is-a-mess and an

Everyone's-a-dick kind of a feeling

I got a pain in my heart

And two-aching feet in my shoes

I got mouths to feed and bills to pay

And a wife I'm sure is cheating

I got the dreaming-I-was-someone-else-

And-just-woke-up-abruptly blues

I fucking hate everywhere

I fucking hate everywhere

There ain't a bar in this town or the next

That don't make me wanna slit my wrists

I fucking hate everywhere

So take your positive vibes

Your happiness, your contentment, your pleasantries

I know you got crap

Take your all-is-well, self-help,

Citizen of the world Instagram

Self-improvement's masturbation

So take your guided-meditation

Put it with your kambucha-enema

And shove it up your ass

Punk Ivo

Ivo,

You ain't so evil

It's just some people

Make you wanna die

And I can't blame you

I feel the same, too

And I can't claim to

Know how to make it right

Ivo,

These things ain't simple

Things don't always equal

The sum of their parts

But you don't mind getting

Deep 'bout your depression

If there's a chance of helping

Someone else's heavy heart

So I'm on your sofa

Four cans of a six leftover

'Cos I couldn't help but open

Two cans on the way

But you got that Dutch gold

And you got a crate-load

And it's already in the fridge, cold

So let's drink 'til the light of day

Put on some NOFX

Some early Mike Ness

Discuss the likeness

Between the Kennedy's and the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster

Jelle Biafra

And what he did after

The Dead Kennedy's shafted

Him for a Levi's ad

oOOO-ooOOOoO- ooooOOOOo

Happy Birthday to

YoOOOU-ooOOOoO- ooooOOOOo

I heard punk kids like country, too

I hope punk kids like country, too

The Last Fuck I Can Give

It's late December

We're waiting on January the 1st

It's been a shit year and it's already clear

That the next one will prob'ly be worse

So goodbye, good riddance

Here's the last fuck I can give

I'm too sad for this shit

At least I don't have to worry

'Bout impressing your folks

Your dad is a jerk and your mama ain't worth it

Your brother gets none of my jokes

And I ain't gonna worry 

About you and your man

I ain't gonna clean up my act or pretend to

I'm not even sure if I can

I just ain't gonna think

About you and him together

I ain't gonna think of the things that I did that you loved

That I know he does better

I ain't gonna sit up

All night in my car

Outside your house on the chance you come out

Just to torture my labouring heart

And I ain't gonna worry 

'Bout what's in these pills

The man on the street says they've helped him to beat

All his demons and even some angels

So goodbye, good riddance

Here's the last fuck I can give

I'm too sad for this shit

Well, I ain't gonna kill myself

At least not tonight

See I've always believed that there's something in leaving

When something ain't turning out right

So I'm packing up the trunk of my car

With what little shit I've got left

Get behind the wheel take a few of these pills

And pray for a natural death

Goodbye, good riddance

Here's the last fuck I can give

I'm too sad for this 

We're Losing

You didn't love me the way you promised me you would

You done me one too many times and now I'm done for good

I've taken all the high roads but now I'm running out of gas

I put my head down on the chopping block and handed you the axe

If love is just a game

We're both on the same team

And we're losing

I could tell you stories about spots on a leopard's skin

Or wolves that dressed up just like sheep so the shepherd let 'em in

I could sing for hours all the songs you used to love

I know you know every word but you won't sing along

If love is just a game

We're both on the same team

And we're losing

I could give you loving that'd burn right through your skin

Tear you into pieces and then make you whole again

But I ain't got the money and you ain't got the time

A good soldier saves the wounded but he leaves the dead behind

If love is war

What are we even fighting for

But if love is just a game

We're both on the same team

Either way

And we're losing

Angels With Broken Wings

I hope you're doing alright

I hope that life ain't got you down

But if it has, you know it's alright

These things'll always turn around

Sometimes you're holding things together

Sometimes they fall apart

Sometimes you're broke, sometimes you're beat-up

Sometimes you get a broken heart

You gotta make mistakes first

Before you ever get it right

We're all just angels with broken wings

Trying to get by

We're all just angels with broken wings

Trying to learn to fly

I have sat there in the darkness

By the light of a cigarette

With an all-consuming sadness

And a gun to my head

Sometimes you laugh until your face hurts

Your belly muscles get so sore

You fall down, roll around

And you can't help but laugh some more

You gotta make mistakes first

If you're gonna be forgiven

We're all just angels with broken wings

That's the human condition

We're all just angels with broken wings

And there ain't no way to fix 'em

It's always harder at night

Under the sadness of the moon

I would stay up all night

In the darkness of your room

If you wanted me too

Sometimes you don't have any money
Other times you're flush
Money comes and goes
Along with good luck and love

But hope it springs eternal

That's just the way it goes

And you'll always have me

Just so you know

You gotta make mistakes first

By now you'd think we'd know that well

We're all just angels with broken wings

Trying to make a heaven from a hell

We're all just angels with broken wings

I'll see you all in hell

Ballad From A Pine-Forest Mountain

I'm running I'm running
Them Lynch Boys are coming for me
Wind blows, I know,
I lick my finger know they're gunning for me

Head down head down
Don't want to get it blown
They're packing pistols, hunting rifles
One guy's got a sawn-off

There's a tracker in among them
They hired just to find me
See I got a reputation for
Moving quick and moving lightly

One-hundred-thousand, hundred-thousand
That's the price upon my head
And that's still okay when it's split five ways
Even with the tracker's share

So they're coming, they're coming
With white spit and cursing me
Blistered by the sun and
Calloused by the wind blustering

Hunkering, hunkering
Down in their saddles
Wearied with fear and
Tired from travel

It's a hard road, a hard road
Up this pine-forest mountain
They're wondering if it's worth it
All this hurting for some bounty

But they're still chasing me, chasing
And dawn's barely breaking
I'm moving fast through this mountain pass
Where their horses won't make it

So they're heading out on foot now
And that tracker
Is getting the feeling
Something bad's gonna happen

I'm a pine needle
In a forest stacked with pines
I ain't afraid of no man
And I ain't afraid of dying

It's a good man, a good man
That fears his own death
Living in a bad man's sin
Through his obedience

And that's a debt to pay come judgement day
And that's why they're scared
I know heaven is a mountain pass
And I'm already there

So I'm skulking and stalking them
I hear them talking
'round their campfire each man's a liar
But they're all falling for it

Their stories are enormous
Each bigger than the one before
Unsavoury false-bravery
And they make my skin crawl

You'd think God, himself, was scared of them
By the way that they talked
The roughest and the toughest
But they don't know what they're in for

So one by one by one
They say good night and lay their heads down
The last one throws the kettle
On the fire to put the flames out

And then I sneak among them
Close enough to smell their breath
And I slit every one of their throats
Right there where they slept

An Angel In A Black Dress

My woman had a baby
Barely four months in
Tiny toes and fingers
Flailing little limbs
This world is tough on stronger things
He did not stand a chance
His heart stopped beating
In the back of the ambulance

We were living on a campsite
By the beach in Hastings
We wrapped her in a washcloth
Borrowed a shovel from a friend
Found a spot out on the beach head
That was sheltered from the wind
I dug a hole about three feet deep
And we laid her in

I still don't know what my little boy meant
When he said he saw an angel in a black dress

Courage is a funny thing
You can't be brave if you ain't scared
There's love to tend the sadness
Like there's thread to mend a tear
This life was made for living
But we don't all get the chance
Ain't always easy being happy these days
But I am doing the best that I can

Picking Out A Stone

There's only so
Many fights
A boy can throw
Before the shame takes hold

The broken glass
Of a boy's shattered pride
A lie only lasts
Until the truth gets told

If you need me you know where to find me
If you want me - well you won't
I'll be in the graveyard or outside below your window
Either way I'm picking out a stone

There's only so
Many times
A boy can fall
Before he can't get up

It takes a lot
Of Sunshine
To build a dawn
to let the darkness up

Clothes on a rail, fridge unplugged
Books on the shelf
you ain't finished reading
Old LP's, broken TV
There ain't a good bye
As clean as just leaving

I Want It All

I wanna go swimming in the watering hole
I wanna go swimming in the watering hole
I wanna go swimming in the watering hole
But the watering hole is dry

I want fishes on my fishing pole
I want fishes on my fishing pole
I want fishes on my fishing pole
But the fishes they won't bite

I'm knocking on your door and talking to your mama
I'm knocking on your door and talking to your mama
I'm knocking on your door and talking to your mama
She says you ain't coming out to play

So I'm out in the street fist-fighting with your daddy
So I'm out in the street fist-fighting with your daddy
So I'm out in the street fist-fighting with your daddy
He was a prize-fighter in his day
Nothing seems to go my way

My woman gave another man a piece of her heart
My woman gave another man a piece of her heart
My woman gave another man a piece of her heart
So I gave 'em both a piece of my mind

I hurt 'em bad and put 'em in the trunk of my car
I hurt 'em bad and put 'em in the trunk of my car
I hurt 'em bad and put 'em in the trunk of my car
Now the trunk of my car's stuck shut
Oh fuck

I want love but I ain't that pretty
I want friends but I ain't that fun
I want love, respect, fame, money and glory
I want it all
But I ain't got none

(Lord, Have Mercy On A) Ramblin' Man

Lord, have mercy on a ramblin' man
Because The Devil knows his name
He's singing these songs to anyone who'll listen
He ain't looking for fortune or fame

Lord, have mercy on a ramblin' man
Keep him a long way from the cops
'Cos if The Lord knows something 'bout a ramblin' man
It's that a ramblin' man won't stop
No he'll never stop

His eyes are smiling through the thrift and the flack
He's got the sun on his face and the wind at his back
If he sleeps at all, it's out in the open
The only thing he knows is to keep going

Lord, have mercy on a ramblin' man
'Cos there's a woman on his case
She's trying to change the ways of this rambling man
But a rambling man don't change
He'll never change

So, Lord, have mercy on a ramblin' man
Because he walks this life alone
You can give him your heart if you want to
But his hearts out on the road
It's on the road

His eyes are smiling through the thrift and the flack
He's got the sun on his face and the wind at his back
Wherever his heart is now you know it's probably broken
The only thing he knows is to keep going

Lord, have mercy on a ramblin' man
'Cos it's a long road to the grave
He's as handsome as he's funny as he's modest and clean
He's a sure fine soul to save

Lord, have mercy on a ramblin' man
Turn his feet into the wings of a bird
Make him a joke to anyone who needs a laugh in this world
And ears to those who need to be heard

His eyes are smiling through the thrift and the flack
He's got the sun on his face and the wind at his back
His feelings are buried down deep but his scars are showing
The only thing he knows is to keep going

Lord, have mercy on a ramblin' man
Keep him a long, long way from death
Keep the blood in his veins and the air in his lungs
Keep these crazy ideas in his head

'Cos his eyes are smiling through the thrift and the flack
He's got the sun on his face and the wind at his back
It's killing him, this life he has chosen
The only thing he knows is to keep going

Mortgages & 9-5's

She said I was crazy
Living like I do
I said I cannot imagine what it's like being you
She said she wished she'd lived more
And she said I was brave
And I laughed to myself 'cos I feel like I'm always afraid
Mortgages and 9-5's are scarier than just running away

Her eldest kid got cancer
And he died at 23
I'm sad that he died but I'm glad it was not me
'Cos ain't that just the way the world works
We're all counting down the days
We just dance across the dirt as best we can all the while the music plays
Mortgages and 9-5's are scarier than cancer anyway

These days money's like religion
And God's a venture-capitalist
He's peddling a heaven or a house as big as his
I know I was born with nothing
And I'll probably die the same
But I don't need nothing more than I was born with anyway
Mortgages and 9-5's are scarier than Hell-fire anyway
Mortgages and 9-5's are scarier than just running away

Ain't Life A Beautiful Thing

She called the police
Told them I was drunk
Told them I had hit her
They pulled up on the lawn
They didn't press no charges
I pleaded self-defence
They told me I should leave her
Told her not to call again

Ain't life a beautiful thing

She don't kiss me no more
Unless I tell her to
She sleeps with her back to me
Or in a separate room
She says that she hates me
Sometimes things get rough
She says that she'll leave me
But she ain't got the guts

Ain't life a beautiful thing

Well, she went and set fire
To the trailer in our back yard
Where I kept all my records
And all but one of my guitars

Ain't life a beautiful thing
Ain't life a beautiful thing

Time To Go

I got a mama and a papa and a hometown in the back of my mind
But I been a rambling man since I's a rambling child
When I was just six years old
I packed a little bag and headed out on the road
Mama came and got me that night but man it was a sign

When it's time to go
You know it's time to go
Ain't nothing in this world gonna hold me back
When it's time to go
It's time to go
I don't know where I'm going but I know I ain't coming back

The dark side of my heart that always feels like it's losing
Whispers to me in your bed pretends it knows what its doing
It wakes me from a dream
Tells me it's time to leave
People like me we just gotta keep moving

When it's time to go
You know it's time to go
Ain't nothing in this world gonna hold me back
When it's time to go
It's time to go
I don't know where I'm going but I know I ain't coming back

It don't matter how you get there 

If you drive real slow

Or if you run so fast 

Your feet don't touch the road

What matters is you get there any way that's right by you

But if you want my advice kid pack-up and run

Cos it's already started and you ain't that young

Run out on this idea of time before it runs out on you

Old men like me, we get stuck in our ways

We're tryin t' justify our lives before we get in our graves

It's always worth staying for something

Good money, good food or good loving

But I'll be a rambling man for the rest of my days

The Ragged & The Raw

Where best friends are like brothers and every bet is everything or bust
Where kids meet up at night trying to survive on just excitement fear and lust
But Joey's got a car now so we just drive around
It's a brand new Friday night, same old shit-hole town
Djonno says he's in love again and this time it's gonna last
I'm sitting in the backseat watching the whole world blur past

The bars in this town have got a certain kinda draw
It's the street-rats and alley-cats playing demons and gods
It's the disgusting, broke and busted, the ragged and the raw
It's the strange, deranged and barely sane running on a different kind of blood
It's us

The streetlights of a parking lot shine down upon a smile
Of a pretty little thing dressed up with all her friends to set the night on fire
She comes over to the car leans on my window, smiles and says she got me some
She licks her finger, dips it in a bag and rubs it on my gums
She's laughing when she's asking, "What we doin' tonight?" I smile but I don't know
Then we all get out the car, leave the headlights on and crank that radio

The bars in this town have got a certain kinda draw
It's all these street-rats and alley-cats playing demons and gods
It's the disgusting, broke and busted, the ragged and the raw
It's the strange, deranged and barely sane running on a different kind of blood
It's all these vampires, ghosts and werewolves, all these creatures time forgot
It's the hired guns living on the run too desperate to get caught
Its the thieves that haunt this midnight like shadows in the dark
And it's the kids out in the streetlight with their hands in their pockets
It's us

The Sun goes down, the wolves come out, the stars just lay there laughing in the sky
You know that they could help you if they wanted to but they won't even try
This town'll read your fortune if you let her but her deck's a little light
The kings and queens are all out chasing aces and they're dressed up to the nines
There's kids out in the moonlight banging drums with other people's broken bones
There'll be a murder at midnight, some'll scream and some'll just hold up their phones
There's bodies in the backseats and there's blood running through these cobblestones
But it's Friday night, and ain't nobody going home

The bars in this town have got a certain kinda draw
It's all these street-rats and alley-cats playing demons and gods
It's the disgusting, broke and busted, the ragged and the raw
It's the strange, deranged and barely sane running on a different kind of blood
It's all these vampires, ghosts and werewolves, all these creatures time forgot
It's the hired guns living on the run too desperate to get caught
Its the thieves that haunt this midnight like shadows in the dark
And it's the kids out in the streetlight with their hands in their pockets
It's the type of premonition that you feel deep in your gut
It's all these bad decisions all these twists in the plot
It's the dopers and no-hopers and their razors are sharp
They got barbed wire for bootlace and in the bare-knuckle brawls
They will beat you til you're bloodless til you're begging them to stop
On beat-up couches and park benches kids are riding their luck
You got boys breaking in to bra straps like an old bank vault
And you got girls going down just as the sun's coming up
It's us

Normal

Sometimes I feel
Like I'm falling when I'm just sitting still
My mind overrides what's real
Like I'm breaking

I lie awake in my bed
Half-wishing I was dead
'Cos I can't catch my breath
Or stop shaking

My friends they all ask me how I'm feeling
I say I'm fine but then they just repeat it
They know there's something there they just can't see it
It's like a ghost

There's mould on the seal of my fridge
And it's been there pretty much since I moved in
It would only take a second to clean
But I don't

Another lonely night
Drinking out of boredom
Wondering what it's like
To feel normal

Sometimes I have this dream where I'm lost out at sea
And I'm drowning in a maelstrom of my making
I scream and look around and I see all my friends are drowning
And there's nothing that I can do to save them
So I just give up
Then I wake up
But I don't get up
Even though I want to

Dutch Cassidy

This life is like a rodeo
We're just a couple of clowns
Pretending to be cowboys waving
Guitars around

We'll play the old saloon
You'll chase that skirt
We got out heads in the clouds
And our feet in the dirt

We got deaths to die
Lives to live
We got tales to tell
We got songs to sing
I wish all my songs were more like his
You be Dutch Cassidy
I can be the Sundance Kid

This life is like a circus
We live for moonlight and crowds
We live on peanuts and praise
And beer to wash it down

You taught me 'bout the sideshow
And you let me hang around
Our heads are up there with the ferris wheel
Our feet are on the ground

All my life I felt like a
Setting sun
All the dust I kicked up with my boots
Just settled on my lungs
For every setting sun a morning comes
Rising like a ghost
From the bones of dusk

So pour me out another
I ain't ready to go home
I got a few more in me
So let that tape roll

And if we never make no money
At least we'd never have sold out
Just a couple of cowboys
Waving these guitars around

Laying On The Edge Of Forever

I swear I see galaxies forming
Shining from the blacks of your eyes
We got something between us I can't explain
But it sure feels nice
Baby, I think I love you and it's only been a night
Baby, I think I love you and it's only been a night

We got the smell of each other on the bedsheets
Clothes strewn across the floor
My heart's skipping beats like
It's never kept a rhythm before
We got streetlights reflecting off the mirror
Landing like moonlight on the bed
We got a night's-worth of sweat and a
Life's-worth of dreams in our heads
It's like we're laying on the edge of forever and I ain't even scared
It's like we're laying on the edge of forever and I ain't even scared

There's condensation on the window pane
Keeping the whole world out with just a mist
As we lay I trace the lines on your hands
With my fingertips
My body feels completely exhausted
But I don't want to rest
I want one more beautiful smile
One more kiss
I don't know a thing about love but I'm pretty sure this is it
I don't know a thing about love but I'm pretty sure this is it

Don't talk to me about tomorrow morning
I know it's coming 'round
I'm racking my brains thinking of ways
To make the Sun stay down
And don't you dare bring me coffee in the morning
Wearing my shirt and nothing else
'Cos that sounds like Heaven and men like me
Don't handle Heaven so well
For every second spent in Heaven there's a minute in Hell
For every second spent in Heaven there's a minute in Hell

So leave your number on my dresser
I promise never to call
I'll put it with all the others
In the back of my drawer
And I'll go out again tomorrow evening
Probably still a little sore
I can't even tell you what it is
That I'm looking for
But I found it with you like I found it with 100 before
I found it with you like I found it with 100 before

Deep, Dark Love

We only went out to get coffee, but I went and set you off
You're screaming blue murder like you're gonna burst a lung
Now everybody's watching you tear a hole in me
But ain't nobody know how sweet you can be

All my friends tell me to walk away
And I know all your friends tell you the same

If our love is like a freight train, we're both tied to the tracks
I know you need a hero well I need one just as bad
If our love is like a river, I'm gon' let it fill my lungs
'Cos I wouldn't mind drowning if it felt like love

All my friends tell me to walk away
And I know all your friends tell you the same
But ain't nobody know what it's like in this love
In this deep, dark love

So hit me with you hardest, go on make this one hurt
'Cos it ain't nothing more than we deserve
Then come over here and hold me like you won't ever let go
And I'll show you a love that nobody else will know

It's like our souls have shared a thousand lives
All my flaws in yours and yours in mine
But ain't nobody know what it's like in this love
In this deep, dark love

I know I should drink less and you know you should too
But if you forgive me baby I'll forgive you