Smash

 Smash


Artist: The Offspring

1994 Epitaph Records

Produced by Thom Wilson

All selections by the Offspring unless noted.

Personnel: 

Ron Welty: Drums

Dexter Holland: Vocals/guitar

Greg K: Bass

Noodles: Guitar


Nitro (Youth Energy)


Our generation

Sees the world not the same as before

We might as well just throw it all

And live like there's no tomorrow

There's no tomorrow

We are the ones

Who are living under the gun everyday

You might be gone before you know

So live like there's no tomorrow-ain't gonna waste this life

There's no tomorrow-you ain't gonna live it for me

Believe it

The official view of the world has changed

In a whole new way

Live fast cause if you don't take it

You'll never make it

So if you understand me

And if you feel the same

Then you will know what nitro means

You'll live like there's no tomorrow-ain't gonna waste this life

There's no tomorrow-you ain't gonna live it for me

There's no tomorrow


Bad Habit


Hey man you know I'm really okay

The gun in my hand will tell you the same

But when I'm in my car

Don't give me no crap

Cause the slightest thing and I just might snap

When I go driving I stay in my lane

But getting cut off makes me insane

I open the glove box

Reach inside

I gonna wreck this fucker's ride

CHORUS

I guess I got a bad habit

Of blowin' away

Yeah I got a bad habit

And it ain't goin' away

Yeah

Well they say the road's a dangerous place

If you flip me off I'm the danger you'll face

You drive on my ass

Your foot's on the gas

And your next breath is your last

Drivers are rude

Such attitudes

But when I show my piece

Complaints cease

Something's odd

I feel like I'm God

You stupid dumbshit goddam motherfucker

I open the glove box

Reach inside

I'm gonna wreck this fucker's ride

CHORUS


Gotta Get Away


I'm getting edgy all the time

Someone around me just a step behind

It's kinda scary the shape I'm in

The walls are shakin' and closin' in 

Too fast or a bit too slow

I'm paranoid of people and it's startin' to show

There's one guy that I can't shake

Over my shoulder is a big mistake

CHORUS

Sitting on the bed or lying wide awake

There's demons in my head and it's more than I can take

Think I'm on a roll but I think it's kinda weak

Sayin' all I know is I gotta get away from me

Tell you somethin' just ain't right

My head's all loose but my shoes are tight

Avoiding my friends cause they all bug

Life is like a riddle and I'm really stumped

If you reason don't you know

Your own pre-occupation is where you'll go

I think I'm being followed, I look around

It's only my shadow creepin' on the ground

CHORUS

Gotta get away from me

Gotta get away from me

CHORUS


Genocide


Our lives run different ways

Through the rain I see you in the sun

Our star shines anyway

If you wish upon it we are one

CHORUS

One two three four

Dog eat dog everyday

On our fellow man we prey

Dog eat dog to get by

Hope you like my genocide

I find it's such a shame

Through the pain I see things as they are

We're served up on a plate

The pedestal is high enough to fall

And in time if we can see the errors of our ways

Would anyone change it anyhow?

Our time is up

CHORUS

I bet you'd only run

If you saw what grows inside

Our own

I bet you'd lead the way

If it were up to you to decide

But it's not

CHORUS

Like a silver flame

Like suicide

Like killing boy

One two three four


Something to Believe In


Hmm I especially enjoyed that one. Let's see what's next.

I believe that reality's gone

Disillusion's real

I believe that morality's gone

And there's nothing to feel

If you take the sacred things

Things that we hold dear

Empty promise is all you'll find

CHORUS

Give me somethin'

Somethin' to believe in

Somethin' to believe in

Somethin' to believe in

Somethin' to believe in

I believe in the changin' of the guard

Put our feet on the ground

See it happen in your own backyard

Everything breaks down

Do you accept what you are told

Without even thinking

Throw it all you'll make your own

CHORUS

Where they lead 

You will follow

Well I guess that's just the way it goes

And if you look away

You'll be doing what they say

And if you look alive

You'll be singled out and tried

If you take home anything

Let it be your will to think

The more cynical you become

The better off you'll be

CHORUS





Come Out and Play


You gotta keep 'em separated

Like the latest fashion

Like a spreading disease

The kids are strappin' on their way to the classroom

Getting weapons with the greatest of ease

The gangs stake their own campus locales

And if they catch you slippin' then it's all over pal

If one guy's colors and the other's don't mix

They're gonna bash it up

CHORUS

Hey man you talkin' back to me?

Take him out

You gotta keep 'em separated

Hey man you disrespecting me?

Take him out

You gotta keep 'em separated

Hey they don't pay no mind

If you're under 18 you won't be doing any time

Hey come out and play

By the time you hear the siren

It's already too late

One goes to the morgue and the other to jail

One guy's wasted and the other's a waste

It goes down the same as a thousand before

No one's getting smarter

No one's learning the score

Your never ending spree of death a violence and hate

Is gonna tie your own rope

CHORUS





Self Esteem


I wrote her off for the tenth time today

And practice all the things I would say

But she came over

I lost my nerve

I took her back and made her dessert

Now I know I'm being used

That's okay man cause I like the abuse

I know she's playing with me

That's okay cause I got no self esteem

We make plans to go out at night

I wait till 2 then I turn out the light

All this rejection's got me so low

If she keeps it up I just might tell her so

CHORUS

When she's saying that she wants only me

Then I wonder why she sleeps with my friends

When she's saying that I'm like a disease

Then I wonder how much more I can spend

Well I guess I should stick up for myself

But I really think it's better this way

The more you suffer

The more it shows you really care 

Right? Yeah yeah yeah

Now I'll relate this little bit

That happens more than I'd like to admit

Late at night she knocks on my door

Drunk again and looking to score

Now I know I should say no

But that's kind of hard when she's ready to go

I may be dumb

But I'm not a dweeb

I'm just a sucker with no self esteem

CHORUS


It'll Be a Long Time


All this time has widdled away

Like so many days in one

Back and forth the leaders sway

Backing it up with guns

Superpowers flex their wings

Hold the world on puppet strings

Egos will feed

While citizens bleed

It's always the way it goes

CHORUS

When will the world listen to reason

I have a feeling it'll be a long time

We will the truth be come into season

I have a feeling it'll be a long time

I have a feeling it'll be a long time 

All they want is what they can defend

Before their time is up

Make the same mistakes again

Heard it all before

Superpowers flex their wings

Hold the world on puppet strings

Egos will feed

While citizens bleed

It's always the way it goes

CHORUS

Well if they'd try maybe they'd see

It would do a little good to let the world be free

Handshake and a smile gets you on through

Then turn it all around with the suicide move

But you know it's not foolin' anyone but me

You make yourself see what you wanna see

But you know it's not foolin' anyone but me

You gotta make yourself see what you wanna see

Yeah

I see you

Super powers flex their wings

Hold the world on puppet strings

Eagles will feed 

While citizens bleed

It's always the way it goes

CHORUS





Killboy Powerhead


(Didjits)

He's a pistol grip

And a lightning rod hammer stop

He always busts his knuckles

When he's wrenchin' up his shit

He just a Killboy Powerhead...yeah

You know I saw his woman

She was writing his name in blood

You know I saw his woman

Hard as a rock

She said she was his baby

Who looked just like the Hoover Dam

You know I saw his woman

Hard as a rock

He just a Killboy Powerhead

Killboy Powerhead

Killboy Powerhead

Killboy Powerhead...yeah


What Happened to You?


Before you started tokin' you used to have a brain

But now you don't get even the simplest of things

I can draw a little picture

Or even use my hands

I try to explain but you just don't understand

CHORUS

Man you're really losin' it

And you've really done a lot of junk now

But you keep on abusin' it

What in the world happened to you

It's bad enough you do it

To do it to yourself

But taking someone with you

Well you know that's something else

I say I'm not that kind of person

I'm not that kind of man

I try to explain but you just don't understand

CHORUS

I might be sympathetic or cut a little slack

If I thought that you were willing to give a little back

But you do it in the morning

You do it in the night

You lie to refrain from just facing your life

CHORUS

So I'll see you tomorrow

You'll be gackin' up again

I'll see you in a coffin by the time your wad is spent

I think of all the times that I tried to lend a hand

I try to explain but you just don't understand

CHORUS


So Alone


Look at the crowd and tell me whether

All are surrounded

But none are together

If you're awake, look all around

At all of the people

Still you're so alone

CHORUS

So alone

If I could, I'd make a suggestion

Without sounding preachy

Or begging the question

Melt with your minds

Melt with each other

Don't be surrounded, don't be so alone

CHORUS


Not the One


I'm not the one who made the world what it is today

I'm not the one who caused the problems started long ago

But now I deal with all the consequences that troubles our times

I carry on and never once have even questioned why

I'm innocent

But the wieght of the world is on my shoulders

I'm innocent

But the battles started are far from over

We're not the ones who leave the homeless in the streets at night

We're not the ones who've kept minorities and women down

Still we grow and then the problems they become our own

We carr on without even realizing why

CHORUS

We're innocent

But the weight of the world is on our shoulders

We're innocent

But the battles left us are far from over

We're not the ones whose pollution balcked our skies

And ruined the streams

We're not the ones who made the nuclear bombs

That threaten our lives

We're not the ones who let the children starve in faraway lands

We're not the ones who made the streets unsafe to walk at night

And even if we try and not become so overwhelmed

And if we make some contribution to the plight we see

Still our descendents will inherit our mistakes of today

They'll suffer just the same as we and never wonder why





Smash


Head over heels I've fit in before

Now I don't wanna do it no more

I've held it all in with blood on my face

Built it up man so bad you can taste

I don't slag no one

I don't even judge

Don't give a shit 'cause I'm not gonna budge

I just wanna be who I wanna be

I guess that's hard for others to see

CHORUS

I'm not a trendy asshole

Do what I want

Do what I feel like

I'm not a trendy asshole

Don't give a fuck 

If it's good enough for you

Cause I am alive

Smash is the way you feel all alone

Like an outcast your out on your own

Smash is the way you deal with your life

Like an outcast your smashing your strife

Head over heels I've fit in before

Now I don't wanna do it no more

I just wanna be who I wanna be

I guess it's hard for others to see

CHORUS

Head over heels I'vefit in before

Now I don't wanna do it no more

I wanna be who I wanna be

I guess it's hard for others to see

CHORUS





There. I hope you enjoyed our time together today. You know it seems

harder and harder to just sit back and enjoy the finer things in life.

Well, until next time...ta ta!