Playlist Against Me!

against me! - true trans soul rebel

All dressed up and nowhere to go,
Walking the streets all alone.
Another night to wish you could forget,
Making yourself up as you go along.

Who's gonna take you home tonight?
Who's gonna take you home?
Does god bless your transsexual heart, True Trans Soul Rebel?

Yet to be born or already dead
You sleep with a gun beside you in bed.
You follow it through to the obvious end:
Slit your veins wide open,
You bleed it out.

You should've been a mother,
You should've been a wife.
You should've been gone from here years ago,
You should be living a different life.

against me! - i am citizen

Christ we were dying in the streets running one last anthem
Through your heart. swearing life on liberty i'll take a dream
An ideal die sound in a lonely death. pass this compromise
On...... my regrets to columbus (ga) and nothing more when
Reagan became the final word. just one month later they shot
Lennon dead, will anybody cry for me? all nations claim until
They day that i die, i am citizen. we'll let music rule our
Life, celebrate shortcomings. if it's not angry young and
Beautiful, i don't want any part of it. who do you have to cheat
To get what you want, who do you lie to, to get what you need?
You deserve everything you got coming to you...

against me! - joy

All's quiet, except for this song.
So maybe while I'm not together I can feel like I'm not alone.
And somewhere off in the distance, rapidly advancing, is an onslaught of sorts.
Young sirens wail with a skewed sense of glory.
And the lions in the cages roar at the memory of flight.

And there's a joy, a joy in all I can see.
A joy, in every possibility.

And all around this is a great, great feeling.
American rockets red-glared our most
disgusting triumph.
And in passing I am asked "Do you believe in a God?",
I shrug off the answer and continue to get high in this terror of no explanation.
I am looking for a faith.
My panic is an only reason.

And there's a joy, a joy in all I can see.
A joy, in every possibility.

against me! - all or nothing

We can have a day from here, if you'll take your heart put some
faith in ideals. The bank line will all turn around and rent
will pay itself. You can sleep tonight, little boys in
sweat-shops will again be children and tonight they'll eat the
lions share. Bombing skies will sing silent and the anger turn
to laughter. On the crucifix Christ will turn his head and admit
his own sin he was a martyr for. Your shoulders just as heavy
there is no mercy from three holes and a bleeding forehead
helping my life. Rob the promise and direction given to me.
We're bound to self righteous living. Fingers rapping on the
counter, patience wearing thin. It's just another work week,
arthritis at 18 for a minimum living. Who has time to breathe,
catch it before it's over, catch it before it eats you. Hello
perspective this is just the human condition. It's universal
love my god I think it's spreading. They'll kick you when you're
down. Push you down when you're stumbling. Another day of dying
is just evolution. You said freedom was a hope away an hand or a
hard push. Is this inclusive thinking? We run by a thread, tongue
in cheek idealists. I'm not giving up the claim that I can save
the world and all I need is my friends.

against me! - nuclear cowboys in an age of drift

This is the dumbest movie that I've ever seen
The outcome is predictable
And the casting is so obvious and transparent
Acting for transparent politicians
And with out without your vote, well the election's going to happen
I know it burns in your stomach to feel so cheated
It burns in your stomach to feel there's nothing you can do about it

So we laugh together in the same cynical way
And we'll talk about it in the same beaten down way
And nothing changes

These are the same choices that we've always had
It's the same rhetoric
It's the same campaign promises
Oh, you don't have to buy what they're selling
'Cause with or without your vote, one of these candidates will take office
And everybody's praying to go numb
Everybody's got the same excuses
There's nothing they can do about it

So we laugh together in the same cynical way
And talk about it in the same beaten down way
We laugh together in the same cynical way
We talk about it in the same beaten down way
And nothing changes
Nothing ever changes

against me! - armageddon

One night we lay beside each other
So close to a sweat
With two fans circling overhead
We sleep on borrowed time
And the traffic lights direct empty roads
The stars can't break the city sky
But they still try despite what they know is already true
And tomorrow we'll take aim
Just like a storm waiting for a calm
I can feel everything coming in my chest
My heart's already pounding
My head's on far-off highways
Sixteen years old
On a road that never ends
Might drive into something that looks like a sunset
And it lasts forever
And I never look back

From hoboken to l.a.
From portland to gainesville
From the great plains to niagara
Route 66 straight to california
Electric lights carry the night
We move in 4/4 time
Our feet on wheels and in the sky
Yes we're going, cause we'd die if we stayed here
And those dying dreams will carry what's good and real and pure
And the rest can burn in hell

And for the four-year-old girl found dead in a dumpster
Shot by her mother
Her eulogys the sound of construction through head-to-head traffic
Today is just another day

And me and my friends are just growing into the drunks and the liars that we've always hated
Every shortcoming has trapped us
Every mistake is now our own infinite failure
So we steal every chance we get
Every advantage is taken when no one's looking
We hide behind closed doors
And we don't stop until
We are the people we've decided we should be
I wanna be a shot heard round the world,
fucking unstoppable
This distance is not something we'll regret
From here, and now, and today, and forever
And days after that till the very end

From hoboken to l.a.
From portland to gainesville
From the great plains to niagara
Route 66 straight to california
Electric lights carry the night
We move in 4/4 time
Our feet on wheels and in the sky
Yes we're going, cause we'd die if we stayed here
And those dying dreams will carry what's good and real and pure
And the rest can burn in hell
And the rest can burn in hell

against me! - animal

I was dreaming of your love.
I was lost in your arms embrace.
Our bodies collied together.
Oh, this ultimate betrayal.
The heart will not resign.
What could be said what could be done?
I hold out hope for your reciprocation.

Like an Animal,
these thoughts have gone beyond my control.
For pleasure,
maybe just amusement.

This overwhelming urge.
Towards you I feign disinterest.
While I covet the attention.
While I crave your affection.
Ravenous with lust.
Jackal in heat, spit dripping.
This mechanical impulse knows not loyalty or mercy.

Like an Animal,
these thoughts have gone beyond my control.
For pleasure,
maybe just amusement.

against me! - i was a teenage anarchist

I was a teenage anarchist,
Looking for a revolution.
I had the style,
I had the ambition.
I read all the authors,
I knew the right slogans.
There was no war but the class war.
I was ready to set the world on fire.
I was a teenage anarchist,
Looking for a revolution.

Do you remember when you were young
and you wanted to set the world on fire?
Do you remember when you were young
and you wanted to set the world on fire?

I was a teenage anarchist,
But the politics were too convenient.
In the depths of their humanity
all I saw was bloodless ideology.
And with freedom as the doctrine,
guess who was the new authority?
I was a teenage anarchist,
but the politics were too convenient.

Do you remember when you were young
and you wanted to set the world on fire?
Do you remember when you were young
and you wanted to set the world on fire?

I was a teenage anarchist,
but then the scene got too rigid.
It was a mob mentality,
they set their rifle sights on me.
Narrow visions of autonomy,
you want me to surrender my identity.
I was a teenage anarchist,
the revolution was a lie.

Do you remember when you were young
and you wanted to set the world on fire?
Do you remember when you were young
and you wanted to set the world on fire?

I was a teenage anarchist. (x4)

against me! - borne on the fm waves of the heart

No, its not what we meant to say.
We don?t really love each other.
What happens when the summer?s over?
How long before distance becomes a chore?
Im approaching with great, great trepidation.
I hope you?ll understand.

Before you speak think about what your trying to say.
Who else is there to blame for miscommunication?
Your getting caught up in the excitement.
You making promises you can?t keep.
You need to leave all your options open.

Too much momentum.
This room feels like its going to explode.
Too many angles.
Too many factors to cover.
Waiting for signal.
Your searching for network.
You have to fight to stay in control of the situation.

Anxiety, Anxiety you give me no mercy.
Grind my teeth smoothe and flat in my sleep.
We took some pills to calm us down.
Then we needed help to come back up.
Just trying to stay in control of the situation.

Too much momentum.
This room feels like its going to explode.
Too many angles.
Too many factors to cover.
Waiting for signal.
Your searching for network.
You have to fight to stay in control of the situation.
They fall apart so easily.

Too much momentum.
This room feels like its going to expolde.
Too many angles.
Too many factors to cover.
Waiting for signal.
Your searching for network.
You have to fight to stay in control.
You have to fight to stay in control.
No, you don?t have to fight to stay in control of the situation.

against me! - once pure

I opened my eyes to find my world enslaved, my brothers and sisters rendered mindless, with no desire to free themselves of their own chains.
A potentially beautiful existence had been rendered meaningless. set on a course to worldwide annihilation. but first the destruction and abandonment of everything sacred.
Anything with any real meaning, any real chance of evolution.
Yet they say i'm the one who's blind, cursed with this fucking insanity.
When all this time we could have been free, in the name of anarchy.

Once pure, once clean, once natural, the water was once strong and free.
Once pure, once beautiful, once healthy, the air once breathed life.
The land that sustains our existence has been locked in shackles and chains.
Then raped by the flags and the tyrants. poisoned by the power trips of the insane. so you look around, and you pick your plot and you dig your own fucking grave.
Or you take your stand and you wage your war, in the name of anarchy. a simple objection is not enough, prove your disgust. when all this time we could have been free, in the name of anarchy.

against me! - thrash unreal

If she wants to dance and drink all night then there?s no one that can stop her. She?s going until the house lights come up or her stomach spills onto the floor. This night is going to end when we?re damn well ready for it to be over. Worked all week long now the music is playing on our time. We do what we do to get by, and then we need a release

You get mixed up with the wrong guys. You get messed up on the wrong drugs. Sometimes the party takes you places that you didn?t really plan on going. When people see the track marks on her arms she knows what they?re thinking. She keeps on working for that minimum, as if a high school eductaion offered any other options. They don?t know nothing about redemption. They don?t know nothing about recovery. Some people just aint the type for marriage and family.

No mother ever dreams that her daughters going to grow up to be a junkie.
No mother ever dreams that her daugherrs going to grow up to sleep alone.

She?s out of step with the style. She don?t know where the actions happening. You know the downtown club scene aint nothing like it used to be. You reach a point where there?s not a lie in the world that you could use to make the boys believe your still in you twenties. She?s not waitng for them to come over and ask for the privledge. She can still here that Rebel Yell just as loud as it was in 1983. There aint no Johnny coming home to share a bed with her and she doesn?t care.

No mother ever dreams that her daughters going to grow up to be a junkie.
No mother ever dreams that her daughters going to grow up to sleep alone.

If she had to live it all over again you know she wouldn?t change anything for the world.

against me! - holy shit

I am oh so fascinated,
I am oh so entertained,
standing here like a comedian,
I repeat what I said, again and again and again
until the meaning has become an imitation of itself,
an impression of an original defeats the fucking purpose.
I don't know where this is going,
but it's looking more and more like the same place where we started.

Oh good God, holy shit, joke's on us, not on them.
Just pretending to be astronauts, police officers, and firemen.

Oh good God, holy shit, joke's on us, not on them.
Just pretending to be astronauts, police officers, and firemen.

And everybody's watching the lead singer in the band.
The guitars explode into a drumbeat that's driving.
It's pretty fucking boring, isn't it?
And of all the things we'd ask,
of all the ways we'd like for it to be,
they're just drunken conversations,
song lyrics sung at the top of our lungs so desperately.
I believe in a power that is of and by the people.
I believe in an art that cannot be compromised.
I believe that I will endure, and I will overcome.
And I will sing it until I no longer remember the reason.

Oh good God, holy shit, joke's on us, not on them.
Just pretending to be astronauts, police officers, and firemen.

Oh good God, holy shit, joke's on us, not on them.
Just pretending to be astronauts, police officers, and firemen.

against me! - 8 full hours of sleep

When you sleep,
No one is homeless.
When you sleep,
You can´t feel the hunger.
When you sleep,
No one is lonely in a dream.
Without classes,
Without nations...
When you sleep,
She´s standing there with open arms,
And one night could last forever,
And if you asked her,
She´d never let go,
And you´d stay forever...

And the sun´s always rising
In the sky somewhere,
And if young hearts should explode
From all the lies they´ve been told...

Let the new night bring you peace
And the promise of tomorrow,
Where we can wake to a new beginning.
Tomorrow I´ll all but have lost their faces;
My friends and family,
Memories of all we had
And the times we should have lived,
And tomorrow America just might fall apart.
Tomorrow, tell me,
Where will you wake up?
Beyond title, beyond these careers and laws,
Something more than borders on a map...

And the sun´s always rising in the sky somewhere,
And if young hearts should explode
From all the lies they´ve been told...
To live through one night like this,
I would trade it for the silence...

against me! - ache with me

I've Walked Down High Streets Looking Through Windows
I've been Lost in crowds of strangers
Searched Record shops and cosmetic aisles, phone books
Want ads, bus stops and libraries

Newspaper headlines, mannequin faces,
Television Stations, billboard advertisements
Your voice echoes in the back of my mind
I see your face when i close my eyes

Do you share the same sense of Defeat ?
Have you realized all the things you'll never be
ideals turn to recentment
open minds close up with cinicism
i've got no judgment for you
Come on and ache with me
Come on and ache with me

Through bar rooms, cafés, jail cells and court rooms
theaters, restaurants, graveyards and churches
I've Spent every dollar that i've ever earned
I'll Bleed My heart Out, i'll give every word

I've asked preachers, doctors and lawyers
Socialites, parials, mothers and fathers
You may not find all that you're after
In the end i hope it doesn't matter

Do you share the same sense of Defeat ?
Have you realized all the things you'll never be
ideals turn to recentment
open minds close up with cinicism
i've got no judgment for you
Come on and ache with me

Do you share the same sense of Defeat ?
Have you realized all the things you'll never be
i've got no judgment for you
Come on and ache with me
Come on and ache with me
Come on and ache with me

By Lucio

against me! - americans abroad

Golden arches risin' above the next overpass
These horizons are endless
Americans abroad! Americans abroad!
Profit driven expansion into foreign markets
And while I hope I'm not like them, I'm not so sure

This is the best summer that I've ever had
European Vacation, me and my best friends
Americans abroad! Americans abroad!
Whatever there is to be said is said in English
And while I hope I'm not like them, I'm not sure

Here we are, a rock band looking for new audiences
Wherever we go, Coca-Cola's already been
Americans abroad! Americans abroad!
And I just can't help but think that there's nothing in sight
And while I hope I'm not like them, I'm not sure

against me!