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Cool to Be You

Descendents

2004 Released

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Digging into Cool to Be You - what's your favorite track or standout moment? 🤘

1

Talking

02 : 27

2

Nothing With You

02 : 31

3

She Don’t Care

01 : 51

4

’Merican

01 : 51

5

Dog and Pony Show

02 : 28

6

Blast Off

02 : 27

7

Dreams

02 : 56

8

Cool to Be You

02 : 24

9

Maddie

03 : 06

10

Mass Nerder

02 : 47

11

One More Day

03 : 33

12

Tack

02 : 21

13

Anchor Grill

03 : 03

14

Dry Spell

02 : 43

Track Lyrics

’Merican Lyrics

[Verse 1]
We flipped our finger to the king of England
Stole our country from the Indians
With God on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own
A nation dedicated to liberty
Justice and equality
Does it look that way to you?
It doesn't look that way to me
The sickest joke I know
[Chorus]
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid American
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
[Verse 2]
I come from the land of Ben Franklin
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman
Otis Redding, Ellington
The country that I love
But it's a land of the slaves and the Ku Klux Klan
Haymarket riot and the Great Depression
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam
The sickest joke I know
[Chorus]
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid American
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
[Bridge]
I'm proud and ashamed
Every Fourth of July
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride
[Verse 3]
Now the cops got tanks, 'cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pushin' pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go
[Chorus]
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid American
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid American
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home
Finish up your drink and go home

Dog and Pony Show Lyrics

8 ContributorsDog and Pony Show LyricsAnother night of maybe and almost
Abandoned in a land of passing ghosts
Just a lot of sad people, forgive them, Lord
They don't care what they do or who they do it to
At the dog and pony show
They don't wanna know
To think I could have stayed home
Instead of watching this ugly lust and ordinary dirt
But no one cares so nobody gets hurt
Just a lot of sad people, forgive them, Lord
They don't care who they do or what it does to you
At the dog and pony show
They don't wanna know
They're doing some blow
They all stand in line and take their chances
Ropynhol and robot dances, dying to get off
There's a lot of pretty girls here looking tight
They're not good girls but they're good for the night
They're telling me to buzz off
Well, that's okay because I never liked them anyway
It's no place for a mongrel mutt like me
Mating rights go to the best of breed
Just a lot of sad people caught in between desire and despair
I guess I'll see you there
At the lost and lonely dog and pony show
They don't wanna know
They don't wanna know
They don't wanna know
So afraid and alone

Blast Off Lyrics

6 ContributorsBlast Off LyricsStay away from the chili verde
Unless you want to get blown away
Treat the spider with a little respect
You take the heat, it's gonna bite back
Blast off at Cape Canaveral
Toilet seat is your launching pad
Blast off at Cape Canaveral
Four, three, two, one, blast off
Capsaicinoids are a thing to avoid
Unless you want to burn in that 'roid
We'll be laughing and rolling on the floor
When we hear you screaming through that door
Blast off at Cape Canaveral
All systems go
Blast off at Cape Canaveral
Four, three, two, one, blast off
Jalepeno, habenero
Burning all your hair down there-o
Picinu, vindaloo
They're gonna getcha, they're gonna getcha too
You know those red things in the kung pao?
Don't say I didn't warn you now
Take the time to pick them out
Or the spider gets grouchy and it's time to count down
Blast off at Cape Canaveral
Blast off at Cape Canaveral
Blast off at Cape Canaveral
Houston, we have a problem
Blast off at Cape Canaveral
Four, three, two, one, blast off

Dreams Lyrics

6 ContributorsDreams LyricsWhy do I daydream, why do I get my hopes up at all?
I've been living this Walter Mitty life for too long
Somebody save me, I'm a prisoner of my own fear
Sometimes fantasy is the only thought I can bear
My mind is a dream-filled balloon, dripping dreams into my shoes
And I'm too afraid to move to face the real world
And when I fall, I fall down hard, when will I ever learn?
Don't take your dreams to heart, you'll only wind up getting burned
Well, maybe I'm lazy but circumstances always knock me down
So I'll just lie here, never get up off the ground
But maybe it's crazy to sit and think of all the things I wanna do
What's the use in dreaming when dreams never come true?
And when I fall, I fall down hard
When will I ever learn?
Don't take your dreams to heart
You'll only wind up getting burned
Why do I daydream?
Why do I daydream?
Why do I bother?
Why?
Time to get up off your ass
Pull your head out, take a chance
Grab whatever you can grab
There's no such thing
Why do I daydream?
Why do I daydream?
Why do I bother?
Why?
Time to get up off your ass
Pull your head out, take a chance
Grab whatever you can grab
There's no such thing
Time to get up off your ass
Pull your head out, take a chance
Grab whatever you can grab
There's no such thing
Time to get up off your ass
Pull your head out, take a chance
Grab whatever you can grab
There's no such thing
No such thing

One More Day Lyrics

9 ContributorsOne More Day Lyrics11th track on Descendents' sixth studio album, Cool to Be You, ā€œOne More Dayā€ was written by drummer Bill Stevenson about his relationship with his long father.
ā€œHe and I always had a terrible relationship.… Read MoreĀ Spent the last years in denial of my grief
Because you hated me, anyone could see
I'll always wonder what I meant to you
And why you hated me, what I did to you
And I can't get anywhere
Pretending that I don't care
Lying to everyone I see
When the only thing I needed was
One more day like yesterday
I'd pick you up, you'd put me down
Wish you were still around
For one more day like yesterday with you
And in the end we didn't have a thing to say
Still those games to play, then you passed away
I'll always wonder why you had to leave
Why you hated me, then laid the blame on me
Cold antiseptic stares
The smell of the sickroom air
Yeah, I let you go down there
The only child who never cared
About one more day like yesterday
I'd pick you up, you'd put me down
Wish you were still around
For one more day like yesterday with you
I'll always wonder if I could have meant more to you
I'll always wonder if I could have done more for you
How I could just turn my back, how I could just walk away
How I could just close my eyes and watch you die
We never got along
We never got a chance
To sing our song of love
I loved my daddy boy, did you love your boy?
Oh, you feel so warm to me now, it's cold in this room
Tomorrow they'll put you in the ground
Then there's nothing I can ever do
To have one more day like yesterday
I'd pick you up, you'd put me down
Wish you were still around
For one more day like yesterday with you
One more day like yesterday
One more day like yesterday
One more day

Anchor Grill Lyrics

5 ContributorsAnchor Grill LyricsLove in our hearts
We didn't know the world is complicated
Gleam in our eyes
Time would show just what our love was made of
Who knew the way things work
In this world we've made for ourselves?
Where I work myself to death
And you raise the kids
Can't we try to amend our path of struggle for a while?
To pretend our lives are free and carefree still
And that I just fell in love with you
At the Anchor Grill
Money and time
We didn't know they'd be so hard to come by
Look and you'll find
We didn't know that's just some fabled school rhyme
We'll never get ahead in this world
Not ā€˜till we move ahead of this world
We've made for ourselves
Where there's no time to kiss, no room to even breathe
Can't we try to amend our path of struggle for a while?
To pretend our lives are free and carefree still
And that I just fell in love with you
At the Anchor Grill
It's our life
It's standing right in front of me
It's our time
And we know the way we wanna be, can't you see?
So let's drop the kids at your folks
Let's go
Where it's never too late for breakfast
And everything's gonna get better
Can't we try to amend our path of struggle for a while?
To pretend our lives are free and carefree still
Cause I just fell in love with you
At the Anchor Grill
Yeah, at the Anchor Grill
I love you still
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