Cool to Be You

[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

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

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

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

9 ContributorsOne More Day Lyrics11th track on Descendents' sixth studio album, Cool to Be You, “One More Day” was written by drummer Bill Stevenson about his relationship with his long father.

“He and I always had a terrible relationship.… Read More 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

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 ‘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