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Date Posted: 18:42:46 01/26/04 Mon
Author: Charlie(Cretins)
Subject: CRETINS LYRICS

In case anyone cares (probably not) Dave Short, Bob and I have started another band from the ashes of FMZ tenatively named Cretins at this point. It's a bit of a mix of hardcore/'77 style/Ska from the guitar parts worked out so far. Dave and I have been writing some songs, and we now have some lyrics (and I think they're probably some of the better ones I've worked on for a while...the FMZ lyrics were really starting to get dirt dumb). So here they are for the curious and the critical- who no doubt will insult the "simple" rhyme schemes without offering an alternative method (or offering up their own undoubtedly elegant prose). What the fuck am I supposed to do? Make every seventh line rhyme? Or maybe not rhyme at all! That would be so cool! Anyhow, here they are. Enjoy (or not)-

Charlie

HUMAN IS A HARD WORD TO DEFINE

Let that Old Glory fly
just like a missile through the sky!
Fund bombers for the reich,
sit back and enjoy the airstrike.
And all of us who do dissent,
best fear the government-
because by now it seems
they've killed alot of human beings.
they say that

Human is a hard word to define
when you're at war with all mankind
there's alot of oil that should be mine
and they're sitting on it
Human is a hard word to define
when you're filthy rich politician slime
pulling off your war crime
"now let's be honest..."

Media lens seem to distort
propagandize and don't report,
they justify this insanity
in a tribute to vanity.
Did it ever go through your head,
all the helpless civilian dead?
Because by now it seems
you've killed alot of human beings
they say that

Human is a hard word to define
when you're at war with all mankind
there's alot of oil that should be mine
and they're sitting on it
Human is a hard word to define
when you're filthy rich politician slime
pulling off your war crime
"now let's be honest..."

You live in the land of the free,
so respect your country-
each damn atrocity, bomb and bullet.
This is the American way,
and it goes on today,
You think we bought this land? We fucking stole it!

BOZEMAN

I was stoned in Bozeman, caught up in the past
living in my memories of times not meant to last
and I was feeling cornered- pushed right to the brink
I tried to catch a feeling and put it down in ink
the situation was desperate- like an urgent call to arms
or how I almost lost my mind between the town and farms
there's no room for poets in a clean and happy home
but they don't cry, don't ask why, they only fly alone

Make sure ties are severed
when you hit the road
and never pledge forever
when it's such a heavy load

I was stoned in Bozeman, it was a sunny day,
I tried to exorcise my demons, but they wouldn't go away
Somewhere out on Seventh I met a Christian man,
who gave me a green Bible when I shook his hand
it offered few solutions- but that didn't matter much
I just quickly walked on by and thanked him for the crutch
I was stoned in Bozeman, with nothing else to do
I was stoned in Bozeman, but I was living, too.

Make sure ties are severed
when you hit the road
and never pledge forever
when it's such a heavy load

NO PAY, NO PRIDE, NO PURPOSE

It's four O'Clock on Front street
and all the booze is gone
He stumbles past the Raven
heading to the Pawn
his brother's in the Army
somewhere overseas
but it doesn't matter
because he treats him like disease

"Ignorance is bliss when you live in pain,
spending all day praying that you'll go insane
nothing else is easy, life is getting tough,
no pay, no pride, no purpose- I think I've had enough"

Then he walks to the bridge
and looks over the side
thinking of those waters
and all the tears he cried
he starts to lunge forward
dwelling on the past
all those old memories
of times when he could laugh

"Ignorance is bliss when you live in pain,
spending all day praying that you'll go insane
nothing else is easy, life is getting tough,
no pay, no pride, no purpose- I think I've had enough"

His body gets closer
to falling down below
What was his reason?
Who can really know?
but then he steps back,
then he steps away,
he decides against it-
he won't go today.

FALL DOWN TO THE DUST

The years go by much faster
now that you're fifty-two
and looking back it seems
that there wasn't much to do
you lived for each paycheck
spent it all on booze
cashed in all your dreams
and the wife that you abused

Your children feel shame at the mention of your name,
and you're far below their trust,
Your life's begun to rot, so down another shot
and fall down to the dust.

The days blur together now
like memories from your past,
all your hopes and all your dreams
were never meant to last,
the ticking clock rules your life
just like it did before,
lost in your complacency
for you there's nothing more

Your children feel shame at the mention of your name,
and you're far below their trust,
Your life's begun to rot, so down another shot
and fall down to the dust.

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