And if the water dries,
the ground shakes and the sky turns black
If it was all over this minute, this second,
is there something that you’d regret?
If we were written as a story,
actors portrayed us in a movie
Our lives sung in a song on the radio
Would it make you want to sing along?
Would it show us all a reason to stay strong?
at 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
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 till
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
between here, and now, and today, and forever,
and days after that till the very end
And if I could change all that I have become
If I could take all the anger and the hate
and just give it right back to where it came from
I know somewhere I’d find an audience;
I know I’d still find a stage
That would make me want to sing along
That would show us all a reason to stay strong
Do an audience and judgment replace this ticking like a mine?
I look stage left and I look stage right
This is our same move, just a different night
And it goes…
I have lost it all and I have found again
All of my reasons
It’s trickling to an end
Let the saints with me be taken as self-definition
Am I getting through to you?
America
Oh I’m not sick searching in America
And in this we celebrate all that is not okay
I don’t know what I believe in
I don’t know where I belong
So I scream at the top of my lungs
and I run in every direction
The party's over
A cd's skipping
It's the same hook repeating
Grows more grating with each passing second...
And the walls contain a resonation, laughter, and conversation.
It was fun while it lasted, but now we should be going.
And I hope everybody had real, real good time
The hospitality's partaken, my head is flying my heart's racing to keep up.
And I hope I havent overdone it nooo...
I hope my body can take it. I hope I make the occasion.
It's only this fucked up I start realizing
all this living is just dying
and if these are my friends, if this is my home,
if this is how I spend my nights, how I communicate, and demonstrate a love of life.
My eyes roll into the back of my head, if these are the last words that I ever said
No I'm not ready to die just yet.
-Against Me!

writing, procrastinating, music that leaves you thinking afterward, vinyl records, lo-fi demos, Arguments

!, THE BEATLES, John Lennon, Bright Eyes, Sublime, Against Me!, Saves the Day, Bob Dylan, Brand New, Two Gallants, Dead Kennedys, Thin Lizzy, At the Drive In, Okkervil River, the Cold War Kids, Jets to Brazil, Gatsby’s American Dream, Creedance Clearwater Revival, Taking Back Sunday, Elvis Perkins, The Riverboat Gamblers, The Velvet Underground, Catfish Haven, Rancid, Phantom Planet, Langhorne Slim, Tim Barry, Wingnut Dishwashers Union, Pat the Bunny, NOFX, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Plants and Animals, Capgun Coup, The Heavenly States, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Nirvana, Blink 182, Apollo Sunshine, Pink Floyd, Everclear, White Denim, Defiance, Ohio, The Teenage Prayers, Mountain Goats, Neil Young, The Ataris, The Shins, No Use For a Name, The Get Up Kids, Straylight Run, The Doors, Rolling Stones, Regina Spektor, David Dondero, Bob Schneider, Jaymay, Smoosh, Andrew Bird, Kings of Leon, Kimya Dawson, Led Zeppelin, Less Than Jake, Streetlight Manifesto, Jay-Z, The Streets, What Made Millwaukee Famous, Dr. Hook, Death Cab for Cutie, Fontane, Band of Horses, Flogging Molly, Silversun Pickups, The Descendents, Dr. Dog, Otis Redding, Bob Marley, Wilco, The Artic Monkeys, Big D and the Kids Table, Tim Fite, Nightmare of You, Neva Dinova, The Thermals, Lucero, Tom Petty, The Vandals, Scott H. Biram, Micah P. Hinson, Magnolia Electric, Co, Sufjan Stevens, The Elected, Incommunicado, Spoon, Rage Against the Machine, Wolf Mother, Van Morrison, Clem Snide, Coke Vs. Bills, Kevin Devine, RX Bandits, Incubus, The National, Death From Above 1979, Irving, Pink Nasty, I Can Make a Mess Like Nobodys Business, Dynamite Boy, Murder City Devils, Ambulance LTD, The Deadly Syndrome

Bootlegs, Comedies, 80s B-Movies and Independent Movies. The Kevin Smith Jersey Chronicles, Zombie movies, Will Ferrell, Jeff Anderson, Jack Black, Christopher Walken, Vince Vaughn, Ben Stiller, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Tarantino, Johnny Depp, The Virgin Suicides, SLC Punk, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Endgame, Blow, Thank You for Smoking, Knocked Up, American Beauty, Made, Mallrats, Clerks, Strange Wilderness, Step Brothers, Definitely Maybe, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sicko, Superbad, Dark Knight, Sixteen Candles, Can't Hardly Wait, Pulp Fiction, City of God, Detroit Rock City, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Saving Silverman, High Fidelity, Fight Club, Grandma's Boy.

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Office, Lost, South Park, Pete and Pete, Entourage, The Wire, Yes Dear, 30 Rock, Arrested Development, Family Guy, Spaced, Kenny Vs. Spenny, Flight of the Conchords, Futurama, The Colbert Report, American Dad, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Sarah Silverman Program, Squidbillies, Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Stand-up comedy.

I'm open to anything, but Hunter S. Thompson is the king of the typewriter.