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Live the Dream (2011)

Lyrics:

Well, I'm afraid that the circles I've been drinking myself in

Aren't big enough for the vowels that I try to fit inside of them

When I was young I drank too much and I'd be lying if I said

I didn't feel so goddamn young tonight

Maybe too young to ask what's on my mind

Like if freedom means doing what you want

Well don't you gotta want something?

And won't you tell me that we want something more than just more beer?

And my friends, if that ain't true, won't you lie to me tonight?

Well I've been listening to Minor Threat records all day

And shit if I do not know every word; I sing along as I tie off

And Ian screams he's out of step

As I throw the cotton into the spoon, draw up into the syringe

I'll know just what he means until I hit a vein

But after that I won't have to bother

With knowing who I am, for a while at least

In a moment the whole world is gonna melt around me

And I'll swear I don't miss it as a I lie to you tonight

Because I'm afraid to look the world in the eye

If nothing's gonna change, well then, I'd rather die

And I'm too unemployed to organize a union

I'm too intoxicated to tear down a building

I'm too hopeless to look for a solution

I'm afraid that if I found one, I'd be out of excuses

For the way I waste away in the gutters that I chose

Like fashion accessories to go with my dirty clothes

I haven't bathed in months, but you know it's not because

I've been fighting bourgeois morals; I'm just lazy and I'm young

I've seen the best minds of my generation dying drunk or high

From the rooftops to the parking lots

Stomped to death in West Philadelphian squats

They've got me waiting on a day

When we can say "fuck the police!" with a little bit of integrity,

When it'll mean "I've got your back and you've got mine!"

Give me a scene where I believe in more

Than bad hair cuts, guilt, and misery

I don't know where I fit between the vegans and the nihilists

That might be the first thing I've said that wasn't a lie tonight

'Cause there's gotta be something more

Than lying in the front yard naked screaming at the constellations

I want something more than an apology to say

When I look the world in the eye

I'll tell you, man, my friend william came to me with a message of hope

It went, "fuck you and everything that you think you know

If you don't step outside the things that you believe they're gonna kill you"

He said, "no one's gonna stop you from dying young and miserable and right

But if you want something better, you gotta put that shit aside"

I thought about how for thousands of years

There have been people who told us that things can't go on like this

From Jesus Christ to The Diggers

From Malthus to Zerzan

From Karl Marx to Huey Newton

But the shit goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.

Now I'm not saying that we can't change the world

Because everybody does at least a little bit of that

But I won't shit myself: the way I'm living is a temper tantrum

And I need something else, need something else

Need something else to stay alive (ohohoh)

And on the night that I play my last show

I'll be singing so loud that my heart explodes

And I'll be singing, and I'll be singing, "we are free!"

Oh but won't you promise me

That we won't ever forget what that means?

I know it's hard to give a shit sometimes

But promise me we'll always try

Because I don't wanna hate you and I don't wanna hate me

And I don't wanna have to hate everything anymore.

Ramshackle Glory are a punk rock band from Tucson, AZ formed in early 2011. Their music is marked by unconventional instrumentation, an emphasis on lyrical content, and low-quality equipment. The band self-releases music on Savage Wasteland, a collective label run by members of the band, as well as cooperating with friends at Plan-It-X Records and DIY Bandits.

Their debut album, "Live The Dream" (2011), explores addiction, recovery, politics, and friendship in the context of trying to make serious life changes without selling out what's important. The band consists of Disdane on bass, Douglas on banjo, Eric on trumpet, Luke on drums, Nick on accordion, Pat ''The Bunny'' on guitar ( Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, Wingnut Dishwashers Union ) and Wyndham on piano. Andrew Link from The Taxpayers filled in on bass for parts of the summer 2012 tour while Disdane was stuck at home in Arizona, facing down 20 years in prison for standing up against Nazis in Phoenix during November 2010.