Titus Andronicus

The Battle of Hampton Roads
tonight two great ships will pull back to their ports depleted of everything that shoots flames and reportsand in the morning the shells will wash up on the shoreand the mighty old earth will have no other recoursebut to shiver and shake and make shit in their shortsbecause we have been told "men if you've been assuredthere's a way to live the valley of your forefathers gave you prepare to be told "that shits gay dude", but i guess that what they say is trueand there is no race more human, no one throws it away like they dothe things i used to love i have come to rejectthe things i used to hate i have learned to acceptand the worst of the 3 you now have to expectsatan aint hard to see you without craning your neckhe'll be 70 some inches tall he'll be chugging a beer and grabbing his ballshes the remote explosive waiting for someone to callhe's just 18 for now but hes going to murder us allsome days wanna give a little less than it'll takeis there a girl at this college who hasn't been raped?is there a boy in this town thats not exploding with hate?is there a human alive aint looked themself in the face without winking or saying what they mean without drinking without leaving something without thinking what if somebody doesnt approve?Songtexteis there a song this earth that isn't too frightened to move?i think of all people you got a bullet in your brain when it was nothing but a piece of puddythough try as you may but you will always be a touristand half the time i open my mouth to speak it's to repeat something that i heard on tv and im destroying everything that wouldnt make me more like bruce springsteenso im going back to new jersey i do believe they've had enough of mesomewhere now i leave boston my tail is between my linesafter deep calms of pain we're drunk to the dragsand now im heading west on 84 againand im as much of an asshole as ive ever beenand there is still nothing about myself that i respectstill havent done anything i did not lay to regreti have a hand in a napkin when my love came for sexand thats no one to talk to when feeling depressedand so now when i drink im going to drink to excessand when i smoke i will smoke keep it in hold it in my chestand when i scream i will scream until im gasping for breathand when i get sick i will stay sick for the rest of my days peddling hate at the back of a chevy expresseach one will fly into the face of your idea of successand if this be thy will then fuckin' pass me the cupand im sorry dad no i'm not making this up!but my enemies feel on the name under my wrist as i go to sleep and i know what little ive known of peace until ive done to you what you've done to me.and i'd be nothing without you my darling please dont ever leave me.please dont ever leave Aus Songtexte Mania