so summer is coming, and i have to admit, there is something about summer that makes me want to listen to angsty punk rock music. maybe it's memories of my teenage years of driving around with the stereo cranked, belting every word, and playing drums on the dashboard... Anyway one of my all time favorite records is Teenage Politics by MXPX. the following are a few lyrical selections...
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Sugarcoated Poison Apple
by MXPX
It eats at you, I know
It's so hard to let it go
Let yourself go
Yeah just let yourself go
It consumes you
Can't you see that sin eats everybody
Everybody, sin eats everybody
Even though I know the reasons why
It breaks me down I want to cry
I search for comfort in a friend,
When will my troubles ever end?
Never end?
The Sugarcoated Poisoned Apple
Tastes so good that you can't see
The death and decay that's inside
And what it's done to me
The sugarcoated poisoned apple
Tastes do good how could you know
It's deciteful lies
And where you're gonna go
You won't know
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Do and Don't
by MXPX
I still don't know what I want to do
I'd probably still ask You if I knew
What I'm doing now seems to be okay
If it's Your will if it's Your way
Don't want to have to deal with pointless bureaucracy
Making sure where something goes
Or making sure that you agree
Well I don't even know what my choices are
Should I fly a plane, or should I drive a car?
Nothing's clear to me
My eyes won't do a thing for me
I'll just wait right here 'til I am what I will be
Whatever it is I'm sure I'll know
When the time comes
He will show me what to do
And me where to go
All I've got is a skateboard and a guitar
I go to a lot of punk shows a I drive a car
Wouldn't want to be a president
Don't want to be a king
I just want to ride my skateboard
I just want to play my bass
Every now and then strum a chord,
Sometimes land right on my face
Have you any ideas?
I can't tell by a chart
I wanna do what He wants me to
I'm gonna do my part!
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Teenage Politics
by MXPX
No, I'm not mad but I think they forget
What it's like and how hard it is to be a teenager
This is a new day and age, we read a different book
Where Elvis ain't the rage and polyester ain't the look
And will we change at all when we get old?
Or will we be the same and never do what were told?
Well that depends on you, are you doing the right thing?
It's not about control, it's about you and me and understanding
Teenage politics it's too confusing
Politics shmolitics it's too confusing
Is it time again to disagree
About anything, and everything and what's on tv
It's a vicious circle, never ending
A linear equation worldy extending
No I'll never be like you
I'll never ever be like you
Oh no! I'm just like you!
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The Opposite of Intellect
by MXPX
It seems so hard to get away from last week and yesterday
I have to sit right here and watch it all go by
Is this really happening?
Maybe this is just a dream
When I wake up I'll be someone else
I don't want to grow up, not just yet
I don't wanna have to see your false sense of reality
I don't wanna grow up, not just yet
I don't wanna have to know how to play in your game show
Just don't ask me if you're getting through to me
Just don't tell me the way that you want me to be
You say I'll fit nicely in society
You've only took a superficial look at me
Why can't I say I'm sick of you?
Is it wrong to say what's true?
I'm skeptical about your point of view
Teaching us not to reflect, the opposite of intellect
Don't resist authority and you'll be fine
You don't want me to speak my mind
You don't want me to speak my mind
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False Fiction
by MXPX
They guarantee our freedom
But freedom isn't real
Unless you know Christ
You won't know how I feel
Inflections of the way things were supposed to be
The mental disorder of our society
False, finite ways of thinking
False, fiction they're believing
Entropy is still promoting chaos
It's chaos, it's your loss
Maybe this world has stopped thinking
Maybe all our minds are shrinking
Your failed system is inducing chaos
It's chaos, it's your loss
Building, moving forward, never looking back
Taking what the world has offered, but you forgot the pack
Common sense, logic, science, a humble self esteem
Live to die and die to gain, abort the selfish scene
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Falling Down
by MXPX
You're only interested when your power's threatened
You're only paranoid cause you know what you're doing
You know what you've done and what you're about to do
The conspiracy to your inconsistency
Could it be your Spirit's dead?
Why do you run away when faced with these questions?
I know you know it but you just won't say
You built this conformist system
You built this state and now you're falling down
The conspiracy to your inconsistency
Could it be your Spirit's dead?
Your education teaches us not to resist
Subjects don't question kings
It's disrespect, they slam you in the face with their fist
You'll do anything to keep from falling down!
The conspiracy to your inconsistency
Could it be your Spirit's dead?
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Rainy Day
by MXPX
They just point the finger
They don't care
They don't think
I know you think
Yeah, you think
Where did I go wrong?
What did I do?
Where did I conflict with you?
Yeah, with you
You can't tell me that you care
When you're never ever there
I don't ask a lot from you
But you've got better things to do
You've got better things to do
I thought I knew you
I don't know
Do you just want me to go?
Cause I'll go
Actions over words
To you I'm nothing
You seem so far away
Where are you today?
Don't just put me in a box
Then walk away
Don't just put me in a box
For a rainy day
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Like Sand Through the Hour Glass... So Are the Days Of Our Lives
by MXPX
It seems like every time I get something going
It falls apart right in my hands
It seems like every time I get it figured out and I got no doubt,
That's when I'm farthest from the truth
My world is breaking down around me
I see my destroyed world in front of me
Any and every thing I trusted
I weep for my world, disgusted
But I look to You
Jesus, yes, I do
And I trust in You
I always learn the hard way,
There ain't an easy way to learn
That's what i've learned
Was I taught the right things?
Taught the right way?
I don't know
And that is all I know
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I'm the Bad Guy
Legalistic people suck
Legalism makes me sick
I wonder what makes them tick?
I wanna go puke on it
Ephesians verse 2:8 states
God has saved us not by works but by grace
So what's it gonna take?
There's no getting through to you
I'm way too young to have a point of view
This whole thing just bums me out
Jesus knows my heart
But you don't care
You've already made up your mind
So judge me one more time
I try to change my attitude
But it's really hard
Cause I'm so sick of you
God's gonna pull me through
So what's it gonna take?
There's no getting through to you
I'm way to young to have a point of view
I'll always be too young
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