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Punk's not dead
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It just deserves to die
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When it becomes another stale cartoon
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A close-minded, self-centered social club
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Ideas don't matter, it's who you know
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If the music's gotten boring
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It's because of the people
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Who want everyone to sound the same
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Who drive bright people out
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Of our so-called scene
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'Til all that's left
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Is just a meaningless fad
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Hardcore formulas are dogshit
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Change and caring are what's real
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Is this a state of mind
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Or just another label
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The joy and hope of an alternative
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Have become its own cliche
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A hairstyle's not a lifestyle
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Imagine Sid Vicious at 35
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Who needs a scene
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Scared to love and to feel
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Judging everythng
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By loud fast rules appeal
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Who played last night?
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"I don't know, I forgot.
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But diving off the stage
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Was a lot of fun."
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CHORUS
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So eager to please
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Peer pressure decrees
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So eager to please
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Peer pressure decrees
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Make the same old mistakes
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Again and again,
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Chickenshit conformist
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Like your parents
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What's ripped us apart even more than drugs
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Are the thieves and the goddamn liars
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Flipping people off when they share their stuff
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When someone falls are there any friends?
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Harder core than thou for a year or two
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Then it's time to get a real job
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Others stay home, it's no fun to go out
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When the gigs are wrecked by gangs and thugs
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When the thugs form bands, look who gets record deals
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From New York metal labels looking to scam
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Who sign the most racist queerbashing bands they can find
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To make a buck revving kids up for war
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Walk tall, act small
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Only as tough as gang approval
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Unity is bullshit
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When it's under someone's fat boot
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Where's the common cause
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Too many factions
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Safely sulk in their shells
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Agree with us on everything
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Or we won't help with anything
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That kind of attitude
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Just makes a split grow wider
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Guess who's laughing while the world explodes
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When we're all crybabies
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Who fight best among ourselves
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CHORUS
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That farty old rock and roll attitude's back
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"It's competition, man, we wanna break big."
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Who needs friends when the money's good
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That's right, the '70s are back.
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Cock-rock metal's like a bad laxative
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It just don't move me, ya know?
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The music's OK when there's more ideas than solos
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Do we rally need the attitude too?
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Shedding thin skin too quickly
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As a fan it disappoints me
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Same old stupid sexist lyrics
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Or is Satan all you can think of?
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Crossover is just another word
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For lack of ideas
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Maybe what we need
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Are more trolls under the bridge
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Wil the metalheads finally learn something-
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Or will the punks throw away their education?
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No one's ever the best
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Once they believe their own press
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"Maturing" don't mean rehashing
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Mistakes of the past
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CHORUS
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The more things change
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The more they stay the same
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We can't grow
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When we won't criticize ourselves
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The '60s weren't all failure
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It's the '70s that stunk
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As the clock ticks we dig the same hole
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Music scenes ain't real life
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They won't get rid of the bomb
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Won't eliminate rape
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Or bring down the banks
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Any kind of real change
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Takes more time and work
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Than changing channels on a TV set
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CHORUS
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Chickenshit Conformist
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Dead Kennedys |