Less Than Jake

Unless you could see inside my head, you couldn't possibly understand I'm happier when things are falling apart at the seams and you'd never know just by looking at me and I'm strung out on the future and burnt out on the past sometimes I'd rather just burn th...

Let me give you some insight into my insides I haven't been this confused in such a long time you can't believe I've spent just losing my mind I can't believe that 10 years have really gone by it's been a long time Had a plan for every year I've been alive a m...

Man this town will drive you insane, check my thoughts to check my brain, hold my wallet like it's glued. In one square block it'll tell you what it thinks of you. And there's nothing you can do, and all that's left to say, and all that's left to say now, is f...

There's an old man at the very end Of the parking lot leaning on his car and Drinking beer and laughing out loud Before my head starts spinning around, As I try to find a place to take a stand But only wind up sitting anyplace I can With DIDJIT's song stuck in...

Jenny, Jenny who can I turn to You give me something I can hold on to I know you'll think I'm like the others before Who saw your name and number on the wall Jenny I've got your number I need to make you mine Jenny don't change your number 8 6 7-5 3 0 9 (8 6 7...

When it all came down, on that saturday night, should I choose a side, at 9th at Pine. Can we still say we're civilized, watched some kid down at 9th at Pine... which will it be? Sympathy or apathy, which part of the human condition will I believe. Tried then...

Al said goodbye to his mom and dad for the first time in his life tonight left the house and walked out to the waiting car outside and somehow he thought they'd never understand that nothing lasts and he just knows that time is just spinning by and life is pas...

You think its strange, that there's a way of how you looked, and how you act, and how you think pretend they're not the same as you. Do you know about her strength in convictions or how she puts all her faith in religion. Did we take the time to really d...

This one goes out to the kids who drove 6 hours in a stolen car, then missed the show. This one goes out to never losing sight of all the "how it's been" and "how it was." Here's to just sinking the ship and not giving a shit. Here's to sinking fast with every...

What the fuck the fuck have I become I've become the product of the sum caught in an endless circle I've become the stupidest man in the world "Chalk another one up to experience" y'know it doesn't make any sense to do it all over again and then again then do...

I think, I think I know it all, but can I be sure of the things I've grown to know, and can I say I know it all, when rules just guide me to blindly follow and things are automatic when you see them everyday is it the same routine or my fucked up dreams, that...

Late at night I can see so clearly They see right through me And I know that ten years before I was the kid at the corner store and I still know And at that age things are so confusing And no matter what I tried I still wound up losing. are things still that c...

Well the scene here he wants her back he's trying to use the phone she's hanging up he's given up he should've known looking lost then he wanders off and tries to sing along to some song he's never heard but just keeps mouthing all the words It gets worse befo...

By this time tomorrow You’ll be out on the streets of Chicago Walking all the way home from commuter trains By this time tomorrow You’ll be back at home in Chicago At the bars until they close Back at places that you’ve known and It’ll be skylines and rooftop...

Wonder what hold things together Is it political positions or maybe superstitions The list goes on forever It seems to go on forever Are old rituals necessary to stand by How many things just to get us through the night And can we say their wrong altogether Th...

Sometimes, I think something's wrong with me because I was never one to believe in anyone or anything it's always been just me. and y'know they've always had big plans for you just to walk you through and cloud your views and I'll never say that everything's...

Breaking down from every insult that you've taken from one sided conversations Burning out from all the minor misconceptions that just play on your frustrations your self doubt has your head so turned around there's not a catch phrase that can save you and it'...

If only my problems were like water they could be boiled away and watching the steam drift upward, watching my problems drift away. And watch the steam turn and twist, watch it all drift away. Look how it rises and lifts watch my problems drift away. If only m...

Isn't it funny that it all comes down to money Running on a treadmill, wasting time Keeps you too busy to lose your mind I was blindsided out on the street The tension was so thick I could hardly even breathe And I don't like the way things are going down I do...

So here let's talk about the boomtown facts You've got stick up kids coming right at my back Two blocks of reasonable rent and it's only getting smaller And the rest of boomtown is only getting taller You've got ten miles of traffic and three hundred miles of...

i remember every bridge i ever jumped off blindly And all my boring stories keep reminding me 'cause in all honesty i used to be an authority on irony and remembering my broken dreams and everything that used to be around and it's not so complicated to ex...

Danny says that he got caught up in all the talk of how it used to be and he says "I never used to mind" that same lame line "it's just you and me" Danny says that he's so boring now since he figured out that back in the day really says"..how I remember this,...

Do the math Because you only have so many hours Left to make it count Subtract the fact First you have to figure out what life is Really all about You can count the minutes and you can avoid the seconds You can call the standards Forgetting all your...

Dopeman dopeman's got another big plan to sell it to you or anyone he can because this is much better than minimum wage no matter how things work he's still gonna get paid think about it for a minute more - it's either work at McDonalds or the corner store a q...

Downbeat, downbeats coming for you Everythings gone that you once knew. Trying to rely on what things used to be And trying to live up to your responsibility. Everythings fucked up that you see. Downbeats coming for you And it's coming for me. Trying to rely D...

Just good ol' boys Never meaning no harm Yeah, well all they ever saw was the trouble with the law Since the day they were born Flat in the curves Straight on the hills Someday the mountain might get'em But the law never will Making their way,any way they now...

Step it up my life spent round the clock has got me running on a treadmill with no time to stop and competition has put a price on time, see all the people you left behind and step on all the people that have fell behind, competition has put a price on time. M...

Dear mom and dad, I’ve been making plans To leave this house and yes I’m sure So lock the door, and turn the front porch lights out After all the endless fights The who’s been wrong and who’s been right We just never saw eye to eye So there’s no need to apol...

And I I wonder if you'd understand if I said I'll never go never go along again And if I told you all that I believe in and gave you my reasons and always had an answer an honest answer for all of them sometimes you just want to belong at any loss or any cost...

Got on the 47. Transfer to the 89. Left town, east-bound pass, saw the city size. You know its hard, to leave your past behind, as I pass the crummy bars, and beat up cars, nothing will change your mind. By now, think I've found Things changed just d...

I fell asleep last Saturday Underneath polluted skies I walked alone in those Jersey nights And I Saw the board walk start to fall The emptiness starts to drown The quiet corners of this town tonight Late last night I made my plans It was the only thing I f...

Focus a moment On the message sent The anthem of a generation Based on degradation and resent Where money and power And being the man of the hour Has left communication Left it standing out to sour We fucked ourselves again  

This map hung up on the truck stop hallway door is looking worn and I can hardly read it anymore I feel like I'm a speck thrown on the map and I can't help my urge to laugh I never used to feel like that Well I'm half awake half a world away all my past mistak...

Second street west of 39th Tries to sleep But he only winds up walking all night Tries to remember when his head was right... Sees his breath in the corner light He walks away from his life He tries to find... Third street east of 49th Can't sleep She always s...

So you think of what it could've been when "time is all you've lost" keeps burning through your head now you fall asleep standing but lie awake in bed watch the clock drag on and think about what you should've said It's for the better your better half is gone...

How does it feel to be under the eyes watching so closely buy what you can't have what'd you have wish I could everything you have and you wonder where your friends have gone how's it feel to have just a few ones wish you had more than the one you had everythi...

How many things that you believe Are straight out of TV and magazines And when comfort comes before truth Can you say that you never knew, Sitting in front of your TV, Do you believe the lies Given to us from another time And can you say that everything is fin...

Happyman smiles almost every single day, too numb to notice that he's walking in a haze, he's pushed himself here and doesn't know what to do. Choked by the clock and he doesn't know what to do. I say, you say, you say its work, yeah its work all day. Happyman...

He got in his car and told himself to drive gotta leave it all behind if he wants to feel alive 19 and lost and never thought he'd ever leave this place vacant mind from endless grind so what's to lose anyways Another fast food job? Another 8 to 5 day? Ten min...

And just outside I can heard the sounds of the early morning street becoming way too loud and the hum of the engines of the cars on the street And with this cigarette that I just lit as I pass the 53rd St. Bridge Right now the world just seems too big so sit...

Just talked to this girl, used to live, yea, on my street. After all these years you're here, and you remember me. She said her old boyfriend packed up and headed back east. But she always knew some day... he would go. She just got a new job and sh...

Friday night on coke with a crow bar, left at two in the back of Doug's car, without a plan and being fucked up, looking to get something for ourselves. Friday night at three at a side door, Doug said try to get the door just once more I said man this all fuck...

I'm sleeping right in the middle of a good dream when all at once I wake up from somethign that keeps knocking at my brain before I go insane I hold my pillow to my head and spring up in my bed screaming out the words I dread I think I love you! Thi...

Don't call me Rich don't call me George just call me cheez that's who I am Civilized? yeah until the keg runs dry and he's tried to drink from 9 to 5 then from 5 to 9 always drunk and going crazy you better believe it chesterfield where the kegs never dry it'...

When all the things that you've been thinking has you so confused and so unglued your head is spinning well we've all felt the same inside I've been on that ledge countless times and I know what that feels like you've on your own can't make it through this wor...

Jen thinks it isn't fair that I don't really care If she likes me or not And Jen doesn't like to settle Until she makes me feel like Howie Reynolds She thinks that I'm all that I've got No Jen doesn't like me anymore Jen doesn't like to go to the shows, She do...

Well I Really don't know If it matters at all so, But we try to keep our prices low For records and our shows But is that enough, Or is it that we're not punk enough, Or it that you think ska just sucks, But Johnny Quest, he thinks we're what? Johnny Quest thi...

He's just like anyone he's just like anybody he's just like frank and I know it and he knows it it's his one sided point of view I know it when he says it's my way, or the wrong way and I don't care about you but to see my side wouldn't be the worst thing he c...

Ideals are like opinions and beliefs just like tradition Sometimes both are not enough Faded stickers and crumpled flyers They've become the reminder that there's an anthem in us that fits the flag we've flown for years I've always had this same old song Stuck...

It seems I can't explain it all all the reasons gone and I just can't seem to shake what I've been brought up on and well it hard to say and its hard to explain that all the things I've known are feeling strange I guess I'll always have tradition to fall back...

I couldn't help but think back to the advice that I got from my dad a few times he said"...time goes by so fast in a blink of an eye so never close your eyes..." "...I always wanted something more than 50 hours every week and a paid vacation on the jersey shor...

I know there comes a time when you lose faith in what you believe inside and did you know somehow it's just a spark that's a start that keeps us from the crowd. The other day this girl came up to me and asked if she used to go to school with me and kinda laug...

Give us any chance we'll take it Leave us any rule we'll break it We're gonna make our dreams come true Doin' it our way Nothings gonna turn us back now Straight ahead and on the track now We're gonna make our dreams come true Doin' it our way There's nothing...

Now listen up and hear what i'm saying If he's not talking to himself Then he must be praying Shine my shoes and ask for a dime Then pick my pockets while i'm in line He keeps telling me the score Down at the liquor store  

Something's not right Urban sprawl, from urban blight something's not right when history turn into a building site locked out, fenced up, closed down without a sound Something's not right when downtown is just all blinking lights Something's not right when str...

And I swear it's the last time and I swear it's my last try And we'll walk in circles around this whole block Walk on the cracks on the same old sidewalks And we'll talk about leaving town Yeah we'll talk about leaving I swear it's the last time I swear it's m...

Do you see me out there Getting ready to go Packing my frustrations away I can always go for miles and still don't know Why my disappointments always stay, Packing all my frustrations away... Why my disappointments always stay... Am I wasting my time I don't k...

There's been borders and there'll be boundaries and there's been times misidirection's found me There's been clear heads and there'll be clean slates and times we'd find we'd pass the night away thinking Everyone here hates everyone here for doing the same thi...

And I've been so busy trying that I've only wound up living weekend to weekend getting by just simply "trying" And I should be out looking for a job but only wind up heading for a stiff drink left with nothing else so I think "it's time to stumble home" So I s...

So you say, all you white flags are up And that you’ve had enough And you’re tired of collecting dust You say everything always looks the same And you need a brand new face To match a brand new place You say your distress calls have gone out And your ship is g...

Have you ever felt that something, you know that something that keeps you sane? and you can't explain why But you know it's what's left inside you and I know that it's that something you know that something that keeps me sane and I can't explain why when it's...

Well I thought all my friends were sane then I met this kid in the fourth grade "let's go throw rocks through the neighbor's windows" I never wanted to go but he would always make me I wanna know what you were thinking I wanna know what you were drinking Mark...

It's the new standard of Living on a thinner thread And the new look now is wanting more but have a little less The new you isn't who You thought you knew but it's what's left Let me catch my breath Let me try and start explaining this We always say we...

Something that's inside of me It's something that I cannot see Like rules and regulations Passed down for generations I wish I had my very own flag, And as I walk away I can hear you say I wish that I had my own flag  

On a tuesday in the rain I never thought there'd come a day if I put myself to the test would I ever raise a fist would I just shut my mouth, would I just block it out? I've sworn a million times never to be left, standing with that feeling of hopelessness, j...

There was a time when I could say it right to you that I was never going to leave this place but now its "I was wrong" and "I don't wanna fucking talk about it" cause it feels like things have changed Yeah well I could talk, talk, talk and say I'm wrong, wrong...

I check the time, it's 4:00 a.m. And I just passed the westside buildings All the broken glass As I try to shake the cold away, but anyways, It's late at night and I'm about to crack And decide to just walk the tracks That I just walked yesterday. 

I won't compete because I don't need to be In front of someone that wants to compete with me Who needs another aggravation Or a fucked up situation So you call me burnt out Call me washed up Or weaker cause I won't get up Be first in another line Just one more...

Maybe I’m jaded and bored Always lookin’ for more Waiting around for the next big fix I know I’m a wreck I’m a mess But I couldn’t care less Don’t know what it would take to change me Everybody's so afraid to be different Please excuse me now if I don’t get i...

I can see it all right now his mom and dad so proud of his son and his new found wife and I wonder if after all these years will his dad still give him a pep talk for his wedding night? I can smell his cousin's polo mixing with his grandpa's old spice and the...

Watching the man up in the window it always seems to me that in 10 more years another someone may be watching me. And do I really know what goes on inside? As he dances down the street to the music in his mind, time after time. Watching the man up in the windo...

Hello six pack of confidence Been so many nights since we first met Glad to see you’ve brought all your friends For another night of plastic cup politics Hello Mr. Six Pack of confidence I’m glad to see you’ve already met Ms. Twelve ounces of loneliness And M...

I used to be a stereotype Half alive with half open eyes With a one track mind And a flawed design Feeling like I was lost At sea at only the age of 19 Floating around in alcohol and apathy Taking in too much caffeine and nicotine If we make it outta...

I've always watched the change, watched without a sound, and I have to wonder why, I don't speak a word out loud. Perhaps the world will stop for me, and I can't stop for myself, but I often wonder why the rest, why they can't see themselves, the change I have...

So she's been around Lived in every town And she always seems to know So she does a zine Says she's in the scene And she goes to the cool punk rock shows And it's not like I've seen the world And it's not cuz she's a girl It's just cuz no ones always right And...

Man its really strange this city never stays the same its always "I've got to keep on moving and I've got to keep on going" but maybe it's to keep itself sane that its always "I've got to keep on going, so I don't have any feeling" So I'm on my way out of this...

When I think of how things are right now it feels like yeah it all feels like some kind of circus show and how this town it keeps you pinned down with the same old song from years ago and y'know this place will chew you up and spit you out before you go and w...

So this pen is starting to become A pip bomb and these songs Have turned to anthems again To everything that’s chance And to everything that’s gone away Here are my condolences to the future I never met It’s gone and never coming back It’s not coming back So d...

She’s gonna break soon With so many problems in her life It really comes as no surprise She’s gonna break soon She’s gonna break Welcome to her busy, dizzy life Of going out and getting high And following all the latest trends While shedding all her oldest fr...

Something's out there and it takes me away from a world too small to stay something's out there Another day in this place so small, I'd rather be somebody else maybe if my mind wasn't so tall, I wouldn't be able to tell and I've walked these streets it seems l...

These are all the reasons why I’ll be exploding tonight And why this chip on my shoulder feel like a mile wide It’s from the overwork, overtime compromise So I’m looking tonight For some piece of mind Maybe then I’ll find Some strength inside ‘Cause I’ve lost...

Have you been feeling down, pushed around Feeling like everything has been done before Do I need to understand every word from every man Or everything from every band Can I say it's all been done before Religion, science, similes to metaphors Can it be that th...

There was a kid so low, he couldn't stand up No money, no respect and too much bad luck Desperation had gotten to him at last It was dark Dark alley and a shot gun blast And I knew a man everyone thought Was out of his mind He had a cane and seemed to be aroun...

There is a place not far from the city Where old men go to die and bums are pissing Last night no one checked out, And I checked back in While toothless winos Watched and grinned And they don't really care about you Some things you can't tell Sometimes I can't...

So let's hit the streets tonight And I'll show you where I lost my job and where I got chased by cops so we'll jump the fence at 13th and 10th to see where we played our first show I told you everybody loses sight of All the how it's been and never was So let'...

If I had a scheme for everything, It seems that I'd more content with it all, If I had it in me to stop my random thoughts, and my dumb dreams I could deal with this nonstop spinning world. If only I could say that everything's ok take a good look and look the...

Mother told me, yes,she told me I'd meet girls like you. She also told me, "Stay away, you'll never know what you'll catch." Just the other day I heard a soldier falling off some Indonesian junk that's going round. Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just...

There’s a black cloud over this house That’s been around for three years now There’s a thunderstorm inside And it won’t go away No, it won't go away That’s why they call it a union That’s why they call it a union That’s why they call it a union I rem...

You told me that your 20 years have gone by much too fast And you’ve been hoping this year will be better than the last You said you’ve been waging a war against the loneliest of nights With the strongest drinks and longest lines It’s not that big a surprise T...

I’ve been down Wandering past 2nd Street and looking at the ghosts Of you and me and thinking back on all those memories Of how we used to be I’ve been hearing I hear those voices over the noises of the breaking glass And all those plans we had to get us thro...

I fell asleep last Saturday Underneath polluted skies I walked alone in those Jersey nights And I Saw the board walk start to fall The empty ness starts to drown The quiet corners of this town tonight Late last night I made my plans It was the only thing I fe...

I’ve come to my senses that I’ve become senseless I could give you lessons how to ruin your friendships Every last conviction I smoked them all away I’ve drank my frustrations, down the drain, out of the way So I sit and wait and wonder, Does anyone else feel...

All my friends always talk about The stories of moving on and getting out Then packing up and heading south Their heads full of hopes and dreams They’re just like me My friends aren’t going anywhere My friends all act so unaware Now they have to face Their be...

You know my best friend, just left yesterday and I know I know your girlfriend, couldn't explain, why she moved away things are so the same, that all I can really bring myself to say is that I know and yeah just outside, the conversation's getting old and I...

I'm walking around what used to be downtown wet and feeling cold and kinda feeling old, I'm walking around and I can almost hear the sound of everyone I've known and all the people I've seen get up and go. And there's nothing left to say when I look at friends...

This blood that's in our veins it, Carries all of these mistakes that we've ever made, When we're not thinking straight. Don't remember every name, But it seems like every face is back at the place, The same place they've tried to escape. Tonight's a party fo...

Two days before his mom moved him To a trailer park in Florida from a suburb in Michigan He left the house headed for someplace downtown Thinking who needs them, cuz they brought me down Out on the streets words burning in his brain With his pulse pumping just...

It was a cold december on 2nd ave and 6th st. Too cold to think about anybody passing me When I overheard 'I'm gonna tell you straight from the shoulder... Boy... You better get running' On the corner of 2nd and 6th and outta time, With a cough, feeling lost a...

Welcome home outcasts because I know how you have felt overthe years The truth is that looking at me is like looking in the mirror And I know how it feels to be the best part of a running joke to all of your friends And to be on the edge of your bed With your...

I've become the product of the sum Caught in this endless circle I've become the stupidest man in the world Chalk another one up to experience yeah You know it doesn't make any sense Do it, all over again And again, again, do it all over again I've bec...

I've never known what made you get up and go And what pushed you over the edge, When we were up on the roof Was it the truth when you said You never made a single difference. Did you get it in your head That things are better left unsaid when you up and left t...

The world keeps on spinning. Inside his head keeps on spinning. Wishing he could be on top for once, seems he hasn't spoke a word in months. It's the complications that make him lazy and it's the frustrations that make him so lazy. He's the whipping boy. 

When you look around What you got don't mean a thing... Waiting, waiting, waiting - stop! You gotta stand and pick yourself up... Hanging around don't mean a thing Unless you hold the power ring.