Street Dogs

Its been a long time since we left 10 Wood Road We gotta follow this dream They call it our own private Alamo We gotta follow this dream And I don't care how many people say "I'm living in a dream" And its a long way to the top my friend I won't blame y...

When you're stuck in a deep, self reflective mode Reach for 2 bottles of sorrow When you feel like your will to live will implode Reach for 2 bottles of sorrow Sometimes it's tough just to summon a smile Or walk that long recovery mile If you can't find...

Street Dogs State Of Grace A State Of Grace Taken to skid row Apocalyptic downtown Wandered from Foley's pub to this Somebody's gather me I need a rescue mission Push me out of harm's way into help I'm still searching for the state of grace A king of...

I got to go back to the world Back to my girl Back to my family and kids Have to go and see my home again Don't want my life to end Before my time is due And the kids are big Just got the postal package from my wife and kids It brings me comfort while...

You left for work each morning before the sun Came up, you put your forty years in but it Wasn't quite enough, you put a couple bucks Down when you got a hunch and I never heard You complaining all that much It hits me in the spring of every year I think...

I'm tired of American socialite culture God it makes me sick I've got so much fire burning deep inside The time has come to face the truth and bring about a change I don't care about all your books and magazines All these new evolving scenes or plastic t...

The handwriting was on the wall, but I refused to read it Our end always hung in the balance, apparent to both me and you But now you're looking for the coward's way out, and that's unbelievable To back out on someone when they're down is totally unforgivab...

Morality patrol First amendment she's coming down First amendment she's coming down First amendment she's coming down First amendment she's coming down Agents of morality, clean America for you and me Fundamentalist authorities judging dirt from clean...

Woke up this morning, wondered what planet I was on On the cover of a Rolling Stone was another dumb young blonde While the icons of our day all slowly fade away Paving way for a new crop of garbage clones with nothing new to say And if you want to shout...

Take your soapbox rants and your politics Stick them where the sun don't shine Won't solicit your advice You're on the red carpet Espousing your opinions Why can't you just shut your mouth Don't tell us how to feel Don't preach to me, I cannot hear you...

Go out tonight, to get lit up Drink tonight, gonna drink tonight Fourty hours done, I've had enough Drink tonight, gonna drink tonight Don't care what my family thinks Drink tonight, gonna drink tonight It's my life so pass those drinks Drink tonight, g...

Street Dogs State Of Grace Elizabeth Sha-La-La Sha-La-La Shine on me Sha-La-La Sha-La-La Shine on me She shuffles her feet In that kitchen retreat Victorian respite Irish streets of gold Far removed from her sod Where they ran from an angry god...

Working hard from day to day now, I get a check that barely lasts I'm just another no choice member in Uncle Sam's desperation class Finding it hard to face my wife, new kid born out of shotgun life Twenty years old and I love them both, see no sunshine in...

Shame and anger in his mind They torture and this shit's unkind Everyone pointed and laughed Growing up this kid in school was everybody's hatred tool His suicidal thoughts would always pass There's just one thing I want to know When you have nowhere to...

Remember those five-dollar days armed with a paintbrush And how he's soldiered on with hard work and full coffee cups You inspired me, with your tenacity Never laying down to your disease Kenny Walls, this one goes out to you Clad with a scally cap and n...

He had just turned nineteen yesterday Wanted to be a school teacher someday Came from a small and modest town Had never before traveled abroad He signed on the promise of a college fund Pop and Mom begged him to stay at home The last time they saw him w...

All my life I have searched for clarity I have wrestled with two paths Buried deep inside of me I lost some rounds Been knocked around Felt my share of defeat Yet somehow I've always managed to get back On my feet The world keeps telling me To get a...

Fly was the craziest guy in the park With a case of courage Slung over his back Had a fearless little spirit He fought the best Got straight A's on Every street corner test Too many nights He would crash and fall Everyone scrambles To his ambulance c...

We like to stress a lot Never blow our top That red light pace Screaming in our bus There goes the blood Too cold tonight On board a mother crys Over a passing daughter Spike in a line Heartbeat not fine Let's shock and go Stray shots ignite this ci...

All about control, that's the plan Hitting her makes you feel like a man It's a sick and twisted brutal game Won't stay silent to this abusive shame Can't justify raising those hands Don't raise your hands And you say she had it coming She's out of con...

Dummy funds Wall Street Runs You gouged us all pretty deep May you rot in the can you fraudulent man May your nights be full of no sleep at all A life time stay at club fed We think you'd be better off dead You got off too easy three meals and a cell Be...

Seems to me you were snake-bitten from day one Absent somehow when they shot off the right from the wrong gun Always swimming in the deep end of your troubled pool Opted for that asphalt as your chosen school Then you got shipped off to DYS Threw your li...

Every time, Every God damn time Harpo the drunken fool, he's a mess I gotta confess Harpo the drunken fool He grew up with Franklin Poor up on the hill Served under Macarthur And learned how to kill Comes home to recession yeah Boy there's no work Ca...

Well I took me a fifth and I poured me a shot And I thought about all the things that I haven't got And I drank that down, I poured me some more Kept drinking and pouring till I felt the floor I got drunk and I fell down I got drunk and I fell down Anoth...

Staring down Cedar Grove up on Indian Hills See a skyline littered with triple deckers and gin mills Years of Tot Lot pass my eyes Reflecting faces that have gone by Adams corner embedded in my soul In defense of Dorchester Home to a thousand dreams and...

We got it We got time, lets get things moving Shake it up, There are no more rules It's not something to believe in, just A little thought and a lot of feeling You've been told all your life You'll never get it right Don't listen to these lies Because...

Into the valley, betrothed and divine Realization's no virtue but who can define Why soldiers go marching those masses a line? This disease is catching from victory to stone Ahoy, ahoy, land, sea and sky Ahoy, ahoy, boy, man and soldier Ahoy, ahoy, decei...

It started back in '94 with the passing of a Boston Jake And all it took to grab my heart was the sound that the bagpipes made So on with my life I go with experiences gained through work But the dream to get on the job in my heart and mind always keeping m...

We've passed the point of argument, the tension fills the air I try to mediate diplomatically, but you don't even care It's time to put them up and throw them down Take this squabble round to round Have a row, time to throw, can't see nothing but red Hig...

When I graduated high school College not my scene So I got a job at home for me Feeling good about my opportunity It's got benefits and decent pay... but they say We hit a stalemate, looks bleak for us A strike or lock-out or wholesale bust Think to my...

Pray as you rest on this night As God, November, and Boston Let you take flight May you rest in peace After you leave Albany Street So much love you left to your family Ten Milton open, coffee's brewing Chewing the fat with me, so to speak You worked...

As I'm walking down the street, I found the things that trouble me Are always easier to define when I have a clearer mind Always thinking of certain things and all the happiness you'd bring But now it's over and we need to move on To move on To move on...

Street Dogs State Of Grace Mean Fist For as long as I remember I ran a life of crime Harmed everyone that I know Stolen what's not mine Problems solved through violence Feelings dulled with booze Father always yelling at me Shape up or you will lose...

Not without a purpose and it's not without a fight I've got three tales to tell you so please sit tight It's the story of three underdogs who've grown to see their light Not without a purpose, not without a fight Been away for far too long, you're on my m...

Father, can you hear me? Father, can you hear me? Father, can you hear me? Now we can't go back To when we used to laugh When you called to me I said, "I'm coming, Dad" Mother, can you hear me? Mother, can you hear me? Mother, can you hear me? Now we...

Neponset neighborhood landscape You loomed larger than most Owned scholastic and academic achievements All which you did boast The world was in the palm of your hand When you went backdoor on school and friends Drink, drugs, fighting fast lane life Grew...

We tuned in our satellite radio and headed out for a long ride No more Mark Perento taking us home on the afternoon drive There once was a time they played music (remember that?) on the old radio When you woke up in the morning it was tuned to The Big Mattr...

The budget is busting The purse strings are shut Furloguhs are coming The town will go nuts Prisoners let go Psych patients set free You ask at the town hall "what does this all mean?" Crime starts to spike up Cops overtime MH workers are All on the...

Was a man of meek demeanor Now he's over the edge Insincerities and deceit Called off any old pledge Saying one thing, doing another Unacceptable, you're not his brother War drums clanging in his head He's had enough Fresh out of patience The end of h...

Well they say that punk rock has died away I don't believe a word they say Sing for tomorrow, sing for today We all need a little punk rock n roll The world needs a little punk rock n roll Well we all need a little punk rock n roll The kind that makes y...

Are you ready to roll are you ready to rattle We're out on the town we're gearing for battle We're owning the pub from night until morning The gang has arrived we're sending a warning Hatches at st. maggies raised up on the hill Hung out on sydney with my...

Street Dogs State Of Grace Rebel Song The stain of these times Cuts right into our lives These conflict days they kill They wear us down Blood stains the ground The belt it has tightened The green has gone thin Recession speak is spreading We hear t...

Street Dogs State Of Grace San Patricios Two hundred Irish go into Mexico To fight a battle of manifest destiny Driven by their Catholic conscience They chose to rise and do what's right Joined up with the natives for the fight Confused then torn by ag...

Savin Hill my starting point Down the beach with a few beers Didn't know what life had in for us Starting out at St. Margarets Up there on that lonely hill I got my start in 1970 Moved on down to Motley school Down to St. Willies from there The catholi...

Our beloved democracy is now six feet under, yes it is Cause you got perception managers selling war blunder, they do There is not an outlet they can't reach Follow along just like good sheep They alter, manipulate info that you read Sell it on the tv, t...

So when the smoke and the fire of anther attack slowly drift away Can anyone seem to find the appropriate words to say? When the pain of loss and sudden change conjure family strife Is there any hope at all for a return to normal life? Is there solace in...

He's just a drunk An old salty dog Stagger, you drink and then fall Unaware that your life is held up against the wall Aching, just dying inside Still you cling on tight to your obstinate pride I knew a man at the end of the bar Wore a look of erosion,...

Loser, sometimes I feel, but I know it's not real I've told myself this a million times before Time and time again, I try to see things 'til the end But sometimes, something seems to hold me right back to the ground Over and over again, I think of what it...

I can't stop these visions in my head When I wake up in the morning and I get out of bed When the revelry is calling me and I don't want to rise I roll around and write it down and then to my surprise I don't want you to see things troubling me And I don...

We're not singing bounce, we're not getting dirty Not concerned with getting the party started right Throwing darts as we see fit, the music today we will hit Screaming through the microphone to illicit your thoughts And you won't hear this on the play li...

An elaborate con of the common man Propelled by your massive media plan I can see your hostel takeover, greed, and your lies Turning what I love into what I despise It's a tale of mass deception, destruction, corruption And I'm under the assumption throu...

You were the razor edge poet From a punk lost generation Shaking off praise, so humble man Shattering expectation You're relevant right now More so than you were yesterday Seventy-seven broke Your voice came charging through Was that changing of the g...

See him wasted on the sidewalk in his jacket and his jeans Wearin' yesterday's misfortunes like a smile Once he had a future full of money, love, and dreams Which he spent like they was goin' outa style And he keeps right on a'changin' for the better or t...

She when into town to earn some money He stayed home just leaning on his gun I think by now you know this song ain't funny Its just the way some people get it done She when into town to earn some money He stayed home just leaning on his gun I think by no...

There is power in a democracy, power in the land Power in the hands of a worker But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand There is a power in a Union Now the lessons of the past were all learned with workers' blood The mistakes of the boss...

We were always drunken roustabouts Had our ups, downs, and near throwdowns You were the center of attention That mayor of party town But that ended forever more When your Les Paul crashed the Troubadour floor Tobe's got a drinking problem You started a...

I'm Losing my f***ing Mind On the TV, on the PC, too many things Come flashing at me, go buy lie live or die Will it ever stop I wonder why Will the great fall, the weight of it all We kill countries, we stand too tall, too much debt Beyond the break, ho...

Street Dogs State Of Grace Two Angry Kids Hey you, remember me Way back in North Quincy Go fast, hold back If we hold on for one day We just might last I remembers bouts Morning blackouts Coupled with a hate of interior self Reluctantly admit desper...

Like Bob said the times are a changing Unfortunately for us bossman's rearranging Doesn't care about the wife and kids But only the gold that is his Won't hear eleventh hour underbids Or part with the assets that he thinks are his Only goes by the manual...

Well, it's starting again, a turnaround friend A movement of people that want to defend Human rights, a fair wage A quick return to decent days Equality is in play Workers should organize without haste Have the vote in your workplace Work with your mana...

I met a girl at the bar during last call I should have known that it wouldn't go real far She sucked me in by the way she stared at me Now she's gone and it stings Now I see In the beginning it seemed really cool I should have known that I would play th...

You're power mad You want everybody to act like you Talking your honey to people It's venom you really say Let's act rich and let's dress vogue Hide our background, sell our souls But the one you let go is back to have her say White collar fraud... He...

You can't have a better today if you don't remember yesterday Let me tell you the story... We had no time, we had to leave, we didn't wanna go We cut our ties, lamenting how the story always goes We can't return, that was a time so very long ago But it wo...

You alone must stand your ground You take a life worth nothing and turn it around You stand alone, yeah that's the deal You have yourself to count on cause no one really cares Another rainy New England night At your wit's end with no hope in sight You t...