'Merican

CDEP cover

7" vinyl cover

Nothing With You

I don't wanna move
I'll just sit here in my living room and
See what's on the tube
While I'm hanging out with you

People knock on my door, ringing my phone
Telling me the things I gotta get done today
To satisfy them, but what about me?
Lately I've been wishing I was brain dead
No responsibilities in my head today
Maybe we'll see what's on TV

Doing nothing, having fun
Off to bed to get things done
I'm not lazy - I'm in love

I don't wanna move
I'll just sit here in my living room and
See what's on the tube
While I'm hanging out with you

People pressing my flesh, taking my time
They don't know a thing about my life with you
I'm trying real hard - it's hard not to care
'Cause all I ever really want to do
Is sit around doing nothing with you, because
Nothing's only fun when you're there

"Mad About You" at dinnertime
"Seinfeld", "Simpsons", "So-Called Life"
Seen the reruns 20 million times

I don't wanna move
I'll just sit here in my living room and
See what's on the tube
While I'm hanging out with you
All I wanna do
Is just sit here in my living room and
See what's on the tube
While I'm hanging out with you

All I wanna do
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
Is do nothing with you
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
Is do nothing with you

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'Merican

We flipped the finger to the king of England
Then stole our country from the Indians
With god on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own

Built a nation dedicated to liberty,
Justice, and equality
Does it look that way to you? It doesn't look that way to me
It's the sickest joke I know

Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am
I'm just another stupid American
But you don't want to listen, you don't want to understand
Just finish up your drink and go home.

I come from the land of Ben Franklin,
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman.
Otis Redding, Ellington,
The country that I love...

But it's the land of the slaves, and the Ku Klux Klan,
The Haymarket Riot, and the Great Depression
Joe McCarthy, Viet Nam
It's the sickest joke I know

Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am
I'm just another stupid American
But you don't want to listen, you don't want to understand
Just finish up your drink and go home

I'm proud and ashamed, every 4th of July
You've got to know the truth before you say that you've got pride

Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pulling pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go

Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am
I'm just another stupid American
But you don't want to listen, you don't want to understand
Just finish up your drink and go home
Listen up, man, I'll tell you who I am
I'm just another stupid American
But you don't want to listen, you don't want to understand
Just finish up your drink
And go home

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Here With Me

Wet sand on a foggy beach, the sky is gray
You would call it a perfect day
And naturally I'd have to agree
If you were here with me

When I'm hanging out with all my friends
Something still holds back my smile
Something tells me they're the enemy - the enemy
'cause you're not here with me
No, you're not here with me

(And I know she was everything)

Everybody's having fun
I sit and stare at everyone
Back to myself again

Took a walk outside along the beach
Watched the waves roll on the shore
The things I felt before aren't there anymore -
Not anymore
'Cause you're not here with me
No, you're not here with me

Everybody's having fun (but not me)
I sit and stare at everyone
Back to myself again
Back to myself again

Wet sand on a foggy beach, the sky is gray...

Keep working
Stay busy
Don't think about
Don't think about
Her

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I Quit

Music was my hobby, something that I did for fun
Now that it's become a job, the damage has been done
No amount of money can repair my broken lungs
And who cares what yer makin' if yer makin' it alone

Sick all the time, I miss my wife - I quit
Got better things to do with my life - I quit
I quit - I quit

Go ahead and say it, tell me I'm getting old
Tell me I'm a sellout, but it's you that's being sold
See, I refuse to think of rock and roll as my career
Tell me all my opportunities, ask me if I care

The rock star lifestyle ain't for me - I quit
Got somewhere else I'd rather be, so I quit
I quit - I quit

Go ahead and say it, call me a fuckin' wimp
Just cuz I've got a different kind of life that I wanna live
You can criticize my ideals and my priorities
But ultimately I don't give a flying fuck what you think of me

I don't believe in that macho shit - I quit
I know there's no way you can understand it - I quit
Sick all the time, I miss my wife - I quit
Got better things to do with my life - I quit
I quit - I quit

What'd ya think, I wanted to be Mick Jagger or something,
Playing the pixie at 50 or 60?
Gimme a break!
I mean,I don't wanna grow up and all that, but
The time has come for me to say-
I quit

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