The Offspring - Rise and Fall [Audio]

All this time has whittled away
Like so many days in one
Back and forth the leaders sway
Backing it up with guns

Superpowers flex their wings
Hold the world on puppet strings
Egos will feed
While citizens bleed

That's always the way it goes
When will the world listen to reason
I've got a feeling it'll be a long time
When will the truth come in to season

I've got a feeling it'll be a long time
All they want is what they can defend
Before their time is up
Make the same mistakes again

Heard it all before
Superpowers flex their wings
Hold the world on puppet strings
Egos will feed

While citizens bleed
That's always the way it goes
Well if they tried
Maybe they'd see

It'd do a little good to let the world be free
Handshake and a smile
Gets bạn on through
Then turn it all around with a suicide move

But bạn know it's not fooling anyone but me
bạn gotta make yourself see what bạn want to see

In your plane in the blue sky
bạn roam again
Word that echo in your mind
Make bạn tim, trái tim beat faster
This is no Vietnam
We will win in Iran

The President đã đưa ý kiến let it ride
đạo hồi be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran

Warrior, the time bombs
About to go
What will bạn feel
Will bạn even wonder
If the man that'sin your sights
Ever kissed his girl goodbye

The President đã đưa ý kiến let it ride
đạo hồi be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran

Great Satan
Our flags our burning

Soon America may find
Its young men in the sand
Where there casualty
Is just a number
In Iran

The President đã đưa ý kiến let it ride
đạo hồi be damned
Make your last stand

We've been playing now for much too long
And never gonna dance to a different song
I'm gonna scream and shout till my dying breath
I'm gonna smash it up till there's nothing left
Ooh smash it up
Smash it up smash it up
Ooh smash it up
Smash it up smash it up

People call me weird, oh it's such a shame
Maybe it's my clothes, must be to blame
I don't even care if I look a mess
Don't wanna be a sucker like all the rest

Smash it up
And bạn can keep your crystal glasses
Smash it up
And bạn can see a very dead-way end
Smash it up
And bạn can stick a frothy lager
Smash it up
Up the fuck with your lesson

We've been playing now for much too long
And never gonna dance to a different song
I'm gonna scream and shout till my dying breath
I'm gonna smash it up till there's nothing left

And everybody's smashing things down
I đã đưa ý kiến everybody's smashing things down

Jennifer Mất tích the war today
They'll find her burned and raped
Through it all
She must have wondered
What have i done
But nobody really cares today
The worlds a busy place
Guess she must have really sinned

I guess we're all just soldiers
But she was only six years old

Left to die bởi strangers
Her family waits
And if we're all just soldiers
Is it so wrong to be afraid

Jennifer Mất tích the war

Pheobe Mất tích the war today
There must be some mistake
Say it happens all the time
And it's đã đưa ý kiến and done
And little miss 1565
Your soul remains unclaimed
Guess bạn must have really sinned

Morality won't help her
When shes silent in a morgue
And all our sorrows well
Just dont count at all
But will the morning headlines
Even say that its a shame
What are we heading for

Jennifer Mất tích the war

Seen it all before
Silent on the ground
As he's walking away
And I wonder how many more
Everybody takes it
Like it's nothing at all
Jennifer Mất tích the war
As he's walking away

Our lives run different ways
Through the rain I see bạn in the sun
Our ngôi sao shines anyway
If bạn wish upon it we are one

Dog eat dog
Every day
On our fellow man we prey
Dog eat dog
To get by
Hope bạn like my genocide

I find it such a shame
Through the pain I see things as they are
We're served up on a plate
The pedestal is high enough to fall
And if in time
We can see the errors of our ways
Would anyone change it anyhow
Our time is up

Dog eat dog
Every day
On our fellow man we prey
Dog eat dog
To get by
Hope bạn like my genocide

I bet you'd only run
If bạn saw what goes inside our own
I bet you'd lead the way
If it were up to bạn to decide
But it's not

Look at me while I look at you
Seeing eye to eye we can never do
bạn try to tell me what is right
I may not know a lot but I know one thing

If you've got the answer
Then I don't want to know
If you've got the answer
Just keep it your own


I wonder why our world is ablaze
Sometimes I speak aloud to hear what people have to say
I try to have an open mind
But your brain and mouth must not be connected


If you've got the answer
Then I don't want to know
If you've got the answer
Just leave me alone


I would be patient but it takes so long
I don't want all this misinformation
All the words that bạn say
Lean on me while I lean on you
If we destroy each other
We might save a life hoặc two
A little sun, a little shine
Separates us both bởi forever and a day

If you've got a vision
Then I don't want to see
If you've got a notion
Don't waste it on me

When we younger
There always seemed like some
Some perfect mold
That we're supposed to be

But now we're growing up and
I see it's just not that way
Now I feel like someones lied to me

Cause I've been true
Made good for you
And now I feel used
I'm asking you
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be like you
Tell me now elders

What wre your reasons for
Making it seem
Like bạn were so much more
If bạn want to feel good

Because of our accomplishments
Why the fuck
Don't bạn just do it yourself

Cause I've tried
Man I've tried
While bạn all lied
So now just tell me
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel
To be like you

Look at all the families now
Who don't talk and don't trust
Because of the way
That things have been done
When will bạn finally learn
To leave out the bullshit

So here we go
Having the same old fight again
Though there she goes
Same old game that never ends
If I could say
All the right words
I know I could make bạn stay
If I could say
All the right words
Things would work out all right

And if bạn go
I won't believe
That it's forever

And bạn can go
But I'll never leave
Cause it's not over

Replay last night
Talking it out don't make it right
I know she's tried, but my whole world
Is her and all we've got now

And if bạn go
I won't believe
That it's forever

I won't let go
Even if she says that it's over
I know it'll be
Different this time
If you'd just stay

And when we wrote this story
How did it end?
It was bạn and me for all our lives
Come on, don't say it
We'll try again
And if I'd just hold you
We could last

But she stands softly
Tears down her face
Hitting me, oh God
This is the end
I'd wait here for you
But there's nothing thêm now I can do
How did bạn know...
Finally

I think I'm burning up inside
I think I'll take a little ride
I'm gonna light up everything in sight
I'll drive on bởi your yard
And throw a Molotov cốc-tai, cocktail at your car
Then another in the local bar

Ignition
They call it an obsession but I think it's kinda bitchen'
I think it's kinda neat
Yeah, I'm a pyro
I wanna burn it up
Yeah, I'm a pyro

Tonight this 'hood will be a pyre
I'm gonna set your house on fire
I'll dance around the pretty flames
Such a wonderful game

I want to make a tiki torch
I'm gonna throw it on your porch
Then I'm gonna run away
And come back another day
So many houses, so little time
So many reasons, I'm not a crime
I'd like to set bạn up