Operation Ivy Album

I know things are getting tougher
When you can't get the top off the bottom of the barrel
The Wide open road to my future now
Is looking fuckin narrow

All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing

We get told to decide
Just like as if I'm not gunna change my mind

All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing!

What you gonna do with yourself boy
Better make up your mind
What you gonna do with youself Boy
Running out of time

This time I got it all figured out...

All I know is that I don't know
All I know is that I don't know nothing
(repeat)

And that's fine.

Sound system gonna bring me back up (yeah)
one thing that i can depend on
sound system gonna bring be back up (right)
one thing that i can depend on

try to describe it to the limit of my ability
its there for a second then its givin up what it used to be
contained in my music is somehow more than just sound
this inspiration coming and twistin things around
cuz you always know that its gonna have to go
you always know that youll be back in the cold
point of departure sublimated in a song
always comin and givin us hope for a second then its gone but

sound system gonna bring me back up (right)
one thing that i can depend on
sound system gonna bring me back up (yeah)
one thing that i can depend on

static pulse inside of music bringing us escape
its always temporary changing nothing in its wake
just a second while were leaving all this things behind
just a second but its leaving just this much in mind
to resist despair that second makes you see
to resist despair cuz you cant change everything
to resist despair in this world is
what it is what it is what it is to be free

sound system gonna bring me back up (right)
one thing that i can depend on
sound system gonna bring be back up (yeah)
one thing that i can depend on

sound system! x2

wake up turn my box on bust the shades let the sun in
times are gettin tougher bout time to start runnin
box in my hand
music by my side
skankin to the rhythm of the music by my side

sound system gonna bring me back up (yeah)
one thing that i can depend on
sound system gonna bring me back up (right)
one thing that i can depend on
(repeat x1)

sound system x2

something breaks inside of you
with the spectacle of all the shows
with fifteen fights and your six bucks
has gone up some promoters nose
jaded eyes see clearly but only half of whats there
good old days are left behind whats left is boredom and despair
but sometimes every once in a while (x2)

Chorus:
Its beautiful what I would say, I wouldn't have it any other way
if I said different it would be a lie (x2)
be a lie

what was once rebellion is now clearly just a social sect
but are you just upset because your own social clique has left
leave when you want because I know that someday I will too
but I wont burn my bridges and be just another jaded fool
sometimes every once in a while (x2)

Chourus (x2)

Listen up
take warning
take warning
And you gotta take warning

Stand by your freinds, wrong or right
Can't call that justice
If its just a stupid excuse to fight
single out and attack
The ones who got no defense
you call that a new way of thinking
I call it regression to ignorance

Take warning (take warning)
Take warning (take warning)

New generation coming up
and we really gotta stand up to them

Take warning (take warning)

Nobody's got a thing against you
Unless you've got something to prove
We dont need no new set of standards,
We dont need no new set of rules
Bah!
Heard all that shit before
About stomping out any difference
We say stand together!
Not to fight just to exist

Take warning (take warning)
Take warning (take warning)

Intimidation coming up
and we really gotta say no to them

Take warning (take warning)

Enough is enough is enough
Why dont you just ease up?

I saw another beat down last nite, take warning
Who's the next to hit the ground tonight? take warning
take warning!

Take warning (take warning)
Take warning (take warning)

Intimidation coming up
and we really gotta say no to them

Take warning (take warning)

wrenched into the world,
deanesthesized,
blurry images fight their way
through halfway opened eyes!
wakened by alarm,
15 minutes of hygiene,
20 minutes of eating,
30 seconds to the door--
looked outside,
looked into the eyes of the impersonal mob I've seen a thousand times before;
feelings undercover like books on a shelf,
if we're scared of one another, we must be scared of ourselves!

more than just another crowd,
more than just another crowd,
more than just another crowd
more than just another crowd--
we need a gathering instead.

drink, drink in the badlands,
liquid bread for the poor;
another member of the crowd goes out
to drown in the liquor store!
choose escape through the heartlands
of product and demand;
when you're feeling like a wasp in a storm,
you got to get away anyway that you can!

more than just another crowd,
more than just another crowd,
more than just another crowd
more than just another crowd--
we need a gathering instead.

more than just another crowd,
more than just another crowd,
more than just another crowd
more than just another crowd--
we need a gathering instead.

she's (she's) she's a bombshell
she's (she's) she's a bombshell
(oh)

down in south Oakland, off east 14th its raining
(oh yeah!)
six a.m. on Sunday and the bums are praying
(oh yeah!)
met her at a party we were drunk now were sober
(oh yeah!)
she said its cold got a long walk home come over
(oh yeah!)

she's a bombshell
she's a bombshell
she's a bombshell

I've retraced my steps a thousand times
(oh yeah)
seems I've spent hours asking all my friends about her
(oh yeah!)
been six months but ill never be the same
(oh yeah)
nobody remembers her name
(oh yeah!)

she's a bombshell
she's a bombshell
she's a bombshell
(oh yeah!)

she's (she's) she's a bombshell
she's (she's) she's a bombshell
(oh yeah!)
she's (she's) she's a bombshell
she's (she's) she's a bombshell
(ooh yeah!)
she's a bombshell

There's a war coming down between my brothers and I
I don't want no war going down, going down tonight

Stop this war
Stop this war

Civilization, ha, I call it as I see it
I call this bullshit, you know, I still cannot believe it
Our evolution now has gone the way of hate
A world evolved, resolved in this stupid fate

Stop this war
Stop this war

All so different, yeah, I say we're all the same
All caught, you know, in the division game
Self destruction, fast impending like a bullet
No one can stop it; once it's fired, no one can control it

Stop this war
Stop this war

A final word, wait, it's not a call to action
We ain't no sect, no, this ain't no fucking faction
Unity, unity, unity, you've heard it all before
This time it's not exclusive, we want to stop a war

Stop this war
Stop this war

Ain't nothing wrong with another unity song
Ain't nothing wrong with another unity song
Ain't nothing wrong
Ain't nothing wrong
Ain't nothing wrong
Ain't nothing wrong with a unity song

Stop this war
Stop this war

Unity, as one stand together
Unity, evolution's gonna come, right
Unity, as one stand together
Unity, evolution's gonna come
Unity, as one stand together
Unity, evolution's gonna come
Unity, as one stand together
Unity, evolution's gonna come

I saw this guy go down
Wasn't time for fear
Before his body hit the ground.
(Chorus)
Our vulnerability is all our insensitivity
Car that hit him pull to a stop.
Driver hid the bottles
He anticipated cops.
(Chorus)
Crowd assembled to take a look at death.
Shattered skull fragile body
Blacktop running red.
(Chorus)
People looked bored
Like expecting more
People looked bored like expecting more
(Chorus)
And Sympathy is only Friendships whore you know
And mabe we dont know who we are are anymore
And its another spectacle
Its respectable
Take it lightly like another TV show
So desensitized
So dehumanized
We stop to think when you got no place to go
Were Drowning
Were Drowning
(Chours)
Were Drowning
Were Drowning
(Chours)
And its gonna be the death of us just you wait and see

(Almost instrumental, only says "Bankshot, oh oh, ah ah" etc. )

These boots were made for walking
And that's just what they'll do
But one of these days these boots are gonna walk over you.

Back in school you ever get busted for trying to walk and have some administrator tell you "Son,
You can shirk your obligations,
and try to be different from your peers,
but the responsibility of the future
is gonna find you!"

Well I saw this kid get beaten down, because he was out of luck
In the lottery of acceptance in the school of growing up.
Saw a bunch of convicts doing time inside a cage,
Got locked in factories within the school of paid wage.

Saw this boy so strung out
That his body sweats and shakes,
From his field education
In the school of cheap escape.
Got told the school of human thinking
Teaches only truth,
And one of its educations is gonna find you

Gonna find you.

Saw a civilisation where grabbing onto wealth
Was the only guarantee of freedom, peace and health
Dollar sign value system upheld as the truth,
And if you can't find a place it's gonna find you.

Gonna find you.

Saw the paranoid response to all of the examples
Of the ones who don't fit in this way of living getting trampled.
Success is obedience to a structured way of life,
You can't ignore the structure
Because we're all within its sights.

they call it a scene I call it disaster
down here the kids grow up faster
scared they're scared to the bone
like a pack of wolves they don't run alone
one on one they won't look you in the eye
but when the pack's together there's a battle cry
I saw it fifteen on one
when the crowd dispersed the kid was done
no (no more)
no (bad town)
no more bad town
yeah down there you gotta have a label
just like a cattle in a stable
knee jerk reaction I call it violence
why speak out when you could be silenced
down there on the dance floor
too much violence I dont want more
down there out on the street
I can see the air I can see the heat

Smile!
Friends!
Watching you!

At the party, at the bus stop, at the bar,
You're lookin' at women because your score is under par.
When you find her, it doesn't mean anything.
You wonder why your life is so boring.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
You would gladly waste it just to save face.
Her desire is your wish, and without it you are lost;
Integrity is fragile, but you ignored the cost.

Smiling when your friends are watching.
Smiling when your friends are watching YOU.
Smiling when your friends are watching.
Smiling when your friends are watching YOU.

One night stand, car keys in hand,
You've fullfilled your gender's sexual demand.
Are you feeling insecure and empty,
When you're rushing to report it to your peers!?!?

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
You would gladly waste it just to save face.
Her desire is your wish, your integrity is lost;
Integrity is fragile, but you ignored the cost.

Smiling when your friends are watching.
Smiling when your friends are watching YOU.
Smiling when your friends are watching.
Smiling when your friends are watching YOU.

Smiling when your friends are watching.
Smiling when your friends are watching YOU.
Smiling when your friends are watching.
Smiling when your friends are watching YOU.
Smiling when your friends are watching.
Smiling when your friends are watching.

Smile!
Friends!
Watching you!

Caution is a word that I can't understand

C-A-U-T-I-O-N was a word I could not understand.
Walked the dog with a real short leash,
Turned around, saw the dog walk me.

Stainless steel and painted glass give me
Pulse like a hammer and mind to match.
No relief, no food, no sleep,
When you're king for a day
You're a whore for a week

I didn't get it then
I think I got it now
Caution my friend
Don't step in the water 'till you know you can swim.

empty factories to the east and all our waste
the shape of things that came show on the broken worker's face
to the west you'll find a silicon promised land
where machines all replace their minds with systematic profit plans
the course of human progress staggers like a drunk
it's pace is quick and heavy but it's mind is slow and blunt
i look for optimism but i just dont know
its seeds are planted in a poison place where nothing grows

its 1989 stand up and take a look around
weathers' bitter tension it seems is sinking down
drunk with power
and fighting one another
every hour shows the winter's getting harder
there's a freeze up, there's a freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up--freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up, there's a freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up coming!

one nation stands the tallest radiating blinding light
plastic and flourescent energy robbing us of sight
set in our way- content with our decay
we wave the flag of freedom as we conquer and invade
ever ask yourself where's my place in this hell?
but no one's there to tell you cuz they dont know that themselves
the well-rehearsed lines from our elated politicians
no longer offer solace we can see the self-destruction

it's 1989 stand up and take a look around
weather's bitter tension it seems is sinking down
drunk with power and fighting one another
every hour shows the winter's getting harder
there's a freeze up, there's a freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up--freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up, there's a freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up coming!

just one political song, just one political song
to drop into the list that stretches years and years long
just one political song, just one political song
to drop into the list that stretches years and years long
static and division is increasing like a storm
we are sheltered
we are forewarned
nothing can be changed except ourselves
nothing can be changed except ourselves!

there's a freeze up,
there's a freeze up coming,
there's a freeze up,
there's a freeze up coming,

there's a freeze up, there's a freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up--freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up, there's a freeze up coming!
there's a freeze up coming!

He's got a song about some love that's gone away.
Some times his eyes shed tiny teardrops when he plays.
His touching ballads are just sitting there to buy.
They call it music, but it seems more like a lie.

Artificial life in the market
Artificial life in the market place.
Artificial life in the market
Artificial life in the market place.

Epic ballads by the musical whores.
Life is boring so project theirs onto yours.
Hear the anthems of the pepsi generation.
See the martyrs of our spirtitual degradation.

Artificial life in the market
Artificial life in the market place.
Artificial life in the market
Artificial life in the market place.

American culture, disneyland freakshow,
Screen in your living room
A window for your tomb
If you cant compare to the world just sitting there
Repress you insecurities, watch and escape.

Give me artificial, give me superficial
Give me a comercial life that can't be bought
This i say to you, what i say is treu:
Emotions aren't a product to sell and cannot be consumed

Comming attraction, its comming real soon
Prince is having lunch with Pat Boone
Want to know where all the bullshit goes,
It goes down the sewer to be disposed

Artificial life in the market
Artificial life in the market place.
Artificial life in the market
Artificial life in the market place.

The position being taken is not to be mistaken
For attempted education or righteous accusation
Only a description, just an observation
Of the pitiful ondition of our degeneration

Walls made of opinions thru which we speak and never listen
Ceiling made of pride vicious and self satisfied
Door that's made of rage; hard and slowly aged
Always closing tighter with every war we wage

Room without a window, can't see out
Room without a window, can't see out can't see out

Floor is made of lives, we gladly end to stay inside
Corners made of borders, and borders made of law and order
Painted with the words of politicians and religion
Plastered with the wreckage of our cultural division

Room without a window, can't see out
Room without a window, can't see out can't see out

Ha ha ha ha ha
Oh, we're so stupid
Killing each other
Don't we learn nothing

Gotta room inside a mind, yeah we gotta
We can't see out because were blind
But I guess it's true
Gotta make ouselves drink
All right, from a room without a window
To a different way to think

Gotta room inside a mind, yeah we gotta
We can't see out because were blind
But I guess it's true
Gotta make ouselves drink
All right, from a room without a window
To a different way to think

The position being taken is not to be mistaken
For attempted education or righteous accusation
Only a description, just an observation
Of the pitiful ondition of our degeneration

Room without a window, can't see out
Room without a window, can't see out can't see out
Room without a window, can't see out
Room without a window, can't see out can't see out

Concrete and chaos rise up
Spiderweb across the land
Like a giant rash
Forests lie down below
Foundations of buildings in a bed of ash
Some people here got it real good
Cuz the glass towers bring prosperity
Other people starve in the street
Because concrete knows no sympathy

Big city, big city, big city
Big city its a wishing well
Big city its a living hell

This town its fucking insane
How one will starve and another will gain
Like a giant mechanical brain
And the people are cells and the streets are veins
It thinks only of itself
A thousand limbs crawling as it expands and grows
And still the concrete sits there
Sits there stark grey and cold

Big city, big city, big city
Big city its a wishing well
Big city its a living hell

And I think I wanna be a brick layer
So I can put another brick in the wall
Its sanitary rational happy and sane
Growing like a flower to surround us all

Big city, big city, big city
Big city its a wishing well
Big city its a living hell

I start it, I end it,
I kill and words will defend it.
Got big plans, blood stained hands
Wanna put my name on the map.

On my way to save the world. On my way to save the world.

Got a brand new set of words, and the going rate is cheap,
Unconditional devotion, unquestioning belief.
Words carved in stone, chiseled in with sharpened bones
Of the ones who thought my righteousness was something to oppose.

I start it, I end it,
I kill and words will defend it.
Got big plans, blood stained hands
Wanna put my name on the map.

On my way to save the world. On my way to say the world.

MISSIONARY!!!

Can you see the flag? Rising up beyond the smoke
Of dying authors burning books,
There was a problem with what they wrote.
The flag is hard to read because all flags start to look the same
When covered with the blood of the faithless and insane.

I start it, I end it,
I kill and words will defend it.
Got big plans, blood stained hands
Wanna put my name on the map.

On my way to save the world. On my way to save the world.

MY WORLD... my world.

On my way to save the world. On my way to save the world.

Man of many names, but the motives stay the same . . .
My actions are a means to the end. My action are a means to the end.

On my way to save the world. On my way to save the world.
On my way to save the world. On my way to save the world.