Social Distortion Album

When I was young I was invincible,
I find myself now thinking twice,
I never thought about no future,
its just the roll of the dice.

But the day may come when you've got something to lose,
and just when you think you're done paying dues
And you say to yourself, dear God what Have I done?
And hope its not too late 'cause tomorrow may never come.

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Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come
Reach For the Sky, 'cause tomorrow may never come

Yesterday is history and tomorrow's a mystery
But baby right now, its just about you and me,
You can run you can hide, just like Bonnie and Clyde
Reach for the sky ain't never gonna die,
and I thank the Lord for the love I have found
and hold you tight cause tomorrow may never come.

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So if you please take this moment
Try if you can make it last
Don't think about no future and just forget about the past
and make it last.

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Take a drive baby up the coast, yeah highway 101
I'll pass Ventura and Santa Barbara too, just as fast as my motor runs
Gotta pocket full of memories, some happy some are sad
Gotta girl standing by my side through the good times and the bad.

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Listen to the boulevard, listen to the falling rain,
I believe in love now, with all its joys and pains

Sick boy, sick girl, looking nice dressed up on a Saturday night
Take a walk downtown for a while and chase the pale moonlight
I can still hear the mission bells and the train rolling through your town
Gonna leave this world behind, we're Southern California bound.

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I'm your worn in leather jacket
I'm the volume in your fucked up teenage band
A pack of smokes and a six pack
I'm the dreams you had walking down the railroad tracks
You and Me.

I'm your first taste of romance
I'm your first broken heart on a Saturday night
Guys like us ain't got no chance
But I'm the thing that keeps you and me alive
But not forever

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So take me down the road
take me to the show
its something to believe in
that no one else knows
but don't take me granted

I'm the blood on your guitar
I'm that wave you caught back in 1975
I'm as strong as a thousand armies
I'm as soft as pedal on a long stem rose
I am love

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I'm with you when you're born
You can take me when you die
With all the reasons why
But don't take me for granted

Everybody wants a lover
Nobody wants to uncover
what may lay deep beneath a sometimes painful past
wanna go without a care
pull Gardenians from her hair
I think of a time we didn't have a care in the world
capitvated by her beatuy I knew it was my life long duty
she had all the grace and charm of a radiant queen

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How do you talk without speaking?
How do you hear without listening?
How do you live without feeling?
How do you take without giving?
How do you keep it all inside?

There are footprints on my ceiling
I can't help this fucked up feeling
somethings wrong, you ain't coming round her no more
try to get my thoughts together
I think of a time when things were better
this miscommunication is breaking me down

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Everybody wants a lover
Nobody wants to uncover
what may lay deep beneath a sometimes painful past
my heart is heavy slowly sinking
I redirect my depserate thinking
And kiss her red full lips like I did the very first time

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There are footprints on my ceiling
And I kept it bottled up inside...all my life.

I'm a Cadiallac tramp at the end of his road
a swap meet rat who's sitting on gold, yeah baby
I'm a guitar ganster without a tune
I'm the baseball bat thats waiting to swing
Your loan shark friend with the broken knees
I'm a penthouse pauper with nothing to do

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Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, I'm chasing Nickles and Dimes
The rest of the world passes me by
Nah, Nah, Nah, Im just wasting my time
I'm just sitting here and wondering why?

I'm the high rolling creep thats in too deep
with the slicked back hair and the silver teeth, yeah baby
I'm a vagabond king with a stolen crown
I'm a jailhouse poet, a genius, a fool
I'm the pimp who lost his cool, yeah baby
Ive got first class taste in a second class town

I'm a loaded gun that pointed at the mirror
A drugstore cowboy whose end is near, yeah baby
I'm a big time schemer with broken down dreams
I'm a derelict rebel without a ocause
I ain't the cat with the sharpest claws, no baby
Cause sometimes life just ain't what it seems.

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And just like you, I'm wondering why.

When I grow up, gonna be a star
Gonna sing my songs and play my guitar, im ready
gonna change the world, gonna turn the page
gonna say what i feel, let out this rage, get ready
we're going down, down to the streets below

gonna sing the songs of the streets again
gonna knock me off my feet so get ready
I'll sing a song for the fallen angels
This one goes to all the unsung heroes

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We're Going Down, Down to the streets below
'cause don't you know, I wasn't born to follow

I realize that in your eyes you got ideas
but i got mine, get ready
here comes the new generation
hope they feel and fight the same way as we did

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When I grow up, gonna be a star
gonna sing my songs and play my guitar, im ready
Gonna change the world, gonna turn the page
Gonna say what I feel, let out this rage, get ready
we're going down, down to the streets below
I said "goodbye to the masses, I wan't born to follow"

Winners and losers, turn the pages of my life
W're beggers and choosers, with all the struggles and the strife
I got no reason to turn my head and look the other way
we're good and we're evil, which one will I be today?

There's saints and sinners
Life's a gamble and you might lose
There's cowards and heroes
Both have been known now to break the rules
there's lovers and haters
The strong and the weak will have their day
We're devils and angels
Which one will I be today?

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Are you happy now with all the choices you've made?
Are there times in life when you know you should've stayed?
Will you compromise and then realize the price is too much to pay?
Winners and losers, which one will I be today?

There's a a light and a dark side
standing at the crossroads, there we'll meet
there's profits and fools there
the lies and the truths, will be at our feet
i got a reason to turn my head and look the other way
its heaven and hell here, which one will i live today?

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Which one will I be today?

I know a girl who warns the dangers of love
all the pain and the anguish, the sorrow that it brings
she keeps herself in a world thats protected
her outsides are tough
but insider her heart longs to sing

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Don't let your walls down
You might fall in love, you might fall in love

He's gonna get his girlfriend's name tattoed on his neck
and hope he never, never lives to regret
he's gonna walk down that long, dark alley
and what he finds there you know he'll never forget

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They're crashing down now, you might fallin love

I remember a time I believed
that the words love and pain were both on in the same
I'm gonna trade in my old ways for a new shot at life
I'm gonna change, change my direction
I'm gonna change my ways

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They're crashing down now
Its you I'm thinking of, its you I'm thinking of
Lets fall in love.

When pressures up and the stress is high
and I wanna bid this world good bye
I'm gonna bury my frustrations
grab some of life's satisfactions
yeah I'm gonna live before I die

I try to find some peace of mind
when my life's treating me unkind
paiin will be my motivation
I'm gonna use my imagination
yeah I'm gonna live before I die

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So close your eyes, and embrace your memories
leave your troubles and your worries far behind
stop contemplating and start celebrating
yeah you gotta live before you die

I think of chances I didn't take
i try to learn from my mistakes, yeah
I'm tired of being pushed around now
life ain't gonna drag me down now
yeah, I'm gonna live before I die

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You say you're down on your luck
hey baby, its a long, long way up
hold back now, hold back your fears
you say you're really down and out
and you feel like there's no way out now
let go now let go of your tears some more

How many times have you asked yourself
is this the hand of fate that I've been dealt?
you're so disillusioned this can't be real
and you can't stand now the way you feel

I don't care about what they say
I won't live or die that way
tired of figuring out things on my own
angel's wings wont you carry me home

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You say you're down on your luck
hey baby, its a long, long way up
hold back now, hold back your fears
and when you're really down and out
and you feel like there's no way out now
let go now let go of your tears some more

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I triumphed in the face of adversity
and I became the man I never thought I'd be
and now my biggest challenge, a thing called love
I guess I'm not as tough as I thought I was

I don't care about what they say
I'm gonna marry you some day
go ahead and wake up, its a brand new day
Angel's wings gonna carry you away
Angels wings are going to carry me away
angels wings are going to carry us away