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The Offspring

℗ 1989

The Offspring • 1989 • The Offspring

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Jennifer Lost the War

(The Offspring)

Jennifer lost the war today
You'll find her burned and raped
Through it all
She must have wondered
What have I done
But nobody really cares today
The world's a busy place
Guess she must have really sinned 

I guess we're all just soldiers
She was only six years old
Left to die by strangers
Her family waits
And if we're all just soldiers
Is it so wrong to be afraid 

Phoebe lost the war today
There must be some mistake
Say it happens all the time
And it's said and done
And Little Miss 1565 Your soul remains unclaimed
Guess you must have really sinned 

Morality won't help her 
When she lies silent in a morgue
And all our sorrows just don't count at all
But will the morning headlines
Even say that it's a shame
What are we headin' for 

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 lost the war

Elders

(The Offspring)

When we younger
There always seemed like
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 were your reasons for
Making it seem
Like you were so much more
If you want to feel good
Because of our accomplishments
Why the fuck
Don't you just do it yourself 

Cause I've tried
Man I've tried
While you 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 you finally learn
To leave out the bullshit
And just be straight with us

Out On Patrol

(The Offspring)

Look at my soldier boy now
With that big gun in your little hand
As you patrol this foreign land
Hear the mine that clicks beneath your feet 

Now do you see the light
Fading while your world is crumbling
Out on patrol
And all you can do is sit and stare
What revelation have you now
What culmination to your speck of life
Your moment in time 

As you sit here all alone
Will your buddies come and save your life
But as the enemy appears
See your life flash before your eyes

Crossroads

(The Offspring)

Time has washed away
And now I may wonder
How did it all slip by
Cause I always thought
We had forever
Future calls to me
To take me away from things
I don't want to leave behind
Like I'm slipping away
I can't hold on 

Find that path alone
Crossroads lead me away
But that's not what worries me
I just want to know what's home 

Through it all
My mind still wanders
To the one who touched my soul
Though her road leads away
She's still my
True love
I could believe 

Will is not enough when all those
Lost days stand in the way
But she was
My hopes and dreams my
Whole world
I could believe 

I still want to know
Who can see for me
Crossroads tell me 

Now you'll have to trade
Your past away
And find another day
So is change a friend or an enemy 

Through what comes to pass
I'll find my way
I've seen it all before
But is the best you can be
The best thing to be
Some people say
You're just wasting time
But that's not what worries me
I just want to know what's home

Demons

(The Offspring)

Clouds pass over the moon
Like an eye that shows impending doom
Tension in this misty air
Souls pass into the room
Drawn in by a lost memory
You will join them in the moonlight 

You are my offering
Your soul transcends
The centuries of pain
Your misery in life
Is your ecstasy in death 

Time passes like the wind
As we race to beat days dusky grin
Mornings just a moment away
Your body glistens in candlelight
As we all look on in fiendish delight
The ritual is just beginning 

Come fulfill the prophecy
With our demons of debauchery
As virgins and spectres sing
This madness will never cease 

In the dead of night
You will follow
In the footsteps of many others
Who have come before
I will show you the altar
Your Aztec eyes, Egyptian hair
Your beauty bestoved upon my lair
I've loved you before, in other lives
But you've never meant as much to me
Never meant as much to me as now 

In this night of sacrifice
where blood is spilt
That will never spill again
But in your linen robes
We want you now
We want you now
You could never ask for more than that 

You are my offering
Your soul transcends
The centuries of pain
Your misery in life
Is your ecstasy in
Come fulfill the prophecy
With our demons of debauchery
This madness will never cease

Beheaded

(James Lilja — The Offspring)

Mommy doesn't have a head any more
Keep it underneath my bed on the floor
Well that's alright, that's OK
She never really used her head anyway 

Daddy called me a silly bore
Bet he won't say that any more
Because the way his body is severed too
His vocal chords are gonna be hard to use 

Beheaded, watch you spurt like a garden hose
Beheaded, bloody mess all over my clothes 

Watch my girl friend come to the door
Chop off her head, she falls to the floor
Now watching my baby's jugular blow 
Really makes my motor go 

Wrap a towel round the bloody stump
Take my baby's body to the city dump
Then wipe the mess off the bloody axe
Scoop all the heads into my burlap sack 

Beheaded, watch her spurt like a garden hose
Beheaded, bloody mess all over my clothes 

All my collection, adorns my room on bamboo poles
Use to be a little, but a little got more and more
Now I'm craving yours 

Night brings bad dreams, bad dreams and guillotines 

Off with her head 
Off with her head
Off with her head
Off with her head
Off with her head
Off with her head 

Find another victim for my machine
Put him in a home-made guillotine
Blade falls, gonna need a casket
Watch your head plop in a wicker basket 

Leave the house at a quarter to four
Come back with sixteen or more
Cause the more I walk, the more I see
I got a funny feeling coming over me 

Beheaded, watch you spurt like a garden hose
Beheaded, bloody mess all over my clothes

Tehran

(The Offspring)

In your plane in the blue sky
You roam again
Words that echo in your mind
Make your heart beat faster
This is no Vietnam
We will win in Iran 

The Captain said kill or die
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran 

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

The President said let it ride
Islam 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 said let it ride
You will be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran

A Thousand Days

(The Offspring)

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you
I'll tell you no lies
When all is said and done
Does it really matter who's wrong or right
Don't ask me for a reason, I can't explain
Why we hurt one another again and again
As I lie bleeding here I still
I still reach for you 

A thousand days
Have passed away
A thousand days
Were captured in her eyes 

Your eyes are open now but you know
It's still hard to see inside
When action and intention
Are two seperate things
Now I somehow wish I could explain
Why we hurt each other again and again
Like someone on his dying breath
I still reach for you 

A thousand days
Have passed away
A thousand days
Were captured in her eyes 

Forever we've been
Trapped by our hearts
Trapped by our minds
I'd like to leave
I'd like to win at love 

But I just can't let it go
And I just can't watch it slipping away
And I just can't let it go
And I just can't stand another minute 

Maybe now someday our shattered live
Will mend themselves again
But now a million miles away
I still wish I could
And though I somehow know, I can't explain
Why we hurt one another again and again
Like someone on his dying breath
I still reach for you

Black Ball

(The Offspring)

In this world of hate and shallowness
Where enemies become your consolation
And those of us who win the game give up our minds
I don't call that winning
Say this doesn't apply to you
But ask yourself first
What have I done today to win the game
And just what have I sacrificed 

Win the battle lose the war
I know I've played this game before
When people were still real
I don't want this anymore 
It's time for me to close the door
There's nothing left to feel 

Reflect on all our yesterdays
My own words choke me
Why were they spoken
Regret for the things I've said and done
Just can't compare with
Regret for those that I have never tried
So blame this world or blame yourself
It's really all the same
When you are standing on the precipice
From which you just cannot return 

Win the battle or lose the war
I know I've played this game before
When people were still real
I don't want this anymore
It's time for me to close the door
There's nothing left to feel 

In the style of forgotten men
I look to my horizon
I see nothing
While thoughts of guns and desecration
Sweep through my mind
But only coffins and bones remain
As I look to you
The emptiness behind your eyes
Seals my decision
Can't carry on in this world of jugglers
Where all this thoughtlessness and bludgeonings 
Your key to success
What kind of tradition to carry on 

Blackball The new disease
Blackball The new disease
Blackball Your evil ways 
Have found their way inside me 

Blackball The new disease
Blackball The new disease
Blackball For a better life
In this high tech dog eat dog existence

I'll Be Waiting

(The Offspring)

Once I had a friend that I could count on
So I thought
Well so it seemed
But times of need are not enough 
To prove your friendship to me now
Once I saw a face that I believed in
But a mask was all there was
So who wears the masks and who wears the faces
Well I guess I'll never know 

But as I stand here alone in a room full of people
With nothing to say
Beer on their minds, and smoke in the air
Call them feiends but they just don't care 

Friend for life
Such shallow words for broken minds
Show me a friend for life
Cause I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day 

Once I found a love I had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Cause when we're together we just can't get enough
Or is it we just can't get what we want
Once I saw a dream, I had to chase it
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Who's at fault in this game of yours and mine
Well I guess I'll never know 

But as I sit here alone
Think of the girl who came softly inside me
The look in her eyes, the smell of her hair
Call her my own but is she really there? 

Love for life
Such noble words for noble minds
Show me a love for life
Cause I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day 

Once I had a friend that I could count 
Times of need are not enough
Once I found a love I had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Once I saw a dream I had to chase
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Now let me close my eyes
Because I don't want to see anything anymore

Kill The President

(The Offspring)

In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that you're saving
Will always be yours 

Kill the President
Listen to the voice of reason
Unify with that single line
Stop the man with the power
Of the government
A leader's not the center
Of democracy 

In a world without leaders
Who'd make people starve?
The world that we're saving
Will always be ours 

Everyone says
Well maybe I'll make a difference
Thinking they've got plenty of time
But you're squeezed
A little tighter everyday
Punished before you can commit a crime 

In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that you're saving
Will always be yours 

Kill the President
Listen to the voice of reason
Unify with that single line
Stop the man with the power
Of the goverment
A leader's not the center
Of democracy 

America
All of your enemies
Come from within
But you lash out so
It is seen
Like some frightened child
In an angry world
Or the fall of Rome
Your demise comes
From your own hands 

In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that you're saving
Will always be yours 

In a world without leaders
We might have a chance
But we'll never see it
As long as there's
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