Did you get that rush, that feeling, adrenalin
Pumping through your veins?
A lifeless body in the gutter, city streets are stained
How do you rationalize? What do you see in your reflection?
A kid just having fun, a soldier's bloodied boot impression
One for all and all for one, especially when it's ten on one
You don't care what you're doing, you know it sure is fun

If it happened to your mother would you laugh so hard?
Well, that was someone's son or brother
That you kicked so hard

This time you went too far
What's the matter, don't you feel alright?
Do you feel remorse?
Or are the handcuffs on a little too tight?

Now that your friends are gone, you've got no
Defense, no protection
Five or six times a day you receive your hot beef injection
I hope every time you're corn holed terror fills your mind
The one emotion you have inspired one too many times


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The Malachi Crunch Lyrics as written by Mike Burkett

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    It wasn't really about Mike's friend. It was a kid that Melvin and Steve met at a show they played with DOA and he seemed nice so they invited to an afterparty. At the party the kid got severely beaten by a group of skinheads and later died from his injuries.

    derek10153on April 29, 2016   Link
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    this song kicks ass. its so fuckin ture man. fast and fuckin awesome.

    tomdrumsnofxon July 22, 2002   Link
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    FUCK YA MAN! wow like i thought nofx was a band that juss liked fucked around and never really got profound with their lyrics and shit but FUCK MAN! Fat MIKE! OH MAN! SHIT! when i actually read the lyrics to this song and listened to it at the same time i wasnted to surprise myself and read the lyrics for the first time while hearing it i started crying That is soo true I cannot believe it just everything i wish there was more thats SOO FUKKIN awesome ican't even describe it

    chrisguitarnofxon July 24, 2002   Link
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    i think this song is based on the fact that people dont care about what they do to others and they just laugh about it until it happens to you...If it happened to your mother would you laugh so hard? Well, that was someone's son or brother That you kicked so hard

    This time you went too far What's the matter, don't you feel alright? Do you feel remorse? Or are the handcuffs on a little too tight? **someone went to far doing some shit and he finaly got caught and u finaly stop and realize what you done

    insurance_68on August 02, 2002   Link
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    actually insurance, when mike says "do you feel remorse, or are those handcuffs on a little too tight" means that the person probably doesn't care what he did, just that he got caught.

    thankgoditsmondayon March 27, 2003   Link
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    about gangs you damn douches....i dunno how to spell it but you clean girls vaginas

    chrisguitarnofxon April 20, 2003   Link
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    This song is about some skins who killed a friend of fat mike.This is pretty good view of how life sometimes can be so sarcastic!!!He fucked some guy and now in jail he is fucked by others!I think this is somehow a way of justice.justice?.......

    falling_angelon June 11, 2003   Link
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    "do you feel remorse...or are those handcuffs on a little too tight?" Best lines in the song...

    thankgoditsmondayon May 18, 2004   Link
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    The title of this song is a reference to the Malachi brothers who appear in an episode of Happy Days. Can't remember much about it, but i remember that they challenged someone to a race (maybe the Fonz), and they tried to cheat...

    Another dead heroon October 03, 2004   Link
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    I reckon this is a mad song, the way i see it, is that it is a bout a bunch a skins who beat people for, fun and the line about u went to far, maybe he beat some1 to death?!?!? and got arrested for it, i liek the ending nice satisfaction in knowing that the piece of shit is being fucked up in prison mad song love it

    DroppedMidgeton October 18, 2004   Link

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