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This Could Be Anywhere (This Could Be Everywhere) Lyrics
Cold concrete apartments
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses
Of the long gone age of privacy
It takes a scary kind of illness
To design a place like this for pay
Downtown's an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains
One by one
The little houses are bricked up and condemned
A subtle hint to move
Before the rats move in
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Those new kids at school seem cool
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends
They're not our kind
So now there's lots of fights
So many people I know
Come of age tense and bitter eyed
Can't create so they just destroy
C'mon!
Let's set someone's dog on fire
Empty plastic
Culture slum suburbia
Is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we'd left behind
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Kids at school are taking sides
Along color and uniform lines
My dad's gone and bought a gun
He says he's fed up
With crime in this town
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Anywhere
Everywhere
I hope I'm gone before it explodes...
I linger late at night
Waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz
Could hide the oozing vibes of death
My dad's a vigilante now
He's bringing home these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his TV
When Kojak's on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun
To his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope
Is being in the police reserve
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere--Everywhere
Rise up from wet black asphalt
Below them a few carcasses
Of the long gone age of privacy
To design a place like this for pay
Downtown's an endless generic mall
Of video games and fast food chains
The little houses are bricked up and condemned
A subtle hint to move
Before the rats move in
This could be everywhere
But dad says not to talk to them
Stick to your old friends
They're not our kind
Come of age tense and bitter eyed
Can't create so they just destroy
C'mon!
Let's set someone's dog on fire
Culture slum suburbia
Is a war zone now
Sprouting the kinds of gangs
We thought we'd left behind
This could be everywhere
Along color and uniform lines
My dad's gone and bought a gun
He says he's fed up
With crime in this town
This could be everywhere
This could be anywhere
This could be everywhere
Anywhere
Everywhere
I hope I'm gone before it explodes...
Waiting for the bus
No amount of neon jazz
Could hide the oozing vibes of death
He's bringing home these weird-ass friends
Like the guy who fires blanks at his TV
When Kojak's on
Or the guy who shows off his submachine gun
To his sixteen-year-old daughter's friends
Whose sense of pride and hope
Is being in the police reserve
This could be everywhere--Everywhere
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this is everywhere. hate? atrophy. frustration. "kids at school are taking sides along color and uniform lines" we learn at such a young age, to hate what we don't know and embrace a culture that would accept us. just for acceptance.
Honestly, I think this is DK's best song, and definetly some of Jello's best lyrics. His voice perfectly compliments the haunting guitars. Definetly my favorite song of theirs. Awesome.
i got the mutiny on the bay version, different lyrics?
"i'm hope i'm gone before it explodes". i can relate to that where i'm living...
Yeah a lot of DK's live versions are very differant from the recordings
Heh, I love the way this song gets gradually darker and darker.
"It takes a scary kind of illness to design a place like this for pay" - i once quoted this in my English class, without acknowledging the source, and people were baffled. behind all the stingy guitars and Jello-screams, it is sadly unknown to a wide audience what a great hilarious, poetic, and emotional lyricist this man was (and maybe still is, but i lost track of his musical whereabouts)
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