Well I'm up and I don't know why
But I guess that's all that counts
Looking 'round as I'm holding my head
And I'm in somebody's house
The sun it hits like a punch in the face
With a headache I can't ignore
Seems almost every weekend my bed is someone's floor
And so I can't keep this up
I have had enough
Eating cold pizza on the side of the curb
To cover up my morning breath of gin
Something doesn't seem to sit with me right
It's going out the way it went in
And so I can't keep this up
I have had enough
'cause you can count me out
I'm on to you
'cause you can count me out
I'm tired of leaving my embarrassments behind


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Machine Gun Lyrics as written by Deryck Jason Whibley Deryck Whibley

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    Does this song not remind of you of so many times waken up at a party after youve passed out just hammed. Fuccccck alll the time.
    jOsHoWon August 21, 2002   Link
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    well I think it's about someone who partys and shit all the time and one day like woke up in the gutter or something and they want to bring them self back up and shit... yeah. well that 's just me :)
    SumJackass41on August 26, 2002   Link
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    i think it also has to do with giving up partying and getting serious to accomplish ur dream..which, hey, they did
    bizzydxxchick16on September 25, 2002   Link
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    this is my favourite song by sum. sooooo true
    tdmhtb182on March 05, 2003   Link
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    yeah i think its about someone partying all the time and getting tired of it, moving on. but anyways i like it alot, reminds me of me and my friends, taht shit happens to us all the damn time
    unleash_the_batson December 20, 2004   Link
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    This is my favorite song on Half Hour of Power!
    final_notice41on March 23, 2006   Link
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    Man, this songs about your lfie being a complete wreck, jsut getting fucked every day, and one day just waking up, feeling shit from the night before, teh week before, or the month before and jsut being like 'fuck.... what am i doing'. I get this feelign all the time, but it goes when yolu get wasted again :p
    nu-freakon February 23, 2008   Link
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    Ive never even heard these guys, but i love the lyrics. I like sum 41 a lot. I think this song is saying that you have to do these things, and than moving on. I dont think hw parties all the time though, i think he just leads a life that he doesnt have any care for his life, than one morning he starts to care, and he decides to try to change.
    kantochampon June 14, 2006   Link

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