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Mediocre Bad Guys Lyrics
Well don't give me no comic book sad looks no more,
please don't use those same excuses you've used before,
mmmh mhhmmm,
you told yourself so many times it's okay,
so be good to try, but you just don't know how to come back down,
and now you beat me up and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beating me up, breaking me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kicking me when i'm on the ground,
well how about those people i know,
that you know the ones i mean,
not so good, not so bad,
only know what they have,
and they have only what they've seen,
them mediocre bad guys can really bring you down,
they can't be defeated, and you know,
they're never going to come around,
they just beat me up and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beating me up, breaking me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kicking me when i'm on the ground,
Well somebody's something was left in the room,
and now that it's gone of course we assume,
that somebody else needed something so bad,
that they took everything somebody had,
somebody saw him jump yeah but nobody saw him slip,
i guess he lost a lot of hope and then he lost his grip,
and now he's lying in the freeway in the middle of this mess,
I guess we lost another one, just like the other one,
beat me up and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beating me up, breaking me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kicking me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground.
please don't use those same excuses you've used before,
mmmh mhhmmm,
you told yourself so many times it's okay,
so be good to try, but you just don't know how to come back down,
and now you beat me up and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beating me up, breaking me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kicking me when i'm on the ground,
well how about those people i know,
that you know the ones i mean,
not so good, not so bad,
only know what they have,
and they have only what they've seen,
them mediocre bad guys can really bring you down,
they can't be defeated, and you know,
they're never going to come around,
they just beat me up and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beating me up, breaking me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kicking me when i'm on the ground,
Well somebody's something was left in the room,
and now that it's gone of course we assume,
that somebody else needed something so bad,
that they took everything somebody had,
somebody saw him jump yeah but nobody saw him slip,
i guess he lost a lot of hope and then he lost his grip,
and now he's lying in the freeway in the middle of this mess,
I guess we lost another one, just like the other one,
beat me up and break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beating me up, breaking me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kicking me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground,
beat me up, break me down,
hopeing i don't come around,
kick me when i'm on the ground.
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My favorite off of On and On. I love the guitars in this. Motivates me to ignore the naysayers because they don't mean anything...
great music..as well as great lyrics..
yet a nother great pice...
props to jack.
Ahhh love it.
i love this song so much she sounds like such a bitch in this song lol i went and saw jack johnosns concert he is soooooo good live this is by far one of my faves on the album
That bit near the end, from "somebody saw him jump..." to "guess we lost another one..." are actually from a different song, from Fall Line. This is a great song, perfect to listen to when you're mad at someone!
Great song. It is what it is.
This is definetely one of his best of by far his best album. I love all of his albums but this album is a modern classic. I remeber laying back on a warm late summers night listening to this album for the first time and reaching the stage where your thinking "can this album get any better" and this came on. The beat kinda reminded me of a mid 90s mega drive game. I cant remember the title but you would walk through the streets as either a black dude, a white guy with spikey blonde hair or a woman hitting other gangs members with objects.
I loooove this song, its one I always put on repeat in my car! I think he might be talking about a bad friend, how they come around, then let you down... just what I think, any other ideas?
i think its about our society is very shallow minded " not so good not so bad only know what they have and they have only what theyve seen" Jack realizes that society's views cant be defeated and there never gonna come around
i think this song is about how by doing nothing good can also be just as harmful to those around us as doing something evil. by just doing what we know, and pretending to be good, it doesn't save us in the end. we must all do good if we want the reward in the end.