The Lawrence Arms

Alert The Audience!

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Passive agressive, confessing, repressive
Structurally uncertain, transparent, transgressive
I've stumbled into something and I don't know what it is
All I-beams, bolts, and plaster, corners painted in piss
Mistakes are the breaks that I'm cutting on me
Fast down the hill, impossibly free
Faster and faster, I'm burning the gears
My tears are streaming back into my ears
<i>(Musical Interlude)</i>
My enemies I knew too well, they bickered amongst themselves
I have a rule I love to break
It ends in tears, cursing, and shakes

I'm a clown and I'm choking on blood, teeth, and tongue
Fuck the spectators, fuck the "he was so young"
Fuck forced sympathy through lifeless glass eyes
Povichian voyeurs drinking my cries
Fuck-faced trilobites waiting to die
I can't stand the humor, and I can't stand the lies

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x405pastmidnight On Apr 11, 2004

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2004-04-11 00:55:41

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by flip the tapexX

20y ago

This song is definently kick ass!

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by punkpirate

20y ago

This song is definitely a bit of self-analysis. He's listing traits that he knows he has, acknowledges mistakes he's made and talks about how his life seems out of control to him. Then he goes on a diatribe against everyone who views his problems as something that can be easily dealt with or ignored.

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by aubible_sigh

20y ago

"Povichian voyeurs" might be one of my favorite phrases. fuck Maury Povich

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