This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb

This is What I Want

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this is what i want. i want all the punks to take to the streets playing their guitars. this is what i want. black kids and white kids sharing all the songs that their grandmamas taught 'em. and we'll play 'em on our horns, we'll bang 'em on our drums, we'll play 'em on our guitars. singing songs that our mothers sang to us when we were young. songs that we may remember reading. songs we heard a stranger sing or humming on the streets. songs we made up yesterday on the porch in the rain on our guitars. and we'll never sing a song we heard on your radio, or a song someone else was paid to write or sing. and we'll never sing of sex the fakest kind of love. those songs will not be played on our guitars.

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spies220 On Jan 19, 2005

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by bigiggmac

19y ago

this is the unofficial anthem of folk punk.

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by UnderagedxThinking

18y ago

This song is just amazing. It's one of those songs that just makes you wanna sing and dance (and play the guitar =])

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by fuckedupdog

21y ago

this song is best heard with my three year old sister accompaning on vocals. isn't this what everybody wants?

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by jla224

20y ago

This song is awsome.It makes me wish i could play the guitar, but im stuck with the flute.

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by ansgar

18y ago

I don't get the "we'll never sing of sex the fakest kind of love" part. Why not sing about sex? And how is Sex the fakest kind of love?

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by husk 14y ago

I think he means emotionless sex

by Overtoad 14y ago

I can't speak for Rymodee, but I think that the fakest kind of love is that which is entirely reliant on sex, while the truest is that which can survive without it.

by Violentpacifist

18y ago

I'm sure its says "sex or the fakest kind of love" and I guess you'll have to ask them the other question.

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