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When I was thinking about moving to VA., everyone I talked to had nothing but amazing things to say about it. “Oh the music scene is amazing!”, “Oh the people are so cool! You’re gonna love it!”. These people, as it turns out, had no idea what they were talking about.Once in VA., I got a job at a chain restaurant , where there were refugees from various states who had been similarly duped. We are the suckers, not the naitives.
It was a hot June day, and my ass was sticking to the seat of my girlfriend's car.
Staten Island traffic in the summer, baby.
And when you stuff yourself into a suit and tie do you think the judge can see through the sweat as he gives you your fine for a post-panic attack speeding ticket on a 90 degree day in New York. And yeah, you're gonna drive home for three hours to work in a basement for tribute bands making posters to pay about a fifth of that price. It's just Staten Island traffic in teh summer. Oh!
That orange ball.
That burning orb of fire in the sky is gonna explode and we're all gonna die!
Except for the foolish few who will "think ahead" and drive their SUV's to their bomb shelters
Complain about air conditioning because "baby, we ain't got no more electricity."
They wanna rise when it's done, be a leader with a gun.
Be a leader of what? Like a hundred and one?
Well, fuck it, I'm gonna hang out on the rooftop when it comes.
'Cause when it's dark, it'll be night time, baby.
And I'll get my ass on up out of this mess.
The only stores that are open, baby.
They gonna sell beer, and they're gonna sell ice cream.
And we'll drink drink drink and get drunk drunk drunk
and we'll talk talk talk about how much fun we had, yeah, when
we were fuckin' the world.
Through the glares on our windshields, we can't see each others eyes, just McDonalds cups and wrappers that they're throwing at full speed. And yes, I long for a shadow. And yes, I always appreciate the irony that the only cool comfort that allows us to see is a goddamn billboard. Sing it with me.
A BILL BOARD IS THE ONLY THING PREVENTING US FROM BLINDLY CRASHING. And we'll never see a city not marred by advertisements, and we'll NEVER have a future not working for those companies, and it's sure as shit not getting better so we might as well accept it now, oh.
And that really doesn't cheapen anything because, baby, we're all born to be businessmen. Every Fugazi record has a catalog number and a price tag and every independent label is selling you another goddamn product. But, NO, WE'RE not slaves to the music. Oh no, WE'RE not slaves to the company, baby. We do what we're born and raised to do and when you create something, you're producing something and that act of producing is the creation of a product.
'Cause when it's night, it'll be night time, baby.
And I'll get my ass on up out of this mess.
The only stores that are open, baby.
They gonna sell beer, and they're gonna sell ice cream.
And we'll drink drink drink and get drunk drunk drunk
and we'll talk talk talk about how much fun we had, yeah, when
we were fuckin' the world.
Oh we were fucking the world.
Yeah, we were fu fu cking cking the the world world.
When the sun drops, you ain't gonna be hungover the next day.
When the comet hits, you ain't gonna have no bills to pay.
When the bomb hits, it's gonna be a four day weekend. Hey hey!
When it's all done I'm gonna feel great finally.
And when I finally got to work today, I ate my Subway sandwich, and I drank my Coca-Cola Classic, and then I ate my Sunchips and I thought about the weekend when I'd fill up my Ford van with Mobil brand gas and drive to the Clear Channel venue and I'd drink myself a Budweiser and play my Fender guitar through my Fender amplifier and tell the kids with a straight face through a Shure microphone and JBL speakers that corporate rock is for suckers.
honestly top notch songwriting and composition. jeff rosenstock is a tortured soul but a motherfucking genius. i feel bad that he suffers so hard, but he wouldn't write such amazing shit like this if he didn't.
And when I finally got to work today, I ate my Subway sandwich, and I drank my Coca-Cola Classic, and then I ate my Sunchips and I thought about the weekend when I'd fill up my Ford van with Mobil brand gas and drive to the Clear Channel venue and I'd drink myself a Budweiser and play my Fender guitar through my Fender amplifier and tell the kids with a straight face through a Shure microphone and JBL speakers that corporate rock is for suckers
How amazing is that?
BTMI! = incredible. This song = incredible. AND fun to sing/yell along to while jumping around. Seriously. Best ever.
And when I finally got to work today, I ate my Subway sandwich, and I drank my Coca-Cola Classic, and then I ate my Sunchips and I thought about the weekend when I'd fill up my Ford van with Mobil brand gas and drive to the Clear Channel venue and I'd drink myself a Budweiser and play my Fender guitar through my Fender amplifier and tell the kids with a straight face through a Shure microphone and JBL speakers that corporate rock is for suckers.
Pure win.
This song blows my mind. It's so amazing.
They wanna rise when it's done, be a leader with a gun. Be a leader of what? Like a hundred and one? Well, fuck it, I'm gonna hang out on the rooftop when it comes
Amazimg ^
"Well, fuck it, I'm gonna hang out on the rooftop when it comes."
[You said it, Jeff. I listen to this song when I'm ready to give up, and it turns me around a little. Like I might be able to pick up the pieces and start again- even though I can't, and I'll just end up listening to this song again.]
When the sun drops, you ain't gonna be hungover the next day. When the comet hits, you ain't gonna have no bills to pay. When the bomb hits, it's gonna be a four day weekend. Hey hey! When it's all done I'm gonna feel great finally.
BTMI! is one of the, if not the most original band i've ever heard. This is one of my favorite songs by them, and there's not a song by them that I don't like. Holy crap.
Post-apocalyptic world ftw.
I scream this song on the bus to school at the top of my lungs every morning. The kids faces are priceless. A combo of fear and pure confusion. This Band's the best! Nothing greater,man!
I don't have much against corporate rock but this song is genius.
I think you are missing the point. This song is highlighting the sad irony of bands (and other people) that claim to be against corporate rock. It presents to us the inescapability of capitalism and corporatism - how we are bombarded with adverts and brands, how our entire lives revolve around work and money, how you couldn't really survive if you actually fought the system.
I think you are missing the point. This song is highlighting the sad irony of bands (and other people) that claim to be against corporate rock. It presents to us the inescapability of capitalism and corporatism - how we are bombarded with adverts and brands, how our entire lives revolve around work and money, how you couldn't really survive if you actually fought the system.
It's not anti-corporate rock at all. It's more anti-anti-corporate rock if anything because these people are being so blind. It's holding up a mirror to these bands that SELL music on smashing the system and...
It's not anti-corporate rock at all. It's more anti-anti-corporate rock if anything because these people are being so blind. It's holding up a mirror to these bands that SELL music on smashing the system and the people agreeing who BUY this music as well the other drinks and foods they all get to set the ambiance while they tell how they are tearing down the state and how they are so independent from all those corporate suckers. It's the sheer ridiculousness of it all.