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Sex, Drugs & Violence Lyrics
All my life trouble follows me
Like a mystery girl
I've been chasing down a memory
Like a mystery girl
I've been getting lost searching my soul
All around this town
I took a wrong turn at growing up
And it's freaking me out
Back at school it never made much sense
Now I pay but I can't pay attention
Teaching me the hardest lessons of my life
Too dumb to die I guess
But that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress to
Sex, drugs and violence
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
Well I don't wanna be an imbecile
But Jesus made me that way
All my life I've been running wild
Like a runaway
Where the night takes me
Like a stowaway
Back at home it never made much sense
Now I pay but I can't pay attention
Teaching me the hardest lessons of my life
Too dumb to die I guess
But that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress to
Sex, drugs and violence
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
Back at home it never made much sense
Now I pay but I can't pay attention
Teaching me the hardest lessons of my life
Too dumb to die I guess
But that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress to
Sex, drugs and violence
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
Sex, drugs and violence
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
Sex, drugs and violence
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
Like a mystery girl
I've been chasing down a memory
Like a mystery girl
All around this town
I took a wrong turn at growing up
And it's freaking me out
Now I pay but I can't pay attention
Teaching me the hardest lessons of my life
But that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress to
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
But Jesus made me that way
Like a runaway
Where the night takes me
Like a stowaway
Now I pay but I can't pay attention
Teaching me the hardest lessons of my life
But that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress to
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
Now I pay but I can't pay attention
Teaching me the hardest lessons of my life
But that's the way it goes
Sometimes I must regress to
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
English, math and science
Safety in numbers
Gimme gimme danger
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This one seems quite personal if you take in to account Billie Joe's recent on stage break down. It's like he's admitting that as he's getting older, he's going back to to the vices that plagued him as a younger man, which could have lead to what happened that night, and his subsequent admission to rehab. Maybe getting older is freaking him out and hitting the bottle is the only way he can cope.