I like to party fucking hard
I like my rock and roll the same
Don't give a fuck if I burn out
Don't give a fuck if I fade away
So back to the Motor-League with me
Before I'm forced to face the wrath of a well-heeled buying public
Who live vicariously through
Tortured-artist college-rock and floor-punching macho pabulum
Back to the Motor League I go
Once thought I drew a lucky hand
Turned out to be a live grenade

Oh my god!
Holy shit!

Play-acting "anarchists" and Mommy's-little-skinheads,
Death-threats and sycophants and wieners drunk on straight-edge.
Fuck off
Who cares?
I'd rather highlight Trip-Tiks than listen to your bullshit.
Fuck off
Who cares- about your stupid scenes, your shitty zines, the straw-men you build up to burn?

It never ceases to amaze
And as I'm suffering your perfection it reminds me of my own race
To redress my own sad history of:
Mouthed feet
Eaten hats
Teated bulls
Amish phone-books
Drunken brawls

But what have we here?
15 years later it still reeks of swill and Chickenshit Conformists
With their fists in the air
Like-father, like-son "rebels" bloated on Korn, Eminems and Bizkits.
Lord, hear our prayer:
Take back your Amy Grant mosh-crews and fair-weather politics.
Blow-dry my hair and stick me on a ten-speed.
Back to the Motor League(x3)


I guess life is just a popularity contest
Success, the ability to perform within a framework of obedience
Just ask the candy-coated Joy-Cam rock-bands
Selling shoes for venture-capitalists,
Silencing competing messages,
Rounding off the jagged edges.


Lyrics submitted by PLANES, edited by psionicz, KolyaZ

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    I love this song. It's such a kick in the face to the rest of modern punk, all of which is too obsessed with trying to be political with the kind of moral message a primary school child could decipher. "Take back your fair-weather politics" --- --- Makes me think of all the political messages that are in punk songs, and all the people who wear them like badges instead of (if they felt strongly enough about then) doing something about them "like-father, like-son "rebels” bloated on korn, eminems and bizkits" --- --- all the fans of these bands who feel rebellious for listeneing to them, when they are in fact, awful and one-dimensional [THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION HERE] "Success, the ability to perform within a framework of obedience"--- --- amen. notice all successful artists songs are very flat and have no feeling in them. assholes "silencing competing messages, rounding off the jagged edges"--- --- visciousness within the music industry, how agencies, management etc. try to have a grip on what artists release, limiting their expression What a fucking awesome song. Tsunami Bomb's 'Dawn on a Funeral Day' is similar and equally as fabulous. Over and out.

    fearon July 20, 2005   Link

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