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Dad's Bad News Lyrics
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
He's been classified grade a psychotic
You can see it from the hole in his head
A saner man would have used a bigger gun
Degeneration ah ah ah ah ah
The lunatic clause was written for you
The story spoken is a story unheard
By you so listen cause it's unbelievable
A certain trait has passed while centuries turned
This certain trait has been a family tradition
No simple way to tell you son
We share the same red tainted blood
I'm gonna kill me, You're gonna kill you
Killing you
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
He's a psychotic, grade a psychotic
He's been classified grade a psychotic
You can see it from the hole in his head
A saner man would have used a bigger gun
The lunatic clause was written for you
By you so listen cause it's unbelievable
A certain trait has passed while centuries turned
This certain trait has been a family tradition
We share the same red tainted blood
I'm gonna kill me, You're gonna kill you
Killing you
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
Don't believe a word your grandfather says
He's a psychotic, grade a psychotic
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This song is killer.... and I'm the 1st one to say so on this board... (hehe)
Great song...talks about how americans are just blood shedders, no way around it. NoFX is one punk band that can write amazing lyrics
this song is about inheriting a mental illness through the family bloodline:
"A certain trait has passed while centuries turned This certain trait has been a family tradition"
"No simple way to tell you son We share the same red tainted blood"
this is simple stuff people.
Sounds like huntington's disease...
its definately about mental illness, and also something to do with hereditery suicide.
"im gonna kill me, your gonna kill you"
also a suggestion/correction on the lyrics: "This certain trait has been a family tradition" sounds more like "this faulty dna has been a family heirloom"
nofx rule
I think that instead of a mental illness that it's about a position or belief political or religious. The person in the song I think comes from a line of people believing something that the new generations believe is crazy. Not actually mentally psychotic but in an abstract way.
I also think that the grandfather may have been a Nazi.
and he totally says this faulty GENE.
"You can see it from the hole in his head A saner man would have used a bigger gun" lol genial.
Wow, some people are reading too much into the lyrics for something that's not there ::cough::Davo::cough::
It's about a mental illness (probably depression since people in the family seem to off themselves) running in a family. Pretty cut-and-dry.
I remember reading somewhere that depression ran in Kurt Cobain's family and that he had a grandfather or a few uncles or something who killed themselves. I doubt that was the inspiration for this tune, but I just figured I'd mention it.
i always thought they should have named this song "sensenone"
i get it but some of the lines are written to purposely not make sense i think haha..