HAWKS & DOVES | WHERE THE CHILDREN PLAY | CALIFORNIA SON | O.C. CONFIDENTIAL
POINTLESS TEEN ANTHEM | WITHIN THESE WALLS

HAWKS & DOVES
Bombers in the sky
No one asking why
We have to duck and cover
When the bullets start to fly
- When the bullets start to fly, we have to duck and hide!

It's just a game of cat and mouse.

Missiles in production
Locked and set
Annihilate the cancer
Of the U.S. deficit
- Spend a little more, fix it with a war!

It's just a game of cat and mouse.

Work a sixty hour week
Still can't pay the rent
Tax away my wages
To bomb another tent
- Bomb another tent, it's how my money's spent!

It's just a game of cat and mouse.

Treason to contest
Where the money goes
It isn't feeding people,
Building shelter, buying clothes
- Where does the money go? Where does the money go?

It's just a game of cat and

CHORUS:
Hawks! & Doves!
Hawks! & Doves!
Hawks! Doves!
Hawks! Doves!

Blood all over
A gangster debt
Tanks on CNN
Propaganda TV set
- Propaganda TV set! Propaganda TV set!

It's just a game of cat and mouse.

Borders we've established
To keep each other out
Serve the purpose all too well
To even talk about
- Lock each other in! Lock each other out!

It's just a game of cat and mouse.

A child, bleeding,
Shot yesterday
We can't stand the pain
So we quickly look away
- The time has come today! (Hey!) Don't look away!

It's just a game of cat and mouse.

Lock each other up
Lock each other in
Blow it all to Hell
In wars we cannot win
- Wars we cannot win! Wars we cannot win!

It's just a game of cat and

CHORUS

WHERE THE CHILDREN PLAY
Drive-by suicide bombers all over the news
In our back yards, in our bedrooms
Biochemical warfare, anthrax, and smallpox
Stuff it all, back in the toybox

CHORUS:
I wanna, I wanna play - I want to play where the children play
I wanna, I wanna play - I want to hear what they have to say
In a world where the sun shines each and every day - I wanna play where the children play
I want to play where the children play.

Fanatics on a mission it's impossible to tell
Where the last batch of FDA poison fell
To justfy their vision, a pretty tough sell
Twin Towers, they blew our dreams all to Hell.

CHORUS

CHORUS

CALIFORNIA SON
Came to a point, do I laugh or do I cry?
Came to a point, do I live or do I die?
I called out, "Do you even exist?"
"What do you ask?" Came a voice from the Missed.

CHORUS:
Life's just begun - California son
Go have some fun - California son
Fun in the sun - California son
Life should be fun - California son
Life should be fun!

Asked a priest about the Mystery,
Why this heart of darkness consumes me
Merciful Mother, the misery
What have I done that He'd forsaken me?

CHORUS
Life's a game to be won!

CHORUS

O.C. CONFIDENTIAL
I grew up in Orange County in the shadow of a mouse
Watched the sky from the rooftop of my house
Things seemed so subtle off Katella Avenue
Living in a city with so many things to do

Well this is a town where nothing goes
This is a town where a mind can't grow
This kind of town gets in your face
This is a town like any other place

-Again- I'm losing again-

I went to a shrink I was so messed up
Ten hours of therapy; fifteen hundred bucks
I asked him, "Doctor what's the matter with me?"
He said, "You're an addict. That's so plain to see"

That this is a town that where they kiss and tell
This is a town that I know so well
This kind of town gets in your face
This is a town like any other place

-Again- I'm losing again-

POINTLESS TEEN ANTHEM
This is a pointless teenage anthem about how great things used to be
The kind that tugs your heartstrings like rhythmic atrophy
A pointless teenage anthem; we're not allowed to grow
Past the pointless teenage tantrums like the kind I used to throw.

CHORUS:
Round-round-round
Spinning round 'n' round
Down-down-down
Spinning upside down
Pound-pound-pound
Pound it to the ground
Sound-sound-sound
Like it's something new they've found

Pointless teenage anthems are what they all expect from me
To hold onto the youth they lost in 1983
Pointless teenage anthems keep the old school young
So they can slam around and round; lament what they've become

CHORUS

Another pointless teenage anthem shouldn't be too tough
I've written fifty other ones more, than enough
So here's a toast to happiness, to life and liberty
Life's a blast, fuck the past, irresponsibility

CHORUS

WITHIN THESE WALLS
Within these walls
Within these walls
Within these walls - is pain and strife
Within these walls - it's yours for the night
Within these walls - you'll sacrifice
Within these walls

We're prowling to and fro
We're prowling to and fro
We're prowling to and fro
Nowhere else to go

We need a lamb to slaughter
On the center stage
Inside this house tonight
We'll please the gods of rage
From the center stage
With our sacrafice

Within these walls - we don't look the same
Within these walls - we all feel pain
Within these walls - we're all in this game
It's no mistake

We're prowling to and fro
We're prowling to and fro
We're prowling to and fro
Nowhere else to go

There comes a time, to stand and fight
Or turn and walk away
The simple choice of wrong and right
To kill or to pray

Blood's been spilled all over the stage
Where you chose to lie
When the bleeding heart you wore in your traditions ran dry

Dreams are broken on the boulevard,
Outside this house of blues;
By misery makers, undertakers,
Movers, shakers, liars, fakers.

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