2. 1] ANTHEM PART II
Everything has fallen to pieces
Earth is dying, help me Jesus
We need guidance, we’ve been misled
Young and hostile but not stupid
Corporate leaders, politicians
Kids can’t vote, adults elect them
Laws that rule the school and workplace
Signs that caution sixteen’s unsafe
We really need to see this through
We never wanted to be abused
We’ll never give up, it’s no use
If we’re f***ed up, you're to blame
Let this train-wreck burn more slowly
Kids are victims in this story
Drown the youth with useless warnings
Teenage rules, they’re f***ed and boring
We really need to see this through
We never wanted to be abused
We’ll never give love, it’s no use
If we’re f***ed up, you’re to blame
Everything has fallen to pieces
Everything has fallen to pieces
Everything has fallen to pieces
Everything has fallen to…
We really need to see this through
We never wanted to be abused
We’ll never give love, it’s no use
If we’re f***ed up, you’re to blame
2] ONLINE SONGS
Josie
You’re my source of most frustration
Forget when
I don’t meet expectations
Everything you wished came true
In the end we all blamed you
Even though, as they all know,
You weren’t the only one
Why do you still keep it around
When you know it brings me down,
I’m hating everything
And I know that you dated other guys
But I got to wonder why
You’d leave it out for me
Why am I still hanging around
When I know it brings me down
I’m hating everything
And you are getting rides home in his car
You’re making out in his front yard
I’m hating everything.
Pleae don’t remind me
Put your past behind me
It shines so bright it blinds me
I wish that it would end
Am I am not fine
Last night I saw you online
Your screen name used to be mine
Why can’t we just pretend
And if we can have another day
I’ve got so much left to say
I’d tell you everything
And I’ll laugh when I think about the past
When I see you after class
You’re hating everything
Please don’t remind me
Put your past behind me
All songs written by blink-182
Produced by Jerry Finn Mixed by Tom Lord-Alge Engineered by Joe McGrath
Assistant Engineers: Joe Marlett, Ted Reiger, Robert Read Mix Assistant: Femio Hernandez Drum Tech: Mike “Sack” Fasano
Recorded at Signature Sound, San Diego, CA, Larrabee Studios West, Hollywood, CA, and Cello Studios, Hollywood, CA. Mixed at Encore Studios, Burbank, CA
Mastered by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, CA
Keyboards: Roger Joseph Manning, Jr.
It shines so bright it blinds me
I wish that this would end
Am I am not fine
Last night I saw you online
Your screen name used to be mine
Why can’t we just pretend
And she said, “I just forgot you
were there”
3] FIRST DATE
In the car I just can’t wait
To pick you up on our very first date
Is it cool if I hold your hand?
Is it wrong if I think it’s lame to dance?
Do you like my stupid hair?
Would you guess that I didn’t know
what to wear?
I’m just scared of what you think
You make me nervous so I really
can’t eat.
Let’s go
Don’t wait
This nights almost over
Honest, let’s make this night last forever.
Forever and ever
Let’s make this last forever
Forever and ever. Let’s make this
last forever
When you smile, I melt inside
I’m not worthy for a minute of your time
I really wish it was only me and you.
I’m jealous of everybody in the room.
Please don’t look at me with those eyes
Please don’t hint that you’re capable of lies
I dread the thought of our very first kiss
A target that I’m probably gonna miss
Let’s go
Don’t wait
This nights almost over
Honest, let’s make this night last forever.
Forever and ever
Let’s make this last forever
Forever and ever. Let’s make this
last forever
4] HAPPY HOLIDAYS
I’ll never talk to you again
5] STORY OF A LONELY GUY
Push it out
Fake a smile
Avert disaster just in time
I need a drink
‘Cause in a while worthless answers from
friends of mine.
It’s dumb to ask cool to ignore
Girls possess me but they’re never mine.
I made my entrance
Avoided hazards
Checked my engine I fell behind
DaDa, Dada. . .
I fell behind.
She makes me feel like it’s raining outside
And when the storms gone I’m all
torn up inside
I’m always nervous on days like this like
the prom
I get too scared to move ‘cause
I’m a f***ing boy
Remember when I was in the
3. grocery store
Now’s my time.
Lost the words, lost the nerve, lost the girl
left the line
I would wish upon a star but that star,
it doesn’t shine
So read my book, with a boring ending
A short story of a lonely guy
DaDa . . .
Who fell behind
She makes me feel like it’s raining outside
And when the storms gone I’m all
torn up inside
I’m always nervous on days like this
like the prom
I get too scared to move ‘cause
I’m a f***ing boy
DaDa, Dada. . .
She makes me feel like it’s raining outside
And when the storms gone I’m all
torn up inside
I’m always nervous on days like this
like the prom
I get too scared to move ‘cause I’m still
just a stupid, worthless boy
6] THE ROCK SHOW
Hanging out behind the club
on the weekend
Acting stupid, getting drunk with
my best friends.
I couldn’t wait for the summer and
the Warped Tour
I remember it’s the first time that I
saw her. . . there.
She’s getting kicked out of school
because she’s failing
I’m kind of nervous ‘cause I think
all her friends hate me.
She’s the one, she’ll always be there
She took my hand and that made it
I swear.
Because I fell in love with the girl
at the rock show.
She said ‘what’ and I told her that
I didn’t know.
She’s so cool, I’m gonna sneak in
through her window.
Everything’s better when she’s around,
I can’t wait ‘til her parents go
out of town.
I fell in love with the girl at the
rock show.
When we said we were gonna
move to Vegas
I remember the look her mother gave us
Seventeen without a purpose or direction
We don’t owe anyone a f***ing
explanation.
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show.
She said ‘what’ and I told her that
I didn’t know.
She’s so cool, gonna sneak in
through her window.
Everything is better when she’s around,
I can’t wait ‘til her parents go out of town.
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show.
Black and white picture of her on my wall
I waited for her call
She always kept me waiting.
And if I ever got another chance
I’d still ask her to dance.
Because she kept me waiting
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show.
She said ‘what’ and I told her that
I didn’t know.
She’s so cool, gonna sneak in
through her window.
Everything is better when she’s around,
I can’t wait ‘til her parents go out of town.
I fell in love with the girl at the rock show.
With the girl at the rock show
I’ll never forget tonight
7] STAY TOGETHER FOR THE KIDS
It’s hard to wake up
When the shades have been pulled shut
This house is haunted
It’s so pathetic
It makes no sense at all.
I’m ripe with things to say
The words rot and fall away.
What stupid poem can fix this home I’d
read it every day.
So here’s your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you’re dead and gone
Well you, you’ll never guess my twenty
years now lost
It’s not right
Their anger hurts my ears
Been burnin’ strong for seven years
Rather than fix the problems, they
never solve them
It makes no sense at all
I see them every day
We get along, so why can’t they?
If this is what he wants and this is
what she wants
Then why is there so much pain?
So here’s your holiday
Hope you enjoy it this time
You gave it all away
It was mine
So when you’re dead and gone
Well you, you’ll never guess my twenty
years now lost
It’s not right
8] ROLLER COASTER
Breathing deeply
Walking backwards
Finding strength to call and ask her
Roller Coaster, favorite ride
Let me kiss you one last time
Leave me standing here
Act like I’m not around
The coast will probably never clear
Can I please go home now?
I had that dream about you again
Where I wait outside
Until you let me in
And there I stayed
Lay beside me
And listen at the wall
4.
5. We’ll keep on lying
Until the summer comes
I had that dream about you again
Where you drive my car
Right off a f***ing cliff
And now I’m breathing deeply
Walking backwards
Finding strength to call and ask her
Roller Coaster, favorite ride
Let me kiss you one last time
Make me promise
That I will never tell
All I remember is
The way her bedroom smelled
I had that dream about you again
Where I wait outside
Until you let me in
And now I’m breathing deeply
Walking backwards
Finding strength to call and ask her
Roller Coaster, favorite ride
Let me kiss you one last time
Goodnight, goodnight
9] RECKLESS ABANDON
On and on, reckless abandon
Something’s wrong
This is gonna shock them
Nothing to hold on to
We’ll use this song
To lead you on
I learned a lot today
Not sure if I’ll get l**d and
Not sure if I’ll fail or pass
Kissed every girl in class
Everybody would waste it all
To have a summer that they could call
A memory that’s full of fun
F***ed up when it’s all done
On and on, reckless abandon
Something’s wrong
This is gonna shock them
Nothing to hold on to
We’ll use this song
To lead you on
And break the truth with more bad news.
We left a scar size extra large
Sip a drink of the alcohol
End up kneeling in bathroom stalls
Eyes are red and my movements slow
Too high, got vertigo
He took a s*** in the bathroom tub
And fed the dog with a brownie drug
Tried hard to not get caught
He f***ed a chick in a parking lot
On and on, reckless abandon
Something’s wrong
This is gonna shock them
Nothing to hold on to
We’ll use this song
To lead you on
And break the truth with more bad news
We left a scar size extra large
Break a window and bust a wall
Making fun of your friend’s mom
Turn the music up way too loud
Charge the pizza to the house
Everybody would waste it all
To have a summer that they could call
Memory that’s full of fun
F***ed up when it’s all done
On and on, reckless abandon
Something’s wrong
This is gonna shock them
Nothing to hold on to
We’ll use this song
To lead you on
And break the truth with more bad news
We left a scar size extra large
10] EVERYTIME I LOOK FOR YOU
I never found out why you left him
But this answer begs that question
Too blind to see tomorrow
Too broke to beg or borrow.
Young and stupid
Left wide open
Hearts are wasted
Lives are broken
One more point of contention
I need some intervention
Approached with vague intentions
Betray my short attention
Span the distance.
Bridge the border
Beg forgiveness
Round the corner
Everytime I look for you the sun
goes down
And I stumble when the whole thing
runs aground
I left another message, you are
never around
But everytime I look for you the sun goes
down once more
Will the last one out please shut the door
More time apart will give you
A few more months to argue
Is this too much to live through?
It always seemed too far to
Drive the point home
Send more letters
Pray tomorrow
Ends up better
Everytime I look for you, the sun
goes down
And I stumble when the whole thing
runs aground
I left another message, you are
never around
But everytime I look for you the sun goes
down once more
Will the last one out please shut the door
I never did do anything that she asked
I never let what happened stay in the past.
I never did quite understand what
she meant
In spite of everything
In spite of everything
Everytime I look for you, the sun
goes down
And I stumble when this whole thing
runs aground
I left another message, you are
never around
6. But everytime I look for you the sun
goes down once more
And I stumble when this whole thing
runs aground
I left another message, you are
never around
But everytime I look for you the sun
goes down
11] GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON
Mom and Dad they quite don’t
understand it
All the kids they laugh as if they planned it
Why do girls want to pierce their nose
And walk around in torn pantyhose,
oh yeah
I like to watch you say they listen
to the punk rock
I like the kids who fight I guess how they
were brought up
They hate the trends and think it’s
f***ed to care.
Its cool when they piss people off with
what they wear, oh yeah
So give me one good reason
Why we need to be like them
Kids will have fun and offend
They don’t want to and don’t fit in
Hate the jocks, the preps, the hippie-
f***ing scumbags
Heavy-metalers with their awful,
p**** hair bands
Counting seconds until we can get away
Ditchin’ school almost every single day,
oh yeah
So give me one good reason
Why we need to be like them
Kids will have fun and offend
They don’t want to and don’t fit in
12] SHUT UP
Shut the f*** up, she said
I’m going f***ing deaf
You’re always too loud
Everything’s too loud
Now that all my friends left
This place is f***ing dead.
I want to move out
When can we move out?
This s*** has got to stop
I’ll run away
Get the f*** up, she said
Your life is meaningless
It’s going nowhere
You’re going nowhere
You’re just a f*** up, she said
I’ll live alone instead
She said “You don’t care.”
I know I don’t care
I’ll never ask permission from you
F*** off, I’m not listening to you
I’m not coming home.
I’m never going to come back home
I got too f***ed up, again
And passed out on the plane
Tried to forget you
I can’t forget you
No sleep on this flight
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I’ll think about the nights
We had to get through
I didn’t get through
I’ll never ask permission from you
F*** off
I’m not listening to you
I’m not coming home
I’m never going to come back home
I think it’s time that I should leave
I’ll never ask permission from you
F*** off, I’m not listening to you
I’m not coming home.
I’m never going come back home
I’ll run away
I think its time for me to leave
13] PLEASE TAKE ME HOME
Oh no, it happened again
She’s cool, she’s hot, she’s my friend
I drive for hours, it’s so
You leave me nowhere
She’s unstoppable
Unpredictable
I’m so jaded, calculated.
Wrong
Please take me home
Too late, it’s gone
I bet you’re sad
This is the best time we ever had
I hope, hope that it lasts
Give in, forget the past
Be strong when things fall apart
Honest, this breaks my heart
She’s unstoppable
Unpredictable
I’m so jaded, calculated
Wrong
Please take me home
Too late, it’s gone
I bet you’re sad
This is the best time we ever had
Please take me home
Too late, it’s gone
I bet you’re sad
This is the best time we ever had
Why did we have to go date?
It’s too easy to complicate
Be strong when things fall apart
Honest, this breaks my heart.
Please take me home
Too late, it’s gone
I bet you’re sad
This is the best time we ever had
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