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Fuck New York
03:02
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my father and his father and his father and his father
all lived in new york
then one day they left the town
and out in jersey settled down
just came in for work
that's when the city starts to change
some neighborhoods look strange
no one lives there cause everyone wants to
so we see empty apartment blocks
for billionaires with yachts
laughing while the city's told not to watch
all these kids at NYU
can't pay the rent but don't need to
their parents cough it up
ten thousand more apartment dorms
ten thousand service workers on
a three hour commute
the city never sleeps
but damn i'm feeling beat
i can't find a bench to lay my head
i guess i'll move to philly
even though the pizza's shitty
fuck up somebody else's neighborhood
and i say
fuck new york
goodbye new uork
guess i never loved you anyway
and i say
fuck new york
goodbye new york
thanks for telling me that all my dreams
my dreams wouldn't pay
yeah i know i'm no new yorker
cause i'm jersey born and raised
but i can smell that salty bagel a mile away
yeah i cross the verrazano
half a paycheck at a time
till those pearly gates await me then i'll know
that i'll say fuck new york
goodbye new york
guess i never loved you anyway
and i say
fuck new york
goodbye new york
thanks for telling me that all my dreams
my dreams wouldn't pay
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2. |
40s and Blunts
02:02
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dont wanna be a boston aristocrat
dont wanna be a dc diplomat
or an ass kissing journalist who gets paid a lot to be wrong
dont wanna be accepted by the ivy league
dont wanna sell overpriced technology
all the smart boys in silicon valley think they'll save the world but they wont
i
just wanna get paid
enough to get drunk today
dont want an exclusive credit card
dont want to have to do coke just to get hard
have wall street as my back yard (but itd make gettin coke pretty easy)
dont wanna meet an inbred socialite
get her pregnant and become rich over night
have it agreed i got the right to the money i get that way
i
just wanna get paid
enough to get drunk today
dont ever wanna say that i got mine
my life's not so bad the world must be fine
most people live past 29 it's the best that we can do
everyone wants their work done for free
as long as anyone's exploited fuck it exploit me
i aint got no future or family, that shit's too expensive
i
just wanna get paid
enough to get drunk today
i
just wanna get paid
enough to get drunk today
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3. |
Government Skatepark
03:02
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the state wants me to skate today
they want my weekend spent in a safe and unproductive way
no threat to social order
this democracy needs happy voters
the state wants me to waste away
my time under the 95 freeway
a little park a small price to pay
keep my mind away from one day overthrow
i got new skate shoes down at the skate shop
it's nice to have time to kill so i go out
out in the sunshine i feel
so new i swear it's unreal
when i'm on my board i feel like
everything will be alright and
the anger goes away
i guess the world is ok
oh i know i might have gone insane
my ankles bleed i'm addicted to the pain
oh you've got to move that skateboard down the lane boy, because
all these working people gotta be up in the morning
and you're making too much noise so we built this government skate park
the state wants me to skate and pay
for branded shit on layaway so
is this a nuisance or
another corporate sport
everything i want to burn is
obfuscated when i learn that
they built a place for me
where i can play anarchy
i can tell myself i haven't changed
that the rebel in me can't be tamed
but i've got bills to pay before i hit the pavement, because
all these working people gotta pay their taxes so that we can
start another war and build a government skate park
(i want you to know)
yea i want you to know
there are no rules
you'll end up fine
(i want you to know)
you'll end up fine
yea i guess i'll skate my life away
find out what it means to be free
i guess i'll skate my life away
find out what it means to be me
yea
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4. |
Downward Mobility
01:54
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you're proud of your blue state bona fides getting dusty on your shelf
but they'll never change the fact that if my dad was someone else
i'd make six figures moving data on spread sheets
you tell me i should be glad
you want me to bite my tongue til the damn thing bleeds
until it bleeds
i can't make me keep a job
if the things worth working for don't pay
i'm not gonna let them rob
the best years of my life away
and you think it's all because i want it easy
who the hell are you to judge what makes it easy
for me?
you've been to school a few years you think you understand
how hard it is to live your life, you feel for the common man
but you never talk to anyone in your new neighborhood
cash rules everything around
but you can never buy authenticity
authenticity
i can't make me keep a job
if the things worth working for don't pay
i'm not gonna let them rob
the best years of my life away
and you think it's all because i want it easy
who the hell are you to judge what makes it easy
for me?
old or young, if you've been blinded by your comfort
do you think you have anything to offer to me?
don't be frightened, you're so fucking enlightened
you accept downward mobility
if it don't happen to you
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5. |
Lizard People
02:26
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when i go to brush my teeth i feel like a wizard
i got electric brushing thanks to half-men half-lizards
isn't money wonderful? it gets me what i need.
like the beaver (money) does everything so damn near perfectly.
i guess ill trade my time for this guitar.
my bed is so cold on what used to be your side
but i can buy a heater for my room for 19.99.
the globalists have kept you an ocean away from
america
land of the free market will free us
thats the logic of the age
so commodify your friendships and let zuckerberg get paid.
if we're lucky we can keep on working till we're old
unless the reaper comes we'll still be paying off our loans.
so i guess i'll steal my friend's guitar.
i want to believe that fake news is what's to blame,
but there's something much more heinous
flowing through my country's veins.
you'd like to be exceptional
just because you're made in america.
i used to be freer than this
we need to be freer than this
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6. |
Ambitious Creeps
03:01
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ambition creeps and ambitious creeps
hate it when you show the ways they're weak
won't be satisfied until you never speak
or even try
petty tyrants and presidents
obsessed with perceived achievements
but they're still gonna shit their pants
when they die
they don't want you to know that
you can get all your time back
nobody asked to be born
no one ever got to have a choice
of where to start
nobody asked to be born
no one ever got
to have a choice
the times you lost the times you had
trying to make yourself less bad
it's all an insane power grab
crankin hog
if you're serving onion rings
or an MBA made you a king
everybody serves something
what's your god?
they don't want you to know that
you can get all your time back
nobody asked to be born
no one ever got to have a choice
of where to start
nobody asked to be born
no one ever got
to have a choice
is management what you expected?
bossing around the disaffected
nobody gets resurrected
if you ignore the fire you won't be protected
if civility makes you a dense motherfucker
i'd rather be down right here in the gutter
if civility makes you a dense motherfucker
i'd rather be down right here in the gutter
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7. |
Polly
03:42
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there's a caged bird
in my house
and he screams and squawks
whenever i walk by
there's a reason
he dont sing to us
cause we cut off both his wings
so he cant fly
if all you see are wire bars
how do you know your heart feels anything at all
there's a caged bird in my house
there's a caged bird in my house
i don't know if i was happier
before i knew there was a sky to fly in
but now i know i've been cheated, lied to
there's no coming back from this
there's a caged bird in my house
there's a caged bird in my house
all i do is flap around inside my head
all i do is flap around inside my head
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8. |
Too Many Diamonds
04:02
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why don’t you don’t call me (call me)
like you used to every week
we’d get fucked up and then we’d walk to the quickchek
back when we were band geeks
too many diamonds (diamonds)
on my girlfriend’s girlfriend’s rings
seems like everybody’s sealing the deal
but i’m fine with just loving
oh what’s wrong with just loving
last time i was at your house
your dad was passed out on the couch
that was eight years ago
now you got shit figured out
you're sober got a boyfriend now
i'm still drivin drunk home
maybe you're right
and i should stop while i'm not dead
but tonight you're not here
to fuck around in my backyard with everclear
i’m hungover at my job
i've been here for way too long
i'm a shit show at parties
but i always bring beer
don’t grow up
till you have to
do you really have to?
too many heads too many beds i can't remember
when i wake up
but i won't hold me back now
nothing beats that feeling when those tests come back negative
too many parties (parties)
i can’t go to anymore
all these kids look like they can’t even drive
how did i end up here?
all my dealers (dealers)
died or quit or went to jail
now i’m bumming shitty hits off my roommate
and this weed tastes like ass
i’m a fucking adult
i should have my own drugs
i’m hungover at my job
i've been here for way too long
i'm a shit show at parties
but i always bring beer
don’t grow up
don’t grow up
don’t grow up
till you have to
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9. |
Too Much Tongue
02:22
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it's hard for me to negotiate
the distance that i must keep from you
you pull me in just to push me out and i'm
pretending that i know what to do
but each and every evening i try holding back some more
but you always tell me
i kiss with too much tongue
that i don't tease enough
i blame it on the love
and i'm always quick to trust
since i was a playground kid i
never knew who wasn't a friend
give an inch fuckers took a mile
and i'm laughing like it's all just pretend
but each and every morning i was walking out my door
the names got a little meaner
so i kiss with too much tongue
i don't fuck with anyone
i just hole up in my room
until i get some time with you
the world is full of shitty boys (Everybody sucks now, baby)
with lips that could destroy (Whoooaaa-oh-oh)
and everybody sucks
oh why oh why don't you?
i need to be a tough guy
can't let anybody know who i am
conserve emotional capital
don't let anyone like you give a damn
so you can kiss with too much tongue
and not fuck with anyone
don't just smoke up in your room
until you're sleeping on the moon
yeah everybody sucks (you know we all do, baby)
and yeah everybody knows (Whoooaaa-oh-oh)
i don't think i'll ever know
what is too much, too much tongue
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a married man once met me
he told me "son, don't go from i to we"
spending all your time with one person
shutting out the thoughts sayin is it worth it
there's so much you end up ignoring
the day you lay down and become boring
why would i want to be in love?
ain't life short
don't choose convenience and don't trust luck
once that you're in it you don't even know you're stuck
(but you don't have to be)
spending all your time with one person
shutting out the thoughts sayin is it worth it
there's so much you end up ignoring
the day you lay down and become boring
why would i want to be in love?
ain't life short
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