Ted Andreadis - Keys, Backing Vocals
Jimmy "Z" Zavala - Sax, Harmonica
Lee Thornburg - Trumpet
Jack Douglas - Sitar, Backing Vocals
Collin Douglas - Percussion
Karen Lawrence - Backing Vocals
Kim Nail - Backing Vocals
Jeff Paris - Backing Vocals
Kelly Hansen - Backing Vocals
Raya Beam - Rap on "Mean Bone"
Kids backing vocals on "Serial Killer":
Nishaun Ruiz
Alex Munoz
Nadine Ruiz
Layal Ghosen
Joanna Schumann
Vanessa Schumann
Been There Lately (Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) Have seen them raise an eye, I’m coming home Seedy and crawlin’, seven years or more Now you know where I’m going A beautiful shade of blue and pale A color you bought at a junkie’s yard sale Stop your crying, stop your crying Well I’m lazy now The summer crazy farm is all I own with… My motor my thrills, I needed my space My prison my drugs, let’s go to my place Ain’t been there lately Ain’t been there lately Ain’t been there lately, there’s no room Well I sacrificed the all the people That were killing me and since gone away There of them murdered, two livin’ Now even God’s gone, not much left to say If there’s a day u wanna come by Everybody knows I’ll just be sitting here Drop on by now, let’s get high now The reverend reminded me your redemption can be paid with… My motor, my thrills, I needed my space My prison, my drugs let’s go to my place Ain’t been there lately Ain’t been there lately Ain’t been there lately there’s no room Ain’t been there lately Ain’t been there lately Ain’t been there lately Top Of Page
Just Like Anything (Douglas, Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) Captain Jack was a suicide pimp with a nonstop nosebleed Fell in love with a church choir tramp Found out she was a drag queen Crown him the Hollywood kid Spent his time in another’s man bed Does anybody care He said he said Jimmy Jaw took a ten story drive about sixteen thousand feet I watched the body go splat and they scraped him off the street Now he’s a Hollywood kid tryin’ to fly They found him dead Was anybody there He said he said Stars laid out on the Hollywood squares Going round and round like musical chairs But be ready to rumble Be ready to fight if u wanna live through the boulevard night Get ready for problems, get ready for pain If u wanna play the LA game Where you got to hustle and nothing is fair Be a chalk outline on a Hollywood square Lady Faye back in 52 was a friend for fame Not a lick of talent, paid dues, got fucked by John Wayne Crown here the Hollywood queen she gives head in every scene Did anybody stare She said she said Stars laid out on the Hollywood squares Going round and round like musical chairs But be ready to rumble Be ready to fight if u wanna live through the boulevard night Get ready for problems, get ready for pain If u wanna play the LA game Where you got to hustle and nothing is fair Be a chalk outline on a Hollywood square Top Of Page
Shine (Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) You turn me on like some midnight show, I’m so damn strung You burn me out red line overload, then watch me blow Well I’ve been waiting hypnotized, down on your floor You can’t save me You don’t have Adam and Eve to kick around anymore They really do write the song They want everybody to… Shine, they want you to shine Stand beneath the sun and you too can shine I shed my skin, you peel it back, unoriginal sin Well I’ve been wasting, hypnotized down on your phone You can’t save me You don’t have Adam and Eve to kick around anymore You really do rock the show, they want everybody to Shine They want you to shine Everybody Shine if your loaded baby Shine any place that you’re gonna be Shine Stand beneath the sun, and you too can shine So violated, the way we burned out from its fire So violated, the way we killed the sun So violated, the way we burned out from its fire So violated, the way we killed the sun Shine They want you to shine Everybody Shine if you’re loaded baby Shine any place that you’re gonna be Shine Stand beneath the sun and you too can shine Top Of Page
Mean Bone (Douglas, Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) You’re dissing me I never show it But you’re always getting into my head, dismissing me I let you do it but you’re doing it In front of my friends I’m not your doormat, I’m the leader of a kick you When you’re down on crusade I’m not a part of that I hear the rumors going round that I’m not that man I’m tired of playing dumb I’m tired of being pushed around And if you think that I’m going soft Here come some hard times I got one mean bone in my body I got one mean bone in my hand You are a parasite, you latched on And now I’m up to my neck in pain All we do is fight, you bitch and moan so much I think I need a hearing aid My love won’t overcome The way you put me down And if you think that I’m going soft Here comes some hard times I got one mean bone in my body I got one mean bone in my hand Top Of Page
Back To The Moment (Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Paris, Roxie, Slash) You say you don’t wanna go but you’ve got to understand That you’re so far away from me, and I’m all alone Even when you’re standing next to me Deep inside I feel you want to go free I wanted you eternally I see the truth now that you’ve lied to me Can’t you see that the pain breaks me in two It takes me from you I feel it stop my beating heart with every little thing you do It tears me apart please make it stop and be mine So we can take it right back to the moment Where we start again And baby you say you already know But you won’t ever understand What it’s like to feel you slippin’ away from me I’m down on my knees Even though I tried to carry on Deep inside I feel like I’m the only one I wanted you eternally I see the truth now that you’ve lied to me Oh and you lie to me Can’t you see that the pain breaks me in two It takes me from you I feel it stop my beating heart with every little thing you do It tears me apart please make it stop and be mine So we can take it right back to the moment Where we start again I feel like you’re taking away My everything my everything ‘Cause everything you say and do It’s like you’re playing a part When the curtain finally closes I wonder if you’re going to take a bow Before you brake my heart, before you break my heart Now listen to me Can’t you see that the pain breaks me in two It takes me from you I feel it stop my beating heart with every little thing you do It tears me apart please make it stop and be mine So we can take it right back to the moment Top Of Page
Life's Sweet Drug (Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) Hey, what you’re doing out there Did you tumble down and burn out in the fire You ain’t going nowhere Stay with me now, let’s get higher and higher I dead broke and blue take a look No I ain’t no rose We just you and me Got a little tied up and now I’m indisposed Keep it going once it started Share a ride with everybody Life Such a sweet sweet drug Complete my world Come and make me numb He had a seven year itch Loosing and scratching himself She was a complicate bitch Fuck with your mind Put your balls on a shell Keep it going once it started Share a ride with everybody Life Such a sweet sweet drug Complete my world Come and make me numb Now at this moment I can feel the ecstasy Live the life you’re given Live the bag with me, please Life Such a sweet sweet drug Complete my world Come and make me numb Top Of Page
Serial Killer (Douglas, Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) (How are you feeling, Rodney?) (I just wanna kill...) Here we are alone now, just you and me Down the halls we waltz, your end is in my dreams I wanna be like him, he had a dreadful life I wanna learn to shoot I wanna use a knife I like the smell of fear that makes you paralized I am the boy next door who put that fear in your eyes I hope you can leave all this for yourself I’ll be your slave, and then dig your grave While we’re making love I dream revolver They say I’m crazy, falling apart Do you like the way I murdered your heart I’m smart and cagey I come in the night If you let me in you’ll give up your life He like to roll in the mud up to his chin Now I open my head and let his voodoo in I rode those sissy bars all the way to hell Sweet mother justice I’ve heard it all There’s nothing left to tell I hope you didn’t need all this for yourself And the man with the star says he knows who you are But I just keep singing la dee dee dah They say I’m crazy, falling apart Do you like the way I murdered your heart I’m smart and cagey I come in the night If you let me in you’ll give up your life Boom boom bang bang screams in the dark If you let him in he’ll murder your heart Boom boom bang bang screams in the dark If you’ll let him in He’ll murder your heart He’s not the man you see at home He’s someone else inside His life’s no longer his own He’s someone else inside Creepin’ up when you’re alone And now he stands inside He wants to take you to hell But for him it’s heaven Sorry to say but you’re not the only one You’re not the lonely one that turned my light on While I’ll turned yours on on on … Top Of Page
The Truth (Douglas, Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) She gets up with the head swung down low down Steps into the room Please listen while I sing my song to you ‘Cuz it all slips away, it ends too soon How in the hell did I get here Let me tell you all why I sing the blues Been in a daze for ten years But I still can sing the truth Heaven knows where we all go All we have is what we get When it’s gone when will I know Because I haven’t got it yet She’s swaying to the swing of the music Her arms wave in the air She turns her head, our eyes make contact It lets me know How in the hell did I get here Let me tell you all why I sing the blues Been in a daze for ten years But I still can sing the truth Heaven knows where we all go All we have is what we get When it’s gone when will I know Because I haven’t got it yet Did you find that ride? Did you finally fly? While I sit here kickin’ and bitching Staying gimme gimme gimme gimme Gimme what’s mine I thought I had it all I wanted more No need for you I stammed the door I cut you loose What are the chances that I’d walk in here And find the truth… Top Of Page
Landslide (Douglas, Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) Been climbin’ the walls for days Baby I don’t know why Girl you got my head in a haze I can’t see the sky You throw mud in my face, it’s such a disgrace Why you wanna shake my tree I sleep then I slide, you’re laughing inside I know who’s going down it’s me And when you walk away I know you’re always saying something Is everything ok? I see it in your eyes It’s just a landslide that feeds my head that makes it roll It’s just a landslide, keep it in mind, takes me out of control It’s like a landmine stepping out of time, ready to explode I feel the landslide on me down in this hole Now just take a look, did you read the whole book Did you study it between the lines I don’t need to explain, there’se no pleasure no pain It just comes with the prize And when you walk away I know you’re always saying something Is everything ok? I see it in your eyes It’s just a landslide that feeds my head that makes it roll It’s just a landslide, keep it in mind, takes me out of control It’s like a landmine stepping out of time, ready to explode I feel the landslide on me down in this hole I feel your earth shake I feel your body quake, forever, forever Oh I see the walls break I feel your heartache, whenever Do you know how I feel inside I feel like I’m caught in the tide I’m caught in the landslide And when you walk away I know you’re always saying something Is everything ok? I see it in your eyes It’s just a landslide that feeds my head that makes it roll It’s just a landslide, keep it in mind, takes me out of control It’s like a landmine stepping out of time, ready to explode I feel the landslide on me down in this hole Top Of Page
Ain't Life Grand (Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) The end of the summer, down in New Orleans Should have called, got caught up in the scene Ain’t nothing wrong, ain’t a damn thing right Gonna be coming home but baby not tonigh The reason I’m staying is everything’s swaying It feels too good to leave Pay all the bullshit, send me the receipts I don’t know where I’ll be The bayou’s calling, the gypsy’s out tonight French quarter lamos are burning Lamps are burning bright Now I’m the kind of man That will throw caution in the wind, all night long I’ll be here till the end The caravan awaits me in a place within my mind Whish you could be here oh another time Whoo Hoo yeah ain’t life grand All the pushing and hugging and pushing and tugging And whoo hoo yeah ain’t life grand All the pissing and moaning and jerking me off I said whoo hoo yeah ain’t life grand Oh ain’t life grand Ohh whoo hoo yeah ain’t life grand All the drinking and taking and talking it all I said whoo hoo yeah ain’t life grand All the touching and feeling and bumping and squealing Now whoo hoo yeah ain’t life grand All the kicking and screaming all the lying and cheating Now whoo hoo yeah ain’t life grand Ain’t life grand ain’t life grand Ain’t it grand baby? Ain’t life grand baby Ain’t life grand mama Sweet daddy grand Mama grand, brother grand, woman grand Papa grand, grammy grand Baby grand Oh I need a damn gram Top Of Page
Speed Parade (Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) They come and they go When they want me I sit and I wait my turn I want to let go but I can’t see All I know is from what I’ve learned Hitchhiker born to the side of the road Got your thumb out climb in Shut your mouth and do what you’re told This is where the ride begins Heads up the mountain’s comin’ down Like a ball and chain Stand up the best is all around The question is would you like to calm the insane It goes on and on, just like a speed parade It goes on and on till that tall lights reached my head Here lies a rude instigator or so he says Is he moving moving moving moving Or does he lie there and just play dead? Heads up the mountain’s comin’ down Like a ball and chain Stand up the best is all around The question is would you like to calm the insane It goes on and on, just like a speed parade It goes on and on till the driver drops dead Gotta get the road or get on your knees See the boy play, he plays for speed Faster boy put your foot on the floor Salivating he just wants more Here come the calm with the bold insane I can feel like a ball and chain When the question stands, does the shit remain? It goes on and on, just like a speed parade It goes on and on, till the tail lights reached my head Top Of Page
The Alien (Douglas, Griparic, Jackson, Laug, Roxie, Slash) Just what the hell has happened here Smelling smoke must be burning up the atmosphere Am I lost, have I found the right place to be Better run better clear, better be outta my way I’m coming down and I’m hot Yeah I’m hot like the sun, man I’m not of this earth Yeah I’m something to see I slowly touch down on the planet I’m the alien Could be some trouble up ahead Just got in today, landed in the USA Hitched a ride on a rocket from the Milky Way Justa got in today, don’t know if I want to stay Think I’m gonna shoot back home Like a cosmic ray, oh yeah, oh yeah They’ll never take me alive They’ll never take me alive Now they’re making me a cover boy Standing in the aisles in the supermarket tabloids Check it out, checking in With inquiring minds need to know everything Like how did I get there Where will I go Is he red, is he white or a six foot Negro afrodite The CIA has got a file on everything I’ve done Take me to my friends in hanger 51 Just got in today, landed in the USA Hitched a ride on a rocket from the Milky Way Just got into town, want to take a look around Just arrived but I don’t think I want to stay oh no, oh no They’ll never take me alive They’ll never take me alive I don’t have a phone card to call home They want to take me as a specimen Dry me out, ground me into vitamins Oh my God maybe I’m the cure My future here it doesn’t look too bright to me I know today I gotta leave and be free, be free Just got in today, landed in the USA Hitched a ride on a rocket from the Milky Way Just got into town, want to take a look around Just arrived but I don’t think I want to stay Just got in today (just got in today) Welcome to the USA (Welcome to the USA) Think I’m gonna shoot back home, like a cosmic ray They’ll never take me alive, they’ll never take me alive. Top Of Page
Rusted Heroes (??) Out on the range again I know I’ve got to beware High plains drifter my friend I know I’ve got to be there You say I’ve got to be gone Keep singing that pusherman song I know there’s someone out there There’s gonna blast my rocking chair There’s always some cowboy motherfucker Trying to kick the dust outta me Rusted heroes Another motherload Top cats and dealers Rusted heroes Another motherload Ain’t coming home tonight Last night the doors were kicked in Don’t care I wasn’t home Find out the snitch was a friend I know he’s got be gone Yeah man, it’s such a damn shame I’m wired and ready to hang I haven’t slept in five days In the trunk you’ll find the cocaine There’s always some damn motivated cop Trying to beat the shit outta me Rusted heroes Another motherload Top cats and dealers Rusted heroes Moving on your own Mad dogs and squealers Heroes Zeroes You sold me out Rusted heroes Selling all you know to mad dogs and dealers Seems like anything I do in life is an occupational hazard Don’t look so sad now It’s not as hard as it seams I’m just the healer and you call me the friend God damn you all Rusted heroes Another motherload Top cats and dealers Rusted heroes Another motherload Mad dogs and squealers Breaker breaker it’s a hero brother With another load coming and driving all night to deliver I’ve got a trunk full of stuff and I can’t get enough Stone criminal, a beautiful sinner Breaker, breaker 19 there’s a cop up my behind And a road block up ahead on the highway Put the pedal to the metal to deliver this stuff And you know I gotta do it my way Seems like everything I do in life is an occupational hazard Top Of Page
Something About Your Love (??) I was on the outside When the world started spinning You were busy throwing rocks While I was getting stoned In between a sunrise There are things that don’t look pretty Somehow I believe that I’ve got to carry on Something about your love…gets to me Something about your love….Killing me Killing me Spreading out our wings in vain Filling up the spaces Then we let go Flying at the speed of sound I could feel the crash Couldn’t find the traces All that we had Lay in pieces on the ground Something about your love…gets to me Something about your love….Killing me Killing me All of the things we saw amazed our eyes Let’s celebrate The light I’ve been leaning on is where you’ve gone You don’t need a reason To let me down so easy Just move away from my world and see If you’re gonna go And let me know you’re leaving Anything we hold Any day can break free Something about your love…gets to me Something about your love….Killing me Killing me Top Of Page