Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose lyrics

Pints Of Guinness Make You Strong
The Politics Of Starving
We Laugh At Danger (And Break All The Rules)
I Still Love You Julie
Scream It Until You're Coughing Up Blood
Jordan's 1st Choice
Those Anarcho Punx Are Mysterious...
Reinventing Axl Rose
Baby, I'm an Anarchist!
Walking Is Still Honest
8 Full Hours of Sleep

Pints Of Guinness Make You Strong

Evelyn sits by the elevator doors
It's been 37 years since James died
on St. Patrick's Day in 1964
She could not hold it against him
There were times when there was nothing she could do
But lie in bed all day beside a picture of them together
A picture of better days

And just like James, I'll be drinking Irish tonight
And the memory of his last workweek will be gone forever
Evelyn, I'm not coming home tonight
If we're never together, if I'm never back again
Well, I swear to God that I'll love you forever
Evelyn, I'm not coming home tonight

In all the years that went by, she said she'd always love him
And from the day that he died, she never loved again
And in his wallet she kept on her nightstand
An A.A. card and a lock of red hair
She kept secrets of pride locked so tight in her heart
It killed a part of her before the rest was gone
She said, "If I would have known just how things would have ended up
I just would have let myself die"

And just like James, I'll be drinking irish tonight
And the memory of his last workweek will be gone forever
Evelyn, I'm not coming home tonight
If we're never together, if I'm never back again
Well, I swear to God that I'll love you forever
Evelyn, I'm not coming home tonight

The Politics Of Starving

It's time for some real world politics
economics, history, math and english
born and raised and bred walking a thin line
between lost and succeeding
if you tell it like it really is
the threats always been there
and the terror always happens

For all the fights, for all the songs, all we said
all we have is these pictures of us
and if it doesn't matter now then it never really did
and without this we might as well be dead

They're all black and white people
and that doesn't have anything to do with us
after all these years it's still an arms race
after all these years they still don't fucking get it
lives and cultures matter more than capitalist interest
it's the FBI, it's the CIA, the MTV, the IMF, fuck you

For all the fights, for all the songs, all we said
all we have is these pictures of us
and if it doesn't matter now then it never really did
and without this we might as well be dead

When you are so hungry that you'd believe anything
they're selling you the politics of starving
what the fuck does that mean to us?

We Laugh At Danger (And Break All The Rules)

It was a birthday gift of a Mexican Telecaster that from this day on
I will play along to all my young pioneers records
and there will be a poetry spoken silently between me and the stereo
I'll work mornings and you can work through the night

Mary, there is no hope for us
if this G.M. van don't make it across the state line
we might as well lay down and die
because if Florida takes us
we're taking everyone down with us
where we're coming from will be the death of us!

and I cannot help but hold on to a handful of times
when what was spoken was a revolution in itself
and what we were doing was the only thing that mattered
and how good it felt to kill the memory
of nights spent holding your shirt for the smell
I heard you used to cry when you made love to him
but this band will play on
because all we can do is what we've always done
and on and on and onanonanona...

Mary there is no hope for us
if this G.M. van don't make it across the state line
we might as well lay down and die
because if Florida takes us
we're taking everyone down with us
where we're coming from will be the death of us!

I Still Love You Julie

Last night a room full drunk
sang along to the songs I never had the courage to write
given the chance I'd stay in this chorus forever
where everything ugly in this world is sadly beautiful
in our desperate memories
no we're not gonna call anyone on their shit tonight
even though the half of you won't even smile
the next time we pass on the street
maybe somehow this scam will still save us all...

still save us all!

And I saw you dancing at a punk rock show
and for a moment we walked streets
that everyone else had given up to 4 a.m.
cursed promises and spray paint marking everywhere we went
and every direction only going as far as we let it
there's so many things we tried to do truthfully
by the time it's through with us it all falls apart
maybe somehow this scam will still save us all...

stilll save us all!

Scream It Until You're Coughing Up Blood

Everything
You got to hold on to
Everything
You relied on to be there is completely fucked
There's a skeleton of loyalty hanging in the gallows of your heart
[no one wins this one]
And where are your friends?
Please help me through these years ahead.
Are we just drinking buddies
Playing with each other's dearest vulnerability?
That this is all we know?
So this is how it's gonna stay?
I think I
Would rather
Remember how it was and go our separate ways.
I don't feel anything
Unless we are living and dying for each other
Every second of our lives.

Everything
You thought that it would be,
Everything
You thought you were living for is comepletely fucked.
This is no place to be.
If we don't get out of here right now,
We're just gonna end up drunk, fucking,
and fighting and working machines.
If I have another cigarette,
If I drink another beer,
Sit quiet another time when I should've said
"Oh, this is too much.
There are things I never wanted to be."
This ship has sprung a leak
And I'll be damned if I'm going down with it.
Still breathing at any cost.

Jordan's 1st Choice

Tell me how could you compromise
Yourself like this?
Tell me how could you blame anyone else
When you aren't really committed?
Tell me where was your head
When you broke that promise to yourself?
The one where you don't forget
Every life lesson that happened before your eyes
So you don't wake up to regret she's gone years away
You had hopes and dreams of a day
Where everything, everything, everything would come together
You wouldn't have to be so scared
[Chorus]
Are we just working till a day we decide we've had enough?
All alone
We were strong enough
To be sick of it
And put them back in their fucking place
We never asked for this responsability
We were never in this...
Together...
The reality that you know
Is just behind your idea
Of society, security and self
Am i just fucked up?
Cause i can't remember the last time any of this made sense
The last time i could stand up to myself
Street faces all blend into one
They ask for spare a change
Am i forgetting what it looks like from the other side?
Have i forgotten where i've come from?
[Chorus]

Those Anarcho Punx Are Mysterious...

We're all presidents, we're all congressmen
we're all cops in waiting, we are all workers of the world
there is the elite and the dispossessed
and it's only about survival
who has the skill to play the game for all it's worth
and reach an obscure kind of perfection
let's try and keep as much emotion out of this as possible
let's try not to remember any names
we'll do it for for a country, for a people, for a moral vision
united we'll make them remember our history
or how we'd like to be told

And we rock because it's us against them
we've found our own reasons to sing
and it's so much less confusing when lines are drawn like that
when people are either consumers or revolutionaries
enemies or friends hanging on to the fringes of the cogs in the system
it's just about knowing where everyone stands
all of a sudden people start talking about guns
talking like they're going to war
because they've found something to die for
start taking back what they stole
sure beats every other option

But does it make a difference how we get it?
well do you really fucking get it?

No,no,no,no....

Reinventing Axl Rose

We want a band
that plays loud and hard every night
That doesn't care how many people are counted at the door
That would travel one million miles and ask for nothing more than a plate of food and a place to rest

They'd strike chords
that cut like a knife
It would mean so much
more than t-shirts or a ticket stub
They'd stop at nothing short of a massacre
Everyone would leave with the memory that there was no place else in the world
And this was where they always belonged

We would dance like no one was watching
With one fist in the air
Our arena just basements
and bookstores across an underground America
With this fire
we could light
With this fire
We could...

2, 3, 4!

Just gimme a scene
where the music is free
And the beer
is not the life of the party
And there's no need to shit talk or impress
'Cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon
And every promise
that's made and bragged
is meant if not kept
We'd do it all because we have to,
not because we know why
Beyond a gender, race, and class,
we could find what really holds us back

Let's make everybody sing
That they are the beginning and ending of everything
That we all are stronger
than everything they taught us that we should fear

Baby, I'm an Anarchist!

Through the best of times
Through the worst of times
Through Nixon and through Bush
Do you remember '36?
We went our separate ways
You fought for Stalin
I fought for freedom
You believe in authority
I believe in myself
I'm a molotov cocktail
You're Dom Perignon
Baby, what's that confused look in your eyes?
What I'm trying to say is that
I burn down buildings
While you sit on a shelf inside of them
You call the cops
On the looters and pie-throwers
They call it class war
I call it co-conspirators

'Cause baby, I'm an anarchist
And you're a spineless liberal
We marched together for the eight-hour day
And held hands in the streets of Seattle
But when it came time to throw bricks
Through that Starbucks window
You left me all alone,
All alone...

You watched in awe
At the red, white and blue
On the Fourth of July
While those fireworks
Were exploding
I was burning that fucker
And stringing my black flag high
Eating the peanuts
That the parties have tossed you
In the back seat of your father's new Ford
You believe in the ballot
You believe in reform
You have faith in the elephant and jackass
And to you solidarity's a four-letter word
We're all hypocrites
But you're a patriot
You thought I was only joking
When I was screaming "Kill Whitey"!!
At the top of my lungs
At the cops in their cars
And the men in their suits
No, I won't take your hand
And marry the state

Walking Is Still Honest

Dear mother, this is just survival
Can't promise your children everything
But you won't lie so they can sleep tonight
Defeat tasted nothing like you said
Still 22 days left 'till the end of the world
My legacy was making you a man
For a justice I could not change
This is one voice not to forget
Fight every fight like you can win
An iron-fisted champion
An iron-willed fuck up

Can anybody tell me why god won't speak to me?
Why Jesus never called on me to part the fucking seas
Why death is easier than living
You can be almost anything when your on your fucking knees
Not today, not my son, my family
Not while walking is still honest and you haven't given up on me

Dear shithead, this isn't happening
The sky is really falling
The paint's all made of lead
There's asbestos in the walls
Hell's coming to rip off the doors
To your privileged heaven
Do you want to love and feel it?
You can look, but you can't taste it
You can reach, but you'll never have it
We are untouchable
Untouchable is something to be

8 Full Hours of Sleep

When you sleep,
No one is homeless.
When you sleep,
You can't feel the hunger.
When you sleep,
No one is lonely in a dream.
Without classes,
Without nations...
When you sleep,
She's standing there with open arms,
And one night could last forever,
And if you asked her,
She'd never let go,
And you'd stay forever...

And the sun's always rising
In the sky somewhere,
And if young hearts should explode
From all the lies they've been told...

Let the new night bring you peace
And the promise of tomorrow,
Where we can wake to a new beginning.
Tomorrow I'll all but have lost their faces;
My friends and family,
Memories of all we had
And the times we should have lived,
And tomorrow America just might fall apart.
Tomorrow, tell me,
Where will you wake up?
Beyond title, beyond these careers and laws,
Something more than borders on a map...

And the sun's always rising in the sky somewhere,
And if young hearts should explode
From all the lies they've been told...
To live through one night like this,
I would trade it for the silence...

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose lyrics

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