AMERICAN LESION - GREG GRAFFIN - 1997

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AMERICAN LESION
GREG GRAFFIN
1997
All songs composed and performed by Greg Graffin

OPINION
The first thing I remember was the friction in the room
And that brown spinet piano that never played in tune
The cruel impatient tyrant, the frustrated malcontent
The need to find the pieces, and the absence of cement

No one ever told me about the right way to love
And no one ever showed me what we’re supposed to be made of
So don’t be too forthright about what you think that I should be
And I’ll willingly accept your low opinion of me

The last thing I remember was the slamming of the door
And the resonance of my imperfection broke the silence once more
The selfish angry bastard who doesn’t want to hear
I tried to learn compassion you turned the other ear

No one ever told me about the right way to love
And no one ever showed me what we're supposed to be made of
So don’t be too forthright about what you think that I should be

And I’ll willingly accept your low opinion of me
The worn out broken record who doesn’t fit the mold
The righteous independent, the mood so harsh and cold

Momma never told me about the right way to love
And daddy never showed me what we're supposed to be made of
So don’t be too forthright about what you think that I should be
And I’ll willingly accept your low opinion of me


FATE’S CRUEL HAND
There’s a leaf in the sky and it’s floating on by
A new season dawns but something is gone
There are days in the past and days waiting for me
I don't need a visionary in order to see
You can do what you want to me
‘Cause I don’t have the energy
To retreat or hold ground or barely to stand
But I feel the sting from
Fate’s cruel hand
Like a bond true and pure we’re never quite sure
Our choice in the play, it erodes away
When you can’t, can’t compete it ends with total defeat
You just let it go so nobody knows you're suffering
You can do what you want to me
‘Cause I don’t have the energy
To retreat or hold ground or barely to stand
But I feel the sting from
Fate’s cruel hand


PREDICAMENT
I’ve got hope but I can’t talk about the future
I’ve got desire but I can’t exercise it on my own
Time won’t solve this predicament
I’ve got pain but to tell it hurts the one I love
I’ve got strength but it attenuates every day
Time won’t solve this predicament
Troubles never go away
They just resurface on another day
Troubles never go away
They just resurface on another day
I’ve got heart but now it's weakened by an empty space
I’ve got soul but it's been soured by the bane of hate
Time won't solve this predicament
Troubles never go away
They just resurface on another day
Troubles never go away
They just resurface on another day
Time won’t solve this predicament


THE FAULT LINE
The sun comes up with promise and my eyes burn open wide
And the sting compounds the torture from the vacant hole inside
My conscious recollection of the past events all seem
To verify the emotion that now envelops me
Dogged as a drone
Stagnant as the stone
Weathered and alone
Living on the fault line
There’s no one here to listen, there’s always room for more
They pretend to give you your say before they slam the door
There’s very little patience, and very little love
There’s just your constant puzzlement for what you’re guilty of
Dogged as a drone
Stagnant as the stone
Weathered and alone
Living on the fault line
No one need deliver me from such a familiar place
I’ve come to terms and work in this ribald downtrodden state
It’s subliminal friction under a kind veneer
And a form of cold injustice that keeps me stationed here
Dogged as a drone
Stagnant as the stone
Weathered and alone
Living on the fault line


WHEN I FAIL
One day my life will be a chocolate shake and late night TV
But right now I’m afraid of everything that is going down
Too many decisions
Too much responsibility
And no one is there to hold me
When I fail
Like the deer who knows he won’t survive the winter so he runs in fear
The drifts too deep, the browse too scarce, the able too strong to compete
And I wonder if
I was stronger when
I didn't care if no one was there to hold me
When I fail
One day my life will be a chocolate shake and late night TV


CEASE
Blacktop pavement cover me,
Like a chemical reaction or a steam roller
Spreading randomly.
There's a distant buzz at low frequency
It tickles my ear, rumbles under my feet
And it shakes the leaves off of every tree
Violently.

What pretension, everlasting peace,
Everything must cease.

Institution on the hill,
Like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor
To ignite a people's will.
There's a shadowed stain on the west facade,
It has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud
And the descendants find it oh so odd.
Oh, so odd.

What pretension, everlasting peace,
Everything must cease.

Grave memorial, hewn white stone,
Like the comforting caress of a mother
Or a friend you've always known.
It evokes such pain and significance,
What was once is reduced to rememberance
And the generations pass without recompense.

What pretension, everlasting peace
Everything must...

MAYBE SHE WILL
Laws of gravity fight uncertainty
But I sit here without a clue
Life had separate meaning and I was only dreaming
Someone else came to her rescue
Now she's gone and I am too, but

Maybe she will
Want to have me near enough to feel unparted
Maybe she will
Ask me for some help to get her new place started
Maybe she will
See me around and want to take a mid-day walk
Maybe just feel lonely and will want to talk
With me

In cold and darkest weather, the times we had together
Come to me and i smile to sleep
Then clouds dissipate and i soon re-awake
To such a living tragedy
I'm resolved to pondering

Maybe she will
Call me up to see if I am doing alright
Maybe she will
Remember the times when I would hold her so tight
Maybe she will
Think about the letters that I used to send
Someday change her mind and want to find me again

They all say I’m wasting my whole life away
But I don’t care because I have this candle from our courting days
And it’s almost gone
But dim hope flickers anyway

Maybe she will
Look at those old pictures and get teary-eyed
Maybe she will
Feel my lonely heartbeat and hear me cry
Maybe she will
Help me shovel out of this misery
One day say she’s sorry for giving up on me
Maybe she will


THE ELEMENTS
You have always lived like this
The ice blue chill
The dark gray sky
The frozen ground
And the helpless feeling of insignificance
You have always lived like this
Yeah
The day’s routine
The day’s unsure
The day is done
And the dreams of being somewhere you can’t be
The ice blue chill
The dark gray sky
The frozen ground
And the helpless feeling of insignificance
You have always lived like this
You have always fought the elements
They take on different forms
There has always been a struggle
With the things you can’t perform
You will always fight the elements
They are not in your hands
You will always fight the elements
Unless you understand
Unless you understand that
You have always lived like this


IN THE MIRROR
Your arrogance
It will surely bring you down
Is there a judgment
Appropriate for you
That you spit at others
That you spit at others
Look hard in the mirror
Then in 10 years look again
There will be lines
Sags and rashes

But you’ll have come no further
Than where you are today

Still helpless
All the while protracting
Your imminent demise
And vain superiority
There will be a trail of those you have injured
And made worse
By your vicious acts of greed
Without regard

You piece of shit
Look in the mirror

There you'll see the light
There will come a day
There will be the truth of your ways...


BACK TO EARTH
He wakes with the glow of adventure and hope
The morning smells sweet and replete with opportunity
He dressed into another day feeling lucky to be alive
Though nobody follows him he's sure the future’s bright
Bring him back
Someone’s going to have to bring him back to earth
He’s getting out of hand
His alacrity for life is more than people stand
Bring him back to earth
Discipline and toil, well it made her blood boil
The finer things were impatient waiting discovery
Like a bird in spring the sun made her sing
With seeming inattention she was on to other things
Bring her back
Someone’s going to have to bring her back to earth
She’s way too high
Her alacrity for life ain’t going to help her get by
Bring her back to earth
Who’s it going to be?
I can assure you
It ain’t gonna be me
Bring them back
Someone’s gonna try and bring them back to land
And I’ll be there
To catch them when they fall and send them up again
Bring them back to earth
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