157 - Suburban Transpondency

Milestone: 5 years of podcasting Turning 30, digging through box to find 10 year old demo tape Songs: "Enter", "Peace Eternal", "Eventual Undergrowth" Music by Sean O'Connor Recorded brainstorming story ideas for "Post-apocalypic Euphoria" "Environ Riot", "Foolproof Plan B", "The Plagiarist" Environ Riot The teen riot got a bad rap It was a passion a little bit confused We stormed the wall and crushed the cup We hit the nail and paved the rut Obscured in legend, dashed in hopes We upped the mountains and down the slopes With a fist of rage we punched it through We burned the bridge, now what's left to do? I read about the suicide It sunk in deep and opened my eyes Pathetic screams of desperate souls Pagan daft hate to fill in the holes The kettle's boiling, adrenaline's rushing Nostalgic kiss keeps a retro-girl blushing The deck is stacked, it's a surefire bet Fading away into a big screen sunset We want the whole nine yards Like the future is an empty dream We sleep all day and dance all night We scare the ghost and crash the kite It's an inhibition that we set on fire We're painting the town with sex and desire Are you on a trip? Do you feel real shitty? Envy-struck that your girlfriend's pretty It's not a miracle drug If the liquid isn't violent green You shut off the light and hang up the phone You open your mind and let in the unknown It's a vivid dream, it's a wave of dim bliss You wander the garden outside of the palace If you lose control remember what's real Break out the broken and deal the raw deal The time bomb hit the crowd hard It was a fire enough to light the fuse They crashed the car and beat the road They stirred the pot and rocked the boat Cloaked in darkness, shadowed heart We quit the ending and began the start With determination we'll be on our way Remember a past we call yesterday I wonder if I'm killing time? You bang the drum and wake up the night Anxious kids with paranoid smiles Cynical fear that nothing's worthwhile The tides are turning, these times are changing Everything is subject to constant rearranging You forget the details and alter the truth You label yourself a rebellious youth It was a deadbeat, jacked up, ass kicking hi-and-run It was a bonecrush, neckbreak, takedown all-in-one We had a counterplan attitude: ripshit, ready to go We had a rebel rage, street fight, punk riot, set to blow Confined in suburb town, bored and lost This revolution trend is at what cost? Surrounded by pavement, listless fate Parking lot tension, bottled up, repressed teenaged hate © 1997 Adam Gratrix Foolproof Plan B I'm a rock `n' roll junkie trippin' through the country Jamming to a heartbeat, looking where to rest my feet Met a dirty talking porn star lounging in a strip bar "Tell ya how its gonna be", no-one makes a fool out of me You can pop me like a pistol, the plan is clear as crystal Fill in every single hole, "you say you wanna buy my soul?" Annihilate every shred of truth To make the back up plan foolproof We'll save the day and learn to live our lives another way We'll run away and live to fight again another day I'm a rock `n' roll reject chillin' in the projects Dancing to a breakbeat, sleeping here out on the street I gotta find a new connection, packing for protection In and out of alleyways, I'm gonna make it big some day Perpetrate extortion to save you from abortion I fall into a snake pit, a different day but same old shit Eliminate any shade of doubt To survive with no escape route We'll save the day and learn to live our lives another way We'll run away and live to fight again another day I'm a rock `n' roll convert preachin' in the suburbs Bitchin' to a deadbeat, waiting for a sucker to cheat If Jesus is my witness he minds his fucking business I took her to a cheap motel, everyone's got something to sell "My normal life is boring; the water tastes like chlorine I could fake a suicide and run away if you'll be my guide" © 2002 Adam Gratrix Subscribe to my YouTube channel: transpondency Subscribe to transpondency.blip.tv Follow me on twitter Email: [email protected] Call my voicemail: 1 (716) 402-1462