An Alternative

There is no Alternative It used to be a choice How can there be an Alternative When we’re fed the same thing Every day? How can it be Alternative And on the Rick Dee’s 40 show? For there to be an alternative You need to have at least fucking Two One more than one An alternative dollar sign An alternative dollar sign An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking dollar sign An alternative dollar sign An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking Mainstream always wanted the underground Forget the life, we got the sound Live (sell) fast, die young Your Alternative wants some Everybody’s heard of Alternative That’ll be our next star The only thing Alternative About you is your silly name Now dump the sound, we got the look Gonna make a million and change Think of all that money And those credit cards An alternative dollar sign An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking dollar sign An alternative dollar sign An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking dollar sign An alternative An alternative what? I can appreciate the music Without cheetahs, goatees, and Dew Don’t you see, the money hungry Have assumed the image (obey) For our entire generation You are X You are X Snobs in their Tommy, it’s just a uniform Every one to the mall Red, white, and blue for all I wanna (gotta) conform You should see my trash bag It’s a Tommy I’m so cool An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking dollar sign An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking dollar sign An alternative dollar sign An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking Dollar sign I always hoped that someday The music would come to the front Now there’s a fucking hopeless waiting list Your Alternative wants some We can’t leave anything alone We can market this There is no Alternative It used to be a voice I can’t stand your Alternative Another fucking pre-packaged t-shirt Available at Walmart Or at your local landfill An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking dollar sign An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking dollar sign An alternative dollar sign An alternative dollar sign Just another fucking Dollar sign I’d rather listen to Classic Rock