Artist: Machine Head

Submitted by Ule.

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Blank Generation

They say we been
going down and going
down
Been traveling on the road
to nowhere
Going down, round and
round
Trying to get to the place
where we started

When I was just a boy
at four years old thought
the world was joy
As a kid I'd play, just
create the day
as I saw it my way

But time blows by

And strips us to the bone
poisoned wind of woe
Teach us that we're
alone in this world
We learned to see all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
A toast to our blank generation

They say we been
going down, been going
down
Been traveling on the road
to nowhere
Going down, round and
round
Trying to get to the place
where we started

When I was seventeen
realizing the world wasn't
what she seemed
Underneath the night San
Francisco sky
I would see, too clearly

But time blows by
And strips us to the bone
poisoned wind of woe
Teach us that we're
alone in this world
We learned to take all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
A toast to our blank generation

So here's to our collagen
lips and saline tits
To our growth hormones
and antibiotics
To the Hollywood world
we made out of Barbie doll
hearts
After we melted them down
so we could make our new
start
Here's to a generation
scared and always
wondering why
Instead of playing doctor,
we play shoot each other
and die
Instead of ring around the
Rosie, we play hide from
Mommy
'Cause Mommy's been drinking
again and we don't
want to get beat
Even with all our tattoos,
and all our cheap thrills
there's still a hole inside
of us that may not ever get
filled
So we give back a little bit
of what the world's given
us
Giving back a bit of never
giving a fuck

Here's to the justice never
dealt, to innocent, proven
guilty
Here's to bad cops turning
cheeks when real cops are
on the street
Here's to the rat-tat-n-tat
of gun shots, and your life
is shattered
Here's to "Gimme me your
cash or your brains is
gettin' splattered"
Here's to mad cow disease
and all that yummy MSG
Here's to Mickey d's serving
all those mutant chick-a-dees
This is a toast to celebrate
the end of our innocence
This is a toast to celebrate
how...
We've become desensitized
if life is to grow
some life must die

We learned to take all the
corruption and greed
All its hate, all its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
our generation
We now embrace all the
corruption
and greed, all its hate, all
its pain, so
a toast to the end of our
innocence
our blank generation.

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3. Alan’s On Fire
4. Alcoholocaust
5. All Fall Down
6. All In Your Head
7. American High
8. Bay Of Pigs
9. Bite The Bullet
10. Blank Generation
11. Blistering
12. Block
13. Blood For Blood
14. Blood Of The Zodiac
15. Bulldozer
16. Crashing Around You
17. Davidian
18. Days Turn Blue To Gray
19. Deafening Silence
20. Death Church
21. Death Church (Convent Mix)
22. Descend The Shades Of Night
23. Desire To Fire
24. Devil With The King’s Card
25. Down To None
26. Elegy
27. Exhale The Vile
28. Five
29. From This Day
30. From This Day (Edit)
31. Hole In The Sky
32. House Of Suffering
33. I Defy
34. I’m Your God Now
35. Imperium
36. In The Presence Of My Enemies
37. Kick You When You’re Down
38. Left Unfinished
39. Message In A Bottle
40. My Misery
41. Nausea
42. None But My Own
43. Nothing Left
44. Old
45. Only The Names
46. Silver
47. Spine
48. Struck A Nerve
49. Supercharger
50. Take My Scars
51. Ten Ton Hammer
52. The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears
53. The Burning Red
54. The Frontlines
55. The Rage To Overcome
56. Trephination
57. Vim
58. Violate
59. White-Knuckle Blackout!
60. Wipe The Tears