INFO Chris Barrows: mouth Dorsey Martin: guitar Paul Johnston: guitar Jim Belogna: bass Fred Stolz: drums Greedy Bastard Boys Choir: backing vox 1994 Stiff Pole Records LYRICS LOWER YOURSELF (barrows) look around where do you fit? when everyone's a piece of shit. you've got a choice now pick your side. all you've got to do is slide. chorus: lower yourself be like everybody else why should they like you if you're not like everybody else if you wanna be like this they say that ignorance is bliss it's the trend it's so damn cool to be a stupid little fool repeat chorus when you go and dive head first then you're totally immersed it's so easy to conform and wear a loser's uniform repeat chorus Be like them BRENDA SONG (martin) you're poison with a bitter taste you're a gun pointed at my face every gesture, every pose are as funny as a clown's nose you're dirty game of chess wrapped in a tight, black velvet dress you clutch me with you're velvet fist you grab me by the heart and twist chorus: love hate perfect mate angel of misery love hate blind date angel of misery feed my sickness feed my pain love and hate both feel the same kill the light so much to say it's never said, we never like it that way i hate the tension, hate the the fear i feel so lost when you're not here my angel of misery, my love for you is killing me repeat chorus brenda's an angel brenda's a whore brenda's got it all but brenda wants more 3 CHORD SONG (martin) gimme a song a 3 chord song in 4/4 time so i don't get it wrong i'm gonna scream real loud spit my beer into the crowd i can't sing i can't play it doesn't matter anyway just as long as all you people pay STUPID ME (martin) i wasn't lonely but you got my attention you seemed to enjoy doing things that i won't mention i know the earth is round i know that pigs don't fly but i didn't know that everything you told me was a lie chorus: stupid me i didn't see just how ugly you can be when you no longer want to play you take your toys and walk away i hope you liked my friends i heard you had a good time enjoy new playthings they're no longer friends of mine stupid stupid stupid me i could have dated the girl with the big lips the one you really hated repeat chorus stupid me..... HOUSE OF CARDS (barrows/stolz) i get up in the morning and i wanna stay in bed all those putrid memories are dancing in my head it doesn't do much good this contempt that i feel if my life was a game of cards i could call this deal chorus: i've had all that i can stand deal me deal me deal me another hand it never ever mattered what game i play it always seems to end this way i like to play sometimes but the stakes are high every time i ante up i feel like i might die i never get ahead but i keep on playing sometimes it drives me mad do you know what I'm saying? repeat chorus my house is a house of cards it won't take much to fall apart MONSTERS (barrows) when i was young i used to believe in monsters on my t.v., in magazines there's monsters at night i used to dream about them never did i ever doubt them when i was young i used to believe in monsters then one day i found out there's no monsters they're just lies to my suprise no monsters they're just made to help sell stories of graveyards, crypts, and laboratories damn the day i found out there's no monsters absent for a while were the monsters i always frowned until i found the monsters i found that they're still here to grace us but now they're wearing human faces people are more hideous than monsters damn the day i found out there are monsters people are more hideous than monsters SCRATCH AND SNIFF (barrows) baby i want to take you home and get inside your pants i'll give you a taste of my romance i'll porve that my love is straight from the heart but there's a little way that i like to start chorus: scratch and sniff get a little whiff scratch and sniff you make me stiff i've been away from you for far too long i'll bet your little girl aroma is strong if you don't know just how you smell there's a little way you can always tell repeat chorus sometimes girls are a tasty dish did you know cavier comes from fish? mares eat oates and does eat oates but me i prefer the man in the boat repeat chorus SMOKING MONKEY (johnston) Instrumental LET'S MAKE A DEAL i don't work but that's ok i'm gonna get everything my way i get everything i need for free i just trade in my family i traded my wife for a brand new car i traded my cousin for a good guitar i traded my dad for a persian rug i traded my mom for a bunch of drugs i won't go thirsty anymore i trade my sister at the liquor store i'm so proud i don't have to steal if you want my daughter we can make a deal i traded my cousin for a pair of shoes i traded my grandma for a bottle of booze i traded my grandpa for some aftershave i traded my aunt for an oriental slave trading your family...... SLEEPING SONG (barrows) i like to sing my sleeping song i like to sing it all night long it's just this little thing i do it's too bad if it bothers you if you get in too deep with me then you won't want to sleep with me my sleeping song my peccadillo so dig your head into your pillow chorus: i like to sing my sleeping song sometimes i sing it all night long i like to sing my sleeping song i'll sing it loud i'll sing it strong it'll make you sleep out on the couch it'll make you a sleepless grouch for so long now we've slept apart your earplugs were just a start i think that it's just jealousy of my nightly symphony repeat chorus I'M FOND OF YOU (barrows/stolz/martin) i like the way you do your hair i think that you're so debonair i like the way you roll your eyes even closed the hypnotize i like the way you like to walk on my outline made of chalk i like the way you smile at me i understand the irony chorus: i think i'm fond of you i wanna bond with you i think i'm fond of you this is the real thing i like the way you chew your food sophistication you exude i like the way that i'm your friend even if it's just pretend i like the way you wear me down wear me 'til i'm upside down i like the way you do your shoulder it's so cold it makes me older repeat chorus BABY MACHINE (martin) you're a burden on society you're a baby machine you've been spittin' out babies since you were seventeen your kids don't get enough to eat they barely survive but you've always gotten your cigarettes and colt 45 chorus: baby machine can't control your sex baby machine quit spreading your legs baby machine always on the dole baby machine no birth control you found a place where you can trade food stamps for cash so you get a buzz while your kids are eating trash you live in public housing and it smells just like a zoo instead of cleaning up you blame everybody else but you repeat chorus
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