The Offspring - Self-Titled

01 - Jennifer Lost The War
02 - Elders
03 - Out Of Patrol
04 - Crossroads
05 - Demons (A Mexican Fiesta)
06 - Beheaded
07 - Tehran
08 - A Thousand Days
09 - Blackball
10 - I'll Be Waiting
11 - Kill The President




Jennifer Lost The War voltar

Jennifer lost the war today, you'll find her burned and raped
Through it all she must have wondered what have I done
But nobody really cares today, the world's a busy place
Guess she must have really sinned

I guess we're all just soldiers
She was only six years old
Left to die by strangers
Her family waits
And if we're all just soldiers
Is it so wrong to be afraid?

Phoebe lost the war today, there must be some mistake
And all our sorrows just don't count at all
When she lies silent in a morgue
But will the morning headlines even say that it's a shame?

What are we headin' for? Jennifer lost the war

Seen it all before
Silent on the ground as he's walking away
And I wonder how many more
Everybody takes it like it's nothing at all



Elders voltar

When we were younger there always seemed like
Some perfect mold that we're supposed to be
But now we're growing up and I see it's just not that way
Now I feel like someones lied to me

Cause I've been true, made good for you
And now I feel used, I'm asking you
How does it feel to be like you?
Tell me now elders what were your reasons for
Making it seem like you were so much more?
If you want to feel good because of our accomplishments
Why the fuck don't you just do it yourself?

Cause I've tried, man I've tried
While you all lied, so now just tell me
How does it feel to be like you?

Look at all the families now
Who don't talk and don't trust
Because of the way that things have been done
When will you finally learn to leave out the bullshit
And just be straight with us?



Out Of Patrol voltar

Look at you soldier boy now
With that big gun in your little hand
As you patrol this foreign land
Hear the mine that clicks beneath your feet

Now do you see the light
Fading while your world is crumbling out on patrol?
And all you can do is sit and stare
What revelation have you now?
What culmination do you speck of life?
Your moment in time

As you sit here alone
Will your buddies come and save your life?
But as the enemy appears
See your life flash before your eyes



Croosroads voltar

Time has washed away and now I may wonder
How did it all slip by
Cause I always thought we had forever
Future calls to me to take me away from things
I don't want to leave behind
Like I'm slipping away I can't hold on

Find that path alone
Crossroads lead me away
But that's not what worries me
I just want to know what's home

Through it all my mind still wanders
To the one who touched my soul
Though her road leads away
She's still my true love
I could believe

Will is not enough when all those
Lost days stand in the way
I could believe

I still want to know who can see for me
Crossroads tell me
Now you'll have to trade your past away
And find another day
So is change a friend or an enemy
Through what comes to pass I'll find my way
I've seen it all before but is the best you can be
The best thing to be

Some people say you're just wasting time
But that's not what worries me
I just want to know what's home



Demons (A Mexican Fiesta) voltar

Clouds pass over the moon
Like an eye that shows impending doom
Tension in this misty air
Souls pass into the room
Drawn in by a lost memory
You will join them in the moonlight

You are my offering
Your soul transcends
The centuries of pain
Your misery in life
Is your ecstasy in death

Time passes like the wind
As we race to beat days dusky grin
Mornings just a moment away
Your body glistens in candlelight
As we all look on in fiendish delight
The ritual is just beginning

Come full fill the prophecy with our demons of debauchery
As virgins and spectres sing
This madness will never cease

In the dead of night
You will follow
In the footsteps of many others
Who have come before
I will show you the altar

Your aztec eyes, egyptian hair
Your beauty bestoved upon my lair
I've loved you before, in other lives
But you've never meant as much to me
Never meant as much to me as now

In this night of sacrifice
Where blood is spilt
That will never spill again
But in your linen robes

We want you now
We want you now
You could never ask for more than that

Come full fill the prophecy with our demons of debauchery
As virgins and spectres sing



Beheaded voltar

Mommy doesn't have a head any more
Keep it underneath my bed on the floor
Well that's alright, that's Ok
She never really used her head anyway

Daddy called me a silly bore
Bet he won't say that any more
Because the way his body is severed too
His vocal chords are gonna be hard to use

Beheaded, watch you spurt like a garden hose
Beheaded, bloody mess all over my clothes

Watch my girlfriend come to the door
Chop off her head, she falls to the floor
Now watching my baby's jugular blow
Really makes my motor go
Wrap a towel round the bloody stump
Take my baby's body to the city dump
Then wipe the mess off the bloody axe
Scoop all the heads into my burlap sack

Beheaded, watch her spurt like a garden hose
Beheaded, bloody mess all over my clothes

All my collection, adorns my room on bamboo poles
Use to be a little, but a little got more and more
Now I'm craving yours

Night brings bad dreams, bad dreams and guillotines
Off with her head

Find another victim for my machine
Put him in a home-made guillotine
Blade falls, gonna need a casket
Watch your head plop in a wicker basket
Leave the house at a quarter to four
Come back with sixteen or more
Cause the more I walk, the more I see
I got a funny feeling coming over me



Tehran voltar

In your plane in the blue sky
You roam again
Words that echo in your mind
Make your heart beat faster
This is no Vietnam
We will win in Iran

The president said 'let it ride'
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran

Warrior, the time bomb's
About to go
What will you feel
Will you ever wonder
If the man that's in your sights
Ever kissed his girl goodbye?

The captain said 'Kill or die'
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran

Great Satan

Our flags are burning
Soon America may find
Its young man in the sand
Where there casualty
Is just a number
In Iran



A Thousand Days voltar

Ask me no questions and I'll tell you
I'll tell you no lies
When all is said and done
Does it really matter who's wrong or right?
Don't ask me for a reason, I can't explain
Why we hurt one another again and again?
I still reach for you

A thousand days, a thousand days
Have passed away
A thousand days, a thousand days
Were captured in her eyes

Your eyes are open now but you know
It's still hard to see inside
When action and intention
Are two separate things
Now I somehow wish I could explain
Why we hurt each other again and again
Like someone on his dying breath
I still reach for you

Forever we've been trapped by our hearts, trapped by our minds
I'd like to leave, I'd like to win at love

But I just can't let it go
And I just can't watch it slipping away
And I just can't let it go
And I just can't stand another minute

Maybe now someday our shattered lifes
Will mend themselves again
But now, a million miles away
still wish I could
And though I somehow know, I can't explain
Why we hurt one another again and again
Like someone on his dying breath
I still reach for you



Blackball voltar

In this world of hate and shallowness
Where enemies become your consolation
And those of us who win the game give up our minds
I don't call that winning
Say this doesn't apply to you, but ask yourself first
What have I done today to win the game?
And just what have I sacrificed

Win the battle lose the war
I know I've played this game before
When people were still real
I don't want this anymore
It's time for me to close the door
There's nothing left to feel

Reflect on all our yesterdays
My own words choke me
Why were they spoken?
Regret for the things I've said and done
Just can't compare with
Regret for those that I have never tried
So blame this world or blame yourself
It's really all the same
When you are standing on the precipice
From which you just cannot return

In the style of forgotten men
I look to my horizon, I see nothing
While thoughts of guns and desecration
Sweep through my mind
But only coffins and bones remain
As I look to you
The emptiness behind your eyes seals my decision
Can't carry on in this world of jugglers
Where all this thoughtlessness and buldgeonings
Your key to success what kind of tradition to carry on

Blackball, the new disease
Blackball, the new disease
Blackball, your evil ways
Have found their way inside me

Blackball, the new disease
Blackball, the new disease
Blackball, for a better life
In this high tech dog eat dog existence



I'll Be Waiting voltar

Once I had a friend that I could count on
So I thought well so it seemed
But times of need are not enough to prove your friendship to me now
Once I saw a face that I believed in
But a mask was all there was
So who wears the masks and who wears the faces?
Well I guess I'll never know

But as I stand here alone
In a room full of people with nothing to say
Beer on their minds, and smoke in the air
Call them feiends but they just don't care

Friend for life, such shallow words for broken minds
Show me a friend for life
Cause I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive, I'll be waiting for that day

Once I found a love I had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Cause when we're together we just can't get enough
Or is it we just can't get what we want
Once I saw a dream, I had to chase it
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Who's at fault in this game of yours and mine?
Well I guess I'll never know

But as I sit here alone
Think of the girl who came softly inside me
The look in her eyes, the smell of her hair
Call her my own but is she really there?
Love for life, such noble words for noble minds
Show me a love for life
Cause I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive, I'll be waiting for that day

Once I had a friend that I could count
Times of need are not enough
Once I found a love I had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Once I saw a dream I had to chase
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Now let me close my eyes
Because I don't want to see anything anymore



Kill The President voltar

In a world without leaders who'd start all the wars?
The world that you're saving will always be yours

Kill the president, listen to the voice of reason
Unify with that single line
Stop the man with the power of the government
A leader's not the center of democracy

In a world without leaders who'd make people starve?
The world that we're saving will always be ours
Everyone says "Well maybe I'll make a difference"
Thinking they've got plenty of time
But you're squeezed a little tighter everyday
Punished before you can commit a crime

America, all of your enemies come from within
But you lash out so it is seen like some frightened child
In an angry world or the fall of Rome
Your demise comes from your own hands

In a world without leaders who'd start all the wars?
The world that you're saving will always be yours
In a world without leaders we might have a chance
But we'll never see it as long as there's