Junkie Man

Rancid · ...And Out Come The Wolves [1995]

The common man don't suffer pain like this

Only the soul that has never been kissed

Let us adore our beatiful son

He's riding on the rivers of Babylon



Booting up and shooting up and bring on the brightness

See the son of God is coming up and I see a likeness

Internalize the lunacy, the misery is showing

When you're brought up, you're caught up in a system that is going



No one answers, no one takes that call from you (times 3)

Junkie man, tell me what you're story is (times 2)



Water I desire

Some parents' house is on fire

Slowly the house gonna burn to the ground

The neighborhood will watch, they're gonna sound

Will someone be a witness, please tell me that he's crazy

But he's not and they know that and can't get him 'cause he's not crazy

Beat him, lock him, knock him, take away his authority

Hit 'em, ship 'em, club 'em, submitted conformity



No one answers, no one takes that call from you

Junkie man, tell me what your story is



My hand went blind

You're in the vane, clairvoyant

You're in the vane, clairvoyant

My hand went blind

I make love to my transister

My transister

And my transparency from the balcony

I looked out on the big field

On the big field, it opens like the cover of an old bible

And out come the wolves

Out come the wolves, their paws trampling the snow and the alphabet

I stand on my head watching it all go away



Booting up and shooting up and bring on the brightness

See the son of God is coming up and I see a likeness

Internalize the lunacy, the misery is showing

When you're brought up, you're caught up in a system that is going



No one answers, no one takes that call from you

Junkie man, tell me what you're story is