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The Offspring – Why Don't You Get a Job?
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“Why Don’t You Get a Job?” is the second single from Americana. It peaked at #4 on the US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks. It appears also on The Offspring’s Greatest Hits album.
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The Offspring – Self Esteem
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The song that got millions of mid-90s teenage boys self-righteously indignant. Believe us – we were there…
Dexter Holland has said that people have often thought that this was a
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The Offspring – Dirty Magic
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The sixth track on Ignition and the ninth track (a re-recorded version) on Days Go By. The words in parentheses were not included in the original recording.
The speaker seems to
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The Offspring – Hurting as One
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[Verse 1] / Been reaching for a reason for the pain that's come / Been waiting for the season when the healing's done / Well, lined up in black and white / This blood runs red on
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Del the Funky Homosapien (Ft. El-P) – Offspring
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[Intro: Del The Funky Homosapien & El-P] / Ayo, what' up, El-P? / Yo, what' up, Del-phonic? / Nothin', man; I was on the bus the other day, man / Tryin' to listen to my Walkman
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The Offspring – Want You Bad
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Want You Bad is the fourth track and the second single from The Offspring’s album Conspiracy of One. The biggest misconception about the song is that it’s about a man who wants a
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The Offspring – So Alone
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[Verse 1] / Look at the crowd and tell me whether / All are surrounded, but none are together / If you're awake, look all around / At all of the people, still you're... / [Chorus
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Dying Fetus – Eviscerated Offspring
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Immortal Gods Of Life, Cast Into Waves, Bleed For The Maker, Drowning In His Faith, No Ressurection, Crush The Lifeless Spawn, Preview Of Tomorrow, Dying Dead, Already Gone
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The Offspring – Hit That
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The fourth track on Splinter, Hit That talks about a couple who have kids. However, the father abandons the family and parties with other women. Then, instead of being the better
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Cattle Decapitation – Scourge of the Offspring
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[Verse 1] / Hell hath wrought upon this earth / From the desires of the patriarch / To carry thine name unto the dawn / A hapless spawn to go on and on and on / [Verse 2] / A swift
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The Offspring (Ft. Redman) – Original Prankster
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Original Prankster is the third track and first single from The Offspring’s Conspiracy of One. The song is unlike most of their other songs, combining hip-hop elements with punk
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The Offspring – Gone Away
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Following their hit album Smash, The Offspring’s 4th album featured a personal story of the band’s singer Dexter Holland.
There was a rumour about the song, more specifically
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The Offspring – Amazed
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Amazed is the thirteenth track of Ixnay on the Hombre. The song revolves around a depressed person who is about to commit suicide.
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The Offspring – Living in Chaos
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[Intro] / Got a song, song, man / It goes like this / [Verse 1] / Somewhere the time was right / Could have been gone in ten / This world is hard to fight / Hitting you once, hit
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The Offspring – Americana
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The title track and also the penultimate track on The Offspring’s fifth studio album, Americana.
In this song, Dexter talks about American culture and things characteristic of the
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The Offspring – Staring at the Sun
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Staring at the Sun is the third track and second song on Americana. According to The Offspring frontman Dexter Holland, he wrote the song about the frustration of watching everyone
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The Offspring – Feelings
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The sixth track from Americana, the fifth album by The Offspring. It could technically be considered a punk rock cover of Morris Albert’s “Feelings,” except that the lyrics of the
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The Offspring – Smash
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Dexter Holland redefines the word “smash” in the title track from The Offspring’s third studio album.
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The Offspring – Walla Walla
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Based on the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington, USA.
Dexter jokingly said, “This is favorite place to meet new people.”
The song also served as one of the
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The Offspring – Session
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This song has a similar meaning to The Offspring’s Self Esteem. Dexter and this woman are only seeing each other for sex and not for an actual relationship. He can’t stand it, yet
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The Offspring – Genocide
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Our lives run different ways / Through the rain I see you in the sun / Our star shines anyway / If you wish upon it, we are one / (One, two, three, four) / [
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The Offspring – She's Got Issues
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A man complains about his girl who is angsty to the point of annoyance. Dexter Holland said about the background of this song:
“A song like ‘She’s Got Issues’ is saying ‘Hey, come
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The Offspring – All I Want
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“All I Want” is one of the singles from The Offspring’s album Ixnay on the Hombre.
The band originally composed the song for Epitaph Records and Bad Religion. Originally titled “
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The Offspring – Have You Ever
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Have You Ever is the second track and first actual song in Americana. Basically, the lyrics are easy to understand because it describes feelings that we all know in our life. It
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The Offspring – Gotta Get Away
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Gotta Get Away is one of the singles released from The Offspring’s Smash album. The song talks about a paranoid person. According to Dexter Holland, he probably used that subject
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The Offspring – Coming for You
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[Verse 1] / Time to go and get our kicks / Dropping out and getting in the mix now / In the back room, nothing to do / We're not bored, we're just sick of you, yeah / Yeah, sick of
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The Offspring – Something to Believe In
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[Verse 1] / I believe that reality is gone / Disillusion is real / I believe that morality is gone / And there's nothing to feel / If you take the sacred things / Things that we
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The Offspring – Blackball
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[Verse 1] / In this world of hate and shallowness / Where enemies become your consolation / And those of us who win the game / Give up their minds / I don't call that winning / Say
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The Offspring – Hammerhead
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A narrative about a gunman who believes that everything he does is for the greater good. It seems like it’s about a soldier at war, but the final stanza shows it’s actually a
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The Offspring – Days Go By
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“Days Go By” is the first single from the The Offspring’s ninth album Days Go By. While it was the first song to be written for the album, it happened to be the last to be
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The Offspring – The End of the Line
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The End of the Line is the 9th track on The Offspring’s Americana. The song is pretty self explanatory and has similar subject matter to their other song Gone Away.
Someone Dexter
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The Offspring – No Brakes
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An anthem of how a maniacally depressed person feels.
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The Offspring – Beheaded
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[Verse 1] / Mommy doesn't have a head anymore / Keep it underneath my bed on the floor / Well that's alright, man that's ok / She never really used her head anyway / Daddy called
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The Offspring – The Noose
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The second song on Splinter, The Noose is the opposite of the first song of the album Neocon. Dexter is talking about how the government and tyranny are taking over the USA. This
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The Offspring – Pay the Man
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Pay the Man is the final song on Americana. “The Man” is American slang for the government. It’s also interesting to note that The Offspring’s previous album Ixnay on the Hombre
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The Offspring – Not the One
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[Verse 1] / I'm not the one who made the world what it is today / I'm not the one who caused the problems started long ago / But now I deal with all the consequence that troubles
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The Offspring – Let the Bad Times Roll
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[Intro] / Oh, baby, let the bad times roll (Oh-oh-oh-oh) / Oh, baby, let the bad times roll (Oh, oh-oh-oh) / [Verse 1] / We're gonna hang 'em high / We're gonna shoot straight up
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The Offspring – Defy You
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Defy You was originally intended to be released on their 2003 album Splinter, but it never ended up on the album. Although some international copies contain an acoustic version of
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The Offspring – The Meaning of Life
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The second track on Ixnay on the Hombre. The Meaning of Life is about Dexter’s definition of it. He doesn’t want to be told by others what he is and isn’t allowed to do. The
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The Offspring – Change the World
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“Change The World” is the last track on Ixnay on the Hombre. The drum solo at the beginning is used as the main menu music for Crazy Taxi.
The drum solo and guitar track are taken
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Timothy Brindle – New Creation Offspring
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[Verse 1] / Genesis 1 the beautiful God of Life / Tells Adam: Be fruitful and multiply (Genesis 1:28) / As a son of God / King subdue the earth / By your offspring -- through their
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