Genius Lyrics
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Rancid – Nihilism
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Come into the union district / Drive down on Sharmon Palms / White ghettos paint a picture / Broken homes and broken bones / I was so full of scotch I could not stand up / I was
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Rancid – Avenues & Alleyways
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[Intro] / Oi! Oi! Oi! / [Verse 1: Tim Armstrong & Lars Frederiksen] / I figured out the problem, yeah, the problem is you / You didn't see us comin', now there's nothin' you can do
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Rancid – Salvation
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“Salvation,” from Rancid’s second studio album, Let’s Go is the song that first attracted attention to the punk band hailing from Oakland, CA. Though lead singer Tim Armstrong’s
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Rancid – Ruby Soho
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“Ruby Soho” is about a girl who falls in love with a punk rocker. However, the narrator describes that they are at a party away from her. Ruby realises that the love is no longer
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Rancid – Tenderloin
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The song is about a prostitute in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco, USA – a place known for many dilapidated buildings and high rates of homelessness and crime.
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Rancid – Tomorrow Never Comes
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[Verse 1: Tim Armstrong] / No judge, no jury, no civil rights / Show up on the line, get ready to fight / Run the streets and seize the night / Mow 'em fucking down / Everyone know
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Rancid – Fall Back Down
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This song is about the emotional recovery of Rancid’s lead guitarist, Tim Armstrong.
Prior to the album Indestructible, he was married to lead singer of punk band The Distillers
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Rancid – Radio
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[Verse 1] / Never fell in love until I fell in love with you / Never know what a good time was until I had a good time with you / If you wanna get the feeling and you wanna get it
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Rancid – Hyena
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The 2nd song from their 1st album on 1993 “Rancid” from Epitaph Records.
It is also seen on the first Punk-O-Rama compilation along with “I Wanna Riot”.
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Rancid – Poison
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[Verse 1] / Like Chaucer's / Canterbury Tales / When three men find a pot of gold / And end up killing one another in the name of greed / [Chorus] / Some people are poison / Under
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Rancid – Time Bomb
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Despite it’s upbeat, ska punk vibe, “Time Bomb”’s subject matter is actually quite dire. The meteoric ascendance of a young boy to prominence within a gang followed by his equally
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Rancid – Maxwell Murder
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[Verse 1: Lars Frederiksen] / Maxwell can't tell he's in hell / Just wants you to visit him there / Same old game that he's playin' / His rules are never fair / [Pre-Chorus: Tim
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Rancid – Brad Logan
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Here's a talented group of youngsters that call themselves Rancid / California sun has sunk / Behind the Anaheim Hills, here comes the night / I was high on junk / And the warm
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Rancid – Daly City Train
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A eulogy for a friend in the form of a song. The song is a remembrance of someone for whom the writer clearly has a great fondness but whose life was troubled by drug addiction and
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Rancid – Daly City Train
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A eulogy for a friend in the form of a song. The song is a remembrance of someone for whom the writer clearly has a great fondness but whose life was troubled by drug addiction and
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Rancid – The Sentence
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[Verse 1] / My life's a blessing, understand my aggression / I don't regret nothing, it's all been a lesson / Me and my friend, we got the music / Like a loaded gun, we're gonna
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Rancid – Old Friend
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[Chorus] / Good mornin' heartache / You're like an old friend / Come and see me again, I said, uh / Good mornin' heartache / You're like an old friend / Come and see me again, I
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Rancid – Telegraph Avenue
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[Verse 1] / I was there in the rain / Man, even if them skies was blue / You can find me on the corner of Durant / And Telegraph Avenue / When I was only 17 / I knew what I had to
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Rancid – Roots Radicals
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[Verse 1: Lars Frederiksen] / Took the 60 bus / Out of downtown Campbell / Ben Zanotto, he was on there / He was waitin' for me / All the punk rockers / And the moon stompers / Are
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Rancid – Burn
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Thirteen red and white stripes flying / White for skin and red for dying / One cannot walk on through / And not feel like one is in hell / One cannot walk on through / And not feel
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Rancid – Bloodclot
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Hey! Ho! / Hey! Ho! / Hey! Ho! / Hey! Ho! / [Verse 1] / Well I'm a crazy upsetter / (Driving me insane) / Yeah, I'm a streetwise professor / (Who am I to blame?) / Now, if you'd
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Rancid – Journey to the End of the East Bay
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Tim Armstrong and Matt Freeman were a part of the very influential ska-punk band Operation Ivy, before eventually forming Rancid. This song tells the store of Op Ivy’s inception
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Rancid – Warsaw
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"That is the vision of the anarchist / It is also a boy's dream" / True to Warsaw politics / Beaten down with a baseball bat / Police retreated with riot shields / In fear of a
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Rancid – Otherside
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Na na na na / Na na na na / Na na na na / Na na na na / Na na na na / Na na na naaaa... / Na na na na / Na na na na / Na na na na / Na na na na / Na na na na / Na na na naaaa
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Rancid – Side Kick
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[Chorus] / I had a dream I was a vigilante's side kick / My name is Tim, I'm a lesser-known character / I had a dream I was a vigilante's side kick / Fighting crime in the streets
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Rancid – Rejected
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I could not fit in / I was the one who got caught / I was the one who got realized / I was the one who got dropped / Shut out, banished and locked away / The knife that did me in I
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Rancid – The 11th Hour
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[Intro: Tim Armstrong] / Alright / [Verse 1: Tim Armstrong] / Hey little sister, do you know what time it was / When you finally seen all your broken dreams / Come crashin' down
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Rancid – Leicester Square
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I got some hard times, two punks upon the subway / It's a long way to go to get to Leicester Square / A hard line, it's the one you gotta cross / The one you gotta cross to get you
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Rancid – Who Would've Thought
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“Who Would’ve Thought” was written as a love song for Tim Armstrong’s then-wife, fellow punk vocalist Brody Dalle. They were divorced in 2003 after Dalle was seen kissing Queens Of
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Rancid – GGF (Golden Gate Fields)
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I grew up living across from Golden Gate Fields race track in the East Bay. My friends and I would collect the mud spattered goggles tossed away by the jockeys after they rode in
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Rancid – Let's Go
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Jimmy said he could handle this / Ohhhh, he's from Los Angeles / Jimmy said he could handle this / Born and raised in west Los Angeles / Daddy's a lawyer, mother's a shrink
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Rancid – Adina
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[Verse 1] / I want to go where the action is / I want to fly through the urban blight / I want to live like a shadow in the dark / And only move at night / A story, bought a one
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Rancid (Ft. Skinhead Rob) – Red Hot Moon
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Under the red hot moon / You take the bus downtown to the graveyard shift tonight / Under the red hot moon / You take the bus downtown to the graveyard shift tonight / Casey's from
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Rancid – Let Me Go
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[Intro] / Ok, check this out… / [Verse 1] / It ain't impossible, it ain't easy / Opportunities shifting here / So far the strategy ain't working / The facts are in, it's so very
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Rancid – Corazon de Oro
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It's over before it starts, oh don't you know / So on your marks, stand by; Ready, go / From London to New York, Montreal to Tokyo / I see visions of her everywhere I go / What
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Rancid – Junkie Man
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[Intro: Tim Armstrong] / Ah, turn it up / [Verse 1: Tim Armstrong] / The common man doesn't suffer pain like this / Only the sort that has never been kissed / Let us adore our
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Rancid – Sick Sick World
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[Verse 1] / Creeps burn and run their life too calm, too windy / To form a wasteland / Atomic blow / A total nothing / Totaled completely / Your filths are discovered but your eyes
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Rancid – New Dress
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With a gleaming success with the different tribes / Religious indifference mixed with feudal lines / Territorial company, they legitimize / Persecution to form enterprise / Now the
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Rancid – Life Won't Wait
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[Lars] / Teach the children and disciples to wage a brand of war / Religious and prestigious keep the quest for the holy grail / The eye atop the pyramid is open and awake / The
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