Genius Meanings
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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 – 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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Tim Timebomb – Django
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“Django” is a single by Tim Timebomb’s main band, Rancid. Timebomb was inspired to re-record this song while watching horror movies and spaghetti westerns (“Wild West” movies made
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Rancid – Prisoners Song
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[Verse 1: Tim Armstrong] / I need you 'cause I have a problem tonight / Cold breeze in a storm and electric night / Shut down the city 'cause I'll do that for you / I can taste the
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Tim Timebomb – Journey To The End Of The East Bay
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Reconcile to the belief / Consumed in sacred ground for me / There wasn't always a place to go / But there was always an urgent need to belong / All these bands and / All these
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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 – One Way Ticket
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[Chorus: Tim Armstrong & Lars Frederiksen] / Gonna find me a one-way, a one-way ticket / Gonna ride me right out of town / Gonna find me a one-way, a one-way ticket / Gonna ride me
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Rancid – Olympia, WA
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Per a September 1995 article about Rancid in Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/rancid-the-sweet-smell-of-success-59440/, “Olympia, WA,” is Armstrong’s
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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 – 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 – Eddie the Butcher
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[Chorus: Tim Armstrong, Lars Frederiksen & Matt Freeman] / He can make a blind man see the Lord / They call him Eddie the Butcher / You can die by pistol or knife or sword / They
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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 – Motorcycle Ride
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If you wanna make a move then you better come in / It's just the ability to reason that wears so thin / Living and dying and the stories that are true / The secret to a good life
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The Interrupters (Ft. Rancid) – Got Each Other
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[Verse 1, Aimee Interrupter] / If you are alone tonight / You can come with us / If you don't have friends or family / Or people that you trust / We will be your confidants / Your
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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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Zachary Gordon – Time Bomb
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[Intro] / Hmm, hmm, hmm / Hmm, hmm, hmm / Hm-hmm-hmm-hmm / [Verse 1] / I don't drink when I go out / Like to sing, but not in crowds / Wear my suit and tie to bed / Leave a pretty
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Rancid – It's a Road to Righteousness
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[Verse 1: Tim Armstrong] / No angels to guide you / When you're born to a life without station / Where the kings are the fools and I break all the rules / And I'm living a life
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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 – Live Forever
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[Verse 1: Tim Armstrong] / Tape in the boombox, knee-high white socks / Cornered in the gulag, jabbed full of Clorox / Stabbed in the meltdown, full-time downtown / Part-time
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Rancid – When the Smoke Clears
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[Verse 1: Tim Armstrong] / Straight and narrow path now all twisted / Where the weak at heart can be restricted / Moonlight hollow in the dark light / I see you standing there / [
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Tim Timebomb – Ooh la la
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Poor old Granddad I laughed at all his words / I thought he was a bitter man / He spoke of women's ways / They'll trap you, then they use you before you even know / For love is
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Rancid – She's Automatic
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[Verse 1: Lars Frederiksen] / The way that she moves, well, I was aroused / Empowered and passioned by every move / It's so cold outside, we need a place to hide / Go into the
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Rancid – Mud, Blood, & Gold
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[Verse 1: Tim Armstrong] / Ghost ship cuts through the mist / Enter through the Golden Gate on another twist / Another twist of fate, hell awaits at the harbor / Another lamb to
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GBH – Time Bomb
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Perpetual torture, from those we love to hate / It's meant to be, you can't change fate / We got a time bomb .. / .. 5-4-3-2-1 go / The time will come when we gotta say no / Decide
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Rancid – Antennas
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You're sellin' sexism, you're sellin' racism / You're sellin' everything you get your fuckin' hands on / An understanding, you gotta plan it / Presentation to advertisers who
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Rancid – Dead Bodies
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Disfigured and oblique from the appetite that I seek / I'm a hungry cannibal, I'm a rabid animal / My remains are being scattered, I've been bludgeoned, I'm in pain / Stomach pains
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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 – The Bloody & Violent History
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[Chorus: Tim Armstrong & Lars Frederiksen] / The bloody and violent history / The bloody and violent history / Of the Barbary Coast / Of the Barbary Coast / [Verse 1: Tim Armstrong
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Rancid – Backslide
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Los Angeles take your dreams away / Put you on the ground / At the end of the day it's your life, your loss / If you can't turn the clock around / I said, oh, my God, you can have
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