DESCENDENTS
Cool to Be You

01   Talking (02:27)

Talking about our life
No matter how much I don't like
Talk is never cheap between you and me
Look at how far we've come
And still we always come undone
Maybe that's how it always has to be

I'm out here alone
Talking on the phone
Tensions are rising
It's never surprising
This is the way it goes
Maybe we'll fall in love
When I get home

Talking about our life
Seems like we never get it right
But we always get an A for effort
We sweat to find what to say
Communication's the only way
If we ever hope to stay together
Communicate!

I'm out here alone
Talking on the phone
Tensions are rising
It's never surprising
This is the way it goes
Maybe we'll fall in love
When I get home

Tell me the problem, I wanna know
If there's a solution, I'll fix it now
And if there isn't, I'll just be there
If I don't say something, don't say I don't care

Well, I go yaddadda-yadda-ya
And you go yaddadda-yadda-ya
yaddadda-yadda-yadda
Is what we gotta do

I'm out here alone
Talking on the phone
Tensions are rising
It's never surprising
This is the way it goes
Maybe we'll fall in love
When I get home

Or maybe we'll fall in love
When I get home

I said, maybe we'll fall in love
When I get home

02   Nothing With You (02:29)

Nothing With You

I don't wanna move
I'll just sit here in my living room and
See what's on the tube
While I'm hanging out with you

People knock on my door, ringing my phone
Telling me the things I gotta get done today
To satisfy them, but what about me?
Lately I've been wishing I was brain dead
No responsibilities in my head today
Maybe we'll see what's on TV

Doing nothing, having fun
Off to bed to get things done
I'm not lazy - I'm in love

I don't wanna move
I'll just sit here in my living room and
See what's on the tube
While I'm hanging out with you

People pressing my flesh, taking my time
They don't know a thing about my life with you
I'm trying real hard - it's hard not to care
'Cause all I ever really want to do
Is sit around doing nothing with you, because
Nothing's only fun when you're there

"Mad About You" at dinnertime
"Seinfeld", "Simpsons", "So-Called Life"
Seen the reruns 20 million times

I don't wanna move
I'll just sit here in my living room and
See what's on the tube
While I'm hanging out with you
All I wanna do
Is just sit here in my living room and
See what's on the tube
While I'm hanging out with you

All I wanna do
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
Is do nothing with you
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
All I wanna do
Is do nothing with you

03   She Don't Care (01:51)

I get up every morning and
Make her coffee like I've always done
She won’t look in my eyes
What has our love become?

Tried talking about it
We talk around it
And never get nowhere
I gave her everything I got
And she don’t care
She don’t care
No she don’t

Ten years before I recognized the sacrifice
She made to be with me
Said when you want you can leave

It’s easy to make promises
While you’re dumb in love
Watch them all evaporate
Because she’s had enough

Tried talking about it
We talk around it
And never get nowhere
I gave her everything I got

She made up her mind
I lost my wife my lover
My best friend
And I don’t think
I'll ever be right again

It’s easy to make promises
While you’re dumb in love
Watch them all evaporate
Because she’s had enough

Tried talking about it
We talk around it
And never get nowhere and
I'm lonelier than you know
She don’t care

04   'Merican (01:51)

DESCENDENTS LYRICS

"'Merican"

We flipped our finger to the king of england
Stole our country from the indians
With god on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own
A nation dedicated to liberty
Justice and equality
Does it look that way to you?
It doesn't look that way to me
The sickest joke I know

[Chorus]
Listen up man, I'll tell you who I am
Just another stupid american
You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home

I come from the land of Ben Franklin
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman
Otis Redding, Ellington,
The country that I love
But it's a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan
Haymarket riot and the great depression
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam
The sickest joke I know

[Chorus]

I'm proud and ashamed
Every fourth of july
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride

Now the cops got tanks 'cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pushin' pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go

[Chorus 2x]

05   Dog and Pony Show (02:28)

Another night of maybe and almost
Abandoned in a land of passing ghosts

Just a lot of sad people forgive them Lord
They don’t care what they do…
Or who they do it to

At the Dog and Pony Show
They don’t wanna know
To think I could have stayed home
Instead of watching this

Ugly lust and ordinary dirt
But no one cares
So nobody gets hurt

Just a lot of sad people forgive them Lord
They don’t care who they do…
Or what it does to you

At the Dog and Pony Show
They don’t wanna know
They’re doin’ some blow
They all…

Stand in line and take their chances
Roofie dolls and robot dances
Dying to get off
There’s a lot of pretty girls here
Lookin’ tight
They’re not good girls
But they’re good for the night
They’re telling me to buzz off
That’s OK ‘cause I never liked them anyway

It’s no place for a mongrel mutt like me
Mating rights go to the best of breed
Just a lot of sad people caught in between
Desire and despair
I guess I'll see you there

At the lost and lonely
Dog and Pony Show
They don’t wanna know
They don’t wanna know
They don’t wanna know

So afraid and alone…

06   Blast Off (02:27)

Stay away from the chilli verde
unless you want to get blown away
treat the spider with a little respect
you take the heat - it's gonna bite back

blast off at cape canaveral
toilet seat is your launching pad
blast off at cape canaveral
4-3-2-1 blast off!

Capsaicinoids are a thing to aviod
unless you want to burn in that 'roid
we'll be laughing
and rolling on the floor
when we hear you screaming through that door

blast off at cape canaveral
all systems go!
blast off at cape canaveral
4-3-2-1 blast off!

Jalepeno, habenero
burning all yo' hair down there-o
picinu, vindaloo
they're gonna getcha
they're gonna getcha, too

you know those red things in the jung pao?
don't say I didn't warn you now
take the time to pick them out
or the spider gets grouchy
and it's time to countdrown!

blast off at cape canaveral
(oooh! oh oh oh!)
blast off at cape canaveral
(woooooh!)
blast off at cape canaveral
(Houston, we have a problem)
blast off at cape canaveral
4-3-2-1 blast off!

07   Dreams (02:56)

Why do I daydream?
Why do I get my hopes up at all?
I've been living this Walter Mitty life
For too long

Somebody save me
I'm a prisoner of my own fear
Sometimes fantasy is the only
Thought I can bear

My mind is a dream-filled balloon
Dripping dreams into my shoes
And I'm too afraid to move
To face the real world

And when I fall, I fall down hard
When will I ever learn?
Don’t take your dreams to heart
You’ll only wind up getting
Burned

Maybe I'm lazy
But circumstances always knock me down
So I'll just lie here, never get up
Off the ground

But maybe it’s crazy
To sit and think of all the things I wanna do
What’s the use in dreaming when dreams
Never come true?

And when I fall, I fall down hard
When will I ever learn?
Don’t take your dreams to heart
You’ll only wind up getting
Burned

Why do I daydream?
Why do I daydream?
Why do I bother?
Why?

Time to get up off your ass
Pull your head out – take a chance
Grab whatever you can grab
'Cause there’s no such thing…
No such thing

08   Cool to Be You (02:24)

Cool To Be You

I don't believe in unity
It's just one more abandoned dream
Once the people get together
It's easy to see
It's just a matter of time
Before they come after me

But it must be pretty cool to be you
With your brothers at your back
Protecting you
It must be pretty cool to know
You belong

Isolated my whole life
Counting scars in the land of smiling knives
Yes I'm envious it's true
But it must be cool to be you

You got a loving family
To give you everything you need
My family loves each other so much
We live a thousand miles away
And never stay in touch

But it must be pretty cool to be you
With a home and a family to go home to
It must be pretty cool to know you belong

Isolated my whole life
Counting scars in the land of smiling knives
Yes I'm envious it's true
But it must be cool to be you

What can I do?
I know this bitter jealousy is wrong
Maybe I'll move
And find a brand new place I don't belong
Some friends I'll never know
New places I can't go
'Cause everywhere I've been
Is on outside looking in

You got a deep sustaining faith
A Lord who listens when you pray
I was raised in the church
And I was told to believe
I wonder if God believes in me

It must be pretty cool to be you
With your holy faith sustaining you
It must be pretty cool to know you belong

Isolated my whole life
Counting scars in the land of smiling knives
Yes I'm envious it's true
But it must be cool to be you

09   Maddie (03:06)

Come on baby, we gotta get our clothes on
There’ll be no easy days, ‘cause I've got no degree
You’ll see your brother in a week or three, here’s a picture of me
Just don’t let them see, ‘cause they’re not that fond of me

They’re gonna tell you that I'm not real
But their time is through
And I'll be the one, yeah, I'll see this through

I'll fight for you, no one else is going to
They’re too busy fighting over you

Come on baby, we gotta get our plane now
Punk rock won’t pay the bills, so we gotta get started early
I'd like to hang around here with you
Got a life to teach you, just you and me
But everyone’s just gotta see you

They’re gonna tell you that I'm not real
But their time is through
And I'm with you still

And I'll be the one, yeah, I'll see this through
I'll fight for you, no one else is going to
They’re too busy fighting over you

They’re gonna tell you that I'm not real
But we’re havin’ fun together everyday
What could be more real than that, to a girl and her dad
And there’s no way they can brainwash you away from me

Come on baby, I gotta try to explain things
There’s no easy way, to say these things to you
There’s no easy way to tell you what is real

So come on baby
Let’s just go home now
I'll be responsible
And I'll do everything I have to
Instead of fighting over you
Yeah, I'll be the one
I'll be invisible
And there’s no way they can brainwash you
I'll see it through
I'll be invincible
Come on baby
They're gonna tell you that I'm not real
I'll fight for you
Not fighting over you
And there’s no way they can brainwash you
I'll fight for you
Come on baby
There’s no way we can lose
We’ll be OK

10   Mass Nerder (02:47)

Don’t got no goatee
Don’t got no tattoo
Don’t got no nose ring
Don’t wanna be like you

See I got these glasses, so I'll never be cool
Always get my ass kicked when I get to school

Don’t worry about an image
Don’t got no attitude
I know I won’t get laid
If I won’t be like you
Don’t got no biceps
Don’t got no pecs
But I'll read you under the table
With my thick specs!

See I got these glasses, so they kick my ass
But I'll kick their asses when I get to class

I got these glasses, so I can’t wear shades
But I'll kick their asses – I'll get good grades

Gonna kick their asses in class
Gonna kick their asses in class
Gonna kick their asses in class
Gonna get good grades!

I can’t get with the times…
Can’t spout the party line…
Don’t know what the scene’s about
Don’t tell me to mellow out!

Don’t got no goatee
No fucking safety pin
No I ain’t no junkie
Don’t got no heroin

Don’t got no stylish notion
Don’t wanna live by the ocean
Just wanna be myself
All you posers go to Hell!

Gonna kick their asses in class
Gonna kick their asses in class
Gonna kick their asses in class
Gonna get good grades

Asses in class
Asses in class
Asses in class

We must read

11   One More Day (03:33)

12   Tack (02:21)

Time for a new me
I hear they’re having a sale at Thrifty
I'm trading myself in
And I don’t care what I get for it
'Cause I finally burned out
Been kicking myself for way too long

Finally found out
What it feels like to be living a lie
Wasting my time, paralyzed
Wishing I was in another world
I'm taking a new tack
Gotta turn my back to turn back
I don’t wanna close doors
But I don’t wanna feel this way anymore
So I'm finding my way out
By turning away from a brick wall
Finally found out
What it feels like to be living a lie
Wasting my time, paralyzed
Wishing I was in another world
Somebody tell me what to do
I've wasted my last 15 years
Jumping through their hoops
Only to find nothing waiting for me
But academic oblivion – my proud destiny

See I finally burned out
Been kicking myself for way too long

Finally found out
What it feels like to be living a lie
Wasting my time, paralyzed
Wishing I was in another world

Wishing I was in another world…
(Somebody tell me what to do)
Wishing I was in another world…

Time for a new me

13   Anchor Grill (03:03)

Love in our hearts, we didn’t know the world is complicated
Gleam in our eyes, time would show just what our love was made of

Who knew the way things work in this world we’ve made for ourselves?
Where I work myself to death, and you raise the kids

Can’t we try to amend our path of struggle for a while?
To pretend our lives are free and carefree still?
And that I just fell in love with you at the Anchor Grill

Money and time… we didn’t know they’d be so hard to come by
"Look and you’ll find"? We didn’t know, that’s just some fabled school rhyme

We’ll never get ahead in this world
Not ‘til we move ahead of this world we’ve made for ourselves
Where there’s no time to kiss, and no room to even breathe

Can’t we try to amend our path of struggle for a while?
To pretend our lives are free and carefree still?
And that I just fell in love with you
At the Anchor Grill
It’s our life, it’s standing right in front of me
It’s our time, and we know the way we wanna be
Can’t you see?

So let’s drop the kids at your folks, let’s go
Where it’s never too late for breakfast
And everything’s gonna get better

Can’t we try to amend our path of struggle for a while?
Can’t we try to amend our path of struggle for a while?
To pretend our lives are free and carefree still?
‘Cause I just fell in love with you
At the Anchor Grill

14   Dry Spell (02:43)

If it was for me, I thought it would come so easy
I never realized life’s just a series of lows and highs
I just wanna create, it doesn’t matter how I do it
Nobody ever said there’s nothing to it

Goosebumps been gone for way too long

Couldn’t get it for free, couldn’t do it for the money
It just disappeared – spent a lot of barren years and
If it doesn’t work out, you can just set it down for later
Nobody ever said you’d be dead forever

Goosebumps been gone for way too long
Who knows how long they’ll stick around

If it was for me, I thought it would come so easy
I never realized life’s just a series of lows and highs
Couldn’t get it for free, didn’t wanna have to try to do it
But nobody ever said there’s nothing to it!

Goosebumps been gone for way too long
Who knows how long they’ll stick around
Goosebumps been gone for way too long
Who knows how long they’ll stick around

Please stick around