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I've been bugging the guys to write me out more lyrics, so I hope to have some more up here soon.

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Building A Bridge To The 1950's (words : Dan Bonn Music: The Experiments) The Experiments CD Blind Melons 12-12-2004 Building a bridge to the 1950's Like the last 50 years never even existed Let's get back to a time and a place When we never asked questions and we all said grace Let's suppress the right to vote Let me shove my puritan views down your throat Let's bring Joe McCarthy back from the grave We'll start by villainizing the hacks Like Ginsburg, Dylan and Kerouac Let's take Woody Guthrie's guitar and SMASH IT! SMASH IT! SMASH IT INTO PIECES Building a bridge to the 1950's Like the last 50 years never even existed Return with us now to those days of yore When nobody had sex and nobody swore Let's put Lenny Bruce back on trial While we're at it get Carlin and Richard Pryor None of them are even Hee Haw funny to me Why don't we outlaw Rock'n'Roll, Punk Rock, Hip Hop, Blues and Soul Just conservative talk shows on the radio and we'll BLAST IT! BLAST IT! BLAST IT TILL THEIR EARS BLEED Let's round up all the left coast subversives We'll send `em to Guantanamo to see how the surf is Make crosses from the letters in the Hollywood sign So the writers and directors can be crucified Let's storm the colleges and hang the professors Let's build a bonfire for all of the text books Liberal arts sounds awfully suspicious to me We'll put prayer back in schools but take out sex education Start teaching all of them our views on creation Let's head for the science department and BURN IT! BURN IT! BURN IT TO THE GROUND Building a bridge to the 1950's Like the last 50 years never even existed Let's get back to a time and a place When we never asked questions and we all said grace Let's build a bridge to the 1950's When the fear of god kept the spirit restricted A black and white world gee, won't it be swell We'll have heaven on earth and you can all Go to hell	Functioning Member (words: Dan Bonn, Music: The Experiments) The Experiments CD Blind Melons 12-12-2204 Andrew & Russ' Party Rock & Roll Weekend I'm a walking talking living breathing Functioning member of society I'm a hard working tax paying mean Money making machine I'm an upstanding vote casting chord Bashing champion of what I believe An opinionated nerve grated frustrated Man in the street Nobody's listening to what we say We're swept under the rug while the Deals are made Empty promises fade away I'm a pot smoking beer drinking clear thinking fan of insobriety I'm an x-rated dark shaded Complicated sort of a guy I'm a suffocated space invaded hope faded prisoner of the modern age I'm an independent unrepentant Freedom loving son of a bitch Everybody's talking `bout what's Right or wrong but the definition Changes with the side you're on You got lots to say So do I No loud shouting hate spouting fist Pounding bastards gonna stifle my Voice or convince me that my Opinion don't count for anything
Disposable Culture ( Bonn ) The Experiments CD So many trends come and go in the course of a year so many idiotic fads that quickly disapear no substance that i can see just a world sold on mediocrity everybody's so easily amused I wanna know who the hell makes up this stuff i wanna get some names don't you think we've had enough doesn't anyone complain corporate franchised conformity breeding fast food , mall mentality everybody's so easily amused In this disposable culture nothing lasts too long before it all gets thrown away it gets devoured by vultures, not a chance to nurture anything that might get saved Create hype, light the fuse all you need is a spark as the bandwagon jumpers crouch down on their marks but before they can get their cue the next big thing becomes last weeks news fasion victims left without a clue the lines have all been blurred beyond recognition Retroactive style becomes the new tradition what sucked once upon a time + what sucks now = sucks x 5 the better parts of the present and past are ignored chew it up, spit it out ...	Ready, Willing and Able ( Bonn ) The Experiments CD Blind Melon's 12-12-2004 I'm ready been waiting in the wings for far too long I been hiding from the fear that I was wrong I've been up and down and in between I've taken notes of what I've seen and though I might be wrong I just don't care I'm willing to do what it will take to get things done all the obstacles before me will be gone and though new ones soon will take their place experience accumulates I'll face them with the knowledge I'll have gained everything is pointing towards this moment being all i'd hoped for I might get shot down but that's the breaks confidence is high and so am I this time I'm feeling lucky what have I got to lose ? I'm able to see beyond the confines of the past and i have the strength to reach beyond it's grasp I've invested time and energy got faith in my abilities of course I know there aint no guarentees but . . .
Relief The Experiments CD (studio) The Experiments CD (live) Yeah, yeah, yeah everytime I turn around theres always something creepingup on me everytime i look around there's always something following me i need to find a break through all the confusion i need to find a way to get me some relief a little relief yeah, yeah, yeah here we go another day spinning me in circles here we go another day try'na drag me down I need to find a break through all the confusion i need to find a way to get me some relief a little relief ooh baby , gotta get me some relief . . .	Detatched From Reality The Experiments CD (live) Who The Hell Are They? Blank faces staring at nothing but empty spaces and distant spots I wonder what they see feel so detatched from reality nothing's what it appears to be it's all a blur to me I need a distraction from the slow parade of time as it passes need a new perspective on my life constant clarity can get to be too much for me . I need a change of mind every once in awhile Been thinking disconnected thoughts kind of feels like I'm stoned or drunk did you say something to me? I forgot what we were talking about sorry if i was zoning out I think I need some sleep I'm in my own little world it's like I'm watching a movie and I can't get hurt. Can't tell if I'm inside looking out or outside looking in stream of conscious thoughts flow freely through my mind entertaining myself to pass the time turn my mind to an empty page and let imagination fill the space circuits in my head engage and take me to another place detatched from my sense of where and when and why and who and what disengaged from things that occupy my normal realm of thought. Insulated from the world that spins outside of me seperated from the limits of reality.
In the Shit Smacked In The Head Rock & Roll Weekend aahw Fuck, I'm in the shit again it's been that way since I dont know when just like a knife I never get dull I'm on my way to a prison cell like a train goin' rollin' off the tracks I take two steps forward, you knock me three back. Keep on punchin' baby it's no use I just can't take my life's abuse, yeah aahw shit, I fucked up again it's been that way since I don't know when it doesn't pay to even figure it out I take a bite and I spit it out well the big old world spins around I climb it up and they drag me down keep on punchin' baby it's no use I just can't take my life's abuse , yeah yeah that's life and that's the way it goes sometimes it rocks and other times it blows so quit yer cryin', what's it all about just keep your faith, and keep crankin' it out baby roll with the tide and get yourself high one thing's for sure we're all gonna die chew on rocks, lick the edge cause once your gone you won't be back, yeah	Animal Instincts Who The Hell Are They? They say that we're the intelligent species but just exactly who the hell are " they " ? are they the monkeys sitting in the trees or the dogs and cats laying at our feet do the birds fly by just to look at us maybe learn a thing or two when a snake creeps up on you is he studying your moves? Who says we're the intelligent ones? I think the animals might disagree they see us going thru our daily ruts while they lick themselves and sniff each other's butts I wanna live a dog's life, spend the whole day sleeping under the porch I wanna be stubborn as a mule I wanna be hung like a horse " The law of the jungle says that you can only kill to eat, or to keep from being eaten. " yeah, Kipling knew what he was talking about but we kill each other over money and religious ideals and many other stupid reasons. tell me who's got the better idea ? I wanna recognize my place in the food chain blood and guts hanging from my teeth I wanna be fast as a cheetah I wanna do it like a rabbit in heat I aint ever heard any other form of life say that we were smarter than the animals nobody says we're the intelligent species no one, that is, except ourselves.
Smile Smacked In The Head Time flying by watching eyes trying hard to focus thoughts flashing, sky crashing down upon the world around me blind? sighted? undecided it's a no win situation sometimes I try to understand life's lessons. Sometimes it's easier to turn out the light close my eyes to the world around me burn out the night. Forget about things that don't concern me Smile you can try to make sense of a fucked up world or just smile do whatever it takes to make yourself happy Blurred vision , indecision believe what I choose to see truth wrapped in lies rapid eye movement false perceptions the answer lies before my eyes it's up to me too see it I never quite realized I never payed attention but if it's true that understanding breeds acceptance I'd rather be confused cluelessness leads to contentment Smile . . . Time flying by, watching eyes trying hard to focus thoughts flashing, sky crashing down upon the world around me blindsided, undecided it a no win situation sometimes I try to grab all life can offer other times I just kick back and lie in the sand think about what I'll do tommorow formulate a plan and try to think of something that will make me smile . . .	Impending Doom Who The Hell Are They? Watch out,the sky is falling take cover the water's rising I keep noticing all these signs of impending doom I keep seeing the proof every night on the evening news Tidal waves will wash me out to sea or volcanic ash will bury me I'll get wiped out by some new disease or some other odd global catastrophe I'll be carried away by ufo s or an asteroid could smash into my home or the universe might just implode . The whole shithouse is gonna blow It used to be I could believe that a nuclear war would blow us all to kingdom come now that the ever present fear is gone I need to find something else to get scared from listen up and heed the warning the writing's on the wall can't you see a pattern forming this is your wake up call I keep hoping that things aint as bad as they seem to be but it gets harder to not get scared by the things I see everything is gonna get blown to bits by some inbred, back woods lunatic. Or some fucked up fanatical religious prick is gonna shoot me in the name of gods politics or lightning from the sky will strike me dead, or an anvil might drop on my head, or I might get hit by a bus instead. I think I'll just stay in bed.
Echo The Experiments CD The sound of your voice surrounds me you touched a nerve inside all other thoughts arreseted crushed by the weight of your words pinned down lying on the ground words that echo in my head constant thoughts repeating all the things you said sometimes you talk in riddles I know, sometimes I do too instead of communicating we only get more confused and though your not here with me anymore somehow I can hear you words that echo in my head constant thoughts repeating on and on and on and on and on and on and on ...	The Bright Sky The Experiments CD The bright sky shined down on me not a cloud in the sky that I could see life was good and getting better everyday there was nothing or no one standing in my way but the brightness of the skies only clouded my eyes to the trouble that laid ahead oblivious to the world around me obscured by the bullshit people sold me should've known that it was too good to last now the big dark clouds are rolling in fast everything I worked for, everything I hoped for everything I prayed for , everything I slaved for the life I bought and payed for, things that I've aspired toward, things that I could reach for time I could afford to waste is gone spent my whole life working hard for the kind of life that would make me proud now this state of affairs is threatening everything that mattered the most to me I can't believe my eyes when I read the blatent lies that the government tries to feed me the ignorant bliss that's all around me potentially will pull me in and drown me should have known that there was more to the story than the rose colored picture that they painted for me everything i worked for. . . the ignorant bliss that's all around me potentially will pull me in and drown me should have known that there was more to the story than the rose colored picture that they painted for me everything i worked for. . .