Jane's Addiction

1%

All the people I know wanna be left alone
Some people! I don't know?
They wont leave you alone
You gotta be just - be just like them

Biggest gang I know they call the government
Gang is a weapon
That you trade your mind in for
You gotta be just - be just like them

The gang
And the government
No different
The gang
And the government
No different
The gang
And the government
No different
That makes me 1%
That makes me 1%

Trouble comes down
Like a foot steppin heavy
Shake your fist
At the bitch
Or wave your money
You gotta be right
You gotta be right
Don't be no
Supper for a big fish
With the big lip
And the over -
Bite - bite

You gotta bite
Bite - bite - bite - dabita
Bite - bite - badadabita
Bite - bite - bite - bite
Bite - bite - bite - bite

Sll the people I know wanna be left alone
Some people I don't know?
They wont leave you alone!
You gotta be just - be just like them

The gang
And the government
No different
The gang
And the government
No different
The gang
And the government
No different
That makes me 1%
That makes me 1%
That makes me 1%
That makes me 1%

Ain't No Right

I am skin and bones, I am pointy nose;
But it motherfuckin' makes me try.
Makes me try, and that ain't no wrong.
I'll tell you why...
There ain't no right!

Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Only pleasure and pain.

Motherfuckin' bad wind came, blew down my home.
Now the green grass grows.
Bad wind came, blew down my home.
Goddamn goodness knows!
Where green grass grows there can't be wrong.
And goodness knows, there ain't no right!

Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Only pleasure and pain.

Bumped my head, I'm a battering ram.
Goddamn took the pain.
Cut myself, said So what?
Motherfuckin' took the pain.
Said So what? I can't be wrong.
I thought so but there ain't no right!

Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Ain't no wrong now, ain't no right.
Only pleasure and pain.

Been Caught Stealing

I've been caught stealing;
once when I was 5...
I enjoy stealing.
It's just as simple as that.
Well, it's just a simple fact.
When I want something, and
I don't want to pay for it.

I walk right through the door.
Walk right through the door.
Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine.
Mine all mine!

My girl, she's one too.
She'll go and get her a skirt.
Stick it under her shirt.
She grabbed a razor for me.
And she did it just like that.
When she wants something, and
She don't want to pay for it.

She'll walk right through the door.
Walk right through the door.
Hey all right! If I get by, it's mine.
Mine all mine!

We sat around the pile.
We sat and laughed.
We sat and laughed and
Waved it into the air!
And we did it just like that.
When we want something, and
We don't want to pay for it.

We walk right through the door.
Walk right through the door.
Hey, all right! If I get by, it's mine,
Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine, mine
It's mine

Bring The Mood

Hey man
Where did you go
Thought I but I guess I don't know you
I gave it my heart
You loved to take it apart

Hey man
What did you do
Walked away, we weren't through
Last time was a fake shaking hand
Now I think it must be said

Hey man
Can't be everybodys friend
Hey man
Can't be everybodys friend

Men of peace
Men of war
Tell me who knows more
People gather in that by the world
I think we should meet up again

I...

Hey man
Can't be everybodys friend
Ain't no way man
To be everybodys friend

Chip Away

Chip away
I'm not ok
So I......chip away
Poked a hole right into myself
And inside I found someone
Who said I was O.K.
Still I don't feel easy

On this tree
Among the blossoms
Caustically
I am the thorn
Close my eyes to take up spare time
I wish I just
Could be where the crowd goes
With the crowd
They must be going somewhere

Up from the catacombs
I ran into the angel again
He took the high road
And I took the low road
We both were dirty faces
We both were dirty faces

I don't
I don't
I don't
Don't feel easy
I don't
I don't
I don't
Don't feel easy

No no, no no, no no
Yeah, yeah

City

In the city there is something to see
In the city there is nothing to breathe
I'm goin' 'bout my business
I'm wondering what I'm missing

And on my way home, I hid in my coat
Wrote my name on the city wall
Being famous

In the city there is a park bench you can sleep out on
The city there is a trash can you can eat out of
I'm goin' 'bout my business
Wondering what I'm missing

And on my way home a cop said "No"
I said, "There is a man with a stick and a gun in his hand"
Being famous

Red man in the city
Poor man in the city
Black man in the city
Fat man in the city

Red man, black man
Fat man, blue man
I don't know the rest of the words
'Cause I made it up just for you

Classic Girl

4:05;
In my neighborhood,
When shots go off,
No one bothers.
A POP, and a reply POP, and no reply...

Dinosaurs on the quilt I wore
With a girl.
Such a classic girl...
Such a classic girl...
Such a classic girl,

Gives her man great ideas.
Hears you tell your friends,
Hey man, listen to my great idea!
It's true I am a villain
When you fall ill,
that's probably because

Men never can be.
Not like a girl.
A classic girl...
Such a classic girl...

They may say, Those were the days...,
But in a way,
You know for us these are the days.
Yes, for us these are the days,

And you know you're my girl!
Such a classic girl...
Such a classic girl...

Yeah for us these are the days...

Everybody's Friend

hey man, where did you go?
thought i, but i guess
i don't know you
i gave it my heart
you looked to take it apart

hey man, what did you do
walked away
we weren't through
last time was a fake shakin' head
now i think it must be said

hey man
can't be everybody's friend
hey man
can't be everybody's friend

man of peace
man of war
tell me who knows more
people gather ?
i think we should meet up again

hey man
can't be everybody's friend
hey man
can't be everybody's friend

hey man
can't be everybody's friend
ain't no way man
to be everybody's friend

Had A Dad

I had a dad
He was big and strong
I turned around
I found my daddy gone
He was the one
Made me what I am today
It's up to me now
My daddy has gone away...

Well I spoke to the mountain
I listened to the sea
They both told me that the fountain
Was the best that you could be
My daddy's hand it growed
Show to the lickin
Sonny boy
Grow to whip him!

If you see my dad
Tell him my brothers
All gone mad
They're beating on each other
I walked around
Even tried to call
Got that funny feeling
He's not there at all...

If you see my dad
Tell him my brothers
All gone mad
They're beating on each other
I walked around
Even tried to call
Got that funny feeling
God is dead

He's not there at all...
Oh yeah x7

I had a dad
He was big and strong
And I turned around
I found my daddy gone
He was the one
Made me what I am today
It's up to me now
My daddy has gone away
Gone away...
Gone away...
He's gone away...

Yes I said I had
I had a dad
I said I had
I had a dad

I had...
I had...
I said I had...

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah

Hypersonic

Yeah I got a ticket for a ride for two
I'm going up to the wild blue
I keep the surface ultra-cooled
And all my fuel can be renewed
While we wait around with delay
The sudden news is just fast-talking
Your skin is oily, the story's old
So tell it while you're walking
We're flying
Hypersonic
Flying
With my hyper tonic
Yeah I'll uproot you terrorist
I am guide to the perplexed
Man take this tip, I'm gonna win
I'll put it all on hydrogen
'Cause our lives have gotten tied
To people we should untangle
It's all at a fatal cost
To keep us over barrels
We are flying
Hypersonic
Flying
With my hyper tonic
you thought that we were fast before
but we're going faster
and faster
and faster
We got time we're doing fine
Yeah I'll, with Mach 8 acceleration
The sky is clear don't interfere with
With aspirations of this nation
Ah, shoot cities into space
Drag you at the new space races!
Fast as a line can flow
And look around
We leave no traces
We are flying
Hypersonic
Flying
With my hyper tonic
Ahoo, yeah
Flying
Hypersonic
We're flying
with my hyper tonic

I Would For You

Oh baby i'm so tired....
men from the government
men from the tax report
men in the public school
men owns the golden rule here
I'm everybody's slave
I made you my slave
You said
This I'd do for you
If it would help
To give the world back
What it gave
Then I would
I would
I would
I would
I would for you
I would for you

You say my eyes
Are crazy eyes
Sometimes they are
And so are you
And if you wonder
What I would do
I would do
Anything
If I could
You know I would
I would
I would
I would for you
I would for you
I would for you
I would for you
I would for you

Idiots Rule

i got a lie
a fat fuckin' lie
about a law
idiots obey
they made it easy
now cheaters have their way
you hi-di-ho's
you're living on your knees

forget the rule!
oh - idiots rule!
forget the rule!
oh - idiots rule!

now there's a time...
but i say non like now
there's a time
where idiots are bound
if there's a pole
planted in your back
then you're a fixture
not a man

forget the rule!
oh - idiots rule!
forget the rule!
oh - idiots rule!
idiots!
idiots rule!
idiots!
idiots rule!
idiots!
idiots rule!

you know that man
you hate?
you look more like him
every day everyday
hi-di-hos!
2 good shoes
won't save your soul
idiots rule!
idiots rule!

Irresistible Force

We didn't know that it would blow up
With such might
The stars are even brighter
Contrasted by the night

Sent out shock waves
Filled up the outer space
Even the ghost came
To the late, late, late show
Watch us play

Everything went tossing
Everyone was talking
Making up their faces
Wonder what we look like naked?

Ah the irresistible force met the immovable object
Oh!
Ah the irresistible force met the immovable object

Banging and banging
And banging and banging
And banging
Together
We've become a big business
A galaxy merger
The two of us a big bang
God is a real man
God is a dad (x2)

Ah! The irresistible force met the immovable object
Oh!
Ah! The irresistible force met the immovable object

Banging and banging
And banging and banging
And banging together

Ah! The irresistible force met the immovable object
Oh!

Some may call me a lucky shot
No, but it was not

Banging and banging
And banging and banging
And banging and banging
Banging and banging
And banging and banging
And banging together

Jane Says

Jane says
I'm done with Sergio
He treat me like a ragdoll
She hides
The television
Says I don't owe him nothing,
But if he comes back again
Tell him to wait right here for me
Or
Try again tomorro
I'm gonna kick tomorro
Gonna kick tomorro

Jane says
Have you seen my wig around?
I feel naked without it
She knows
They all want her to go
But thats O.K. man
She dont like them anyway
Jane says
I'm goin away to spain
When I get my money saved
Gonna start tomorrow
I'm gonna kick tomorro
Gonna kick tomorrow

She gets mad
And she starts to cry
She takes a swing but
She cant hit
She don't mean no harm
She just don't know
What else to do about it

Jane goes
To the store at 8:00
She walks up on St. Andrews
She waits
And gets her dinner there
She pulls her dinner
From her pocket
Jane says
I never been in love
I don't know what it is
She only knows if someone wants her
I want them if they want me
I only know they want me

She gets mad
And she starts to cry
She takes a swing man
She cant hit!
She don't mean no harm
She just dont know
What else to do about it

Jane says
Jane says"

Just Because

If I were you
I'd better watch out
When was the last time
You did anything
Not for me
Or anyone else

Just because
Just because

Yeah
Oh, you really should have known
hey you
You really should have known

Just because
Just because

You've got the most
Ahh, but nobody loves you
Nobody has to

Just because

You
You really should have known
Ohh, you
I think you really should have known

Just because
Just because

Oh yeah
Oh, you better watch out

When we first met
And we passed around gifts
That was a long time, ago
And you're feeling fit

Yeah you
Oh, you really should have known
Yeah you
Oh, you really should have known

Just because
Just because
Just because

Oh yeah
Oh, you better watch out

Kettle Whistle

What makes a kettle whistle?
What makes gold precious?
How come some people,
They'll show you everything?
How come some people,
They don't like nothing at all?

Well I know why...
We all want to be...
Beautiful too...
Beautiful too...

What makes a baby cry?
What makes a poor baby
Older than a rich one?
And why do we need to belong,
To someone else?

Well I know why...
We all want to be...
Beautiful too...
Beautiful too...

Mountain Song

comin' down the mountain
one of many children
everybody has
their own opinion
everybody has
their own opinion
holding it back
hurts so bad
jumping out of my flesh
and i said

cash in!
cash in now honey
cash in now
cash in now baby
cash in now honey
cash in miss smith
cash in now baby!

i was comin down the mountain
met a child she had pin eyes
we had the same opinion
had the same opinion
she was holding it back
it hurts so bad
jumping out of her flesh
and i said

you better cash in!
cash in now honey
cash in now
cash in now baby
cash in now honey
cash in miss smith
cash in now baby!

My Cat's Name Is Maceo

My cat's name is Maceo,
He's a little man in a cat's body
He yawns just like I do,
He's convinced I won't eat him

I think he thinks I'm his dad,
Becasue I saved him from the pound
Well we went down, down to the pound
And that's where we saw Maceo

Cat catcher said to me, "Pick one out,"
Maceo said "Let me out"
He sleeps right where I do
And we wrestle in the morning!

He come to you if you don't bother him
He just likes to do his own thing
My cat's name is Maceo,
He's a little man in a cat's body

My Time

Yeah the rain came
I said hey buddy,
Buddy the streets are a snake skin
I belong
Out there walkin'
Nobody's stoppin' to bother me
They hide
Outside, the ceilings
Cryin -
Listen to the sound
Of the gutters runnin'
Wash this dirty town
All fronts and no backs
Give me my time
Let me be
Outside
Under the ceiling
Cryin'
Yeah, all over me
Cryin'
Yeah, all over me

Outside you know
I listen to the sounds
Of the gutters runnin
Wash this dirty town
All fronts and no backs
Give me my time
Let me be
Outside
Under the ceilings
Cryin'
Yeah, all over me
Cryin'
Yeah, all over me

No One's Leaving

I'm a white dread-I'm a white dread, so?
I'm a got a ring and I hang it from my nose.
Got a little game and I take it to the park.
I don't care who plays
As long as the game is on.

My sister and her boyfriend slept in the park.
She had to leave home 'cause he was dark.
Now they parade around in New York with a baby boy...
He's gorgeous!
Ain't nobody leaving!

No one's leaving...

Blacks call each other brother and sis'
Count me in 'cause I been missed.
I've seen color changed by a kiss.
Ask my brother
And my sister.

My sister and her boyfriend slept in the park.
She had to leave home 'cause he was dark.
Now they parade around in New York with a baby boy...
He's gorgeous!
Ain't nobody leaving!

No one's leaving!

Yeah, that's right...
Yeah, that's so...

Wish I knew everyone's nickname,
all their slang and all their sayings.
Every way to show affection,
How to dress to fit the occasion...

Wish we all waved...
All waved...
All waved...
I wish we all!
Wish we all!
Wish we all waved...

Obvious

Hey, you don't know me!
You don't know me
But you just keep on looking at me down low.
Oh no!

Digging something up...
Digging something up...
Always digging something up...
Oh no!

Hey you! I don't know you.
I don't even want to,
But you just keep looking at me down low.
Oh no!

Digging something up...
Digging something up...
Always digging something up...
Oh no!

And you make it so...
Make it so obvious...
Hey you! Fools don't fit in
The boots that I tread in,
But you just keep on looking at me down low.
Oh no!

Digging something up...
Digging something up...
Always digging something up...
Oh no!

And you make it so...
But do you get it?
Make it so...
You never get it.
You got to owe me something
Before you know what is joke and what is up.
I worked my fingers to the bone
And I won't let you stop me going up.

Why do you have to make it
So-so-so-so-so obvious
Oh no... Oh no... Oh no... Oh no...

Ocean Size

Wish I was ocean size
They cannot move you
No one tries
No one pulls you
Out from your hole
Like a tooth aching a jawbone...

I was made with a heart of stone
To be broken
With one hard blow
I've seen the ocean
Break on the shore
Come together with no harm done...

It ain't easy living...

I want to be
As deep
As the ocean
Mother ocean

Some people tell me
Home is in the sky
In the sky lives a spy
I want to be more like the ocean
No talking
All action...
No talking
All action...

Of Course

Of course this land is dangerous!
All of the animals
Are capably murderous.

When I was a boy,
My big brother held on to my hands,
Then he made me slap my own face.
I looked up to him then, and still do.
He was trying to teach me something.
Now I know what it was!
Now I know what he meant!
Now I know how it is!

One must eat the other
Who runs free before him.
Put them right into his mouth
While fantasizing the beauty of his movements.
A sensation not unlike
Slapping yourself in the face...
Slapping yourself in the face...
Slapping yourself in the face...

Pets

children are innocent
a teenager's fucked up in the head
adults are even more fucked up
and elderlies are like children
will there be another race
to come along and take over for us?
maybe martians could do
better than we've done
we'll make great pets!
my friend says we're like the dinosaurs
only we are doing ourselves in
much faster than they
ever did
we'll make great pets!

Pig's In Zen

pigs in the mud
when he tires
pigs in zen
pigs in zen
pig is nude
unashamed
pigs in zen
pigs in zen

talkin' bout the pig
the pig
the pig - uh
pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
goddamn pig

pigs mounts sow
when he's wound

pigs in zen
pigs in zen
pig eats shit
but only when he hungers
pigs in zen
pigs in zen
talkin' bout the pig
the pig
the pig - uh
pa-pa-pa-pa-pig
goddamn pig

Price I Pay

I always do the wrong thinking, but
for very good reason
always do it wrong, but
it feels right
so forgive me now
and forgive me later
I'll pay you back

I always do the wrong thing, but
I got a good reason
I always do the wrong thing, but
it feels right
I always do the wrong thing, but
I got a god reason (fades out)

I could've had it but I walked away
no I won't miss out, not even one day
what I lost of the line
I bring back all in my good time

there ain't no other way
because this is
the price
it's the price
always the price I pay

I see you're going places
so lets get the hell out of here
I'm a big Little man of the table
I got my long on
able to lay you out

there ain't no other way
because this is
it's the price
it's the price
always the price I pay

always having a good time
always searching for more
I'm buying now
and paying later
I'm buying now

I'm a little man in a bath hot of water
hot water always my case
we're finding nothing to say
just put the cloth right over my face

there ain't no other way
because this is
always the price
it's the price
oh
the price that I pay
oh
the price that I
price that I pay
I got to get it out
oh
always the price that I pay

Rock 'n' Roll

Jenny said when she was just five years old
You know there's nothing happenin' at all
Every time she puts on the radio
There was nothing going down at all
Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station
She couldn't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll

Despite all the amputations
You could just dance to a rock 'n' roll station
And it was alright

Jenny said when she was just five years old
My parents are gonna be the death of us all
Two TV sets and two Cadillac cars
Ain't gonna help us at all
Then one fine mornin' she puts on a New York station
She don't believe what she heard at all
She started dancin' to that fine fine music
You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll

Despite all the computations
You could just dance to a rock 'n ' roll station
And it was alright

Slow Divers


She said, "Do you think you could?"
And I said, "Yeah, in a second..."

I'm sitting by a waterfall
And when people jump in
They hold their nose
And kiss these walls
Granite walls,
Water-polished walls

Just don't ever want to move from this spot
You can sit here for so long!
There's a slide, suislide,
You can live or die
Going down, going down, go down!

Boy came to the slide
I said, "You want to go down that slide?"
He said, "No man,"
"hey you got a joint to sell me?"
We just smoked one,
We got a roach we said...
"I'll smoke the roach!"
But first go down that slide man
Go on down, go on down, go on down!

I'm sitting by a waterfall...
I couldn't bear to watch the people
Slip and fall
You know the plants on the rocks are crazy
Thinking that they could start a life
On the spiral walls of a waterfall!

Slow divers?
Their view is spectacular!

So What!

Man ain't meant to work
C'mon build a machine!
So we can sleep and make love deeper
Later we can dance and we can drink!

Man ain't meant to work
C'mon build a machine!
So we can live for our own pleasure
Please yourself! Please your queens!

Early morning the sun is yawning
I am not kind yet
I am certain, I have no doubt
Life is for playing

Days like these
I hardly disagree

So what! That's my conclusion
I think I'm gonna dig myself now