straight edge time!! yay!


REAL REBELLION
Conformity: action or behavior
In correspondence with socially accepted standards
Your parents did it, your sisters did it
It’s expected that you get high and hammered
But what happened to not fitting in?
What happened to being yourself?
What happened to not buying into
The things the powers to be push onto you

Take a look at the people you hate
You’re doing the exact same thing.
Take a look at the people you hate
As they hand you a cigarette

Stupid fad following kid
That’s what they’ve been saying all along
Just another punk who wants to get drunk
It’s time to prove them wrong. Say
I am to smart to do this
I will break this unwritten teenage law
I won’t buy in to the standard
I will start a real rebellion

“Everybody’s doing it”
Exactly why I don’t want to
Look at the grave stones of the tragically young
It can happen to you
Fun fun fun! At what cost?
Life’s too short. So shorten it further?
Flip off major capitalist corporations
It’s ironic: they have you wrapped around their finger

Stupid fad following kid
You’ve been proving them right all along
Just another punk who wants to get drunk
Show them that they’re wrong
It’s time to change the song
From Flogging Molly to Minor Threat
Cause you’re out of step with the world
The steps to take to avoid regret

Take a look at the people you hate
You’re doing the exact same thing.
Take a look at the people you hate
As they open your bottle

(Interlude)

Ask old perverts to buy you beer
Too bad you can’t buy real respect
Dare defy the so-called rebels
Generation triple X

Stupid fad following kid
You’ve been proving them right all along
Just another punk who wants to get drunk
Show them that they’re wrong
It’s time to change the song
From Flogging Molly to Minor Threat
Cause you’re out of step with the world
The steps to take to avoid regret
Stupid fad following kid
That’s what they’ve been saying all along
Just another punk who wants to get drunk
It’s time to prove them wrong. Say
I am to smart to do this
I will break this unwritten teenage law
I won’t buy in to the standard
I will start a real rebellion

I love reading everything you write. It expresses everything I feel so perfectly! We should SOOOOOOO march together! *huzzah*

^^
haha yeahhh! i love this one. what you wrote (so very well i must add) makes so much sense right now...very well done. great work as usual.

Oh, oh, oh!
I love this.
I love the way you got the message across.
Great job as always.

Haha. Straight edge time!

QUOTE

It’s time to change the song
From Flogging Molly to Minor Threat

I like how you pointed that out.

Edit // Eep. I was on Steph's account.

This post has been edited by nyctophiliac: Apr 12 2005, 02:37 PM

can you even comprehend your own words?

Ooh. That is lovely. Just lovely.
I love all your writings.
Seriously, you're an inspiration to me.

how do you mean?

you guys are too sweet. <3

im reading this as a slow rebellious song.. am i reading it wrong? should i insert some random screams and continous head banging?

when are you not straight edged?

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can you even comprehend your own words?

Are you saying that he doesn't even know the definitions of the words he's using?

Rebellion is just another fad. Can a non-conformist conform to non-cormity with out breaking the rules of their non-conformism?

with this song you've created a paradox, or well made the paradox of the youth today more apparent.

^^ I don't think he's doing this to epitomize the rebellious youth. I think he did it to stir change. This peace mocks pop culture's effect on our society.

^i see what you're saying. but the idea of the songs is about how people try to non-conform by doing the exact same thing as those who they try to contrast. the people who try to be "goth" or "punk" and the people who they call conformists all take part in drug use. if you're going to try to be different from somone, be different than them in more aspects than wardrobe and musical taste. hense the "Take a look at the people you hate. You’re doing the exact same thing."