Balls of Rice

Tag: Good Riddance

  • Lyrics of the Month: June 2017 – Good Riddance

    They’re wrong
    You can love the one your heart’s with
    No matter what you’re told about your choice
    By any xenophobic hypocrites
    Or small-minded misogynists
    you’re free
    You are free

    It’s alright
    There are those too slow to get along
    Keep twisting their morality with sin
    Remember life’s too short to waste on them
    And we’re too smart to just condemn
    We’re free
    We are free
    Now if we could only give them
    something to believe

    It’s anybody’s guess
    Why some cling to prejudice and fear
    For what they do not understand
    Now there is nothing left but common sense
    To wash away intolerance
    And realize that love is all the same

    And no one has the right
    To legislate your life
    They’re wrong

    -Good Riddance, Peace in Our Time, Teachable Moments

  • Lyrics of the Month: September 2016

    Stumbling drunk off a bus downtown
    You’ve got it bad for the system
    ‘Cause you know it let you down
    You see the marks on the whores
    And the dimes they lent you
    And your paranoia soars
    On the wings of your dementia

    Without a system that compels
    The growth of human compassion
    Its a face that will never change
    Nobody’s well when even one soul suffers
    We’re bound by circumstances
    We can’t dissarrange
    Does shame prevent you
    From engaging in the indigents struggle

    Just filling up a vacancy
    With nothing new to live for
    When I was young and naive
    I believed I could be so much more
    Out of touch with a world
    That never cared or knew me
    More dead than alive
    when you stare right through me

    Its a face that will never, never change
    never change
    You could be the one
    With your hand held out

    –Good Riddance, Bound By Ties of Blood and Affection, Shame, Rights & Privilege

  • Lyrics of the Month: October 2012 – Good Riddance


    I’d never thought I’d reach another end
    When all I want is to be myself again
    So why so soon we were having so much fun
    Sometimes I wish I’d never learn to run

    Ask me why I’m sad I’ll say it’s not so bad
    I’ve done too much growing up today
    Excuse my bitter half
    He’s too disturbed to laugh right now
    I’ll find you when it’s done

    I wrapped regret around the chance I’d never take
    Discarded dreams for too much time awake
    Now where did it dissapear to
    Youth I fought my way out of
    And it feels like I’m running out of time