Bad Religion
Hooray For Me...
Stranger Than Fiction (1994)

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Well I can see my teenage father standing straight on a desolate corner
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In the shower of the tentacled towers by the red light of America 
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I imagine how his mother felt
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When she heard that her husband was dying

And the underground heroes of the tarmac, shoot smack
Were blowing up worlds, and damned out loud
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Hey, can you tell me, how does it feel?          yeah tell me

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  Can you imagine, for a second
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  Doing anything, that you don't have to?
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  Well that's what I'm accustomed to
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  So hooray for me... and fuck you

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When I slept with stony faces on the riverbank
My angeldevil reveler shook me desperately in dying 
I don't exactly want to apologize for anything - and now

We're all mad and tangled
In sacred rooms with roman candels 
On an endless graveyard train - yeah tell me

  Can you imagine, for a second
  Doing anything just because you want to? 
  Well that's just what I do
  So hooray for me... and fuck you 

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Yeah, I was dreaming through The Howzlife, yawning, car black in the night 
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She told me mad and meaningless as ever 
And a song came on my radio like a cemetery rhyme 
For a million crying corpses in their tragedy of respectable existence

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  Can you imagine, for a second
  Trying half the things you ever wanted to? 
  Well that's just what I do
  So hooray for me... oh yeah

  I'm not respectable, and never sensible
  I've been incredible, so damned irascible
  I like the things I do
  So hooray for me... and fuck you                    (ral.)

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