Fruit Roll Up Lyrics by Mike , Music by Justin/Mike
Fruit Roll Up has been performed at 160 shows and appears on Split 7″ w/ Raid and Live KRBX 2013
Lyrics Posing for a crew pic, looking hard as shit. But posing's all you'll ever do, and I think you know it. Sometimes I swear you're looking for a reason to be pissed. Answer slightest criticism with a bullshit threat. Face like stone, skin like paper. Skin like a fruit roll-up: easily breached, easily broken. Slide right under with any bad words spoken. Always trying to go to war, no enemies to fight against. Might as well settle for your friends.
You’ll Be Next Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
You’ll Be Next has been performed at 76 shows and appears on Show Us The Meaning Of Haste
Lyrics Earlier visa overstay results in unexpected delay. Kept in motherfucking chains, jailed then sent the fuck away. It's happening to brown people, that is true. It's happening to white people, could be you. You may not have any ties to terrorists. That's for authorities to decide, if you'll be next on the list.
Fresh Hell Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Fresh Hell has been performed at 163 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics Child exploitation. Suppression of women. Death and starvation. Roadside explosions. People living a fresh hell every day. A world away, in my life of comfort, I sit here trying and failing to imagine waking up to a fresh hell every day. World of violence cries for assistance. But the 'help' they're getting is worse than nothing.
Thicken Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Thicken has been performed at 163 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics I'm not saying let's ignore injustice. I'm not saying let's turn a blind eye. I'm not opposed to political correctness. I'm only saying you could probably stand to have some patience. Pick your battles. Rethink the power words have over you. Thicken your skin.
Barf At The Moon Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Barf At The Moon has been performed at 60 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics Ghosts of a dim distant past catching up with you at last. Surrounding you from all sides. Nowhere left to run and hide. Gaps in what you say and do coming back and haunting you. People that you once had fucked have returned to make life suck. Barf at the moon. Spoken too soon. Distant past haunts your ass.
Tribalistic Horseshit Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Tribalistic Horseshit has been performed at 40 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics You don't care what happens to real people. All you care about is that your team wins. As long as the tribe has first-class status, someone else can pay for your sins. Winners get the spoils. Losers get fucked. This isn't a game, fuckface.
Fuck An Apology Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Fuck An Apology has been performed at 75 shows and appears on Fastcore Forever and Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics So many pegs, so many different shapes slammed into the same round holes. The golden rule is irrelevant here. We're all bred into a culture of fear. So fuck an apology. Their approval means nothing to me. We're all the same when we close our eyes. There's no reason to apologize for who you are. So fuck an apology. Live your life like it was meant to be. Sooner or later they'll recognize there's no reason to apologize for who you are.
Poop Du Jour Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Poop Du Jour has been performed at 35 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics Shit of the day piled on your plate. Time for you to tuck into the shit of the day. It's here to stay. Face another stupid day. Tell yourself it's gonna change. You'll eat the shit anyway. Day after day. Shit on your plate. Shit-eating grin on your face again.
In A World Without Hashtags Lyrics by Mike , Music by Justin/Mike/Patrick
In A World Without Hashtags has been performed at 33 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics Suppose one day some kinda mammoth electromagnetic pulse or other anomaly knocked out communication hubs all over the entire planet. No cell service. No worldwide web. No social media. What would we do without the distractions keeping our eyes fixed to tiny screens? Would the sudden loss of attachment blow our minds to smithereens? No text messaging. No fuckin' Candy Crush. Is it too much to ask to get back in touch with our fellow human beings and actually look each other in the face? What if we had to engage each other, talk to each other? Would we break the hold our phones have on our lives, or stand stock still until we starved and died?
World’s Oldest Baby Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
World’s Oldest Baby has been performed at 19 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics This was supposed to be a fucking joke. Never thought it would get this far. Never thought I'd be in this mess. I don't like this anymore. This is way harder than I thought it would be. There's way more to this than I thought there was. Now you're telling me I have to divest? I fucking hate this. From sea to shining sea, can't stand people making fun of me. Never knew that so many fucking hated my guts. Just assumed that I'd be in charge. No idea how this actually works. Can't just do whatever the fuck I want, goddammit. I don't care about partnership. I don't care about compromise. I don't care about morning briefs. I don't care about the Bill of Rights. I don't care about any of this. I don't like this anymore. Just wanna take my golf clubs and go home.
Science Party Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Science Party has been performed at 29 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics Throw the government out on its ass. Replace it with a televised science class. Anti-intellectualism must die. We all know that it's our fatal flaw. No choice left for us but to enshrine the scientific method into law. The party of science is the only way. The only party with which I can identify. Neil deGrasse Tyson for prez, with Bill Nye his running mate. Or non-dudes would be fine too. So we can run this country based on fucking facts.
Smashcast Lyrics by Mike , Music by Cory
Smashcast has been performed at 19 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics Eating fire, shitting lead. Push up daisies, now you're dead. Blasting off into the sun. Mission failure, hole-in-one. Father Time is undefeated, but defeat won't be conceded. Smash your casts, blast some thrash. Don't stop 'til you're outta cash.
Henhouse Lyrics by Mike , Music by Cory/Joe/Mike
Henhouse has been performed at 20 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics Strapped public schools forced to underperform. Concerned parents send their kids to private schools and wonder why they don't get results. Maybe education wasn't the goal. Beware the for-profit education industry, run by folks who worm their way into positions of power over public schools, which, oddly enough, leads to more cuts in funding. Schools are further abandoned, and the spiral continues all the way to the fucking bank.
Ten Deep Breaths Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Ten Deep Breaths has been performed at 76 shows and appears on Forbidden Techniques
Lyrics Desperate to escape hell on earth, a fucking nightmare. Endless invasive questions. Vetting procedures are plenty extreme. Life on fucking hold for months and years spent in camps, waiting for the fucking light to turn green. You really think a terrorist act would be worth going through all that shit? The last thing they need is for you to go around huffin' and puffin' and blowin' their house down. Leave them the fuck alone.
Where’s The Fun? Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
Where’s The Fun? has been performed at 297 shows and appears on s/t demo , Diagnosis: Delicious 7″ , Full Spectrum Dominance 2005-08 , and Live KRBX 2013
Lyrics What's up with this craze that passes for hardcore these days? It's core in name but not in style. If you think it is, you're in denial. Fuck this. Hardcore tradition grew out of punk rock, it's true. Now this kung fu metal crap is edging punk right off the map. Fuck that. Suck ass. Where is the fun? Where is the energy? Where is the outrage? Where's the punk rock urgency? Circle pits are way more fun. You're just trying to hurt someone. Are kung fu breakdowns here to stay? Somehow we got lost along the way.
It’s All You Lyrics by Mike , Music by Mike
It’s All You has been performed at 297 shows and appears on s/t demo , Diagnosis: Delicious 7″ , Full Spectrum Dominance 2005-08 , and Live KRBX 2013
Lyrics I was right. You were fucking wrong. Don't blame me for your being fucked. It's all your fault. I'm not to blame. This one's all you. It's not me. Point out any scapegoat that you can find. You're still the asshole who fucked it all up.
