Clear Channel (Fuck off) - Leftover Crack

Lyrics-
[Spoken intro:]
For your listening pleasure, Fuck World Trade!

Scabies and metal heads,
born in the gutter, and chained to the radiator of a squat basement for 16 years
We are proud to announce the triumph return, the thunderous cacophony,
the CRACK ROCK STEADY BEAT!
As the same bitches that brought you the tower tumbling, Mediocre Generica, on 9-11-01
As the same mother fuckers that united the Gay Rudies,
Rock crack city!
And sainted the Columbine kids,..we are pleased to present...

FROM ALL THE WAY IN THE BACK OF THE FOOD STAMP LINE!
AND STRAIGHT OUTTA MOTHERFUCKING REHAB!
IT'S THE GOOD, THE BAD,
AND THE LEFTOVER CRACK!!...
[End of intro]

The Sovereign Insincerity The monopoly of greed
Nickelback, POD, Rancid, Britany and Creed
The Bureaucrats they leech upon to mediocre trends
Your song in heavy rotation from the cash your label spends
From the products you promote for the ones who foot the bill
A Prefabricated goose-step for the pockets that you fill
The monotony of censored products shine in the display
The same old song of compromise went platinum today.

From town to town and state to state
The same old song you love to hate
The same shit stacked upon your plate
rotate again and syndicate
We've been waiting far too long
too change the band, too change the song
through every day and dusk and dawn
We've been brain-washed to sing along
No difference between the hot new single
and the Pepsi ads commercial jingle
The beauty's withered faded crinkle
Just sip the coke and pop the pringle
The boardroom is the dragons lair
They play us shit 'cuz they don't care
The clearest channel plays unfair
and we all want you off the air
Overdose on shoddy culture; mediocre trends
Auto-Tune the bottom line as a mean to meet the ends
Merging corporate empires create the ill conglomerations
and buy up to reprogram major market radio stations

Fabricate one single voice broadcast from sea to sea
What once held notions of change and choice
is now being controlled fully
Deregulations raised the edge of expolitations bar
Politics replaced by "bling" and clothes and fancy cars
Trapped imaginations from the video's blinding light
Bombarded with monotony that captivates the sight

The channel we've been tuned to is all frigid, blank and clear
Told what to eat and drink and buy and whom to hate and fear
Poisoned by the fairy-tale, A capitalistic dream
Go to sleep, You're free and brave, and on the winning team

No way to die!!!! [3x]

[Spoken outro:]
We figured out a long time ago that it's much easier to control people
when we're all watching the same T.V. shows,
Listening to the same radio stations, going to the same movies,
looking at the same billboards, eating the same food,
And speaking the same language...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Leftover
• Crack
• Clear
• Channel
• fuck
• off
• Fuck
• world
• trade
• ska
• punk

[jfroosh12]

Rancid might be sell outs now but "and out come the wolves" was a brilliant album..way what you want about them. That was a long time ago though...

[Pur3KaOs100]

@jfroosh12 Tbh I don't care if a band actually gets to get some money, as long as I can still like their music, they are okay with it, and its not being forced on me. I could care less...but thats just me...I hate when people refuse to listen to an artist cuz they "sold out"...they gotta make some money too??

[wanderer1031]

Man, this songs lyrics are so fucking good and so fucking true and still the point is missed by so many of even the few people that hear it. to the dude that uploaded it-you ought to turn it up full blast and print the name in capital letters and tell your mom to come check this out! if you don't have enough rebellion in you to tell your mom "fuck" then you shouldn't even be listening to this. it's your life, not theirs.

[Pur3KaOs100]

@victimizedsociety they compare them cuz they are all sell-outs

[widdowhorse]

I cant stand bands that turn their music into pop bullshit to make a couple bucks.

[77tza]

I think its funny cause choking victim was on hellcat records. Which I'm pretty sure is rancids lable thing sumone owns.. but I'm sure he's just shit talking all dem for putten that dolla dolla billz b4 what counts, the music they're creating. Plus LOC never claimes to be PC, they can shit talk sellout musicians all they want.

[Pur3KaOs100]

@jfroosh12 Thanks man.(: People just don't get it sometimes....

[jfroosh12]

good observation. You are a gentleman and a scholar :)

[jfroosh12]

@victimizedsociety

absolutely because Rancid has made some really really solid music in the past unlike other bands. It's pretty weak when bands resort to lyrics about bashing other bands. It's actually pretty shallow and most respectable bands don't do that. They just ,mind their own business and make their own tunes. You don't see Fugazi ripping apart Rancid. Bands like Leftover Crack need to chill out because bashing others (especially bands that deserve some respect) just shows insecurity!

[jfroosh12]

@Pur3KaOs100

Really solid point. It's kind of weak for us to be bashing bands that produced music that we thoroughly enjoyed (at some point at least) just because they want to gain more exposure and make some dinero. It is a bummer but I agree that straight up refusing to listen to stuff is just ridiculous. Not everyone can be anti - sellouts like Fugazi! (epic band)

[OverratedHumanity]

somebody has a birthday today!

can you guess who it is?

they're turning the big one oh!

thats right! 9/11!