Lay Of The Land

Hey yo
My mother put a gun to my head
And said «It's a hold up!»
Asked me what I wanted to be
When I was grown up
Clicked off the safety
Said «It better be worth it»
«Or I’m a lay you down to the ground»
«And you’ll deserve it»
I said in this world
Everybody has a role
And mine is to make a move
All over the globe
Play a dive bar in Moscow
Maybe even two of 'em
Rock a free show
For the people in Jerusalem
She wasn’t convinced
Said she needed more specifics
Cocked back the hammer
Then she asked me
«Can I kick it?»
And I said look
We’re just another band out of Boston
Playing shows in Cambridge
And hanging out in Allston
It’s the way of the world
It;s the lay of the land
And you;ll be broke for a while
If you play in a band
I rock shows out of town
And I stay in the van
Now if I wasn’t
Then why would I say that I am?
It ain’t trigonometry
It’s rock and roll music
With a big set of balls
And some soul to it
Yeah, and plus I write words
With the best of man
So can I kick it?
She said, «Yes you can!»
The rebel music make you
Do what it do
We take the sound around the world
For the people and you
And I’m speaking from my heart
So you know that it’s true
It’s like that y’all
It’s like that baby
The rebel music make you
Do what it do
We make it travel around the world
For the people and you
And I’m speaking from my soul
So you know that it’s true
It’s like that y’all
It’s like that baby
And so this dude that I know from this band
They’re kinda indie
He’s always got ideas
For these songs he wants to give me
He tries to prove his worth
To everybody that he sees
By quoting Dostoyevsky
Motherfucker please
Motherfucker please
You might know him
But you don’t know me
I know that I’m so far
From Socrates yeah
But let me tell you
My philosophy here
Hey, a matter of fact
I’m a show you something
The only thing I know
Is you know nothing
This man is deranged
Now I know I am too
My mama always
Told me not to talk to Camu
So I walked away from him
Like the stranger that he was
Seen him later in the day
Acting stranger than he was
Before, now get me out of this place
I can’t stand it
I’ll Jack Kerouac
My way across the planet
God damn it
I’ve seen his kind at one of my shows
Talking 'bout
Tell me something
I don’t already know
I said as if
«We could kill time
Without injuring eternity»
Henry David Thoreau said that
I’ll let you be in my band
If I can be in your band
I said that
The rebel music make you
Do what it do
We take the sound around the world
For the people and you
And I’m speaking from my heart
So you know that it’s true
It’s like that y’all
It’s like that baby
The rebel music make you
Do what it do
We make it travel around the world
For the people and you
And I’m speaking from my heart
So you know that it’s true
It’s like that y’all
It’s like that baby
The rebel music make you
Do what it do
We take the sound around the world
For the people and you
And I’m speaking from my heart
So you know that it’s true
It’s like that y’all
It’s like that baby
The rebel music make you
Do what it do
We make it travel around the world
For the people and you
And I’m speaking from my soul
So you know that it’s true
It’s like that y’all
It’s like that baby
The rebel music make you
Do what it do
We take the sound around the world
For the people and you
And I’m speaking from my heart
So you know that it’s true
It’s like that y’all
It’s like that baby
The rebel music make you
Do what it do
We make it travel around the world
For the people and you
And I’m speaking from my soul…