cover #25: breaking the law

song: breaking the law
cover: hellsongs
original: judas priest

comments: so there's two kinds of law-breaking: the violent, kickass kind, in which chainsaws and nunchakus and bouncing off dirty brick walls in an abandoned warehouse come into play; and the non-violent hippy kind, where people sit around chanting and allow the police to swab mace directly into their eyeballs. each situation needs its own song, so here you go.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
judas priest - breaking the law
hellsongs - breaking the law

lyrics: there i was completely wasting
out of work and down
all inside it's so frustrating
as i drift from town to town
feel as though nobody cares
if i live or die
so i might as well begin
to put some action in my life

breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law

so much for the golden future
i can't even start
i've had every promise broken
there's anger in my heart
you don't know what it's like
you don't have a clue
if you did you'd find yourselves
doing the same thing too

breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law

you don't know what it's like

breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law

breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law
breaking the law, breaking the law

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cover #24: gangsta's paradise

song: gangsta's paradise
cover: in fear and faith
original: coolio

comments: yet another in a vast, swirling collection of good songs covered badly by mid-range metal-rock ensembles that use a variation of the plankton theory of success: if you want to sound good, play and scream louder.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
coolio - gangsta's paradise
oh shucks, amazon doesn't have gangsta's paradise as covered by in fear and faith. darn.

lyrics: as i walk through the valley of the shadow of death
i take a look at my life and realize there's not much left
cuz i've been blastin and laughin so long that
even my mama thinks that my mind is gone
but i ain't never crossed a man that didn't deserve it
me, be treated like a punk, you know that's unheard of
you better watch how you talkin, and where you walkin
or you and your homies might be lined in chalk
i really hate to trip, but i gotta loc- (hurray for googling lyrics!)
as they grew i see myself in the pistol smoke, fool
i'm the kinda g the little homies wanna be like
on my knees in the night
sayin prayers in the street light

been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise

they got the situation, they got me facin
i can't live a normal life, i was raised by the strip
so i gotta be down with the hood team
too much television watchin got me chasin dreams
i'm an educated fool with money on my mind
got my ten in my hand and a gleam in my eye
i'm a loc'ed (wtf is this exactly?) out gangsta, set-trippin banger
and my homies is down, so don't arouse my anger, fool
death ain't nuthin but a heart beat away
i'm livin life do-or-die-a, what can i say?
i'm twenty-three now, but will i live to see twenty-fo'?
the way things are goin i don't know

tell me why are we
so blind to see
that the ones we hurt
are you and me?

been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise

power and the money
money and the power
minute after minute
hour after hour
everybody's runnin
but half of them ain't lookin
what's goin on in the kitchen
but i dont know what's cookin
they say i gotta learn
but nobody's here to teach me
if they cant understand it
how can they reach me?
i guess they can't, i guess they won't
i guess they front,
that's why i know my life is outta luck, fool

been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
been spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise
keep spending most our lives
living in the gangsta's paradise

tell me why are we
so blind to see
that the ones we hurt
are you and me?
tell me why are we
so blind to see
that the ones we hurt
are you and me?

cover #23: i just want to have something to do

song: i just want to have something to do
cover: garbage
original: the ramones

comments: with a couple notable (and irish) exceptions, i never really got into punk--it all sounds the same to me, honestly. this is the only ramones song i actually like, and the double-whammy against it is that garbage's cover still kicks more ass.



first song is cover, second is original.

where can you get it?
the ramones - i just want to have something to do
holy shit, amazon, are you serious? do you REALLY not have garbage's cover of this song? really? i can understand your not having some of the random and obscure shit i glean from the bowels of the internet, but this is garbage. and the ramones. come on.

lyrics: hanging out of second avenue
eating chicken vindaloo
i just want to be with you
i just want to have something to do
tonight, tonight, tonight
tonight, tonight, tonight

hanging out all by myself
cause i don't want to be with anybody else
i just want to be with you
i just want to have something to do
tonight, tonight, tonight
tonight, tonight, tonight