American Fiction Live 5

American Fiction Live 6

Broken (title of song)
(lyrics by Daniel Vera, music by Matt Hauck, Dave Hindman and Jake Daley)

(first verse)
You didn’t have to go so far
You didn’t have to give your life away
Don’t exactly know just who you are
With all the games in your head you play

Your staying alive by will alone
Nothing have you ate today
Tired weary ramblers bones
Have left ya broken down again

Freedom cry and freedom reign
As your trodden down with animosity
For others who don’t understand your pain
A fix you would give it all away

(chorus)
On my good days, I’m only half alive
Nothing to live for, you tell yourself the lies
Something just to hold onto, so warm in my vein
And I’m playing with needles and I do it again

(second verse)
I don’t like you
And I don’t need you
And I cannot have you
But I want to feel you

Nothing better than in this cold cruel world
Than a tried true lover
I give it all to you

(chorus)
I’m contemplating the things
That are in my head
Something lost in translation
45 minutes dead
As you layed in your shower
In your broken water bed
Overdosed with a needle
And I broke it again

(bridge)
And if I had another chance
I’d give it all back to you
And if I can do it again
I’d give it all, give it all back to you

Ghetto Fiction

Broken

You Are the One (title of song)
(Lyrics written by Daniel Vera, Music written by Matt Hauck, Dave Hindman, Jake Daley)

(first verse)
Blamed for wasted youth
Failed class 
Thrown out of school
Faulted for the life you have
Lost already just like your dad

You can not make it 
Got no education
Learned how to sling
Now your on probation
Head in the clouds
Got no ventilation
Through your creation
They find their medication

(chorus)
You are the one (x3)

(second verse)
And they’ll bag it
Put a price tag on it
Then they’ll put you down
To make sure you can’t grab it

Find the admiration 
Of the mass of millions
Record hits the shelf 
And sales hit the ceiling

Your commodity
Make another one of these
Or its back to poverty
You are nothing
Without me 
 
(chorus)
You are the one (x3)

(bridge)
Say that there’s nothing to show
for your time on earth
Except these words that you have written 
And put in verse
Expressing yourself without 
hiding your pain
For those to find something within
so they too can ease their mind
Run from your dollars, concrete, bills and cubicles
Thought there was more to this life on earth 
Since your birth
Now that you’ve grown you have come to find
They have given you rotten food, 
T.V. to brainwash your mind

(chorus)
You are the one (x3)

(repeat 1st verse)
(repeat chorus)

You Are the One

You are the One

Since the Day I was Born (song title)
(music and lyrics written by Daniel Vera. Arranged by Daniel Vera with contribution by American Fiction)

(first verse)
Since the day I was born
They said it couldn’t be done
Said you couldn’t get paid
And still have the fun
And it was just a dream
As they knocked me down
Put my face in the dirt
Left me on the ground
Said spit in my wounds
Said fuck your family
And they left me for dead
But I’m still alive
And I’m in your head

On the welfare I was
And there’s a million kids
Just like me
Ghetto superstar
Ready to die now for the cause
And I just got to be me
So how you like me now
You left me for dead
But I’m back now and I’ll be your clown
And it’s Genocide on all your lies

Fuck Washington and Lincoln
Columbus and Freeman
Fuck the new world and Clinton
Bush and Seaman

And the haters you made us
To the greed you play us
To the devil you sell us
Like cattle we battle
For our souls in this hell hole
That you call a ghetto

And it all depends just on your point of view

(chorus)
All gonna die anyway
Ya we’re all going to die anyway
Why must you doubt what I say
When its now that we live in
And its what you do today

And we’re all gonna die anyway
All gonna die anyways
Don’t even listen to all the things that they say
When you know that to make it 
Got to do it your own way
All gonna die anyways
All gonna die anyways
Fight for your rights and the reasons why you pray
Cause it’s now that we live in and it’s what you do today

Since the Day I was Born

It Ain’t Me (title of song)
(music, lyrics and arrangement by Daniel Vera)

(first verse)
Leave my world, you don’t belong
And I can’t seem to forecast the sun
Infected thoughts are in my head
Bitter forever, you might as well be dead

(chorus)
But it ain’t me
No it ain’t me
The man you see
No it ain’t me

(second verse)
Reason, treason, to tell a little truth
Of all the bad things that we’ve done before
Who did this, who did this, what was his name
We all have forgotten, so it all remains unchanged

(chorus)
But it ain’t me
No it ain’t me
No it ain’t me
The man you see, no it ain’t me

(bridge)
In my cage do I lay
Waiting to see a better day
Must I break out of these binds
To seek, to learn, to find...

(chorus)
It ain’t me
No it ain’t me
No it ain’t me
The man you see
No it ain’t me


(bridge)
In my cage do I lay
Waiting to see a better day
Must I break out of these binds
To seek, to learn, to find...

It ain't me

Manna (title of song)
(music, lyrics and arrangement by Daniel Vera)

(first verse)
Hellhole downtown, around the corner
Is where I come from, no one knows me still

In the corner of my darkroom
Music blasting, clowns are laughing
Parents dying, fists are flying
Somethings wrong
But it feels alright to me

Its where I come from

(second verse)
Streets of self made zombies
Trying to escape
The plastic lining
That covers us to hide
Emptiness within

Locked in cages
Of own devices
Concrete vices
And it feels alright to me

(bridge)
Mirrors playing games of mangled faces
Under films of cocaine, under films of pain
So as to cloud your true sight to see
The emptiness within, seems alright to me

(chorus)
Cause I need manna, to help my distress
Somethings wrong, somethings wrong
I need manna to help my distress
Somethings wrong, somethings wrong
But it feels alright, but somethings wrong

(third verse)
As self destructive as I am 
I want to be a better man
And in this world 
Without the truth
I can not stand, 
I can not stand 
To dwell here anymore
I go through that door 

The one that says forever more

(repeat first verse)
In the corner of my darkroom
Music blasting, clowns are laughing
Parents dying, fists are flying
Somethings wrong
But it feels alright to me

Its where I come from

Its where I come from

Feels alright to me

Manna

Girl on a String (title of song)
(music, lyrics and arraignment written by Daniel Vera)

(first verse)
Fast talking woman on the edge of her string
Said shes been asking for a cigarette
She don’t know why she’s here
And I don’t ask her
But I give her my last dig

Shes on a freight train
Going to no where
And it ain’t nothing new boys
Aww just a little fact about the price
Said you better treat you big daddy nice

(bridge)
If you want to play 
On my guitar
You better watch out
Don’t matter who you are
For I don’t need ya honey
But you can stay long as you like

(second verse)
And on the fifth day
A beautiful day of the week
Said she grabs my hand
Well she offers me a chance 
But I don’t really want to dance
Cause you know that the bitch 
Has tangoed before

But my friend says go ahead now
Which brings me back to what I said
You know that she’s got too many favorite songs
Ya know that she treats her big daddy wrong

(bridge)
If you want to play 
On my guitar
You better watch out 
Don’t matter who you are
For I don’t need ya honey
But you can stay long as you like

(chorus)
Don’t let me out going crazy
Going to put you down babe
I have to tell myself
To take it easy

Girl on a String

(bridge)
If you want to play 
On my guitar
You better watch out 
For it don’t matter who you are
For I don’t need ya honey
But you can stay long as you like

( chorus)
Don’t let me out going crazy
Going to put you down
I have to tell myself
To take it easy

(chorus)
Girl on a string

Girl on a String

Gentleman Genocide (title of song)
(music and lyrics by Daniel Vera)

(first verse)
Mean old man, lives in a garbage can
Murders his name, caress his gun with his hand
And crazy from the heat, you know he cries in the rain
Voices in his head are telling that he’s insane

(chorus)
Gentleman Genocide
Gentleman Genocide
Gentleman Genocide
Thats my name

(second verse)
Never had much till his dying day
He left this world with nothing much left to say
Sometimes I know just how he feels
Cause to me the ghostly clown is real

(chorus)
Gentleman Genocide
Gentleman Genocide
Gentleman Genocide
Thats my name


(third verse)
Mean old man, lives in a Garbage Can
Murders his name, a strangers in his own land
Crazy from the heat, you know he died in the rain
People on the T.V. telling that he’s insane

(chorus)
Gentleman Genocide
Gentleman Genocide
Gentleman Genocide

Gentleman Genicide

The Bastard Generation (title of song)
(music, lyrics and arraignment written by Daniel Vera)

(intro)
I’m on the run
Playing my song
Babies gone
So’s his mom
 
(first verse)
Its just the story of my generation
A bunch of bastard kids
Raising bastard kids
It goes on and on and on

I’ve learned how to play guitar
When I was five 
It was the only thing that kept me alive

And now I’m here in front of you 
Playing this song
Wondering now if your fucked up too

And now your crying, cause your daddy done left ya
You should have thought about it to the one who 
Done made ya

(bridge)
Cause now your raising your child alone
And it’s not the same
And your trying to run 
but there’s no one to blame
And you thought you won
But it’s not a game
You fucked up your life
It’s not even a shame

(chorus)
It’s just the story of my generation
Hard on to hard on well 
Put some more make up on
To try to hide the things 
That have all gone wrong

(2nd bridge)
Cause living lifes a bitch
Cause no one taught us right from wrong
Why do you think I’m up here 
Singing this song
Cause our parents done messed up 
By playing along
Now before it’s gone 
We got to sing this song

(chorus)
To my generation

American Fiction 
Album:Ghetto Fiction
All songs recorded and performed by Daniel Vera (rhythm guitar, lead guitar and vocals) Matt Hauck (lead guitar) Dave Hindman (drums) Jake Daley (bass)
All songs recorded and mixed at Pus Tavern in Sacramento, CA 2001-2004.

The Bastard Generation

American Fiction 

Album:Ghetto Fiction

All songs recorded and performed by Daniel Vera (rhythm guitar, lead guitar and vocals) Matt Hauck (lead guitar) Dave Hindman (drums) Jake Daley (bass)
All songs recorded and mixed at Pus Tavern in Sacramento, CA 2001-2004.
Northern California Alternative Rock Band from Oroville, CA.