Sometimes I'm 6'2 and sometimes I'm 5'7
I Can Make your life Hell, Or I can make it heaven
I Can't light a cigarette, but smoke gets in my lungs
I can barely raise a fist, but I will torture you for fun
I scribble with my left hand and I wrong with my Right
I am a pacifist, but there's no one I wouldn't fight
I Cry like a crocodile floating in the ocean, I still burn in the shadow wearing factor 50 lotion

How Can I Trust you if I can't trust myself?
I barely know my name yet I have infinite wealth 
and how can you trust me know you know my poker face
do I know what I'm doing did I fire the gun to start the race 

I'll keep all your secrets, but I've got more faces than big ben 
I know all the answers like Lenny from 'Of Mice and Men'
I Keep my blockbusters card everywhere I go I have studied 'Fight Club', 'The Usual Suspects' and 'The Truman Show'
Maybe I'm a fantasist, an actor or a bastard, but the honest answer is I'm a fruitcake I'll never have the answers 
I don't deserve an Oscar because I've always been myself 
A psychiatrist's wet dream whose book is always on the shelf  

How Can I Trust you if I can't trust myself?
I barely know my name yet I have infinite wealth 
and how can you trust me know you know my poker face
do I know what I'm doing did I fire the gun to start the race

Know My Name

Rant in D Minor Lyrics:

I used to be agnostic, but now I'm not too sure 
Why are we fighting in this religious war
When no one knows truly what we face beyond this life 
our reality is in our heads its not outside our minds 

Who Am I to tell you that you've never spoke to god 
And who are you to tell me that our death is bleak and dark 
and why do atheists go on telling you that you're wrong
If they really didn't care they'd leave the house and just log off

Coz I've had it up to here with people telling what to think 
If you'd really hit rock bottom you'd pray to god before the drink
Every mans born equal every woman born the same 
our corrupt society tells us how we should behave 

Evolution got it wrong we are not monkeys we are dogs 
in the caveman days we didn't drop our logs in the bogs 
we would burn them and drink from them we'd be happy in our caves 
take any all the materials and its pretty much the same 

It's so easy to forget we have the freedom of choice 
turn off all your influences and listen to your voice 
you're a slave to your TV, your computer and your job 
Just like i am to my trumpet, my guitar and my Knob 

at least music and sex is what we're here for 
Attenborough said there's no need for language at all 
Back in the day people sang before they spoke, 
do you realize that the bible was written for a joke

but I don't think you're aware of the irony of it all
it's the writers not the readers that have you all fooled 
The followers are the ones you've gotta be careful of 
they think paedophilia is ok if you read the word of god 

Jesus died for his sins so it's ok to make you hurt 
as long as you are dressed properly for church 
they tell you in that situation you're not allowed to swear 
Pretending when not worshipping very really really care

you interpret religious text in any way you want 
The word of god is under your bed leg to keep it up 
As I said earlier we all have our own free will 
we make up our own minds we decide who we can kill
 
we have the power to overthrow kings 
not the ones in the palace the ones who practice banking 
who needs millions of pounds and happily ignore the poor 
they can pay off the judges of the secret court 

Need their flash car for their identity 
yet they're the ones who should be locked up for insanity 
for them all I feel is nothing but apathy 
underneath the suit and tie lies a soul less tragedy 

to get by in this life you have to get your degree 
and make sure you are married by the ripe old age of 30 
have 2 kids or if your wife can push out 3 
then you start to save for when you're an OAP 

After all this you wonder why you're still not happy 
coz you don't do your thinking its your society 
you'll never have the balls to be what you want to be 
happiness is not the be all and end all for me 

its having friends and loving them that makes me want to breath 
flush the pointless rat race down the lavatory 
and never trust a politician, labour or tory
LIFE WON'T ALWAYS BE A FAIRYTALE STORY.


Rant In D Minor

CRASS
THE CLASH
TALKING HEADS
BLACK FLAG
RANCID
CHOKING VICTIM

BOUNCIN' SOULS
NOFX
BAD RELIGION 
CULT
MINOR THREAT 
CONFLICT
FEAR
ADOLESCENTS
MISFITS
X-RAY SPEX

THE ADVERTS
INNER TERRESTRIALS
100 REASONS
BAD BRAINS

SPUNGE
GANG GREEN
DOA
THE DAMNED
THE TRANSPLANTS
F-MINUS
PRESSURE POINT 
THE BEAT

I Won't Take the Blame

I've Stood on top of a cliff and wandered should I jump? 
I've Stared at a bottle of bleach and wandered should I drink
I've looked at my wrists and i wandered should a slit? 
But I'm so happy I'm still here 

Some people just don't wanna know 
when i'm down and out not the chirpy Joe 
They all know and loved as the curtains were closed 
the comedy stopped but the front row wanted an encore 

Easier to laugh much harder to cry
when the chips were down you went all in on a pair 
high 7 and 2 knew it wasn't for you 
I forgot how to play yet you couldn't wait to leave the table 

I don't get shocked but get amazed 
when i'm standing in the pouring rain 
you can clearly see that i'm in pain 
yet you don't wanna deal with the monster you've created 

A drink will make it all ok  
ring me next month when you're laughing again 
I've gotta go I Don't wanna know 
you're always happy and you'll be happy soon enough again 

I've Stood on top of a cliff and wandered should I jump? 
I've Stared at a bottle of bleach and wandered should I drink
I've looked at my wrists and i wandered should a slit? 
But I'm so happy I'm still here 

All In

you drink gin to fit in 
you wear glasses to impress the upper classes 
you eat caviar think it'll get you far 
you're really not as clever as you think you are 

you tune in to radio 4 
you pretend that your an intelligent bore 
you not say 'Barrrth' when you used to say 'bath' 
i think you are having a laugh 

there was a time that we were friends 
but that time had to come to an end 
when you decided not to be yourself
that can't be good on your mental health 

18 years in Birmingham 
you never really knew anyone 
and then you moved and it changed your mood 
and you thought that you had something to prove 

you bought yourself a dictionary 
decided to pop your illiterate cherry 
used to talk brummy now you talk the queens 
i just had to spill the beans 

you don't drink bitter because you're bitter 
now all you do is spout a bunch of litter 
you hated drugs you didn't like the pain 
then you found out posh people did cocaine 

Joe Hovis

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