Vinyl Noize | Desdendents

before you go waving any flags you better know what you stand for!

I’m not the most patriotic guy, but thats just one of the reasons I love this record. The title track ‘Merican is on the Descendents ‘Cool to be You’ record, but the ep came out a while before the record and it has 3 exclusive tracks. “Here With Me” is a kind of slow Descendents style love/lost song thats pretty good, “Alive” is a hidden track thats a slower Descendents love/lost song, but “I Quit” makes this whole record worth any price. Its Milos anouncement to the listening audience that he doesnt nessicarily want to play anymore.

Music was my hobby, something that I did for fun
Now that it’s become a job, the damage has been done
No amount of money can repair my broken lungs
And who cares what yer makin’ if yer makin’ it alone

Sick all the time, I miss my wife – I quit
Got better things to do with my life – I quit
I quit – I quit

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

We flipped our finger to the king of england
Stole our country from the indians
With god on our side and guns in our hands
We took it for our own
A nation dedicated to liberty
Justice and equality
Does it look that way to you?
It doesn’t look that way to me
The sickest joke I know

Listen up man, I’ll tell you who I am
Just another stupid american
You don’t wanna listen
You don’t wanna understand
So finish up your drink and go home

I come from the land of Ben Franklin
Twain and Poe and Walt Whitman
Otis Redding, Ellington,
The country that I love
But it’s a land of the slaves and the ku klux klan
Haymarket riot and the great depression
Joe McCarthy, Vietnam
The sickest joke I kno

I’m proud and ashamed
Every fourth of july
You got to know the truth
Before you say that you got pride

Now the cops got tanks ’cause the kids got guns
Shrinks pushin’ pills on everyone
Cancer from the ocean, cancer from the sun
Straight to Hell we go