Fugazi is an American United States punk band that formed in Washington, D.C. in 1987. The band's continual members are guitarists and vocalists Ian MacKaye and Guy Picciotto, bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty. Fugazi are noted for their DIY ethical stance and manner of business practice. Fugazi has been on hiatus since 2002. [read more] - Bad Mouth
You can't be what you wereSo, you better start being just what you areYou can't be what you wereTime is now and it's running outYou can't be what you wereSo, you better start living the life that you're talking...
- Suggestion
Why can't i walk down a street free of suggestion?Is my body the only trait in the eye's of men?I've got some skinYou want to look in there?Lays no reward in what you discoverYou spent yourself watching me...
- Glue Man
I spent it all on the bagOn the dragThe sun comes up, the tide rolls outThe trucks roll by the parkStill a park where children play and pick up stonesAnything to make them feel less aloneHe's aloneHis mind is his own...
- Give Me The Cure
I never thought too hard on dying beforeI never sucked on the dyingI never licked the side of dying beforeAnd now I'm feeling the dyingYou've got your hands over your earsYou've got your mouth running onYou've got...
- Lockdown
Blood on the pedalsBlood on the gripsSteel-leveled, chest-levelSmear my lipsLet them slip into a smileBecause now after awhileIt's all we're seen to do'Cause the business is as business doesTrash is trash until it's...
- Bulldog Front
A historical - you think this shit just dropped right out of the skyMy analysis: it's time to harvest the crust from your eyesTo surge and refine, to rage and defineOurselves against your lineso sorry, friend, but you...
- Burning
There's something acting on this bodySomething goes in when nothing comes outAnd someone's acting on this informationBut, nothing's registered from this locationFrom this site that I sense that I amIn asking, "What is...
- Waiting Room
I am a patient boyI wait, I wait, I wait, I waitMy time is like water down a drainEverybody's moving,Everything is movingPlease don't leave me to remainIn the waiting roomI don't want the newsI'm not a part of itI...
- Promises
WordsWords and expressionsAll these confessions of where we standHow I see you and you see meDedications of symmetryTogether we will be foreverPromises are shitWe speak the way we breathePresent air will have to...
- Bed For The Scraping
i'm sick with this i'm sick with this situation avoided or just missed? my own sweet time says it's ten twenty four hardly recognise simple things anymore i don't want to be defeated this is the point this is the...
- Downed City
i want to go i want to get out all guns are loaded and have gone off now i'm channeling 17 dead revolutions that have long gave up the ghost one drink of water and i'm drowning the space between the dime and the...
- Long Distance Runner
the farther i go the less i know one foot goes in front of the other it all boils around to not hanging around to keep moving in front of the gravity the answer is there the answer is there but there is not a fixed...
- Fell, Destroyed
here's a list of side effects practice tested covering every malice angle for example you will sleep forever you will never sleep again yawn to yawn your face is born to mask the shade of shit you're in now it's time...
- Forensic Scene
in your memory not so gentle perversify slash sentimental caught between and caught without i'm a failure not your failure now in and out just like a knife would tax the flesh and leave a cheap wound ***ed and...
- Latest Disgrace
i am a message prescient forecasting there is a limit so take my temperature you say "your turn" but i think the invite's open to all so come on take your medicine hey doctor heal yourself or do you got too much to...
- Back To Base
autonomy is a world of difference they're creeping round but they know they can't come in back from the front with observation it's still there across from me an extreme example bringing you what they want twenty four...
- Do You Like Me
your eyes like crashing jets fixed in stained glass but not religious you should pay rent in my mind say like the french say bon soir regret a demain do you like me i guess white witness moves to petition the state of...
- Birthday Pony
this is a birthday pony this is a strange kind of rest because i feel like a guest when i'm right here at home i'm not right here at home i opened up these accounts all these separate accounts because i can't...
- By You
generation *** you to define and redefine you'd make them all the same but molds they break away safely inside looking outside go keep on picking at it it's just going to get bigger not yet an also-ran the note left...
- Target
it's cold outside and my hands are dry skin is cracked and i realize that i hate the sound of guitars a thousand grudging young millionaires forcing silence *** sound forced into this conversation so i shine let...
- Place Position
all origins are accidental you've got no papers and no roads lead home anymore chance is the root of all place position all maps are random all scales are wrong legal illegal no passion for the difference legal...
- Break
can't ask for more so why unfulfilled we take apart everthing we build had it right here but now it's gone on and on break
- Foreman's Dog
here's an all new version teeming with distractions trojan horese rolled backwards mastered buy your own device then splice in then cut to the sad sorry image of some grinning 'caster staring at a sinkhole piling up...
- Caustic Acrostic
lights out for the cynical sharps for their wide-eyed foils and all attendant props supporters of flash and pan-fried ***s who grease like cops throwing round their weight and i feel dangerous and vexed swinging two...
- Five Corporations
moves so slowly grows so smoothly takes so neatly it's as if they belong and they've been here all along grows so smoothly moves so slowly takes completely it's as if they belong and they've been here all along this...
- F/D
son of a gun and knife and bomb son of a bitch earned every stitch son of a father's son yes i know i'm one now it's time to pull the switch touch with your eyes drool with my eyes touch with your mind drool with my...
- Guilford Fall
down at the station we question our rations but you seem satisfied with the little recieved fractured appetite with bismuth pink on tap ascetic limbs gone tight and your lips are clamped and grey crash your appetite...
- Floating Boy
the sun came up the sun came out the sun did us in the sun came out and tore us up it ripped the shit out of our behinds we drove home on towels off the heat of the seats with sand in our teeth alright down on the...
- No Surprise
hey what's your name? do you feel the same way too? siphon fuel don't make a sound and most of all don't let me down it comes as no surpriese we're destabilized lock eyes shared plan no c.i.a. could understand defile...
- Arpeggiator
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- Recap Modotti
recap in taxi no clothes no food take care of the children we'll send for you soon alien you find you feel at home everywhere you'll get by with so much less than anyone decieved entrapment through belief disclosure...
- Pink Frosty
animosities and apologies back and forth we struggle, falter, refrain with glue and string and deciphering we try, try, try to stay together despite the pain it's no our first time through nor our waterloo back and...
- Closed Captioned
your etiquette your rules on interaction what are you waiting for? nobody's home we're all out trying to find one what are we waiting for? the recipe a clear connection the time the time the time the time the...
- Styrofoam
There are no more races to be runThere are no numbers left to be wonEverybody's downWe pulled each other downThere never was a truth to be foundWe are all bigots so full of hatredWe release our poisonsThere are no...
- Sieve-Fisted Find
Here comes another problemAll wrapped up in solutionIt's ugly as it's strapped onAnd twice as hard to get behindAnother sieve-fisted find lost, lost again Please, please let me get my hands on itHere comes that...
- Song #1
Song number one is not a *** you songI'll save that thought until later onYou want to know if there's something wrong? It's nothingEverybody's talking about their hometown scenes And hurting people's feelings in...
- Two Beats Off
I cut my nails to the quickBut still i was caught with my hand in the till Red-handedGive me something, give me anythingThe threat of everything is when it becomes Nothing at allFingers reaching, trophy swellingThat's...
- Break-In
And he's happy because she's got skinAnd she's happy just to let him inWhen he asks "will you let me in?"And from a place where they share skinThey say "come inside"And he's happy because she's got skinAnd it's sweet...
- Reprovisional
Somewhere in these private mindsThe last one comes out just in timeTo clear out the chambers and sew up the lips'Cause that's the price to pay for hopingEvery slip's not a slideIn other words not to get it wrongIt's...
- Blueprint
I'm not playing with youI'm not playing with youI'm not playing with youI clean forgot how to playBut you can still come aroundIn fact, I invite you downMaybe together we can wipe that smile off your face'Cause what a...
- Merchandise
When we have nothing left to giveThere will be no reason for us to liveBut when we have nothing left to loseYou will have nothing left to useWe owe you nothingYou have no controlMerchandise keeps us in lineCommon...
- Repeater
You say I need a jobI've got my own businessYou want to know what i do?None of your *** businessBut now I'm lying hereKnowing that business had a nameBut now i'm a number 1 2 3 repeater, down by lawI've got this...
- Turnover
Langour risesReaching to turn off the alarmAnd there's never so much seethingThat it can't be disarmedYou just stop it up, pass it onShove it to shelf it, to leave it offAnd turnoverLounging against your weaponsUntil...
- Shut The Door
I break the surface so I can breatheI close my eyes so I can seeI tie my arms to be freeHave you ever been free?She's not breathingShe's not movingShe's not coming backI burn a fire to stay coolI burn myself, i am the...
- Greed
You wanted everything you neededEverything you wantedEverything you neededEverythingEverything is...Everything is...Greed
- Cassavetes
Crush my calm you cassavetes I was sitting tight so quiet quiet In the dark till the lights came up my heart Beating like a riot riot Hollywood are you sitting on a sign For someone to come on bust a genre You poor...
- Great Cop
Got a lot of questions for me You got a lot of questions for me Got your finger pointing at me Distrusted I look for wires when I'm talking to you You'd make a great cop
- 23 Beats Off
a name I recognise that name It was at the center of some ticker tape parade The lead story, A fine example A name, a name A name I recognise that name It was at the center of some magnifying glass The lead story, a...
- Instrument
That one is predetermined That one, it finds another This one comes in one window Sliding out the other We need an instrument to take a measurement To find out if loss could weigh We need to know value We need to...
- Public Witness Program
The eyes have it and the eyes always will The eyes have it and they're watching you still Public witness charter - look out don't touch Public witness says he's seeing too much I like to walk around it And i'm paid to...
- Returning The Screw
A fine disservice Deceptive, too Check for the sender Sender was you Caught me wide open No simple burn This is complicated Calls for return Fine disservice Intended, too Check for the sender Sender was you The point...
- Rend It
Why don't you come to my house Why don't you drag me right out Past all the shit that i said i'm saying Why don't you cut up my mouth And i don't care what you use Just don't ask me to choose I forced a field to allow...
- Last Chance For A Slow Dance
Coughing inside your coffinlike at the bottom of the seainside you're breathingtoo numb for askingso I will leave it outside your doorwarning the threat of morning that just extends you another daysome lights were...
- Facet Squared
Pride no longer has definitioneverybody wears it, it always fitsa state invoked for lack of positionstrength is the bait that keeps us busyif it's perforated, then tear it to bitsall sense was lost in the frenzythey...
- Smallpox Champion
Smallpox champion u s of a Give natives some blankets Warm like the grave This is the pattern cut from the cloth This is the pattern designed to take you right out This is the frontier with winter's so cold Greed...
- Walken's Syndrome
Fragile stem Asleep at the stoplight again Red dressed in red drenched in red spreading red ever red Fragile stem Veering for control again Change lanes explain how strain defers the impact of speed On on past gone...
- Margin Walker
You make yourself so beautiful, you make yourself so, so beautifuland now I feel like I'm going,I'm going to set myself on fire.I'm going to set myself up at a window,this margin walker wants a clear view,ths margin...
- And The Same
- Provisional
Somewhere in these private minds,the last one comes just in time toclear out the chambers and sew up the lips,'cause that's the price to payfor hoping every slip's not a slide.In other words not to get it wrong, it's...
- Burning Too
Anytime but nowAnywhere but hereAnyone but meI've got to think about my own lifeWe are consumed by societyWe are obsessed with varietyWe are all filled with anxietyThat this world will not surviveWe gotta put it...
- Polish
got with the program, swallowed it whole, sugar made it easy, ice made it cold. reached out and touched them on a tv screen, broke out the polish, scrubbed it clean, that dirty machine. this is your portion, please...
- Stacks
this time is real, i feel it passing through the telephone, no one is home now, no one is home. these stacks, they keep me down, so i build some more. america is just a word but i use it. language keeps me locked and...
- Long Division
it's a long time coming, it's a long way down, it's long division, crack and divide. this is a parting, some separation, we lay in pieces, cracked to survive. i'm not your villain, not your adversary, i'm not your...
- Exit Only
exuent. this is three minute axcess, so pop the question. will we leave the last place burning? or do we just get leaving? red-light, red-light my mind moves to refuse that filter, are you still surprised? keep my...
- Latin Roots
lying on our backs, this is your parents' bed, a good place to be laid 'cos it's so neatly made. staring at the ceiling, vein to vein the lines look the same as the ones that you're seeing, and then you start...
- Runaway Return
out of the ashtray, into the ashtray. out of the ashtray. there's nothing living, there's nothing given, weekender's vision turns to working shoes. there's nothing living, there's nothing given, weekender gives in,...
- Reclamation
these are our demands: we want control of our bodies. decisions will now be ours. you can carry out your noble actions, we will carry our noble scars. reclamation. no one here is asking, no one here is asking, but...
- Kyeo
the troops are quiet tonight, but it's not alright, because we know they're planning something. don't you know things have settled down, down, down but silence is a dangerous sound, we must, we must, we must keep our...
- Nice New Outfit
you like the cut, you like the fit, wide in the shoulders, trim at the hips. what a nice new outfit, all straight clean lines. there's blood in your mouth, but not in mine. you think that i'm a sucker for it, that...
- Dear Justice Letter
justice brennan, take out some insurance on me, baby baby. it's just the i'm busted and dripping, my sorry lungs are all leaking, it's all over, it's all over i said, the last fair deal going down. you let your gown...
- Nightshop
*** your ***ed directivesGod, I want a new invectiveCustom built to form-fit youSay it to your faceIf I get to chooseI'll take something realThe fight to feelWhile your next meal is callingLoosely trademarked as the...
- Ex-Spectator
Looking for cars and mortalityTrying to find some sort of geometryAvoiding mistakesKeep an eye on every step I takeEverything is building and it appearsThat you're all architects and engineersThat's how it looksThat's...
- Full Disclosure
I want out...I want a mutually assured destructive life seizing separate cultureTo take me overMoving silent like radarTake me over and blow out my mindFull disclosureComing sponsored by no oneTake me over and blow...
- Oh
Number one in acquisitionsNow there is no foreign soilGo global like a round thingGo global like a holeTo every money matchmakerSplicing green as fast as you can:Let's break it down and start againMemo to the...
- The Kill
Born into race and nationAccept family and obligationI'm not a citizen, I'm not a citizenEmbrace tradition and occupationCull memory for assimilationSecure for future generationsSecure for future generationsI'm not a...
- Epic Problem
CongratulationsStopWish I could be thereStopTell me something I don't knowIs there anything left to know?Stop...Accessory...We regret to informStopMiss you dearly, signed sincerelyStopTell me something that I don't...
- Argument
When they start fallingExecutions will commenceSides will not matter nowMatter makes no senseHow did a differenceBecome a diseaseI'm sure you have reasonsA rational defenceWeapons and motivesBloody fingerprintsBut I...
- Cashout
On the morning of the first evictionThey carried out the wishes of the landlord and his sonFurniture's out on the sidewalk next to the familyThat little piggie went to market, so they're kicking out everyoneTalking...
- Life And Limb
When the bit pulls tightThe grip is sewn into the reinsCan't breathe it outYou'll just breathe it back againYou mental-pack your chambers fullFor no reason you can nameA boil-in-bag blood supplyYou know it's murder on...
- Strangelight
The sun's a strange lightNothing grows right anymoreScars on every stalkWhose mouth should I use to talk?The force that marks the routineTemperature, whatever degreesCreate the bad thingAnd lay our heads in itNow it's...
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