No Use for a Name (sometimes abbreviated NUFAN) is a punk rock band Band (music) from San Jose, California, United States formed in 1987 by Chris Dodge (guitar), Steve Papoutsis (bass Bass guitar ), Rory Koff (drums Drum kit ), and Tony Sly (vocals Singing ). The band's sound has evolved considerably through its career, taking on a much lighter brand of melodic punk as the years passed. [read more] - Pride
Woman: "What ever's gotten into our sweet little Izzy?"Man: "Oh it's nothing dear, it's probably just another one of those adolescent cycles. Hah! I believe a child psychiatrist would refer to it as: 'the Punk...
- Always Carrie
When I'm awake at night, sometimes I picture youAnd hear those words again, you said "I'm leaving"I couldn't hold you down and not expect that you would drownI'm a clown, but no one's laughingMaybe you're from another...
- Six Degrees From Misty
When you were little she sold you outOut by the ounce, the drugs and alcohol was freeOr maybe it was your imaginationFriend of the family but now the foeShe gets inside your mind with everything you smokeThat's why...
- Room 19
It's been so long since you've been here, and I'm dyingIs there something you would like to say?Just drop the present on the shelf, by the flowersAnd make the feeling go awayLooking back I can't recall, who was...
- Let It Slide
I spend a day or nine then finally realizeThere's really nothing going onSo why should I try to shake leavesWhen there's no one in my trees that I should care aboutLet it fall, let it riseLet it be and let it slideLet...
- Saddest Song
What's wrong with everyone?There's a panic in their eyesLike others getting close are aliens, in disguiseThey smell conspiracy on the lips of dearest friendsReminds me of a time long ago,They think it's the endOf what...
- Dumb Reminders
First Verse I heard the message,and then I rang it off the hookI didn't get you, til' one AMWho was wrong and who was right, and this distance caused a fight,now Im ready to give in,Honestly, I'd give anything to be...
- This Life Sized Mirror
She was done before the start, Always mending broken hearts Making others miserable Not knowing who she's hurting Father said "This day will be, one for Everyone to see Is it true you'll follow suit and have You...
- Let Me Down
she's never alone, because she's scared of what she might say to herself always drinking in the backroom of the bar where everyone turns in a half-hearted grin she won't be afraid as long as that prescription keeps...
- On The Outside
I'll see you on the outside and we'llNever be the sameAfter all that's happened what is it thatWe've gained?Well I've made mistakes before andNever lived them downAfter all you've done for me i'm bound(don't say...
- Turning Japanese
"Turning Japanese"I've got your picture of me and youYou wrote I love you, I love you tooI sit and stare at it, there's nothing else to doOh, it's in color, your hair is brownYour eyes are hazel and soft as cloudsI...
- Hail To The King
She loves him just enough, to be laid thereSpread eagle exposing her loveHer sighs and moans meant nothing to himBut a girl must do what she must do.Hail To The KingAnd his court of loveWas it love? Or self-imposed...
- Sign The Bill
Back in history in the roaring 20's there was a law called prohibitionNo one was to drink or make alcoholToday in the 90's we have a new lawPeople getting mugged by strung out junkie thugsLegalize DrugsPeople getting...
- There Will Be Revenge
Staring out the window she sees glimpses of last nightAnd everyone is silent but speaking through their eyesWalking to the bus stop where the court of judges waitTo sentence her to live her lifeLike she should always...
- Check For A Pulse
Fall into nowhere, fading outAfraid of who we are, get used to it somehowLike sad and distant memoriesTime is something that we never can replaceA long and ***ed up road but everyone's at homeWhere it's dysfunctional...
- Overdue
- Apparition
I'm sick of everything, I can't get out of bedJust lay here, someone pull me outI'm tired of these thoughts, the world moves outsideFeel like a ghost, rejected by the livingEverybody is so impressed with the things...
- Part Two
- For Fiona
- It's Tragic
Tragedy pulls us together but anything tears us apartTrying hard to stay complacent but all the systems failAnd fear denies the truth that's in your heartForgetting lessons I have learnedMy mouth is shut the table...
- Killing Time
- Divine Let Down
It's funny how blind faith often is used Like a net to fall on in desperate timesLike a crutch for regret as a last resortI won't let emotions take meAnd rely on this fence that's fallen on my headGuilt is an entity...
- Failing Is Easier (Part Three)
- Slowly Fading Fast
Everyday is passing quickly like a bullet trainAnd time is not impressed with your complaintsTry moving faster just to get ahead of everyoneyour misconceived beliefs are killing you faster than anyoneIt's been so long...
- Black Box
Up here sedated in my seat,Can't wait until I can see my feetRun away from stupid things I've saidI'll be here a few days from now, Talk about it when I come downIf we make it this time, I'll clean the stain I've...
- Bullets
Alone on stage without a songso where is Jesus now and where do I belong?What is faith if there is no proof?The answer is the same but not for everyone, the question lingers onSo out of desperationHumans do their...
- 51 Days
51 Days without a trace or an indicationThat his god would soon be hereTo take them all awayWaiting for the final day and for the godWho never cameThey all ended up in flamesMoved by the power of a charming leaderWith...
- Redemption Song
Old pirates yes they rob ISold I to the merchant shipsMinutes after they took IFrom the bottomless pitBut my hand was made strongBy the hand of the almightyWe forward in this generationTriumphantlyWon't you help to...
- Exit
Yesterday becomes tomorrow leaves you wanting moreSo intricate becomes the bathroom floorAnd even though you're in a ditch you dig a deeper holeAnd I feel like I'm a shovel cause it's out of my controlPromised a...
- Wood
It seems like you're in trouble and the finger pointsat you...It seems that you get mixed up in your manyPoints of view one sentence contradictions areYour "worst favorite thing" and youBelieve that what you know is...
- Straight From The Jacket
So sorry son you're worrying your motherNo explanation's gonna make it seem alrightYoung boy, listen to your fatherIt's more than just your life, it's more than suicideHow does it feel? When you're looking down the...
- Leave It Behind
When we came here it was done, I felt completely uselessNever learned to quite adjust and all along they knew thisCarousel would someday stop and throw us off in angerI guess I didn't think I'd ever see this sitcom...
- Justified Black Eye
She was confused and abused in this lifeEmotional and violent momentsTthat seemed to take the longest timeEvery single knockout, dragout, fight they ever had Apologies and dignity deniedHe starts to laugh He starts to...
- Soulmate
Monday morning you woke up cryingThe outcome of a stupid line oh-ohSaid by some punk-ass on the streetIt wasn't me, it wasn't youIt wasn't anybody you knew is itYour old friend insecurity?The one companion that stuck...
- Invincible
This conversation sickens meplease let me out, I'll take the busand though I try to understand,I didn't knowhow can you say that I'm a fool when allI do is helpwell I guess I'm a fool but I know that I'mnot you...
- Best Regards
Don't take it so hard, we're notagainst youit's really not that bad, it's just that theywant you to think that it isI'm over the past but I can't defend youso I'll say it one last time before I leavethat life...
- Sidewalk
Sitting in the lazy chair, the channelslook the sameI realize that the roof is stable and startto feel ashamedit's cold outside but don't ask me theweather's fine in hereask the man around the corner wholives his life...
- Secret
Father works the late shift, Mother drinks herself to sleepBrother's outside fiending with a matchand gasolineThey told her lies and gave her no hope for tomorrowAnd all the fairy tales just fade awayThe brightest day...
- Growing Down
He doesn't know what's wrong it's beenthis way for much too longand nothing could be easier thanblaming this on herkicking in the womb she brings it up heleaves the roomwalk away all he has to say you gotwhat you...
- Revenge
Covered up your insecurities witheverythingshowing everyone exactly how you thinkmad no difference, I can see rightthrough your best disguiseyou look like someone else, it doesn'tmatter where you hideYou wanna empty...
- The Answer Is Still No
I couldn't understand why you left mestanding hereflickering out like a candle in the windthe memories are laced with shamethere's no intention of working out theproblem that remains the sameLittle children standing...
- Sitting Duck
I read the morning paper, someone hadjust diedin big bold letters so it comes asno surpriseI'm looking at a story 'bout violence, aword from a lawyer in his defensethis time we got the jury by the throatI turn the...
- Coming Too Close
There was a time when you would come and goNow there's no time left to reactJust as it starts to heal in comes a bitter endWell you were already to leave my side and then...You're coming too close and I can't...
- Chasing Rainbows
Just heard the news today, let yourself down once againTrusted your feelings in a place that no one goesWill you do anything, to satisfy your so-called friend?There's something you ought to know, before you explodeAll...
- Lies Can't Pretend
I received your letter in the mailSounds like times are hard for you againYou said that you'd be nineteen in September of this yearAnd you're breaking up with your first girlfriend"My dad and I got in a fight, he told...
- Life Size Mirror
She was done before the start, always mending broken heartsMaking others miserable not knowing who she's hurtingFather said, "This day would be, one for everyone to see"Is it true you'll follow suit and have you...
- Why Doesn't Anybody Like Me
Maybe you don't understand it, what keeps them awake at nightWhat goes through their little minds when you turn off the light?Always having to say sorry tears are stained on the pillowLike the light of the moon they...
- Fairytale Of New York
It was Christmas Eve babe In the drunk tank An old man said to me, won't see another one And then he sang a song The Rare Old Mountain Dew I turned my face away And dreamed about you Got on a lucky one Came in...
- Not Your Savior
Unlucky seventeen, already handed plans for the futureGlamour obsessed, told how to dress, and shown how to thinkAnd I don't have a job, but I can show you how to be a slobSo many days, wasted and glazedSometimes I...
- Sleeping In
Packing up the pictures in an old shoe boxIt's so silent I can almost hear you walkDown the hall standing in front of that windowIf heaven is so high, then why are you so low?Does it feel, that you're taking back the...
- Another Step
The iron curtain has been lifted just todayAfter war is finally over, a faction finds its wayThe KGB is evil, tanks are running over peopleCan't you see?This country's on a shipNavigating to a failing...
- Don't Miss The Train
So many different things you can do with your lifeSo many different things if you have the timeGive a little more, give it your best shotOn the right track you can't be stoppedAll the things I said that I would doAll...
- Tollbridge
Well it's been a long timeSince I learned about the bridgeI try sneaking byBut it's my feelings that I pay withTired of giving, tired of caringOn the tollbridge, I'm forced to pay my waySome may try to slide right...
- Watching
There is a man I knowWho lives across the streetEvery time I sit down at the tableHe surveys what I eatHe's watching out for crimeTo happen any timeHe's always minding someone's businessAnd the business is usually...
- Any Number Can Play
They will mislead you, plug in and bleed youI swear I heard the DJ say"Swallow temptation", believe the answerIs in the order you obeyI know my purpose isn't on a poster signI'm still part of the game that any number...
- Insecurity Alert
emergency dispatch i think something's wrongwith words its so hard to construethe images follow a dream through a songthe nightmare has finally come truerhetorical speeches are made on the screento shut us up and rest...
- Feels Like Home
It's too late to talk to youAnd it's too soon to say good-byeListen where ever you may beYou still live inside my mindSomething tells me that you are free againIn a place that feels like homeIt's never easy to...
- Internation You Day
i'm sorry that it took so longto write this songbut i gave upyou see one million words can't describehow it feelsto know your lovewhere did i go wrong?i should have told you from the startthat i'm closer then you...
- Friends Of The Enemy
lost in confusionnot knowing which way to returnto the person you knowthis trepidation makes youtake it out on someone elseyou forevereverybody winsi don't think sowhat would the worst thing be if youtook the wheel...
- Pre-Medicated Murder
More times than fiveI've been right here by your sideStill Wondering....Where did you go?Walk down the hall in a mental menacleDon't want to be 'roundWhen you take yourself outBut I have more vigor than thisStep to...
- Solitaire
I can pretend for you, that I mean every word said it's trueThat I'd probably rather be like a stranger in disguiseAnd act as if nothing ever..Died or faded away, got lonelier with ageAnd time isn't on our sideI'm...
- Nailed Shut
I always thought I had a pitch-black mindSurrounding voice change my viewI feel fine now, it is a shame how I found out:A) When I was a kid I was full of hateB) Couldn't save the teenager that never felt blameC)...
- This Is A Rebel Song
[girl:]I love you my hard englishmanYour rage is like a fist in my wombCan't you forgive what you think I've doneAnd love me, I'm your womanAnd I desire you my hard englishmanAnd there is no more natural thingSo why...
- Angela
I didn't mean to drag underBut I was thinking about youAnd how your eyes swallowed me wholeI've tried my hardest to forget itBut a broken heart is murder for the soulHow does it feel to beOne of the beautiful...
- Undefeated
I see you have lost the ambition to loveWhen did you get so hard and callous?Things are good todayBut I think I've had enoughHere comes the part where you turn off the switchEveryone's dumb, Taking the wind out of...
- International You Day
i'm sorry that it took so longto write this songbut i gave upyou see one million words can't describehow it feelsto know your lovewhere did i go wrong?i should have told you from the startthat i'm closer then you...
- BioMag
It all started sitting at home, sitting alone, sitting at home.It all started having a smoke, you thought that you would choke, having a smoke.Then you decided to get up and go go to the show, go to the show.Looks in...
- Feeding The Fire
It used to be easy to listen to peopleAnd take everything with a grain of saltAnd now that I'm older I still hear voicesI do not wish to be involvedI don't want to be involved with the incinerator anymoreThat...
- Fields Of Agony
How many people, how many have died?I'm feeling lucky and afraid at the same timeHow many times have you sat home and wondered why?We always hear about the U.S.A., but not the other sideIn fileds of agony everybody...
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