Swingin' Utters (often typeset as $wingin' Utter$, and originally called Johnny Peebucks and the Swingin' Utters) is a Californian California Republic punk rock band rock band that formed in the late 1980s. [read more] - The Next In Line
born on the southside, you live alone four walls and a roof but's always cold look out the window and there is nothing to see but, a riot torn city and the death of your country and your chilled to the bone with no...
- Sign It Away
the day grows old and gray with rain skies and the troubles keeping you are likewise go to bed after television as outside the moon is turning crimsonall alone like a Sunday "tomorrow's no different" as you say sleep...
- Windspitting Punk
Give me just a second to grasp your two-bit theories as that's more than enough time I need to see through their innate queries you're telling me to shape up or ship out but I'd never shape myself to something so...
- Derailer
I'm flying off the handle again I tried to keep in touch but my grip has loosened the saints need a second look I'm at the boreal banquet keeping warm boozin'' derailed- I need help god save the queen I ***ed up the...
- One In All
Mr. product man strolling by with a kind of head-held-high hypocrisy the envy of so many walks of life but not a type like me periodically searching through the perfect library a man I am of an unusual sort of...
- Sustain
I can't believe the things you say to me are so boring I can't believe anything you do to me is done sober I can't obtain a sense of patience, and I can't ordain you as my patient, butyou chew away at all my nerves...
- A Step To Go
This place is empty except for the stationary bottles of whiskey and barstools still standing concussion headache from blissful evening of confusion muttered speech from too much drinking the cars are idling near out...
- No Time To Play
They've laid to rest morality, blessed themselves with immortality gazed into the eyes of innocents as the blade was pulled out merrilyI'd beg and plead if it made sense to me, if I thought it'd make a difference to...
- Almost Brave
good intentions shattered by conventions traditionalized and bland with boredom searched over and feared of hatred is the cursed habit of the hardest working man I'll take a drink to this and a drink to that and a...
- London Drunk
I'm burning in this pit I dug myself an hour ago and up around the corner lies that bastard pub's front door and in my many changin moods and on similar days I've cursed and spat up mercilessly at the foot of her...
- Fifteenth And T
drinkin' beers in the pouring rain dupont circle summer again jack in' wheels just for fun I was only 13 watch your step, but it's always the same your always down and always going a away learned a lot about the...
- Nowhere Fast
I have crossed this road before for many years I'm sure don't recognize the faces though that pass me by I've been off and on my way again passed marsh road atherton black mountain way and bored stale houses on the...
- The Black Pint
I've been dishelved by this drink, by the pint's sight and stink never enough times to stop and make me think I've wrapped around some fingers, riddles rich in ringworm I'm swollen still, poisoned by the stingthe...
- Keep Running
"hello again," you say to the folks at the E.D.D. you've been dire and disgusted and come in most everyday to keep yourself alive you have insults and forever curse the almighty ***in talisman that lives in the dirty...
- Time Tells Time
look through these empty eyes and past the desolation in them is realized the drama of frustration taken paths worn down with life, sanctified with tension oh, the glory of a working day is glory only to the...
- Bigot's Barrel
he was spoken to just to be put down and he was 22 when helped off the ground beaten black and blue when his color was brown and shining shoes in a dirty townthe bigots barely outnumber my regretsas I float around...
- Unpopular Again
It's been a prosperous four yearsMany have come and staked their claimBut now it's over and the halls are clearedAnd you're unpopular againIt takes so little time at allTo see who can really play the gameAnd before...
- Tell Me Lies
My life's a mysteryI just cant figure it outIt's strange to meThat the visions I seeSeduce me but for nowI try to focusBut I can only do a littleat one timeEveryone keeps telling meEverything's going to be all...
- Fruitless Fortunes
The fascists and their many guisesAnarchists and their fantasizingIt seems sometimes they're sailing the same boatPoliticians mesmerizing throngs of automated soulsAs some similar psycho's screwing on the scopeI'm...
- As Sure As I'm Down
Well we're all gone good-bye see you so longAnd you're so young and glad to see us move onWhen the day's long and the moon just stares you downnotice your shoes are dirty when your heart's on the groundAs sure as I'm...
- Untitled 21
I guess it's all rightThat we never knowJust what it all meansAnd if there are waysOf making a changePlease show them to meSo if I could stop timeThen I would stay 21Cause everyday since that timeI wished I was...
- The Stooge
I've kept it in my heartfor over twenty *** yearsAnd all that time washing awayWith the stench of my spilt tearsI've lingered on the amorousTransformed into something hideousWith the love of life felt to new...
- Good People
Did you ask that manOn the corner for the time of dayDid he shrug and glance at his wrist and say"Dunno, here you go"And hand you a fool's gold watchI should tell you some sacred storiesSecret and confoundBut by God...
- A Promise To Distinction
One I was younger thanThe youngest of fragile mindsI ate the day with bad mannersThen spit out the rindAnd mother told meAs I looked to the skyYes my mother told me "My dear son,You're not the one"I flew from home...
- New Day Rising
"I was only laughing out loud" I say"When anybody else would've done the same"I could always shut my mouth againBut it'd still come out that way againand againWell I'm going to the hills now babyGoin' out to the city...
- This Bastard's Life
Why can't I beat the bankersDeal then find a home to robWhy can't I lie and cheat and stealWho wants an honest jobAnd if I curse you night and dayMy integrities been triedWhile I waste a life awayWhy don't you try and...
- As You Start Leaving
A train sounds off with whistle blowingLighthouse horn sounds early warningClean cool air with stars out shiningOvercoat and whiskey drinkingHands locked tight and close togetherThese nights are bliss in drunken...
- Five Lessons Learned
Five lovely lessons learned todayCoating my throat with the dust of a new dayAs the saints pray their lonely wayAnd their deadweight lays the passion to wasteMaybe if I sew my heart on my sleeveThey'll drop the bomb...
- The Pictures Perfect
i write alone now that you're goneAnd it's nothingI studied all you've said and doneand it's nothingThe pictures perfectThere's no timeIt's nothingResolutions madeWhat's yours is mine and it's nothingThrough all the...
- Two Jacks Shitty
This journey started slow and freeAnd ended wrapped around a treeJust like my self pity tangled inthe willow weedsAs high as right up to my kneesWhile scratching at the fleasShe is handsome she is prettyShe's the...
- I Need Feedback
10 AM yeah I just woke upI can't clear my headDrank too much last night againI might as well be deadWell I'm just ***in' lazyMy whole life's makin' me crazyBut I wouldn't give any of itUp even if you paid meWe all...
- Brazen Head
Only passing thoughts of times long gone, tonight 9000 miles away I hear your songs, but I - I seek the comfort of the bottle and then I let my mind to wander to the face that I knew and to the places that I went with...
- Movers And Morons
You could move faster you could move like you should (traffic on the bridges at bay) while the bitch and bastard has got you by the jewels (buried in the working day) and your motivation are the ones who could (the...
- Smokestack Dreams
The smokestack's blowing off my last few dreams and isn't that the way its always been? she pours into the sky and chokes the trees then disappears from view, like empty streamsAnd the second step from heaven...
- Twenty-Three
Was it something you said or was it something you did it doesn't matter much 'cuz I can't leave either way I'm just a part now and I'm here to stay but I wouldn't want it any other wayWell I've been gone now far too...
- Something Sticky
Are you guilty of this game that got me in this seat or grateful for the cross that kept Jesus off his feet filling up the tissue box instead of using the sheet wipe off remote control don't push button...
- From The Observatory
I want to tell you how its been but I'm not too sure about it myself I've tried to call time and time again but I misdialed, then stopped myself now I feel like I'm on trial for the inconvenienceI caught the train in...
- Mr.Norris
If I asked you where to go from here would you give me the right direction does it come to mind any paradise lost that I can win with true conviction, or am I wandering to a vacant space where there's no air to...
- Nine To Five
why must i work, 9 to 5 I'm always tired but, how I strive to pay my bills, to pay my rent a new life, would be a godsend Life is a production line things come at you one at a time ya better beware, better see the...
- Scared
i am not suave i am not bare there's seven pair of pants and stuff in my hair are you scared of me sitting under the tree i strike a striking pose while i'm wiping my nose you say not to leave i don't see why i should...
- Politician
it would be nice if what was said was what we heard was what we read there's too many times it seems to me between the lines we have to readPolitician - don't you ever listenso what is the point i must implore...
- Lazer Attack
Hands off I got no fingers get a load of my stingers I want a piece There's no misunderstanding I don't know where you're landing step on your feet I've been waiting all afternoon getting ready with the water balloon...
- Smoke Like A Girl
It's been raining with reluctance it barely wets the ground but with your umbrella and steel galoshes on, you're warm and dry and sound And it's been quite an evening as you put another down sitting solo in the corner...
- Could You Lie?
You're saying to me what you hear from all the people cursing in your ear trying out the possibilities of finding in me my worst sense of fear now you're a coward, and you're much too tense and you're afraid, you jump...
- Strongman
You feel stupid Tired of losing Each game brings you misery Each situation appears Just to fool you You feel ill with awful nausea And a subtle hysteria That keeps you Paranoid and looking over your shoulder So cut...
- Proven Song
Old men run on gasoline from the stations of the past and the things that they can teach you, son, I hope to God they'll ever last. The crow isn't afraid of the man that you put in the field where you plant your food....
- Hello Charlatan
Hello Charlatan, you must have been gone a long time what with the t.v. on I lost track of the days gone by I don't think that I owe you anything, and i've thought about it, many times, but still can't seem to make up...
- Reggae Gets Big In A Small Town
I'm expending my last energy, I feel good, though, cuz I'm seldom seen. A perfect picture I found in a dream I jab and move punches soft as whipped cream, I'm ripped and torn but never on the seam. I'm spitting,...
- Beached Sailor
Off all the blessed intervals that defined ourselves as one I may remember only the last, as it's the interval you won I've thought about it and I just don't know (don't know quite where to go) I've been trying to...
- Well Wisher
Slow motion cigarettes hang from your sweaty lips five bottles of stale, pissy ale stumble to your pale wrists thin man with unkept hair clean shave, but a glassy stare you've lost it all boy, and so youngI'll...
- Tied Down, Spit On
You better go, or you'll be stepped on with your sharpened bayonette boots you'll be long goneYou gotta go, You gotta get on with all the glory of good riches you've been brainwashedAnd as for all the days and what...
- Stars And Starlets
when the ballroom splendor and the glitzy glamor boys fall flat like cheap champagne, when the swirl of excitement and the sparkling smiles have fled into the folds of the night, when the haunts you most admired and...
- Petty Wage
I've said and once too often, some things I'd never say again. in streams of thoughts unbroken I fish for a few good menSundays and holidays and twelve hours straight no pay for bloody hands and believe me they pay a...
- Mr. Believer
Pick up the lines between your eyes grow up and get yourself to feeling younger longer for the sunshine waiting for an early rise won't it just shame you? shall I stop and blame you? no one's gonna call you an...
- Jackie Jab
Jakie Jab is looking fab. He's got treble and a bass and a big tab. He's got oil in his hair from Arab and when he falls down, he dalls smack dab.Hey fellas, get him a cab, what's his name, Jackie jab!Three square...
- Last Chance
The last of the daydreamers have walked out the open door avoiding any problems they might've had with the social law well, I remember Tuesday and every last day of my life and I'll never forget anything that stays...
- Expletive Deleted
Look at my face turn it around I'm the invisible man I'm the expletive deletedGive me my suit hand me my tie flash me a smile I'm the expletive deleted take off my facial expression give me lines to say without reason...
- Just Like Them
Well, I've fallen from the grace of a dog whatcha gonna do? I'll scribble it down in my log I don't believe you! it wouldn't hurt to believe me well maybe just a little sting, clouds outside are rolling in right...
- All Laced Up
You've got to follow your traces because I've seen so many familiar faces unfinished races stolen bases fallen graces all laced up, but pitfallen the community heals while my eyes are still swollen my friends have...
- Storybook Disease
I have broken many dreams, but like broken hearts they seem to mend with ease I've traversed the open sea with a grain of guts and a gallon of need but I'm tired and I'm easily fixed a hair trigger in this one's breed...
- Come On
Come On!
- Teenage Genocide
Well, you don't really know what you wanna do except to spend some time just being you but the game's unfair and the stakes are high what with the threat of being embalmed in formaldehydeI don't wanna go before my...
- Soldier Boy
Good solid build, this ripe young kid has sharpened up for killing men. polished new shoes and uniform not a bad sort "just came here on a whim"And now our soldier boy is missing home and now our little boy is dead as...
- (Take Me To The) Riverbank
Times have changed and the change of time's slow going my ramble tamble's still in tact and I've got plenty guts still showing all along the levy where we just sat and sometimes drank one the weeds are growing over...
- No Place In The Sun
She came over, but I was spent no money involved 'cause it came and went I'm so tired, she thinks that's bent it fills up my pockets and it pays my rent I won't hold my breath for that time to come I exhale an...
- No Eager Men
"He's just a shadow of what he used to be ever since I put him in his place" she's just a memory that's scarred him horribly and looks like lipstick on his face.This side of paradise is slowno eager men go to the...
- Catastrophe
You can't believe your children you can't believe your wife, you can't take the credit *** up your life. some people don't believe me when I tell them "I'm alive" they see me walking so slowly they think I'm too...
- Playboys, Punks, And Pretty Things
"A penny for your thoughts," he says as he swiftly slips from bed to bed and the thoughtful ones are charmed by him and the ***y ones turned on by him and he's knighted by casanova's kin and his ladies would never...
- The Note
Finding fault is never easy least of all when it's always yours just a fragment of a broken will and a sentence from a note left on the floor. I never told you that i wouldn't leave you i only said i couldn't go on. A...
- Watching The Wayfarers
We saw gold when there was only dust in the worst we saw in us what no one else could we traveled far and tramped the dirt down deep to where our souls could keep the time and never rest. Mind the road flares watch...
- Scum Grief
I try to please them with my way most every day i try to please you while i'm here wasting away i'll promise you a world so wide, love replace my lies in time with truth, love. Access to exits everywhere far and away...
- Pills And Smoke
I was a city baby raised on a well-worn street my dady hated it because of it's fame i never noticed really i was too young at the time to care about the history in it's name. Some years go by and the move me to the...
- Second Skin
Try to act this way and that become some beaming bitch's pet though you feel like a rat and it's plain that you're all that you accuse yourself of selling out to the souls searching familiar clout and excuse yourself...
- My Glass House
While i sit alone in this room i've got crates full of sorrow even more filled with shadows that i fish out and ridicule when i'm feeling lonely. I'm lacking sense, but bound in a very specific direction it's...
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Hold tight, we're moving kinda crazy now lost sight, my blurry vision's giving out step back, my heart is beating faster and looks like we've finally reached the *** end. Did you really think that you would get...
- Step Inside This Room
I wish someone would take me up over that hill to leave me be and let me wander instead of sitting here enjoying the pretty view living vicariously through strangers all i ever wanted was to be right there with you...
- Taken Train
So sick of silence broken and plagiarized with play tokens somebody stole my only daydreams and took the credit for my miseries. I feel suffocated boiled up and blind and claustrophobic completely insufficient...
- The Green Glass
As i walked alone in camden the city's sights and smells did permeate my senses i stepped inside the local off license and proceeded with amle gallon in my heands. We drank to the brink of dawn and wallouwed in the...
- Little Creeps
To all of those with dead end jobs and dead end lives and loves to all dead weight with no cause at all all the predictable ones to the suit and to the peon to the drunk and the loved ones and to all the lonely and...
- Another Day
I've been back now for a day or two, at best and i'm punishing myself for taking the rest i've been in slumber and in splendor in my house with beer and whiskey, my new son and spouse well, they've welcomed me with...
- Teen Idol Eyes
They always look in all directions searching for pray, playing the field they're set like diamonds of pure pretension all polished, plastic overkill. Teen idol eyes [3x]. I've seen them seethe with satisfaction...
- All That I Can Give
I took so many roads to find youFull of dead ends and one way streetsIt took some luck just to get near youI like to believe it was destinyCome to me, mineI've so many things to show youCome to me, mineThere's so much...
- Sign In A Window
Time has given me everything I needLust, pride, gluttony, and reliefTomorrow weighs down likeClouds hung in the skyBut right now I'm feeling likeA rotten present from this life of mineSo what's there to laugh about?I...
- Letters To Yourself
Let your eyes promise me liesLet your sigh be a sweet goodbyeAnd never even write to me a letterI won't worry about tearful endeavorsThere was no reason to returnI was toldNobody waiting for meto come back homenothing...
- No Pariah
You're just a punkYou're just a punkYou're just a punk, they say, And they don't know what you wantYou learn to fightto bark and biteTest all the limits of littleMinsthat you despiseHere it saysThat my time has come...
- Heaven At Seventeen
You reached for heaven at seventeenAnd caught the clap from some teenage queenTook some tablets, hit it againand that's all rightSometimes you took the stacked deck too farSome say you took it all way too hardThe...
- Don't Ask Why
Metal guitars in every townWhite rap and DJ's, hard and loudYou slice through strange airThe new icon in edenClueless and arrogantA beast of no real burdenAll of your answers pose as questionsAs per the rules and...
- If You Want Me To
Here's one for the tamedRunners-up and losers of the gameThe tried and true, the tragic and the shamedThe broken hearted, sad eyed, and unnamedYou've given everythingYou've even sold yourselfDamned yourself to hell...
- Elation
I'm just a living abortionTrying to live my life, trying to make some funWalking down the street, people think I'm deadGonna eat their brain with a piece of breadElationElationElationI'm just a walking abortionWalking...
- Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass, And Bones
The first time I met youwas up on the hillwith tequilla on Tuesdayand roses in wellYou gave me a kissAs strong as the windsThat swirl through the lotsof China basinI stood and I staredAt the brass of St. MaryWhere the...
- Hopeless Vows
My bastard brother's hopeless vowof leaving off to another townHas once again soaked deep intothe cold and rotting groundHe never shares his lovesick bedor listened to a word they saidHe hoards the beer and wine and...
- Leaves Of Fate
The grapes are ripped straight off the vine before ripeThe fifths are drank the eighths smolder in the pipeComplaints to celebrate are fathomed and condomedSuch a ***ed up state not just wired drunk and stonedThis...
- Poor Me
I'd rest on my laurelslet some keen witand crying awful pity sustain meBut my memories leak like a sieveAnd fuel this fireIt's deep and heavy roar defies meLet's not talk in vain about the weatherLet's take my tired...
- Glad
Some sang their songslike they're flying on uppersso sweet and smugthat I lose my suppersome mumble psalmsof solace and virtuehang by their palmsand choke on the cud they chewI'm glad we metSo sad you leftSometimes...
- Mother Of The Mad
now you can't help feelin' your the mother of the mad while market street's reelin in memory of the dead and capp street's greeting the tourists with good head you got your fix with the tricks that put you on your...
- You Haven't Seen Yourself In Years
those lonely moments got you talking to yourself as long as no one's there to listen you're not ashamed those lonely moments got you drinking to your health as long as day becomes the night you're still maintained and...
- Angels Pissing On Your Head
if i thought for just one second that i could get away with it i'd make a bid for the foundry and save this sinking ship a friend was downtown to protest something he wouldn't admit where bums under threshold canopies...
- Troubador
the fog comes in and out with the tides like my pocket watch it doesn't keep the time spitting smoke combustion from foreign cars choking my family history with the bloody wars troubador, whats the score? standing in...
- The Courage Of A Younger Pope
ample inquiry active, not electric but she is wirey i'm missing, i'm affected futile and fiery sights moved into you a fixture, a filed-b the blessed this ***ed up gun miscues, mishandling red-faced, not a case of...
- L.O.V.E. I Hate You
Your selfishness is horrid And your beauty is queen Puts the pain gut-wrenching And the grass a sickly green The troubles of youth Have got your hair in a mess And when you speak there's length in excess About your...
- Greg's Love Song
There aint nothing good about saying good-bye There aint nothing fair about saying farew ell There aint nothing better than my baby So go to hell There aint nothing wrong about what you're doing I didn't say anything...
- Sounds Wrong / Devious Means
The Devil Dog Has got you pinned to the ground you try so many waysand you look how that sounds You got me telling me the difference between night and day I thank the lordI wouldn't have it any other way If these...
- The Dirty Sea
Nothing Comes over me Nothing like inspiration Not even on the seaside No Fantasies to ration The swell looks mighty slim, And the water level's down The dirty sea adds to the junk I'm in Until the sun creeps up the...
- Stupid Lullabies
Cigarette ashes And tickets to free dances A buck bottle of wine Under a minute of my time I'll give you all that I can't haveIt may be less than I have, son Don't cut the lines that border us, son Don't waste my time...
- Tomorrow Is Not New
Bite your tongue, fight your addictions. Fall in line ,fall in love and know your predictions.Tomorrow is not new.And yesterday was due.Ridiculed by the fools, usually the culprit. Figurines and little beeds, Jesus...
- Nothing To Rely On
Biting on rebar, cinder block mind. Time was on his side until it made him unkind. The filth of his work has now settled on his heart. His company is doing well, but it's tearing him apart.Nothing to rely on. You got...
- Back To You
Well I've been to town down every road and backDrank all the pubs bone-dry in seconds flatBeen to holes in walls and bathroom stalls from the states to foreign partsAnd I'm always left with sickness in my heart So I'm...
- No Grooves In Gunsight
My bag of tricks is down to just to a bag. A home for the filthy, the filthy rich's rags. Fortitude for many, a humping hole for hags. No substitute nor substance, life on the smelter's slag. I'm the scapegrace who...
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