Skatepunk

• Title: Reinventing Axl Rose
• Artist: Against Me!
• Album: Acoustic E.P.
• Year: 2001
• Length: 2:12 minutes (2.54 MB)
• Format: Stereo 44kHz 160Kbps (CBR)

This song was on Against Me!'s first full length, but this version is from their acoustic Ep, and is my favorite. What freaking awesome lyrics. If you don't get it, that's fine, unless you think you get underground music.

We want a band that plays loud and hard every night
That doesn't care how many people are counted at the door
That would travel one million miles and ask for nothing more than a plate of food and a place to rest
They'd strike chords that cut like a knife
It would mean so much more than t-shirts or a ticket stub and they'd stop at nothing short of a massacre
Everyone would leave with the memory that there was no place else in the world
And this was where they always belonged
We would dance like no one was watching with one fist in the air
Our arenas are just basements and bookstores across an underground America
With this fire we could light...
Just gimme a scene where the music is free and the beer is not the life of the party
and there's no need to shit talk or impress 'cause honesty and emotion are not looked down upon
And every promise that's made and bragged is meant if not kept
We'd do it all because we have to, not because we know why
Beyond a gender, race, and class, we could find what really holds us back
Let's make everybody sing -- that they are the beginning and ending of everything
That we all are stronger than everything they taught us that we should fear