Spare Me the Details - The Offspring

It happened at the mall Grand finale of stranger things The kid in me remembers How it feels To be grown, but not enough For a child who starts to see The blossom of a life Just beginning So, take me to the mall And wash me in the stream The devil's in the details, baby Send the children off to war Drafted by poverty The senator's son is safely sound asleep Ah, but let us forget the war And buy something pretty Change the channel Create the illusion of real safety The Lord is at the mall And the demons are in the trees The devil's in the details, baby Growing up at the mall Amidst the fruits of slavery We all stand complicit in the greed Going to Sephora To find a different face With enough paint I'll disappear Without a trace From the TV I learned it all And I practice what they preach The apple don't fall far from the tree I'm uploading my heart and soul As this world sinks into the sea The devil's in the details, baby I have no words for God I'm down on bended knees Prayin' to whoever might could save me Look beyond my eyes And tell me what you see Can you see the truth beyond the fear? Though fleeting, they may seem Our thoughts and our deeds Are carved in stone and steel for all to see Look back on our actions Will we ever be redeemed? The devil's in the details, baby

Take a peak behind the curtain at my grand design Any less than picture-perfect, and it'll be cast aside I'm so impatient for inspiration when my pen becomes the sword Because I'll scrap ya if I have to go back to the drawing board Some dreams are simply meant to die What happens if they get revived? You thought you could toss me out? The ink ain't even dry! I'm no good, so cross me out And then we'll dot some I's That's a price all artists pay! A sacrifice! "That's so cliché" Lightning struck, and I was born The final cut just cut the cord Your dark imagination may be where demons hide So why'd you ever blame them When your pen brought them to life? (No!) You can't choose your family At least, not genetically But, I feel like we'll be real quick friends You brought me back So don't that make sense? (Oh, that makes sense!) Oh, don't you color me surprised! (I only see in black and white) 'Cause you can't kill the show He'll always get revived You made it happen! You made it real! When you imagined you gave us life and made us feel! Your thunder clappin', it's gettin' real! So if you haven't checked the forecast The weather's lookin' wet, I'll take the wheel So what if I'm a little rough around the edges? I'm an unmade masterpiece, I keep artists on their ledges This reboot might get messy, that's why I'm sorta sketchy I don't dance obediently, the demon's knees are far from bendy You made me in your image, so I lack a soul Tryin' to wipe me from existence And you're playin' Whack-A-Mole (oh!) Too bad you can not erase me! That, in fact, is why you hate me I'm your vision, bastardized "Like Frankenstein!" Then actualized! No, I won't color you surprised (You pull the plug, I'm still alive!) True artists never thrive At best, they'll survive! You made it happen! You made it real! Nobody's actin', but it's a show I'm gonna steal! Go call the cast in! I'll play the heel And if you haven't read the details The devil's due his debt, so take the deal I've been abominated, hollow eyes a-glow Re-animated, yet unrecognizable No better way to paint it This frame can not contain it To think of talent wasted Out of ink, but now I taste it (la, la, la, la) Even angels need to let the steam off (la, la, la, la) And no one's here to shut the damn machine off This work of art, once pure of heart May still become corrupted (all the stains are my scars!) I've come to find, it wasn't lightning That I've been struck with You made it happen! You made it real! Lights, camera, action! You put me right back on the reel! Now look who's laughin', your fate is sealed! Don't bother askin' for the details The devil's due his debt, and that's the deal (You made it happen!) (You made it happen!) (You made it happen!) (You made it happen!) (You made it happen!) (You made it happen!) (You made it happen!)

This world of hate and shallowness Where enemies become your consolation Those of us who win the game give up their minds I don't call that winning Say this doesn't apply to you, but ask yourself first "What have I done today to win the game, and just what have I sacrificed?" Win the battle, lose the war I know I've played this game before When people were still real I don't want this anymore It's time for me to close the door There's nothing left to feel Reflect on all our yesterdays My own words choke me, why were they spoken? Regret for things I've said and done just can't compare with Regret for those that I have never tried So blame this world or blame yourself It's really all the same When you are standing on that precipice From which you just cannot return Win the battle, lose the war I know I've played this game before When people were still real I don't want this anymore It's time for me to close the door There's nothing left to feel In the style of forgotten men, I look to my horizon I see nothing While thoughts of guns and desecration sweep through my mind But only coffins and bones remain As I look to you, the emptiness behind your eyes seals my decision Can't carry on in this world of jugglers Where all this thoughtlessness and bludgeonings Your key to success, what kind of tradition to carry on Blackball! The new disease Blackball! The new disease Blackball! Your evil ways have found their way inside, inside me Blackball! The new disease Blackball! The new disease Blackball! For a better life in this high-tech dog-eat-dog existence Win the battle, lose the war I know I've played this game before When people were still real I don't want this anymore It's time for me to close the door There's nothing left to feel

Mommy doesn't have a head any more Keep it underneath my bed on the floor Well that's alright, that's OK She never really used her head anyway Daddy called me a silly bore Bet he won't say that anymore Because the way his body is severed too His vocal cords are gonna be hard to use Beheaded, watch you spurt like a garden hose Beheaded, bloody mess all over my clothes Watch my girl friend come to the door Chop off her head, she falls to the floor Now watching my baby's jugular blow Really makes my motor go Wrap a towel round the bloody stump Take my baby's body to the city dump Then wipe the mess off the bloody axe Scoop all the heads into my burlap sack Beheaded, watch her spurt like a garden hose Beheaded, bloody mess all over my clothes All my collection, adorns my room on bamboo poles Use to be a little, but a little got more and more Now I'm craving yours Night brings bad dreams, bad dreams and guillotines Off with her head Off with her head Off with her head Off with her head Off with her head Off with her head Find another victim for my machine Put him in a home-made guillotine Blade falls, gonna need a casket Watch your head plop in a wicker basket Leave the house at a quarter to four Come back with sixteen or more Cause the more I walk, the more I see I got a funny feeling coming over me Beheaded, watch you spurt like a garden hose Beheaded, bloody mess all over my clothes

Head over heals I've fit in before Now I don't wanna do it no more I've held it all in with blood on my face Built it up man so bad you can taste I don't slag no one, I don't even judge Don't give a shit 'cause I'm not gonna budge I just want to be who I want to be Guess it's hard for others to see I'm not a trendy asshole Do what I want Do what I feel like I'm not a trendy asshole Don't give a fuck If it's good enough for you 'Cause I am alive Smash is the way you feel all alone Like an outcast you're out on your own Smash is the way you deal with your life Like an outcast you're smashing your strife Head over heels I've fit in before Now I don't want to do it no more Just want to be who I want to be Guess it's hard for others to see I'm not a trendy asshole Do what I want Do what I feel like I'm not a trendy asshole Don't give a fuck If it's good enough for you 'Cause I am alive Head over heels I've fit in before Now I don't want to do it no more Just want to be who I want to be Guess it's hard for others to see I'm not a trendy asshole Do what I want Do what I feel like I'm not a trendy asshole Don't give a fuck If it's good enough for you I'm not a trendy asshole Do what I want I do what I feel like I'm not a trendy asshole Don't give a fuck If it's good enough for you 'Cause I am alive I am alive, I am alive

Sometimes I think I'm gonna drown 'Cause everyone around's so hollow And I'm alone Sometimes I think I'm going down But no one makes a sound, they follow And I'm alone Yeah, if I make it I'd be amazed Just to find tomorrow Yeah one more day and I'd be amazed Just to see it waiting Yeah and if I make it I'm still alone No more hope for better days Yeah if I could change Then I'd really be amazed And when you know you can't relate To one more shiny face Your heart breaks No one cares And when you know you can't go on 'Cause everything is wrong Your heart breaks No one's there Yeah if I make it I'd be amazed Just to find tomorrow Yeah one more day and I'd be amazed Just to see it waiting Yeah and if I make it I'm still alone No more hope for better days Yeah if I could change Then I'd really be amazed Yeah if I make it I'd be amazed Just to find tomorrow Yeah one more day and I'd be amazed Just to see it waiting Yeah and if I make it I'm still alone No more hope for better days Yeah if I could change Then I'd really be amazed

Hitting walls for a feet With our friends and we hear this free All the dogs, dropping bombs He see HUCK IT You don't have the ties You won't have the eyes HUCK IT Cause you realize You don't need to justify That cable show is not the lives we know Drop a bomb in the publics eye Fuck the SPONSORS they always lie You are pointing to go fast and GO Broken bombs and baking skin Notify your next of kin You'll know you'll come alive some day HUCK IT Now you feel alive, Stinks like shit all the time HUCK IT Its like you gotta try Risky shit, by the time You can not practice lay it on the line HUCK IT Now you're down in luck Cause you dont give a fuck HUCK IT And go by the time You go out doin what you know No talking shit just leave it all and go home HUCK IT Now youll feel alive Stinks like shit all the time HUCK IT Like you gotta try Risky shit by the time Cant practice just lay it on the line HUCK IT Now you're down in luck Cause you dont give a fuck HUCK IT And go by the time You go out doin what you know No talking shit just leave it all and go home

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