Rich Kids On LSD - Greatest Hits Double Live

Greatest Hits Double Live

Cover

Inside Album

Jason	Voice
Chris	Gitars
Barry	Gitars
Joe	Bass
Bommer	Drumz

Recorded live at the Quartier Latin, West Berlin, Germany July 9th, 1988 on 24 track Mobile Studio
Mixed at Vielklaug Studios, West Berlin
Mastered by Record Partner
CD Mastered at Hausa Studios, Bln.
Cassettes Mastered from digital at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, Ca
Produced by David R. Pollack and RKL
Cover Art and Lettering by Dan Sites
Air Brush by Paul Wood

Special Thanks: David and Petra for the killer tour, All European friends and bands we played with and people we stayed with, All American friends and family and cool people everywhere.

Side One	Side Two	Side Three	Side Four
Lies Hangover Drink Positive Scab On My Brain Ded Teds Seein' You	Blocked Out Rumors Tribute To The Jester PotHead Why? Find A Way	Feelings Of Hate Tell Me The Truth Sargasm Senseless Violence Beautiful Feeling Berlin Rock City	Life In A Bottle Break The Camel's Back Lay Your Weapons Down Catch Your Breath

Lies

Hey yeah! Jon told me to.
Hey, Thanks to all the people who have seen us more than once.
This is our last German ???.
Oh yeah. The rumour. It's a lie. Go.
(Joe)This is your live record so show 'em how Berlin can rock.
Ahh, that's wonderful. TV and media, it's all a cover up.
They won't accept the blame,
Because they fucked up!
Moscow makes a mistake,
And then it's our fault
Just tell me who I should believe.
Corn flake cereals, MTV videos,
All our minds are turning into waste.
T.V. News says it's the truth,
But it's just a big lie, it's a lie!
Plant their Lies inside my brain,
Just like a big seed.
Another capitalist game,
And on you they feed.
Corn flake cereals, MTV videos,
All our minds are turning into waste.
Trained like an animal,
Like a slave, I must obey.
Obey the Lies.
Obey the Lies!
Corn flake cereals, MTV videos,
All our minds are turning into waste.
T.V. News says it's the truth,
But it's just a big lie,
Just a lie!

Hangover

Yeah... it started a fire and it was rockin', hahahaha.
Hangover.
Keep going.
It's 8 O'clock and you're still in bed,
The aspirin won't stop that pounding in your head.
Your stomach's doing backflips and your mouth is dry.
Don't feel strong enough to open your eyes.
I'll never touch another drop!
'Cause you can't admit that you can't stop.
Get up! you're late for work.
Your wife is getting fed up she says: You're acting like a jerk!
You're feeling like a glob of slime fermenting in the sewer.
"5 more minutes" you can't be late again
OK, now you slithered from your cave
Feel your way.
Shit, shower and shave.
The seat is cold as ice,
The shower hot as piss.
The bloody tissue on your face,
Might as well be your wrists.
Ha!
It's 8 O'clock and you're still in bed,
The aspirin won't stop that pounding in your head.
Your stomach's doing backflips and your mouth is dry.
Don't feel strong enough to open your eyes.
I'll never touch another drop!
'Cause you can't admit that you can't stop.
Get up! you're late for work.
Your wife is getting fed up she says: You're acting like a jerk!
You're feeling like a glob of slime fermenting in the sewer.
"5 more minutes" you can't be late again
OK, now you slithered from your cave
Feel your way.
Shit, shower and shave.
The seat is cold as ice,
The shower hot as piss.
The bloody tissue on your face,
Might as well be your wrists.
On your wrists.
You're so Hungover!
You're Hungover!
You're so Hungover!

Drink Positive

We changed the name of this song personally,
and it's going out to schlum 'cause he's a great dude.
Drink Positive
Drink.
Think I care what is happening?
Sure I do, but I'm still laughing.
World problems? We All Care.
But has all this rage got us anywhere?
No!
Keep a grin.
Drink! Drink Positive.
Sure, we'll sing about all our crying,
Unnecessary deaths and violence.
Do you think your negative attitude
Is gonna give a starving man
A plate full of food?
No!
Keep a grin.
Drink! Drink Positive!
Keep Laughing!
Keep Laughing!
Hahaha.
Keep a grin.
Drink! Drink Positive!
Keep Laughing!
Keep Laughing!
Hahaha.
Sure, we'll sing about all our crying,
Unnecessary deaths and violence.
Do you think your negative attitude,
Is gonna give a thirsty man,
A cup full of booze?
No!
Aww, shit.

Scab On My Brain

All these smoke bombs in here, all these smoke bombs.
I give to you what's on my mind,
Though everything seems all right.
Nightmares of doomsday,
Now I've got these headaches.
The itch that's on my brain just gets more insane each day.
Pressure Problems!
Can't do much to stop it now so I just get plastered.
I gotta get good and high for the next world disaster.
Drop it now! It's simply much faster!
It's a Scab On My Brain and it won't go away.
Yesterday I woke up and once again my pillow was stained,
From that Scab on My Brain!
Itch it now!
It's on my brain!
Scab On My Brain!
It's on my brain.
It's on my brain!

Ded Teds

This is for Ted.
We've come to write on your walls,
And eat your food.
Gonna drop a bit of acid,
Divvy up a sheet or two.
We're the creatures of the nightime.
Pupils burning inside my head.
No matter where I start at,
I finish at Ded Teds.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds!
It's been 3 years of dwelling
I'm starting to mold.
All my friend just sit around,
Drink beer,
It's getting old.
In that house.
That house of Ted.
In that house.
Where your better off dead.
Sittin' by the window,
Watchin'all the walls breathe.
People in the bathroom,
Rollin' up their sleeves.
Crews in the backyard,
Rollin' up a big spliff.
Cops in the front yard
Stirrin' up useless beef.
It's past 2 O'Clock
Can't buy no brew.
Passed out on the couch,
Feeling button approach you
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds!
Ded Teds!
In that house
That house of Ted.
In that house.
Where your better off dead.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds.
Ded Teds!

Seein' You

It's just too much. Saw you just the other day,
Same old look on your face.
That's when I realized how long it's really been,
Nothing really changes much but time between good friends.
We joke about troubles.
We haven't grown apart.
Suddenly it's all so clear,
The memories of old times so sincere.
Girl there's more I wanna say that situation still prevents today.
You needed to be loved,
Mine alone was not enough.
It's just too much Seein' You.
It's just too much Seein' You.
It's just too much Seein' You.
It's just too much Seein' You.
It's just too much Seein' You.
It's just too much Seein' You.
It's just too much Seein' You.
It's just too much Seein' You.
Seein' you.
Blocked out.
This is Blocked

Blocked Out

Block Out!
There's really something crazy happenin'
All across this land.
A feeling of toleration,
To what we can stand.
Everyday we accumulate,
A brand new disease.
Yet even with all our own problems,
We shit on our scene.
And even now I almost feel helpless,
About being free.
It's not whether or not I can stand,
But who'll stand by me?
There still ain't a mag or a zine,
On the streets today.
Without some critic to answer,
About what we say.
So be careful what you're reading.
Opinions indifferent and misleading.
The one communication that has ceased to be taken away,
With reach unmistaken about real situations today!
So Block Out, all the phony people.
Block out, all the trash that you read.
Block out, all this junk on TV.
It's not what you see but just what you'll believe!
So you can block out, all the phony people
Block out, the trash that you read
Block out, the shit on TV
It's not what you see but just what you'll believe!
Block out

Rumors

(Chris) Rumours
Walkin' through the Hamburg streets,
I see a bar, I better drink some beer.
A beast in red approaches me,
It's buy a drink or sleep with me.
Now I'm blown away!
Then come the thugs with a bat,
To make sure we pay.
Lies. Stories you're tellin'
You're makin' rumors.
You wanna dish out a scoop for your friends.
So you'll feel like someone,
Talkin' 'bout somethin',
Something you really know nothing about.
I bought her a drink.
but who would ever think?
It was 300 marks for champagne.
Typical set up, pay or be beat up!
Now you see what goes down,
Walkin' streets.
You're livin' out what I go through.
It's second hand.
It's not the truth that you want.
There'll be a time.
A change of mind.
You'll grow to find.
That living your own life
Means more than talking 'bout mine.
You only believe the truth that you want to anyway.

Tribute To The Jester

Peter Bennett. Good friend, tribute
I can turn to you and come unglued and spill my guts when I get troubled.
As I approach you simply joke,
I laugh so hard, I cry for different reasons.
You never knew or cared the value of the laughs we shared,
They're always priceless.
Rob someone of their depression simply with your conversation.
Oh, Sarcastic Jester tell me one more time
`Cause if I don't cheer up today I'm bound to lose my mind.
So talk with me a bit. I need your driest wit.
And make me laugh until it hurts and satisfy my fix.
Satisfy.
A few deny your qualities themselves uptight unconsciously.
And others will hate you for truths you expose,
But everyone knows!
Laugh with the world and the world laughs with you.
Make them laugh at you and if you're good they'll even pay you.
Oh sarcastic jester, please don't get me wrong.
There's nothing more less serious than the lyrics in this song.
So keep your point of view,
Your cynical attitude.
The world is late to appreciate,
The kind on earth like you!

Pothead

It's about smoking dope, smoking pot. I'm a pot... I'm a Pothead. Smoke a doob to my forehead.
It's in my mouth before I leave my bed.
Can't you see?
I gotta get stoned.
'Cause I'm just another pothead.
Without a doob I'm totally lost.
Gotta score some bud,
Whatever the cost
Sell me a bowl, or maybe a jib,
Or I can't even live.
It just gets worse day by day.
Have a smoke more to get the same way.
Eyes turn red, cough up lung cheese.
Gotta be the ganj, man, never no leaf.
Without a doob I'm totally lost.
Gotta score some bud,
Whatever the cost
Sell me a bowl, or maybe a jib,
Or I can't even live.
Pothead!
Pothead!
Pothead!
Pothead! Pothead!
Without a doob I'm totally lost.
Gotta score some bud,
Whatever the cost
Sell me a bowl, or maybe a jib,
Or I can't even live.
Without a doob I'm totally lost.
Gotta score some bud,
Whatever the cost
Sell me a bowl, or maybe a jib,
Or I can't even live.

Why?

I had to get high,
Didn't matter how at the time.
Dirty needles,
Gave me a disease.
Yellow eyes, yellow skin,
My liver bleeds!
I don't need it anymore,
And why I ever did before?
Why? Why?
All my insecurities.
An escape that led to this disease.
Addiction is something that I don't need.
I had to get high,
Didn't matter how at the time.
Dirty needles,
Gave me a disease.
Yellow eyes, yellow skin,
My liver bleeds!
I don't need it anymore,
And why I ever did before?
Why? Why?
All my insecurities.
An escape that led to this disease.
Addiction is something that I don't need.
I don't need it anymore,
And why I ever did before?
Why? Why?
Why? Why? Why?
All my insecurities.
An escape that led to this disease.
Addiction is something that I don't need.
Gotta Find A Way.
A way to make it happen.

Find A Way

Find a way!
To make it in this world where a kid's just got no say
Take all the words and thoughts I've said and throw 'em away
Your talk is cheap
You don't communicate
I can't relate
Times have changed
For the better but they never really seem to stop this game
Thoughts I've said and throw 'em away
An IOU for you to show they're late
You can't complain.
They really seem to notice when your bills aren't paid, Hey!

Been working all week long
For the man with no pay
Now listen to my story
How I found a way
To cope with life
Dealing with the best
Only finding out later
The game was just a test
So I went to Taco Bell
Thought I'd order a dinner
Order beef burrito
And he rolled me up a pinner
I wolfed the whole burrito
Even though the beans were bitter
10 minutes after I was rushed to the shitter
The food was so old
It must have been rusted
Called the Health Department
And the place got busted
Sing a song, a six pack
Shlitz Red Bull
I took the beer from your hand
And asked you for a pull
You Ol' Lilly light lipped
Lex Luthor lettuce picker
Been a long time
Since I used a pig sticker
Arm and Hammer always twisting Reynold's Rap
Gimme Jimmy Z's quick release velcro not snap
The beat's gotten old
And our story gone astray
You can rap to machines
But Rock N Roll's the way
I know that your on glue
And your rhymes are just for filler
You said the Hubba's killer
Now you look like Phyllis Diller
It's a Meltdown.

Feelings Of Hate

It's in old one.
In your eyes the pain is strong,
To what you despise.
There is no wrong in being dead.
It's where you belong.
Take a knife, cut off your head.
Feelings Of Hate.
You can't escape a troubled mind,
Is what you will find.
You may feel dead,
May be alive.
But you gotta remember,
You can see it in your eyes.
In your eyes the pain is strong,
To what you despise.
There is no wrong in being dead.
It's where you belong.
Take a knife, cut off your head.
Feelings Of Hate.
You can't escape a troubled mind,
Is what you will find.
You may feel dead,
May be alive.
But you gotta remember,
That it's in your eyes.
In your eyes,
Are these Feelings Of Hate.
You can't escape.
These Feelings Of Hate,
You can't escape.
'Cause it's in your mind.
In your eyes!
Second to last one.

Tell Me The Truth

I wonder what inspired man,
He read some book and he chose right then.
That the Father, Spirit, and Holy Ghost,
Wasn't for real but just a big joke.
Tell Me The Truth, there's no excuse.
Just Tell Me The Truth, there's no excuse.
Could it be that long ago,
Man created God for a target to throw,
All his problems, fears, and stupid guilts.
Is our God just another scapegoat?
Tell Me The Truth, there's no excuse.
Tell Me The Truth, there's no excuse.
If he's up there, like I think he is,
There's a hell that's hotter than piss!
For the money hungry, godly liars,
Their rewards...
A lake of fire!

Sargasm

(Joe) Could you please not turn off the mics in the middle of a song?
Sargasm
Things have changed,
Today, life's just crazier in ways,
Can't let daily stresses get to you.
You struggle all day long and when things start to go wrong,
I can't hold back my smart-ass attitude.
Sargasm!
A tactic we use just strategy helps me keep from coming unglued.
So don't take offense.
You're just burnt like the rest.
Gotta get this line off my chest,
Had to say it 'cause you set it up that way,
I just can't keep control of my mouth!
Had to say it 'cause you set it up that way,
I just can't keep control of my mouth!
By now you think we're assholes,
Don't have to think twice, fuck you, too!
Oh really? That's nice.
We feed off your last word and then you leave cuz you're so burnt.
Laughing at you gets me off!
Sargasm!
A tactic we use just strategy helps me keep from coming unglued.
So don't take offense.
You're just burnt like the rest.
Gotta get this line off my chest,
Laughing at you!
Got nothing else better to do.
Senseless... Fucked that one up...

Senseless Violence

It makes me wonder sometimes
If it's my mind or the world outside
That makes me feel the way I do
Not one single tear for you
Against your head the bottle shattered
I started to laugh 'cause it didn't seem to matter.
Riots broke out seconds later
A thousand cops filled with hatred
Senseless violence, I start to realize
Powerful mace was now burning my eyes.
Against your head the bottle shattered
I started to laugh 'cause it didn't seem to matter... at all!
A klan of cops chasing a girl.
She shouted out peace, but the club was hurled
They beat her and they kicked her and she lay still.
Nazis licensed to kill.
Senseless Violence.

Beautiful Feeling

Beautiful. Can you see, can you see?
The colors on your wall.
Reality's much different now
The answers at your call.
Like a tiny infant,
Care with every step.
Moving through this fantasy
Now gamble, place your bets.
Don't stop this trip,
'Cause I don't wanna grip.
Don't stop this trip,
'Cause I don't wanna grip.
Brain is frying hard now,
Hallucinations wild.
Curiosity's growing,
Like a feeble child.
You think you know about what I am,
You can say I'm just like them
My brain is burning, can't you see,
We're Rich Kids On LSD
Don't stop this trip.
'Cause I don't wanna grip.
Don't stop this trip.
'Cause I don't wanna grip.
Rich Kids On LSD!
Don't stop this trip.
'Cause I don't wanna grip.
Don't stop this trip.
'Cause I don't wanna grip.
Rich Kids On LSD!

Berlin Rock City

I feel uptight on a Saturday night.
Nine O'Clock and the radios the only light.
I hear my song and it pulls me through.
Comes on strong, tells me what I gotta do.
I got to... Get Up!
Everybody's gonna move their feet.
Get down!
Everybody's gonna leave their seat.
Yeah, lose your mind in Berlin Rock City!
Getting late, I just can't wait.
10 O'Clock, you know I gotta hit the road.
First I drink and then I smoke.
Start the car and I try to make the midnight show, you know.
Get Up!
Everybody's gonna move their feet.
Get down!
Everybody's gonna leave their seat.
12 O'Clock. I gotta, gotta rock!
There's a truck ahead,
Lights starin' at my eyes.
Oh my God! No time to turn.
I got to laugh 'cause I know I'm gonna die.
Why?
Get Up!
Everybody's gonna move their feet.
Get down!
Everybody's gonna leave their seat.
Get Up!
Everybody's gonna move their feet.
Get down!
Everybody's gonna leave their seat.

Life In A Bottle

I always thought you were a friend,
You tried to burn me in the end.
That's when I realized,
Something was wrong.
We were only friends when you were bent.
Now... reality sets in.
Now... we're not friends
'Cause you're in the hole, mole.
Hide from your fears,
The truth's getting near.
Your choked by a noose,
And that bottle really, really cut you loose.
Now you tell me that you quit,
That you really never needed it.
That's when I realized you were full of lies.
Drunken Dr. Jekyll, Sober Mr. Hyde.

Break The Camel's Back

Walk into the hall... promoter hasn't called
We laugh at what they call the house P.A.
Battered and frayed, we won't sound good today
Later on we find we don't get paid
You'd think that it's enough to make any one band quit
But that's just the least of the shit we'll find
We still gotta rock never the less
It's what we do best
I wonder how many gigs before we break the camels back
Now we've seen almost four years of laughs and flats and tears
Hope I never see the day we break the camels back
You can see why all the good bands fall apart
The scene rips a hole in your heart
Someday there won't be an underground to play
You sit and watch communication fade away!
Restore!
Don't piece together what's already broke.
Remember that glue never holds.
The same that goes down for all the shit that goes down
The assholes that bring us all down, shouldn't come around.
But we still keep the faith that love prevails over hate
Hope I never see the day we break the camels back
Gotta lotta songs to play before we throw it away
Hope I never see the day we break the camels back
You can see why all the good bands fall apart
The scene rips a hole in your heart
Someday there won't be an underground to play
You sit and watch ??communication fade away!??
Restore!
Blackball the straws that break all our backs
Don't feed the fire with attention
Denied at the door or thrown off the floor...
For tension we don't need no more!
Break the camel's back!
Break the camel's back!
Break the camel's back!

Lay Your Weapons Down

Homeslice!
Can't you learn from history?
Ain't no reason big enough to resort to World War III.
They put a helmet on your head and a rifle in your hands,
And send you off to kill your brother in his native land.
And I say...
Lay Your Weapons Down!
I can't go on this way
Oh no! It's really up to us now, brothers.
You can make it happen,
Got to put an end to war today!
Come on! Can't you see that it's insane?
To murder for your country or to play their deadly game.
We've got to try to comprehend
The man inside your gunsight could have been your finest friend.
And I say...
Lay Your Weapons Down!
I can't go on this way
Oh no! It's really up to us now, brothers.
You can make it happen,
Got to put an end to war today!
So you say you love your country
And that you'll fight to keep it free
How can you love a freedom
That stands for death and inhumanity?
Lay Your Weapons Down!
I can't go on this way
Oh, no!
It's really up to us now, brothers.
You can make it happen,
Got to put an end to war today!

Catch Your Breath

I walked along the barren beach
I saw the trash but not the glass broken at my feet
Cut myself once again gotta stop count to ten
Try and relax!
Take a breath. Breath in deep. Taste the smog. Feel heat.
We gotta get out
All the trash, broken glass, dirty air, no one cares
Help me out cuz I think I'm choking!
People choose what to do
Sippin booze, you're on glue!
Catch your breath
While you still have a chance!
Self preservation's what it's all about
Suffocation kills without a doubt
So if it happens that the people just can't stop Wastin', trashin', usin' what we got left
We're next in line and you can bet
When you grow old , put you in homes
A slow and lonely death
You won't forget the mess you left
Another unpaid debt and now you're choking
and now sometimes I tell myself
I'm just alive and I'll get by, without any help
So I say why should I sing a song about the wrongs,
And the mess that we leave?
Well, in a month or a year maybe I'll have some kids
And they'll need to breath!