Rock N Roll Nightmare
RKL

Jason Sears
Bomber
Chris Rest
Barry Dalive
 		Vocals
Bass & Drums
Guitar
Guitar
Produced by Mark Deutrom & RKL
Executive Producer - Victor Haydyn
Engineered by Jim Shaffer
Recorded at S.N.M. Studios
Santa Barbara Ca. May 1987
All Artwork & Layout by Dan Sites 1987
Cover Photos by Doug Pensinger

Intro to Coming Home by
The Railerbucket Country Choir:

Jason Sears - Harmonica, Spoons, Yeehaws
Randy Savage - Jug
Dan Sites - Refrigerator Grill
Bomber - Washboard & Jews Harp
Espo - Yeehaws
Jim Shaffer - Banjo
Barry - Pig Grunts, Yeehaws

Rap on Find A Way by Espo & Jason Sears


RKL Wishes to express special thanks to those who helped make this nightmare possible:
All out parents, Victor, Mark Deutrom, The Melvins, Unseen Force, Vink, NOFX, Les Trubble, Clown Alley, Rover Flea, Nick and Becka, Rat Pack, Haight Ashbury Zoup Kitchen, Dave Whitaker, Short Dogs Grow, Tomcat, Beyond Possession, Jay Bee Axter, Ron Concrete Jungle, Jeanne F, Sacriledge, Carolyn, Ted and Dorinda Townsend, Randy Savage, Alpo, J.J. (Acidcult) Atkinson, Anna, Pete (Jester) Bennet, Dave Rosebro, Will Mo and Janine, Felix, Margaret, Mariah, Buddy, Dave and Mark Duran, Grux and Tonya, Dawn, Monty, Julie and Ibot, Connie Jones, Samantha, KCSB, K.P.F.T., Pete Piston and Dee, Rajneesh, James and Karen, Jayfish, Local Color Video, Roy Farm, Isla Vista Parks Dept., Attitude, Bobo, Joe Dead, Emilio, Peter Lester, Chris Hippie, Blabber Mark, Wedo, G-Man Mark, M.D.C., Rhythm Pigs, Johnny Stiff, RJ, Jake R.I.P., Logan, Stone Vengeance, Blue Movie, Chuck Roast, Mr. Lee, David N., Fritz, Marge, Willy O, Becky, Paul Castille, Frankie, Rene and Ryan, Spike, Ninja, Gentleman Jim, Terry, Dickie, Chuck Barfoot, Claudia Sites, Fang, Christian Grable, Debbie Gordon, Noize Boyz, Test Subj-X, Matt Strohs, E.B., John Lieb, Jim Shaffer and Cocktails From Hell, Eddy, Sunshine, Nick Sites, Haight Free Clinic, Ron Dong, Trees Herbs, Bobby Peniscola and Bro, Lynne, Gibson, Marshall, Mesa Boogie, Limpeck, Charucki, Mark Failure and Ali, Verbal Abuse, Darby, Toxic Reasons, Dutch Ron Roadie, Garbage Pail Kids, Dr. Know, Ill Repute, Perry O'Connell, Doug Black and Hannah, Whitehill, Oti, J.R. Sibilio, Lil' Man, Seanna, The Metroplex, Carl, Kiss Army, Theo, Pat Black, Suzie, Hillary, Rich Boy, Dave Belij, Mike Freak, Tony and Gordon Jennell, Pete Psycho, Crash N Burn, Mike Fox, Desa, Mudwimmen, Miles, The Afflicted, Lil Bro Jesse, Kalx, Mike's Drum Shop, Junk Food, Testers, J.R. Bob Dobbs, Jeff King, Secret Agent Flack, Ill Bill, Eric Stone, Duct Tape, Tom Albino, Tony D'Amato (For work off tour), Keith Condemned, Cappy Havens, Nathan, The Farm, Christa, Jimmy Dread and Jessie, Animal, Jane, Skrewhead, Damon and Jancey, Tom and Danine, Atom, Stacy and Craig, Juan Robin Hood, Little Joe, Alfred, Mike Taylor, Jeff Pixley, Z. Zubeck, Rob Washburn, Anheuser Busch, Camel, Taco Bell, Navato Victims, Bakersfield Dwellers, Redwood City Rats, S.L.O. Punx, Zoran, Marc Heathfield, Sean and Sue Boren, Demon V, Ray Pierce, and O.K...why not...Bohawk and Lynn S. and especially all those who came to the shows, put us up, put up with us, and believed in the band.
Side One:
Side Two:
Scab on My Brain
Hangover
Meltdown
Catch Your Breath
Seein' You
Lay Your Weapons Down
Coming Home
Sargasm
 		Break the Camels Back
Blocked Out
Tribute to the Jester
Rock N Roll Nightmare
Alone Inside
One Light, One Mind
Find a Way

Lyrics
Scab on My Brain - 3:22

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!

Hangover - 3:31

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.
You don't feel strong enough to open your eyes.
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 on your wrists.

Meltdown - 2:00

We don't gotta lot to say about the things that never happen or the things that do
But you're playing with a fire that you can't put out!
Conventional powers worked and seemed a lot more safe,
Maybe there's something to be said for tradition after all!
You had the right to live,
Now you're old and don't give a shit!
Subconsciously fill prophecy,
the end is what you'll wanna see now
No! Meltdowns go away!
No! Meltdowns go away!
No! Meltdowns go away!
No? Meltdowns don't go away!

Catch Your Breath - 3:45

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 the heat. I gotta get out!
All the trash, broken glass, dirty air, no one cares, help me out...
'Cause I think that 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 you're choking!
I know sometimes I tell myself,
I'm just alive and I'll get by without any help!
So I say why should I sing a songs of the wrongs and the mess that we leave? In a month or a year maybe I'll have some kids...
And they'll need to breath!
All the trash, broken glass, dirty air, no one cares, help me out...
'Cause I think that 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!

Seein' You - 2:42

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 but the 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!

Lay Your Weapons Down - 2:29

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!

Coming Home - 2:30

You say "Life's too fast"
You see the bus at last.
You smoke the weed, though it's your last,
You laugh!
"Too cold" you say. Another foggy day.
Your shirt's tucked in to stop the wind from numbing you again.
You say you're gonna leave this place,
Tired of the race, You just want a break.
And no one's left around,
Within a week you're bound to find what's real.
So you split home to find out the rest of the world's slowed down,
You turn around.
Start back home to find that what you left behind was always right
You know it sure feels good to be back home.
Why I ever left I still don't know.
I missed this place, this stomping ground, my home.
Got so that I even miss the cold.
You know it sure feels good to be back home.
Oh, why I ever left I still don't know.
I missed this place, this stomping ground, my home.
Got so that I even miss the cold.

Sargasm - 2:44

Things have changed today,
Life's just crazier in ways
Can't let daily stresses get on 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 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 do. No.
Had to say it 'cause you set it up that way,
I can't keep control of my mouth!
Ohhh!
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 'cause you're so burnt.
Laughing at you gets me off!
Sargasm!
A tactic we use, just strategy
Helps me 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 do. Ohhh.
It's not that we hate you or can't stand your face
We just really don't care what you say at all!

Break the Camels Back - 4:57

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 Camels Back!
Break The Camels Back!
Break The Camels Back!

Blocked Out - 5:00

Ohhhh... 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 blocked out all the phony people
Blocked out, the trash that you read
Blocked out, the shit 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

Tribute to the Jester - 4:03

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
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.
But 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!

Rock N Roll Nightmare - 3:15

When it all began you said you couldn't understand what they were screaming
Can't call it singing!
But with a second chance, you said, you swore it wouldn't last but just a fad
But when you felt us rock... from halfway down the block
Always feared but never thought
Rock n roll could last so long... these days!
So turn the volume up on your TV
So you can hide the pounding beat
Coming from outside your house
Minimize the sound intake and just admit you can't relate
to what's happening now!
Reformed hippies on MTV
Soothe your mind so you can sleep
When all along you always knew
The explosion of rock n roll grew... so strong!
Open your mind and you'll hear what it sounds like to really be free
Bands that are touring you will actually see
a whole lot of fresh air to put your mind at ease
Maybe someday we'll be old
Hope these open thoughts I hold
all your youth already sold!
It's your rock n roll nightmare pretending
it's not there
Rock N Roll Nightmare
Rock N Roll Nightmare
We're your Rock N Roll Nightmare!
'Cause we're your Rock N Roll Nightmare

Alone Inside - 1:53

People all around, alone inside
the fear I hide sticks to my mind.
And time will tell how sadness dwells
A fixtured scowl inlays my face I frown
while putting all things down
The lowliest of men know prejudice a friend
Afraid they'll find the ones they hate most are more like them
People always tellin me about things in life they never see
They blame the people on the streets for what happens to be
When all they want is sympathy to justify what they believe
Taking the quickest way out, avoiding things
Good and bad to all life's things
Good is just last to be seen
We're human beings
Good friends come and acquaintances go
Day to day we see the way the hate breeders loathe an open mind
Just want to flow through life and party with my friends
Don't need no enemies the world provides enough!

One Light One Mind - 2:22

It's all happenin' all around,
A peoples celebration coming down.
A movement big enough to split the world in half right now,
Without a sound.
`Cause we don't want to live abused,
By theories that all faith has fallen through.
We can live in happiness,
At peace with God, deny the rest.
Love what little earth is left and go on with life and do our best.
To see through the lies that get us down below,
We will rise together for a better world we all will know.
And you can try and tell us that the
Government can take away our rights.
And you can say kill or be killed,
But thoughts like that won't manifest our minds.
You know it's right deep down inside.
Why can't we get it right?
Balance the symptons that plague our lives,
With hatred and greed all the money that we show.
When one mind will destine where all of us are gonna go!
One Light, One Mind
??We'll do just fine??
Why can't we get it right?
Balance the symptons that plague our lives
With hatred and greed all the money that we show
When one mind will destine where all of us are gonna go!

Find a Way - 2:57

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.