Trippy lyrics:

"I bet you twenty pounds if you knew ten years ago how pretty you'd turn out then you'd never have gotten your ears pierced, but I never got my ears pierced and look how I turned out,

and the last time that you tried listening to music, and reading fiction at the same time, you never finished the chapter, but you finished the song with your chin on your knees like you belong



and i never cared about Henry Rollins

Amelia Fletcher never meant anything to me

but the International Tweexcore Underground, will save us all



Getting the laptop fixed by a professional doesn't make me a pawn and

stamping harder on your FX pedal, won't make you feel any better any more

oh you said "we've gotta bite the hand that feeds" but I was sucking seductively on the fingertips of a civil servant,

said "how you gonna bring the state down when you're propping it up?

with daytime radio

and skimmed milk and soppy bows

just 'cause you're scared to be alone"



and I never cared about Ian MacKaye

Calvin Johnson never meant anything to me

but the International Tweexcore Underground, will save us all



Ooh, this city is run by fucking pigs, and though you say you're my friend, you're not, you're one of them.



and i never cared about...whatever

Sarah Records never meant anything to me

but the International Tweexcore Underground, will save us all"

If the emotionally and politically charged music of Fugazi, Rights of Spring and Embrace were considered emo, why is it bands like Jawbreaker and Jets to Brazil fell into the same category? Was Minor Threat emo? Ian MacKaye seemed pretty angry most of the time while fronting for a band that preached abstinence from drugs, alcohol, sex and promoted veganism.

This is why when people ask me what kind of music I play, I tell them "music that you have to listen very closely to hear."

Someday Virgin records will be choosing genre labels for us, and all our problems will be solved.

See if you can spot Ian MacKaye in the audience.

I can!