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Sophistocution

by The Nojons

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1.
Ain't For Me 01:17
Abby’s got a ticket and she’s ready to go/heading to the spectrum for the rock and roll show/she feels so free when she listens to creed/she can do whatever she wants but that aint for me/no it aint for me
2.
Bullets 01:19
I’ve got bullets in my eyes for all those people that I can’t stand/still takes me by surprise/I don’t understand how a person can go to the fucking mall and watch jeopardy with their wife/go to sleep staring at a wall, wake up and call it a/life is slipping away right now and we’re all busy keeping their lies intact for the generations of a fucked up nation/but it’s too late to start over now/the kids don’t even realize that they have a choice to throw it all out the window/and as hard as they all try to make a living for their families/you gotta wonder why they never ask why
3.
Well you know I’m getting fed up wondering why we think we’re unsatisfied/All we do is sit around and talk about all the things we never tried/But it’s never too late to go outside/It’s never too late/We’re living like our lives are over and our dreams ain’t good anymore but you know, we’re not gonna last forever so I’m not gonna lock that door/Captivated by the world around me yet I never listen to my heart/Why do I keep getting lazy waiting for the summer to start? / And we all go through phases/everybody has got to change/but let’s quit these fucking crazes cause we know, deep down they’re all the same/I don’t wanna be afraid to keep on being a kid so I’m not going to be afraid
4.
well I know that I’ve been out of high school for a while/but all the mindless jocks are still in denial/wondering why coach took away their goal/disillusioned by the fact that they never got to the super bowl/they shout at me from the comfort of their car/but I know they’re gonna waste away in a shitty townie bar/do they honestly believe I care at all if they call me a fag cause I didn’t wanna play football?/I think I’ll just walk away/I’ve got better things to do with the remainder of my day/I don’t even wanna waste the energy that it would take to make them stop laughing at me
5.
How did so many yuppies leak into my town?/My friends and I used to be the only ones around/Time and again, I try to pretend that they’re not even there/But it’s hard to see past their noses in the air/They gotta lotta money but they sure don’t got all day/They’ll cut you off on their way out to the mall/They’ve got some boring shit to do so get out of their fucking way/Their BMWs are driving me up the wall/I don’t wanna go anywhere anymore/They’re just too damn difficult to ignore/It’s the same old bullshit law career that’s gotten them where they are…..(talking shit in packs at a fancy bar) And from the street, I can hear their conversations and they go “Me me me me me me me me me …”/“You you you you you? No, me me me me me…”/There’s a weapon that we must use in our defense/violence!/ When you look at them look right through them/That’s when they’ll disappear/That’s when we’ll be feared
6.
I lie awake in bed at night and you know…I can’t make sense of myself/23 and I’m still me, farming dust up here on my shelf/ I’m sick and tired of this modern world and I don’t wanna compete/All my friends have a means to their ends and I just wanna make mine meet/everyone wants me to be realistic/ And it comes and it goes/I kinda want to try to try but I just don’t know how to do the best I can and I really couldn’t give a damn cause if this is how it is, then this is just who I am/ I stay awake until the morning commute and I go out and look at the mob/ It’s times like these when I’m really pleased that I don’t have a job/ But other times I’m not so self-assured/ I know I can’t live off of 48 cents forever/But all joking aside I kinda wanna run and hide until the 80s come back again and I can be a kid
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8.
100,0 friends, but they don’t phone me/I’d better go out and try some new ones on/I’m gonna make them all wear nametags so I can make some memories before the thrill is gone/I hate this place/I can’t stand my own face but it’s the only one that anyone really knows/I need a break because the humble skin I’m wearing is getting fed up… fed up with my clothes/1,000 pairs of shoes/I still feel lonely/there must be something else that I haven’t tried/I go to parties but they ignore me/is there another thing about myself I need to hide? Yeah/I’ll call myself up/I’ll clear my throat and say we’re finally breaking up/but this time it’s for good, I’ll say/I need someone cooler than you so you’re no good to me
9.
Fuck You 02:07
Fuck you/I don’t care who you are/I don’t wanna hear about your stupid whiny bullshit anymore/I don’t care about your tan lines/I don’t care about your trip to cancun/I don’t care if you live or die so you’d better get the fuck out soon/I don’t care about Jennifer/I don’t care about your unibrow/I don’t care about your shitty friends so would you please just shut the fuck up right now/I don’t care about your Parliament lights/I don’t care about your diet coke/Well, I might care about your fat free dressing if it’s gonna make you fucking choke
10.
11.
Same place, same friends, same frame of mind/hanging out with other people’s like a waste of my time/and tonight we’re in our own little world/you know, we just don’t know a whole lot of girls/another night on the all-boy date/we just want another stupid reason to celebrate/you think we’re elitist punks who couldn’t give two shits about you and you know you’re right/oh, you think we’re cool? Well that’s a shame cause we just took a vote that said you’re lame/we don’t ever meet girls but we don’t care cause we never have to worry about washing our hair
12.
Dirty Son 00:44
You think that I don’t care/Think I’m never gonna go nowhere/hang around like a dirty son/ but I’m not the only one who sees what’s really real/hang around town late at night/we’re the shadows under neon lights/we’re the nemesis of all this boredom cause we’re the only ones who see what’s really real
13.
Philly Girl 02:33
So would you like to be my Philadelphia girlfriend?/If you say yes now, then you wouldn’t have to walk alone/I’ve been thinking up a lot of good ideas for people with nothing to do but they wouldn’t be much fun to do on my own/ So if you don’t care that I don’t care…Then we’ll shrug our shoulders and we won’t care together/Now I know they said that money can’t buy love/But they probably didn’t know how little we’ve got/I thought maybe we could get a couple of coffees and a soft pretzel for two and stay up all night in the Wawa parking lot/ And you can play bubble bobble while I play with your hair and we can watch Ghost Dad in our underwear or the very first season of Double Dare, oh yeah/We can go to the zoo and feed the bears or look for change on the ground in Rittenhouse Square/We can take Septa almost anywhere we please/We’ll discover a cave along the Deleware and we’ll make it our secret Philly lair we’ll go and listen to the dead milkmen in there/I don’t care/So if I don’t care and you don’t care then you won’t care and I won’t care and we can go to shows at the Trocadero
14.
When the moon wakes up, my friends go home to sleep and the sun takes off, leaving me alone to creep around the town/in the daytime I just find too many people and my mind doesn’t seem to know what’s going on/but the heroes of the night say stay with us, you’re one of us/let’s use this time to think before it’s gone/and the heroes of the night know what it means to be blessed with a fleeting moment of your own/the possibility of all your dreams and your wishful thinking will stay with you until you travel home/in the night time, time is standing still/in the night time I’ve got no time to kill/and all the trees bend down to show the sky and the streets go back to being what they used to be before/I can start to see this town’s the same as anywhere I’ve been before and that this sense of being lost is all inside of me/even urchins of the night know what it means to be blessed with a fleeting moment of your own/ the possibility of all your dreams and your wishful thinking will stay with you until you travel home

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released April 1, 2004

Drums - Jon
Guitar - Jon
Bass - Jon
Vocals - Jon

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