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Never Been Caught

by The Criminals

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1.
you stupid fuk (jesse) you stupid fuk didja hear the news believe every rumor I heard it's true don't talk to me if you've got nothing to say I'm so sick of rumors you stupid fuk you slimy liar way too juicy not to be true - (right!)
2.
never been caught (zodiac killer [assisted by brady]) peek-a-boo you're doomed! he plunged himself into the billowy wave and an echo arose from the suicide's grave i thought you would need a good laugh before you hear the bad news sick of living/ unwilling to die cut clean if red clean blood i feel it in my bones you ache to know my name so i'll clue you in - but then why spoil our game don't bury me on the back pages like some of the others i get awfully lonely when i am ignored so lonely i could do my thing i got a little list of society offenders who might well be underground who would never be missed i think i shall wipe out a school bus- just shoot out the front tire and then pick off the kiddies as they come bouncing out standing in the cold rain - never been caught sniffin' glue and stalkin' you - never been caught
3.
no victim here (jesse) anorexic limbs scramble for the vein deep depression eyes self-deluding shuffling one way flight to her jane doe grave he's the smart and final pusher suave to the end freebies first to desperate fiends that used to be friends blood bubbles trickle last breath wheeze naked sphincter opens now nothing's left... another funeral dropping like flies tearful good-byes together mourners lean on each other no control too late to hear her cry for help friends abandoned now drink you away she's been aimlessly wandering stumbling through the grime scratching her heroin itch addiction's her victimless crime trapped by the deal that's no bargain at all smaller and smaller circles it's slower and slower until at last it comes to a final fatal crawl.
4.
Muerte 01:49
muerte (jesse) another city of the dead - telephone boxes of death slab after slab covering bones - lying in marble beds cemetaries are for the living to primp and beautify the end rotting flesh stinks under flowers - clean marble lets us pretend the weathered headstones cut through the grass like the crusty schooners of old eternity bound with their decaying cargo of raggedy bones and mold some graves are cared for by little old men others fall into themselves, returning to the earth again
5.
dial ' H' for homewrecker (brady) I'm hexed oversexed we're a mess I stab out my eyes like Oedipus Rex I can't keep down a meal hate the way you make me feel pretty please I'm on my knees a lump of coal where your heart should be I'm hexed you're next more is less I stab out my eyes like Oedipus Rex I should be broken but I'm just bored nobody's young and pure anymore we're only in this ankle-deep stop touching me I want to sleep I think I'm headed for an early gave so I'm headed back to El Segundo beyond the turmoil of our times with shifty eyes and racing minds not words coolly uttered by a mind at calm breathing-girl-timer-bomb
6.
signifigativo (jesse) electiones cambian nada que tanto una lema idiota para las idiotas el voto local es signifigativo el nacional no es nada los dogmaticos creanlos ciegos los seguidores por el derecho por la izquierda y por el centro la dogma obscura atajaste antes que puedes pensar las palabras dogmaticas por los debiles y los perezosos lees los periodicos y consultas con la almohada paras la oreja usas el cerebro
7.
morning after (jesse) (for genoa and pultney grove) last night's a night i want to forget though i can't remember a thing I guess i passed out on the floor with spittle running down my chin woke up drunk stumbled down stairs swaying with each step stepping over sleeping people passed out who i've never met bottles scattered on every surface, ashtrays everywhere smelly boots and leather jackets thrown under broken chairs stale cigarette smoke lingers, it's sunk into the grime we'll stink of last night's beer and smoke 'till the end of time those goddamn birds are singing, it's too early in the day the evil neighbors glare at me they want us to move away the yard's an apocalypse of broken glass, neighbors always complain only twelve'o clock in the afternoon, at least it's cloudy again
8.
CST Bitch 01:13
cst bitch (jesse) blood on my arms proves that i am drunk we're nostalgia bloody ultimate punk relive days that meant nothing to us then now we claim o.g. we don't have to pretend i loved it then and i love it now different back then but reality's right now wouldn't trade my past for no gold now our memories are being bought and sold a sense of self and years gone by gives me strength to keep on trying
9.
parlez-vous fuck you? (jesse) you make me sick with your porn movie moves there's many more women stronger than you not worth my contempt, just my endurance next year you'll be in business, good riddance! the way you laugh makes me cringe you don't know how to lose or how to win you cheat you complain you bend the rules a simple card game betrays you parlez-vous fuck you? fuck you!
10.
my school sucks (jesse) yeah I hate my teachers they make me read bad books the principal oppresses me and kids give me dirty looks the worst pains are my classes filled with boring facts dumb ideas in textbooks written by nerdy four-eyed hacks my counselor tells me I have such great potential who listens to him though he's got no credentials trying to turn me into society's creature at least in RISKY BUSINESS they got pizza! my school sucks and I know it trying to mold me they'll never hold me
11.
girl with a hole in her heart (brady) (around here there's a place where all the kids go) angels with dirty faces sneak around secret places, past thorn bushes and barbed-wire fences, past the cops with their dulled senses. ruling the rooftops and alleyways wishing we could wreck the world this way. with no one left for us to follow we blast straight through to tomorrow. sticky fingers and clever schemes, smeared make-up and black-eyed dreams. 'cause we've got no long term plans... but we gotta stick it to the man... (this side of the tracks belongs to us) there is a girl with a hole in her heart who wants so much she'll make stealing an art. I'm entranced and afraid simultaneously - but I fell when the smell of your cheap perfume hit me we didn't listen to what we were told - she won't slow down so she won't grow old no (and I fell when the smell of your cheap perfume hit me
12.
criminal rock and roll (jesse) criminals strike while the going's hot/ we're every where the cops are not never been caught no plans to be - no plans to be running for miles all criminally got my big white satellite car on the road pumping out the maximum rock and roll chewing up the miles with the stereo blasting swerving around slowpokes never crashing we're the criminals feeling real fine/ rocking out way over the line never been told we're going too slow /sexing up all of El Segundo
13.
notes on a barf bag (final approach) (jesse) boom boom goes the motor boom boom go the gears crash crash - there's the wreck dead dead - where's my head fasten seatbelt while seated use seat cushion for floatation brace position like that'll help air turbulence experiencing discomfort wind shear and pilot error metal concrete flying with the greatest of ease ever courteous ever safe always clean except when...
14.
I Feel Funny 02:19
I feel funny again (jesse) late night brain freeze keeps me awake I've jerked off gone to work read and ate mind's running at one hundred per sitting straight up staring glassy stare nothing narcotic's doing it it's boredom pure uncut times like this I'm all cartoon whirlpool lines above this loon too broke for sleeping pills no car to drive through the hills can't call that girl cuz it's three twenty-six years and it's still just me uh,uh, I feel funny again blank as a barn door dumb as a nun five times this month I've greeted the sun insomnia no cuz I'm not that kind of sick done everything possible nothing does the trick
15.
Latex Drool 02:13
latex drool (jesse) special love for special people stuttering stumbling through the gates splashing soaked in the tunnel of love we don't know what we're doing and we feel fine shot the wad (now let's) shootthe moon credit's due to leaky latex and allstar drool can anyone topsy this turvy and survive? ask every seven and fifty two and all three six five money's good only for more fuel and rent fuel's good to kickstart the deed under the limit rent's good to give a place for afternoon shaggin' limits don't exist as well they never did or else the love that dare not wreak his mane lolling about covered in lusty busty sin after the dust settles we're picking hair out of teeth arythmic fumbling and lotsa fun love of the geek
16.
Get Over It 12:26
get over it (jesse) "who are you and what do you want?" none of your concern big boy confront me for being a freak, you're next come onto me fake and I'm all about coy ambiguity is my kryptonite shield no clue where I am- not your business I bathe in your verbal epithets your ignorance keep guessing, hear rumors, my way of life labels are your insecurity labels are my only best refuge dividing you behind them but that's my only defense none of your business get over it none of your business you'l know if it is maybe I suck cock maybe I suck cunt if you ain't my type you'll never know ain't no thing- get over it am i mormon or skanky low-down ho

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Originally released on Lookout Records in 1997 on LP & CD, this was reissued by Dead Broke in 2013 on LP. It has never been available digitally until now!

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released January 1, 1997

Recorded At – Catbox Studios
Mixed At – Catbox Studios
Mastered At – Fantasy Studios
Mastered At – Greg Lee Processing
Backing Vocals – Bailey Jim Strongarms, Brady, Dave, Jim Nastic, Josh Von Indar, Matt, Robin Tussin, Spyder
Vocals - Jesse Luscious
Bass – Mike Sexx
Drums – Dan Ger
Electric Guitar – Brady Caesar
Engineer – Billie Joe Armstrong
Engineer [Assistant] – Joey "Killer" Perales*
Mastered By – George Horn
Front Cover- Jesse Michaels
New Logo- Mike Bruno/Dead Broke

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The Criminals Berkeley, California

Police issued a bulletin asking for any information leading to the arrest of the band of CRIMINALS that terrorized the nation 1994-2000 & 2012-15. Known so far: the band rose from the ashes of BLATZ and THE GR’UPS along with other miscreants including the HI-FIVES, SCATTERED FALL, & ECONOCHRIST, and released records on Lookout, Adeline, & FOAD. Last sighting was 2017's The Lookouting @ 924 Gilman! ... more

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