25 Years

Album: Far Beyond Driven (1994)
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  • I vent my frustration at you, old man
    After years your ears will hear

    You screamed, you tried
    It's words of a weakling and promises made by a liar
    Drunken liar

    Now you pick up that splintered chair
    That was aiming for your head

    A head that should have been long ago
    Kicked in by me, alone

    (I won't lose a second of sleep for this)
    Not again
    Don't touch me
    Don't touch me
    Don't touch me
    No, ever again
    Don't touch me
    Don't touch me
    Don't touch me

    Orphaned to the dope and drinks
    I learned my lesson well somehow from you

    No tears, can't clutch my regrets
    But these years of detachment
    Have left me with demons now surfacing
    I'm becoming more than you'll be
    You never knew the answers to
    Any of my questions, did you?

    You made up all the answers to
    My unimportant existence

    (You don't have to dump me off)
    Not again
    Don't touch me
    Don't touch me
    Don't touch me
    Fuck no, never again
    Don't touch me
    Don't touch me
    Don't touch me

    Fuck no (don't touch me)
    Never again (don't touch me)
    Don't touch me again

    I vow, lest I die tomorrow
    (Tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow)

    You'll never be the father I am
    The bastard father to the thousands
    Of the ugly, criticized, unwanted
    The ones with fathers just like you
    We're fucking you back, fucking you back
    I'm shoving my life right down your throat
    Can I find the guts? Can I feel the heart?
    Look at the ground as you choke me up
    Does it taste like tequila or failure?
    We're fucking you back, fucking you back
    We're fucking you back, fucking you back

    Criticized what to watch
    We're fucking you back, fucking you back
    Unwanted, the ones with fathers just like you
    We're fucking you back, we're fucking you back
    We're fucking you back Writer/s: Darrell Abbott, Philip Anselmo, Rex Brown, Vincent Abbott
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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