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More Than Local Boys

Matches (The)
(album: E. Von Dahl Killed The Locals)

Out in the streets at all hours of the night
Softly bathed in flickering dashboard lights
Hey! There�s no painless
way to say
that I pass on the piece of pie
that you planned as mine
I´m starving too, but I´m hungry for life
Not that life,
But my life,
It´s my time
My POS car with the radio playin´
The graveyard jockey is on the air sayin´
"Here´s a new hot band outta Oakland..."
And it´s the sound
Of my way out

We make noise
What else could we choose?
We´re gonna be more than local boys
And shake! shake! shake!
The dust off these shoes

I used to watch this kid
turning wrenches next door
He grew up
Engines strewn across the oil stained floor
I got a car
The next year
I knew better but let it fall
into disrepair
I gotta get away, gotta get away,
Gotta get away from here
But four wheels
aren´t going to get me there
Summer time blues
on the front porch swinger
The jock says that
The Rage got a new singer
The first note
rips through the speaker
And it´s the sound
of my way out

Yeah!
We make noise
What else could we choose?
We´re gonna be more than local boys
And shake! shake! shake!
The dust off these shoes
We make noise
What else could we choose?
We´re gonna be more than local boys
And shake! shake! shake!
The dust off these shoes...
The dust off these shoes...

We´re the wolves
Prowlin´ the shadows of these worn down streets
A rabid dose of ambition drives us to the books
To the highways -
To the low-way -
To the air waves -
We´re all just trying get a better look
At what´s beyond the tall grass
That grows around this town
I gotta see the world for myself
And I only know one way to get out
Pick up my ticket to anywhere but here
It´s got six strings and a soul
I gotta get away, Gotta get away
Gotta get away from here
Turn it up, and rock right out of this whole

We make noise
What else could we choose?
We´re gonna be more than local boys
And shake! shake! shake!
The dust off these shoes
We make noise
What else could we choose?
We´re gonna be more than local boys
And shake! shake! shake!
The dust off these shoes
Shake! Shake! Shake!
Shake! Shake! Shake!
Shake! Shake! Shake!
Shake! Shake! Shake!