Ramones - Road to Ruin RAMONES / ROAD TO RUIN
1978 - Sire Records

1.I Just Want to Have Something to Do
2.I Wanted Everything
3.Don't Come Close
4.I Don't Want You
5.Needles and Pins
6.I'm Against It
7.I Want to Be Sedated
8.Go Mental
9.Questioningly
10.She's the One
11.Bad Brains
12.It's A Long Way Back

I JUST WANT TO HAVE SOMETHING TO DO
hanging out on second avenue eating chicken vindaloo i just want to be with you i just want to have something to do tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight, tonight wait-now wait-now hanging out all by myself cause i don't want to be with anybody else i just want to be with you i just want to have something to do tonight

I WANTED EVERYTHING
i heard about the easter bunny presents under a christmas tree it was dreaming and fantasy there was no mom or daddy i wanted everything i wanted everything i wanted everything i had the world on my shoulder but i was getting older knew i was ready for it some kind of employment i wanted everything i wanted everything i wanted everything all day working on a truck bringing the groceries up not much of a salary no tip for the delivery i wanted everything i wanted everything i wanted everything there's no success for me involved in a robbery there's money in the supermarket and i'm goin' in after it i wanted everything

DON'T COME CLOSE
you know it's generally known you got everything at home kisses out of desperation bring you more aggravation and you don't come close you don't come close you don't come close you bring out your souvenirs soak them wet with your tears you lose your imagination out of more aggravation and you don't come close you don't come close you don't come close you turn red with rage but act your age only thing that your regret you need more time to forget and you don't come close you don't come close you don't come close

I DON'T WANT YOU
you said that you'd be true baby said that you'd be true i don't care, i don't care i don't care, i don't care i don't want you don't want you i don't want you anymore you said that you'd be mine baby said that you'd be mine i don't care, i don't care i don't care, i don't care i don't want you don't want you i don't want you i want you, i want you i want you to stay but i guess that you'd be true i don't care, i don't care i don't care, i don't care i don't want you don't want want you i don't want you anymore

NEEDLES AND PINS
i saw her today, i saw her face it was a face i love and i knew i had to run away and get down on my knees and pray that they go away still it begins needles and pins because of all my pride the tears i gotta hide oh i thought i was smart i stole her heart didn't think i do but now i see she's worse to him than me let her go ahead take his love instead and one day she will see just how to save me and get down on her knees that's how it begins she'll feel those needles and pins - oh, no - oh, no why can't i stop and tell myself i'm wrong, i'm wrong, so wrong why can't i stand up and tell myself i'm strong because i saw her today i saw her face it was a face i love and i knew i had to run away and get down on my knees and pray that they go away still it begins needles and pins because of all my pride the tears i gotta hide hey! needles and pins needles and pins needles and pins

I'M AGAINST IT
i don't like politics i don't like communists i don't like games and fun i don't like anyone well i'm against it i'm against it i don't like jesus freaks i don't like circus geeks i don't like summer and spring i don't like anything i don't like sex and drugs i don't like waterbugs i don't care about poverty all i care about is me i don't like playing ping pong i don't like the viet cong i don't like burger king i don't like anything and i'm against it

I WANNA BE SEDATED
twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go i wanna be sedated nothing to do nowhere to go i wanna be sedated just get me to the airport and put me in a plane hurry hurry hurry before i go insane i can't control my fingers i can't control my brain oh no oh ho just put me in a wheelchair and get me to the show hurry hurry hurry before i go loco i can't control my fingers i can't control my toes oh no oh ho

GO MENTAL
out of the hospital out against my will life is so beautiful i've gone mental mental mental i've killed my family they thought i was an oddity life is so beautiful i am a vegetable mental mental i've gone mental i've gone mental staring at my goldfish bowl popping phenobarbitol life is so beautiful i've gone mental mental mental sitting on my window sill life is so beautiful i've become irrational i've gone mental mental mental i've gone mental

QUESTIONINGLY
questioningly her eyes looked at me and then she spoke aren't you someone i used to know and weren't we lovers a long time ago? looked at her close forced her into view yes, i said, you're a girl that i once may have knew but i don't love you anymore why do you want to talk to me for? you should have just let me walk by memories make us cry in the morning i'm at work on time my boss tells me that i'm doing fine when i'm going home whiskey bottle movie on the tv memories make me cry and i'm alone just me just me questioningly

SHE'S THE ONE
yeah yeah she's the one yeah yeah she's the one when i see her on the street you know she makes my life complete and you know i told you so she's the one she's the one yeah yeah she's my girl yeah yeah she's my girl when i see her on the street you know she makes my life complete and you know i told you so she's the one she's the one she's the one know i'll never find a girl like you but in my heart i'll always love you but in my heart i'll always be true yeah yeah she's my girl the best girl in the whole wide world

BAD BRAIN
i used to be an a student i never used to complain i used to be a truant but i'm still the same bad bad brain bad bad brain i used to go to parties i used to drink champagne now i'm beginning to feel the strain bad bad brain i used to be in show biz i used to have fortune and fame i used to have pleasure and pain i used to have a name bad bad brain now i'm on the bowery i can't remember my name bad bad brain bad bad brain bad bad brain bad bad brain

IT'S A LONG WAY BACK
you by the phone you all alone it's a long way back to germany


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