Bumblefoot "Abnormal" CD lyrics

Abnormal is the follow-up to Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal's previous offering Normal, and the first solo release as a member of Guns N' Roses.  An experimental hard rock album with flavors of punk and melodic rock. When asked about the new project, Thal had the following to say: 'It was October last year, I was about to fly into a fucking rage, went to go crash out at the studio, and all these songs just started flying out of my head. Spent the next few months recording drums, bass, guitars, vocals, opera singers and tuba players. Some people heard it and said it reminds them of the Sex Pistols with a little Beatles/Queen vibe to it. Didn't have a plan, just did what I felt, and in the end this is what I got.'  Thal also ran a contest where people submitted videos of themselves singing opera, and the winners of the contest sang backing vocals on the album.

Abnormal

For all that I love you, that's how much I hate you
And it hits me like a flick of the switch
You're my perfect angel, but sometimes
All I see is a fuckin' bitch
The problem's not you, I know, it's true
There's just somethin' goin' on in my head
Everything has changed, everything's so strange
And now you're stuck with ab-normal again

For all that I love you, that's how much I hate you
And the button gets pushed all the time
For all the fun I have inside you
I could leave it at the toss of a dime
The problem's me, that much I see
There's something wrong inside my head
Everything has changed, everything's so strange
And now you're stuck with ab-normal again

For all that I love you, that's how much I hate you
And it crushes me like a ton of bricks
Just when I think I'm gonna reach out for your neck
Instead my hands go right to your tits
I've always known I'm crazy
I'm just tired of tryin' to pretend
Everything has changed, everything's so strange
And now you're stuck with ab-normal again

It's like runnin' face-first into a wall
Till I black out down on the floor
The next time ya see me chargin' towards ya
Just push me right out the door
The intensity's too much sometimes

Fame is a fuckin' cage
I'm infected with this rage
And now you're stuck with ab-normal again
And now you're stuck with ab-normal again
And now you're stuck with ab-normal again
And now we fuck like ab-normal again


Glad To Be Here


I'm so glad to be here I could slit my fucking wrist
This chaos is just what I need to keep me nice and pissed
My chest fills up with acid till the veins pop in my head
I wake up every morning wishing God would strike me dead
But...

When the whole world looks at me they see some other guy
Doesn't matter what I say, they all made up their minds
I didn't like it then, and I still don't like it now
But I find the strength to smile somehow
And say...

I'm so glad to be here I could jump off every bridge
But everybody's got a rope around one of my limbs
Tryin' to get their piece they keep on tearing me apart
They wanna get inside me so they can kick around my heart
'Coz...

When the whole world looks at me they see some other guy
Doesn't matter what I say, they all made up their minds
I didn't like it then, and I still don't like it now
But I find the strength to smile somehow
And say...

I'm so glad to be here
I'm really glad to be here
I'm so glad to be here
I'm really glad to be here

I'm so glad I could just hang myself from the highest tree
I'm longing for the crush of rushing trains over me
I haven't had a good night sleep since 1995
I'm too tired to ask why I keep myself alive
But...

When the whole world looks at me they see some other guy
Doesn't matter what I say, they all made up their minds
I didn't like it then, and I still don't like it now
But I find the strength to smile somehow
And say...

I'm so glad to be here
I'm really glad to be here
I'm so glad to be here
I'm really glad to be here


Objectify

You point your finger at me
I'm a mirror to you
And you don't like what you see
And they think I'm insane
'Cause I got my own brain
Ya know, I really don't care
They, they don't wanna know me
Makes it harder to judge
Makes it harder to stink

And it's always the same
And I'm always to blame
And they gather outside
With their torches held high
Now the freak must die
But the freak is not I.

This is our last chance to break free
One last chance before they break me
This is our last chance to break free
One last chance before they break me down

Beware - beware of the Have-Nots
You're just an image to them
Of what they want but don't got
They'll call you every bad name
Breaking you is a game
'Til you're one and the same
(It's a fucking shame.)
And you - you objectify
A body for you to burn
But that body aint mine

And it's always the same
And I'm always to blame
And they gather outside
With their torches held high
Now the freak must die
But the freak is not I.

This is our last chance to break free
One last chance before they break me
This is our last chance to break free
One last chance before they break me down


Some Other Guy

How do I hate your face - well let me count the ways
Well there aint none at all - cause you aint nuthin to me
My brain don't work so good - remind me when did I care
I don't see how I would - there just aint nuthin' there

You're with some other guy
And man does he look funny
I try to say hello
But he always takes off runnin'

Well he don't bother me
We're done and it don't matter
So why's he so afraid
Every time he sees me comin'

It must be something ya said
To try and fuck with his head
You must have told him I'm still into you

Another reason why - ya got such an apetite
For all that bad attention - for that I got no patience
I think that you and I are two words that don't belong
Two lines that never cross - and that's alright because...

You're with some other guy
And man does he look funny
I try to say hello
But he always takes off runnin'

Well he don't bother me
We're done and it don't matter
So why's he so afraid
Every time he sees me comin'

It must be something ya said
To try and fuck with his head
You must have told him I'm still into you


Jenny B

Jenny B - you got all of my heart, can't ya see
Jenny B - you got all of my heart, can't ya see
You're the only one
Who gets that part of me

Jenny B - I'll be seein' ya 1 before 9
Jenny B - I'll be seein' ya 1 before 9
You're the only one
Who can get me to come right on time

Jenny B - I'll be seein' ya 1 before 9
Jenny B - I'll be seein' ya 1 before 9
You're my only one
On the hour you'll have me inside


Last Time

How does she break me down
Why am I still around?
Piece by piece till I fall
When did I lose my balls

I'm not gonna think about it - this will be the last time
Sobsodded and broken-hearted, well this will be the last time
So stop tryin' to get me started, cause this will be the last time
This will be the last time, This will be the last time
That I will think about...

All the ways ya pushed me down
Held my face to the ground
Eating dirt once again
Somethin' when you smile ya do me in

I'm not gonna think about it - this will be the last time
Sobsodded and broken-hearted, well this will be the last time
So stop tryin' to get me started, cause this will be the last time
This will be the last time, This will be the last time
That I will think about you

I try so hard
But the good's just a little too good
You push me too far
But the good's just a little too good
This is where we are
Cause the good's just a little too good

How does she break me down
Why am I still around?
Piece by piece till I fall
When did I lose my balls

I'm not gonna think about it - this will be the last time
Sobsodded and broken-hearted, well this will be the last time
So stop tryin' to get me started, cause this will be the last time
This will be the last time, This will be the last time
That I will think about you


Simple Days

You and I
Since you've gone all the flowers have died
You and I
We've been drifting apart for some time

How could I survive
In this world full of cocaine and lies?
'Cause every day away feels like
I've gone a thousand miles and have to go a thousand more
It's like a slow death in my soul
I feel while falling into space now darker than before
What ever happened to those simple days?

You and I
From a distance we're just shapes and lines
You and I
Pictures filling with holes in our minds

What can I do?
Change the tides so they bring me to you?
And every day away feels like
I've gone a thousand miles and have to go a thousand more
It's like a slow death in my soul
I feel while falling into space now darker than before
What ever happened to those simple days?

You and I
Disconnected and falling apart
Crucified
By the hand that keeps squeezing my heart

How could I survive
In this world full of cocaine and lies
And every day away feels like
I've gone a thousand miles and have to go a thousand more
It's like a slow death in my soul
I feel while falling into space now darker than before

A thousand miles, a thousand miles, I go a thousand more
What ever happened to those simple days?
I sure miss those good ol' simple days
I sure miss the world before it changed


Conspiracy

I'm so bored with everything (I need a new conspiracy)
Fools are ready to believe (I need a new conspiracy)
I'm a useless parasite
My dick in hand every night

I gotta question everything (I need a new conspiracy)
And make some deeper meaning (I need a new conspiracy)
'Cos without you I'm so empty
Why do I bother breathing?

All you do, you do for me (I need a new conspiracy)
You keep my cold heart beating (I need a new conspiracy)
I'm cowering behind a screen
Anonymous - I'm nobody

If only daddy kicked my ass (I need a new conspiracy)
I might become a man at last (I need a new conspiracy)
I resent what I can't be
I've got it so bad, woe is me

In my own room, on my high-speed (I need a new conspiracy)
I'm young I'm healthy and I'm free (I need a new conspiracy)
I've got it too good, don't ya see?
But that aint good enough for me

I need a new conspiracy (I need a new conspiracy)
I need a new conspiracy (I need a new conspiracy)
I need a new conspiracy (I need a new conspiracy)
I need a new conspiracy (I need a new conspiracy)


Piranha

I'm on a sinking ship surrounded by piranha
I can sink or swim but either way I'm a goner
Piranhas in the ocean and the sky and in my bed
Piranhas keep on biting till they get inside my head

And everyone wants to take a little bite
Till they're suckin' on my bones, they're scrapin' at my life
I can sink or swim but either way I'm a goner
I'm on a sinking ship and surrounded by piranha
And we drop down, just a little more down

I see them all around - just a-waitin' and a-watchin'
I see it in their eyes as the floor keeps droppin'
I aint gonna win but I won't go without a fight
Alone on a ship in a race against time
And it's runnin' out


Green

I fell in love with a cold-hearted woman
She shivers in silence
Her heart beating snow
And everything I know she taught me
'Bout Winter with trembling words

I wrote a song and gave it to her
She left frozen footprints
And made it her own
Her lies were full of rhyme and the music
In my heart turned suddenly black

Blame it on love and pain, and all in between
On colored emotions, each deeper than green
It's all in my mind in a world only I see
Where I am the king, and everything I touch turns green.

We live in a world deep inside an icebox
Miles from the floodgates
Where nothing can grow
I tried to step from darkness
And all that I stand on was starting to crack

Blame it on love and pain, and all in between
On colored emotions, each deeper than green
It's all in my mind in a world only I see
Where I am the king, and everything I touch turns green.

It's all in my mind in a world only I see
Have I gone so blind to have dark without dreams?
I try to be kind but hatred becomes me
And I become sorrow and jade becomes grief

We're frozen inside while the world keeps on melting
We only survive 'cause death comes in 3
We're stopped on the edge just a sharp word from falling
Now I am the king, and everything I touch turns green.


Misery

Misery
She's trying to break free
Caught her flying in and out of dreams

Misery
The sky turns tangerine
Take my hand and give your heart to me

Bring you to a silver sea
Let me kiss you sweet grenadine
You will know just how much you mean to me

Misery
I want you tenderly
Let me show you that you can believe me

Every whisper a melody
Every promise a symphony
Forever you'll be in every word I sing

Misery
Won't you marry me
I will spend a lifetime,
I will search the whole world, darlin',
To find the words that say just how much I love you


Red Eye

Well it started with a sound I never heard before
Then the pushin' and the pullin' me across the floor
I said the last thing we did the night before we die
Was a little drunk girl with a big red eye

It was another late night in Tokyo
In another dark club after another show
If the morning light could have got inside
We would have seen the girl had a big red eye

So we crashed out a little bit before the quake
Then I held you tight while the hotel shaked
If the walls came down we would have surely died
Never knowin' the girl had a big red eye

But we lived to see ourselves another day
And we laughed out loud with a foot in the grave
Ya see, the camera had a flash and the pictures don't lie
That little drunk girl had a big red eye

And the toxic waste spilled into the sea
And the air stuck like flypaper to me
It's all one big roller-coaster ride
And last night she got on with a big red eye

The greatest lessons we could learn in life
Are always served the day after we die
All I would have missed as I hit the sky
Was that the little drunk girl had a big red eye


Dash

And everything will come to pass.
And it all happened in the dash
I saw the numbers on each side
But all that mattered was the line

When you left so many came
To see the stone they had engraved
It all happened way too fast
It all happened in the dash

And everything will come and go
And we will never really know
Just how much falls in-between
Or we'd say everything will be.

But we can't sum up every page
With just one cover and one name
It all happened way too fast
And all we had becomes a dash

And if I had one more chance for us to start things over
Ya know I wouldn't change a thing
And if I had one more chance for us to be together
If I could do it all again
I wouldn't change a thing

And everything will come to be
Another distant memory
Something alone to make you laugh
One for your own epitaph

And in the end what will they say
About your spirit and your name
It all happened way too fast
And all we are becomes a dash

And if I had one more chance for us to start things over
Ya know I wouldn't change a thing
And if I had one more chance for us to be together
If I could do it all again
I wouldn't change a thing

Life is what happens in-between the dreams you're trying to remember
Life is what happens in-between going for your longest breath underwater
Life is what happens in-between the red lights and stop signs
Life is what happens in-between losing your patience on the express line

Life is what happens in-between letting the phone ring and staring at the number
Life is what happens in-between finding out what no one wants to tell ya.
Life is what happens in-between staying for the end of your favorite song
Life is what happens in-between wanting to say it, but waiting too long

Life is what happens in-between each fight on the message board
Life is what happens in-between each time I leave for another tour
Life is what happens in-between the holding out for a better spot
Life is what happens when you take a chance and lose what ya got

Life is what happens in-between the traffic stopped to look at the crash
Life is what happens in-between forgetting to hit save and starting from scratch
Life is what happens between agreeing that the year went by so fast
Life is what happens and all we have becomes a dash