Shakedown

Chorus

It’s a shakedown

Loss of control

It’s a shakedown

That’s rocknroll

It’s a shakedown

Long stories told

Twenty five years of punk rocknroll

Verse

I’m not a zip bam boom artificial clone

I’m not a showcase major lable baffoon

I’m gonna come real though that’s all I’ve ever known

Get behind the wheel and drive to another show

I’ve loaded my amp into a veterans hall

I’ve sang my songs in a Kansas corn field

I’ve played squats in old East Berlin

Drank wine in Naples beer in Michigan

You can do it for money but you’ll be out of luck

Some do it for fame that will leave them all alone

Or you can do it cause you just can’t stop

The addiction to this life for those of us that know