This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
With my perceptions in a mix
Down twenty miles through the sticks
To the cloudy town of Hellview
Population 96
Excessive vacancy, well maybe
In the shadow of an eye
All the strangers passing through
And where the rules just don't apply
At the fork turn left, a store
But on the right stay free from sight
'Cause 96 quite bitter beings
Like to stack the bodies high
The only way to ever leave
Is overflooded by the storm
And entanglement in Hellview
Brings you fear in fifty forms
They've deleted all the tourists
At the bottom of the lake
And not one supports the cause
To leave the blood stay in the veins
Here, three miles back is where we are
All we ever wanted was an answer
Civilized are close but way too far
All we ever wanted was an answer
Footprints giving clue to where we are
All we ever wanted was an answer
Civilized are close but way too far
All we ever wanted
Down twenty miles through the sticks
To the cloudy town of Hellview
Population 96
Excessive vacancy, well maybe
In the shadow of an eye
All the strangers passing through
And where the rules just don't apply
At the fork turn left, a store
But on the right stay free from sight
'Cause 96 quite bitter beings
Like to stack the bodies high
The only way to ever leave
Is overflooded by the storm
And entanglement in Hellview
Brings you fear in fifty forms
They've deleted all the tourists
At the bottom of the lake
And not one supports the cause
To leave the blood stay in the veins
Here, three miles back is where we are
All we ever wanted was an answer
Civilized are close but way too far
All we ever wanted was an answer
Footprints giving clue to where we are
All we ever wanted was an answer
Civilized are close but way too far
All we ever wanted
Lyrics submitted by knate15, edited by slamking, lauling, blacksabbath66
96 Quite Bitter Beings Lyrics as written by Deron Miller Chad Ginsburg
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Thanks so much! I'll have to check out Thanks For The Ride!
I am so sick of people calling this "the jackass shopping cart song"
Didja know that one of the guys who wrote the song (Jesse Marguera, the drummer) is the older brother of one of the Jackasses (Bam)? I don't think they'd mind too much.
self-explanatory "think horror movie" great lyrics, great riff, great song.
on the MTV show jackass everytime they do those shoping cart thing this song plays in the backround
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Well sry to say i never heard of em till THPS3. Then i was like weel damn might as welkl go out and but the disk and i did.
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