It started back in high school
So cool, king of the scene
You found that making people laugh
Was more than just a dream
The public took right to you
Like flies to a pile of shit
So funny and smart, so talented
But success just couldn't fit

Wasting your life no future bright
Dancing on your grave
Living like a slave, someone should've said

Nfl, efilnikufesin nfl
Nfl, efilnikufesin nfl

Wake up dead in a plywood bed
Six feet from the rest of your life
And when you couldn't see your own dependency
Nfl, nice fuckin' life

The whole world is your playground
Yet you can't find your niche
Your only friends, it helps you through
Helps you dig your daily ditch
The bottom line can't touch you
Cause you're above the rest
But your little friend's the enemy
And the bottom line is death

You lived a life of excess
Goddamn shame it's such a waste
Just one too many cookies
From the batch no one should taste
Yet his memory stills stays with us
Cause watching him was fun
Too bad things weren't different
Who knows what he'd have done


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Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.) Lyrics as written by Daniel Alan Spitz Charlie L. Benante

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  • +3
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    this song is about John Belushi

    tiagonon May 24, 2007   Link
  • +1
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    this song is fukin good

    metallica 86on February 23, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    Song about John Belushi who killed himself

    JoshPRon September 26, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    Really? I always thought it was about highschool jocks who's only actaul achievement is having been jocks in high school.

    shadowwiththeeyeson November 09, 2004   Link
  • 0
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    song about a loser addict who OD'ed.

    PinheadXon February 27, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    Seems like he's describing Animal House at the beginning.

    diabolic666on June 17, 2007   Link
  • 0
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    Spitballing...but I think it's about the jock who was a freakin' genius but drugged himself up and eventually fucked himself into the underachieving retard he is.

    Tentativeon December 20, 2007   Link
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    gnosnikcufesin!!... Ahhh the dulcet tones of early Anthrax... nothing quite compares does it?...

    Tricky1979on November 01, 2012   Link
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    Great song, great album, great band. For all the naysayers out there, it's songs like this and albums like Among the Living that show Anthrax deserve to be in the big 4... or is it big 3 now...

    Tricky1979on December 11, 2013   Link
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    Great song from ¼ of the Big 4.

    Engel2778on October 21, 2019   Link

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