Sorti en 1990 ; une facette de Rollins à retenir, à côté du chanteur de Black Flag puis du Rollins Band (faut-il aussi vraiment mentionner Henrietta Collins and the wifebeating childhaters ?).
La scène hardcore en fit des gorges chaudes sur le thème de la grosse tête de Big Bad Henry ; la critique littéraire "officielle" n'en a guère entendu parler ou fut d'une remarquable discrétion.
Pourtant :
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AWOKEN FROM A DREAM.
HE LOOKS OUT THE WINDOW.
THREE AM.
WHAT HAPPENED
TO THE LAST TWO YEARS ?
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Sur l'album "Lifetime" (Rollins Band ; 1987), il y avait aussi ce titre qui avait su capter exactement le sentiment d'une génération qui pouvait se retourner sur presque dix ans de rébellion brouillonne, sincère et désespérément inefficace :
WRECK-AGE
I take a look around me and it makes me mad
Another friend of mine in rehab
Try to pull himself from a plastic bag
He's callin' from the Halfway House he says he's doing fine
Says he got himself out just in time
Says his friends woulda let him turn blue and die
Someday becomes yesterday
Your life goes and crawls away
You gotta take it on the Black Train, Jack
You can't even feel the fire burnin' your back
Her boyfriend left her broken and alone
She took some pills and crawled to the death zone
Her mother found her just in time
She's strapped to a bed in psych ward doin' fine
Aww girl, what happened, what happened, what happened to you
What's goin' on? What's goin' on?
Someday becomes yesterday
Your life goes and crawls away
You're walkin' hand in hand with a death trip
You can't even feel the power in it's grip
Sometimes I wanna take you by your shoulders and shake you
You've got to open your eyes, man, how long will it take you
Runnin' through life blind, man, what a waste
Shot down and neutralized, man, what a case
What happened, what happened to you?
What's goin on? What's going on with you?
Someday becomes yesterday
Your life goes and crawls away
You've got to take it on the Black Train, Jack
You can't even feel the fire on your back
I don't wanna die in the wreckage
Don't wanna go blind in the wreckage
Don't wanna go down in the wreckage
Don't wanna get stuck in the wreckage
Sometimes it's all I can see
The wreckage is all around me
The human wreckage, the human wreckage
To you, I say goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye,
bye-bye, bye-bye
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