Lyrics The Vandals

The Vandals

Flowers Are Pretty

Children are lovely before they get ugly, and learn to do bad stuff.

Flowers are pretty before they get shitty, and rot and turn to dust

I heard that life is a wheel and you can't make it stop

If you try it'll flatten your head

It's a circle of shit we're in the middle of it

but soon we'll all be dead

Like everybody else that ever lived before, the things you make fall to the floor

and nobody knows how hard you tried, it's been that way since the start of time-

There was a caveman that did some amazing things

but nobody here gives a fuck

And in a thousand years they'll feel the same

towards all the things you've done

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So don't worry what might give you cancer-

or stay up nights just wanting answers

Its just a crap shoot, but it's mostly crap

things start off they're so terrific

they'll fuck up it's scientific

Entropy, uncertainty won't yield to you

Love at first sight on a beautiful night and a feeling so divine

gets sucked down the toilet cuz something will spoil it

with the good times left behind you

Don't try to figure out who's at fault

powerful forces abound

like a twig on a river in the universe

tomorrow you'll probably drown

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So don't worry if it is a tumor -

all this will be over sooner

Its just a crap shoot, but it's mostly crap

things start off they're so terrific

they'll fuck up it's scientific

Entropy, uncertainty won't yield to you or you

And all the things that matter most

disappear, here's a toast

to erosion and corrosion, Altimzers and pain

Don't try to figure out who's at fault

there's powerful forces at play

and if you lose your legs and have to beg

it's really all the same

[Chorus:]

So don't worry what might give you cancer-

or stay up nights just wanting answers

Its just a crap shoot, but it's mostly crap

things start off they're so terrific

they'll fuck up it's scientific

Entropy, uncertainty won't yield to you, or you