Out Ta Get Me

I heard that in the Cheap Trick song that says "they are out to get you". Yet, when this was in our song, I was the paranoid fucker. But you know, I didn't write it; that was the only line I didn't write in that song, "out ta get me". That was Izzy's.

This is a brand new one. I wanna dedicate this to the LAPD and any young girl who likes to fuck around!

Are you people ready to forget why you do what the fuck they tell you to? This is called 'They're Out To Get Me.'

I don't like to repeat the same raps too often but my roadies get mad if I don't tell you a story. We got busted coming into Canada and Skippy the Dog found a joint on the bus, so they held us for a pretty long time. And it only convinced me that I just fucking hate cops. This is a song right to you [?] assholes, called Out Ta Get Me.

Two nights ago we did a show in Atlanta. At about the second song, I found myself on the way to jail. I won’t go into a lot of detail on that, but, basically, that was a case of people getting pushed around to sit in the back, people getting hurt to sit in the back; and people abusing their authority and guys going “Look, I got the lead singer!” I’m gonna dedicate this to the “Atlanta’s finest” and to the guys that bailed me out. This is a song called “Out Ta Get Me”!

We just recently did a show in Atlanta, opening up for Motley Crue [...], and I [...] actually warned a security guard being a little shit and pushing the kids around, really proving that he was an asshole, and he called me out. So I dived down over the fucking rail, and before I got over the rail, the fucker hit me. So, I got him about three times, and now I’m being charged for four counts of assault for hitting police that I never touched. These are the kind of people that can just suck my dick! You know, I’ve got nothing against fucking security. [?] you're out doing your job, but you don’t need to fucking push kids; not my friends that come here. These are the kind of people that get me down. They make me feel that somebody out there is out to get me!

Now last night, what happened was, five guys in suits decided in the Hyatt Regency Hotel that we were scumbags. They were right, we are scumbags, But that doesn't mean we're gonna take their shit. So, first off this guy grabs me and calls me Bon Jovi. Bon Jovi can suck my dick. Second off he tried to hit me, that's when Steven cracked him in the head with his cast. [...] You never try to hit one of the family. Then another guy tried to hit me [...]. And after that they kicked us out of the bar and the same five guys holding ice bags on their heads blocked us off in the hallway and called us out away. He knocked the same motherfucker out twice. After that the cops came and started arresting people who weren't even involved in the fight! Because they have typical cop mentality. The reason I went to jail was because this real big fucking cop told this 17 year old girl who they were trying to arrest her boyfriend and she was upset, that if she didn't shut her fucking mouth he'd kick her fucking ass and that she was a stupid bitch. Pretty low, right, for a big fucker? And then he went to hit her, and so, to distract him I told him to fuck off. This guy chased me for about 20 feet and threw me ten feet [?] into the bar. I wasn't een fighting and it took 5 fucking assholes to hold me down. People wonder what we write our songs about. I think you can get the general idea when we write a song like...out to get me!

Last night I got into a little hassle at the Cathouse [?]...with this singer in another band who has a problem, I won't tell you his name, but he is one of these people who think he is a rock star. That kind of thinking is a fucking croc of shit! I mean, I lived on this fucking streets for about 7 fucking years and I am telling you, I am just like you! That's all there's to it. You don't need this ego bullshit. They make a bad name for people who try to fucking do their job and do what they like. They can fuck it up for everybody else. That's the kinda people, man, they're just as good as the people that fucking tell you how long you can wear your hair, what you should wear, and what you should do and what kind of job you should have! They all should get in a fucking room [?] and blow them straight to hell, as far as I am concerned! These kind of people make me feel that someone out there is out...to...GET...ME!

We wanna dedicate this song to the people who try to hold us back, the people who tell you how to live, people who tell you how to dress, people who tell you how to talk, people who tell you what you can say and what you can't say. I personally don't need that! Those are the kind of people that will get me down, they make me feel like, somebody, somebody out there, is OUT TA GET ME!

The lyrics are saying 'I've always been in trouble but I'm still handling it.' Like every time you turn around, someone is trying to screw you over financially, or the cops are banging on your door and you didn't do anything. It's just being railroaded into something and trying to get out from underneath it. You know - parents, teachers, preachers... everybody. The last verse Slash and I put together as a joke 'cause we were talking about how we get in fights sometimes, and how some people get pissed off that you're drunk. But they're the ones that bought the bottle of whiskey to get you drunk on. Some people say I got a chip on my shoulder. [...]We had that one as one of our opening numbers for a while because we were headed to a Roxy show and got pulled over by four cops. They picked up a bag off the street; said we threw it out the window and there were drugs in it. There were no drugs in it and they were just trying to hassle us, saying our advance money in our pockets was drug money. They searched everything, pushed us around, and we were late for a show.