Where’s the peanut butter?!

I’ll post occasional favorite running songs in this music series.  Today features Even at our Worst We’re Still Better than Most (The Roller) by Against Me! off their incredible double-LP Searching For A Former Clarity.  The whole album is really an awesome soundtrack to movement and it’s hard to pick just one song but there are two moment that stand out for me - during the guitar roars on The Energizer and when the main section of The Roller kicks in just after the first verse. It took me a while to really “get” Against Me! since the country vibe really defies the standard punk formula but it’s well worth while.

Even at our Worst We’re Still Better than Most (The Roller) - Against Me!

You can have it all, I ain’t got the heart to fight, no.
Total exhaustion, complete breakdown. For the asshole I am,
apologies in full, please leave me alone.
Pull over the van, let me out.

And we’ll give the money back, to the record label.
Fire the agent, fire the manager.
We ain’t got what it takes, to make it.
We got indifference, got no respect for them.
Feels like you already said so much,
feels like you can never say enough.
Let someone else take our place,
let them be your entertainment.

You know they’re waiting,
(you know they’re waiting)
You know they’re waiting,
(you know they’re waiting)
You know they’re waiting,
(they’re just waiting)
To tear us apart

You know they’re waiting,
(you know they’re waiting)
You know they’re waiting,
(you know they’re waiting)
You know they’re waiting,
(they’re just waiting.)
To tear us apar