2025 Competition Lyrics Entry:

Rebel Blood by Rick Poplawski

Lyrics

Takin a leaf
Outta your book
Tell the world
I don’t give a damn

Watched you laugh
And give the finger
Runnin your life
Without no plan

Made it clear
You’d use your own time
Takin stock wasn’t
On your mind

Went through friends
Like a hot knife
Seems they’d never
Come across your kind

Oh no

They’d never come across your kind

I looked on
From a distance
Rebel blood running
Through your veins

All the girls
And all their best friends
Keepin score
Adding up their gains

Brushed them off
Like they were nothin
Runnin water off your back

Didn’t care, but they kept comin
Fightin hard just to stay on track

Yeah

Trippin up
Just to stay on track

Watched you laugh
And give the finger
Runnin your life
Without no plan

Went your way
And did your own thing
Showed them all
You didn’t give a damn

You got a bad name
In the whole town
Honour taken
As you wore that badge

Other guys
Gave you the thumbs down
Stayed away from
From your funky jazz

I looked on
From a distance
Rebel blood runnin
Through your veins

All the girls
And all their best friends
Keepin score
Addin up their gains

huh..

They weren’t gettin nowhere….

Not with you boy…

[Musical Interlude]

Changed my hair
And bought some new gear
Had to style myself
To make you look

But I knew that
You would still ignore me
I could read you
Like an open book

Uhuh

Like turnin pages
In an open book

Didn’t care that
We never got to hook up
Didn’t wanna be
Right by your side

Just used your look
To change my makeup
Now we both
Have a place to hide

Watched you laugh
And give the finger
Ran your life
Without no plan

Went your way
And did your own thing
And just like me
You couldn’t give a damn

Hell no

You didn’t give a damn….

Oh no

We don’t give no damn….

Huh

We don’t give a damn…..

Bio

Started writing lyrics in Oct 2024..never going to look back now (thanks to AI assistance with vocals/music)

Co-author(s)

Lyrics Competition Results

Emotional Impact:
1/ 20
Technical Skill:
1/ 20
Memorability:
1/ 20
Storytelling:
1/ 20
Imagery:
1/ 20
Total Score:
5/ 100

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