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Undead or Alive

by Undead Generation

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1.
We are gathered here today To pity the living To resurrect the dead To make punk weird again With this Black Label beer That I pour unto the earth I hereby invite the undead to walk amongst us To borrow our music equipment And to be absolute goofy wankers May their tours be awesome And may their shows be sold out May their moms all be very proud of them Undead for life Undead or Alive
2.
Undead alive Undead for life Undead alive Undead for life Zombie punks from hell We hail from the south Beer upon our breath Jazzy punk ska fest Punk's undead for life What a marvelous site We're here to eat your flesh We love the taste of death
3.
Ride With Me 04:36
Keeping a breath inside my lungs In case I need to scream out A cry for help or simple agony I’m thinking out loud If you’re listening Suppose I gotta sound profound Oh wait, I’m just background music For my deadbeat hometown See, in the bar life Folks don’t pay attention Too busy with the hook-ups And the sport on the television I guess we’re out here Just talking to ourselves Schizo these hoes and bros We all need some help Nobody admits The problems they’ve got Drowning out the cries With the nicotine and the shots I’m feeling emptier The more I fill my body with lies It’s time to let that shit hit you Open up your bloodshot eyes Change your environment You’ll change yourself Change yourself And your environment You'll change your mental health I know it’s not As black and white as that But I’ll cling onto the hope That we can take ourselves back again I wish you’d carry me Gently far away from my pain I want some therapy Inner me don’t wanna be the same He say Honestly my world keeps on turning Even though I wish it would burn down Get up, get up, Come and take a ride with me I got a lotta things I wanna show you Turn up the volume on the radio Turn it up, get up, come on Don’t you try to fight with me It’s the only way I can get to know you Hold your baggage out the car window and let it go Feeling like a bag of bones An empty colosseum My tired liar eyes Are hypnotized by people’s lives seeming grim Repetition, repetition Time and space continuum Time loop, stuck in a cycle Like a sim Honestly I just wanna Pick apart my brain And let my therapist tell me How to start over again From the pain that I’ve dealt The hurt I’ve caused I’m paying my debt A heart full of grief A hurtful regret Sick of being this person Man, I wish it would stop Might just impale myself On the hands of the clock Just to halt time Making sure that I never drop Another victim from the heights Of my ego’s top floor The end of this cycle Is something to die for The pain that I dish out Is to take my own life for I don’t want to live With all the evil I can be And I don’t wanna be this man I don’t wanna be me anymore I wish you’d carry me Gently far away from my pain I want some therapy Inner me don’t wanna be the same He say Honestly my world keeps turning Even though I wish it would burn down Get up, get up, Come and take a ride with me I got a lotta things I wanna show you Turn up the volume on the radio Turn it up, get up, come on Don’t you try to fight with me It’s the only way I can get to know you Hold your baggage out the car window Let it go Honestly my world keeps on turning Even though I wish it would burn down Get up, get up, Come and take a ride with me I got a lotta things I wanna show you Turn up the volume on the radio Turn it up, get up, come on Don’t you try to fight with me It’s the only way I can get to know you Hold your baggage out the car window Let it go Let it go Let it go Let it go
4.
You're just wanting to chase after every moment Drunk on dopamine, sex, and serotonin I'm just wanting to swim into every sunset Every Sunday afternoon What it's worth Once your party's done Yeah, you've had your fun It's hard to come back down to earth What it's worth But you just want to dance Longer than everyone else First time I've felt alive since birth Every weekend builds up to disaster Burning peoples houses just to live faster Kept alive by rushes of adrenaline Through workweeks we slowly get our shit together I could live like this forever Let's put a whole new meaning to dying young What it's worth Once your party's done Yeah, you've had your fun It's hard to come back down to earth What it's worth You just want to dance Longer than everyone else The first time I've felt alive since birth Post-party depression's got you, my friend That's alright, the cure's in the weekend
5.
Monophobia 04:33
So I'm trapped in my head At the edge of a bed once again Oh what a surprise I've never felt so alive And so dead inside At the same time And I don't wanna be alone again Please stay because I need your company I wanna forget to feel everything I wanna learn to be my own crutch and relief Is it okay to feel alone Even when I know you're here It made my heart feel cold as stone It made me feel like I should just disappear Disappear Back in my dreams I got these surreal and vivid encounters I wish I knew what they meant But some things are better left misunderstood Some things are better off dead And I don't wanna be alone again So please stay because I need your company I wanna forget to feel everything I wanna learn to be my own crutch and relief Is it okay to feel alone Even when I know you're here It made my heart feel cold as stone and I feel like I should just disappear Disappear Disappear You crawled inside of our eyes And now I only feel fear When we see ourselves at night The mirror screams back in tears We thought you only left marks on our hearts You're in our thoughts and our dreams too And when I finally get some sleep I only dream of you You crawled inside of our eyes And now I only feel fear When we see ourselves at night The mirror screams right back in tears We thought you only left marks on our hearts You're in our thoughts and our dreams too And when I finally get some sleep I only dream of you
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One two Fuck you He's shitting out his liver almost everyday Drinking from the bottle, pissing all his days away Lying unconscious on the hospital floor Almost fucking dead but he still wants more Live fast, die last Live fast, die last Live fast, die last Live fast Die All his friends out taking acid Snorting coke and shooting dope Maybe he should go and join em No optimism, future, or hope Live fast, die last Live fast, die last Live fast, die last Live fast Die It’s hard to face reality He wanna stay punk, drunk, and disorderly Live fast, die last Live fast, die last Live fast, die last Live fast Die It’s sad it sometimes comes to this When everything just turns to shit He's gone through enough To know what it’s like to fall Live fast, die last Live fast, die last Live fast, die last Live fast Die
7.
Big Brother 02:34
Big brother’s watching you Everything you say and do In your closet, in your mind He’s been working overtime Big brother’s watching you Everything you say and do Be gone within a blink Thinks you’ve had a bit too much to think Back up with your out-dated constructions I need to maintain my sanity You’ll never steal our souls or passions You can try but you will not succeed Big brother’s watching you Everything you say and do In your closet, in your mind He’s been working overtime Big brother’s watching you Everything you say and do Be gone within a blink Thinks you’ve had a bit too much to think Stay out of my mind You all just better Stay out of my mind You and your evil kind You and your evil kind Stay out of my life And stay out of my mind Stay out of my Stay out of my mind You all just better Stay out of my mind You and your evil kind You and your evil kind Stay out of my life And stay out of my
8.
I woke up and I realized that I’ve got nothing to lose Mntanam I’ll grow old or I may die young But I’ll never lose my youth Qhubeka I’ll spend my life and the rest of my time On this earth in pursuit of the truth Mntanam I’ll help out and do what I can To walk in every wise man’s shoes Like you Mntanami Qhubeka khuleka Nyamezela ngoba Eli libali lethu Many people in my heart and memories Many sights, many faces and smiles Khuleka Our blurry nights and the pains that we feel Kinda help us get to know ourselves Khuleka I wish you well with your ventures my friend Be strong, be ever growing and loud Nyamezela ngoba Coz after all we’re just young pirates wanting treasures Make someone in our lives proud Mntanam Mntanami Qhubeka khuleka Nyamezela ngoba Eli libali lethu Something speaks to me before I fall asleep It says to chase my dreams, and not to chase money It tries to tell me how to find true love in peace It teaches me things that I never knew about me Libali lethu Nyamezela Mntanam Khuleka Qhubeka Mntanam Eli libali lethu I swear I’ll try my best to be happy Living with only the things that I need It’s kinda difficult to do so Living in a world that rewards greed I swear at some point I’ll try and learn To have a small amount of humility Spend the rest of my days trying to figure out How to be the best version of me You’ll see You'll see Mntanami Qhubeka Mntanami Qhubeka khuleka Nyamezela ngoba Eli libali lethu Something speaks to me before I fall asleep Nyamezela It says to chase my dreams, and not to chase money It tries to tell me how to find true love and peace It teaches me things that I never knew about me Eli libali lethu Qhubeka mntanami Khuleka mntanami
9.
And so fellas From ashes to ashes Dust to dust Tattoos get infected and guitar strings rust The undead now roam the earth freely Eating trashy junk food Drinking free drinks And sleeping on couches They haunt the crevices of bars across the southern tip of Africa Leaving chaos and carnage in their wake Only time will tell What their fate may be But until then It is what it is Punk's undead Undead for life

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The long awaited "Undead or Alive" album from the musical punk rock misfits straight off of the coast of South Africa.

Undead Generation brings us through a musical journey filled with bottom-heavy guitar riffs, melodic brass sections, harmonized vocal melodies, tight drums fills, and upbeat bass lines. Touching on tales of life, loss, love, and the universe, "Undead or Alive" epitomizes the idea of Punk Fusion as a genre and musical style, providing a little bit of something for everyone.

For fans of everything from Rancid, The Urge, Sum 41, Bad Religion, Goldfinger, Good Riddance, and old school punk/hardcore, all the way down to reggae, hip hop, and everything in between.

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Undead Generation are (at the time of recording and release):
Roscoe Nefdt - Vocals and Guitars
Onesimo Ngodwane - Drums and Percussion
Rafael Sapere - Saxophone and Backup Vocals
Joseph Quinn - Bass Guitar

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released June 3, 2022

All words and music written, composed, and performed by Undead Generation*

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Roscoe Nefdt at FiveSidedRecords, Gqeberha, 2022

Artwork and Visuals by Kitchen Dutch / AJ Van Niekerk

*vocal melodies on Something Speaks to Me by just_zamani
*trombone by Tiago Vital on Undead or Alive, Big Brother, and Something Speaks to Me

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Undead Generation Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Undead Generation (formerly known as The Tsotsis) is a punk band from Port Elizabeth, South Africa aspiring towards starting something, creating something, changing some things, being something and having fun whilst doing so.

“We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
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