Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown Lyrics






I'm about
To have a nervous breakdown
My head really hurts
If I don't find a way out of here
I'm gonna go berserk 'cuz
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders
It's going...berserk

I hear the same old talk talk talk
The same old lines
Don't do me that today, yeah
If you know what's good for you you'll get out of my way 'cuz
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders
Going...berserk

I won't apologize
For acting outta line
You see the way I am
You leave any time you can 'cuz
I'm crazy and I'm hurt
Head on my shoulders
Going...berserk

Crazy! Crazy! Crazy! Crazy!

I don't care what you fuckin' do
I don't care what you fuckin' say
I'm so sick of everything
I just want to...die!





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  1. a.... l....

    Where all started

  2. R.... T....

    Bought this EP at a record stand in the indoor section of the Mission Drive In & Swap Meet in 1978 when I was 11 years old & paved the way into my teen years in the early/mid 1980s...been a punk ever since.

  3. O.... ....

    I was indeed wasted

  4. J.... H....

    I'm crazy and I'm high

  5. F.... B....

    Wasted is loosely based on ME

  6. L.... ....

    the most important 7 inch in punk rock history

  7. h.... h....

    This is the record that got me into punk heard it for the first time in 84 was 13 year's old and got to see them at fenders on the loose nut tour 🍻🤘

  8. M.... G....

    Great EP

  9. P.... ....

    Seminal band-fuckin relentless...

  10. K.... W....

    2019 😎

  11. E.... S....

    hey, fuck you for cutting off wasted

  12. m.... t....

    WONDERFUL...KEITH THE BEST.....

  13. S.... O....

    I was sooooooooooooooooooo wasted

  14. H.... &....

    One of the greatest recordings ever released in human history. Denigrate it. It was waiting for you.

  15. K.... H....

    The Era was Magnolia Beach HB Ca. We barely made it to the beach without getting to fucked up or busted. If we made it the rangers would zero in and do everything in their power to get rid of us 1978 Paul Fowler

  16. A.... D....

    Few bands really defined the 70s/80s... Black flag... Poison idea .... Agnostic front... Lockjaw... Reagan youth.... Warzone... & black market baby...OH SORRY BAD BRAINS TOO

  17. i.... s....

    Keith Morris rules

  18. o.... ....

    that album cover is exactly my father and me when i was 13 go to hell pop...

  19. T.... W....

    Just ate some eggs and toast. Who wants it??

    T.... W....

    🙋🏼‍♂️

    T.... W....

    mason92bs pssh

  20. J.... W....

    I was wasted.

  21. J.... M....

    This was the best line-up. With Keith Morris. Damaged was pretty good but they were starting to get to technical. By the time I got to My War my thoughts were . . . You gotta be fucking kidding me. Should I even mention Family Man? The thing with hardcore was that it wasn't suppose to last more than two or three years. These guys were milking it and they ended up losing their fanbase.

    J.... M....

    That's fair. I love the more experimental Black Flag, personally.

    J.... M....

    Keith Morris is the reason. Hence, Circle Jerks. And, Flag.

  22. C.... a....

    where muh skateboard at?

    C.... a....

    no shit man im fuckin 45 and wanna relearn to skate listenin to flag

  23. C.... a....

    REAL punk....take notes posers but don't try to copy.....you will fail

  24. X.... Y....

    Berserk!!!!!

  25. J.... W....

    Kids of the black hole is longer than this whole EP, and thats one song. Punk as fuck

  26. D.... C....

    Seminal work, one of the most important punk releases.

  27. T.... G....

    I just wanna die 20 seconds later I don’t wanna be dead

  28. R.... C....

    This is 40 years old.. holy hell.

  29. A.... W....

    I was there in the late 70's with these bands in Hermosa. I know, 'I'm so cool.' But it was really pretty bitchin to be there...

  30. C.... ....

    Greatest hardcore album of all time. Keith is the best hardcore vocalist ever too. I have spoken, thank you all.

  31. S.... 1....

    Keith was the best don't get me wrong Henry was cool to

  32. J.... K....

    Black flag is hopelessly too slow. Sounds more like raw garage-(punk)rock. Fist real HC-punk band was Middle class, with (D-beat) fast drumming.

    J.... K....

    BF sound was more about the sheer aggression and chunky riffs, not speed.

  33. T.... I....

    I just wanna die too. In peace. FUCK THIS WORLD

  34. A.... S....

    Who doesn't like Black Flag?

  35. B.... K....

    Fuck you

  36. B.... K....

    Fuck all of you

  37. B.... K....

    Dez the only leader of Black Flag

  38. B.... K....

    Henry Rollins is a fucking joke find me

  39. B.... K....

    I am the anti fuck you

  40. A.... E....

    Keith Morris can do no wrong. Ever . Nuff said .

  41. T.... Y....

    saw Dez sing this the other night... fucking hell. it was glorious

  42. D.... R....

    L.A. during the 80's made me the man I am now #depressed #Anxious #shellShocked

  43. J.... G....

    Nervous breakdown: I just wanna die.
    Fix me: I don't wanna be dead.

    J.... G....

    Welcome to BPD...

  44. A.... N....

    I enjoy getting altered and listening to this

  45. D.... B....

    Never gets old. How many people that ive heard trying to do the chorus. Hshaha.fix me. Fix me please

  46. S.... 5....

    The real black flag

  47. B.... D....

    Black Flag kills insects on contact.

    B.... D....

    Bob Dobbs i love my flyspray. Been sniffing to this for 30years. Fix me.nnnnnnnn. do da do da da nang nang nanang,nanga nanga nanga

  48. S.... ....

    How to understand the ethos of hardcore in under six minutes.

    S.... ....

    Sera a beginners guide to punking out

    S.... ....

    Sera haha. Im still living it h.c. always will. Going without black flag is like sucking a condom full of sperm in front of the super indendant of the prison

  49. J.... S....

    MANSON FA,ILY DISCORD, SIR.

  50. T.... P....

    You see the way I am, you leave anytime you want

  51. T.... P....

    4 songs muscled into 5 minutes, who other than Black Flag could do it?

    T.... P....

    Thomas Patrick Parker - Minutemen could fit about six songs into five minutes.

  52. A.... L....

    Moshing with my dog

    A.... L....

    AJ LUNA hahaha!

    A.... L....

    my dog hides qhen i put this on lol

    A.... L....

    best comment

  53. k.... p....

    They made this eb for me when I was going into 3rd grade back in 89'.

  54. D.... 1....

    this record is a chair right in the head

  55. J.... W....

    Covered nervous breakdown at my school. Along with TSOL's code blue. I got funny looks for a week lol

    J.... W....

    You're jesus

    J.... W....

    @Joey Whiteside

    What kind of cover? vocal or instrumental? or both xd

    J.... W....

    @Jhonny Cage X Rage both

    J.... W....

    Jesus, can't believe you got away with Code Blue. I tried to cover D.I.'s Richard Hung Himself and got stopped and suspended before I hit the chorus

    J.... W....

    @- Ashtray - my man! Ima head up to a rehab next and play alcohol by ganggreen!

  56. B.... F....

    they (Flag) blew my mind how good they sounded at last year's
    Punk Rock Bowling!

  57. S.... ....

    how I feel now. crazy crazy

  58. W.... O....

    he was wasted!

  59. -.... C....

    Crass takes it for Europe. Black Flag for US. Black flag stuck around too long, crass realized punk sold out the moment it was convinced and got out

    -.... C....

    - Craig LeSieg hahaha. Dead babies in vomit love dead punk.

  60. C.... ....

    someday we'll all be rich someday I won't listen to you bitch!

  61. U.... X....

    keith morris's black flag = BOSS.

    U.... X....

    The bestest

    U.... X....

    ULTRAS X - Yes, Ginn was always big boss daddy man calling all the shots... but at this time every member was giving their 110% to the finished product. Keith adds a dimension here that wouldn’t have worked better (on these songs) with any of the other BF singers. As much as Ginn likes to make it known that he was always in charge, those singers weren’t as interchangeable as he’d have us believe. Same goes for bassists. Duke was a very important component of the live set. I saw them both before and after Dukowski, and though Kira was great and added her own thing to it... nobody could touch Dukowski’s manic stage presence.

    U.... X....

    @TH3HOLYJ3BUS he had a lot of help henson the shit plus lucky luther on wild in the streets and group sex was top notch wonder fuls one of my fav albums ever an morris really didnt write many of there songs henson rogers wrote most the good one s

    U.... X....

    i like rollins....but not as much as keith

    U.... X....

    B-b-but Henry 😂😂😂

  62. J.... B....

    I love the Ramones, but this shit makes them look like a children's band. This is THE FIRST TRUE PUNK RELEASE in my book.

    J.... B....

    Say what you will you about the Sex Pistols but they inspired a lot of kids who became punk rockers. My brother, the legendary John Summers ( ok, this is what the LoDesert musicians call him ) ripped off my imported Sex Pistols record ( I still have the jacket ) and he ended up, at about 12 or 13 turning into a little hoodlum punk and forming several punk bands in Orange County and the Coachella Valley that you probably never heard of ( Willful Failure, Pigpen, Crackpot and Family Butcher, among others ).

    J.... B....

    CydnotCharrise1 But itd be a lot cooler if he ripped this off

    J.... B....

    If you judge what Punk is based simply on the speed or roughness of the tunes then you are missing the nuance, and point of what Punk is about, entirely.
    All that effort and amount of good music wasted on you, shame.

    J.... B....

    John Burns what about G.B.H

  63. S.... s....

    saw this shit ina second hand shop in berlin for 15 euro,. guy who manages the place is an asshole and totally not nice. but it s a nice piece with that artwork from Raymond Pettybon then.................................

  64. A.... R....

    I'm about to have a nervous breakdown

  65. E.... H....

    I was young when this sonics set on fire music hall stages and personal stereos. Your hide was slick w napalm after listening twice or thrice.

  66. A.... L....

    these guys are hippies

    A.... L....

    What do you except from a couple of guys who got kicked out of Redondo and moved to Hermosa.

    A.... L....

    Well, they did smoke weed, have long hair and listened to Black Sabbath, which might be "hippie" as far as punk is concerned

    A.... L....

    Angriest fucking hippies I’ve ever heard.

    A.... L....

    They're punks.

  67. A.... ....

    Do dana današnjeg nitko bolje nije objasnio cijeli proces živčanog sloma i oporavka od istoga.

    A.... ....

    O pa dobar dan

  68. I.... ....

    rip keith lawl

  69. 9.... ....

    I DEDICATE THIS SONG TO MEDICATED PEOPLE!

    9.... ....

    Thank you

  70. Z.... N....

    the shit right her bois

  71. p.... f....

    best punk release in history

    p.... f....

    I dunno. That’s a pretty tall order. One of the best for sure.

    p.... f....

    that's either Fun House or Unknown Pleasures

    p.... f....

    In Search Of... is and awesome album, didnt know.thete was any other Punk fans that liked N.E.R.D Lmao

  72. F.... M....

    Nice one!

  73. A.... S....

    1-2-3-4!

  74. T.... ....

    Black Flag IS hardcore punk

    T.... ....

    I just listened to Blast....holy shit! They're like a thrash metal Stooges! Lemmy would have been in Hawkwind at that time so that means they predated Motorhead. My mind is pretty blown!

    T.... ....

    The Stooges recorded “I Got a Right” in 1972. To me, that was the first hardcore song.

    T.... ....

    I disagree. Hardcore punk is one distinct genre (yes, with many sub-genres), whereas BF explored many others, even blues , jazz and psychedelic. Even Nervous Breakdown is sort of a Ramones/Buddy Holly rocker.

    T.... ....

    Good thing about punk is you can repeat short songs more than a long one XD

    T.... ....

    TheGreaterGood80 the flag defies any label you or anyone else could ever say...:)

  75. N.... ....

    This EP literally describes my life. It's amazing

    N.... ....

    I think that is most of us.

    N.... ....

    me too brother, this shit keeps me going

    N.... ....

    Everyone in this reply section is a faggot lmao

    N.... ....

    @Robert James Fischer Including you, man

    N.... ....

    NoValues THATS why kids almost dea deafide this band.

  76. a.... ....

    this is incredible. truely.

  77. P.... B....

    i was wasted.

  78. I.... M....

    Only 307 views!

    I.... M....

    31.488 now

    I.... M....

    Intra Muros thats how we like our punk. Dead. Hahaha

    I.... M....

    DeAd BaBiEs in VoMiT that’s exactly right lol