High School Hellcats (Dave Alvin) James Intveld with Rachel Sweet (MCA RECORDS, 1990)
You call us hoods and say we've gone mad 'Cause we feel so good when we're big and bad We're high school hellcats (on our own) High school hellcats (almost grown) Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good Yeah, stand back, look out, we're renegade teens Friends of the devil, twice as mean We're looking for kicks, we want 'em now We're gonna get 'em and we don't care how We're high school hellcats (on our own) High school hellcats (almost grown) Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good Yeah, you lock us up in your schools But we weren't born to live by rules We say yes, and you say no When you say stop, we say go cat go We're high school hellcats (on our own) High school hellcats (almost grown) Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good Yeah, high school hellcats (on our own) High school hellcats (almost grown) Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would We love being bad 'cause it feels so good Well, U.S.A. - the land of the free We should be what we wanna be But everyone says, we should be like them But we're high school hellcats and we never fit in We're high school hellcats (on our own) High school hellcats (almost grown) Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good We're high school hellcats (high school) High school hellcats (hellcats) Come on and pick a fight, we wish you would We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good We love being bad 'cause it sure feels good