Pennywise is an American punk rock band from Hermosa Beach, California, United States, formed in 1988. The name is derived from the monster, It, from the Stephen King novel of the same title.
Between their 1991 self-titled debut and 2005's The Fuse, Pennywise had released an album every two years on Epitaph Records, a label owned by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz. To date, the band has released eleven full-length studio albums (the last being 2014's Yesterdays), one live album, two EPs and one DVD. Although their first two studio albums were critically acclaimed, Pennywise would not experience worldwide commercial success until the 1995 release of their third studio album, About Time, which peaked at number ninety-six on the Billboard 200, and number fifty-five on Australia's ARIA Charts. The band's mainstream success was signified by a growing interest in punk rock during the 1990s, along with fellow California bands NOFX, Rancid, Blink-182, Bad Religion, Green Day, The Offspring and Sublime. By 2007, the band had independently sold over 3 million records worldwide, making them one of the most successful independent punk acts of all time.
A million faces are blurred in today
A million lives that are so far away
I'm alone and I want you to know
I want to scream but there's nowhere to go
A million voices are making the cry a million lives that are waiting to die
A million families are wasting away split by decision it must go away
Someone soon is goona die wasting away in a world full of lies
Song unseen another day somehow tomorrow somehow today
If you don't listen you'll never learn watch yourself or you might get burned
Isn't it time to tell yourself
I've got to get out
I've got to go
We've got to be one voice
How many lives will be taken today
How many times will we just look away
How many voices cry to be heard screaming alone but no one hears a word
How many faces alone in the crowd waiting for answers facing the clouds