Social Distortion have today released their long-awaited eighth album, Born To Kill, via Epitaph Records. The legendary SOCAL band have also dropped the lyric video for the track The Way Things Were.
An emotionally charged reminiscence in the vein of classics Story of My Life and I Was Wrong, The Way Things Were is a potent distillation of the Social D ethos, featuring lyrics like “I wrote a song with a stolen riff/If you ain’t got a song you ain’t got shit.”
Social Distortion will give that title track its network television debut, when the band returns to JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! on Thursday, May 7.
Born To Kill is more than the conclusion to a 15-year wait between Social Distortion albums, it’s a revelation: 11 songs of pure, unadulterated rock fury, joy and catharsis, all imbued with the signature blend of defiance and world-weariness that has made Ness a poet and sage to the dispossessed for more than 40 years.
Check out The Way Things Were below.
