Threw It On the Ground Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I was walking through the city streets
And a man walks up to me
and hands me the latest energy drink
"Run faster, jump higher."
Man, I'm not gonna let you poison me

[Chorus]
I threw it on the ground
You must think I'm a joke
I ain't gonna be part of your system, man!
Pump that garbage in another man's veins

[Verse 2]
I go to my favorite hotdog stand
And the dude says, "You come here all the time. Here's one for free."
I said "Man, what I look like? A charity case?"
I took it...

[Chorus]
And threw it on the ground
I don't need your handouts
I'm an adult! Please!
You can't buy me, hot dog man

[Verse 3: Andy Samberg]
At the farmers market with my so-called "girlfriend"
She hands me her cell phone—says it's my dad
Man, this ain't my dad!
This is a cell phone

[Chorus]
I threw it on the ground
What you think, I'm stupid?
I'm not a part of your system
My dad's not a phone! Duh!

[Verse 4]
Some poser hands me cake at a birthday party
What you want me to do with this? Eat it?

[Chorus]
Happy birthday to the ground!
I threw the rest of the cake, too
Welcome to the real world, jackass!

[Bridge]
So many things to throw on the ground
Like this, and this, and that, and even this
I'm an adult!

[Verse 5]
Two Hollywood phonies try to give me their autograph

[Chorus]
Ground!
Nobody wants your autograph!
Phonies!

[Verse 6]
Then, the two phonies got up
Turned out they had a taser
And they tased me in the butthole
Fell to the ground, the phonies didn't let up
Tasin' on my butthole over and over
I was screaming and squirming
My butthole was on fire

[Outro]
The moral of the story is
You can't trust the system
Man!

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Genius Annotation

“Threw It On the Ground” is a song from The Lonely Island’s second studio album Turtleneck & Chain, and an SNL Digital Short which aired on Saturday Night Live on October 3, 2009.

Andy Samberg is the lone member of the band to appear in the video. He plays an OTT snarky, Generation-X style anti-establishment hipster who tries to fight ‘the system’ and show his defiance by throwing various innocuous objects on the ground.

Elijah Wood and Ryan Reynolds both appear in the music video for “On the Ground”. Reynolds was the host of Saturday Night Live on the episode when the video premiered. They both played themselves in the video.

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