No Pain, No Gain (formerly known as Hazel Wants You To Know and Meaner And Stronger) is a formerly unidentified punk rock song by Belgian band Rise Above, released in 1991 on the EP B Is For Boston.
Search History[]
The song was posted to WatZatSong on October 24th, 2011, by user eraserHead. They said it was on an old tape from the 1990s, but they didn’t provide any additional information, nor a longer snippet, but it was likely recorded off of a radio station. The lyrics mentioned someone named Hazel.
On February 19th, 2023, the song was identified by WZS user IceeStare/Marktrail as No Pain, No Gain by Rise Above, presumably after finding an upload of it on YouTube or by searching for punk bands with a member named Hazel. As band member Hazel/Françoise Lepers did vocals on the album this song was from.
Lyrics[]
This thing is almost over, I hope you liked it this time around
But before we go, there’s one more thing that Hazel wants you to know
Getting (???) meaner, meaner and stronger
And I can’t take all this shit, for very much longer
Now I’m getting myself ready, for your attack
You know I’m getting myself ready, (???) back
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, one sided no more, no!
Mama’s getting smarter, every day
And my body gets harder, in every way
Now my heart is less [hairy], (???)
You know I’m not afraid to hurt you not afraid to (???)
Come on
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, one sided, one sided no more, no!
You think you’re a man, you think you’re a stromng
But you’ve seen nothing yet
No more words, no more time
Total destruction of your power
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, no more!
One sided war, one sided, one sided, no more, no!
Rise Above[]
Rise Above was a “straight edge” hardcore punk band from Kortrijk, Beligum.
The band consisted of Edward Verhaege (guitar, vocals), Hans Verbeke (vocals), Hazel (real name Françoise Lepers; bass and vocals), and Steve Slingenyer (drums).
In 1989, they released their first EP, self titled Rise Above, with three songs.
- Beat It!
- What Is It (Unity)
- Real Deal
In 1991, they released their second and final EP, B Is For Boston, which included this song and three others.
- Where The Meat Is Red
- Favourite Band
- Jolly Old St. Nicholas
- No Pain, No Gain
In 1991, their song What It Is and this song were featured on the compilation album Coming Back To Haunt You.
On December 25th, 1989, they performed live at Aalst, playing nine untitled songs, it was released in an unknown year on an unofficial cassette compilation along with songs by New York based band Gorilla Biscuits.
In 2018, their songs Real Deal and Beat It were featured on the compilation album Anger & Distortion.
In 2022, Real Deal was featured on the compilation album Duma Mlodych.
The band doesn’t seem to be active today.
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