Joseph Arthur

[fox69]

"Exhausted"

"Exhausted"


I never sleep
I been awake for what feels like a year
'cause when I dream
My mind puts a face
To each one of my fears
I'm exhausted by my imagination
I close my eyes
But I could still see the pain on your face
It's your disguise
You put your heart and soul on a plate
I'm exhausted by my imagination
The walls are bleeding cause I'm hallucinating
Beneath the wheel I cannot slow it's rotation down

I got to get away from here
But there's nowhere I can go
Everyone I recognize looks at me like I am lost
Walking down these dire streets
I thought I heard you call my name
But it's only in my head
Or maybe it was just your ghost

Up in the sky
The clouds are dirty so soon it will rain
I lost my mind
After you told me that you went insane

I'm a victim of my imagination
These walls are talking but I'm hallucinating
Beneath the wheel that will not slow it's rotation down
Down
Down in my head [?]

I got to get away from here
But there's nowhere I can go
Everyone I recognize
Looks at me like I'm a ghost
Walking down these dying streets
I thought I heard you call my name
But it was only in my mind
You were never there at all

 

[fox69]

"Eyes On My Back"

"Eyes On My Back"



I wish I had
Open eyes
On my back
So I could see
My life
Going past
Seems when
It's good
Everything
Goes to fast
And when it's gone
You can never
Get it back

Try and take a picture
Through a dirty window
Try to touch your shadow
Fading when you follow

I been alone
For so long
It's hard to track
Down in a hole
No one knows
In the black
I know that soon
All the dogs
Will attack
I wish I had
Open eyes
On my back

 

[fox69]

"Face In The Crowd"

"Face In The Crowd"



Mostly you get what you want
That's the way it is
Until you put on a front
Which goes something like this

You want everyone to look at you
Until no one looks away
Everyone to look at you
Now they want you to stay

But you turn back now
Just another face in the crowd
Yeah you turn back now
Just another face in the crowd

Mostly they think you're free
And you love yourself
Until you no longer see
You're just like everyone else

You want everyone to look at you
Until no one looks away
Everyone to look at you
Now they want you to stay

But you turn back now
Just another face in the crowd
Yeah you turn back now
Just another face in the crowd

And just like before
You still want love
Take your foot out of every door
And rise above

There's no where to get away
In an open space
And no price left you could pay
To avoid your own face

And you want everyone to look at you
Until no one looks away
Everyone to look at you
Now they want you to stay

But you turn back now
Just another face in the crowd
Yeah you turn back now
Just another face in the crowd...

 

[fox69]

"Failed"

"Failed"



Now you're gone, and I don't know why
You removed yourself in the blink of an eye
When the seasons change, all you can do is cry
Now you're gone, and I don't know why

Maybe I failed, maybe I failed

(Whats it like where you are?)
The way you were I loved you
(Whats it like to fall that far?)
The way you were

 

[fox69]

"Faith"

"Faith"



Faith
Comes in little waves
I don't need
To give myself away
I said faith
When it comes you have to pay
It's the pain
Which makes you believe

You could take everything away from me
You could take everything away from me

Here I stand
Naked and alone
Covered up
By only flesh and bone
I can feel
All your little stones
Beating me
Back into my hole

You could take everything away from me
You could take everything away from me
You could take everything away from me
(first your love and your sympathy)
You could take everything away from me
(then your pain and your company)

When I came
There was nothing I could lose
So why should I pretend
That there's something I could choose
When I go
It'll be like no one was here
Nothing to love
And nothing left to fear

You could take everything away from me
(first your love and your sympathy)
You could take everything away from me
(then your pain and your company)
You could take everything away from me
(first your love and your sympathy)
You could take everything away from me
(then your pain and your company)

You could take, you could take...
Still won't have it, still won't have it all...

Still won't have my soul

 

[fox69]

"Famous Friends Along The Coast"

"Famous Friends Along The Coast"



You never knew your way back home
You lost yourself and begin to drown
Inside a cage
With photographs and lights of glass
And memories of when your style
Was all the rage
Working in the diamond mines
The things you lost
Down the line
Come creeping back
And when you try to get some sleep
The spirit world has prepared
Its attack

You look in the mirror and see the eyes
No one can keep you realize
You are a ghost
With famous friends along the coast
You dissolve but somehow still
Propose a toast
To victory
To wings that fly
Through misery
Swallowing your alibi
To learning how not to try
To figure out
Who you'll be
In the night

Get yourself away from here
It’s over now
Get yourself away from here
It’s over now

Now you've been here once before
You let the leper through the door
And fell apart
He gave to you self respect
You were huge and then just a speck
Of his heart
Well, the darkness knew it's OK to be like that
You got away
And bought the shirt
You disappeared into make believe
So no one knew just how much
You really hurt

Now they want you to mop the floor
To clean the blood that keeps on pouring
From your head
But everything just fades to black
There ain't no map and everyone you meet is dead
The crucifix, the hand grenade
Only you know which one is gonna save you
The dancin' bones and the faded bomb
Somehow you must know you're gone
And disappear

Get yourself away from here
It’s over now
Get yourself away from here
It’s over now

Get yourself away from here
It’s over now
Get yourself away from here
It’s over now

Get yourself away from here
It’s over now
Get yourself away from here
It’s over now

Get yourself away from here

 

[fox69]

"Favorite Girl"

"Favorite Girl"



In your version of this world
you're everybody's favorite girl
but that don't mean I'll be the victim
of any pain you are inflicting today

I don't know what I should do
I've been so happy bein' unhappy with you
but I just had a revelation
my heart's been dyin' of starvation
and I need ... somebody who will feed me

And if salvation only comes when you fall
ohhhhh Lord - ohh
It's so hard for me to believe
ohhhhh Lord - ohh
I'm still waitin' for you to call
ohhhhh Lord - ohh
Trapped inside my memory
ohhhhh Lord

Pretending to be someone you know nothing about
Oh I wish you were someone I knew nothing about
You're lookin' for any explanation
your words they only find a meaning in between
what's real and what will only ever be your dream

And if salvation only comes when you fall
ohhhhh Lord - oooh
It's so hard for me to believe
ohhhhh Lord - oooh
I'm still waitin for you to call
ohhhhh Lord - oooh
Trapped inside my misery
ohhhhh Lord - oooh

Will salvation only come if I fall
ohhh Lord oooh
Will salvation only come if I fall
ohhh Lord oooh
And will salvation only come if I fall
If I fall

 

[fox69]

"Follow"

"Follow"



The way I fall
The way I follow you
Nowhere, nowhere

And I lost something
A long time ago
A long time ago
A long time ago

The way I fall
The way I follow you
Nowhere, no where

And I lost something
A long time ago
A long time ago
A long time ago

 

[fox69]

"Fractures"

"Fractures"



I float like an old piece of wood on the Hudson
I may have a purpose
But it's mysterious to me
I wait in dark corners for instruction
Get on my bike
Peddle over bridges
Along rivers and wind back where I started

And so in moments of weakness or strength
I ask god for forgiveness and guidance
Then I fall asleep
And meet him somewhere along the fractures

And so in moments of weakness or strength
I ask god for forgiveness and guidance
Then I fall asleep
And meet him somewhere along the fractures
And in the breaks, along the fractures
And in the breaks, all along the fractures

I go fishing
A giant rod with a string and a hook
I work into the cracks
With no idea what I want back
Standing on my heart
Like a world in turmoil
Alone with God
A vagrant
A figment
An idiot
With no thoughts or ideas

Something tugs on the string
And I keep floating down the river
Riding over bridges
Advancing the myth called surrender

All bones break
All skulls crack and turn cold
In moments of strength or weakness
I ask for help

And so in moments of weakness or strength
I ask god for forgiveness and guidance
Then I fall asleep
And meet him somewhere along the fractures

And so in moments of weakness or strength
I ask god for forgiveness and guidance
Then I fall asleep
And meet him somewhere along the fractures

And so in moments of weakness or strength
I ask god for forgiveness and guidance
Then I fall asleep
And meet him somewhere along the fractures

And so in moments of weakness or strength
I ask god for forgiveness and guidance
Then I fall asleep
And meet him somewhere along the fractures
And in the breaks, along the fractures
And in the breaks, all along the fractures

 

[fox69]

"Free Freedom"

"Free Freedom"




I see you here
Locked outside
I want you in
Come inside
I've been lost
A scattered ghost
No kind being
A shadow host

You my guest
I haunt you now
You the best
Still here somehow
Love and light and sin again
Our limitations
Breathe us in

And breathe us out
Swallowed whole
No salvation
Found below
In the head
Or in the soul
Wandering always
Takes its toll

London Paris New York you
All the cities
We been too
And back and forth
And here and there
All to say
I really care

And see your moon
And see your glow
The way you walk
And what you show
And what you don't
And what you hide
Sometimes you're gone
And still inside
And still inside

I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go

Make believers
In the sky
In the earth
Pass us by
Mother father
Slave and king
All of us
Should finally sing

Freedom freedom
All around
Freedom freedom
Falling down
Freedom freedom
Under love
Freedom freedom
Up above

Freedom freedom
Me and you
Freedom freedom
Red and blue
White and black
Yellow grey
Take it all
To give away

Freedom in
Freedom out
In a whisper
Freedom shout
Freedom head
Freedom soul
Bury freedom
In a hole

Watch it grow
Manifest
Everyday
You arrest
Freedom locked
In a cage
Swallowed keys
The turning page

In the eyes
The leper sage
In the broom
Sweeping rage
Freedom need
Freedom cure
Give us dreams
Make us pure

Make us you
In the sea
Give us wealth
Make us free
Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free

Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free

Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free

Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free

Free the freedom
That you'd be
If you could
Get yourself free

I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go
I finally find a way to go