Lagwagon

[fox69]

"Over The Hill"

"Over The Hill"


Scaling the mountain
I have given up my pride
And I'm clinging to this rocky edge
A rose thorn in my side

It's fable contradiction
Is bittersweet and blind
And I'm balancing the mountain of compromise

I went over the hill to be with you
I went over the hill
I am over the hill to be with you
Am I holding on 'til lies or holding on 'til life?

Standing in position
Objectivity provides
'Cause it's hard to ignore
Losing when you're winning all the time
And the weight of it's too heavy
The ceiling far too low
This commitment is restraining and I can't grow

I went over the hill
Over the hill
I am over the hill to be with you
Am I holding on to life or holding on to lies?

In retrospect
In your absence my disposition's gone
As I close my eyes
To searching
Treasuring what I once lost
I let go of the noose and breathe again
I am falling from hanging and landing afoot

 

[fox69]

"Owen Meaney"

"Owen Meaney"


Uncertainty
A foundation built on nothing
I could see
Secure in your
Immaculate perception
The last resort I thought
I'd ever exercise
Now, all that I have
To stand on
Grieving from a different
Point of view
I learn its meaning from you
In life and death
And continue

...But faith is just a
Silent tribute
Mine is just a desperate act
Give him back

I owe him
Throw me a line, I'll suspend
My disbelief
And concede
Following your lead
Faithfully
Led into this concession with
Hope and doubt
A seemingly futile gesture

My faith is just a silent tribute
This is just a desperate act
Holding on
It's just this desperation that
Takes me home

 

[fox69]

"Parents Guide To Living"

"Parents Guide To Living"


Wasting his days and his nights
Nothing's changed
Nothing's right
He has no sense of pride
Sees no respect in his parents eyes
And why should he care?
No one ever cared for him?
Wasting her nights and days
Sixteen with a child
God wouldn't have it any other way
And then they told her of shame
And that impurity made her bed
No fuckin' CHOICE
She took two lives instead
All these worthless nights
All these wasted days
Down the path I follow you
Because who am I?
Denial
I still care
But it's my life in despair
Laughing harder
In self-concious
I've played my last solitaire
That shirt's too tight to wear
Wasting my days and nights
Nothings changed
Nothings right
I know I'm not exactly
The parents guide to living
But it's the road less traveled
In this world so unforgiving
And I've lost count of score

 

[fox69]

"Path Of Least Resistance"

"Path Of Least Resistance"


Put yourself together, figure out what's going on
If you don't stop, the music will stop before too long

But isn't it always the same old thing,
The violence of the fights, the friends you bring,
Basically you're just out to ruin our scene

It's the path of least resistance, I presume
Why is it that I don't incite the same from you?

Stay on the path you've chosen, you pussy
What does it take for you to know the path you've chosen's not for me?
We don't agree

Take your fights somewhere else, we don't want them here
We've got a scene that's growing strong, don't interfere

'Cause you're the minds of all the kings,
You and all this city's pigs shutting places down,
Why can't you see?

It's the path of least resistance, I presume
I presume
Why is it that I don't incite the same from you?

Down the path you've chosen, you proceed
What does it take for you to know the path you've chosen's not for me?

You and I determine what in our future lies ahead
And we will find it in the end, or so it's said

But whatever it is that you may do
Hear me when I say to you
Fighting is a joke and so are you

It's the path of least resistance, I presume
Why is it that I don't incite the same from you?

Down the path you've chosen, you proceed
What does it take for you to know the path you've chosen's not for me?

That's right!

 

[fox69]

"Posion In The Well"

"Posion In The Well"


Young vacant heartbreaker
Do you feel like breaking something
'cause you seem so cold trying to be bold
Blank prelude to extinction
Your words are misspelled treason
Poison in your trust
Poison in our hope

Do you recall your first bee sting,
How you learned to feel pain,
Are you numb below your nerve endings?

Trouser kneecap, broken hat
Dressed up in broken English
Poison in the quill
Poison in your quill

A founder of a scene
An uninformed machine
Love or hate everything
Somehow you see apathy as soul
A fool's youth is no excuse to be an asshole

It's speaking English but I don't understand it
Dancing on graves in their ancestors' gold
Sucking on air, dispel malignant revolt

Rats, what can I do?
My daughter has to live here too
Poison in the well
Poison in the well

I picture life in the outside lands
Somewhere far away from them
Hanging from the grid
Hanging from the grid

Will she recall her first bee sting?
How will she speak of me,
Growing up surrounded by imbeciles?
A fool's youth is no excuse to be an asshole

 

[fox69]

"Rager"

"Rager"


Proceeds, who's in?
Who wants a piece of him?
So many articles to choose from
Comrade, artiste
A taste for evidence
Hold on to articles of faith
Once worth nothing that something touches who you want to be
Baggage embodies no one (He is gone)
Intrinsic to only one (He is gone)
Belongings don't define us
Keepsake, fingerprint, scrapbook, record of death

Funeral, event, everyone's gonna be there
They have to see you pay respects
Breathe in, breathe out, random, random, random
Who are these fucking idiots?
Come on I'm writing you
I know this role is tearing you apart
Large numbers can't console you (He is gone)
Don't let the guilt control you (He is gone)
The anger has consumed you
Ranting, regret, enrage, screaming next:

 

[fox69]

"Raise A Family"

"Raise A Family"


Maybe I'm just thirty and I don't want to go to parties anymore
Only really need a few close friends
I'm just tryin' to keep the hair on my head
I think it's time we tie the knot and
You and I can make some babies

Marriage mortgage
Can't afford it
We are destined to fail
Life is dumb
We are lame
What the hell
Smashing through the boundaries
Lunacy has found me
Gotta have a family

The boys will tell you they'll take care of you
But I can tell you girl
That there is only one thing they are after
We ain't got no money, honey, it's true
But there's vows in Vegas
In the place where Elvis said "I Do"
Love me tender

Four kids, food stamps
Title 8, roach camp
Endless days of minimum wage
Love is ours
Lucid dreams of better days
Two kids, two cars
Life insurance, credit cards
Carry on the legacy
It's time to raise a family

 

[fox69]

"Randal Gets Drunk"

"Randal Gets Drunk"


He shouts "Fire!" in a crowded room with some conscious intent
Draws a jagged gray line between freedom and excess
He returns it in a sound of hope and falling on deaf thoughts
Randal gets drunk
Randal has fun

 

[fox69]

"Razor Burn"

"Razor Burn"


She broke up with me,
two days later...
I think she met Don Juan in Italy,
she has a new man,
I have a new mustache.

Now all my friends are gonna call me mountain man,
and everyone will think that I'm a stupid drifter
to walk the earth alone,
I'll never shave again.

On the night she left me,
facial hair grew miraculously,
I dressed in black like Johnny Cash,
and grew this beard of shame.

I've heard it said she looks a lot like Sherilyn Fenn,
and some times I'm mistaken for Billy Gibbons,
look like a wise man, but I'm an idiot.

It's over,
she left me,
and she will soon forget me,
she found out I was lame,
I grew a beard of shame.

Come all ye faithful,
joyful and triumphant,
I am a new man,
I have a beard of shame.

 

[fox69]

"Reign"

"Reign"


Fuck this, I'm done arguing
Our fate is not bound to your cold foretelling
And the doctrine that you serve does not serve this discussion
Irrelevant nonsense disqualifies you

It's a sonnet
There's no way to put a ribbon on it
While you're leaving
The rest of us will be here grieving
Cradling our reason

Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Shame
Sing the words in line and prey
Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Shame
Walk, willfully in reins

Hurricanes are coming like empires
Rising seas your willful God's damning lake of fire
And your certainty dismisses solution
The result of our behavior is the reason that you run

It's a sonnet
There's no way to put a ribbon on it
While you're leaving
The rest of us will be here grieving
Cradling our reason

Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Shame
Follow the party line and prey
Hallowed be Thy Shame, Thy Name
March willingly into...

Wars won't be named, won't be framed, won't be strange
You and not just them will fight for land, hanging man,
Will you still prey then?

I'm done arguing
Our fate is bound to innovation, not theory or fiction
That book you love but never read shouldn't leap into debate
Especially when your faith absolves you of empathy
Accountability

Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Shame
Sing the words in time and prey
Hallowed be Thy Name, Thy Shame
Fight for a home in the name
In the name

We will be killing for it