Lagwagon

[fox69]

"Brodeo"

"Brodeo"


Forgive you
if that's what you want
end you roll back and you're wasted
and I'm all torn up
I bury promise here
you would come back
once your feelings are
When you found me
here and not there
No one here
can sing your song
just stand by the idiots and sing along
I bet you loved before
you were a flower on the wall
I built to block up the brakes
I used to need
No one there
can sing your song
just stand by the idiots and sing along

 

[fox69]

"Brown Eyed Girl"
(originally by Van Morrison)

"Brown Eyed Girl"
(originally by Van Morrison)



Hey where did we go, days when the rain came.
Down in the hollow, playin' a new game.
Laughin' and Runnin', hey hey, skippin' and a jumpin'
In the misty mornin' fog with our hearts a thumpin' at you,
The Brown-Eyed Girl
You, my Brown-Eyed Girl
Now what ever happened, Tuesday is so slow,
Goin' down the old mine, with a transistor radio
Standin' in the sunlight laughin'
Hidin' behind a rainbow wall
Slippin' and a slidin', all along the waterfall with you,
The Brown-Eyed Girl
You, my Brown-Eyed Girl.

Do you remember when, ah we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
La dee dah

So hard to find my way, now that I'm all on my own
I saw you just the other day, my how you had grown,
Cast my memory back there, Lord, Sometimes overcome thinkin' bout,
Rollin' In The green grass, behind the stadium with you.
The Brown-Eyed Girl
You, my Brown-Eyed Girl.

Do you remember when, ah we used to sing
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
Sha la la la la la la la la la la dee dah
La dee dah

 

[fox69]

"Burden Of Proof"

"Burden Of Proof"


How do you suffer? Feel pain?
Feel sorrow for anything?
All those bodies in your wake
I see you hanging by your noose
Delivered, divine excuse
Drowning sirens in your lake
It's a sonnet
But there's no way to put a ribbon on it
True believing
You will never find the strength in grieving
The burden of proof lies on you

 

[fox69]

"Burn"

"Burn"


You won't find me condescending at your closed door
You won't hear how they feel.
cuz you've been there before
The holiday's the hardest time to fill in all the blanks
And you don't need anyone to correct your mistakes
Wrap yourself up in only math of our world
Fill up the holes in your full heart with details
For all the riddles solved and every puzzle you complete
Can't seem to find the pieces to the heart that beats
You'll master every task but always by the book
Then log it in your past with risk that you once took
They left you then, they'll hurt you now
Can't get too close to you or you will cut them down
And any fool can play
I'll raise the stakes with another turn
We risk, we roll and we burn
At arms length you never get hit
There's too much to gamble when you let someone in
My true friend I'm spewing
with anyone more positive
I just might spill some notable insight
I didn't think before I purged
So here I am attempting to unlock the closed door
I wouldn't break it down 'cause you'd be gone for sure
You might say something nice of me and send it in a card
Or under whiskey breath slur kind words at the bar
its alright for me waiting patiently
While you stay afloat in the tank you built
We sink, we'll never learn

 

[fox69]

"Burn That Bridge When We Get To It"

"Burn That Bridge When We Get To It"


Burn those bridges to the ground
Without a sound
We just blew up

On to bigger destitute
This is our art
This is their truth

Someone told you life is short
But yours is long
Longing for validation
In short you'll never need it's song
But without harmony
You give them underwhelming hope, change, lifeswork
Ending in a flat note gesture
Passionate to some
Isn't that enough

Up the ladder to the lounge
In an old suit
You make them proud to crush you
Seems they like watching you burn
Just like the bridge you once traversed
So burn those bridges to the ground
Without a care
You know you're nothing more than here, there, aimless
Addicted to the sound of insufficient
Only recognized for your compromise

 

[fox69]

"Burning Out In Style"

"Burning Out In Style"


Anyone can be the one that you want
You only have to see it through until you feel indifference
Take a wife, a child, a family name
File them under Johnson, Doe, Smith, or Boring
Still condos in simple town to settle down

On a wing and a smile, you go out in style
You're going out in style
As long as you look the part above your empty heart
You're not as you appear,
They're not as they appear

Appearances are made on Saturdays
Lessons come from gunfights, late nights, and courtesies
Anyone can define where you are
Choking on elixirs, mixers, and caviar
But I'm not getting through to you in a song

On a wing and a smile, you go out in style
You're going out in style
As long as you look the part above your weary heart
It's not as it appears,
You're not as you appear

But I'm not getting through to you in a song

On your way up the hill,
I thought you wouldn't fail
I thought you couldn't fail
They look good from afar
In that shiny car
They're not as they appear
It's not as it appears

Hanging out in tribes
Superstitions we subscribe
Bat habits in denial
Good times

So bright, so bright
Now you're burning out in style

 

[fox69]

"Bury The Hatchet"

"Bury The Hatchet"


I can't recall the hurting words that I once said
So long ago, still indignation clouds your head
And it's enough to know the pain of losing friends
You perpetuate
certain senseless hate
and I can picture you today
as you say "I used to know that guy"
And as you speak they watch your face split in two

And when you see me It's always, hey Joe, how is it goin' bro?
where have you been man? We used to be such good friends
Two-faced, you don't care You know what you can do with it
I can't pretend
and there you go again

You ought to bury the hatchet
and leave behind all of the lies and your disguise
You know that I just want to bury the hatchet
How much more will you permit?
Think about it you'll admit
you and I have got to bury the hatchet

Am I really all that bad?
Sometimes I second guess
Often times I wonder why my head is such a mess
Put yourself in my shoes and picture if you can
All these insecuries create that bitter sad man
you see hurting

Not me

Not me

I forgive, I forget I won't say the things I'll regret
Not this time
I will stop,
but just between you and me it's a loss

I can't recall the hurting words that I once said
So long ago, still indignation clouds your head
'Cause it's enough to know the pain of losing friends
Fingers point at you Isn't that what a child would do?
And as you speak they'd watch your face split in two
And when you see me It's always, hey Joe, how is it goin' bro?
where have you been man? We used to be such good friends
Two faced, you don't care You know what you can do with it
Hypocrite
Don't give me that shit

 

[fox69]

"Bye For Now"

"Bye For Now"


Here comes the day I see my friends far away
When I grow up inside what will happen to me?
The city sights the business types
I can see but where are you?

Bye for now
Didn't mean to let you down
Didn't mean to drive you away
Bye for now!
Now that your not around
So many things I'd like to say!

See here I think I've found the missing link
The piece that holds us together
If I had my way I'd here you say that it's OK
Friendship should last for ever

Bye for now
Didn't mean to let you down
Didn't mean to drive you away
Bye for now!
Now that you're not around
So many things I'd like to say!

Didn't mean to let you down
Didn't mean to let you down
Didn't mean...
Never meant to let you down
Didn't mean to let you down

 

[fox69]

"Change Despair"

"Change Despair"


Everything that I've done here into one in keeping with...
Some earned conviction, some stagnation, some change despair
disappointed and odds
in a costume you can't take off
Leave it behind. I know that this time I get in for free

Our latest rendition lame
Reincarnate, return the same
Still the best times are here now.
Now that I'm bored, now that I'm numb
Done, I know this is wrong
Safe in that stance but incomplete
I leave it behind. I know that this time I get out for free

Some of it's habitual
some of it's predictable
Sometimes the change is not enough
And in the lost empathy
memories of better days

 

[fox69]

"Child (Inside)"

"Child (Inside)"


Too many hangars in the closet, a clutter of confusion
Too little rectitude to hold a moral absolute
Too much distinction to relate to them
Irresolutions we contemplate with no end
In this world of give and take
And what we refer to as maturity
From emotional need to technology
has you, a cultured seed of your society,
Lacking ability to feel clemency, I'm surprised we still
Bleed into the abyss of despair that's hiding the child
Compassion you would not dare admit to have experienced
Do you regret looking back? A penitent confessing his sins
The child inside of me recalls a time of purity, an outlook of release
You remember, confident that you were able
A future laid out on your table
Running through memories a child is free
The world restored you see, I see
The child inside of me