Soul Asylum

[fox69]

 

[fox69]

"99%"

"99%"


I don't own you but I know you're mine
Never disown you, never treat you unkind

But once in a while, you get on my nerves
Once in a while, you get what you deserve
I need you ninety-nine percent of the time
Ninety-nine percent of the time [x3]

If I asked you what's on your mind
Would you say me, would they be thoughts unkind

But once in a while, I'm not myself
Once in a while, I think you're someone else
I want you ninety-nine percent of the time
Ninety-nine percent of the time [x3]

Let's move in together
Happily ever after

I can't touch you but you feel so fucking fine
Let's just stay like this and waste some more time

Once in a while, you get in my way
Once in a while, you know I've got to say
I love you ninety-nine percent of the time
Ninety-nine percent of the time [x3]

 

[fox69]

"Ain't That Tough"

"Ain't That Tough"


A sweet scent of discontent rising in the air
You don't get old you just get passive and then you stand and stare
Hey nobody's keeping you from stopping
Like a bulb without a socket your finger trigger's itching but you forgot to cock it

And things didn't turn out the way you thought they would be
No you can't take that out on me
If you can find a better way then I ain't standing in your way

I'm fed up with holding out I called your bluff now let it out
You were thinking you were never never never enough it ain't bad luck it's just that you ain't that tough

Ain't that tough ain't that tough

A graveyard of bottles and a ??
If you're so brave why's a .45 hang from your hips
Nobody's keeping you from stopping
You're always threatening to kill yourself well why don't you just do it right here, right now

I didn't turn out the way you thought I would be
No you can't take that out on me
I thought I was talking to someone else I guess I was talking to myself

I'm fed up with holding out I called your bluff now let it out
You were thinking you were never never never enough it ain't bad luck it's just you ain't that tough

Last time I saw you you were talking just like me
Now you're talking like some hollywood actress, what the hell's that supposed to mean?

You ain't that tough you ain't that tough...

 

[fox69]

"All Is Well"

"All Is Well"


Black lights and a disco ball
Cut the carpets going wall to wall
Maybe someday won't be just one way
Had a dream I was laying in hell
Looked a lot like this hotel
Maybe one day, won't be just one way
But it's one big maybe
And maybe I'm the one who's crazy
How can I find out,
How can I wonder,
Trying to be like you.

And all is well in hell,
I wish you were here,
I wishing you well.
You know who asked about you
As far as I can tell
all in all, all is well.

A bomb shelter and some cans of food
A gas mask looks good on you
Come and see me
Ya wouldn't wanna be me
I think I injured my funny bone
I'm gonna cry when I get home
Maybe one day, save it for someday.
But it's one big maybe
And maybe I'm the one who's crazy
How can I find out,
How can I wonder,
Trying to be like you.

And all is well in hell
I wish you were here,
I wishing you well.
You know who asked about you
As far as I can tell
All in all, all is well.
All is well......

All is well, here in hell
I wish you were here,
I wishing you well.
All is well, here in hell!
I wish you were here,
All in all, all is well.
All in all, all is well.
All in all, all is well!

 

[fox69]

"All The King's Friends"

"All The King's Friends"


The papers read that the king is dead
The people said what we need instead
Is to be on our own
But people, they do the strangest things
You never know what they might do
When they are left alone
There's men without gods and gods without men
And a spirit of which none of them can transcend
But something peculiar is happening
We should just be happy with just what we've got
And the problems should be too few to mention
But they're not

Where can I go for some information?
So tired of the big sensation
I need to know what's going on
Oh well you're the well-informed
Into your world which I was born
My friend, here's to you

How would I know if there was something wrong
When the weak of heart out-survive the strong
The truth is almost always confidential
You never know just what you've got until it's gone
And your friends have never seemed so essential
When you're wrong

Remarkably incredible, incredibly forgettable
I know this might sound strange, don't ever change

Amazingly unfaceable, entirely replaceable
There's nothing I would rearrange, don't ever change

Out of luck, out of space, out of time, out of place
Don't try to save face my friend

There was a time and there was a place
For your face and for your race but it's been swept away

 

[fox69]

"Another World, Another Day"

"Another World, Another Day"


Folks tell jokes in clouds of smoke
Making sure life won't decay
Fancy flags fly in your face
Fall polluting in my space
Pounds of sounds from shotgun rounds
Music of the hit parade
No your fathers, fathers, fathers
He's got nothing left to say
On the day you walked away
Another world, another day

 

[fox69]

"April Fool"

"April Fool"


I'm quitting after one more last one
Tired of playin the clown
If I want your opinion I'll ask you
I can get myself down

Night drivin without headlights
Wearing sunglasses too
Lookin good but sure don't feel right
Anything to be cool

Doin hopscotch with my legs tied
Jumpin rope in wet cement
Black leather in mid day sunshine
All your mother's money spent

Doin time on the metal detector
Like to drown in your pool
Coverin up everything that's defective
Anything to be cool

A burning heart could be so cool
Won't you be my fashion victim
Come on I'm an April fool for you

Holdin on to what's left of real life
Anything to be cool
Anything to be cool....
Anything to be cool....

A burnin heart, like an April fool
Won't you be my fashion victim
Come on I'm your April fool
I'm a mid-spring snowfall
Joke's on you
I'm an April fool for you

 

[fox69]

"Artificial Heart"

"Artificial Heart"


It's a second hand story no one wants to hear
And it's wet with blood, salted with tears
It's black and white and red all over, happens all the time
This was something about an artificial heart
She lived in a sleepy town trailer home park
Where not many people go out after dark
Innocent helpless at 17, queen of every loser's wet dream
Which brings us to our villain but a mother could love
He liked amputation and the Lord above
He kidnapped her on her way home from school
She lost her mind, he lost his cool
She didn't tell him about the artificial heart
Then some kid found her head
Then an arm and a leg and you know the rest they said
The artificial heart it was still beating
With a needle and a thread they sewed on her head
She's alive and well like she was never dead
She doesn't remember the day she didn't die
Or how everybody cried
She read a story in the paper how she was victimized
And you should have seen the look in her eyes
Her assailant was acquitted and as she read
I swear she laughed off her head

 

[fox69]

"Be On Your Way"

"Be On Your Way"


Just like an old man in a candy store, the riots across the street
The cold greets the newborn, the neighbors that never meet
No one's making plans here, no one knows for sure
The way to keep it inside, it's just one more dark opening for you
And whatever you do, when everything still seems new
It's sure to come to something to change the rest of your life
A chance to feel normal, but now you're in too deep
Pacing circles around your eyes, the rest of the world's fast asleep
No sense of direction, no sense at all
No one there to break your fall, no one knows what's happening to you
I never quite got that through; I know what waits for you
I know for something to do with the rest of your life
Stop looking over my shoulder, it was a little bolder
You're going somewhere I might be on your way
This time I don't mean maybe
Nowhere I'd rather be
If you're coming with me I might be on your way
I saw you there on the corner with my name written all over you
I was trying to get your attention, it's all I ever wanted from you
Who will be the victim, who will be the host
Who will you take it out on for not being there when you needed them most
For you, I'm coming to terms with you
And you can pull me through,
I'm settling up with something to change the rest of my life
Something to do with the rest of my life
I need something to fear the rest of my life's not in vain

 

[fox69]

"Beggars And Choosers"

"Beggars And Choosers"


Right before the aftermath, I saw where it would end.
They said it was an accident, I guess that all depends
on who you talk to and who you know,
and where you come from and where - where you go.
In your crowd of pushers and users, takers and loosers,
beggars and beggars and beggars and choosers.

Your childhood days are over as you stuff your shirt and say
made a choice it's wrong or right, it's this way I will stay.
You'll sell it to your children, you'll sell it to your wife.
Buying is your business, and selling is your life, It's your life.

The vultures are all circling around your ????.
Scavengers, evangalists will get to you some how.
Your mother and your ex-best friend, letters that you never send.

Your illegitamate children are coming for you now.
They're always dragging you down, it's looking like a showdown,
between revenge and in the end you can't defend.
Can you try to imagine, a story that has no end?
I think you better steal it while you still understand it, and sell it to one of your friends.