Soul Asylum

[fox69]

"Pipe Dream"

"Pipe Dream"


I'm all alone
The show's over
Night crawlers crawling closer
Somewhere is temptation
Could it just be my imagination
Was it all just a dream at the bottom of a glass
Next time don't wake me up
All this too must pass

Call me up when you find out what life means
Does it hide in the fire of a smoke screen
Like a match burning fast in the cold breeze
Like a house made of glass in a pipe dream

Even so it gets harder
Can't finish what you can't get started
Everywhere seems so brown signs of life are happening anyhow
Should I just disappear behind a one way glass remain
Invisible all this too must pass

So, call me up when you find out what life means
Does it hide in the fire of a smoke screen
Like a match burning fast in the cold breeze
Like a house made of glass in a pipe dream

Late at night when I can't sleep
Listen down to the sound on the street
Then the dawn, the dawn comes chasing
To remind me of the time I'm wasting

So, call me up when you find out what life means
Does it hide in the fire of a smoke screen
Like a match burning fast in the cold breeze
Like a house made of glass in a pipe dream

Like a match burning fast in the cold breeze
Like a house made of glass in a pipe dream

 

[fox69]

"Promises Broken"

"Promises Broken"


Streets are filled broken glass
You get buried by the past
Give me just a little taste
Lay this mask to waste
Take me home

My mind is racing take me home
My body's aching so alone
I'll make you wanna stay with me
Befriended by the enemy
One more time

Every little thing about this tells me
Nothing out there is ever gonna help me
All these words that I hear spoken
Just promises broken

Lookin' outside from a window sill
Throw another coin in my wishin' well
Never find what you're lookin' for
15 miles
Your dim light shines from so far away
Your sad smile is all I see
When I say...

Every little thing about this tells me
Nothing out there is ever gonna help me
And all these words that I hear spoken
Just promises broken

From the hotel satellite
Don't look like you're living right
Here's a deal you can't refuse
You ain't got as much to lose

Can you tell your troubles to
Someone who won't laugh at you
It's alright
And as I watch you walk away
Hope a part of you will stay
It's alright

 

[fox69]

"Put The Bone In"

"Put The Bone In"


Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
'Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more
Because the meat from the pork is so sweet
And the bone from the pork give to me
Put the bone in she begged him

As she paced across the floor
Put the bone in she yelled out once more

Put the bone in
She yelled at the store
Cause my doggie's been hit by a car
And I do want to bring him home something
Put the bone in
She yelled out once more ...

 

[fox69]

"Ramblin' Rose"

"Ramblin' Rose"


Love is like a ramblin' rose

The more you think, the more it grows

Ramblin' rose, ramblin' rose

You try hard

Love is like a ranblin' rose

Cant think, but you can't let go

That thing for the more you know

You try hard

Try fuckin' hard

Love is like a ranblin' rose
Cant think, but you can't let go

Ramblin' rose
Ramblin' rose
Ramblin' rose
Ramblin' rose
Ramblin' rose
Ramblin' rose
Ramblin' rose
Ramblin' rose

 

[fox69]

"Religiavision"

"Religiavision"


Nail myself way up high and I'm gonna die for you
The mother offers up the child to the preaching of channel two

The empires rise and the babies cry, when is the lesson to be learned
And all I hear is the commercials and now the crosses are gonna burn

Now I ain't gonna be the cure to wash away your sins
Why so the children have to pay for the poor planning that you did

No matter how loud you scream and cry you're gonna be sentenced to suffer
You married your life and you married you wife and now you're gonna have to learn to love her
But can you love her?

I like to watch religious TV, what you get is not what you see. Religiovision

Save me my dear goddamned Lord, won't you please take me hand
Lead me to your sweet salvation in McDonald's land

I was born a wild beautiful baby but you tried to tell me what to be
Can you love your children knowing you must set them free

 

[fox69]

"Runaway Train"

"Runaway Train"


Call you up in the middle of the night
like a firefly without a light
you were there like a blowtorch burning
i was a key that could use a little turning
so tired that i couldn't even sleep
so many secrets i couldn't keep
promised myself i wouldn't weep
one more promise i couldn't keep

it seems no one can help me now
i'm in too deep
there's no way out
this time i have really lead myself astray

runaway train, never goin' back
wrong way on a one-way track
seems like i should be getting somewhere
somehow i'm neither here nor there

can you help me remember how to smile?
make it somehow all seem worthwhile
how on earth did i get so jaded?
life's mysteries seem so faded
i can go where noone else can go
i know what no one else knows
here i am just drownin' in the rain
with a ticket for a runaway train

and everything seems cut and dry
day and night
earth and sky
somehow i just don't believe it

runaway train, never goin' back
wrong way on a one-way track
seems like i should be getting somewhere
somehow i'm neither here nor there

bought a ticket for a runaway train
like a madman laughing at the rain
little out of touch, little insane
it's just easier than dealing with the pain

runaway train, never goin' back
wrong way on a one-way track
seems like i should be getting somewhere
somehow i'm neither here nor there

runaway train, never comin' back
runaway train, tearin' up the track
runaway train, burnin' in my veins
i run away but it always seems the same

 

[fox69]

"Secret No More"

"Secret No More"


Well, well, now what the hell has gotten into you
Is it something we can make it through
I'll spend the rest of my life trying to figure you out
Like a black silhouette in a shadow of doubt
Some kinda spectacle that no one can see through
But it burns inside, you hide it well
You hide it from yourself
And you promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't tell, promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't yell, secret no more, secret no more
Now I know that something's wrong
And I'll find out before too long
Only you can break my solitude
Don't you tell anyone I told you this
We got to die to spread your disease too
But it burns inside, you hide it well
And you promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't yell
Secret no more, secret no more
Promise that you won't tell, promise that you won't tell
Promise that you won't tell, promise that you won't yell
Secret no more, secret no more
Secret no more, secret no more

 

[fox69]

"See You Later"

"See You Later"


I guess I'll see you later, sweet manipulator
And how I thank you dearly, for helping me see clearly
Yes sir, no sir, let me go
Sir I don't even want to know
Sir I've had all that I can take today
But I found out so long ago
It don't matter if it shows
And it's up in the air tonight
Yes it's up in the air tonight
Now you're anticipating, that nostalgia's waiting
With your social statement, boxed up in the basement
Yes ma'am, no ma'am, let me go ma'am
I don't even give a damn
Ma'am I suppose I'll stand another day
I booked my flight despite my plans
I hope this flight it never lands
And it's up in the air tonight
Yes it's up in the air tonight
Cause I've got all night
To lie here on the floor, I got all night
Just like the night before, so make it soon
And I guess I'll see you later
I guess I'll see you later, I guess I'll see you later
I guess I'll see you later, we're so up in the air tonight

 

[fox69]

"Ship Of Fools"

"Ship Of Fools"


Shipwreck sailors searching for some fools gold
They're the local drunken boys
Been out drinking all night feeling alright
We watch them kill each other in a fight

Ship of fools, drunken hearts
Making yet another new start
Ain't it hard to play that part
When you've got a drunken heart

I can't change the world by complaining
You can't change it with a kiss
(Be no?) concentrating contemplating
No time to find out what we miss

Ship of fools ...

 

[fox69]

"Shut Down"

"Shut Down"


I've been vindicated
I've been loved and hated
I've been pulled aside and told that life was overrated
No, I don't believe it
I just can't conceive it
I can write all night but in the morning I can't read it

Oh no, don't know what's the matter
Stuck up on a ladder, scared of coming down
If I don't get what I want
And there ain't enough to go around
I become oblivious to the obvious
Just ridiculous

As I flip the pages
You're a time that ageless
In between us lies a calm before the storm that rages
Though we were related
Couldn't be separated
Tried to get ahead but only got decapitated

If I don't get what you want
And you don't get what I need
We become oblivious to the obvious
Just dysfunctional
Shut down

When I can't get keep from getting down
And I grow tired of hangin' 'round
I become invisible, unlivable
Just dysfunctional
Shut down