Strung Out

[fox69]

"Rottin' Apple"

"Rottin' Apple"


Hey tired man I see you walk alone.
The wrinkles on you face, a map
Of all your pain
Your expression becomes an open book
Of time, filled with pages of forgotten hopes.
Good intentions, regret, disillusion with
Life, animosity, unbridled purity.
All these things I swear I see
And your eyes tell me all you could never be.
So many times I've stared
Into the eyes of the young, the old.
The lonely and the wise.
Just to find a glimpse of all I
Have not seen
Just to find some peace for my
Jaded made.
Don't wanna live my life by
the second hand of a clock that's
Long since past me by
You say I've got to stay in line
We'll your line is going nowhere and
So are you.
Choices decisions made smokin' away
The pain inside
Sit back and watch it all go by
We could never find the peace
Of mind we need
We hid it all away for another day
Sit back everything's gonna be alright.
Rivers of pain map your agin'
Skin your expression a journal
Of where you've been
All your dreams and your chances lost
You walk along that dotted line
Do you remember a time
When you used to dream?
Do you remember a time when
You used to Live?
All your dreams and chances they're
All gone.
So you gave it all away unable
to say all you wanna say
Look at you now - turned our to be
Face of misery
Look at you now a rottin Apple's all I see.

 

[fox69]

"Satellite"

"Satellite"


I'll understand if you're not feeling well enough to write
I'll understand if you've got way too many things to do
you see I've been sitting here for an hour trying to finish what I started
Now it seems every line gets harder and never really write out what I wanna say
So I hope this letter finds you well
It's taken me a little while to sit and spell out everything I wanna say
But I think I'm ready to convey
You're the reason that I play at all
You got me thinking how a song can change it all
If there's any wonder how I made it through
Well I tell them that's between me and you, well
Someday I'll thank you if I see you around
But for now I'll just keep this letter to myself
And a song I'll probably never sing for you
Like a satellite
Spinning 'round my head in sound
When you're sixteen and you're full of pain
Yeah nothing matters much but the sound of broken bottles and hearts
And the ties that bind you to what you can't ignore
In a world where I had no control I used my voice as a weapon that I could own
I screamed and shouted until I bled
I meant every single word I said
You're the reason that I care at all
You got me thinking how a song can change it all
If there's anyone that I want to hear
Well nothing's ever been so clear
Someday I'll thank you if I see you around
But for now I'll just keep this letter to myself
And a song I'll probably never sing for you
Like a satellite
Spinning 'round my head in sound
Like a song I won't forget
Oh satellite spinning 'round my head
Like a song I won't forget
When we're all grown up and looking for that anger nothing matters much
But the reassuring sound of your voice buzzing through the stereo
All this imagery and sound
With words that bite and tear out
So watch me find myself
Again now I found my voice again now.

 

[fox69]

"Saturday Night"

"Saturday Night"


Brand new ways of suicide too brilliant to perceive
Of broken speakers and satellites
They dance inside, they dance inside
Set the world ablaze with the gasoline from your pretty car
You buried all your lovers now
You're gonna bury me, you're gonna bury me

Dreams and reality collide within our head
Hot enough, this never walks, the blood beneath the rest
Burn away, the chemicals on flesh
A Saturday night apocalypse tsunamial eclipse

Through the mazes of your heart,
Through every single thing you crush
I can feel the leaves I trail of destruction and unrest,
Rippling the atmosphere of everything, of everything

Dreams and reality collide within our head
Hot enough, this never walks, the blood beneath the rest
Burn away, the chemicals on flesh
A Saturday night apocalypse tsunamial eclipse

Roses withered, nothing lives here anymore
Caskets and razors, nothing lives here anymore
There's nothin' but ghosts, behind your eyes

Dreams and reality collide within our head
Hot enough, this never walks, the blood beneath the rest
Burn away, the chemicals on flesh
A Saturday night apocalypse tsunamial eclipse

A saturday night apocalypse
Tsunamial eclipse

 

[fox69]

"Savant"

"Savant"


Here I can hold em off for a while
at least till I think of a way
to make them see what I gotta show
and to make them feel what I already know now
pour the gas all over me
light a match say a prayer and set me free
turn your cameras on this burning boy
I'll be the life of an image you can't destroy
to see me here is to pass me by
and to watch me live is to watch me die
your conscience ignored your panic spread
you're whimper in the wind that no one said
you crucify what you fear hold up to the light make it shine
the desperation in my eyes is no dim reflection I won't disguise
but you never listened too afraid to give
now I'm giving up on you
to save face and deny you've lost your chance for a better way
assassinate the threat
immortalize the corpse
write a book about the show
and sell it to the source
riddle me this and I'll share your world around
hang me on your wall and I'll bring your hurt down

 

[fox69]

"Scarecrow"

"Scarecrow"


I put my faith
In the absence of something better
If it doesn't fit then its out of reach for me
I'm a tightly wound mess
Neatly perched inside my own distress
And you talk of freedom
That means nothing to me
And then you say

How we ever gonna know if there's something better
Is the only way to know ourselves to go too far

I spend my days in a fear
One day a wind will blow me away
The only thing that keeps me here
Are these strings of mine that hold me down
I watch the rise and fall of a thousand days
It means nothing to me
Cause I've been promised redemption
For a life time wasted in these golden fields

So far so good so many promises
Swinging in the wind directions something that I can't control
Creation eludes me its all just waiting time here in this field
Nothing but a scarecrow waiting for the world to tear me down

How we ever gonna know
If there's something better
How are we gonna come to be the same
If we come to fair to realize
How we ever gonna become
Something better then what we've become
Or are we just scarecrows just waiting?
Or are we just...

 

[fox69]

"Scarlet"

"Scarlet"


Scarlet you got everything I want
You're my pistol my pollution
And my secret alibi
We got no music but we can dance around this death
Cause nothing moves you like extinction
and you know I'm always game

So let's forget the small talk
On this eve of destruction baby
hollowed be our name
this hell is where we hide
Drown with a lost soul and maybe
the eerie glare of neon will last all night

we drone on we persist without an end
we destroy all life around us
we are the beauty from within
and I been tortured by my place in all of this
but you assure me of my purpose
what we are we've always been

So lets embarace the downfall
on this eve of destruction baby
hollowed from within
we got no where to hide
Damned with no secrets and maybe
the eerie glare of heaven will shine all night

And now I watch your shaking hands
embrace the window as you stare into the light
We both know theres no escaping what we are
but we still persist and fight

On this eve of destruction baby
hollowed be our name
we are the end of days
Drown with a lost soul and maybe
the eerie glare of heaven will go on forever

 

[fox69]

"Season Of The Witch"

"Season Of The Witch"


I spent time alone in a cage just staring at the wall
She has to have been a savior, see, just to have heard the voices call
Excess is just a brutal type thing, she's fucked up in the brain
When she gets that look in her eyes
You know that mother's gone insane

Daddy won't you please take me home
Cause momma doesn't love us anymore
She did her own killing, more than willing
Now it's time for her to move on

Through places I have hid from momma loves to hide away
She'll fight for all the kids that come on down with her and play
I've seen the young, I've seen the old, I've seen the neighbor's wife
I've seen the agony in their eyes, human sacrifice

Daddy won't you please take me home
Cause momma doesn't love us anymore
She did her own killing, more than willing
Now it's time for her to move on

The place by the woods where the children loved to play
My mother stalks her victims, my mother stalks her prey
Do you know where your children are at
Do you care where they're at tonight
Never look for mercy in her eyes
Human sacrifice

Daddy won't you please take me home
Cause momma doesn't love us anymore
She did her own killing, more than willing
Now it's time for her to move on

The less I feel my sacrifice my mom is a queen
Gashes are from a thorn, the cut wouldn't bleed
I don't want this anymore
I can't take this anymore
What have we done

Naked and alive her flesh soaked with murdered souls
She dances to the voice, it sings sweetly in her ear
The emptiness is out tonight, the moon is full of life
Don't look for mercy in her eyes
Human sacrifice

Daddy won't you please take me home
Cause momma doesn't love us anymore
She did her own killing, more than willing
Now it's time for her to move on

 

[fox69]

"Sinner Or Coward?"

"Sinner Or Coward?"


Sinner or coward, (call/cause[?]) the distant crashing
Burning for power in the center of the (grave/grey[?])
We need a reason to believe in ourselves
Once more, laughter is an absentee

Give me a reason to go to war now
I'm thinking of the reasons why not
Thought you were dying for a cause
He was lying

Troops (ran around and [?] all my friends)
That's all (of the battle) (he/in[?]) (truth/troop[?])
(Find out[?]) a man with a gun in my hand
Something I (can't subdue/get from you[?])

Decisions, decisions, I just close my eyes
But the whole world will melt away
There's the tragedies of man
Something I don't understand
You always were waiting too late
Yeah

Decisions, decisions, I just close my eyes
But the whole world will melt away
There's the tragedies of man
Something I don't understand
You always were waiting too late
Yeah

Think to yourself, is this what I live for
To die on a mountain of sand
To (pave my (great[?])) way to the presidents
They caused the (potential lie[?])

 

[fox69]

"Six Feet"

"Six Feet"


A family man in the midst of
A total breakdown
Seeks refuge inebriated state
As he thinks to himself how did
Life pass me by - somewhere down
The line I forgot how to live
Now every day is just another chore,
Another day, another week, another year.
The world slowly turns, but this
Rut never ends - one blink of an
Eye then it's gone.

So he puts his faith in the Almighty
Lord up above, he's told for all good
Men Heaven awaits

"Well I can't wait any longer when's
It my turn to see the light that'll
Come and take my troubles away?"
Now he spends his days preaching
What he does not believe, to a world
That's forgotten how to live
And he can't understand the empty
Feelin' inside that seems to grow
Every hour, every day.
"What's it take to be a man, when
Everything I'm taught I can't believe
And everything is thrown right in my face?
I wake up everyday, I live here among
The dead and I am one of them. Is
This how it's gotta be? For you and me
Open your eyes take a look
Around think nice thoughts then
It's off to work I go!"
Now it's back to the hustle and it's
Back to the beat
It's back to another forty hour
Week.
"Soon that weekend will come
I'll get to have a little fun then
it's back to my forty hour grave"

 

[fox69]

"Skeletondanse"

"Skeletondanse"


This day we dance away through our obsession
cut away the pain with surgical precision
A static flash to burn your minds eye
emotionless in doubt
now you don't ever have to feel anything anymore
Anything anymore....

As the skeleton dance, for another chance

Another day alone with our perversions
To eat away ourselves is our religion
If you get me high I'll be right where you are
Just like everybody else, aching for a better view

You and I will scream for more
We can make this so much more

Kill the body and the head'll thrive along
Kill the body and the head'll lead you on
All the coward souls in this place we live
Reside me to wonder if this is really where we all belong

Skeletons dream of touch this close
Curiosity pushes the nail deeper
Fingertips dream of touch this close
Curiosity pushes the nail deeper

Here and now we'll scream for more
We can make this so much more
Kill the body and the head'll thrive along
Kill the body and the head'll lead you on

As the skeleton dance