Strung Out

[fox69]

"Solitaire"

"Solitaire"


I hurt myself again today,
Feeling a little numb I could use the pain.
I always find myself in this little bind.
It's been a few weeks since you've been around,
So here I sit with my hands strapped down
Patiently awaiting our secret games we used to play all alone,

So here I sit all tied up,
All alone with all my thoughts,
I do not mind if this goes on.

I think about about what I'll say to you
When you finally decide to come my way,
I'm sitting around all painted like a fool,
And I don't know how I got this way,
And I don't know how much more I wanna take.
But I know you'll shoot me down, and bury me before I get too high.

So here I sit all tied up
All alone with all my thoughts
When will I learn to walk away
From the things I do that make me feel the way,
I feel when I'm with you?
Tonight it's me, myself and I

Solitaire

All this pain I seem to put myself through,
All the ways I find to submit to you
Cat o' nine tails getting old
And I don't know how I got this way
I don't know how much more I wanna take.
A million ways to tame myself and a million nights to try

So here I sit all tied up
All alone with all my thoughts
When will I learn to walk away
From the things I do that make me feel the way,
I feel when I'm with you?
Tonight it's me, myself and I

When you come around
Do the things you do to me
I hate this game of solitaire

Solitaire
Solitaire

 

[fox69]

"Somnombulance"

"Somnombulance"


I lie awake again no sleep tonight
I find no peace in the quiet absence of the light
A million whispered thoughts floatin' through my head
A million seconds has passed me by in my bed

One two three now it's four in the mornin'
As the emptiness swallows me on more time
I grow a little older with every second that passes
I die a little every time I close my eyes

No sanctuary in my dreams
No quiet place to hide
Every night I swear it's the same
And I don't know where I'll be tonight
But I know sleep will come if I walk all night

It's been a thousand hours maybe even more
Since I fell victim to all the thoughts I tried to ignore
Nameless faces and sounds, voices screamin' in pain,
Huddled shadows and sirens voices calling my name.

Well I can't sleep but I'm not awake
To this hazy dim version of reality
Hypnotized by everything I can't control
Desensitized by everything that controls me

No sanctuary in my dreams
No quiet place to hide
Well I can't sleep so it's here in the dark
I'll make my peace with all that I've learned
Sanity's just another dream away
Maybe with time it'll be alright

Every night I swear it's the same
I walk all night and never ever get anywhere
It's taken all my strength
It's taken all the life
That used to flow deep inside of me

All my dreams are filled with no peace
All of my days are filled with no rest
Maybe with time it'll be alright

 

[fox69]

"Spanish Days"

"Spanish Days"


There are those that I took everything
There are those that I gave everything I had
We don't wanna die in vain
We don't wanna live in chains
Screaming till the end of days
For the madness of this love

Does anybody know what they want
Has everybody gone insane
When all the lonely places we haunt
Echo everything we want
We're just borrowing what we can't own

So show yourself
All the pretty things they sell us out
So bury me deep in the hole that I bought
Suck me off and make me real
Plug me in and do what you feel
A metaphor for letting go
To show yourself there's something more

Does anybody know what they want
Has everybody got what they deserve
When all the lonely places we haunt
Echo everything we want
We're just borrowing what we can't own
So show yourself there's nothing more

As it washes over me in silent grace trajectory
Am I a prisoner because I choose to be?
Does anybody know what they want
When everything is made to break
Is anybody really there
When all the world is mine to take
When all the lonely places we haunt
Echo everything we want
We're just borrowing what we can't own
So show yourself

Am I a prisoner cuz I choose to be?
Raise you up to where you belong
Nobody ever stays around too long to get it right
When all the world is mine to take
And everything is made to break

 

[fox69]

"Speed Ball"

"Speed Ball"


No miracles gonna save you now
No profound word's gonna show
You how
No revelation's gonna change the way
You live
No wise man's gonna come
And take your hand
No awakening lies in store for you
No effort you submit will deliver you.
No picture worth a million words
No Salvation worth a million lives
Will ever open your eyes so that
You could really see
You've come this far doin what
You do so why change now
Your doin fine
I'll candy coat another rhyme for you.
You're on a speedball
And it's goin' straight to hell
And I don't wanna get in your way
You're on a rocket and it's goin'
Straight down
You've lit the fuse set
The fire now there's no one
Left to save you.
Someone pulled the chair right
Under you, now you're swingin' by the
Neck and still you continue to smile
Step right up and get your fix
Climb back to your crucifix
We're burnin' the world down tonight.
No new improved better lookin' god
No antiestablishmentariant?
Punk rock song will save the world
Tonight
We're on a speedball goin' to hell
A one-way trip to Candyland and you
Ain't got no reason to fight
You don't have the answers
You don't have the solutions
Somehow it always ends up
Working out.

 

[fox69]

"Support Your Troops"

"Support Your Troops"


Were gonna pay for russian sand
Painted with the blood of a fellow man
Mr. president said theres nothing to fear
But the look in his eyes say the end is near
But the bombs they'll fall
Falling down on me
Falling down on me
Falling down like rain

Support your troops but not their cause
Your leaders a desperate man
The tears have passed and now at last
Were gonna finally take command
Starting to make him want
This years re-election for another term
What a better way to make fun
O swing guarantee of safe return

Bet you I'll only loose a few thousand men
Well that's just the chance I'll have to take
To get my public off my back
Battle this domestic crap
And eveding the mess I will create

Disappear the diskdrive
Ignorance on display
George Bush and the calvaries
Will blow it all away
Loyalty will stand up
And receed in utter black
The war is that it's over now
There's no turning back

The war is that it's over with for now
Help my people now by stand and wait
It's just a matter of time
Before they may make up they're minds
And will ignore it all some way.

 

[fox69]

"Swan Dive"

"Swan Dive"


Well it's hard to find the words to say,
what no one would say to you when were round,
the loneliest caged bird sings the saddest song,
and you were never one to keep us guessing long.

If you ask me what went wrong?
I'll tell you nobody is doin' fine,
we're all fucked up and due in time.
The gates of Eden elude people like ourselves.

I think about you every now and then,
more now than I ever did when you were down.
All reservations pass when chances slip away,
all songs play better from confusion.

Now I sit and I wonder how,
everyday gets a little shorter,
always feel I'm losin' out somehow,
don't wanna let another day go by without creation.

Now if you ask me what went wrong?
When your fallin' you're the only one that doesn't see the distance,
sacrifice yourself to save yourself.
Now we don't always walk the line and broadcast how we hurt sometimes,
and still at times it seems nobody wants to know.

Give me some time I might remember everything you ever did or said to me.

If you ask me what went wrong?
I'll tell you nobody is doin' fine,
we're all fucked up and due in time.
The gates of Eden elude people like you and I.

I think about you every now and then,
more now than I ever did when you were down.
All reservations pass when chances slip away,
all songs play better from confusion.
Confusion...

 

[fox69]

"Talking To Myself"

"Talking To Myself"


Here I am today it seems I'm stoned once again
Wait for the people and things that ruin my day
As I sit away and take another hit I smoke another bong
Load and it seems I'm really lit
Talk about the things that no one ever wants to hear
Talk about the things in life that seem so unreal as I sit away
And take another hit I smoke another bong load
And it seems I'm really lit hey I can't take no more of it,
Now I'm stoned. these highs never last so I can never hear the phone
Rather sit here and think about these things here all alone as I sit away,
I take another hit, I smoke another bong load
And it seems I'm really lit hey I can't take no more of it,
Now I'm stoned. now life is so cold once again, now I'm stoned.
So stoned. woowowow.

 

[fox69]

"Tattoo"

"Tattoo"


Another desperate call you're not around
I got a head so full of worry
cuz you're nowhere to be found
displaced and out of order I've been down
on my hands and knees so many nights
crawling around this place for days
well I know you heard me say it all before
I can bleed myself so many times
before I start to doubt
but this time I'm gonna let it go
you're way too far away
and I got too much that I wanna say
and now I'm hangin on to every word
I never said to you
here in this phone booth
guess I'll wait around and pay my dues
tonight I got a new best friend
chemical inebriation
I'm passin time without you all alone
I was never one for patience
I was never one for trust
I'm a little bit neurotic so
ignore me if you must
this brain of mine won't let me let it go
I'm not gonna let you get away
I got too much that I wanna say
[Chorus]

 

[fox69]

"Tesla"

"Tesla"


All alone on this battleground
Like dying roses in the face of our decay
I'll be the one voice that opposes
I'll raise my head so you can see my eyes
And know that you were not alone
When the storm took up these skies
And how do I explain it all
As it passes here before my eyes
With gravity on my back
And you turn and whisper

We found a way to forget ourselves and just walk away
We found a way to leave it all behind
Promise me if I become the worst of anything I've done
You'll show me the road home again
Underground pressed against your cold dead skin

Disappearing time
And the space you build inside my mind to
Fortify a place where you can hide away
So speak the line
And I'll give you an ear to bend
Fake a sigh of relief and we can all pretend
That our decay defines who we are
And there's nothing left in this world but our desire
And the arms of the ones who we betray

We found a way to forget ourselves and just walk away
We found a place where we won't ever be found
Promise me if I become the worst of anything I've done
You won't let 'em know how close we all came
To getting what we're dying for

The light on your face
Illuminates what once was a cage
For all the ghosts behind your eyes
We live forever as the wind
Our voices are the weight of time
Like a whisper in a bottle let it turn to poison wine

We found a way to lose ourselves and just walk away
We found a way to leave this love behind
We found a way to forget ourselves and just walk away
We found a way to leave it all behind
How do I explain it all
As it passes here before my eyes
Promise me I won't become everything we're running from
We're exactly where we wanna be
In the arms of the ones that we betray

 

[fox69]

"The Animal And The Machine"

"The Animal And The Machine"


For every bullet in your gun we’ve got plan
To change the world and make it better
This song’s for everyone screaming from the pit
We are the soundtrack
We bleed together strong
Nobody here's pretending that we got this figured out
Some things are better unknown
We all got something that we feel better let it out
Before the whole thing blows

We've all
Been down this road before
Our history
It shows exactly what we're headed for

Can't save the world but you can always tend the neighborhood
I wanna live and die for something good
Emancipate the soul
Tell your brother he's not alone
Cuz life's too fucking short to become victims of each other

We are the story of the animal and the machine
We are more than just life
We are serrated by the things we always hated
So what's the point of all

The dogs
Layin’ at our feet
These battle songs
Playing on repeat
Ocean tides
Crashing at our knees
As the stranger in us all finds comfort
Somewhere in the heart of the machine

Gutter angels played guitar when you couldn't sleep
You’re the reason you’re the consequence
You howl cuz you’re goin’ mad
In the chaos of this consecration a room without a view
Time will only take from us
What we knew we’d always lose

We are the story of the animal and the machine
We are more than just life
We are serrated by the things we always hated
So what's the point of all

The dogs
Layin’ at our feet
These battle songs
Playing on repeat
Ocean tides
Crashing at our knees
As the stranger in us all finds comfort
Somewhere in the heart of the machine