Strung Out

[fox69]

"The Fever And The Sound"

"The Fever And The Sound"


This portrait of reality, the fever and the sound.
Our place in this gravity is nowhere 'til we hit the ground.
Electrical and alkaline, rhetorical and less divine.
Impulses activate, receptors drawn to stimulate.

As the girls walk by then fade away.
As an old man dies a little everyday.
The lonely poor and arrogant all make their graves.

So stand up brave and kiss goodbye any chance we'll live forever.
My sweet black Maria surrender.
Never let this place go without a fight.
Before we all go down forever.
Hold on tight now dance with me.

The stories of these empires, they echo through these halls.
And the shadows that used to play along these lonely streets won't save you now.

As the girls walk by then fade away.
As an old man dies a little everyday.
The lonely poor and arrogant all make their graves.

So stand up brave and kiss goodbye any chance we'll live forever.
My sweet black Maria surrender.
Never let this place go without a fight.
Before we all go down forever.
Hold on tight now dance with me.

Charlatans and the kings of men and the songs that we sing.
Holy watchtowers and skin machines, vacant minds and lucid dreams.
Collisions of a life in story, make believe and allegory.
So dance with me just one more time.
Dance with me and don't look down.

So stand up brave and kiss goodbye any chance we'll live forever.
My sweet black Maria surrender.
Never let this place go without a fight.
Before we all go down forever.
Hold on tight now dance with me.

 

[fox69]

"The Kids"

"The Kids"


Don't pack your bags
don't bring your things
just leave them all behind
Don't you worry about a letter
left for someone else to find
No explanation needed
to define what we have done
We've mapped our course
we've set our sights
crossed hairs on everyone

Today it's you and me
and we're blowin up the world
We'll climb it's highest peak
and watch it fall apart
We are the end result
we've forged our destiny
to rebuild it all again

Spray paint begins to dry
the message soon becomes
So obvious that this
walking adolescent death trips tired of doin time
They are the reversal
they are silent
they are one
They are everything you made them
assassination of the young

Today it's you and me
and we're blowin up the world
They'll write about us all
if they get out alive
We are the end result
we've forged our destiny
to rebuild it all again

You medicate into submission
A sleeping monster needs no attention
You bring me up to bring me down
You knew one day I'd come around
This wasteland be our playground
be our temple
be our salvation

We'll fill the seas with gasoline
and shoot the sun right out the sky
The spark of our imagination
will keep all hope from running dry
They'll write about us all
if anyone gets out alive
to build it all again

 

[fox69]

"The King Has Left The Building"

"The King Has Left The Building"


Where have you gone and run to, where have you been
I've been doing some hard thinking and I've been growing thin
Well I've slept in storms and alleyways and broken princess hearts
Assassinated kings on Christmas day, I watch the world fall apart

Well I betrayed the world I sang
The freedom to the ones I left behind
And I ain't never going back
Empire, don't cry for me anymore

Now who have you gone and become, who are you now
Cause the home you left so easily is a memory now
I'm a stranger you have always known and never will forget
I'm the trigger on your trigger finger
I'm the only ride you got

I drank the wine, I parted seas and walked the mile
I betrayed you all with the promise I'd come back
Empire, don't talk to me anymore
When dust and ash will be all you are
You will know I was never really left for you

You hold me in your heart
As you raise hell in my name
Dissect me, tear me apart
For all you know are names
All you know is pain
All you know is what you've lost

Empire, don't cry for me anymore
When dust and ash will be all you are
You can let go

One thousand armies, one grain of sand
One whispered prayer, one burning hand
In black heart fields of gold
One people's shattered history
One people's blind faith in me

The king that would never
Could never, ever
Show them all, be salvation

 

[fox69]

"The Misanthropic Principle"

"The Misanthropic Principle"


Look at me and say to me
without guilt or compromise
that you care about anything
that doesn't jump right in front of your eyes
We got a problem you got a problem
the mesmerizing truth
We all want the life
no one is supposed to really own

Tell me what is worth dying for?
I ask with the assumption I'll get no reply

Breathe in breathe out
sometimes I get lost within a stare
I look around and I ask myself
"Why the fuck should I even care?"
this affliction repetition
it's all been done before
while I'm sittin' here just killin' time
as the world goes along for more

Tell me what is worth dying for?
Would you give up everything to make one lasting point?

We all believe we have the right
to make believe we know what's right
but how much will it take
to make you stand and be heard?

I am the reason you are the reason
to abandon everything we have become
my eyes are wide open my heart is wide open
is your mind wide open to see?

 

[fox69]

"Thru Your Fingers"

"Thru Your Fingers"


My happiness crawling in the bottom of this pool
just another day throw your prayers away
your not alone thru your fingers your life just slips away
I fight my personal war
in the end there is no score my life just slipped away
another ounce of heaven a waste box of twisted love trembling hands
lift me to a world far above taking on a whole new shape
my whole world drifts away now I feel the orders and I must obey
drunken ass all day to a bar the more things change
the more things stay the same this drug is just another game I play
with my soul to lose all control
and wait for death to take me away

 

[fox69]

"Too Close To See"

"Too Close To See"


A cup of two-day-old coffee
You're feeling like yourself again
You're still on your own; you've survived another night
In this dingy room with these same four walls

Looking in the mirror is getting easier these days
That old friend anger is losing its hold on you
The key to survival in this crazy world
And it's good to see you're still standing strong

Not too long ago, you were tearing at a world
That would never let you in
Strung out, outcast, turned away
You kept your face to the ground and fought the world with your silence

And so the seasons change and the people change
And the good times come and the good times go
You've found yourself in a winless race
Fighting for a cause you never believed

It's easy to regret, not so easy to forget
All the stupid things that used to hold you down
You gotta break that chain and move on
'Cause I know I've seen it in your eyes before

To surrender now, to throw it all away
Is to sacrifice but you can't repay
In a world that don't owe you shit
You gotta think for yourself and fight for every bit

Of that piece of mind that keeps you going on
Gets you out of bed and out that door
Step back, take a look around
And soon you'll find there's something more

That'll come your way with a little patience
It'll all work out for you in the end
This is my song to a friend
That never needed anyone until now

Sometimes you get too close to see
The different side of what life could be

And if you stare too long, it all becomes a blur
And it's easy to forget just who we are
Don't stare too hard; take a look around

 

[fox69]

"Ultimate Devotion"

"Ultimate Devotion"


One o one point one Fahrenheit
To some it's a fever, to her it's just right
And I can't hold her, and it's bringin' me down
Her blood runs hot but her heart beats cold
she's a devil with an angel's face I've been told
I think I'll push my luck next time you're around

Well I'd walk through fire for you
I'd burn in hell to make it all true
But I never loved anyone else in this world but you
A thousand reasons why I try to prove to you
I'm not the other guy
I don't give a damn what other people think

A flare for the strange and a temper like a whip
A soft hand clutches a riding crop grip
Smell of latex rubber it drives me insane
Beat him once then send him on his way
There's no room in your life for anyone to stay
Engrave your moniker in welts of pain

There's nothing I wouldn't do to prove
To make these words I promised true
I'd rather live my life alone than without you
You know I'd rather die then to fuck this up
Wouldn't get another try
Got one chance there's nothing I wouldn't do

You be my master, I'll be your servant
On my knees I beg to be abused
You can take the skin right off my back
With a riding crop or a leather strap
I'd take it all just to be with you

Well I'd walk through fire for you
I'd burn in hell to make it all true
But I never loved anyone else in this world but you
You know I'd rather die then to fuck this up
Wouldn't get another try
You're my goddess and I worship you.

 

[fox69]

"Unclean"

"Unclean"


Centuries of wasted blood stain this war-torn land
as our leaders look up to the sky and await their next command why -
must we die! why must we die for their cause!
terminations become the common way to cleanse the blood
found unclean in the eyes of christ,
in the eyes of war, in the grasp of a god unseen why must we die...
the sky has turned a crimson red as the dead lie everywhere.
there's christians, and there's catholics,
then there's muslims and there's jews.
fighting for the name of god,
for the color of their hate when
will we ever learn before it's too late?
so tell me why we must die for their god?
listen up! they try, they try to drag you in always will,
try and try to pull you in, you must resists now!
centuries of wasted blood stain this war-torn
land again leaders look upon the sky,
you finace your atrocities with lives of those you swore
to protect in order to achive strategic goals
how can your princes justify this misery set upon the land?
watch them change the course of your history

 

[fox69]

"Unkoil"

"Unkoil"


Slipping in and out of reason
and I don't mind
Side effects are expected
with this experiment of mine
I wanna be reborn
breath smoke
think black and call it a night
A temporary eclipse outshines me for a moment
I see no end in sight now

And still I wait
for this stranger inside of me
to show himself and let me be

Slowly I increase the dosage
one more try and I'll get it right now
Feel my head expanding outward
I've arrived at a place
I haven't been before yeah

Something in the atmosphere
is speaking what I wanna hear
The walls have started breathing
the colors I am seeing
The sign ahead reads welcome neighbor
give up all your fears and enter
step on through no hesitation

No disguises
my eyes are wide open
and I can see for the first time
How did we get this far down
How do I find my way back
from this head I've let unkoil

No disguises
my eyes are wide open
and I can see for the first time
How did we get this far down
How do I find my way back
from this head I've let unkoil

 

[fox69]

"Vampires"

"Vampires"


Some say in the darkest places, love can grow
This solitary romance we'll never know
Well it's this coffin break I'm staging to the road that leads me back to you
Will be the miracle I gave up everything to only be with you
Can't seem to shake the loneliest curse of all
Eternity with just a memory
I've seen your picture a million times three sixes and a melody of
Singing vice and a varice in the chains you chose to be our dress for
My funeral for two a carnival in blue
Can't seem to shake the loneliest curse of all
Eternity spent chasin' what I shun
All is ghost in memory and poison in the sun
In the sun...na na na they bury us in the sand
na na na together hand in hand
I can't seem to shake the loneliest
Curse of all eternity spent chasing what I was
All is ghost in memory and poison in the sun