Strung Out

[fox69]

"Better Days"

"Better Days"


Some days I'm up, some days I'm
Down, some days I don't give a fuck
About anything.
Cause yesterday I gave everything
Now I want somethin' back
Wanna end it all, wanna save the world.
Wanna take what was never mine.
I wanna shout it all out to the world.
I wanna keep it all inside
Here I am!
I'm just lookin' for
Better Days, the kind
That never seem to come
My way
So here I am
I'm just lookin' for better
Days-the kind that never
Seem to come just when
You need em' most
I remember a time, not too long
Ago when all my day's would only
Start in one shade of black-
When all the thoughts that dragged
Through my head seem to wash away
The sun
Always a dollar short and one split
Second out of time
Exiled in a memory-tonight I'll
Drink-Drink myself to sleep
I'm just part of all the madness
Here I know, that anything I
Say or do won't ever change a thing
When the words have all been
Spoken and intentions smoked away
I find myself in the same ol' shit.
The same ol' shit again
Maybe today won't be the same
Maybe I'll just stand my ground
Maybe another time another place
I'll float myself right outta here
Under the influence of reality.
Some days I drive myself insane
Some days I'm all I've got
Some days I'm tired of seeing
The world take everything I've got
It's hard to get it right when doin'
Wrong is all you know
I'll take my chance when tomorrow
Comes with a little luck I'll grow

 

[fox69]

"Black Crosses"

"Black Crosses"


Vapour trails chase down the setting sun
And the silence comes in dreams of everyone.
Hieroglyphic prophecy in digital display,
Racing to the end of time, we don't really wanna know the way.

Illumination, my divine right.
I'm separation of earth and state.

Black crosses in the sun, waiting for us
Down lonely horizons.
We're wasting away, we're down on our knees,
Awaiting prophecy from someone else's dreams.

Empty eyes stare through the blackened sun.
We can rise only to become undone.
One thousand fathoms deep below the darkest ocean depths
To radiated heavens floating just beyond our reach.

We are the light that fuels the sun,
To burn no more and cave in on us.

Black crosses in the sun, waiting for us
Down lonely horizons.
We're wasting away, we're down on our knees,
Awaiting prophecy from someone else's dreams.

I hear the rapture now.
We are dead space in time.
The signal's coming in and out.
We are the lonely ones.

We are the lonely ones.

Black crosses in the sun, waiting for us
Down lonely horizons.
Black crosses in the sun, we're wasting away,
Down lonely horizons.

Black crosses in the sun, waiting for us,
Awaiting prophecy from someone else's dreams.

We're wasting away, we're down on our knees.

 

[fox69]

"Black Maps"

"Black Maps"


We're farther than we've ever been

In dreams I navigate to the space inside my heart
Where I find grace among these souls that only live to hate
So lost and on the run
Headed for a light that we all see
Beyond the ragged framework of our loneliest skies
We're all lost and on the run
Tending fires that we made that we lost control of
So these black maps will lead me on my way tonight
Through valleys hidden in between the darkness of your eyes
Pythagorean skies to lay claim philosophize
A shadow on your face as you completely lose your mind
It seems this path
Has led me straight to you

I believe there's a place where you and me can find our way
Here we go to hell and back hold sway
It's a place we never let 'em see
A place designed for you and me
X marks the spot you'll always know exactly where to find me

It's deeper than our hearts allow
Deeper than the sea we drowned
A shadow on your face as you completely lose your mind
Through valleys hidden in between the darkness of your eyes

We're farther than we've ever been before
The terrain here is desert dry
And the drugs you find won't get you high
Here the sum of the hole
Is deeper than the hearts it stole

I believe there's a place where you and me can find our way
Here we go to hell and back hold sway
It's a place we never let 'em see
A place designed for you and me
X marks the spot you'll always know exactly where to find me

We're all lost
And on the run, tending fires that we make
We're all lost
Can't get control of the fires that we make

 

[fox69]

"Blackhawks Over Los Angeles"

"Blackhawks Over Los Angeles"


Curfew tonight in Hollywood
As the insurgents drawing near
Helicopters and ecstasy
And the shot heard round the world
The camera shines for channel zero
As the cool kids running scared
The army has got a brand new toy
And they're just waiting for the word

Tonight it begins so lock your doors up tight
Blackhawks over Los Angeles

The civil strife between the left and right
As the occupation falls
The homeless have taken Beverly Hills
And there's smoke from city hall

We never have seen it coming down this way before
Blackhawks over Los Angeles

And on and on they drone
In the spotlight glare, this is crazy
All broken glass and panic attacks
Silicone and pillbox hat
There's panic in the streets tonight

Curfew tonight in Hollywood and all the sirens drawing near
Gonna call down an air strike as the shock reins clear
There's panic in the streets there's a calling on the wire
And the cameras got it all as we walk on through the fire
As a crowd begins to gather...a shot rings out

We never have seen it coming down this way before
Don't really know where else to hide

And on and on they drone
In the spotlight glare, this is crazy
All broken glass and panic attacks
Silicone and pillbox hat
There's panic in the streets tonight

 

[fox69]

"Blew"

"Blew"


I paint myself a window
In this world of your conception
Where it all comes down to you
You knew if you conceived it
You knew I would believe it
You knew that you would paint me into your world of blue

I got a one track mind
Cant get you out of my mind

You call it something to say
You call it nothing to lose
You call it anything but the truth
Suffocation in words
Your isolation disturbs
I can hear your voice as it echoes on

So bury over and over
The songs you sing inside my head
I don't wanna lose
What you left inside of me cause it's all I own of you

The red disguises
Secrets lies
And the blue belongs to you
Alone the gold
Is time wasted
In lines of indecision dragging onward

So bury over and over
The light in you that won't stay dead
I don't wanna lose
What you left inside of me
Cause it's something real
Pulling me under

I hear the warm hum of your voice washing over me
A blue light melody of sound
Shines across my back and now
Its pulling me down
Pulling me under to where hide yourself alone
Gagged and tied to the weight of ourselves

Underwater...
Well I won't forget this loss
The shame of regret turn
Out the lights and sit in
Darkness while I try to make it through

Silence!
There's a monster growing strong
Silence!
Conspire to bring me down
Silence!
I wont forget this life
Silence!
Its all I own of you

[Professor/scientist voice:]
This is the beginning, this is the
beginning of the rest of the future now and from now on
there will simply be all these robots walking around, feeling
nothing, thinking nothing, and there will be nobody left almost
to remind them that there once a species called a human
being, with feelings and thoughts and that history and
memory are right now being erased and soon nobody will
really remember that life existed on the planet.

 

[fox69]

"Blueprint Of The Fall"

"Blueprint Of The Fall"


Imagine a place where freedoms just a word on the wall
surrounded by the wreckage of towers that could never fall
the company will avenge

imagine the lies like bombs turn the shock and the awe
for justice in time and a land for justice never was one thief
to rule them all along the Potomac and west toward the sea
through the ghettos past the monuments we all built to house the weak
it's the blueprint to the fall of our place in history
the end to what we all believed to be the hope to save this place

and I walk among the flagstones through the graves
an apocalypse is blooming in the sage

dead presidents lined coffin text in biblical unrest
the blind pride home genocide and the secret wars we all missed
it's the blueprint to the fall of the entire human race
the end to what we all believed would be the hope to save this place

and I walk among the flagstones through the graves

 

[fox69]

"Bring Out Your Dead"

"Bring Out Your Dead"


One brief recollection of all the
People in my life that have
Come and gone
One brief fleeting moment of
People I've loved and people that
I have wronged
Long lost are loved ones gone
But this bird cannot seem to
Mend it's broken wings so the
Lust for life dissipated and
A new greed rises for the
Needful things.
Don't wanna think about it,
I indulge myself
Distraction eases pain, bury my
Emotions to protect myself.
Till I can't feel a fucking thing
I've dared to dream I've tried to live
But I've played it safe again
Just another slave to my vices now
Bring out your dead
Voices wither and crack then die
Ringin' in my ear would sing me
Soft asleep
Deathly silence now is all I hear
Has inspiration finally eluded me
[Chorus]
My addiction, my illness, my only
Trusted friend
My addiction my illness my only
Childhood fiend.
Your twisted warm embrace
Engulfing all I tried to be
My body's breaking under
Arms that will not set me free
Locked in this cage that I've
Built myself
Constructed out of twisted cold
Reminders of a Life once lost
But I've found my way again.
Here among the wreckage and the vampires
I'll play it safe again, just another
Slave to my vices now.

 

[fox69]

"Broken"

"Broken"


The secret, kept safely hid in your mind,
Betrays you when you look into my eyes.
Broken are the bonds that used to bind you and I.
Broken like a promise bred from your world of lies.
Broken are the dreams, the ones you let slip away.
Broken, broken, broken
Trust me: two words I've heard once before.
Shelter your eyes from all that is real.
Broken and distorted, your reality within,
Your fucked up little world's a shame of need and denial.
I can't, stand by, and let, you lead me through this path it's broke, it's broken.
Noises - the ones you hear in your mind.
They lead you away from something that's real
Broken are the bonds that used to bind you and I.
Broken like a promise bred from your world of lies.
Broken are the dreams, the ones you let slip away.
Broken, broken, broken.
Broken and distorted, your reality within,
Your fucked up little world's a shame of need and denial.
I won't stand by and let you lead me through this path it's broke, it's broken.

 

[fox69]

"Calling"

"Calling"


The wings that take this sparrow break with this weight of mine,
Another message lost into the void of time,
Is anybody out there get the message that I send?
Would anybody read it then send it back again?
A call to mend connection lost through memory and bone,
A call to find a new way to communicate and grow!
I sold my voice to pay for my security
Now I write my sentence on its walls

I'm calling, is anybody else out there?
Is anybody tunning in?

One thousand years that I've waited for a sign
A dream may last just seconds changing you for all times
Frantic incoherent just a reach in the dark!
A message for my lonely thoughts a sparrow for my heart.

I'm calling, is anybody else out there?
Is anybody listening? Can anybody hear me?

The wings that take this sparrow break with this weight of mine

I'm calling, is anybody else out there?
Is anybody listening? Can anybody save me?

The wings that take this sparrow break with this weight of mine,
Another message lost straight from this heart of mine
A message out to anybody tunning in
That this whole world is slowly caving in!

 

[fox69]

"Carcrashradio"

"Carcrashradio"


Little black rose, don't blow away.
Yeah, slide right over, let me hear you say,
"I got the heart! I got the bombs!
A full tank of gas and nowhere to be with you.

With you.

Step into my ride
And I'll let you drive all over me."

Crash right into me and take me down.
I'm not going anywhere, please come and scrape me off the ground.

Dig, dig, dig, dig a little deeper,
I'll tell you anything you wanna know.
Show me what it's like to pull you closer.
Show me what it's like to burn this place...

To the end of the last broken bottle,
The end of the night all alone,
All alone with you.

Crash right into me and take me down.
Show me how you dance alone when there's no one else around.
Show me a secret, tell me something no one else would know
As we lose our minds and we're getting high to radio.

Silence,
We're all alone.

Like a heartbreak all the time; for the glory, for the wine.
Scratch the meaning in my arm.
Little promise, say my name, we could never be the same.
Little black rose, don't blow away.

Crash right into me and take me down.
Show me how you dance alone when there's no one else around.
Show me a secret, tell me something no one else would know
As we lose our minds and we're getting high to radio.