Strung Out

[fox69]

"Cemetery"

"Cemetery"


An electric concrete fantasy
where the billboards keep on warning me,
that if I don't keep moving I'll get stuck
in this place, where nobody gets out alive.

The dead all came out to play
in this metropolitan decay,
a cemetery called Los Angeles.
The sun holds no regrets,
the natives sway under arrest
as all the stars fall from the sky.

Now we've all sold our souls,
we're just waiting for the show
to begin here at the edge.
What the hell we doing here,
we're everywhere but no one's here,
bodies in motion, desperate motion.

The angels have all gone insane
I know I'll never be the same
so let it ride, we're going for a ride.

Now we've all sold our souls,
we're just waiting for the show
to begin here at the edge.

Now I watch those zombies celebrate
the burning of their favorite heretics and demigods.

The dead all came out to play
in this metropolitan decay,
a cemetery called Los Angeles.
[repeat to fade]

 

[fox69]

"Childish Games"

"Childish Games"


Now I can see through the games that you play and why the
Games you play them with me I don't understand if you love
Someone [?] such agony another time another place would
Maybe be different but right now it's far to late right here,
Right now, right away [?] my feelings I just can't escape so
Tell me, just tell me why don't you know how hard I try just
Tell me where I went wrong just tell me and I'll be gone I don't
Care about society in general I know now we're all built the
Same but society can make you hurt another person I hear
The cries of your pain you tell me truth, you tell me lies your
Different so I'm blind [?] and I got left behind you play your
Games you play with me to make others think your cool the
Only real thing you ever knew you threw away, your a fool
[Chorus]
And I don't care about society in general I know now
We're all built the same but some of us grow up faster than
Others while others play childish games

 

[fox69]

"City Lights"

"City Lights"


We're alive in the modern world so far out of reach
Desperate souls in this electric sea
Well city lights won't guide my way and I'm running out of time
There's wreckage all around me in every passing car and freeway sign
It's a tale about the end of the world,
Encrypted in the heart of us all
We are the dark we are the light
We are the voice you hear at night
We are the architects of void
Inmates here are running the asylum all the time
The kingdom has been poisoned but nobody here can see the signs
I don't wanna hear I don't wanna say
I don't wanna know I don't wanna pray
I don't wanna be the one to let you down, let you down
I don't wanna be the one to take it all away
We are the dark we are the light
We are the voice you hear at night
We are the architects of void
We write the wrongs we build the bombs,
We put the heavens in the sky
We are the keepers of the unknown
Don't wanna hear, don't wanna say,
Don't wanna know, don't wanna pray,
Don't wanna let you down
Here where we hide
From City Lights!

 

[fox69]

"Contender"

"Contender"


A quiet moment before the champ goes down through the doors of his decision to fight for one last round.
Though he's beaten and he knows it, no way in hell he's gonna throw it away

So on with the round and into the light of all the cameras and predictions,
news radio depictions of a fight he knew he'd never win

So for the record...
It's just another day...
All things fade away...

He stood fast 'til the end and met his fate with a right hook to oblivion and no one cried.
His opponent young and eager to accept the admiration of the crowd paid no attention.

So down he goes surrounded by the faces that once proudly, only built him up.
Now he lies surrounded by the ones who do not care. Signed, sealed, delivered...

He stood fast right until the very end, no commentary about the state of grace he's in.
The champion has lost, what will the paper say about a man whose proven only to be a man.

So for the record...
It's just another day...
All things fade away...
It's just another day...
How will I fade away...

 

[fox69]

"Crossroads"

"Crossroads"


I find myself here once again under clouds of indecision
Reflections looking right through me; I can't believe the lies we tell ourselves
The music used to be everything and the music used to heal
But business soon becomes reality and nothing left inside is real

Dysfunction's all that we see true
Allow my best to see this through; got nothing left to give to you
Now I gotta find a better way

See your anger shining through at the crossroads in our way
Turning against each other with the games that we all like to play
Looking straight ahead, it's hard to see things eye to eye
It's not at all what it used to be; something that I can't deny

And now I leave it up to you
Allow my best to see this through; got nothing left to give to you
Now I gotta find a better way
Before I lose another part of me

Dysfunction's all that we see true
Allow my best to see this through; got nothing left to give to you
Now I gotta find a better way
Before I lose another part of me

 

[fox69]

"Crows"

"Crows"


You crows, you carried me through another night
To get back down and I'm going crazy
I'll be starving at your feast tonight
Taking all my cues from the city light
Where we are just barely holding on

Now we sleep underneath the freeway bridge
We belong nowhere and to no one
Not knowing where we got lost

With California at my back
And the whole world in a paper bag
Another state of mind might do me alright
We do desolation style, murders, hope for the mile
Never really knowing what we've got
So we lose it to an afterthought
Do we deserve this life?

And in everywhere, I've seen my share
Of the ways that we all let each other down
And I wonder why

Not all who wander here are lost
Not all who seek that peace of mind
Wonder where they're going
We know exactly where we've been
And we know this ain't a game you play to win
You can find yourself on an even trade
Down familiar roads

Never gonna make it out alive
Whatcha gonna leave here when you die
Take a chance on me and meet me at the darkest road
We've done just enough to get us by
No more than just barely alive
We ain't sleeping no more
With hearts too deep to drown

Not all who wander here are lost
Not all who seek that peace of mind
Wonder where they're going
We know exactly where we've been
And we know this ain't a game you play to win
You can find yourself, on an even trade
Down familiar roads

You crows, you carried me through another night
And I'm going crazy, I'm going crazy
I'll be starving at your feast tonight
Taking all my cues from the city lights
Where we are just barely holding on
Just barely holding on
Just barely holding on
Just barely holding on
Just barely holding on
Just barely holding on

 

[fox69]

"Cult Of The Subterranean"

"Cult Of The Subterranean"


Tonight we're gonna burn it up
till too much feels alright
The feast has been laid out
to the hungry eyes inside our minds
We are not without a cause
the passion's in our vice
We are not content to judge
or fit to moralize

We're on the outside looking in
unbreakable in all we are
Enemy of the Sun we are the subterranean
Apocalyptic daydream casual delirium

So take a deep breath and close your eyes
and be glad that you are here
Let each passing moment sterilize
and wash away like tears

Any means to an end
are the means that I use to get by
And I try to be good
but it's understood
that tonight we'll both look the other way

The smoke of all our thoughts
and cigarette exhaust
all possibility
of ever getting out
of this place
Nodding off
but still aware of all
that's pulling us to do
the things we always do

Any means to an end
are the means that I use to get by
And I try to be good
but it's understood
that tonight we'll both look the other way

We are not without a cause
we are not without a vice
We are not content to judge or moralize
So close your eyes and see
take a breath and believe
That tonight we'll both look the other way

 

[fox69]

"Damned"

"Damned"


At times I sit and wonder what's it all mean
Violence and suffering [?] everyday [?]
But progress has destroyed us [?]
I ponder more, I better of buy myself
Think about the dusty bible sitting on my shelf
Used to believe their was a father
So bright but he's not there
It's just a lie we're not going to heaven
We're already in hell we're all damaged here
And I wish you well I wonder where you are now
And why you had to leave but my bloods so cold
And my heart is cold and I have not time to breath
I ponder more, I'm better off by myself
Think about the dusty bible sitting on my shelf
Used to believe their was a father
So bright but he's not there
It's just a lie I've [?] too many times to even bother to write
Don't tell me what's wrong don't tell me what's right
Take your hopes and dreams and walk ahead of me
Cause in the end [?]

 

[fox69]

"Dead Spaces"

"Dead Spaces"


These lines on my face give up the time.
This blood running through my veins is life like wine.
Drink to our last kiss and write a book about the mess.
A life in vulgar poetry, a testament in rhyme.
Incinerate while we can.

So now I sit alone in the dark in the house we used to play the part.
Empty rooms and photographs shout back in silence.
Dead spaces echo an attack for the love of what we used to both call home.

Wave a white flag and count me out.
Recognize how sanity would feel.
The space between these lines that I could never quite reveal.
In the blink of an eye that's just too short to suffocate and kill.

So now I sit alone in the dark in the house we used to play the part.
Empty rooms and photographs shout back in silence.
Dead spaces echo an attack for the love of what we used to both call home.

It's been two weeks without a sign of anyone.
I left the world behind cuz I don't wanna believe in love.
Anxiety of a future we cannot command
too broken for the test, too toxic for a stand.

So I laid down and lost myself to the things I could not live down.
We are the wings of doves too broke to fly, to carry on.
So I laid down and lost myself to the things I could not live down.
We are the wings of doves too broke to fly, to carry on.
TO CARRY ON!

So now I sit alone in the dark in the house we used to play.
Empty rooms and photographs in silence.
As the memories come rushing back dead spaces echo an attack.
All for the love we left in silence.

 

[fox69]

"Deville"

"Deville"


This goddamn car is broken down again
Looks like I'm sleeping in the back and I'll be dreaming of a better place
Only to call you in the morning with the same excuse again
By the side of the freeway, watching all the cars go by

I think that tomorrow will be the day
I get my shit together and give up this crying game
I've been here before and I'll be here again
I don't know why but it don't feel the same

For one moment, I can see clearly
The weight of the world don't seem so bad
Then I find myself here, right back where I started from again

Indecision's no solution to the days that lay ahead
So I begin to scramble in my head for the answers
Only to find myself shut down by the same mistakes again
Looking over my shoulder for the things that pass me by

I know that tomorrow will be the same
I'll find a new excuse to make the same mistakes again
I've been here before, I know I'll be here again
So many wasted hours, so many wasted intentions

For one moment, I can see clearly
The weight of the world don't seem so bad
Then I find myself here, right back where I started from again

I beat myself up to survive
I got a bulletproof plan to stay alive
If I could only find a job, if I could only find the means
If I could only learn this lesson the first time around

I wouldn't be stuck in another mess
In another rut with the same old stress

For one moment, I can see clearly
The weight of the world don't seem so bad
I think tomorrow will be the day that
I get my shit together and give up this chaos

'Cause I've been here before
And I know that I will be here once again