Strung Out

[fox69]

"Faulter"

"Faulter"


Do you believe there's hope for your kind,
that your insatiable quest for direction will one day
help you find veracity and meaning to your existence as a whole,
that all your dreams of happy endings
will be achieved with faith and sometimes
do you feel that cold wind blowin you beyond all you think is right--
beyond all realm of human thought,
beyond your foolish thinking,
one step ahead is one inch closer to the end

 

[fox69]

"Firecracker"

"Firecracker"


The other day, I swear to God, I got a letter in the mail
That said register with us or you're gonna go to jail
You'll be put inside a cage, then forced to enlist

Well I laughed out loud and said, I won't comply
To be labeled as one of those who qualify
To be shipped off to fight your fucking wars

'Cause war's not about policy
Or religion; it's about economy
And I'm not dying to set your country free

I'll never bow to your expectations; I never have, I never will
I'm not a puppet, pawn or figurehead; I'm a man of my own free will
Our freedoms are slowly surrendered as they take more than their fill
How much power is ever enough for the men, the men on Capitol Hill?

They're cutting back on welfare, illegalizing homelessness
Am I the only one to see there's something wrong with this?
I don't have the answers; won't pretend to say I will
But to put my trust in government; I think, I think I'd rather kill

Oh, mighty word democracy spells freedom for you and me
The books have all been written and the prophets denied
Little by little, watch this state begin to fall
As we awaken from this dream and find ourselves nailed to the wall

Oh, firecracker, patriotic lie
You were burning bright the day the country died
In all your glory, in all your pride

Light the way, torch of Liberty
Light the sky for the whole world to see
In all your glory, in all your pride

 

[fox69]

"Forever Is Today"

"Forever Is Today"


I stand upon your sunrise
I set upon the early skies
Sent em off the edge
As you said goodbye

Hookers like you come and go
That's what I try and tell myself
That you walked out of my life
Thought that forever
You (pawned all we saved[?])

(Look out[?]) forever is today, yeah

When the (dry mark on your face)
(It got green in your eyes)
You walked to the lie
(Better off to have one better)
You (pawned all we saved[?])
(Look out[?]) forever is today, yeah

Tempers, I'm all alone
I pick yourself up off
What you used to say yeah
You think we're never (that something)
The shadow on this wall no
Now I'm running out of places to hide

Strung out, left in the rain
When shit came down I was always alright
Now you're gone I guess forever

Forever is today
Today
Today
Today

Some things that I might get control
So am I disturbing you
As I try to raise a [?] to my reality

Today
Today
Forever is today
Today
Today
Today, yeah
Today
Today, yeah
Today

Forever is today my friend
(Forever my friend[?])

 

[fox69]

"Gear Box"

"Gear Box"


I remember you used to pray
For me now you turn your
Head away
Expectations that I never met
Forgotten promises you never kept
I know someday there'll be a
Time when you can look
Me in the eye
Now I write these words just
To keep it clear
In a jaded song you won't
Ever hear
I never wanted your forgiveness
You did what you and to I did
What I could now we've gone
Our separate ways
I never found comfort in your
Acceptance if times a healer
Then I'll sit and wait for
Your poison words to scar.
A notebook filled with a million
Words sits quietly by my side.
Like a loaded gun with the wrong
Intentions they tell me life is pain
I forgot a long time ago, but
Everyday I'm reminded of the way
You put me down, the way you
Put me out, the way you torched
My fucking world
[Chorus]
I don't need your lies don't
Need your promises
Don't want your open arms don't
Need your sacred ways and all
I need is all I am today.
What was once belief has now
Turned to grief
And there ain't nothin' more that
You could say
Look to myself for everything I need
Ain't lookin' back on anything.
So you think you got me all figured
Out and you think you know what this
Hate is all about
Don't try to understand, don't try to
Comprehend the answer is my words.
When the world comes crashin' down
All around
And I need a quiet place to hide.
You'll find me deep inside my head
Under a tree of thought in a world of pain.
I never wanted you here
I never needed you here
So when you think of me try
To understand
I never wanted your help I
Never needed your hand to
Guided me there your maze
Of lies
To guide me through your
Narrow world
I forgot a long time ago, now
Every day I'm reminded of the
Way you put me down the way
You put me out the way you
Torched my whole world.

 

[fox69]

"Ghetto Heater"

"Ghetto Heater"


I can close my eyes and make my way through these silent empty streets.
And can I hear the sound you make when you don't want to be heard.

Now you can run and you can hide and you can be someone else.
But you can never wash this place from me or the things that make you blue.
What did you really come here for, what do you think you will find?
I've been where you are now, I know one thing.

It's already way too late cuz we've wasted every chance as a the romance dies.
We are the bloom that's dying in your eyes.

Some people spend their lives in search of answers in someone else's eyes.
Some people fear they're gonna fade away so they live just to remind.

Now you can run and you can hide, this ain't no place for wasting time.
I don't think I can give you what you need tonight.

It's already way too late cuz we're wasted.
And down some strange road I never thought I'd find myself with you.
Diggin' a grave for the hearts we break and lost time.
You go your way and I'll go my own and I'll meet you at the end.

Two strangers lost, two strangers found
on the wrong day in someone else's town.
Like a bad moon kiss on the superstitious lips
of a photograph stolen from the things you burn.
Everything lost turns new ahead.
Somewhere in the time we get it back again.
So don't stand beneath my blue sky and come pray for rain.

It's already way too late cuz we're wasted.
And down some strange road I never thought I'd find myself with you.
Diggin' a grave for the hearts we break and lost time.
You go your way.
I'll go my own.
You go away.
You go away.
You go away.
You go away.

 

[fox69]

"Ghost Town"

"Ghost Town"


Sunday mornin' freak show and
Someone forgot to pull the plug
Out on this place a long time ago

The angels they don't come around
And the gods they run like devils
Chasin' secrets no one talks about
Down avenues of glitter lights and pain

I've been looking for a place
To leave my troubled thoughts behind
But troubles growin' all around
And it's all I seem to find

In this land of make believe
Toxic February breeze
Cemetery boulevards
With neon signs that say you've come too far

I don't wanna be the one to say
I know exactly what I'm headed for, some things I think you shouldn't know and
If I'm on a one way street to nowhere at least I made it there to say
I don't regret a single thing that I have done

And all this time I thought I was the one whose goin' down
Changing to be stickin' with the passin' of each day
No one keeps trying hard
Underneath the city's holy light
Burnin' at both ends this candle slowly rages on

Yesterdays a memory and tomorrow's just a vision
And somethin' summer in the sun
This motor's barely runnin', my feet are tired of walking
Down the same old asphalt roads

I spot Sunday drivers slidin' up and down this razorblade
It's cheaper than a fix and not a moment in the sun
I thought I had it figured out but illusions never leave a doubt
So on will I keep walkin' till I'm home.

 

[fox69]

"Go It Alone"

"Go It Alone"


My distant morning shines mute witness
To another sleepless night
Reminds me I've been awake for days
With silence in my chest
My bloodless empty veins remind me nothing stays the same
It's like waking dream
A possibility fleeting like a memory
How do I explain this life as it passes and changes before my eyes

Another day of breathing, waking next to you
The world could end and I'd be fine right here where I am

You're a witness to these words I breathe
You'll never have to go it alone
You sleep and on I drone
The madness here it only grows
While you maintain and unify
The darkest part of 'I
From the valley in my heart I sing this melody

Another day of breathing, waking next to you
The world could end and I'd be fine right here where I am
To paint the world a little more blue and show you how
My distant morning shines without you

In golden hues of disorder
As I suffocate through another line
You sleep and I drone on
Well there ain't no hell like the one inside
In every breath of mine
We live in moments we can't define

Another day of breathing, waking next to you
The world could end and I'd be alright where I am
To paint the world a little more blue and show you how
As the distant morning shines through me
You'll never have to go it alone

The days move on and leave behind the remnants of the love we find
And the silence in my chest resolves that I'll never make it here alone

 

[fox69]

"Heart Attack"

"Heart Attack"


Cities burn and fall into the sea.
When all faith is lost you believe in me?
When the darkness falls never to be seen again by anyone.

When my heart attacks will you stand by me?
Will you guide me through the end?

All these broken things we leave behind
will be the only beauty you will find
on this island lost under red November skies.

When my heart attacks will you stand by me through the seasons in my head?
We just need to build communication so I can feel where you're comin' from.
I don't have to hear a word you say to know how it's goin' down.
This life'll kill us before we ever get it right.

This weight of gravity pushin' on my mind,
every heartbeat just a beat in time.
This distant star what does it really mean at all?

When it all collapses down to the root note, when the sun begins to fade away.
I don't have to hear a word you say to know exactly how you're feelin'.
Your expression betrays and life's too short run away.
Let the sun come up burn us away.

What does it mean to a world without an end
when the heart won't heal and the body won't pretend.
And all these things and all these lies
become the weight that finally gets us in the end.

When my heart attacks will you stand by me through the seasons in my head?
We just need to build communication so I can feel where you're comin' from.
Now you can see where I'm comin from, so we can become something else.
I don't have to hear a word you say to know how it's goin' down.
This life'll kill us before we ever get it right.
Your life's too short run away.
Let the sun come up burn us away.

 

[fox69]

"Her Name In Blood"

"Her Name In Blood"


Mother Mary, bury me in a place they'll never find
I kill only what I love and what I love was never mine
Suffocate you outta me, you're the darkest of my sins
You're burning through my head, don't know where I begin and where you end

Your breathless violence open veins in silence and devotion,
sacred and divine
In this love that makes me it's the hurt that moves me to betray you
every time you pull me near

Give it away, give it away, ride this bitch to hell

And blow a kiss
When you only think of me
Hold my hand and fuck away this blankness of expression
And all sorrows in between

Her name in blood and her eyes on me
Her deepest secret lies in front of me
A whisper now is all that remains of me

You're the center of my unholy shrine
Scar tissue in time you're all mine
You're the last hint of self-control
My last chance just walked out the door

Drown out your artery, straight through a love that would never be

Her name in blood and her eyes on me
Her deepest secret lies in front of me
A whisper now is all that remains of me

This sacrament is our punishment
I am the worst part of you
You are the only thing left to burn

 

[fox69]

"Here We Are"

"Here We Are"


Did we change the world?
Did we forge a better life?
Did we sell it all just to survive?
Did we become a world we tried so hard to destroy?
Did we betray our, our beating hearts?
We stood our ground now here we are
A little more wrecked than before, did we break a little more
All I know is one thing, that I'm not the same
Did we turn the tide, before we’re washed away?
Everything inside, we couldn’t say
Are we insanity, from all thats come to be?
Are we just versions of everything we see?
How did we ever come this far AND
Never really see any mistake ... what we set out to be
when I am about to take my final breath
Will the world around me still know my name.
Mirrors and false confessions
Vanity and serpentine
We all make our own defenses from the things that always get us
in the end...