PAROLES DE "EXILE IN OBLIVION"


01 Analog
02 Blueprint Of The Fall
03 Katatonia
04 Her Name In Blood
05 Angeldust
06 Lucifermotorcade
07 Vampires
08 No Voice Of Mine
09 Anna Lee
10 Never Speak Again
11 Skeletondanse
12 Scarlet
13 Swan Dive
14 The Misanthropic Principle



1 ANALOG

through the coolest haze
of this dreamlike maze
it has begun
and all i wanted you near

with these wounds i bled
a perfect tone of red in isolation
through the swollen eyes of the dying

and my waking dreams we're all dying
to become what we swore we never would

now i watch and mourn in bloom

you take the way you know
i'll take the road unknown
and meet you there
at the end of time

we are frequency
we are tragedy
we are the love
we need to keep us here

we are the dying we are the lonely ones
we are the waiting forever faithful
when i see you on the other side
i will not be the same
as i was when i was yours

how i wanted you near!!!

we are the dying we are the lonely ones
we are the waiting forever faithful
when i see you on the other side
i will not be the same
as i was when i was yours



2 BLUEPRINTS OF THE FALL

Imagine a place where freedoms just a word on the wall
surrounded by the wreekage 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
its 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 thru the graves
an apocolypse is bloomin' 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



3 KATATONIA

impoverished and bleedin' hope here somethin' fast receding dead light holocaust
I check this body in tonight cross my heart and hope to die
to never leave this place alive
im burning right in front of you
break myself against you i lay still
your penetrating glances dead stop all my
vain advances to another place where I can truly be myself
respirators kicked on high
life support keeps me alive
to forgive i will never do
one last kiss is all i need from you
ride salvation goin' under
they say they say I wont survive you now
I wish i never knew you
your name is katatonia


4 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 your the darkest of my sins
you're burnin' thru my head don't know where I begin
and where you end your breathless violence
open veins in silence and devotion sacred and devine in this love that makes me
it's the hurt that moves me to betray you evertime 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
your the last hint of self-control
my last chance just walked out the door
drown out your artery straight thru 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


5 ANGELDUST

Broken angel you sway helpless thru the desert wind
As your enemies they come to pick your bones
You're an anomaly so graced to be a lie you told in leisurely
A passing fascination with obituary eyes
So long to go
Before these alabaster hands ever let go
Meticulous in ritual you made a science of your pain
Where all your bleeding hearts and hungry minds divide along the way
So in love with all you could not be forever doomed to wonder aimlessly
Never really knowing all the pain you're gonna find
So long to go
Before these alabaster hands ever let go
Swayin' in the California haze
In angel dust we all do blow away

We bleed this love alive
Straight faced to suicide
When all these words mean anything?
What good will come of you and me?
Just growin' old and none the wiser
Fall apart and then your time to fall again get up again and on and on

Wasted breath in blackened lung and shortness of belief
Exercise your demons when you dream
The secrets that you keep inside are all you've ever known
Pay to ride and fuck to die reinvent another you
But that never stops that march right off the cliff in a single file
These angel wings could never take the weight of the fall
A question lost time a tasteless joke a secret smile
To fall apart an' get up again and on again

We bleed this love alive
Straight faced to suicide
When all these words mean anything?
What good will come of you and me?
Just growin' old and none the wiser
Fall apart and then your time to fall again get up again and on and on


6 LUCIFERMOTORCADE

As above then so below we celebrate the wounds that make us whole
connect the dots,divide the truth,profit from the beasts complexity
new terror new stage new end new race new face economy
program a president the model of the manufactured proof
How did we get to be so hated gather 'round the tube and wonder why
economy,spirituallity,together are void of harmony
create a god and brush the skin with the oil of a bleedin' tanker ship
lifes just a matter of who is willing to deliver the blow that'll strike you down
Crysanthemums and steelly atom bombs arise! And shape the landscape of my heart
and mind...Destruction to this hurting world
How do you want to be judged in the face of your complacency
I already know my times runnin out
So ....burn the flag of every nation state ,flood the palaces with the peoples hate
and all will be one.


7 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


8 NO VOICE OF MINE


the wind is shifting, somethings different in the air.
I see it in the form of choices every where
and I've been asleep a lifetime just to wake in time to find...
the voice that has been speaking for me is no voice of mine!
NOW YOU'VE JUST BEEN SPOKEN FOR !
NOW YOU'VE JUST BEEN SOLD !
my eyes fixated on the life I left behind,
a puppet dreams of being human
every time that a string gets pulled before you know, your dancin' to the lie
of someone elses vision of the perfect waisted life.........

its in the way we never seem to get it right !
a systematic form of bowin down and under,
and all we know is what we are, without the faith in WHO WE ARE
soo desperate......

somethin' here has gotta give and my instincts fill me with this dread,
that I've become what I'm tryin' to kill, that my appetite is my free will.........
THERE IS NO RIGHT, THERE IS NO WRONG, THERE IS ONLY THAT IS FOREVER GONE!


8 NO VOICE OF MINE

the wind is shifting, somethings different in the air.
I see it in the form of choices every where
and I've been asleep a lifetime just to wake in time to find...
the voice that has been speaking for me is no voice of mine!
NOW YOU'VE JUST BEEN SPOKEN FOR !
NOW YOU'VE JUST BEEN SOLD !
my eyes fixated on the life I left behind,
a puppet dreams of being human
every time that a string gets pulled before you know, your dancin' to the lie
of someone elses vision of the perfect waisted life.........

its in the way we never seem to get it right !
a systematic form of bowin down and under,
and all we know is what we are, without the faith in WHO WE ARE
soo desperate......

somethin' here has gotta give and my instincts fill me with this dread,
that I've become what I'm tryin' to kill, that my appetite is my free will.........
THERE IS NO RIGHT, THERE IS NO WRONG, THERE IS ONLY THAT IS FOREVER GONE!


9 ANNA LEE

You hold this place inside my head you're a symphony of hurt
The daylight passes through me To another crippled verse
Been here once before and I know exactly where it ends;
Right back where we started pain dead flowers on the bed
Anna Lee don't you cry for me
You're not as strong as you wanna be
In the dark we all see what we know
It's the space that scares us so
You lead me to your garden where only dead things dare to grow
You convince me I deserve the thorn you've tried so hard to show
Normalness escapes me to the point of no return
The memories around thi place keep us from movin' on
Anna Lee don't you cry for me
You're not as strong as you wanna be
In the dark we all see what we know
Its the space that scares us so The endless balmy air we breathe
This city's startin' to get to me tonight
I'll take the metro anywhere that isn't here
I find the comfort in the pain I always cause...all night
She says she might wait around for me
To come along with a promise and a dream


10 NEVER SPEAK AGAIN

This is the alter of my downfall
a symbol of this glorious demise
Well I'm in flames and getting deeper
all contact lost is no surprise
I'm sitting here alone
the silence heavier than me tonight
A lost soul found and sold again
A broken stride reborn again
Here among these gilded pages
Now its sanctuaries one last stand

To never have to speak again
To never say your name again
To never tell another lie
to live in the honesty of the eyes

Create your own defence
and keep a secret tight
Tonight there will be no sound
In golden silence we'll be found

To never have to say goodbye
when it hurts too much to just get by
honesty will be a glace away

We're not far, don't say anything

When all the words of the poets lie meaningless
When all the trivial delusions
all lose their place in the arms of those who wonder why
nothing really matters

Tonight all be no sound
in silence we'll be found
a little less exaggerated
To never say goodbye
To never tell a lie
To never come across so jaded

To never curse your name again
To never take the blame again
To never get the last word everytime we've got nothin' good to say


11 SKELETON DANCE

This day we dance away through our obsession
cut away the pain with surgical presision
A static flash to burn your minds eye
emotionless in doubt
now you dont ever have to feel anything anymore
Anything anymore....

As the skeleton dance, for another chance

Another day alone with our perversions
To eat away ourselves is our religion
If you get me high I'll be right where you are
Just like everybody else, aching for a better view

You and I will scream for more
We can make this so much more

Kill the body and the head'll thrive along
Kill the body and the head'll lead you on
All the coward souls in this place we live
Reside me to wonder if this is really where we all belong

Skeletons dream of touch this close
Curiousity pushes the nail deeper
Fingertips dream of touch this close
Curiousity pushes the nail deeper

Here and now we'll scream for more
We can make this so much more
Kill the body and the head'll thrive along
Kill the body and the head'll lead you on

As the skeleton dance


12 SCARLET

Scarlet you got everything I want
You're my pistol my pollution
And my secret alibi
We got no music but we can dance around this death
Cause nothing moves you like extinction
and you know I'm always game

So let's forget the small talk
On this eve of destruction baby
hollowed be our name
this hell is where we hide
Drown with a lost soul and maybe
the eerie glare of neon will last all night

we drone on we persist without an end
we destroy all life around us
we are the beauty from within
and I been tortured by my place in all of this
but you assure me of my purpose
what we are we've always been

So lets embarace the downfall
on this eve of destruction baby
hollowed from within
we got no where to hide
Damned with no secrets and maybe
the eerie glare of heaven will shine all night

And now I watch your shaking hands
embrace the window as you stare into the light
We both know theres no escaping what we are
but we still persist and fight

On this eve of destruction baby
hollowed be our name
we are the end of days
Drown with a lost soul and maybe
the eerie glare of heaven will go on forever


13 SWAN DIVE

Well its hard to find the words to say, what no one would say to you when were around, the loneliest caged bird sings the saddest song, and you were never one to keep us guessing long, well if you ask me what went wrong? ill tell you nobody is doin fine, were all fucked up and doin time, the gates of Eden elude people like ourselfs, 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 wounder how, everyday gets a little shorter always feel im losin out somehow, donŐt wanna let another day go by without creation, now if you ask what went wrong? When your fallin youŐre the only one that doesnŐt see the distance, sacrifice yourself to save yourself, now we donŐt always walk the line and broadcast how we hurt sometimes, and at times it seems nobody wants to know, give me some time I might remember everything you ever did or said to me.


14 THE MYSANTHROPIC 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?


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PAROLES DE "AN AMERICAN PARADOX"

01 - Velvet Alley
02 - Kill Your Scene
03 - Alien Amplifier
04 - Cult of the Subterranean
05 - Lubricating the Revolution
06 - The Kids
07 - UnKoil
08 - Contender
09 - Satellite
10 - An American Paradox
11 - Dig
12 - Razor Sex
13 - Cemetery



1 VELVET ALLEY

You can't make me see what you think I should know
you dont understand where I'm coming from
we're passing through worlds no perception in time
I'm not the same as when I began

Show me don't tell me
what's going on inside your little world
you should have never landed on the moon
you heard we never reached the sky
then shed some light I'll lend a patient ear

Don't let me down I gotta know
if something good could grow out on this rock
save me one more
and I'll be free from the way I think it ought to be

Babble on
Could I be wrong

A silhouette of you and me
just negetive space and time
just reference to a simpler history
I'd sacrifice a million nights for a moments peace with you
reflections to dissect reality

It's all in what we hold as being real
when the symbol kills the substance then we've lost
save me one more time
and I'll be free from the alleyways of my heart

(you can't make me see what you think I should know)
I'm going nowhere
I'm going nowhere inside this state of mind

(you can't make me see what you think i should know)
we're going nowhere
we're going nowhere inside this state of mind

sit and stay awhile
talk to me about that things that make you real
let forget about all that make you and me surrender
surrender



2 KILL YOUR SCENE


You weigh your sadness well, it fits the color of your world.
Though you have nothing to complain about,
there's always something wrong.
Break neck lies romanticize these empty headed alibies,
the drama you create amuses you and only you.
So take all these lies and be real again.
It's all not so bad.
I see you under there, hiding down underneath your eyes.
Show yourself, and kill your scene, you are your worst enemy.
Only doin' what you do cause you know someone is there to clap a hand.
Your conviction lies in words that paint the world your promise land.
And all you wanna be is somethin' I dont see.
Now all you gotta do is get the fuck away.
Push, before my thoughts pull me down.
All you are is what you've disdained.



3 ALIEN AMPLIFIER


just one more verse i swear
just one more line to rhyme with the last one
i didn't really mean to write at all

and its all my fault
i'm wasting precious time
on words that never seem to get through to anybody else

here alone i don't know what i want to say
when you're around i got a lot to write about
and words are lies
convienice in disguise
communication scratched down and overanalyzed

when its all your fault
i've broken everything
i own unable to spit out
while you're standing there waiting for me

here alone i don't know what i want to say
when you're around i got a lot to think about
and words are lies
convienice in disguise
and we'll never really let each other in

and we're all dead
communications dead
and i'm no better than the worst i speak about
give me sound
some frequency in line
to you understand what you really want to say

here alone i don't know what i want to say
but when you're down i got a lot to write about
and words are lies
convienice in disguise
and we'll never really let each other in



4 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



5 LUBRICATING THE REVOLUTION

The mirror never lies
and neither does the face
of a man who doesn't know where his place is
This man and his shadow
know exactly where they're going
straight to hell in all it's glory
with the rest of it all

I set myself up
so that I can set myself apart
and find another way
On this planet I call my home
I'll be an island

I'll rent a revolution
and sell my soul to the cause
as a million footsteps march in my parade
And I'll buy the moon, a bomb
and aim it straight at number one
cause nobody really wants a revolution to come

I set myself up
so that I can see what's going on
and never be like you
If you have any questions
feel free to make up your mind
On this planet here right now
there's a place for everyone to just be
On this planet here right now
there's no place I'd rather be

I set myself up
so that I can see what's going on
and never be like you
If you have any questions
feel free to make up your mind
On this planet I call my home
I'll be an island



6 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



7 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



8 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...



9 SATELLITE

I'll understand if you're not feeling well enough to write
I'll understand if you've got way too many things to do
you see I've been sitting here for an hour trying to finish what I started
Now it seems every line gets harder and never really what I wanna say
So I hope this letter finds you well
It's taken me a little while to sit and spell out everything I wanna say
But I think I'm ready to convey
You're the reason that I play at all
You got me thinking how a song can change it all
If there's any wonder how I made it through
Well I tell them that's between me and you, well
Someday I'll thank you if I see you around
But for now I'll just keep this letter to myself
And a song I'll probably never sing for you
Like a satellite
Spinning 'round my head in sound
You got me thinking how a song can change it all
If there's any wonder how I made it through
Well I tell them that's between me and you, well
Someday I'll thank you if I see you around
But for now I'll just keep this letter to myself
And a song I'll probably never sing for you
Like a satellite
Spinning 'round my head in sound
When you're sixteen and you're full of pain
Yeah nothing matters much but the sound of broken bottles and hearts
And the ties that bind you to what you can't ignore
In a world where I had no control I used my voice as a weapon that I could hold
I screamed and shouted until I played
I meant every single word I said
You're the reason that I care at all
You got me thinking how a song can change it all
If there's anyone that I want to hear
Well nothing's ever been so clear
Someday I'll thank you if I see you around
But for now I'll just keep this letter to myself
And a song I'll probably never sing for you
Like a satellite
Spinning 'round my head in sound
Like a song I won't forget
Oh satellite spinning 'round my head
Like a song I won't forget
When we're all grown up and looking for that anger nothing matters much
But the reasuring sound of a voice buzzing through the stereo
All this imagery and sound
With words that bite and tear out
So watch me find myself
Again now I found my voice again now.



10 AN AMERICAN PARADOX

One gaze from its electric eye immortalizes you forever in their hearts and minds.
Messiah of the people savior of the servants on this runaway train without a cause.
Everyday I tell myself I gotta find a way out of this American Paradox.
Paddling like a dog to the bone that's going to splinter me and they know what's best for my life.
Winfing backwards it creates a dischord that calls itself progression on a grander scale.
The supermodel monster turned crackhead at the wheel of this automated virgin sacrifice.
Everybody step in line it's time to get your piece of the American paradox.
Biting at the hand that fed me this illusion now I'm on for the ride of my life.
This perversion gains it's momentum my resistance turns to fear at its changing face.
I sold my soul to forces still unknown and I don't want it back.
Prescription dementia riddle-ated protection from impurities of the heart and mind.
I've cancelled my subscription broken covenant now there is no question whose side you are on.
I don't want to feed myself the appetite of excess.
I don't want to be another voice in the wind,
got it easy in a world that's not supposed to be,
sometimes I wonder if i think too much about me.
In a world full of mirrors, your reflection is all you see and I can't stand what's becoming of me.
So I'll scratch my eyes, rip this face off, and rebuild something new for the world to choke on.



11 DIG

Well I don't want to make you angry
Don't want to talk about it
when you call and I pretend I'm not around
And I don't make good company
And one of us has got to leave
cause this is getting boring by now

Now I don't know
what I'm supposed to say
when I really want to do is try to run away
Gotta get away
from this showdown I know I'll never win with you

I don't want to feed the fire
And I don't to be the liar
but something's gotta give before I'm gone
Now I'm wrong if I don't say enough
And I'm wrong if I give in too much
So I'll take a bow and get out while I can

Now I don't know
what I'm supposed to say
when I really want to do is try to run away
Gotta get away
from this showdown I know I'll never win with you

Now here I go again
just like before I'm going down
I try to practice what I wanna say
but you won't listen anyway
Like every time before
one of us is out that door
Don't bother waiting for me
cause I'll be on my way
thinking of you


12 RAZOR SEX

And now I think I know
what's on your mind
Your eyes melt through me and it's no surprise
I can become you
and through your eyes I'll watch you
Lie to me
step right over me
as I fall to my knees

Like a movie star
like kerosene
Your burning arrows sinking into me
You're my favorite ache inside
So put down that knife and come lie
Down with me
Step right over me
You can do anything your heart pleasures
You can do anything you want

Just like before
she'll bring me down into that place
We come together and erase
each other one more time

Step back as I set myself up for the kill
I might shoot myself in the foot while I swallow that pill
Stand right above us to unbreak my fall
Your sex with a razor and my blood tells all
Step back as I set myself up for the kill
Shoot myself in the foot while I swallow that pill
Stand right above us to unbreak my fall
Your sex with a razor and my blood tells all

Like a movie star
like kerosene
Burning in my eyes
I can feel you now
here I leave myself wide open now
I leave myself wide open now
It's all I ever knew



13 CEMETERY

An electric concrete fantasy where the billboards keep on warning me,
that if I don't keep moving, moving I'll get stuck in this place, where nobody gets out alive.
The dead all came out to play in this metropoloitian decay, a cemetarty 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 I watch those zombies celebrate the burning of their favorite heretics and demigods.


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PAROLES DE "THE ELEMENTS OF SONIC DEFIANCE"

01 - Mission to Mars
02 - Scarecrow
03 - Savant
04 - Blew
05 - Everyday
06 - Razorblade
07 - Jacky O
08 - Mephisto


1 MISSION TO MARS

countdown initiation sequence
the course is set all systems functioning in check
all preparations have been met
brain function at full engagement
body locked in vigilance awaiting contact
with a destination far inside of me

sling shot across the sky
a million light years to the other side
reality's a distant hazy dream
exiting the atmosphere of my mind
body and chemistry my body separates itself from me

approaching our destination
heart and mind have reached ascension
no response to signal sent
we are unable to respond to the remaining threat
crews incapacitated vital signs have clearly stated
something's gone wrong with the ship collision course is imminent

slingshot across the sky
a million light years to the other side
no one could have imagined anything like this
ascending to another state can't stop and think or hesitate
the reality of the situation has reached control.



2 SCARECROW

I put my faith in the absence of something better
if it doesn't fit then its out of reach for me
I'm a tightly wound mess neatly perched inside my own distress
and you talk of freedom that means nothing to me and then you say

how we ever gonna know if there's something better
is the only way to know ourselves to go too far

I spend my days in a fear one day a wind will blow me away
the only thing that keeps me here are these strings of mine that hold me down
I watch the rise and fall of a thousand days it means nothing to me
cause I've been promised redemption for a life time wasted in these golden fields

so far so good so many promises
swinging in the wind directions something that I can't control
creation eludes me its all just waiting time here in this field
nothing but a scarecrow waiting for
the world to tear me down



3 SAVANT

Here I can hold'em off for a while at least till I think of a way
to make them see what I gotta show
and to make them feel what I already know now
pour the gas all over me
light a match say a prayer and set me free
turn your cameras on this burning boy
I'II be the life of an image you can't destroy
to see me here is to
pass me by
and to watch me live is to watch me die
your conscience ignored your panic spread
you're whimper in the wind that no one said

you crucify what you fear
hold up to the light make it shine
the desperation in my eyes is no dim reflection I won't disguise
but you never listened too afraid to give
now I'm giving up on you to save face and deny
you've lost your chance for a better way

assassinate the threat
immortalize the corpse
write a book about the show and sell it to the source
riddle me this and I'll share your world around
hang me on your wall and I'II bring your hurt down




4 BLEW

I paint myself a window in this world of your conception
where it all comes down to you
knew if you conceived it you knew I would believe it
you knew that you would paint me into your world of blue
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 conspire to bring me down
its all I own of you



5 EVERYDAY

I'm preaching life
I'm preaching thought
cause I see it all around me as it struggles to unfold
on a world born afraid
I don't need science
no reason to calculate what's here inside
no answers won no questions asked
will chase this feeling away

I know about hate I've been in love
and I've seen everyone around me close their eyes and turn to stone
I've Seen hope in disguise
well I'm not trying to save your soul
don't wanna show direction
don't wanna take control
I've been a lie
I've told a lie but
I'm trying to get it better each day I try

life shot in the vein
pumped in the heart awaking my soul
knocked down kicked in the face
shown the easy path is the hardest way down

I've drawn to one conclusion
that no one really understands anything
we're all grinding gears don't know which way is up
once the soul is dead the mind ain't far away

on the steps of my mind one thousand thoughts decline away



6 RAZORBLADE

Got a feeling
you were alone and on the run
with your suitcase filled with razorblades and turpentine sad eyes
of a scarlet glazed in promises made too divine to be real
a runaway too shiftless to know what is wrong don't make it right

and sometimes I wonder if I knew you could I change you
or would you be the same to me right now

your reason to live became a reason to die
and now you're gone
I think about you in black in white faded news paint still life memory
of a broken body in a cheap perfume disguise
well I just wanna know you found some peace before you left this place

well it's alright to be afraid of what your eyes can't hide with both hands tied
did you sink yourself
did you cheat yourself
how did you stray so far to end up here
to know yourself is to destroy yourself and what you are you could not hide
a clue is all I have to understand

sound and bled instant fame in red now you're in the spotlight again
a different tale with a darker twist
but for sure you knew that you would always be the star
no lost innocence because there never was just you and the world
no fairy tale could ever end like this
it's just another bad luck tale
all used up and on the run from you




7 JACKIE-O

A warm dallas breeze floats naked through the air
as a million hungry faces
watch the king and his parade on show for the world to see prime time
america nineteen sixty three
and you were by his side
I still remember pictures that look on your face
the king had been forsaken and his country died in three seconds that would last an eternity

O jackie-O
I wonder what you could be thinking now
your mixed up little head has been
left alone in a world so cold
just a foot note in history book full of lies

you such a good girl keep smiling make'em happy all is well in the land of make believe
as soon as the bullet left the chamber on that calm november day
you knew the world would never be the same
the killer in us all just victims of ourselves looking for the perfed death
trigger happy patriots running from ourselves you knew it would never be the same again

o Jackie-O
I wonder what your thinking now you've been left here all on your own
in this land a world of make believe
you get back what was taken from you and go moving on



8 MEPHISTO

One more time then I'II know
one more lie then I'II go away
pour another drink and I'II ease myself into the comforts of your fool-lie-sophy
try to understand your friend in need
and I'm here to make it easier
you and I are one in the same
we're built alike in so many ways
you can't understand and you won't accept your secrets are all safely kept here
inside we're so lost
I can be the one to find you
everything that you deserve
no request will ever go unheard
you're better off without me now
but without me here you're just better off alone
just wait and see
you're just like me
conversation's getting stale a penny for your thoughts
one small betrayal

does no man know what he's good for
does no man want what he's asked for it takes our design
I've spent a lifetime waiting for
the chance to chase these devils away
but they always come smiling when you need'em the most
so I'II end this night alone again with nothing to offer and nothing to give
conversations spoken in vein alone

so go away it's easier if I stay so go away it's easier this way







PAROLES DE "TWISTED BY DESIGN"

01 - Too Close to See
02 - Exhumation of Virginia Madison
03 - Deville
04 - Mind of My Own
05 - Reason to Believe
06 - Crossroads
07 - Paperwalls
08 - Ice Burn
09 - Ultimate Devotion
10 - King Alvarez
11 - Asking for the World
12 - Tattoo
13 - Just Like Me
14 - Matchbook



1.
TOO CLOSE TO SEE

A cup of two day old coffee
feeling like yourself again
You're still on your own
You've spent another night
In this dingy room with the same four walls
lookin' in the mirrors gettin' easier these days
that old friend anger is losing its hold on you
The game is 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
found yourself in a winless race
fighting for a cause you never believed

its easy to regret not so easy to forget
all the stupid things that used to old you down
you gotta brake that chain and move on
cuz 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 every bit
of that piece of mind that keeps you going on
gets you outta 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 will all work out for you in the end
this is my song to a friend that never needed anyone until now
some times you get too close to see
a different side of what life could be
and if you stare too long it all becomes a blur
and its easy to forget just who we are
don't stare to hard, just take a look around...




2. EXHUMATION OF VIRGINIA MADISON

No one knows where I buried my sweet Virginia Madison
the winter chill falls over me and keeps me numb inside
under the soon by the edge of town she quietly waits for me
I promised it wouldn't be too long till I returned to sleep with her

she says she don't wanna live no more
well I don't mind no I don't mind
so now I'm waitin' for the crack of dawn
to head on back there to the place where me and her will always be

now I got my Sunday vest and I'm headed out that door
dig my fingers deep in soil just to get to her
all dressed in black and she's so pale she's waiting there for me
a blanket of soil covers us to fall
asleep for eternity
and now I close my eyes

when I awake with a snap it was all a dream
I gotta empty bottle of something under me
I gotta really bad headache my blankets are soaking wet at times
like this I wish I hadn't slept
star locked gaze, uneasy hands
then the dream fades away and leaves my head
another riddle another dream another fucked up fantasy
gotta learn to stay away from all this TV

She said she would always wait for me
Well I don't mind, No I don't mind
so now I'm heading to the place where I
buried my sweet Virginia Madison



3.DEVILLE

Well this god damn car is broken down again
looks like I'm sleepin' in the back and I'II be dreamin' of a better place
only to call you in the morning with the same excuse again
by the side of the freeway watchin' all the cars go by

I think tomorrow will be the day
I get my shit together and give up this crying game
I've been here before I know I'II 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 the days that lay ahead
so I begin to scramble in my head ror the answers
only to find myself shutdown by the same mistakes again
lookin over my shoulder for the things that pass me by

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

I beat myself up to survive
I've got bullet proof feelings to stay alive
If I could only find the time If I could only find a reason
If I could only run this last leg first time around
I wouldn't be stuck in another
mess
In another realm with the same old stress



4. MIND OF MY OWN

It's four o' clock
the t.v.'s on
my mind is shut off and my own thoughts are gone
I change the channel
I change my mind
I change my life
I want to leave it all behind

cause I don't have a mind of my own
I am influenced by everything I see
and I can't help it now everything in my life just thinks for me

can't help this habit I'm in love with my disease
worshiping my idle time a life I cannot seize
trapped by depression and I sleep all day but zanax, valium, attavan makes it all ok
it's so much more than a cry for attention
no loving hands can soothe this ache
so much more than a war with the world it's my own degradation
it's my own self hate
I preach my pessimism right out loud to anyone who'll listen
I'm not afraid to be alive
I'm afraid to be alone
late at night my monsters find me
from under the bed or right out of my past
all alone with nobody to talk to
sanity gets put to the test
I close my eyes but I'm still haunted
sometimes I get too twisted to sleep
as all my world crumbles all around me
inspirations become admissions of defeat

cause I don't have a mind of my own
everything in my life just thinks for me



5 REASON TO BELIEVE

I never had a reason to believe in anything
I never had a cause that I could fight for
I never had too much of anything to call my down a drunk mother and father of four
all my life I grew up watchin' others dreams come true
and how I waited for my day in the sun
every day I worked harder and I got further in debt till I realized that day was never gonna come

your written off lost cause sold us down
the river got no hope to offer us
tore down without grief
what's a generation without a reason to believe

they tore down all my walls
and then they made all my hatred a crime debilitating us with all their complacency
our thoughts become mundane our generation thinks the same
our minds anesthetized by apathetic t.v.
No wars to fight steel bridges won't burn the beliefs
we uphold are lies
we never learn the only hope for the Future leaves us reason to grieve
what's a generation without a reason to believe



6 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
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 you
now I gotta find a better way

See our anger shining through At the crossroads in our way
turned against each other with the games we all like to play
looking straight ahead
It's hard to see things eye t~o eye
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 you
now I gotta find a better way before I lose another part of me

Now I can't watch What the world went wrong
The moment is gone the machine is grown
This track has drug me down,
We're what we used to be
Running from a curse that we thought we'd never see
You cut me out but I cut you in
I see you again and it's just a road



7 PAPERWALLS

A look of discontentment fills your hazel eyes
as I ask for the millionth time what's goin' on
you seem to be confused about just where you stand with me tonight
as we tear apart all that wasn't lost to another fight

and so we turn against each other once again
you run and I go hide
talkin' to myself again bout all the things I should've said and I wait for you

I wanna know where this is going and do we
still have a chance to save what we haven't lost again
I made a promise to myself not to let this go
but now I need to see this through to burn these paper walls of doubt

My fucked up head is spinning round
and all my thoughts just keep me down here on your doorstep I'm drunk again
I know you're sick of all my shit
and I know you wanna end all this so tell me right now where do you stand
I know your tired of this waiting game
and I know your tired of all my ways
I know your tired of it all just tell me now
I wanna know where this is going and do we
still have a chance to save what we haven't lost inside
all these paper walls we build and all the ashes that have spilled get in the way



8 ICE BURN

I can feel the murky grip of a cold depression comin' down
I can feel her hands around my neck shake me to the ground
ice burn of the soul in light in sickness and in death
infeded every word and every thought and every single breath

twisted by design
the creeps deep inside of me
feedin off this hunger, rage and the insecurity
tempted by the rage
I feed off nothing but myself thirsty for the things that make me do this to myself
my pen is dripping words along to scrape the smile off my face
every detour leads me here to shower in this waste
you are my friend but now your just living all over me
You watch me when I get it right
you watch me when I fall
Watch me every single day
listen to everything I say
and I swear I never wanted you
I never needed anything from your
twisted fucked up lying words asleep at the wheel.



9 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
a devil with an angels face
I've been told
I think I'II press my luck next time you're around
I'd walk through fire for you I'd burn in hell to make it all true
I never loved anyone else in this world but you
a thousand reasons I try to prove to you
I'm not the other guy
I don't give a damn what other people think

think a flare for the strange and a temper like a whip
a soft hand clutches a riding crop grip
smell of latex rubber 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 nothin 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'II 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

I'd walk through fire for you
I'd burn in hell to make it all true 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
Your my goddess I'm sent to worship you



10 KING ALVAREZ

Grey sky man is talking to the sidewalk once again
your perfect vision of the world it goes unheard
as the rain falls down on your head
it slips inside the cracks of another fruitless day
here in the land of King Alvarez you're losing once again
it's getting harder to survive when the world that's all around
you just don't seem to care
and the universe you've built for yourself is caving in right on you
and the streets are getting colder then they used to be these days
and now I see you walkin' down the boulevard alone
and your

screaming at the top of your lungs all night
and I wonder to myself

how did you get to be this king without a throne
its just another sunny day here in the land of Babylon
to see the things that no one sees to hear the lies that no one tells
its getting lonely in this place gettin tired of it all
I've wondered to myself
how many times he's cracked inside

Screaming at the top of your lungs
and now The voices in your head keep getting louder
With the passing of each day
It's getting harder to go on
I don't know what you don't know
You wouldn't play that game the same
You wouldn't play that game at all
as the rain falls down on your head
it slips inside the cracks of another fruitless day here in the land of Alvarez



11 ASKING FOR THE WORLD

I'm not asking for that much
I only want the truth
when vou tell me how you feel
I'm not gonna play the games that make vou feel like shit
I'm not asking for the world
How many times must we tell each other lies
and separateour lives
I wonder what wnt wrong
I'm not asking for that much
Just open mistakes we keep repeating the same beating
like it's not a choice to make and then we're lying and denying
what we won't refuse to change
I feel like I've been through so much shit
so many dysfunctional relationships that I don't know
what to reel anymore
I'm not asking for that much
just be real with me
I'm not asking for the world



12 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'II 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



13 JUST LIKE ME

I want vour misery
I want you to be what I hate in me
I wanna make you twist your mind so you can be just like me
you got a lot that you try to hide
you need a hand to reach deep inside of you
I don't think I like you now but I will when you're someone else
Metamorphosize wanna make you ride inside my eyes
I wanna make you play those games with me
this perversion waits inside for you
tortured visions of yourself here on display
gotta moment and I'II tell a lie
gotta secret that can't deny
I don't want somebody else wanna make you destroy yourself
then I want you to take it out on me
I don't care about the things that make us different
I'm gonna make you change and you'll see yet that I can do all his
cuz I got no self esteem
I'm not gonna tell you lies
I'm unhealthy and dysfunctional
it's no surprise that I can't wait to make you just like me



14 MATCHBOOK

I can see it in your eyes
I can hear it in your voice
the signs are obvious that all we had has run its course
and I don't mind giving up the upper hand
in this little charade
cuz I've spent too many nights here on the floor waiting for something inside you to change

don't look back in anger now is all that you can say
cuz angers all I got to keep me warm when you're away
and I know that this is nothing new
but tonight is all I know
disconnect myself from your memory and never feel anything
at all and all your words and all your actions don't mean anything to me cuz I've cut you off

so here we stand and face each other
we've got nothing to say
a flashback to another time when silence was a welcomed friend
now I'm sorry I can never really say
all the things goin on inside my head
silence is a justified expression of my war now nothings like it was before

Don't look back in anger
its just a memory

its easy to forget your face
and it's easy to survive in this place
without you
without you
I just comb my hair and wash my face
keep straight ahead and keep my pace
don't think about nothing
I might never be alright
well I got my friends I got my pen
I got a million distractions to keep me warm
and I all I know is that it will be alright.


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PAROLES DE "SUBURBAN TEENAGE WASTELAND BLUES"

01 - Firecracker
02 - Better Days
03 - Solitaire
04 - Never Good Enough
05 - Gear Box
06 - Monster
07 - Bring Out Your Dead
08 - Rotten Apple
09 - Radio Suicide
10 - Somnombulance
11 - Six Feet
12 - Speed Ball
13 - Wrong Side of the Tracks




1 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, and forced to enlist.
Well I laughed out loud, said I won't comply
to be labeled as one of those who qualify
to be shipped off to fight some fucking war.
Cause war's not about a policy 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 harmlessness,
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'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 lire,
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.




2 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 something 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 looking for Better Days,
the kind that never seem to come my way
So here I am, I'm just looking 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 ole shit, The same ole 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 out of 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 doing wrong is all you know
I'll take my chance when tomorrow comes with a little luck I'll grow




3 Solitaire

I hurt myself again today,
feelin' 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 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.
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 my thoughtswhen
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
All this pain I seem to put myself through,
all the ways I find to submit to you,
cat o' nine tails gettin' old.
And I don't know how I got this way
I don't know how much more I wanna take.
I got a millon ways to tame Myself and a million nights to try.
When will you come around to do the things you do to me I hate this game of solitaire.




4 Never Good Enough

She's a big girl and she knows just what she wants
She's gonna get her shit together, and get out of Hollywood.
Daddy's little angel won't be commin' Home tonight.
When your nowhere to be found I'll know you've givin up the fight
She can't hold her own she says she's gotta run away from here
The city's gotten the best of her just one too many times.
When everything's been said and done and the dust has finally cleared
I'll be your fool just one more time
I'll be waitin' by the phone.
Cause I don't now, and I don't care,
I'll do anything you want,
Never good enough for you.
Well she don't need nobody anyway,
that's cause no one understands her
She's somewhere in outer space,
knock knockin at my head again this time
you won't get in
She's in orbit now and I'm underground just waitin' by the phone
Everything she wants is everything she see's
there's a riddle in her eyes sometimes I try to figure it out
she's got a mountain of toys reachin' to the sky
doesn't keep her high
So the needle and the spoon and the bottle and the pills are gonna make you feel alright




5 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 had to I did what I could now we've gone our separate ways. I never found comfort in your acceptance, if time's 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 I don't need your lies don't need your promises don't want your open arms don't need your sacred ways 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 understandguide me through 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.




6 Monster

Time it makes you old, experience makes you wise. it's only a fool who judges life by what he sees in other people's eyes. The decisions that you cast effect the outcome of your game the only person who's gonna think about you is the one that's standing in your shoes Live by the sword die by the sword, I'm a weapon of my set. The only family that I've ever known Is the gun that's by my side. Little big man he's not alone now, he's all grown up his stories written all along these city walls. Found unity, he's gained a brotherhood as they gather to beat you down, the fists reign hard, the fightin' never stops. There's no mercy in this town And I don't know when it's gonna' end for me, this side of town is all I know it's all I see If I go on like this I'm gonna' end it all myself one day, it's my destiny it's my reality, it's society. I wear colors proud but dont stare me down I've got a million scars to prove my pain You think you know who I am try walking a mile in my shoes.Quick on the draw never walk alone know your enemy never be afraid, it's what they always say Till they come around for you. Ghetto birds light the evening sky as the sun begins to fall Another night he'll spend in this jungle with his back up against the wall.




7 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 dissipates 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 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. My addiction, my illness, my only trusted friend My addiction my illness.




8 Rottin' Apple

Hey tired man I see you walk alone.The wrinkles on you face, a map of all your pain. Your expression becomes an open book of time, filled with pages of forgotten hopes. Good intentions, regret, disillusion with Life, animosity, unbridled purity. All these things I swear I see and your eyes tell me all you could never be. So many times I've stared into the eyes of the young, the old, the lonely and the wise. Just to find a glimpse of all I have not seen just to find some peace for my jaded mind. Don't wanna live my life by the second hand of a clock that's long since past me by You say I've got to stay in line we'll your line is going nowhere and so are you. Choices decisions made smokin' away the pain inside, Sit back and watch it all go by We could never find the peace of mind we need, We hid it all away for another day Sit back everything's gonna be alright. Rivers of pain map your agin' skin your expression a journal of where you've been. All your dreams and your chances lost You walk along that dotted line do you remember a time when you used to dream? Do you remember a time when you used to live? All your dreams and chances they're all gone. So you gave it all away unable to say all you wanna say Look at you now - turned our to be face of misery Look at you now a rottin apple's all I see.




9 Radio Suicide

Two silhouettes stand tall against a gray November sky Utopian suburban teenage wasteland blues. You turn to me and sigh, the boredom growin' in your eyes as a voice sings songs of splendor from the radio I hear that voice again submerging from the stereo Invisible electric life flows right through me, Then for a moment I forget about what's going on and the world fallin' around loses urgency. It's just another transmission from a place we all want to be. It takes control then its spits me back to reality.I hear the music then I close my eyes It's just another radio suicide on the airwaves. I turned it on-invisible electric life. Then the song comes on the radio The signal takes control-heartbeat starts to slow, you hear the words reverberating in your mind Twisted electric waves pulse from the stereo as a voice screams out loud Everything is not alright forget about the static pulsing in your ear Forget everything you see and hear it's just another radio suicide




10 Somnombulance

I lie awake again no sleep tonight, I find no peace in the quiet absence of the light A million thoughts floatin' through my head A million seconds has passed me by in my bed One two three now it's four in the morning 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 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




11 Six Feet

A family man in the midst of a total breakdown seeks refuge inebriated state As he thinks to himself how did life pass me by somewhere down the line I forgot how to live now every day is just another chore, Another day, another week, another year. The world slowly turns, but this rut never ends one blink of an eye then it's gone. So he puts his faith in the Almighty Lord up above he's told for all good men Heaven awaits Well I can't wait any longer when's it my turn to see the light that'll come and take my troubles away?" Now he spends his days preaching what he does not believe, to a world that's forgotten how to live and he can't understand the empty feelin' inside that seems to grow every hour, every day. What's it take to be a man, when everything I'm taught I can't believe and everything is thrown right in my face? I wake up everyday, I live here amongst the dead and I am one of them. Is this how it's gonna be? For you and me Open your eyes take a look around think nice thoughts then it's off to work I go!" Now it's back to the hustle and it's back to the beat It's back to another forty hour week. Soon that weekend will come I'll get to have a little fun then it's back to my forty hour grave





12 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 doing what you do so why change now, your doing 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 Candy land 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.




13 Wrong Side of the Tracks

Tell me what you want from me, cause I don't know exactly what you want me to be There's no place left for me to go now so why don't you come kick me around for a while Down here you won't see me cryin' ain't got no time for that I've planned a million ways to sacrifice myself now Seems every time I try to gain a little ground I wind up right back where I never thought I'd be down here it feels alright Plenty of time to find another way, self-destruction's the only way I know how to Maybe another time, maybe another day, I'll be strong enough to leave this place behind me like a clown I'll raise my glass to the sky and toast another night serenadin' my reflection Down here it feels alright, plenty of time to find another way to seize the day without this bottle of redemption So tonight I'll stumble my way home, maybe tomorrow I'll find myself a job but tonight I got the moon and the stars and a song in my head and a pocket full of nothin' well I got no plans got no peace of mind I gotta find a way outta here Took a little more than I gave away Now it's up to me to get up and try to get it right

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