Strung Out

Lyrics to Population Control :
i kneel to you when you preach to me / you're my god you're my tv you control what i say you control what i hear you control what i see my whole existence revolves around this cable to my mind. it's thought parole, population control / it's slavery of mankind. under their control! and you're loving their control! don't question the forces that govern your miserable life. don't seek out the answers that void your empty life. 'cause this melancholy vision is just a brief episode in this game called reality. it's somethin' i've been trying so hard to figure out.

Lyrics to Lost? :
when i was young, america meant to me-- land of the beautiful and land of the free. now i look around and all i see are americans in poverty. we're all lost without a trace we can't keep up, can't find our place we're all lost without a clue and our leaders never know what to do. taking things slow--one step at a time, making sure we get left behind. dreams of success, well they're all gone. this american way of life i've been robbed! we're all lost without a trace we can't keep up, can't find our place we're all lost without a clue and our leaders never know what to do.

Lyrics to Drag Me Down :
you gave in to your vice so quickly. now i die alone among these people i don't know. and faces i've not seen--your masquerade it made me blind well now i see what i must do. don't know where i must go, to run from tonight. we're gonna drag each other down again, gonna bring each other down. to make believe made it alright, to turn our heads the other way made it seem like we could try to hide from all. well i'm sorry and i know this hole we dig for ourselves will bury everything we feel, then bury us tonight. we're gonna drag each other down again, gonna bring each other down. i cannot ignore, i cannot deny, i cannot feel at all, i cannot hide-- just another day, just another war, just another time i must kill another part of me.

Lyrics to Talking To Myself :
here i am today it seems i'm stoned once again wait for the people and things that ruin my day as i sit away and take another hit i smoke another bong load and it seems i'm really lit talk about the things that no one ever wants to hear talk about the things in life that seem so unreal as i sit away and take another hit i smoke another bong load and it seems i'm really lit hey i can't take no more of it, now i'm stoned. these highs never last so i can never hear the phone rather sit here and think about these things here all alone as i sit away, i take another hit, i smoke another bong load and it seems i'm really lit hey i can't take no more of it, now i'm stoned. now life is so cold once again, now i'm stoned. so stoned. woowowow.

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

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

Lyrics to Away :
underneath the moon in a place far away i know a place where we can run away. if you belive in me and you let me lead the way. i take your pain, i'll wish it all away. so far away. i'll take you by the hand, tell you never to fear in a world where we can be one so far away from here we'll kiss the sky together amoung the stars we will play they'll never ever find us in our castle, so far away well i just can't seem to forget the places that i've been why don't you help me understand the things i really fear when the words, they never come out right and the things you say never mean a thing thing, when you look me straight in the eye and say everything's alright.

Lyrics to Alone :
i'm alone, but you point your finger and laugh at me and thank god that you are nowhere close to me because we're different and you try so hard to hate me, to go home i'm alone and i cannot stay, what do you know about being alone has life ever had a suicidal tone, no one wants to know me for they slip me out im outside looking in think im under pressure while im here today but we only know the right words to say that has come and gone if they had only known they couldnt go through life alone. help me two words i dont know how to say im in pain but that's a message you can never convey, hear me and ive tried to make you understand without love, life'll kill the strongest man.

Lyrics to Mad Mad World :
a friend is dead you look so hard but you can't find a cause what does it mean? in one breif moment a life is lost what does it a life of hurtin, a life of chore, what does it mean? when all we leave is just a memory, it's a mad mad world we're all doing time in a mad mad world, we're all left behind in a mad mad world, and all we leave is just a memory i think about the things you said "live each day like it was your last" i think about your life, and how it went by so fast when you lose a friend it hurts so fuckin bad inside. especially when that friend commits sucide. a friend is dead you can look so hard to try a find a cause what does it mean in one brief moment a life is lost... all i have is your memory

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

Lyrics to 14 Days :
my day begins with a sigh as i slowly feel awake. then it's off to work thinkin how much shit i have to take it's been two weeks since i've had a smile upon my face. i miss the days when all i know fits in it's place 14 days i killed myself alone, tried so hard to understand i'll never forgive you my world came crashing down as if i stood aside and watched all the monsters in my head control everything i feel i can see the door that traps me in this place i can see my way outta here but i just can't find the key.

Lyrics to Every Breath You Take :
Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you

Oh, can't you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you

Since you've gone I been lost without a trace
Then at night I can only see your face
I look around but its you I can't replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep a-callin' baby, baby, please...

Oh, can't you see
You belong to me
How my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
I'll be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
I'll be watching you!

Lyrics to 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, 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 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
Figure head 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 cuttin's back on welfare
IL legalizing 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
Off 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
Burnin' 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.

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

Lyrics to 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 secert games
We used to play
All 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,
And 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 thoughts when
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.

Lyrics to Never Good Enough :
She's a big girl and she know
Just what she wants
She's gonna get her shit together
gonna 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 here 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 know
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 sees is everything she wants
There's a riddle in her eyes sometimes
I try to figure it our
She's got a mountain of toys reachin'
To the sky doesn't keep her high
So the needle and the spoon are gonna make
You feel alright
[Chorus]

Lyrics to 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 ahd 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.

Lyrics to Monster :
Time it makes you old, experience
Makes you wise.
And 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 standin' in your shoes
Live by the sword die by the wword
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 one day
It's my destiny it's my reality
It's society.
I wear colors proud but 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

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

Lyrics to 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 made.
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.

Lyrics to 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
Just where I'm at and the world fallin'
Around looses al 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 jsut 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 vioce 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

Lyrics to Somnombulance :
I lie awake again no sleep tonight
I find no peace in the quiet absence
Of the light
A million whispered thoughts floatin'
Through my head
A million seconds has passed me
By in my bed
One two three now it's four in the
Mornin' 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
[Chorus]
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
Everynight
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
So
In my dreams I'll find my peace
All of my days are filled with no rest
Maybe with time it'll be alright

Lyrics to 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, antother 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 among
The dead and I am one of them. Is
This how it's gotta 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"

Lyrics to 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 doin what
You do so why change now
Your doin 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 Candyland 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.

Lyrics to 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
[Chorus]
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 I got 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 may 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.