Strung Out

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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 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
[Chorus]
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
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.

Lyrics to 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'll 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
[Chorus]

Lyrics to Don't Look Back :
Before you say a word
Before you turn away,
There's just one thing I gotta know,
are you still who you claim to be?

I've been told were all the same
Only difference is in the people that you wear

Growing up I thought Id never change
No apologies, always stayed the same
Now I don't look back

Ideals
And Blind devotion
Kiss loyalties goodbye
And Its growing what's inside that counts
Twisted, true and without a doubt

I've been told were all the same
Waiting for something that already came
Mind of confusion with no one to blame just waiting

Behind, locked inside your emotions
Caging, Releasing, It feeds your motives
Growing, Changing, is something you don't know,
Makes you feel you're losing ground

Growing up I thought Id never change
No apologies, always stayed the same
I'll never look back

Lyrics to 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.

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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.

Lyrics to 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 for myself
Again now I found my voice again now.

Lyrics to 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...

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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.

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to Mephisto :
one more time then i'll know one more lie then i'll go away pour another drink and i'll ease myself into the comforts of your philosophy 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'll 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

Lyrics to 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 perfect death trigger happy patriots running from ourselves you knew it would never be the same again o jackie-o i wonder what you're 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

Lyrics to Razorblade :
Got a feeling you were alone and on the run
with your suitcase filled with razorblades and turpentine sad eyes
of a starlet 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 print still life memory of a broken body in 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

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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'll 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'll bring your hurt down

Lyrics to 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

Lyrics to 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.

Lyrics to 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