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Strung Out
Suburban Teenage Blues
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.
Cos 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 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 cuttin's 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 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 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
Some days I'm up, some days I'm down, some days I don't give a fuck about anything
Cos 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, i'll drink myself to sleep
I'm just part of all the madness here I know,
When 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
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 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 all 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, yeah
Solitaire
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
A millon ways to tame myself and a million nights to try
So here I sit all tied up, all alone, with all 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
When will you come around
To do the things you do to me
I hate this game of solitaire
Solitaire -- Solitaire
Solitaire
She's a big girl and she knows 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 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.
Cos 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
Cos I don't know and I don't care
I'll do anything you want
Never good enough for you
Everything she wants, is everything she sees
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
Well, the needle and the spoon are gonna make you feel alright
Cos I don't know and I don't care
I'll do anything you want
Never good enough for you
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 that 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 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
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 in 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, tree of thought in a world of pain
I never wanted your help, I never needed your help, so when you think of me to try to
understand
To guide 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
Put me down the way you put me out, torched my whole world
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 affect the outcome of your game
And 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 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 myself one day
It's my destiny, it's my reality, it's society
I wear colors proud but stare me own
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 in this jungle he'll spend with his back up against the wall.
Little big man, he's not alone now,
He's all grown up his stories written all along these city walls
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
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
I 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 instead
I'm just slave to my vices now
Bring out your dead
Voices, wither & crack, then die, ringin' in my ear would sing me soft asleep
Deathly silence now is all I hear, has inspiration finally eluded me
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 instead
I'm just slave to my vices now
My addiction, my illness, my only trusted friend
My addiction, my illness, my only childhood friend.
Your twisted warm embrace engulfing all I tried to be
My body's breaking under arms that will not set me free
My addiction, my illness, my only childhood friend
(Bring out your dead -- Bring out your dead -- Bring out your dead)
My addiction, my illness, my only trusted friend
(Bring out your dead -- Bring out your dead -- Bring out your dead)
Your twisted warm embrace engulfing all I tried to be
(Bring out your dead -- Bring out your dead -- Bring out your dead)
My body's breaking under arms that will not set me free
(Bring out your dead -- Bring out your dead -- Bring out your dead)
Locked in this cage that I've built myself, constructed out of twisted
It's 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,
I'm just a slave to my vices now.
My addiction, my illness, my only childhood friend
My addiction, my illness
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
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.
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 emerging 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 looses 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 and then I close my eyes
It's just another radio-suicide on the airwaves
I turned it on, invisible electric life.
And then the my cames 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, is not alright
Forget about the static pulsing in your ear -- Is not alright
Forget everything you see & hear -- Is not alright
It's just another radio suicide
I lie awake again, no sleep tonight,
I find no peace in the quiet absence of the light
Whispered thoughts floatin' through my head
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 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 that 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 & sounds, voices screamin' in pain
Huddled shadows & 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
No sanctuary in my dreams, no quiet place to hide
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 are filled with no peace, all of my days are filled with no rest
Maybe with time it'll be alright
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
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."
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
No miracles gonna save you now, no profound word's gonna show you how, no revelation's
gonna change 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 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 anti-establishmentariant? 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
Tell me what you want from me, cos 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 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 will 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, 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 way outta here
Took a little more than I gave away, it's up to me to get up and try to get it right -- right, right, right
Strung Out.
Jason -- vocals.
Jake -- rhythm guitar.
Rob -- guitar.
Chris -- bass.
Jordan -- drums.