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Finger Eleven
Tip
QUICKSAND
slow sinking feeling kills the mood you're conveying
and it pulls me far down below
it might be best if you go
can it not wait and hope for the best
will it not stop a while to rest
i need to get up never mind cause i've done enough
the world waits around
but i keep slipping and losing ground
do i not try so hard so good
i can't keep changing just because you think i should
said all i need to and you don't understand still
wish you saw picture my mind's eyes are deep
and they're cynical
one taken four more kills the pain healing that sore
i've taken what's left i took it all
and now you won't let me forget
the world waits around
but i keep slipping and losing ground
do i not try so hard so good
i can't keep changing just because you think i should
stop you're talking down
i lack the strength to sit or stand
i lost my self confidence in the quicksand
not now or ever
sink slowly my treasure
TIP
i gave it all i gave it up then
i took it in and got enough but
i try to cancel out
whatever i can't laugh about
so what does that say
there can't be anyway
i've done my worst and no one knows
one more day to fool them all
one more day to drop the ball
one more day to fade away
fill a head with sand just to make it better
i had the chance to beat it in but i never
i should have taken it right then
one more day to fool them all
one more day to drop the ball
one more day to fade away
now you've been taken
you won't stop shaking
embrace every minute
you're all that's left in it
it's not happening
some other day you'll fool them all
one more day to drop the ball
one more day to fade away
SHUDDER
so sad to everyone
did not occur to you
wake up an empty shell
someone to crawl into
dead days refuse to dream
the blanket still asleep
concealing every flaw
till you uncover me
could it be that i'm fading far away
straight out of it
no truth i can confirm
no truth that i can sense
passing time i can't recall
the truth it surfaces
open eyes open heart
open up and fall apart
i'll be that burden you bear
AWKAE AND DREAMING
i can't lose anything
so what's left is mine
and I win this time
consolation day
i'll make up a way
i'll know now just what to say
i'll get away from you
wait and I'll be begging
i'll pull you down
i saw it all again
fading memory became clear to me
i try but I can't say
that I'm yours for good
support me you said you would
i'll get away from you
wait and I'll be begging
i'll pull you down
awake and dreaming
I'm only sleeping
ABOVE
inside i'm gone
you knew that all along
without the distance you never get away
plastic bag image
is over now it's over now
the color fading is all the way to grey
we are strong but we're dumb
we look above
trusting the instinct
is not about what you think
the one reaction is only to obey
and i'm staring
all around not far down
judge the distance from the ground and pray
we are strong but we're dumb
we look above
CONDENSER
felt the best that i could feel censored every memory
give me yours so I can feed mine
anywhere but far away can't be what you meant to say
I won't miss you in the meantime
all jokes aside you should decide
if it pleases or pains you
you should be allowed but you were beat out
so nothing can save you
closing up into the end try to start it up again
a lower voice and tired heart beats
take away the self esteem force it through to get relief
taking everything that I need
spirits all keep coming down
come around with answers
i'll cut my teeth in slivers
you're up and gone and senseless
broken open your abscess
is it all or is it none
i cant decide
closing all the one way doors
till i am left outside
that's just what i see
that's what i came to see
now you shut me out
i feel left out
THIN SPIRITS
another face
another empty space
the feelings fade
and all the lonely ones are left hiding
your spirit's so thin
there's nothing left to take
without rhyme or reason
you point the other way
i don't need to watch as
you go down in flames
i said over and over
the water comes
and leaves its faint traces
you're bored to tears
i'll keep you here but you won't listen
GLIMPSE
tell me what you need to hear and i'll tell it to you again
i can fake it all if you can too
will it stop from bleeding naturally enough
can i hold my tongue in silent the words are slow and repeating
i know you why don't you take what you need and then go away
i know you why don't you take what you need
die to get another glimpse in
so i'll watch the water rinse
until we all get washed away
i never needed someone comforting me
i don't think i told you how i feel tonight
you perfect little angel your beautiful even now
i know you why don't you take what you need and go away
i know you why don't you take what you need
die to get another glimpse
so i'll watch the water rinse
until we all get washed away
i never needed someone comforting me
down i go
COSTUME FOR A GUTTERBALL
the mask keeps on slipping and tearing
the holes are big enough to see
i strain and i'm bending to hear you
what did you tell me
so slow
you see me disappear
taken in taken away
caught in another memory
looking for something left to see
now i want something
the one in the corner it's moving
slowly up slowly down
never too brilliant or clever
it won't turn around
no one will know that i'm looking
they can't get to me
TEMPORARY ARMS
i burn and melt and stick and fade
your temporary arms invade
one of many last warnings
cannot wipe the conscience clean
the strain wears in you whore me in again
cannot connect the smirking world
the poison flower comes uncurled
if i believe i'm dreaming
and if they find you lost again
what will you tell them then
collapsing in again you found what makes it sore
you triggered off the feelings that you felt before
i come crawling up again i need to eat i need a friend
some one with me
no better feeling than escape avoid the feeling so you're
all the guilt pulls away if only forever
replace the name replace the fear
i can't come out but i want you here
i"m laughing now and then it floods
but not out loud
i feel you up and feel you down
i need your space i need it now
another circumstance has gone and shut you down
another fear awakened in the fault you found
SWALLOWTAIL
let me in
and let me go
tell me that
i need toknow
swallow the key swallow the key
you feel compelled but its far too late to try and tell me now
so i'll try to suck it out
open mouth feels warm
secrets swollen so sore
we all know and we can't ask why
you turned into an ugly butterfly
that shape of you
closes in and forms a shade of grey
hanging over hanging me
sorry you're gone
the voices they left me thinking
the words that i've forgotten now
try to come but can't come out
All lyrics found at Fingereleven.com |
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Fuel
Sunburn
UNTITLED
I wanted to feel something
To be something
To see something
I wanted to find
One thing that was mine
And leave this behind
But I can't find my way
To get far away
And bury these days
Fantasy
Once reality
Becomes such a parody
If I could find
One thing that was mine
I'd leave this behind
But I can't find my way
To get far these days
If shining
Or if shaking
It's reality faking
If I could find
One thing that was mine
I'd leave this behind
But I can't find my way
To get far away
And bury these days
BITTERSWEET
Seven sins of wantonness and
everything that's good is gone
Sell it all for glory from peers
Silicone priestess scratch the back and
twists the knife to bone
Kick against the pricks and scrape the shins
I'm the enemy in the enemies now
Swallowed the pill
Drank to the fill
All these things I carry now
In this bittersweet, in this bittersweet now
Try to hold the world there sinking,
swimming in a paper cup
Try to own the one beneath the skin
Held up to the flame 'till singing
skin begins to draw and tuck
Never told there's a chance to win
What couldn't be, wouldn't be now
Hold your hands up to the sky and try
so hard to rise above
But everything is beating down
SHIMMER
She calls me from the cold
Just when I was low, feeling short of stable
And all that she intends
And all she keeps inside, isn't on the label
She say's she's ashamed
And can she take me for a while
And can I be a friend, we'll forget the past
But maybe I'm not able
And I break at the bend
We're here and now, but will we ever be again
'Cause I have found
All that shimmers in this world is sure to fade
Away again
She dreams a champagne dream
Strawberry surprise, pink linen and white paper
Lavender and cream
Fields of butterflies, reality escapes her
She says that love is for fools that fall behind
And I'm somewhere in between
I never really know
A killer from a savior
'Til I break at the bend
It's too far away for me to hold
It's too far away...
Guess I'll let it go
JESUS OR A GUN
Walk away, I walk the wire
And my fields are burning in the flames
Feel my way, blind in the mire
Struggling from your voice inside my head
But now everything's trying to drag me down
But I'll rip the sky from the ground
But tell me who's my saving one
Jesus or a gun
Stripped away my last desire
Nothing comes and nothings sent away
Happiness I couldn't hire
Struggling from these thoughts inside my head
All that's safer falls from my favor
When it's over who will cry for me
It's safe to say I don't desire
Everything you push inside my head
And I reject it until I'm dead
SUNBURN
The sky was dark this morning
Not a bird in the trees
And silence hung suspicious and anxious
Like a blanket covered scream
And you were gone
You were not there for me
And I cursed the sky and begged the sun to
Fall all over me
This life's not living, baby
Living ain't free
If I can't find my way back to me
Let the sun fall down over me
Let the sun fall down
All my friends are searching
Quiet, desperatly
Look into their eyes you'll see the faithless crying
Save me, save me, save me
And what are they to feel
And who are they to be
And what am I to do with, do with me, but let the sun
Fall all over me
This life's not living, baby
Living ain't free
If I can't find my way back to me
Let the sun fall down over me
Let the sun fall down
Until my eyes cry out
'Til my head is free from doubt
'Til my lungs sigh right out
'Til I'm wiser
Let the sun
Fall all over me
This life's not living, baby
Living ain't free
If I can't find my way back to me
Let the sun fall down over me
Let the sun fall down
NEW THING
Take me out alive
Take me out it's all so stale
Give me another life
Excuse me if I tried and failed
And don't mind if I fall
It's not that far at all
I got a new thing, its so inspired
It's not the real thing, but it's for me
Because the real thing I don't desire
So it's the new thing I choose for me
Denial comfort me
Built the gallows high
You gave me plans and silver nails
The architects of pride
But I'm the one you're hanging now
And don't mind if I fall
It's not that far at all
And don't mind if I fall
It's not that far at all
IT'S COME TO THIS
And I found my head uncrowned and all life's sweet necter flowing down
the cracks and seams wasted on some petty little prayers
reached up for despair but I was well below that cherished stage
and all my mangled hopes all songs unsung
I fear I've wasted all my sun
I fear I've wasted all my time
Everything is faded
Smiles are fabricated now
I fear I've wasted all my sun
I fear I've wasted all my time
Held my eyes too closed for too long
And I ran out through the streets in hopes that I might find it there
but all my buildings stared back at me tenantless and bare
and I
reached up for the sky, but it always seemed so far away
transcendent thoughts you gave lie atrophied and broken
And I sat when I should have stood; swallowed when I should have spit
until now I only recognize me in pictures taken long ago
and
all the changes simply haunt and never go away
a friend will tell when I hit hell, I may not feel the change
Held my eyes closed for too long
Held my eyes closed for too long
Just before I go don't you offer any sweet advice because
where were all your shoulders when I needed them so long ago
and now with legs weak and weary from this silly dance
with a suitcase full of memories, I pack my bags and slowly drift away
SONG FOR YOU
It's all I want
It's all I needed now it's through
It all comes back to you
The only one
The one I needed I abuse
More color for the bruise
So I sing this song for you
There's nothing left for me to do
Goodbye dear one
Venus I thought you'd bless me too
So selfish to presume
So I sing this song for you
And I hope that what is true
Will find a way to you
I sing this song for you
Venus never showed the way
The stars would not be sold
Heaven stole the light of day
And we were never told
So dark the day-
So much for life, for life and love
And now it's done
The color always changes hue
Bright to black and blue
So I sing this song for you
And I hope that what is true
Will find a way to you
I sing this song for you
So I sing this song for you
There's nothing left for me to do
MARY PRETENDS
Mary pretends she's so insane, so insane, so insane
Mary pretends she's so insane, so insane, so insane
She just sits back and laughs at the pain
Laughs at the pain, laughs at the pain
Mary pretends she's so insane so insane
Falling down of her mind
Gives her everything she's wanted from the world
Close her eyes, drift inside, so alive
She wants to know what it feels like
She wants to know how to fly
She wants to know what it feels like to die
Goodbye
OZONE
I wanna make her go
I wanna make her come
I wanna push her away
Don't wanna feel no pain
Don't wanna feel no shame
Don't wanna feel this way
I'm so alone here
Why must I be
I'm the one she calls ozone baby
She waits alone for me to come down
But I want to fly like a silly angel
Aim for the sky, straight into the sun
I wanna make her feel
I wanna make it real
I wanna give her away
She wanna keep me here
She wanna hold me dear
She wanna make me stay
She's so alone here
She don't need me
I'm the one she calls ozone baby
She waits alone for me to come down
But I want to fly like a silly angel
Aim for the sky, straight into the sun
My sun, on you, burning, singe you
Confined, inside, rot from my lies, sucker
I'll only hold you down
I'll only steal your crown
I'll only make you cry
I'll only break your pride
And eat you up inside
Why should you even try
I'm so alone here
Why must I be
I'm the one she calls ozone baby
She waits alone for me to come down
But I want to fly like a silly angel
Aim for the sky, straight into the sun
HIDEAWAY
Hideaway, take me now
I cannot face another round
And I'm flipping through these pages
For a name to tak my place
Close my eyes, wish that I could find a place
To hideaway
Troubled days cloud my eyes
Stole the sun from my skies
And in this darkness I am tossing, turning
Lying wide awake
Hold my breath, wish that I could find a place
To hideaway
Hideaway, take me now
I cannot face another round
Lyrics found at http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/8245/sunlyrics.html except for 'Mary Pretends' which was found inside the Fuel cd. |
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