Strung Out - Another Day in Paradise Album Lyrics

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.

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.

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.

Your democracy has become a tattered vision of truth,
Corporate sponsorship, rapin' & ruling the land,
Do you think what you say will make it any better,
It's been this way two hundred years, will stay this way forever!

You made promises of health care still my teeth rot in my head.
You once seemed so concerned now you left us all for dead.
The unemployed, the uninsured, the homeless in the street,
We're the ones that put you there, buddy you've got promises to keep.

We won't survive, this road to power led by all your kings.
It's time to wake up and take back what you have lost.
And when it all falls from this malady spread from within,
It's happened once before, my friend, well here it comes again.

This state we've built is a sick reflection of all that we've become
We've closed our eyes, been fed these lies do you know what your country's done.
In the land of mad consumers free to spend at their own will,
We're losing sight of what it means to be a free America.

There's something wrong with all of this
There's something wrong with you
There's something wrong with you

I cannot stand by,
And watch them as they f*ck up my life.

There's something wrong with me
There's something wrong with all of this
There's something wrong with you
There's something wrong with you

Believe these lies,
They'll lead you to a path in harm's way!

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.

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 f*cked 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.

There's a blood stain on the floor
By the door where your whole world fell and died.
There's a silent chair in the corner of the room
Where you sat alone and cried.
Well she got something to say to you,
But the words never mean a thing,
So she took that needle to her pain and set herself free.
Burn! burn it to the ground.
When times got tough you got a little tougher
Then you slowly fell behind.
Running to catch the things you could not see,
Running to catch what you could not find.
Well I never wanted to need you, now it's time for you to see,
This forgotten pain that you tried to hide, buried in your apathy.
Burn! burn all to the ground...

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

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.

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.

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 their 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 achieve strategic goals
How can your princes justify this misery set upon the land?
Watch them change the course of your history

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 f*ckin 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

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.