Xasthur
A Misleading Reality (digital)
1. Which Mind Is Using Yours
Playing by the rules
There's no value or rewards
They feel like fools
Not knowing what they’re moving towards
You shot down all my suggestions
After you had no answers to the questions
You chose not to relate
'Cause you chose to assimilate
Now we're both lost
Two paths that can never cross
No one really did what they could
There was no sister or brotherhood
Your job is to pay and serve
Never getting what you deserve
Your job is to serve and pay
Not knowing right from wrong
You just obey
2. Elsewhere from Here
3. Word on the Street
Slave to money and a victim of theft
Cash in the chips you have left
Stop living in fear and
Just get out of here
If you're trying to find that light/life
You're gonna end up in jail
Times are hard and no one can
Afford the bail
Be aware... and be it now
There's no time - to ask how
It's all coming down
Without a plan
Make a run for it, while you still can
Another kind of darkness shown
Hell's a lot of fun when it's not
Your own
Halfway between a street and a home
Translent faces I see more than my own
4. Murky Side of the Tracks
5. No Telling Time
Sleeping through the hours of the sun
Beaten down with nowhere to run
Police sirens
The only color this town provides
Jumpin' that train
Any which way it rides
Time... taking forever
And it went so fast
Here we are again
Is it the future or the past
Can it go away
Or must it always last?
6. Closed for the Winter
7. Refund on Paradise
Never able to explain all the things you've seen
When I ask, you tell me I'm hateful and mean
Taking pictures of things gone and burnt down
Can't you see your money's no good in this town
You were supposed to be a "star"
But you didn't even write a song
The postcards you send
Make people wonder what went wrong
I guess you could never tell
With all those neon lights in your prison cell
You can play in traffic or go to a bar
Then yuo can lie to me, saying you've gone real far
They keep lying to you and showing you the door
Couldn't you fuck someone for just a little bit more?
It's been boarded up, it's been torn down
Still you remain
A tourist in your own town
8. Gambling Your Mind Away
9. Stealing from the Poor
United in being divided
Divided by their own diversity
When we all have nothing
You'll call it equality
Stealing from the poor
It seems they just want more
Under the bus, stranded in a ditch
And you thought they'd only steal from the rich
They're taking from you and me
But you were thinking everything was free
When you're lying to yourself
You're lying to me
In the name of your new worls and "peace"
We all pay the price for your beliefs
10. Desert Snowfall
11. A Misleading Reality
They're running out of money
But they're out there spending it
The war is in our backyard
But no one's ending it
Somethings got to give
And we're not letting it
We're not learning from the past
We keep on forgetting it
Don't know where we're going
Don't know what we're saying
So alone, I thought I heard you praying
They're so worried about tomorrow
No one's talking about it
They're so worried there's no tomorrow
No one's living like it
12. Silenced by the Flood
13. Has Been
I've seen a lot of tomorrow's
Become yesterdays
Too many tomorrow's behind
Knocking at my door
What do you'll find
Take another piece... of my mind
I gave the warning
There's no pice of the pie
Friends waiting for me to die
You never listened to a word I said
I'm already dead
Rest assured, there's nothing in the end
I've seen the end come and go
You're thinking there's something
I still don't know
Thrown away
The beginning is just like the ending
Funeral invitations I won't need sending
Thanks for all you took
Half of nothing you gave
One foot may be mine
But the other is in your grave
14. If the Thought Counted (Part 2)
15. Casualties of the City
Wandering the streets
Like casualties of the city
Where every dream is broken
Or there's none left to chase
I'm done dying with you
Watching our lives go to waste
Unimpressed with your mind
Paving the roads with distance behind
Up to no good, never knowing where you stood
I've only seen hate in your "love"
With your need too thick
Before my presence too thin
I'd only find you jst to leave you again
Lyrics in plain text format
