Strange Pray Tell

There's a point of no return
Where we never seem to learn
We can't have all we wanted
Oh, you can see it in our eyes
When nerve begins to die there's no use in pretending
And i go to my room, lock the door to run away from myself

I've got an anger deep inside
Something i can't hide
I don't know what i'm after
It seems i'm always out of turn
And i guess i'll never learn
Who's to blame or what's the matter
So i go to my room, lock the door
And plan my escape
To run away from myself

It's not the warning that i hear
That makes me disappear
Down that narrow stairway
I don't know what i'm looking for
But i know i need it more
Just to know someone is waiting
So i go to my room, close the door
And plan my escape
And run away from myself

He slips into the room with the broken mirrors
Trying to make the voices in his head disappear
He crashes to the floor, his head in his hands
Trying to recover from his mother's demands
Something strange ist going down in room 213

Inside he fears the strangers in the photo repair
Trying to fix the damage from the chain and the chair
No one hears the screaming from the house of fear
No one sees the man with no eyes appear
And something strange ist going down in room 213

Have you had the feeling that you've been there before
Wait a minute mister while i get off the floor
Your bones lie chilling, your blood turns cold
There's a red tattoo carved into your skull
And something strange is going down in room 213

You were willing, you were much too wise
You were willing, now it's gone inside
Don't look back
You were simple in your little games
You're so simple now it's all the same
Don't look back

Don't look back on those times you had
Don't look back you might feel so bad

In a minute or an hour or two
In a minute we'll just see 'bout you
Don't look back
You were easy in your little ways
You're so easy now you lost the game
Don't look back

Stranded in the mystery zone
Talks to the buzy tone
His guns are cocked
He's ready for demolition
God it's a bloody mess
And i must confess
He's a hair trigger
Waiting for the final solution

And perfect blue, what are you gonna do
Until it rains, don't watch for storms
Don't count your casualties until there's a war

Clutches the crutches of hate
Ticking like a bomb he waits
Trying to hold on to what he came for
Diming on the 9 to 5
Just to keep alive
Soldiers the shadows on his shoulder

The red sky's moaning and the wind is blowing hard
Better take warning 'cause this time it's gone too far
We been smokin' it more but enjoyin'it less
We better stop using or there'll be nothing left
The eyes of defiance are slowly being crushed to death
There's a fire in the western world

House in shambles, trip wire under the door
18, wasted, trying to hide the crack in the floor
Don't know what you're doing, don't really care
School's just a miss-hit going nowhere
You're running for your life while the scandal's
Are burning the stairs
There's a fire in the western world

Can't you hear the rooster crowing in the dead of the night
Don'tcha wanna trash'em, jackboots step out of line
It's a concrete jungle, stones and tears
Quickly becoming what everybody fears
It ain't just color the message keeps cuttin' clear
There's a fire in the western world

Well you got your diamonds
And you got your pretty clothes
A chauffeur drives your car
You let everybody know
Don't play with me
You're playin' with fire
Her old man took her diamonds
And tiara's by the score
Now she gets her kicks in steadly
Not in knights bridge anymore
Don't play with me
You're playin' with fire

Well you got your diamonds
You will have some others
But you better watch your step girl
Or start living with your mother

Don't play with me
You're playin' with fire
Don't play with me
You're playin' with fire
Don't play with me
'cause you're playin' with fire

Bring me my whiskey
I'm checking out
Gonna be a long time, girl
I'm going south
Shot up the mountain
Robbed that train
No way out, little girl
To get away clean

The sheriff's like lightning
Raised from the dead
A bullet with my name, little girl
Came at my head
Two-time loser
Breaking the law
Can't get away, little girl, because
A somebody saw

The sheriff ist coming - found me out
The lines of confusion are burning me down
I know what i done - lotta men do
But all that i wanted was to get home to you
Baby, i'm going south

So bring me my whiskey
In the tallest glass
Gonna be a long time, little girl
But it might be the last
Take me down to folsom
Sheriff john law
Flirting with death, little girl
Somebody talked

You know my life would be easy
If people would leave me alone
Stop steppin' on my fingers
That i've been workin' to the bone
Maybe then i could get back with you
God damn i hate the blues

I've tried to put 'em in a bottle
Some people pu 'em in their arm
Either way they're gonna kill you
Slowly eat away your heart
If only i could stop the thought of you
God damn i hate the blues

I never learned to listen
To the promises i'd made
I never thought you'd stay away
Leaving me to take the blame
I never thought you'de follow through
God damn i hate the blues