DEFTONES LYRICS

1. Genesis

I reject both sides of what I'm being told
I've seen right through, now I watch how wild it gets

I finally achieve
Balance, balance, balance...
Approaching a delayed
Rebirth, rebirth, rebirth...

I'm positive there's no sense to what I'm being sold
Yet here I go, I watch how wild we get

Oh can you taste your life
Balanced, balanced, balanced...
How will you spend your time
Reborn, reborn, reborn...

Climbing out of the ashes
Turning time inside out
We're miles beyond the sound

We'll start again, taste a lifestyle that never gets old
Yet here we go, just watch how wild it gets

I finally achieve
Balance, balance, balance...
Approaching a delayed
Rebirth, rebirth, rebirth...

Climbing out of the ashes
We're turning time inside out
We're floating off in the ether
We're miles beyond the sound

We're everywhere
No need to return
I'll show the way

We're everywhere
No need to return
I can show you where
No need to return
I can show you

Climbing out of the ashes
We're turning time inside out
Floating off in the ether
We're miles beyond the sound

Oh can you taste your life
Balanced, balanced, balanced...
How will you spend your time
Reborn

2. Ceremony

How can't you see this is the end?
Let's face the truth, it's obvious
A different morning, the same charade
Tell me, what's left?

It's an illusion
It's all an illusion

Prep the surface, bound my limbs
Place the chair beneath the rail
On the outside just skin and bones
Show me, what's left?

It's an illusion
It's all an illusion

So I'm leaving you tonight
It's not fun here anymore
I'll be joining the parade
Of the ghosts who came before
Before leaving you complete, no surprise
With one kiss, one caress, ooh

Ooh, the world we shared
Ooh, it was never there, ooh

I'm leaving you tonight
It's not fun here anymore
I'm joining the parade
Of the ghosts before
Leaving you complete for all time
With one kiss, one caress, ooh

3. Urantia

I slipped into the cloak you left
I fiddle around in the ashtray
To find your cigarette pinkish red
I light it and take a drag
I swear I'm losing it

With all these erased recordings, I'm rearranging parts
You should accept
We'll probably remain this way to the end, in steps

Underneath the sheets I find your
Makeup and shoes in a bag laid open
Grab my keys and some money
And circle around the lake
I guess you're losing it

I like to believe that maybe you're a lot like me
Try using this equality we might need in the air

'Cause there are no more left like you
A picture perfect strange
Imagined in one shape
Unchained

Tempt my spirit within my name
We crawled in the tomb and release some honey
Eighteen hundred million ways striving to make it last

There is no one left like you
A picture perfect strange
Imagined in one shape
Unchained

There are no more thrills I'll need
Than the desire that we shared
From the channels of our dreams
To the grave

I'll find you again somewhere I believe
You'll find me somewhere again I believe

4. Error

Tell me something
Have we escaped?
Are we just lost?
The mirrors taunting us against the walls

We are running across the grid
Chasing honey and closing in

We're bound together
In neon tape
I taste in your mouth
We hang upside down

We are gliding above the planes
Dripping honey that prances through our veins

Beyond the gates
Outside the grid
We follow in your grace
Let's find a way through

Shiny candy
Glowing fruits
Drop from the trees
I watch the serpents writhe beneath

We are floating above the grid
Dripping honey that's rushing through our veins

Beyond the gates
Outside the grid
We follow in your grace
But someday
The clouds will break
And we'll all drift through

In lions' trance
We'll create some way through

Frozen in town
Sinking underground
I've thrown out fear
I've shouted these hymns
I kept drowning
Kept nothing
I kept trying
Kept floating

5. The Spell Of Mathematics

I drink the poison right from your hands
A sacred vow, it engulfs me
We slip and we slide and in time we create
A feeling
Of warmth inside of you

Holy and strict
Six times a day
We will exchange
Our violent wings
But the beauty is when
You touch me

I believe your love
Has placed its spell on me
And I believe your love
Is the only thing needed to survive
I believe your love
Creates this space where we can breathe
But I believe your love
Beholds this sacred key to life

The snakes come pouring out of your heart
And you know that I can't deny them
So I sink inside where we writhe and create
That feeling that pangs my time with you

We sway in the wind
Inside a haze
Where you speak your language
What am I to say?
I'll just wait for your limbs
To touch me

I believe your love
Has placed its spell on me
And I believe your love
Is the only thing needed to survive
I believe your love
Creates this space where we can breathe
I believe your love
Beholds this sacred key to life

6. Pompeji

Deep in the bottomless depths of the ocean
Empty bodies we sink
Open your eyes, you smile and release me
We slip down beneath and

Jesus Christ, you watch us fail
We raise our glasses and drink in hell

Locked in the core of the tower, I'm patient
In no hurry to leave
Life has been lonely, it might be forever
Making hard to believe in

Jesus Christ, we hold you to blame
You gave your life, but we died in vain

And ooh, we drink from the fountain of intent
And ooh, we choke on the water, then repent

In the street violent behavior
In chaos where it's warm
Black omens call our cage, it's electric
So we signal, we wait for

Jesus Christ, God raised you as
We raised our glasses and drank in hell

Ooh, we sip from the fountain of intent
And ooh, we choke on the water, then repent
Ooh, we drink from the fountain of intent
Ooh, we choke on the water, then repent

7. This Link Is Dead

Thanks, you want action?
Yeah, I'm aware which form you think I should try
That shit means nothin'
You see, I'm done
Right now I think it's time that you know
Pay attention
Watch me close
As I decide which fucking way I move

I'm filled up with true hatred

No, that don't work
You would swear you're why I am here
That don't mean nothing
There's nothing wrong
I can choose how this will unfold
And I feel like fire, but my heart is cold
Open your eyes, you'll see this shit's no fun

'Cause I'm filled up with true hatred
And I relate to no one
It's a useless game

I'm slowly crashing down
You snap your fingers and you think I'll respond
Fuck, I will never need your guide
Some day, yeah, you can show me, right?
That shit means nothing
You see, I'm done
Take your ideas and fucking have some fun

You're on your own
You're on your own
You should, you should

Look deep inside
You might see I'm just fine
Look close, close inside
Don't miss this moment, you may never get back
I'll show you something, something prized
Well, you were there, you think you know what it's like?
I have no patience now for expectation, wow
Fuck this shit, leave me alone

You're on your own
You're on your own
I'm sure, I'm sure
Oh

8. Radiant City

There's something inside this
Confusion we face
We marvel in silence
As time ticks away

Where's the ledge?
I can't touch it
But I feel it's so close
Where's the ledge?
I can't touch it
But I feel it's close

Sit lonely inside these
Delusions we face

Where's the ledge?
I can't touch it
But I feel it's so close
Where's the ledge?
I can't touch it
But I feel it's close

No one alive has taken me here
Nothing I've tried will replace your tricks
If ever I choose to break in again
Promise me now you'll follow me in, into

A moment of conscience
Then shock to the head

Where's the ledge?
I can't touch it
But I feel it is so close
Where's the ledge?
I can't touch it
But I feel it's close

We marvel in silence
Let time tick away

Where's the ledge?
I can't touch it
But I feel it's so close
Where's the ledge?
I can't touch it
But I feel it's close

No one alive has taken me here
Nothing I tried replaced your tricks
Whenever I choose to break in again
Promise me now you will follow me in
'Cause nobody else cuts me the same
You've pulled me into a permanent trance
If ever you choose to break in again
I promise you now, I'll follow you in
Promise you now, I'll follow in

9. Headless

I think it's obvious we are a mess, we cut against the grain
It's contagious how we live
If you're curious of the valiance I can show you, wait

'Cause I forget all of this is obvious
We're entirely insane, they claim
They wanna climb into our brain waves

I know you're wondering how the two of us, we adapt these traits
I can't teach you how we play
And you're curious how the brilliance controls you, wait

'Cause I forget all of this is obvious
We're entirely insane, they claim
Yet they'd like to violate our brain waves

You seek desire, our desire
Oh, your attempt is useless
Oh, your attempt is useless

We sway from the top of the ledge
We swim in a bottomless lake
It's true

We are entirely insane, we'd claim
And you'd like to dive into our brain waves

You seek desire (someday) our desire
Real desire, true desire
Oh, your attempt is useless
Oh, your attempt is useless

10. Ohms

We're surrounded
By debris of the past
And it's too late
To cause a change in the tides
So we slip into
Our hopeless sea of regret
As I stare

Through
The haunted maze in your eyes
Right through
Where I'll remain for all time

And time won't change this
This promise we made
Yeah, time won't change this
It's how it'll stay

This is our time
We devour the days ahead
We've been possessed
By these changing times
As we slip on through
We promised to meet again
Somewhere

Through
The haunted maze in our minds
Right through
Where we shall remain for all time

Yeah, time won't change this
This promise we made
And time won't change this
We shall remain







DEFTONES LYRICS