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| The Bends |
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Planet Telex |
| Planet Telex |
| You can force it
but it will not come You can taste it but it will not form You can crush it but it's always here You can crush it but it's always near Chasing you home saying everything is broken Everyone is broken You can force it but it will stay stung You can crush it as dry as a bone You can walk it home straight from school You can kiss it You can break all the rules But still everything is broken Everyone is broken Everyone is Everyone is broken Everyone is Everything is broken Why can't you forget? Why can't we forget? Why can't you forget? |
| The Bends |
| Where do we go
from here? The words are coming out all wierd Where are you now when I need you? Alone on an aeroplane Falling asleep beside the window pane My blood will thicken I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain 'Cause I'd be scared that there's nothing underneath And who are my real friends? Have they all got the bends? Am i really sinking this low? My baby's got the bends Oh no We don't have any real friends No no no I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen And I wish it was the sixties I wish I could be happy I wish I wish, I wish that something would happen Where do we go from here? The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear And where are you? They brought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines To blow me away To blow me sky high My baby's got the bends We don't have any real friends I'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen I wish it was the sixties I wish I could be happy I wish I wish, I wish that something would happen I want to live and breathe I want to be part of the human race I want to live and breathe I want to be part of the human race Race race race race Where do we go from here? The words are coming out all wierd Where are you now when I need you? |
| High and Dry |
| Two jumps in a
week I bet you think that's pretty clever don't you boy? Flying on your motorcycle Watching all the ground beneath you Drop You'd kill yourself for recognition Kill yourself to never, ever stop You broke another mirror You're turning into something you are not Don't leave me high Don't leave me dry Don't leave me high Don't leave me dry Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love They're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world all sussed out They're the ones who'll spit at you You will be the one screaming out Don't leave me high Don't leave me dry Don't leave me high Don't leave me dry It's the best thing that you ever had The best thing that you ever, ever had It's the best thing that you ever had The best the best thing you have ever had is gone away Don't leave me high Don't leave me dry Don't leave me high Don't leave me dry Don't leave me high Don't leave me high Don't leave me dry |
| Fake Plastic Trees |
| Her green
plastic watering can For her fake chinese rubber plant In the fake plastic earth That she bought from a rubber man In a town full of rubber Plans to get rid of itself It wears her out It wears her out It wears her out It wears her out She lives with a broken man A cracked polystyrene man who just crumbles and burns He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties But gravity always wins And it wears him out It wears him out It wears him out It wears She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run And it wears me out It wears me out It wears me out It wears me out If i could be who you wanted If i could be who you wanted all the time All the time |
| Bones |
| I don't wanna be
crippled cracked Shoulders, wrists, knees and back Ground to dust and ash Crawling on all fours When you've got to feel it in your bones When you've got to feel it in your bones Now I can't climb the stairs Pieces missing everywhere Prozac painkillers When you've got to feel it in your bones When you've got to feel it in your bones I used to fly like Peter Pan All the children flew when i touched their hands You say you've got to feel it in your bones You say you've got to feel it in your bones |
| [Nice Dream] |
| They love me
like I was a brother They protect me Listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine Made me happy Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream I call up my friend the good angel But she's out with Her ansaphone She says that she would love to come help but The sea would Electrocute us all Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream (If you think that you're strong enough) Nice dream (If you think you belong enough) Nice dream (If you think that you're strong enough) Nice dream (If you think you belong enough) Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream Nice dream |
| Just |
| Can't get the
stink off He's been hanging round for days Comes like a comet Suckered you but not your friends One day he'll get to you Teach you how to be a holy cow You do it to yourself you do And that's what really hurts is You do it to yourself just you You and no-one else You do it to yourself You do it to yourself Don't get my sympathy Hanging out the 15th floor You've changed the lock 3 times I still comes reeling through the door One day I'll get to you And teach you how to get to purest Hell You do it to yourself you do And that's what really hurts is You do it to yourself just you You and no-one else You do it to yourself You do it to yourself You do it to yourself you do And that's what really hurts is You do it to yourself just you You and no-one else You do it to yourself You do it to yourself (You do it to yourself) (You do it to yourself) (You do it to yourself) (You do it to yourself) |
| My Iron Lung |
| Faith You're driving me away You do it everyday You don't mean it but it hurts like Hell My brain says I'm receiving pain A lack of oxygen from my life support My iron lung Were too young to fall asleep Too cynical to speak We are losing it Can't you tell? We scratch our eternal itch Our twentieth century bitch And we are grateful for our iron lung The headshrinkers They want everything My Uncle Bill My Belisha Beacon The headshrinkers They want everything My Uncle Bill My Belisha Beacon Suck Suck your teenage thumb Toilet trained and dumb When the power runs out We'll just hum This This is our new song Just like the last one A total waste of time My iron lung The headshrinkers They want everything My Uncle Bill My Belisha Beacon The headshrinkers They want everything My Uncle Bill My Belisha Beacon If you're frightened You can be frightened You can be That's okay But if you're frightened You can be frightened You can be That's okay The headshrinkers They want everything My Uncle Bill My Belisha Beacon The headshrinkers They want everything My Uncle Bill My Belisha Beacon |
| Bullet proof... I wish I was |
| Limb by limb and
tooth by tooth It's tearing up inside of me Everyday, every hour wish that I Was bullet proof Wax me Mould me Heat the pins and stab them in You have turned me into this Just wish that it Was bullet proof Was bullet proof So pay me money and take a shot Lead-fill the hole in me I could burst a million bubbles All surrogate And bullet proof And bullet proof And bullet proof And bullet proof |
| Black Star |
| I get home from
work and you're still standing in your dressing gown Well what am I to do? I know all the things around your head And what they do to you What are we coming to? What are we gonna do? Blame it on the black star Blame it on the falling sky Blame it on the satellite that beams me home The troubled words of a troubled mind I try to understand What is eating you I try to stay awake but its 58 hours since that I last slept with you What are we coming to? I just don't know anymore Blame it on the black star Blame it on the falling sky Blame it on the satellite that beams me home I get on the train and i just stand about Now that i don't think of you I keep falling over I keep passing out When I see a face like you What am I coming to? I'm gonna melt down Blame it on the black star Blame it on the falling sky Blame it on the satellite that beams me home |
| Sulk |
You bite through the big wall The big wall bites back You sit there and sulk Sit there and bawl You are so pretty When youre on your knees Disinfected And eager to please Sometimes you sulk Sometimes you burn God rest your soul When the loving comes And we've already gone Just like your dad You'll never change Each time it comes It eats me alive I try to behave But it eats me alive So i declare a holiday Fall asleep Drift away Sometimes you sulk Sometimes you burn God rest your soul When the loving comes And we've already gone Just like your dad You'll never change Sometimes you sulk Sometimes you burn God rest your soul When the loving comes And we've already gone Just like your dad You'll never change |
| Stret Spirit (Fade out) |
| Rows of houses
all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me All these things in all positions All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again And fade out This machine will Will not communicate These thoughts And the strain i am under Be a world child form a circle before we all Go under And fade out again And fade out again Cracked eggs, dead birds Scream as they fight for life I can feel death, can see it's beady eyes All these things into frution All these things we'll one day swallow whole And fade out again And fade out again Immerse your soul in love Immerse your soul in love |