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 weird

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 weird

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 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

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

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

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

Now I can't climb the stairs

Pieces missing everywhere

Prozac painkillers

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

[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

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

(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

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

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

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)

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

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

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 you’re 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

Street 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

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

Immerse your soul in love