HAEMOGLOBIN
BLACK MARKET MUSIC
a coupla BLACK MARKET MUSIC shootsĄ =)
PLACEBO .. WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING .. SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS .. ONCE MORE WITH FEELING
BACK
ALBUM: Black Market Music
RELEASED: 09th October 2000
LENGTH: 55:44
SINGLES: Taste In Men .. Slave To The Wage .. Special K .. Black Eyed
TRACK LISTING:
Taste In Men [4:15]
Days Before You Came [2:33]
Special K [3:52]
Spite & Malice [3:37]
Passive Aggressive [5:24]
Black Eyed [3:48]
Blue American [3:31]
Slave To The Wage [4:06]
Commercial For Levi [2:20]
Haemoglobin [3:46]
Narcoleptic [4:22]
Peeping Tom [14:10]
Black Market Blood hidden track
lyrics are copyright © to Placebo
PLACEBO ARE: BRIAN MOLKO - vocals, guitar, bass .. STEFAN OLSDAL - bass, guitar, keyboard .. STEVE HEWITT - drums
NOTES: All tracks written and performed by Placebo .. except "Spite and Malice" by Placebo/Warfield .. produced and mixed by Paul Corkett and Placebo .. engineered by Lorraine Francis .. except "Taste in Men" produced by Placebo, Dare Mason and Paul Corkett .. engineered by Kenny Patterson and Lorraine Francis .. "Taste in Men" and "Special K" feature vocals by Severe Loren .. "Spite and Malice" feature vocals by Justin Warfield .. "Peeping Tom" features bass by Bill Lloyd .. "Slave to the Wage" contains a sample from Pavement's "Texas Never Whispers" written by Stephen Malkmus and Scott Kannberg .. string arrangements by Rob Ellis .. string programming by Dimitri Tikovoi .. recorded at Olympic, Townhouse and Moody Studios, London .. mixed at Olympic and Townhouse Studios, London .. mastered by Ian Cooper at Metropolis Mastering, London .. published by Famous Music Corporation [ASCAP] .. except "Slave to the Wage" published by Famous Music Corporation [ASCAP]/EMI Music Publishing Ltd .. photography by Kevin Westenberg
Come back to me awhile
Change your style again
Come back to me awhile
Change your taste in men
It's been this way since Christmas Day
Dazzled, doused in gin
Change your taste in men
Come back to me awhile
Change your style again
Come back to me awhile
Change your taste in men
I'm killing time on Valentine's
Waiting for the day to end
Change your taste in men
Come back to me awhile
Change your style again
Come back to me awhile
Change your taste in men
It's been this way since Christmas Day
Dazzled, doused in gin
Change your taste in men
DAYS BEFORE YOU CAME Days before you came Days before you came Days before you came Won't you join me now
SPECIAL K Coming up beyond belief No hesitation, no delay I'll describe the way I feel No hesitation, no delay No escaping gravity
SPITE & MALICE Revolution, dope, guns, fucking in the streets Cut the deck Aces take your time You can play your card, I'll hold onto mine Dope, guns, fucking in the streets [Revolution] Cut the deck Dope, guns, fucking in the streets [Revolution]
PASSIVE AGGRESSIVE It's in your reach It's in your reach Every time I rise I see you falling It's in your reach Every time I rise I see you falling Every time I rise I see you falling
BLACK EYED I was never faithful I was never faithful I was never faithful
BLUE AMERICAN I wrote this novel just for you I wrote this novel just for Mom I read a book about Uncle Tom I read a book about the self I wrote this novel just for you
SLAVE TO THE WAGE Run away from all your boredom It's a maze for rats to try Sick and tired of Maggie's farm It's a maze for rats to try
COMMERCIAL LEVI You're the one who's always choking Trojan You're the one who's always choking trojan I understand the fascination You're the one who's always choking trojan I understand the fascination HAEMOGLOBIN I was hanging from a tree How'd I ever end up here Haemoglobin is the key At the time they cut me free Haemoglobin is the key Now my feet don't touch the ground As they drag me to my feet Haemoglobin is the key Now my feet don't touch the ground
NARCOLEPTIC Slip and stumble at my first offences It seemed a place for us to dream Crush and crumble under your defenses If we tear out the tumor It seemed a place for us to dream You'd better keep it in check It seemed a place for us to dream You'd better keep it in check
PEEPING TOM I'm careful not to fall I'm weightless .. I'm bare The face that fills the hole I'm weightless .. I'm bare With every bet I lost I'm weightless .. I'm bare
vmolko/placebov
Freezing cold and empty
Towns that change their name
And a horn of plenty
Counting breaths inside me
Even crack cocaine
Couldn't start to hide me
Won't you join me now
Baby's looking torn and frayed
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade
Won't you join me now
Baby's looking to get laid
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade
It always seemed enticing
To be naked and profane
There is no denying
Days before you came
Thunderbolts and lightning
Each day a brand new vein
Each tourniquet colliding
Didn't what you anyway
Baby's looking torn and frayed
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade
Won't you join me now
Baby's looking to get laid
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade
Days before you came
vmolko/placebov
On this coronary thief
More than just a leitmotif
More chaotic, no relief
I'll describe the way I feel
Weeping wounds that never heal
Can the savior be for real
Or are you just my seventh seal?
You come on just like special K
Just like I swallowed half my stash
I never ever want to crash
No hesitation, no delay
You come on just like special K
Now you're back with dope demand
I'm on sinking sand
Gravity
No escaping gravity
Gravity
No escaping .. not for free
I fall down .. hit the ground
Make a heavy sound
Every time you seem to come around
You're my new Achilles heel
Can this savior be for real
Or are you just my seventh seal?
You come on just like special K
Just like I swallowed half my stash
I never ever want to crash
No hesitation, no delay
You come on just like special K
Now you're back with dope demand
I'm on sinking sand
Gravity
No escaping gravity
Gravity
No escaping .. not for free
I fall down .. hit the ground
Make a heavy sound
Every time you seem to come around
No escaping gravity
No escaping gravity
No escaping gravity
Gravity
vmolko/warfield/placebov
Aces take your time
Queens are left for dead
Jacks can stand in line
And touch themselves instead
Aces take your pity
And keep it warm in bed
Aces take your time
The queens left for dead
Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed
Jack is all tragic when he stands alone
Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck
Ace take your chances
Queen wish you luck
Draw your final breath
Jacks are feeling fine
They've clubbed themselves to death
Aces take your pity
You sleep with it instead
Aces take your time
Tied up in the reasons, Ace take your time
Looks turn to lovers, flames into fires
Jack loves his tragedy, Queen her desires
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Wrap me in your trauma and I may just give you mine
Queen take your chances
Ace take your time
Everything will blow tonight
Either friend or foe, tonight
The queens left for dead
Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed
Jack is all tragic when he stands alone
Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck
Ace take your chances
Queen wish you luck
Everything will blow tonight
Either friend or foe, tonight
vmolko/placebov
Concentrate
It's in your reach
Concentrate
If you deny this
Then it's your fault
That God's in crisis
He's over
Concentrate
It's in your reach
Concentrate
If you deny this
Then it's your fault
That God's in Crisis
He's over
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space, find me space
Concentrate
It's in your reach
Concentrate
If you deny this
Then it's your fault
That God's in Crisis
He's over
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
It falls apart
It falls apart
Falls apart
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
It falls apart
It falls apart
Falls apart
vmolko/placebov
And I was never one to trust
Borderlining schizo
And guaranteed to cause a fuss
I was never loyal
Except to my own pleasure zone
I'm forever black-eyed
A product of a broken home
And I was never one to trust
Borderline bipolar
Forever biting on your nuts
I was never grateful
That's why I spend my days alone
I'm forever black-eyed
A product of a broken home [Broken home]
Black-eyed
And I was never one to trust
Borderlining schizo
And guaranteed to cause a fuss
I was never loyal
Except to my own pleasure zone
I'm forever black-eyed
A product of a broken home [Broken home]
Black-eyed
vmolko/placebov
It sounds pretentious but it's true
I wrote this novel just for you
That's why it's vulgar
That's why it's blue
And I say, thank you
And I say, thank you
For all the mommy things she's done
For all the times she showed me wrong
For all the time she sang god's song
And I say thank you Mom
Hello Mom
Thank you Mom
Hi Mom
Where a whitey bastard made a bomb
But now Ebonics rule our song
Those motherfuckers got it wrong
And I ask
Who is uncle Tom?
Who is uncle Tom?
Who is uncle Tom?
You are
Said I should get expensive help
Go fix my head
Create some wealth
Put my neurosis on the shelf
But I don't care for myself
I don't care for myself
I don't care for myself
I don't care
I'm so pretentious, yes it's true
I wrote this novel just for you
Just for you
Just for you
vmolko/placebov
Run away from all your whoredom and wave
Your worries, and cares, goodbye
All it takes is one decision
A lot of guts, a little vision to wave
Your worries, and cares goodbye
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die
She's a bitch, with broken arms to wave
Your worries, and cares, goodbye
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die
Burn away
Run away
vmolko/placebov
You're the one who's always bruised and broken
Sleep may be the enemy
But so's another line
It's a remedy
You should take more time
You're the one who's showers always golden
Spunk & bestiality well it's an Assisi lie
It's ahead of me
You should close your fly
The dream that comes alive at night
But if you don't change your situation
Then you'll die, you'll die, don't die, don't die
Please don't die
You're the one who's always bruised and broken
Drunk on immorality
Valium and cherry wine
Coke and ecstasy
You're gonna blow your mind
I've even been there once or twice or more
But if you don't change your situation
Then you'll die, you'll die, don't die, don't die
Please don't die
vmolko/placebov
Unaccustomed to such violence
Jesus looking down on me
I'm prepared for one big silence
Must be through some lack of kindness
And it seemed to dawn on me
Haemoglobin is the key
To a healthy heart beat
Haemoglobin is the key
To a healthy heart beat
I was brimming with defiance
Doctors looking down on me
Breaking every law of science
How'd I ever end up here?
A latent strain of color blindness
Then it seemed to dawn on me
Haemoglobin is the key
To a healthy heart beat
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
I was filled with incoherence
Theories of conspiracy
The whole world wants my disappearance
I'll go fighting nail and teeth
You've never seen such perseverance
Gonna make you scared of me
Cause haemoglobin is the key
To a healthy heart beat
vmolko/placebov
It's not treason, it's no lie
You talk in paragraphs
I write my sentence
It's not treason, it's no lie
It's not treason, it's no lie
You frame the photograph
I sit on fences
Change of season, love can die
It seemed a place for us to dream
It's later, never sooner
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
Wake up
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
Wake up
vmolko/placebov
I have to climb your wall
'Cause you're the one
Who makes me feel much taller than you are
I'm just a peeping tom
On my own for far too long
Problems with the booze
Nothing left to lose
I'm faithless .. I'm scared
That stole my broken soul
The one that makes me seem to feel much taller than you are
I'm just a peeping tom
On my own for far too long
Troubles with the gear
Nothing left to fear
I'm faithless .. I'm scared
I'm weightless .. I'm bare
I'm faithless .. I'm scared
And every trick I tossed
You're still the one who makes me feel much taller than you are
I'm just a peeping tom
On my own for far too long
Problems with the booze
Nothing left to lose
I'm faithless .. I'm scared
I'm weightless .. I'm bare
I'm faithless .. I'm scared
I'm weightless .. I'm bare
I'm faithless .. I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm scared