Pablo Honey
You
You are the sun and moon and stars are you
And I could never run away from you
You try at working out chaotic things
And why should I believe myself not you?
It's like the world is going to end so soon
And why should I believe myself?
You me and everything caught in the fire
I can see me drowning
Caught in the fire
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Creep
When you were here before, couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel, your skin makes me cry
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
And I wish I was special
You're so fucking special
But I 'm a creep, I 'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here
I don't belong here
I don't care if it hurts, I want to have control
I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul
I want you to notice
When I'm not around
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special
She's running out again
She's running out...
Run...
Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fucking special
I wish I was special...
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How Do You?
He's bitter and twisted, he knows what he wants
He wants to be loved and he wants to belong
He wants us to listen, he wants us to weep
He was a stupid baby who turned into a powerful freak
But how do you?
He lives with his mother, but we show him respect
He's a dangerous bigot, but we always forget
And he's just like his daddy
Because he cheats on his friends
And he steals and he bullies
Anyway that he can
But how do you?
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Stop Whispering
And the wise man say I don't want to hear your voice
And the thin man say I don't want to hear your voice
But they're cursing me, and they won't let me be
And there's nothing to say, and there's nothing to do
Stop whispering, start shouting
And my mother say we don't love you son no more
And the buildings say we spit on your face somemore
And the feeling is, that there's something wrong
Cause I can't find the words and I can't find the songs.
Stop whispering. start shouting
Dear Sir, I have a complaint can't remember what it is
Doesn't matter anyway
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Thinking About You
Been thinking about you, your records are here
Your eyes are on my wall, your teeth are over there
But I'm still no one, and you're now a star
Why do you care?
Been thinking about you, and there's no rest
Shit I still love you
Still see you in bed
But I'm playing with myself
And what do you care when the other men are far far better
All the things you got
All the things you need
Who bought your cigarettes?
Who bribed the company to come and see you honey?
Been thinking about you
And there's no rest
Shit I still love you
Still see you in bed, but I'm playing with myself
And why should you care, when the other men are far far better
All the things you got
That you never need
All the things got
Are planning to bleed to please you
Been thinking about you
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Anyone Can Play Guitar
Destiny, destiny protect me from the world
Destiny, hold my hand protect me from the world
Here we are with our running and confusion,
And I don't see no confusion anywhere...
And if the worm does turn
And if London burns
I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar
I wanna be in a band when I get to heaven
Anyone can play guitar
And they won't be a nothing anymore
Grow my hair, grow my hair I am Jim Morrison
Grow my hair, I wanna be wanna be wanna be Jim Morrison
Here we are with our running and confusion
And I don't see no confusion anywhere
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Rip Cord
Soul destroyed
With clever toys
For little boys
It's inevitable, it's inevitable
It's a soul destroyed
You're free until you drop
You're free until you've had enough
And you don't understand
You've no ripcord
Aeroplane do I mean what I mean?
It's inevitable, inevitable,
Oh aeroplane
A thousand miles an hour
On politics and power that you don't understand
And no ripcord
The answer to your prayers
We'll drop you anywnere
With no ripcord.
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Vegetable
I never wanted anything but this
I tried hard, worked hard
I ran around in domestic bliss
I fought hard, died hard
Every time you're running over me
Every time you're running I can see
I'm not a vegetable
I will not control myself
I spit on the hand that feeds me
I will not control myself
I never wanted any broken bones
Scarred face, no home
You words surround me and I asphyxiate
And I burn all hate
Every time you're running out on me
Every time you're running I can see
The waters break, the waters run all over me
The waters break, the waters run
And this time your gonna pay
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Prove Yourself
I can't afford to breath in this town
Nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand
Hooked back up to my cathode ray
I'm better off dead
Prove Yourself
I wanna breath I wanna grow
I'd say I want it but I don't know how
I work, I bleed, I beg, I pray
But I'm better off dead
Prove Yourself
Why?
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I Can't
Please forget the words that I just blurted out
It wasn't me it was my strange and creeping doubt
It keeps rattling my cage
And there's nothing in this world
That will keep it down.
Even though I might, even thought I try, I can't
So many things that keep, that keep me underground
So many words that I, that I can never find
If you give up on me now
I'll be gutted like I've never been before
Even though I might, even thought I try
I can't
If you give up on me now I'll be gutted like I've never been before.
Even though I might, even though I try
I can't
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Lurgee
I feel better, I feel better now you've gone
I feel better, I feel strong
I got better, I got better now there's nothing wrong
I got better, I got better, I got strong
Tell me something, tell me something I don't know,
Tell me one thing, tell me one thing and let it go
I got something, I got something heaven knows,
I got something, I got something I don't know
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Blow Out
In my mind
And nailed into my heels
All the time
Killing what I feel
And everything I touch turns to stone
(All wrapped up in cotton wool, all wrapped up and sugar coated.)
I am fused
Just in case I blow out
I am glued
Just in case I crack out
And everything I touch turns to stone
Everything I touch turns to stone
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The Bends
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.
why can't you forget?
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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 against the window pane
my blood will thicken.
I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain
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
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
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 words are coming out all weird
where are you now when I need 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
and 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 breath
I want to be part of the human race.
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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.
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.
it's the best thing that you ever had.
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Fake Plastic Trees
her green plastic watering can
for her fake chineserubberplant 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 polystyreneman who just crumbles and burns.
He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties
but gravity always wins and it wears him out.
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.
If I could be who you wanted all the time...
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Bones
I don't want to be krippled kracked
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.
and i used to fly like Peter Pan
all the children flew when I touched their hands.
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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 she would love to come help but
the sea would
electrocute us all.
nice dream.
if you think that you're strong enough
if you think you belong enough.
nice dream.
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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.
don't get my sympathy
hanging out the 15th floor.
you've changed the lock 3 times,
he still comes reeling through the door.
and then he'll get to you,
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.
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My Iron Lung
faith your driving me away
you do it everyday
you don't mean it but it hurts like hell
my brain says im 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.
suck suck your teenage thumb
toilet trained and dumb
(when the power runs out we'll just humm)
this this is our new song
just like the last one
a total w.a.s.t.e of time.
my iron lung.
the headshrinkers
they want everything
my uncle Bill
my Belisha Beacon
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Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
limb by limb and tooth by tooth
tearing up inside of me
everyday everyhour 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.
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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.
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.
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Lurgee
I feel better, I feel better now you've gone
I feel better, I feel strong
I got better, I got better now there's nothing wrong
I got better, I got better, I got strong
Tell me something, tell me something I don't know,
Tell me one thing, tell me one thing and let it go
I got something, I got something heaven knows,
I got something, I got something I don't know
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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
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.
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Street Spirit (Fade Out)
rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
all these things will one day take control
and fade out again and fade out
this machine 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 friction
all these things we'll one day swallow whole
and fade out again and fade out again
Immerse your soul with love.
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OK Computer
Airbag
In the next world war
in a jack knifed juggernaut
I am born again
in the neon sign
scrolling up and down
an airbag saved my life
in an intastella burst
I am back to save the universe!
in a deep deep sleep
of the innocent
I am born again
in a fast german car
I'm amazed that I survived
an airbag saved my life
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Paranoid Android
Please could you stop the noise I'm trying to get some rest?
from all the unborn chicken voices in my head
huh? what's that?
When I am king you will be first against the wall
with your opinion which is of no consequence at all
huh? what's that?
ambition makes you look very ugly
kicking squealing gucci little piggy
you don't remember
why don't you remember my name you runt?
off with his head man
off with his head man
why don't you remember my name
I guess he does...
rain down
rain down
come on rain down
on me
from a great height
from a graeeeaa haaeeeeeiii. haaaaeeeeeiiii.
That's it sir,
You're leaving,
The crackle of pig skin,
The dust and the screaming,
The yuppies networking
The panic, the vomit,
The panic, the vomit,
God loves his children,
God loves his children, yeah!
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Subterranean Homesick Alien
The breath of the morning
I keep forgetting
the smell of the warm summer air
I live in a town
where you can't smell a thing
you watch your feet
For cracks in the pavement
up above
aliens hover
making home movies
for the folks back home
of all these wierd creatures
who lock up their spirits
drill holes in themselves
and live for their secrets
they're all uptight.
I wish that they'd swoop down in the country lane
late at night when i'm driving
take me onboard their beautiful ship
show me the weird world as I'd love to see it
I'd tell all my friends
but they'd never believe me
they'd think that I'd finally lost it completely
I'd show them the stars
and the meaning of life
they'd shut me away
but i'll be alright.
I'm just uptight.
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Exit Music (For A Film)
Wake from your sleep
the drying of your tears
today we escape
we escape.
Pack and get dressed
before your father hears us
before all hell breaks loose.
Breathe keep breathing
don't lose your nerve
breathe keep breathing
I can't do this alone.
Sing us a song
a song to keep us warm
there's such a chill
such a CHILL.
You can laugh
a spineless laugh
we hope your rules and wisdom choke you
now we are one
in everlasting peace
We hope that you choke, that you choke...
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Bones
I don't want to be krippled kracked
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.
and i used to fly like Peter Pan
all the children flew when I touched their hands.
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Let Down
Transport motorways and tramlines
starting and then stopping
taking off and landing
the emptiest of feelings
disappointed people clinging onto bottles
and when it comes its so so
disappointing.
let down and hanging around
crushed like a bug in the ground
let down and hanging around
shell smashed, juices flowing
wings twitch, legs are going
don't get sentimental
it always ends up drivel
one day
I'm going to grow wings
a chemical reaction
hysterical and useless
hysterical and
let down and hanging around
crushed like a bug in the ground
let down and hanging around
you know
you know where you are with
you know where you are with
floor collapses floating
bouncing back
and one daaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy
I am gonna grow wings
a chemical reaction (you know where you are)
hysterical and useless (you know where you are)
hysterical and (you know where you are)
let down and hanging around
crushed like a bug in the ground
let down and hanging around
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Karma Police
Karma Police,
arrest this man,
he talks in maths,
he buzzes like a fridge
he's like a detuned radio.
Karma Police, arrest this girl,
her hitler hairdo,
is making me feel ill,
and we have crashed her party.
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
when you mess with us.
Karma Police,
I've given all I can,
it's not enough,
I've given all I can,
but we're still on the payroll.
This is what you get,
this is what you get,
this is what you get,
when you mess with us.
phew, for a minute there I lost myself i lost myself
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Filter Happier
fitter, happier more productive
comfortable
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week)
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
at ease
eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
a patient better driver
a safer car (baby smiling in back seat)
sleeping well (no bad dreams)
no paranoia
careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole)
keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then)
will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in wall)
favours for favours
fond but not in love
charity standing orders
on sundays ring road supermarket
(no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
car wash (also on sundays)
no longer afraid of the dark
or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
nothing so childish
at a better pace
slower and more calculated
no chance of escape
now self-employed
concerned (but powerless)
an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism)
will not cry in public
less chance of illness
tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat)
a good memory
still cries at a good film
still kisses with saliva
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick
that's driven into
frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm
fitter, healthier and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics
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Electroneering
I will stop,
I will stop at nothing.
Say the right things,
when electioneering
I trust I can rely on your vote.
When I go forwards,
you go backwards,
somewhere we will meet.
Riot shields
voodoo economics
it's just business,
cattle prods and the IMF
I trust I can rely on your vote.
When I go forwards,
you go backwards,
somewhere we will meet.
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Climbing Up The Walls
I am the key to the lock in your house,
that keeps your toys in the basement,
and if you get too far inside,
you'll only see my reflection.
It's always best when the light is off
I am the pick in the ice
do not cry out or hit the alarm,
we're friends till we die.
And either way you turn, I'll be there,
open up your skull, I'll be there,
climbing up the walls.
It's always best when the light is off,
it's always better on the outside,
fifteen blows to the back of your head,
fifteen blows to your mind.
So tuck the kids in safe tonight,
shut the eyes in the cupboard,
I've got the smell of a local man
who's got the loneliest feeling
That either way you turn, I'll be there,
open up your skull, I'll be there,
climbing up the walls.
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No Surprises
A heart that's full up like a landfill
a job that slowly kills you
bruises that wont heal.
You were so tired, happy,
bring down the government,they don't, they don't speak for us.
I'll take the quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide.
No alarms and no surprises,
No alarms and no surprises,
No alarms and no surprises,
Silent.
Silent.
This is my final fit, my final bellyache with
No alarms and no surprises,
No alarms and no surprises,
No alarms and no surprises please.
Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden.
No alarms and no surprises,
No alarms and no surprises,
No alarms and no surprises please.
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Lucky
I'm on a roll,
I'm on a roll this time,
I feel my luck could change.
Kill me sarah
Kill me again with love.
It's gonna be a glorious day.
Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake,
Cause I'm your superhero
we are standing on the edge
the head of state has called for me by name
but i don't have time for him
It's gonna be a glorious day
I feel my luck could change
Pull me out of the aircrash,
Pull me out of the lake
I'm your superhero
we are standing on the edge
we are standing on the edge...
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The Tourist
It barks at no-one else but me
like it's seen a ghost
I guess its seen the sparks a flowing
no-one else would know
sometimes i get overcharged
that's when you see sparks
they ask me where the hell I'm going?
at a thousand feet per second
hey man slowdown. idiot slowdown.
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