<01>planet telex <02>the bends <03>high and dry <04>fake plastic trees <05>bones <06>[nice dream] <07>just <08>my iron lung <09>bullet proof..i wish i was <10>black star <11>sulk <12>street spirit [fade out]

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?

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 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 we 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 wierd where are you now when i need you? they brought in the CIA the tanks and the whole marines to blow my 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 we 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

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've ever had

fake plastic trees

HEr green plastiC wateringcan for her fake chinese rubberplant in the fake plastic earth that she bought from a rubberman
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 could Just Turn And RUN and it wears me out

if i could be who you wanted all the time

bones

i don't want to be krippled kracked
shoulders wrists knees and back
ground into dust and ash
crawling on all fours
when you've got to feel it in your bones
now i can't climb the stair
pieces missing everywhere
prozak painkillersss
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

[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

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 on the 15th floor changed the
locks 3 times he still comes reeling
through the door and soon 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

my iron lung

faith you're driving me away
you doing it everyday
you don't mean it but it hurts like HELL
my brain says i'm recieving pain
a lack of oxygen from my life suppoRT
my IrOn lUng

weRe too young to fall asleep
too cynical too speak
we are loosing 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

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 i..

..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
&
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 it's 58hrs 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

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
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

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 will one day take control
and fade out again and fade out again

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