Radiohead--The Bends
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1: Planet Telex
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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 straight home 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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2: The Bends
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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
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
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
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 breathe
I want to be part of the human race
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3: High and Dry
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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 had
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4: Fake Plastic Trees
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Her green plastic wateringcan 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
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
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
It wears me out
If I could be who you wanted all the time..
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5: Bones
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I don't wanna a 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
When you've got to feel it in your bones
Now I can't climb the stairs
Pieces missing everywhere
Prozak painkillersss.
When you've got to feel it in your bones
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
When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones
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6: [ Nice Dream ]
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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
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
If you think that you're strong enough
If you think you belong enough
Nice dream
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7: Just
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Can't get the stink off
He's been hanging around 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 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
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8: My Iron Lung
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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 loosing 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 know 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 w.a.s.t.e. of time
My iron lung
If you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be ex-oke
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9: Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was
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Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me
Everyday, everyhour wish that I
Was bullet proof
Wax me
Mold me
Heat the pins and stab them in
You have turned me into this
Just wish that it
Was bullet proof
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
Bullet proof
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10: Black Star
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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 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
This is killing me
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11: Sulk
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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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12: Street Spirit [ Fade Out ]
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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
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
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and it wears me out, it wears me out........
Haven't we all got the BENDS?
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