1: 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 broken,
everything is broken.
Why can't you forget?
Why can't we forget?
2: 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 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?
.........................
............ 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...
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
Where do we go from here?
the words are coming out all wierd
where are you now when i need you?
3: High & 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.
Donīt leave me high
donīt leave me dry
donīt leave me high
donīt 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.
Donīt leave me high
donīt leave me dry
donīt leave me high
donīt leave me dry.
It's the best thing that you ever had.
The best thing you ever had itīs gone away.
Donīt leave me high
donīt leave me dry
donīt leave me high
donīt leave me dry.
4: Fake Plastic Trees
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
and if I could be who you wanted
all the time
all the time...
5: Bones
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.
I say youīve got to feel it in your bones
I say youīve got to feel it in your bones
6: 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 sheīd 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)
7: Just
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
and teach you how to be a holy cow.
You do it to yourself you do
and that's what really hurts
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.
8: My Iron Lung
Faith
youīre 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.
Weīre 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 waste of time.
my iron lung.
9: Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
is 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.
10: 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 did 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?
Iīm gonna melt down.
Blame it on the black star
blame it on the falling sky
blame it on the satellite
that beams me home.
11: 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
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
and 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
>12: Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Rows of houses
all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
all these things into fruition
all these things will one day swallow up
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 its beady eyes
all these things into frution
all these things will one day swallow up
and fade out again
and fade out again.
Immerse your soul in love
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