lyrics_output.txt

# Lyrics downloaded from www.azlyrics.com (see fetch_lyrics.py)


"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

The earlier version finishes with the following:
Hey the sun and moon and stars are yeah..
But I won't share myself with you
You to me


"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,
I wish I was special,
<i>[Album version:]</i> You're so fucking special.
<i>[Clean version:]</i> You're so very special.

<i>[Chorus:]</i>
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,
<i>[Album version:]</i> You're so fucking special,
<i>[Clean version:]</i> You're so very special,
I wish I was special.

<i>[Chorus:]</i>
But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo,
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.

Oh, oh

She's running out again,
She's running out...
She run run run run...
Run...

Whatever makes you happy,
Whatever you want,
<i>[Album version:]</i> You're so fucking special,
<i>[Clean version:]</i> You're so very special,
I wish I was 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 belong here.


"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

And he was a stupid baby who turned into a powerful freak



But how do you?

How do you?

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?

How do you?

How do you?


"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

And 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

Stop whispering, start shouting



And the mother say we spit on your son some more

And the buildings say we spit on your face some more

And the feeling is that there's something wrong

Because I can't find the words and I can't find the songs



Stop whispering, start shouting

Stop whispering, start shouting



Dear Sir, I have a complaint

Can't remember what it is



It doesn't matter anyway

It doesn't matter anyway


"Thinking About You"
Been thinking about you, your record's a hit

Your eyes are on my wall, your teeth are over there

But I'm still no-one, and you're not a star

What 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 you cigarettes and bribed the company

To come and see you, honey



I've been thinking about you, so how can you sleep

These people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet

But they don't know what I know, and why should you care

When I'm not there



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, what do you care

When I'm not there



All the things you got, you'll never need

All the things you've got, I bled and I bleed to please you



Been thinking about you...


"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 world 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

And if the world 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


"Ripcord"
Soul destroyed with clever toys for little boys

It's inevitable, inevitable, it's a soul destroyed

You're free until you drop

You're free until you've had enough

But you don't understand

You've no ripcord

No ripcord, no ripcord, no ripcord



Aeroplane

Do I mean what I mean?

It's inevitable, inevitable, oh aeroplane

A thousand miles an hour

And politics in power

That you don't understand

You've no ripcord

No ripcord, no ripcord, no ripcord



The answer to your prayers

We'll drop you anywhere

With no ripcord

No ripcord, no ripcord, no ripcord


"Vegetable"
I never wanted anything but this

I tried hard, worked hard

I ran around in domestic bliss

I fought hard, died hard



Everytime you're running over me

Everytime 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

Your words surround me and I asphyxiate

And I burn all hate



Everytime you're running out on me

Everytime 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



The waters break, the waters run all over me

The waters break, the waters run

And this time you're gonna pay



I'm not a vegetable

I will not control myself

I spit on the hand that feeds me

I will not control myself..


"Prove Yourself"
I can't afford to breathe in this time

Nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand

Hooked back up to the cathode ray

I'm better off dead

I'm better off dead

I'm better off



Prove yourself

Prove yourself

Prove yourself



I wanna breathe, I wanna grow

I'd say I want it but I don't know how

I work, I bleed, I beg and I pray

But I'm better off dead

I'm better off dead

I'm better off



Prove yourself

Prove yourself

Prove yourself



Why?


"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 will keep it down



Even though I might, even thought I try, I can't

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



And even though I might, even thought I try, I can't

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

And even though I might, even thought I try, I can't

Even though I might, even thought I try, I can't

Even though I might, even thought I try, I can't

Even though I might, even thought I try, I can't


"Lurgee"
I feel better, 
I feel better now you've gone
I got better, 
I got better, I got strong

And I feel better, 
I feel 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've got something, 
I've got something heaven knows
I got something, 
I got something I don't know


"Blow Out"
In my mind

And nailed into my heels

All the time

Killing what I feel



And everything I touch

(all wrapped up in cotton wool)

(all wrapped up in sugar-coated pills)

Turns to stone

Everything I touch

(all wrapped up in cotton wool)

(all wrapped up in sugar-coated pills)

Turns to stone



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

(all wrapped up in cotton wool)

(all wrapped up in sugar-coated pills)

Turns to stone


"My Iron Lung"
Faith, you're driving me away

You do it everyday

You don't mean it

But it hurts like hell



My brain says I'm receiving pain

A lack of oxygen

From my life support

My iron lung



We're too young to fall asleep

To cynical to speak

We are losing it

Can't you tell?



We scratch our eternal itch

A twentieth century bitch

And we are grateful for

Our iron lung



The headshrinkers, they want everything

My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon

The headshrinkers, they want 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 waste of time

My iron lung

The headshrinkers, they want everything

My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon

The headshrinkers, they want everything

My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon



And if you're frightened

You can be frightened

You can be, it's OK

And if you're frightened

You can be frightened

You can be, it's OK



The headshrinkers, they want everything

My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon


"The Trickster"
Rust in the mountains

Rust in the brain

The air is sacred here

In spite of your claim



Up on the the rooftops

Out of reach

Trickster is meaningless

Trickster is weak



He's talking out the world

Talking out the world

Hey, hey, hey, this is only halfway

Hey, hey, hey, this is only halfway



I wanted you so bad

That I couldn't say

These things fall apart



We wanted out so bad

That we couldn't say

All things fall apart



We're talking out the world

Talking out the world

Hey, hey, hey, this is only halfway

Hey, hey, hey, this is only halfway



Truant kids

A can of brick dust worms

Who do not want to climb down from

Their chestnut tree



Long white gloves

Police check carefully

Escaped from the zoo

The perfect child facsimile is



Talking out the world

Talking out the world

Hey, hey, hey

Hey, hey, hey


"Lewis (Mistreated)"
Bummed out again by your only business friend

The smell of fear is thicker than you think

Don't do it

Don't jump



Changed shape to fit

In the end you just feel sick

A million love songs under anaesthetic

Hey don't do it

Don't jump



Lewis

Save yourself the pain

You'll never get there

Lewis

Save yourself the pain

It never really mattered



We never noticed

We never understood

He just get crushed to fit

He never even smelt out the best

It's the best

It's the best day of your life



Lewis

Save yourself the pain

You'll never get there

Lewis

Save yourself the pain

It never really mattered

No

I swear

I swear

I swear



Oh

Mistreated

A low corporate

Mistreated

A low corporate



I don't wanna to talk about it

I don't wanna to talk about it

I don't wanna to talk about Lewis, Lewis, Lewis

I don't wanna to talk about Lewis, Lewis, Lewis


"Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong"
I wrapped you inside my coat 

When they came to firebomb the house 

I didn't feel pain, 'cause no-one can touch me 

Now that I'm held in your spell 



A beautiful girl 

A beautiful girl 

Can turn your world into dust 



Sell me a car that goes 

Sell me a house that stands 

I never cared before, I never cared before 

I never cared before, before, before, before 



A beautiful girl 

A beautiful girl 

Can turn your world into dust 



A beautiful girl 

A beautiful girl 

Can turn your world into dust 



I stood in front of her face 

When the first bullet was shot


"Permanent Daylight"
The easiest way to sleep at night

Is to carry on believing that I don't exist

The easiest way to sell your soul

is to carry on believing we don't exist

It must be hard

With your head on backwards


"Lozenge Of Love"
I am gone

Everybody's raging

And these fruits

They still taste of poison

I won't be around

When you really need me



I can't sleep

Why can't someone hold me

I need warmth

A restless body cracks some more

I won't have the strength

When you really need me


"You Never Wash Up After Yourself"
I must get out once in a while

Everything is starting to die

The dust settles

The worms dig

Spiders crawl over the bed



I must get out once in a while

I eat all day and now I'm fat

Yesterday's meal is hugging the plates

You never wash up after yourself


"Creep (Acoustic)"
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

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



But I'm a creep

I'm a weirdo

What the hell am I doing here?

I don't belong here



She's running out again

She's running out

She run, run, run run

Run



Whatever makes you happy

Whatever you want

You're so fucking special

I wish I was 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 belong here.


"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, everyone is broken

Everyone is, everything is broken



Why can't you forget?

Why can't you forget?

Why can't you forget?


"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

Fall asleep on 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

But who are my real friends?

Have they all got the bends?

Am I really sinking this low?



My baby's got the bends, oh no

We don't have any real friends, no, no, no



Just lying in the bar with my drip feed on

Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen

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



Just lying in the bar with my drip feed on

Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen

I wish it was the sixties, I wish I could be happy

I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen



I wanna live, breathe

I wanna be part of the human race

I wanna live, breathe

I wanna be part of the human race, race, race, race



Where do we go from here?

The words are coming out all weird

Where are you now when I need you?


"High &amp; 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

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, ever had
It's the best thing that you ever had,
The best thing you ever had has gone away

Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry


"Fake Plastic Trees"
Her green plastic watering can

For her fake Chinese rubber plant

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

It wears her out, it wears her out



She lives with a broken man

A cracked polystyrene man

Who just crumbles and burns

He used to do surgery

For girls in the eighties

But gravity always wins



It wears him out, it wears him out

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



It wears me out, it wears me out

It wears me out, it wears me out



If I could be who you wanted

If I could be who you wanted all the time



All the time...

All the time...


"Bones"
I don't want to be crippled cracked

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 painkillers



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


"(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, nice dream, 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 <i>[x7]</i>



If you think that you're strong enough

If you think you belong enough

If you think that you're strong enough

If you think you belong enough



Nice dream <i>[x4]</i>


"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

And teach you how to be a holy cow



You do it to yourself, you do

And that's what really hurts

Is that you do it to yourself

Just you and no one else

You do it to yourself

You do it to yourself



Don't get my sympathy

Hanging out the 15th floor

You've changed the locks three times

He still comes reeling through the door

One day I'll get you

And teach you how to get to purest hell



You do it to yourself, you do

And that's what really hurts

Is that you do it to yourself

Just you, you and no one else

You do it to yourself

You do it to yourself



You do it to yourself, you do

And that's what really hurts

Is that you do it to yourself

Just you, you and no one else

You do it to yourself

You do it to yourself.. yourself.. yourself..


"My Iron Lung"
Faith, you're driving me away

You do it everyday

You don't mean it

But it hurts like hell



My brain says I'm receiving pain

A lack of oxygen

From my life support

My iron lung



We're too young to fall asleep

To cynical to speak

We are losing it

Can't you tell?



We scratch our eternal itch

A twentieth century bitch

And we are grateful for

Our iron lung



The headshrinkers, they want everything

My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon

The headshrinkers, they want 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 waste of time

My iron lung

The headshrinkers, they want everything

My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon

The headshrinkers, they want everything

My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon



And if you're frightened

You can be frightened

You can be, it's OK

And if you're frightened

You can be frightened

You can be, it's OK



The headshrinkers, they want everything

My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon


"Bulletproof.. I Wish I Was"
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth

Tearing up inside of me

Every day every hour

I 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 the money and take a shot

Leadfill the hole in me

I could burst a million bubbles

All surrogate and bullet proof



And bullet proof

And bullet proof

And 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 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?

I'm gonna melt down



Blame it on the black star

Blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home

This is killing me

This is killing me


"Sulk"
You bite through the big wall, the big wall bites back

You just 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



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



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


"Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
Rows of houses, all bearing down on me

I can feel their blue hands touching me

All these things into position

All these things we'll one day swallow whole

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 position

All these things we'll one day swallow whole

And fade out again and fade out again



Immerse your soul in love

IMMERSE YOUR SOUL IN LOVE


"Airbag"
In the next world war
In a jackknifed juggernaut 
I am born again 

In the neon sign
Scrolling up and down
I am born again

In an interstellar 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

In an interstellar burst
I am back to save the universe

In an interstellar burst
I am back to save the universe


"Paranoid Android"
Please could you stop the noise, I'm trying to get some rest
From all the unborn chicken voices in my head
What's that...? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)
What's that...? (I may be paranoid, but not an android)

When I am king, you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What's that...? (I may be paranoid, but no android)
What's that...? (I may be paranoid, but no android)

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy
You don't remember
You don't remember
Why don't you remember my name?
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 great height... height...
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me
From a great height
From a great height... height...
Rain down, rain down
Come on rain down on me

That's it, sir
You're leaving
The crackle of pigskin
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!


"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 weird creatures

Who lock up their spirits

Drill holes in themselves

And live for their secrets



They're all uptight

Uptight.. <i>[x7]</i>



I wish that they'd swoop down in a country lane

Late at night when I'm driving

Take me on board their beautiful ship

Show me the world as I'd love to see it



I'd tell all my friends

But they'd never believe

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'd be all right

All right..



I'm just uptight

Uptight.. <i>[x7]</i>


"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

We hope that you choke, that you choke

We hope that you choke, that you choke


"Let Down"
Transport, motorways and tramlines

Starting and then stopping

Taking off and landing

The emptiest of feelings

Disappointed people clinging on to bottles

And when it comes it's 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



Let down again

Let down again

Let down again



You know, you know where you are with

You know where you are with

Floor collapsing

Floating, bouncing back

And one day....

I am 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


"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

For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
Phew, for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself


"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


"Electioneering"
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 and 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 and somewhere we will meet


"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 candle's out,

I am the pick in the ice.

Do not cry out or hit the alarm,

You know we're friends 'til 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 lock the kids up safe tonight

And shut the eyes in the cupboard.

I've got the smell of a local man

Who's got the loneliest feeling.



That either way he turns - I'll be there

Open up your skull - I'll be there

Climbing up the walls



Climbing up the walls

Climbing up the walls


"No Surprises"
A heart that's full up like a landfill

A job that slowly kills you

Bruises that won't heal



You look so tired and unhappy

Bring down the government

They don't, they don't speak for us

I'll take a 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 (let me out of here)

No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here)

No alarms and no surprises please (let me out of here)


"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
'Cause I'm your superhero
We are standing on the edge

We are standing on the edge


"The Tourist"
It barks at no one else but me

Like it's seen a ghost

I guess it seen the sparks a-flowing

No one else would know



Hey man slow down, slow down

Idiot, slow down, slow down



Sometimes I get overcharged

That's when you see sparks

You ask me where the hell I'm going

At a thousand feet per second



Hey man slow down, slow down

Idiot slow down, slow down



Hey man slow down, slow down

Idiot slow down, slow down


"Airbag"
In the next world war
In a jackknifed juggernaut 
I am born again 

In the neon sign
Scrolling up and down
I am born again

In an interstellar 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

In an interstellar burst
I am back to save the universe

In an interstellar burst
I am back to save the universe


"Pearly"
How'd you get your teeth so pearly?

Dew drop dentures

White washed faces

She runs from the third world, pearly



Vanilla (feel it crawl to me)

Milkshakes (crawl back again)

From Hard Rock (whatever you say)

Cafes (it won't go away)

That's where (I feel it crawl to me)

She got her (crawls back again)

Sweet tooth (it won't go away)

For white boys (whatever you say)



She runs from the third world, pearly

Hurts me



Darling hurts me

Darling hurts me

Darling hurts me


"A Reminder"
If I get old

I will not give in

But if I do

Remind me of this



Remind me that

Once I was free

Once I was cool

Once I was me



And if I sat down and crossed my arms

Hold me until this song



Knock me out

Smash out my brains

If I take the chair and start to talk shit



If I get old remind me of this

That night we kissed and I really meant it

Whatever happens if we're still speaking

Pick up the phone

Play me this song


"Polyethylene (Parts 1 &amp; 2)"
Go    

Tears of Joy Disjointed 

This is joy  

We'll scare ourselves  

Now Scare ourselves 

Will scare ourselves  

Of all that you wanna be    

Just go paid and now you're going    

How long should you be? 

How inside you please 

Out on Saturdays  

If I get scared I'll just call you    

And I miss your glow as I unsettle 

And I'll miss your glow as I unsettle   

Oh and I'll always feel Oh but I'll always feel   

I will always be  I will always feel   

Right, One, Two, Three, Four    

So sell your suit and tie 

So sad you seem tired 

So sell your sin inside 

So sad your sitting tight. 

And come and live with me 

Well come and live with me   

Leukemia Live with Me   

Schizophrenia Something in your   

Polyethylene    

There is no signicant    

Risk to your health    

She used to be beautiful once aswell    

Plastic Bag Middle Class Polyethylene    

Decaffeinate    

I'll let it Unleaded   

Keep all surfaces clean    

If you don't believe me If you don't believe this   

Sell your soul Sell yourself   

If you don't get into it no one will


"Melatonin"
Don't forget that you are our son

Now go back to bed



We just know that you are ours

You won't cry too hard



Death to all who stand in your way

Wave my arms you


"Palo Alto"
In a city of the future

It is difficult to concentrate

Meet the boss, meet the wife

Everybody's happy

Everyone is made for life



In a city of the future

It is difficult to find a space

I'm too busy to see you

You're too busy to wait



But I'm okay, how are you?

Thanks for asking, thanks for asking

But I'm okay, how are you?

I hope you're okay too



Everyone one of those days

When the sky's California blue

With a beautiful bombshell

I throw myself into my work

I'm too lazy, I've been kidding myself for so long



I'm okay, how are you?

Thanks for asking, thanks for asking

But I'm okay, how are you?

I hope you're okay too


"Everything In Its Right Place"
Kid A, Kid A, Kid A, Kid A

Everything, everything, everything, everything..

In its right place

In its right place

In its right place

Right place



Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon



Everything, everything, everything..

In its right place

In its right place

Right place



There are two colours in my head

There are two colours in my head

What is that you tried to say?

What was that you tried to say?

Tried to say.. tried to say..

Tried to say.. tried to say..



Everything in its right place


"Kid A"
I slipped away

I slipped on a little white lie



We got heads on sticks

You got ventriloquists

We got heads on sticks

You got ventriloquists



Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed <i>[x4]</i>



Rats and children follow me out of town

Rats and children follow me out of town

Come on kids...


"The National Anthem"
Everyone

Everyone around here

Everyone is so near

What's going on?

What's going on?



Everyone

Everyone is so near

Everyone has got the fear

It's holding on

It's holding on



It's holding on <i>[x3]</i>


"How To Disappear Completely"
That there, that's not me

I go where I please

I walk through walls

I float down the Liffey



I'm not here

This isn't happening

I'm not here, I'm not here



In a little while

I'll be gone

The moment's already passed

Yeah, it's gone



I'm not here

This isn't happening

I'm not here, I'm not here



Strobe lights and blown speakers

Fireworks and hurricanes



I'm not here

This isn't happening

I'm not here, I'm not here....


"Optimistic"
Flies are buzzing around my head

Vultures circling the dead

Picking up every last crumb

The big fish eat the little ones

The big fish eat the little ones

Not my problem give me some



You can try the best you can

If you try the best you can

The best you can is good enough

<i>[x2]</i>



This one's optimistic

This one went to market

This one just came out of the swamp

This one dropped a payload

Fodder for the animals

Living on an animal farm



If you try the best you can

If you try the best you can

The best you can is good enough

<i>[x2]</i>



I'd really like to help you man

I'd really like to help you man.....

Nervous messed up marionette

Floating around on a prison ship



If you try the best you can

If you try the best you can

The best you can is good enough

If you try the best you can

If you try the best you can

Dinosaurs roaming the earth <i>[x3]</i>


"In Limbo"
I'm the first in the Irish Sea

Another message I can't read



I'm on your side

Nowhere to hide

Trapdoors that open

I spiral down



You're living in a fantasy world

You're living in a fantasy world



I'm lost at sea

Don't bother me

I've lost my way

I've lost my way



You're living in a fantasy world <i>[x3]</i>

This beautiful world I'm the first in the Irish Sea

Another message I can't read


"Idioteque"
Who's in bunker, who's in bunker?

Women and children first

Women and children first

Women and children

I'll laugh until my head comes off

I swallow till I burst

Until I burst

Until I..



Who's in bunker, who's in bunker

I've seen too much

I haven't seen enough

You haven't seen enough

I'll laugh until my head comes off

Women and children first

And children first

And children..



Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time

Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time



Ice age coming, ice age coming

Let me hear both sides

Let me hear both sides

Let me hear both..



Ice age coming, ice age coming

Throw me in the fire

Throw me in the fire

Throw me in the..



We're not scaremongering

This is really happening, happening

We're not scaremongering

This is really happening, happening



Mobiles working

Mobiles chirping

Take the money and run

Take the money and run

Take the money..



Here I'm allowed, everything all of the time

Background:

The first of the children


"Morning Bell"
Morning bell

Morning bell

Light another candle

Release me

Release me



You can keep the furniture

A bump on the head

Coming down the chimney

Release me

Release me

Please........

Release me

Release me



Where'd you park the car?

Where'd you park the car?

Clothes are all over the furniture

Now I might as well

I might as well

Sleepy jack the fire drill

Run around around around around around....



Cut the kids in half <i>[x3]</i>



The lights are on but nobody's home

Everybody wants to be a

The lights are on but nobody's home

Nobody wants to be a slave

Walking walking walking walking...



The lights are on but nobody's home

Everybody wants to be a

Everyone wants to be a friend

Nobody wants to be a slave

Walking walking walking walking...


"Motion Picture Soundtrack"
Red wine and sleeping pills

Help me get back to your arms

Cheap sex and sad films

Help me get where I belong



I think you're crazy, maybe

I think you're crazy, maybe



Stop sending letters

Letters always get burned

It's not like the movies

They fed us on little white lies



I think you're crazy, maybe

I think you're crazy, maybe



I will see you in the next life



<i>[Early version has a second verse:]</i>



Beautiful angel

Pulled apart at birth

Limbless and helpless

I can't even recognize you



I think you're crazy, maybe <i>[x6]</i>



I will see you in the next life


"Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box"
After years of waiting nothing came

As your life flashed before your eyes

You realize



I'm a reasonable man

Get off, get off, get off my case <i>[x2]</i>

I'm a reasonable man

Get off my case

Get off my case



After years of waiting

After years of waiting nothing came

And you realize you're looking,

Looking in the wrong place



I'm a reasonable man

Get off my case <i>[x2]</i>

I'm a reasonable man

Get off my case <i>[x2]</i>

I'm a reasonable man

Get off my case <i>[x3]</i>



After years of waiting

You're a reasonable man

Get off our case <i>[x3]</i>

I'm a reasonable man,

Get off my case <i>[x3]</i>



I'm a reasonable man,

Get off my case <i>[x3]</i>

I'm a reasonable man,

Get off my case <i>[x3]</i>


"Pyramid Song"
I jumped in the river and what did I see?

Black-eyed angels swam with me

A moon full of stars and astral cars

All the things I used to see

All my lovers were there with me

All my past and futures

And we all went to heaven in a little row boat

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt



I jumped into the river

Black-eyed angels swam with me

A moon full of stars and astral cars

And all the things I used to see

All my lovers were there with me

All my past and futures

And we all went to heaven in a little row boat

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt



There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt 

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt


"Pull / Pulk Revolving Doors"
There are barn doors

And there are revolving doors



Doors on the rudders of big ships

We are revolving doors



There are doors that open by themselves

There are sliding doors

And there are secret doors



There are doors that lock

And doors that don't



There are doors that let you in

And out

But never open

But they are trapdoors

That you can't come back from


"You And Whose Army?"
Come on, come on

You think you drive me crazy

Come on, come on

You and whose army?

You and your cronies

Come on, come on

Holy roman empire

Come on if you think

Come on if you think

You can take us all on

You can take us all on



You and whose army?

You and your cronies



You forget so easily

We ride tonight

We ride tonight

Ghost horses

Ghost horses

Ghost horses

We ride tonight

We ride tonight

Ghost horses

Ghost horses

Ghost horses..


"I Might Be Wrong"
I might be wrong

I might be wrong

I could have sworn

I saw a light coming on



I used to think

I used to think

There is no future left at all

I used to think



Open up, begin again

Let's go down the waterfall

Think about the good times

And never look back

Never look back



What would I do?

What would I do?

If I did not have you?



Open up, let me in

Let's go down the waterfall

Have ourselves a good time

It's nothing at all

Nothing at all

Nothing at all


"Knives Out"
I want you to know

He's not coming back

Look into my eyes

I'm not coming back



So knives out

Catch the mouse

Don't look down

Shove it in your mouth



If you'd been a dog

They would've drowned you at birth



Look into my eyes

It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth



So knives out

Cook him up

Squash his head

Put him in the pot



I want you to know

He's not coming back

He's bloated and frozen

Still there's no point in letting it go to waste



So knives out

Catch the mouse

Squash his head

Put him in the pot


"Amnesiac / Morning Bell"
Morning bell

Morning bell

Light another candle

Release me

Release me



You can keep the furniture

A bump on the head

Coming down the chimney

Release me

Release me

Yeah..

Release me

Release me



Where'd you park the car?

Where'd you park the car?

Clothes are all over the furniture

And I might as well

I might as well

Sleepy jack the fire drill

Run around around around around around..



Cut the kids in half

Cut the kids in half

Cut the kids in half


"Dollars And Cents"
There are things to talk about 
Be constructive 

There are weapons, we can use 
Be constructive 
With your blues 

Even when they tore the wall down 
Even when they tore the wall down 

Why don't you quiet down? 
Why won't you quiet down? 
Why don't you quiet down? 
Why won't you quiet down? 
<i>[?]</i>
We are the dollar and cents


"Like Spinning Plates"
While you make pretty speeches,

I'm being cut to shreds

You feed me to the lions,

a delicate balance



And this just feels like spinning plates

I'm living in cloud cuckoo land

And this just feels like spinning plates

My body is floating down the muddy river


"Life In A Glass House"
Once again, I'm in trouble with my only friend

She is papering the window panes

She is putting on a smile

Living in a glass house



Once again, packed like frozen food and battery hens

Think of all the starving millions

Don't talk politics and don't throw stones

Your royal highnesses



Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat

Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat

Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat

But someone's listening in.



Once again, we are hungry for a lynching 

That's a strange mistake to make

You should turn the other cheek

Living in a glass house



Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat

Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat

Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat

But someone's listening in.


"2 + 2 = 5"
Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I'll stay home forever
Where two and two always makes up five

I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April's showers
And two and two always makes up five

It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream and you can shout
It is too late now

Because you have not been
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
You have not been
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
You have not been
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
You have not been
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention
Payin' attention

Oh

I try to sing along
I get it all wrong
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not
I swat em like flies
But like flies the buggers keep coming back
But I'm not
Oh hail to the thief
Oh hail to the thief
But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not

Don't question my authority or put me in the dock
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not
Oh, go and tell the king that the sky is falling in
When it's not
When it's not
When it's not
Maybe not
Maybe not


"Sit Down, Stand Up"
Sit down, stand up

Sit down, stand up 

Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)

Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up) 

Anytime (sit down) 

Anytime (stand up)

Sit down, stand up

Sit down, stand up

We can wipe you out anytime (sit down, stand up)

We can wipe you out (sit down, stand up)

Anytime (sit down)

Anytime

Stand up (the rain drops the rain drops)

Sit down (the rain drops the rain drops)

Oh

The rain drops <i>[x46]</i>


"Sail To The Moon"
I sail to the moon

I spoke too soon

And how much did it cost

I was dropped from

The moonbeam

And sailed on shooting stars



Maybe you'll

Be president

But know right from wrong

Or in the flood

You'll build an Ark



And sail us to the moon

Sail us to the moon

Sail us to the moon

Sail us to the moon


"Backdrifts"
We're rotten fruit

We're damaged goods

What the hell we've got nothing more to lose

One burst and we will probably crumble

We're backdrifting

This far but no further

I'm hanging off a branch

I'm teetering on a breaker

Honey sweets so fall asleep

I'm backsliding

You fell into our arms

You fell into our arms

We tried but there was nothing we could do

Nothing we could do

All evidence has been buried

All tapes have been erased

But your footsteps give you away

So you're backtracking

Oh oh oh

You fell into our arms

You fell into our arms

We tried but there was nothing we could do

Nothing we could do

You fell into our

You fell into a

We're rotten fruit

We're damaged goods

What the hell we've got nothing more to lose

One burst and we will probably crumble

We're backdrifters


"Go To Sleep"
Something for the rag and bone man

Over my dead body

Something big is gonna happen

Over my dead body 

Someone saw someone's daughter

Over my dead body

This is how I ended up sucked in

Over my dead body

I'm gonna go to sleep

And let this wash all over me

We don't really want a monster taking over

Tip toeing, tying down

We don't want the loonies takin' over

Tip toeing, tying down our arms

May pretty horses

Come to you as you sleep

I'm gonna go to sleep

And let this wash over me


"Where I End And You Begin"
There's a gap in between

There's a gap where we meet

Where I end and you begin

And I'm sorry for us

The dinosaurs roam the earth

The sky turns green

Where I end and you begin

I am up in the clouds

I am up in the clouds

And I can't and I can't come down

I can watch and cant take part

Where I end and where you start

Where you, you left me alone

You left me alone

X'll mark the place

Like the parting of the waves

Like a house falling in the sea

In the sea

I will eat you alive <i>[x4]</i>

There'll be no more lies <i>[x4]</i>

I will eat you alive <i>[x4]</i>

There'll be no more lies <i>[x4]</i>

I will eat you alive <i>[x4]</i>

There are no more lies <i>[x4]</i>

I will eat you alive <i>[x3]</i>


"We Suck Young Blood"
Are you hungry?

Are you sick?

Are you begging for a break?

Are you sweet?

Are you fresh?

Are you strung up by the wrists?

We want the young blood (la <i>[x8]</i>)

Are you fracturing?

Are you torn at the seams?

Would you do anything?

Fleabitten motheaten?

We suck young blood (la <i>[x8]</i>)

We suck young blood (la <i>[x8]</i>)

Woah woah

Won't let the creeping ivy

Won't let the nervous bury me

Our veins are thin

Our rivers poisoned

We want the sweet meat (la <i>[x8]</i>)

We want the young blood 

La <i>[x8]</i>


"The Gloaming"
Genie let out of the bottle

It is now the witching hour

Genie let out of the bottle

It is now the witching hour

Murderers, you're murderers

We are not the same as you

Genie let out of the bottle

Funny how, funny how

When the walls bend, when the walls bend

With your breathing, with your breathing

When the walls bend, when the walls bend

With your breathing, with your breathing

With your breathing

They will suck you down to the other side <i>[x4]</i>

To the shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red

Your alarm bells, your alarm bells

Shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red

Your alarm bells, your alarm bells

They should be ringing <i>[x12]</i>

This is the gloaming

Shadows blue and red

Shadows blue and red

Your alarm bells

Your alarm bells

Shadows blue and red

Shadows blue and red

We're alarming

We're alarming

And the walls bend, and the walls bend

With your breathing, with your breathing

And the walls bend, and the walls bend

What is he doin'? what is he doin'?

This is the gloaming <i>[x4]</i>

This is the


"There There"
In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape

Broken branches trip me as I speak

Just cos you feel it doesn't mean it's there

Just cos you feel it doesn't mean it's there

There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck (don't reach out, don't reach out <i>[x2]</i>)

Stay away from these rocks we'd be a walking disaster (don't reach out, don't reach out <i>[x2]</i>)

Just cos you feel it doesn't mean it's there (there's someone on your shoulder <i>[x2]</i>)

Just coz you feel it doesn't mean it's there (there's someone on your shoulder <i>[x2]</i>)

There there...

Why so green

And lonely <i>[x3]</i>

Heaven sent you

To me <i>[x3]</i>

We are accidents waiting

Waiting to happen

We are accidents waiting

Waiting to happen


"I Will"
I will

Lay me down

In a bunker

Underground

I won't let this happen to my children

Meet the real world coming out of your shell

With white elephants

Sitting ducks

I will

rise up

Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes

Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes

Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes

Little babies eyes eyes eyes


"A Punchup At A Wedding"
No <i>[x42]</i>

I don't know why you bother

Nothing's ever good enough for you.

(By the way) I was there and it wasn't like that.

You've come here just to start a fight

You had to piss on our parade

You had to shred our big day

You had to ruin it for all concerned

In a drunken punch-up at a wedding

Yeah

Hypocrite opportunist

Don't infect me with your poison

A bully in a china shop

When I turn 'round you stay frozen to the spot

You had the pointless snide remarks

Of hammerheaded sharks

The pot will call the kettle black

It's a drunken punch-up at a wedding yeah

Oh no no


"Myxomatosis"
The mongrel cat came home

Holding half a head

Proceeded to show it off

To all his new found friends

He said I been where I liked

I slept with who I like

She ate me up for breakfast

She screwed me in a vice

But now

I don't know why

I feel so tongue-tied

I sat in the cupboard

And wrote it down real neat 

They were cheering and waving

Cheering and waving

Twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis

But it got edited fucked up

Strangled beaten up

Used in a photo in time magazine

Buried in a burning black hole in devon

I don't know why I feel so tongue-tied

Don't know why

I feel

So skinned alive.

My thoughts are misguided and a little naive

I twitch and I salivate like with myxomatosis

You should put me in a home or you should put me down

I got myxomatosis

I got myxomatosis

Yeah no one likes a smart ass but we all like stars

But that wasn't my intention, I did it for a reason

It must have got mixed up

Strangled beaten up

I got myxomatosis 

I got myxomatosis

I don't know why I

Feel so tongue-tied


"Scatterbrain"
I'm walking out in a force ten gale

Birds thrown around, bullets for hail

The roof is pulling off by its fingernails

Your voice is rattlin' on my window sill

Yesterday's headlines blown by the wind

Yesterday's people end up scatterbrain

Any fool can easy pick a hole I only wish I could fall in

A moving target in a firing range

Somewhere I'm not

Scatterbrain

Somewhere I'm not

Scatterbrain

Lightning fuse, powercut

Scatterbrain


"A Wolf At The Door"
Drag him out your window

Dragging out your dead

Singing I miss you

Snakes and ladders

Flip the lid

Out pops the cracker

Smacks you in the head

Knifes you in the neck

Kicks you in the teeth

Steel toe caps

Takes all your credit cards

Get up get the gunge

Get the eggs

Get the flan in the face

The flan in the face

The flan in the face

Dance you fucker dance you fucker

Don't you dare

Don't you dare

Don't you flan in the face

Take it with the love is given

Take it with a pinch of salt

Take it to the taxman

Let me back let me back

I promise to be good

Don't look in the mirror

At the face you don't recognize

Help me call the doctor

Put me inside

Put me inside

Put me inside

Put me inside

Put me inside

I keep the wolf from the door

But he calls me up

Calls me on the phone

Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up

Steal all my children

If I don't pay the ransom

But I'll never see them again

If I squeal to the cops

No no no no no no no:

Walking like giant cranes ah

With my x ray eyes i strip you naked

In a tight little world and why are you on the list?

Stepford wives who are we to complain?

Investments and dealers investments and dealers

Cold wives and mistresses

Cold wives and sunday papers.

City boys in first class

Don't know we're born little

Someone else is gonna come and clean it up

Born and raised for the job

Someone else always does always pick it up

Get over get up get over

Turn the tape off.

I keep the wolf from the door

But he calls me up

Calls me on the phone

Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up

Steal all my children

If I don't pay the ransom

But I'll never see them again

If I squeal to the cops

So I'm just gonna'


"Paperbag Writer"
Blow into this paper bag
Go home and stop grinning at everyone
Blow into this paper bag
Go home and stop grinning at everyone

It was nice when it lasted but now it’s gone
It was nice when it lasted but now it’s gone

Blow into this paper bag

Take your armour off, you’re not under attack
Take your armour off, you’re not under attack

Come on, come on

Blow into this paper bag
Go home and stop grinning at everyone
Blow into this paper bag
Go home and stop grinning at everyone

Like they were honeybees or a plague of rats
Take your armour off, you’re not under attack

Blow into this paper bag
Blow into this paper bag


"Fog (Again)"
There's a little child
Running round this house
And he never leaves
He will never leave
And the fog comes up 
From the sewers and glows 
In the dark

Baby alligators 
In the sewers 
Grow up fast
Grow up fast
Anything you want 
It can be done
How, how did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Something's will never wash away
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?


"Gagging Order"
I know what you're thinking
But I'm not your property
No matter what you say
No matter what you say

Move along
There's nothing left to see
Just a body
Nothing left to see

A couple more for breakfast
A little more for tea
Just to take the edge off
Just to take the edge off

Move along
There's nothing left to see
Just a body
Pouring down the street

Move along
There's nothing left to see
Just a body
Nothing left to see

Move along


"I Am A Wicked Child"
(One, two, three, four.)

Mother Mary come to me
For I am a wicked child
I have sinned and I am so confused
And I am a wicked child
I am a wicked child

I am the Devil's son
And I wish I could be good
I walk a crooked mile
And I wish I could be good
I wish I could be good

If I could have kept on a straight and narrow
If I could have kept on a straight and narrow
And not have broke your heart
Not have broke your heart

Now I wake up in the night
It's tugging at my arms and legs
Like I was a marionette

Send baby Jesus
To radiate his light
To radiate his light


"15 Step"
How come I end up where I started?

How come I end up where I went wrong?

Won't take my eyes off the ball again

You reel me out then you cut the string



How come I end up where I started?

How come I end up where I went wrong?

I won't take my eyes off the ball again

First you reel me out and then you cut the string



You used to be alright

What happened?

Did the cat get your tongue?

Did your string come undone?



One by one

One by one

It comes to us all

It's as soft as your pillow



You used to be alright

What happened

Et cetera, et cetera

Fads for whatever

Fifteen steps

Then a sheer drop



How come I end up where I started?

How can I end up where I went wrong?

Won't take my eyes off the ball again

You reel me out and you cut the string


"Bodysnatchers"
I do not

Understand

What it is

I've done wrong



Full of holes

Check for pulse

Blink your eyes

One for yes

Two for no



I have no idea what I am talking about

I am trapped in this body and can't get out



Make a sound

Move back home

A pale imitation

With the edges sawn off



I have no idea what you are talking about

Your mouth moves everywhere



Has the light gone out for you?

Cause the light's gone out for me

It is the 21st century

It is the 21st century

You can fight it like a dog

It brought me to my knees

They got scared and they put me in

They got scared and they put me in

All their eyes wrapped around my face

All their eyes wrapped around my face

Although everybody else can see

Although everybody else can see



I'm alive



I've seen it coming


"Nude"
Don't get any big ideas

They're not gonna happen



You paint yourself white

And fill up with noise

But there'll be something missing



Now that you've found it, it's gone

Now that you feel it, you don't

You've gone off the rails



So don't get any big ideas

They're not gonna happen



You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking


"Weird Fishes / Arpeggi"
In the deepest ocean

The bottom of the sea

Your eyes

They turn me



Why should I stay here?

Why should I stay?



I'd be crazy not to follow

Follow where you lead

Your eyes

They turn me



Turn me on to phantoms

I follow to the edge of the earth

And fall off

Everybody leaves

If they get the chance

And this is my chance



I get eaten by the worms

And weird fishes

Picked over by the worms

And weird fishes

Weird fishes

Weird fishes



Yeah I

I'll hit the bottom

Hit the bottom and escape

Escape

And I

I'll hit the bottom

Hit the bottom

Hit the bottom and escape

Escape


"All I Need"
I'm the next act

Waiting in the wings



I'm an animal

Trapped in your hot car



I am all the days

That you choose to ignore



You are all I need

You are all I need

I'm in the middle of your picture

Lying in the reeds



I'm a moth

Who just wants to share your light



I'm just an insect

Trying to get out of the night



I only stick with you

Because there are no others



You are all I need

You're all I need

I'm in the middle your picture

Lying in the reeds



It's all wrong

It's all right

It's all wrong


"Faust Arp"
Wakey wakey

Rise and shine

It's on again off again on again

Watch me fall

Like dominoes

In pretty patterns



Fingers in

the blackbird pie

I'm tingling tingling tingling

It's what you feel now

What you ought to what you ought to

Reasonable and sensible



Dead from the neck up

I guess I'm stuffed, stuffed, stuffed

We thought you had it in you

But no no no

For no real reason



Squeeze the tubes and empty bottles

And take a bow take a bow take a bow

It's what you feel now

What you ought to what you ought to

An elephant that's in the room is

Tumbling tumbling tumbling

In duplicate and triplicate and

Plastic bags and

Duplicate and triplicate



Dead from the neck up

I guess I'm stuck stuck stuck

We thought you had it in you

But no no no

Exactly where do you get off

Is enough is enough is enough

I love you but enough is enough, enough of that stuff

There's no real reason



You've got a head full of feathers

You're gonna melt in to butter


"Reckoner"
Reckoner

You can't take it with you

Dancing for your pleasure



You are not to blame for

Bittersweet distractors

Dare not speak its name

Dedicated to all human beings



Because we separate

Like ripples on a blank shore

In rainbows

Because we separate

The ripples on a black shore



Reckoner, take me with you



Dedicated to all human beings


"House Of Cards"
I don't wanna be your friend

I just wanna be your lover

No matter how it ends

No matter how it starts



Forget about your house of cards

And I'll do mine

Forget about your house of cards

And I'll do mine



Fall off the table,

And get swept under

Denial, denial



The infrastructure will collapse

From voltage spikes

Throw your keys in the bowl

Kiss your husband 'good night'



Forget about your house of cards

And I'll do mine

Forget about your house of cards

And I'll do mine



Fall off the table,

And get swept under



Denial, denial

Denial, denial



Your ears are burning

Denial, denial

Your ears should be burning

Denial, denial


"Jigsaw Falling Into Place"
Just as you take my hand
Just as you write my number down
Just as the drinks arrive
Just as they play your favourite song
As your bad day disappears
No longer wound up like a spring
Before you've had too much
Come back in focus again

The walls are bending shape
You got a Cheshire cat grin
All blurring into one
This place is on a mission
Before the night owl
Before the animal noises
Closed circuit cameras
Before you comatose

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
The beat goes round and round
The beat goes round and round
I never really got there
I just pretended that I had
Words are blunt instruments
Words are a sawn off shotguns

Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out
Come on and let it out

Before you run away from me
Before you're lost between the notes
Just as you take the mic
Just as you dance, dance, dance

Jigsaw falling into place
So there is nothing to explain
You eye each other as you pass
She looks back and you look back
Not just once
Not just twice
Wish away your nightmare
Wish away the nightmare
You've got the light you can feel it on your back
A light you can feel it on your back
Jigsaw falling into place


"Videotape"
When I'm at the pearly gates

This'll be on my videotape

My videotape

My videotape



When Mephistopheles is just beneath

And he's reaching up to grab me



This is one for the good days

And I have it all here

In red blue green

In red blue green



You are my center when I spin away

Out of control on videotape

On videotape <i>[x6]</i>



This is my way of saying goodbye

Because I can't do it face to face

So I'm talking to you before it's too late



No matter what happens now

I shouldn't be afraid

Because I know today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.


"Down Is The New Up"
Get yourself together

Let the light pour in 

Pour yourself a hot bath, pour yourself a drink

Nothing's gonna happen without a warning

Down is the new up

What is up, buttercup

Down is the new up, is the new up



Your services are not required

Your future's bleak, you're so last week



Ladies and gentlemen, without a safety net

I shall now perform a 180 flip-flop

I shall now amputate, I shall now contort

Because down is the new up

What if I just flip-flopped?

Down is the new up

Down is the new up

Down is the new up, is the new up



You're on Candid Camera

The chink in your armor

Topsy turvy town, topsy turvy town

Shake your pockets out

Pass it on, pass it down

Topsy turvy town, topsy turvy town


"Go Slowly"
Over here

Come slowly

Come slowly to me

I've been waiting

Patient

Patiently

I didn't

But now I can see



That there's a way out

That there's a way out



That there's a way out

That there's a way out

That there's a way out


"Last Flowers"
Appliances have gone berserk
I cannot keep up
Treading on people's toes
Snot-nosed little punk

And I can't face the evening straight
And you can't offer me escape
Houses move and houses speak
If you take me there you'll get relief
Relief, relief, relief, relief...

And if I'm gonna talk
I just wanna talk
Please don't interrupt
Just sit back and listen

Cause I can't face the evening straight
And you can't offer me escape
Houses move and houses speak
If you take me there you'll get relief
relief, relief, relief, relief...

It's too much
Too bright
Too powerful

Too much
Too bright
Too powerful

Too much
Too bright
Too powerful

Too much


"Up On The Ladder"
I'm stuck in the tardis 

Trapped in hyperspace 

One minute snake charming

The next in another place



All the right moves and 

Earn the right percent

Watch me dance like a puppet 

You can almost see the strings



Give me an answer

Give me a sign 

I've been climbing up this ladder 

I've been wasting my time



So long, so long

So long, so long 



Up on the ladder 

No time to escape

Up on the ladder

Away for fucking sake



Up on the ladder

Try to call out your name

Up on the ladder

You're all the fucking same



Oh, you let the people down

You let the people down

You let the people down


"Bangers And Mash"
You bit me, bit me, bit me, oh
You bit me, bit me, and i want more
I'm standing in the hall
Kicking out the wall
It's all been said to comfort you

Bangers in the mash
The negatives for cash
You're either in the club, baby, or you're not

Whatever turns you on
Whatever gets you off
Chief of police, the vice-chancellor
Lord and Lady Blah Blah
The Vicar and The Judge
You're dancing to my little red book

Bit me, bit me, bit me, oh
I've got the poison, poison
And I want more
Get you an armoured car
They're gonna throw a rock
Stare into the light
The pyramid is power
If you are on the top
Then it is a long drop
If you stare into the dark,
The dark will stare back
Back into your soul

I want to thank you, thank you, thank you all
I'm having such a good time, a good time, had enough?

I'm taking you down
I'm taking you down
I'm taking you down when I go down
I'm taking you down
I'm taking you down
I'm standing in the hall
Kicking out the wall
Bit me, bit me, bit me, oh
Bit me, bit me, bit me, oh
I've got the poison


"4 Minute Warning"
This is just a nightmare

But soon I'm going to wake up

Someone's gonna bring me around



Running from the bombers

Hiding in the forest

Running through the fields



Laying flat on the ground

Just like everybody

Stepping over heads



Running through the underground

And this is your warning

4 minute warning



I don't wanna hear it

I don't wanna grow old

I just wanna run and hide



Now I'm in a nightmare

But soon I'm gonna wake up

Someone's gonna bring me 'round



This is your warning

4 minute warning


"Bloom"
Open your mouth wide
The universal sigh
And while the ocean blooms
It's what keeps me alive
So why does it still hurt?
Don't blow your mind with why

I'm moving out of orbit
Turning in somersaults
I dive into those eyes
Jellyfish swim by


"Morning Mr Magpie"
You got some nerve, coming here
You got some nerve, coming here
You stole it all, give it back
You stole it all, give it back

Good Morning, Mr. Magpie
How are we today?
And now you stole it, all the magic
took my memories

(Ooohhhh)
(No no no no no no)

You know you should, but you don't
You know you should, but you don't

Good Morning, Mr. Magpie
How are we today?
And now you stole it, all the magic
took my melody


"Little By Little"
Turn to nasty now
The dark cell
The pit of my soul
The last one out of the box
The one who broke this spell

Little by little by hook or by crook
I'm such a tease
And you're such a flirt
Once you've been hurt
You've been around enough

Little by little by hook or by crook
Never get nervous
Never get judged
I'm no idiot
I should look

Your clue on hold, snapped up
Crawling with my love
The last one out of the box
The one that broke the seal
Obligation
Complication
Routines and schedules
Drug and kill you
Kill you

Little by little by hook or by crook
Never get nervous
Never get judged
I'm no idiot
I should look


"Lotus Flower"
I will shape myself into your pocket
Invisible, do what you want, do what you want
I will shrink and I will disappear
I will slip into the groove and cut me up, and cut me up

There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
And now I'll set you free
I'll set you free
There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
Tonight I'll set you free
I'll set you free

Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is
I can't kick your habit
Just to feed your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart

We will shrink and be quiet as mice
While the cat is away; do what we want
Do what we want

There's an empty space inside my heart
Where the weeds take root
So now I set you free
I set you free

'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
Just to see what if
Just to see what is

Put the lotus flower into my room

Slowly we unfurl
As lotus flowers
'Cause all I want is the moon upon a stick
I dance around a pit
The darkness is beneath
I can't kick your habit
Just to feed your fast ballooning head
Listen to your heart


"Codex"
Sleight of hand
Jump off the end
Into a clear lake
No one around

Just dragonflies
Fantasize
No one gets hurt
You’ve done nothing wrong

Slide your hand
Jump off the end
The water's clear and innocent
The water's clear and innocent


"Give Up The Ghost"
Don't hurt me
Don't hurt me
Don't hurt me

Gather up the lost and sold (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)

Gather up the pitiful (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)

What seems impossible (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)

I think I have had my fill (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)

I think I should give up the ghost (Don't hurt me)

In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)
In your arms (Don't hurt me)


"Separator"
It's like I'm falling out of bed
From a long, weary dream
The sweetest flowers and fruits hang from the trees
Falling off the giant bird that’s been carrying me
It's like I'm falling out of bed from a long and weary dream

Just exactly as I remember
Every word
Every gesture
I'm a heart in cold ground

Like I'm falling out of bed
From a long and weary dream
Finally I'm free of all the weight I've been carrying

Every woman blows her cover
In the eye of the beholder
I'm a fish now out of water

Falling off a giant bird that's been carrying me

I fell open
I laid under
At the tip out
I was just a number

I wanna slip it over
And get back under
And if you think this is over
Then you're wrong
If you think this is over
Then you're wrong

(Wake me up, wake me up)

If you think this is over
Then you're wrong
If you think this is over
Then you're wrong

(Wake me up, wake me up)

Like I'm falling out of bed from a long and weary dream
Finally I'm free of all the weight I've been carrying

When I ask you again
When I ask you again
Wake me up, wake me up


"Banana Co."
Oh Banana co.
We really love you and we need you
And oh banana co.
We'd really love to believe you

But everything's underground
We gotta dig it up somehow
Yeah yeah

Oh she said &quot;No go&quot;
She said she'd like to
She's seen you
But no, banana co.
She knows if you die then we all do

And everything's underground
We've gotta dig it up somehow
Yeah yeah
Everything's burning down
We gotta put it out somehow
Yeah yeah


"Bishop's Robes"
Dressed in Bishop's robes

Terrifies me still

In bishop's robes

Bastard headmaster



I'm not going back

I'm not going back

I'm not going back



Children taught to kill

To tear themselves to bits

On playing fields

Dressed in bishop's robes



I'm not going back

I'm not going back

I'm not going back


"Coke Babies"
Easy living, easy hold

Easy teething, easy fold

Easy listening, easy love

Easy answers to easy questions

Easy tumble, easy doll

Easy rumble, easy fall

I get up on easy love

I get up on easy questions


"Cut A Hole"
Wish that I could come out of your phone
Superhero powers
Burst out of the sound
And I bought you flowers
You just say the word
I could wish she comes
With a long and winning handsome smile
Wish we could connect
Step into the void
Off the diving board
Blend into the light
Down the cable lines
Roll onto the earth
Reforming on the wind
Two places at once
Taste the air with you
Undo all the ties
Wish that I could flick on all those lights
Lift this all away
See that stretchy smile go
Right across your face

Cut a hole
Cut a hole
Cut a hole.


"Cuttooth"
I will leave the wall paper life,
and run away to the foreign legion...
I will leave the wall paper life,
and run away to the foreign legion...

And as the tanks roll into town..
As the tanks roll into town..

A little bit of knowledge will destroy you..
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you.. 

And as the tanks roll into town..
As the tanks roll into town..

A little bit of knowledge will destroy you..
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you..

I don't know why I feel so tongue-tied;
I don't know why I feel so skinned alive.

Run until your lungs are sore, 
until you cannot feel it anymore.
Run until your lungs are sore, 
until you find an open door.

I'll build you up to pull you down.
Tie you to your feet and watch you drown.
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you...
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you
I'll build you up to pull you down.
Tie you to the stake and watch you burn in Hell,
In Hell...
I don't know why I feel so tongue-tied
I don't know why I feel so skinned alive

I'll find another skin to wear.
I'll find another skin to wear.


"Faithless The Wonder Boy"
I've had these jeans since I was born

And now they're ripped and now they're torn

And all my friends have skateboards



I want the toys of other boys

I want a knife and a gun and things

But Mum and Dad will not give in



And I can't put the needle in

Can't put the needle in

Can't put the needle in

No I can't put the needle in

Can't put the needle in

Can't put the needle in



And now I know just what it is

It's got disease and it's got my head

It always runs where I hide



Too scared to talk, too scared to try

Too scared to know the reasons why

And all my friends say bye bye



And I can't put the needle in

Can't put the needle in

Can't put the needle in

No I can't put the needle in

Can't put the needle in

Can't put the needle in...


"Fog"
There's a little child
Running round this house
And he never leaves
He will never leave
And the fog comes up from the sewers
And glows in the dark

Baby alligators in the sewers grow up fast
Grow up fast
Anything you want it can be done
How did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Some things will never wash away
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?