planet telex top
you can force it but it will not come. you can taste it but it will not form. you can
crush it but it's always here. you can crush it but it's always near chasing you home saying everything
is broken everyone is broken. you can force it but it will stay stung. you can crush it as dry as a
bone. you can walk it home straight from school. you can kiss it you can break all the rules but
still everything is broken, everyone is broken. why can't you forget?

the bends top
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 beside the window
pane my blood will THICKEN.

    I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain i'd be scared that there's
    nothing underneath and who are my real friends? have they all got the bends?
    am i really sinking this low?

my baby's got the bends we don't have any real friends
i'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on talking to my girlfriend waiting for
something to happen and i wish it was the sixties i wish i could be happy i wish
i wish i wish that something would happen..

    where do we go from here? the words are coming out all wierd where are you
    now when i need you?  they brought in the CIA the tanks and the whole marines
    to blow me away to blow me sky high.

my baby's got the bends we don't have any real friends
i'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on talking to my girlfriend waiting for
something to happen and i wish it was the sixties i wish i could be happy i wish
i wish i wish that something would happen..

i want to live and breath i want to be part of the human race.

high and dry top
two jumps in a week i bet you think that's pretty clever don't you
boy.
flying on your
motorcycle.
wathing all the ground beneath you
drop.
you'd kill yourself for recognition.
kill yourself to
never
ever
stop.
you broke another mirror. you're turning into something you are not.

drying up in conversation
you will be the one who cannot talk.
all your insides fall to pieces.
you just sit there
wishing
you
could
still
make
love.
they're the ones who'll hate you when you think you've got the world
                all sussed out.
they're the ones who'll spit at you.
you be the one
screaming out.

it's the best thing that you ever had.

fake plastic trees top
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.

She lives with a broken man,         a cracked polystyreneman who just
                                                                    crumbles and burns.
He used to do surgery for girls in the eighties but GRAVITY always wins and it wears him out.

                                                                                                                 She looks like the
real thing. She tastes like the real thing, my fake plastic love.

                                            But I Can't Help The Feeling.
                                            I Could Blow Through The Ceiling.
                                            If I Just Turn And RUN. and it wears me out.

if i could be who you wanted all the time..

bones top
I don't wannt 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.
Now i can't climb the stairs
pieces missing everywhere
prozak painkillersss.
when you've got to feel it in your bones.
and i used to fly like Peter Pan
all the children flew when i touched their hands.

[nice dream] top
they love me like i was a brother
they protect me
listen to me
they dug me my very own garden
gave me sunshine
made me happy. nice dream.

i call up my friend the good angel
but she's out with
her ansaphone
she says she would love to come help but
the sea would
electrocute us all. nice dream.

if you think that you're strong enough
if you think you belong enough.

nice dream.

just top
can't get the stink off,he's been
hanging round for days.
comes like a comet, suckered you
but not your friends.
one day he'll get to you, teach
you how to be a holly cow.
             just
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.

my iron lung top
faith your driving me away
you do it everyday
you dont mean it but it hurts like HELL
my brain says im recieving pain
a lack of oxygen from my life support
my iron lung.

were to young to fall asleep
too cynical to speak
we are loosing it can't you tell?
we scratch our eternal itch
out twenthieth century bitch and we are grateful for our
iron lung.

suck suck your teenage thumb
toiled trained anddumb
[whe n the powrr runs out
we'll just humm]
this this is our new s=ong
just like the last one
a total w.a.s.t.e. of time
my
iron lung.

bullet proof..i wish i was top
limb by limb and tooth by tooth
tearing up inside of me
everyday everyhour wish that i
                                                             was bullet proof.

wax me
mould me heat the pins
and stab them in you have turned me into this just wish that it
                                                             was bullet proof.

so pay me money and take a shot
lead-fill
the hole in me
i could burst a million bubbles
all
surrogate
&
bullet proof.

black star top
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.

sulk top
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.

street spirit [fade out] top
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.