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've got to dig it up somehow... yeah, yeah ...
Oh, she said no go
She said she'd like to
She's seen you but no, no go (banana co)
She says if you die then we all do
And everything's burning down
We gotta dig it up 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
Children taught to kill
To tear themselves to bits
on playing fields
Dressed in Bishop's robes
I'm not going back...


How Can You Be Sure?
Seen all the good things and bad
Running down the hill
All so battered and brought to the ground
I am happy again, I am drunk again
With all the money I owe to my friends
And when I'm like this
How can you be smiling singing
How can you be sure?
If you walk out the door Will I see you again?
If so much of me lies in your eyes
I am hungry again, I am drunk again
With all the money I owe to my friends
And when I'm like this
How can you be smiling, singing
How can you be sure?
I don't want you anymore...


India rubber
did it all for you to see
you never wanted me that way
now the dogs have had their meat
i think i'll go plug in the mains
i tumble like a cloud
before you burn in hell
i'll suffocate myself
into your hair
will the sparrow make her smile
i'm instantly your biggest fan
how was i to know that you
practiced it beforehand?


Killer Cars
too hard on the brakes again
What if these brakes just give in?
What if they don't get out of the way?
What if there's someone overtaking?
I'm going out for a little drive
It could be the last time you see me alive
There could be an idiot on the road
The only kick in life is pumping his steel
They wrap me up in the back of the trunk
Packed with foam and blind drunk
They won't ever take me alive
Cause they all drive killer cars
Don't die on the motor way
The moon would freeze the plants would die
I couldn't cope if you crashed today
All the things i forgot to say
I'm going out for a little drive
Could be the last time you see me alive
What if the car loses control?
What if there's someone overtaking?


Maquiladora
Here it comes, here it comes
I can feel the hills exploding,
exploding gracefully
Burning up the freeway
Here it comes
Grass is green at the edge of the bubble
Beautiful gets into beautiful trouble
They all seem to fall out of the sky and come down on you
Oh baby burn...
Fast Toyota burns rubber
Useless rockers from England
Good times, hide behind
Just swallow your guilt and your conscience
Blue and white birds stepping hard on the pedal
Interstate 5 walk straight down the middle
And it seems to fall out of the sky and come down on you
Oh baby burn...


Molasses
Shake Hands, Genocide, Molasses.
Jet-Powered Caravans, Molasses.
I'm Too Good, You're Stuck On
Rent Free Earthquake Zone, Molasses.
I Need Someone Else's Glasses.
Starving Waitresses In Plasters,
Fat Houseflies, Genocide,
We've Been Stitched Up, Molasses.


Talk Show Host
i want to be someone else or i'll explode
floating upon the surface for the birds
you want me?
fucking well come and find me
i'll be waiting
with a gun and a pack of sandwiches
and nothing
you want me?
well come on and break the door down
you want me
fucking come on and break the door down
i'm ready...


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.


Faithless the Wonderboy
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
And now i know just what it is
It's called 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 ...


Inside My Head
What do you want from me now you got me
Now my fingers bleed now they're staring at me
I'm a coward now, I hold my peace
Now you tie me up to your feather bed
And I twist and turn in a Chinese burn
You wont let go, you wont let go
You're inside my head
What do you want from me now you got me
Now my energy you suck from me
And I'm holding on for dear life
Quit smothering me, quit laughing at me
I've got a disease, an English disease
It wont let go, it wont let go
You're inside my head
What did you put in that syringe?
What have you really fed to him?
He's sitting there inside of me.
And you bother me, you possess me
You're there again, ahead of me
And I wont let go, I wont let go
You're inside my head


Million Dollar Question
Was always waiting for the crush
The car to drive right through the shops
To call in sick and late at work
And take a holiday.
Was always tangled up in knots
To keep myself from speaking up
But no one's listening anyway
Just trying to bribe me.
And if it's alright, then what are we doing here?
And if it's alright, this place is gassed by fear.
And if it's alright, I'll tell you cos you'll never understand. And if it's alright, I'll beg you, because I'm a begging kind of man.
Today I wrote a bad check
Packed a bag and took a jet
But no-one's looking anyway
I hope they miss me.
(Sometimes I think maybe I'm making a big mistake.)


Pop is Dead
Oh no, pop is dead, long live pop
It died an ugly death by back-catalogue
And now you know it gets you nowhere
And now you know you realize.
Oh no, pop is dead, it just gave up
We raise the dead but they won't stand up
And radio has salmonella
And now you now you're gonna die
He left this message for us.
So what pop is dead, it's no great loss
So many facelifts, his face flew off
The emperor really has no clothes on
And his skin is peeling off.
Oh no, pop is dead, long live pop
One final line of coke to jerk him off.


Stupid Car
It's funny how
To drive your stupid car
It's funny how
cause I never get that far
And you put my brain in overload
and I can't change gears
I cannot see the road
you got concrete eyes
and I cannot see your face
and I failed in life
cause you crushed me with your hands
and you put my brain in overload I can't change gears
I cannot see the road


Yes I Am
I resent you calling
I resent your voice
I resent that I
Don't have a choice
Anywhere I go
You are always there
Outside the car
Or in my hair
I think I've been here before
Yes I've been here before
The last time you locked
All the doors
And I resent you calling
I resent your voice
I resent that I
Don't have a choice
And yes I am
Yes I am
I think I've told you once
I think I needed advice
You were such a help
That's very nice
I think I've been here before
Yes I've been here before
But this time I kick
Down your door


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 into
this song
knock me out
smash out my brains
if I take a chair
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


How I Made My Millions
I was stronger then
I was heaven
Picture you...ah...
Now hold on, say when
Hold on... hello
(for?)Ever mine
Aren't you bad?
Aren't you bad?
She wont sit down
pitiful,
pitiful,
pitiful,
pitiful


Lull
you stop the crowd
I cried out to break the spell
you wake and smile I just snapped and lost control
distracted by irrelevance
the stress and the tension
the stress and the tension
i'm in a lull
there's nothing more dull
than talking, talking about yourself
but what I meant to say
i'm sorry that I lost control
distracted by irrelevance
the stress and the tension
crawling through the keyhole
i'm in a lull


Melatonin
Don't forget that you are our son
Now go back to bed
We just know that you'll do well
You won't come to harm
Death to all who stand in your way
Wake my dear


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 askingI'm okay
How are you?
I hope that you are okay too...
Everyone of those days
When the sky is Californian blue
In a beautiful bombshell
I throw myself into my world
Too lazy i've been kidding myself for so long...


Pearly*
How do you get your teeth so pearly?
dewdrop dentures
white-washed fences
she runs from the third world pearly
vanilla (i feel it crawl to me)
milkshakes (clawing back at me)
from hard rock (whatever you say)
cafes (make it go away)
that's where (I feel it crawl to me)
she got her (clawing back at me)
sweet tooth (make it go away)
for white boys (whatever you say)
she runs from the third world pearly
darling use me...(x4)


Polyethylene [Parts 1 and 2]
go
tears of joy, we'll scare ourselves of all that you wanna be
Just got paid and now you're going out on Saturdays
If I get scared I'll just call you
right, one, two, three, four
so sell your suit and tie and come and live with me
leukemia schizophrenia polyethylene
there is no significant risk to your health
she used to be beautiful once as well
Plastic bag, middle class, polyethylene
decaffeinate, unleaded, keep all surfaces clean
If you don't believe this, sell your soul
If you don't get into it, no one will


Big Boots (a.k.a Man-o-War)
drift all you like
from ocean to ocean
search the whole world
drunken confessions
and hijacks and films
just make you moan alone
if you come home
i'll bake you a cake
lay your velvet eyes
I wish I could see you
just when I kill
you're my man-o-war
and the worms will eat you whole
so unplug your phone
stop all the chatter
it all comes flooding back
from poisoned clouds
to poison the world
you're my man-o-war
and the worms will eat you whole
my love
and the worms will eat your home
you whole my love


big ideas (don't get any)
Don't get any big ideas
they're not gonna happen
You? page us while? (and feel the noise)
there'll be something missing
just when you found it, it's gone
just when you feel it, you don't
you cannot forget her
She kisses you with tongues She stands stark naked
And pulls you to the ground And she beckons you to bed
Don't go, you'll only want to come back again
So don't get any big ideas
they're not gonna happen
you'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking
And now that you've found it, it's gone
Now that you've feel it, you don't
You gotta forget her


El President
Came from the skies
Burst through the gates
With no mercy or disguise
With their hearts set out in flames
I know I've seen the master plan
Well I'm just a man
I am just a man
I'm not giving in
All the people understand
Cos they all fell down and prayed
I know I've seen the master plan...
They've killed the president...
They've killed the president...
It came from the skies
It came from the skies
In all shades of green
We can always justify
You can measure up your dreams
I know I've seen the master plan
They've killed the President
They've killed the President
They've killed the President
They've killed the President
They've killed the President
They've killed the President
I'm just a man...


I Promise
I won't run away from home, I promise.
Even when I get bored, I promise.
Even when you lock me out, I promise.
I say my prayers every night, I promise.
I don't wish that I'm strict, I promise.
The tantrums and a shitty job, I promise.
Even when the ship is wrecked, I promise.
Tie me to the rotten deck, l promise.
I won't run away no more, I promise.
Even when I get bored, I promise.
Even when you lock me out, I promise.
I say my prayers every night, I promise.
I won't run away no more...
I promise...


How To Completely Disappear and Never Be Found
That man
that's not me
I've gone where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the ravine
I'm not here
This is not happening
I'm not here
I'm not here
I know what I've seen
You throw me out
And sent me back again
In a little while
I'll be gone
The moment's already passed
Yeah it's goneYeah it's gone
Yeah it's gone
Fireworks and blown speakers
strobe lights and hurricanes
I'm not here
This is not happening
I'm not here
I'm not here...


Lift
This is the place.
Sit down, your safe now.
You've been stuck in a lift.
We've been trying to reach you, Thom.
This is the place.
It won't hurt, it wont again
A scent of recognition.
A face you barely loved.
Empty all your pockets.
Cos it's time to go home.
This is the place.
Remember me and the things you always see.
You've been stuck in a lift.
In the belly of a whale at the bottom of the ocean.
A scent of recognition.
A face you barely loved.
Empty all your pockets.
Cos it's time to come home.
A scent of recognition
A face you barely loved!!
Let it go... let it go...
Today is the first day
of the rest of your days.
So lighten up, squirt.


Motion Picture Soundtrack
White wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get back where i belong
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 will see you in the next life...
Beautiful angel
Pulled apart at birth
Limbless and helpless
I can't even recognize you
I think you're crazy, maybe
I will see you in the next life...


Nice Dream (demo version)
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.
You cannot melt or unwrap me
i'm the sweet man
made of chocolate
your licorice eyes will enwrap me
will be creamy
soft and milky
nice dream.
if you think that you're strong enough
if you think that you're good enough
nice dream.


Nobody Does It Better
Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest.
Nobody does it half as good as you,
Baby, you're the best.
I wasn't looking but somehow you found me.
I tried to hide from your love light.
But like heaven above me the spy who loved me
Is keeping all my secrets safe tonight.
And nobody does it better
Though sometimes I wish someone could.
Nobody does it quite the way you do.
Why would you have to be so good?
The way that you hold me, whenever you hold me.
There's some kind of magic inside you.
That keeps me from running, but just keep it coming
How would you learn to do the things you do?
And nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest.
Nobody does it half as good as you.
Baby, baby, baby you're the best...


Rabbit In Your Headlights
I'm a rabbit in your headlights
scared of the spotlight
you don't come to visit
I'm stuck in this bed
thin rubber gloves
she laughs when she's crying
she cries when she's laughing
fat bloody fingers
are sucking your soul away
I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Christian suburbanitewashed down the toilet
money to burn
fat bloody fingers
are sucking your soul away
if you're frightened of dying and then you hold on
you'll see devils tearing your life away
but, if you've made your peace
then the devils are really angels
freeing you from the earth
rot worms on the underground
caught between stations
butter fingers are losing their patience
I'm a rabbit in your headlights
Christian suburbanite
you got money to burn
fat bloody fingers
are sucking your soul away...


Rhinestone Cowboy
I've been walking these streets so long
Singing the same old song
I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
Where hustle's the name of the game
And nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain
There's been a load of compromising
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me
Like a rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo
Like a rhinestone cowboy
Getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
And offers coming over the phone
Well, I really don't mind the rain
And a smile can hide all the pain
But you're down when you're riding the train that's taking the long way
And I dream of the things I'll doWith a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe
There'll be a load of compromising
On the road to my horizon
But I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me
Like a rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo
Rhinestone cowboy
Getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
And offers coming over the phone
Like a rhinestone cowboy
Riding out on a horse in a star-spangled rodeo
Like a rhinestone cowboy
Getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
Like a rhinestone cowboy...


true love waits (renamed "awaits")
I'll drown my beliefs
To have you be in peace
I'll dress like Ulysse [Ulysses]
To wash your swollen feet
Just don't leave [lonely]... don't leave [lonely]
And true love waits
It haunted all our days
And true love brings [wins]
our lollipops and crisp [hate]
Just don't leave [lonely]... don't leave [lonely]
I'm not leaving [living]
I'm just killing time
Your tiny hands
Your crazy kiss and smile
Just don't leave [lonely]... don't leave [lonely]


Union City Blue
Oh ho what are we gonna do?
Union, Union, Union City blue
Tunnel to the other sideIt becomes daylight
I say he's mine
Oh power, passion plays a double hand
Union, union, union city man
Arrive climb up four flights to the orange side
Rearrange my mind
In turquoise Union, Union, Union City blue
Skyline passion Union City blue
Power, passion plays a double hand
Union, union, union city man
I say he's mine
I have a plan
I say he's my Union City man
Oh, oh what are we gonna do?
Union, Union, Union City blue.


Wish You Were Here
So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, blue skies from pain.
Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war fora lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground. What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.


The Trickster
rust on the mountains
rust in my brain
the air is sacred here
in spite of your claim
up on the roof tops
out of reach
trickster is meaningless
trickster is weak.
he's talking out the world
hey! this is only halfway.
I wanted you so bad
and I couldn't say
all things fall apart
we wanted out so bad
that we couldn't say
these things fall apart
we're talking out the world
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 tread carefully
(escaped from the zoo)
the perfect child facsimile is
talking out the world
talking out the world
hey! this is only halfway


Lewis (mistreated)
bummed out again by your only business friend
the smell of failure 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 will never get there
Lewis
save yourself the pain
it never really mattered.
we never noticed we never understood
he just got crushed to fit
he never even smelt like the best
it's the best it's the best day of your life.
Lewis
save yourself the pain
you will never get there
Lewis
save yourself the pain
it never really mattered.
oh mistreated a low
corporate
hum is treated a low
corporate hum.


Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
I wrapped you inside my coat
when they came to firebomb the house.
I didn't feel pain
kos no-one can touch me
whenever 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 up
I never cared before I never cared before i never
cared before, before, before.
a beautiful girl
a beautiful girl can turn your world into DUST
i stood in front of your 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 that we don't exist
it must be hard...hard...
with your head on backward.


Lozenge of Love
i am gone
everybody's raging
and these fruits
they still taste of poison.
i wont be around
when you really need me
i can't sleep
why can't someone hold me?
i need warm
my restless body cracks and moans.
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
The 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 plate
You never wash up after yourself


Give It Up
She said she wanted more of that stuff
The stuff that makes your heart go pitter-pat
The stuff that makes everything turn blue and green
She said that she preferred it like that
Give it up (x3) Hey! Give it up o-oh! Give it up, hey!
She said that ?
Too many people starving and fightingToo many salesmen, too many factories
But she likes getting high cos it's pretty
Give it up (x3) Hey! Give it up o-oh! Give it up, hey!
Give it up
Give it up (x3) Hey! Give it up o-oh! Give it up, hey!


Nothing Touches Me
Nothing touches me man
These walls are three feet thick
Wouldn't take one of them little drills to get through it
I try to make her listen
When I turn away she's split
I try to make her listen
When I turn away she's split
She went.....
Nothing touches me
Nothing touches me now
Nothing touches me man
No matter how you split
Sticks and stones can get through bones
So I've given up looking out of it
I try to make her listen
When I turn away she's split
I try to make her listen
When I turn away she's split
She went.....
Nothing touches me now
Laugh if you can, if you can, if you can, at me now


Phillipa Chicken
I got wings, I got arms, I got shrinks
I got bombs, I got guns, I got brains
So there's no point in your war bird
She's no point in denying
I got guns, I got bombs, I got brains
And I won't fall for you
And I won't fall for you
Take me up to a warmer place I got eggs, I got feathers, I got brains
And there's no point in your war bird
She's no point in denying
I got guns, I got bombs, I got brains
And I won't fall for you
And I won't fall for you
For you
For you
Or you
Or........
I got brains, I got feathers, I got hands
I got friends, I got ammo, I got plans
So there's no point in your war bird
She's no point in denying
I got guns, I got arms, I got plans
And I won't fall for you
And I won't fall for you
And I won't fall for you
And I won't fly for you


What Is That You Say?
? corner
Big church wall
Making some noise with the
Big red drum
?
Over the sky
Spinning around as you gaze at the sun
What is that you see?
Why don't you talk to me?
Why don't you talk to me?
What is that you see?
Yeah hey
Black and blue fingers around my neck
See the grass is still
Where we made our beds
See the thin weed boy
Ride at this edge
See a holy Jesus
?
The ghost of you and me
Gagged and given up for dead
What is that you see?
Why don't you talk to me?
Why don't you talk to me?
What is that you see?
Yeah hey
There's something up there but I
Don't know what the hell it is
There's something up there
As you guessed
Like the sun