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.
everything is broken
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
falling asleep against the window pane
my blood will THICKEN.

I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain
cos 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 planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
and where are you?
they brought in the CIA the tanks and the whole marines
to blow me away
to blow me sky high.

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

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

high and 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

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.

it's the best thing that you ever had.
the best thing that you had has gone away...

fake plastic trees

her green plastic wateringcan
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.

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

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

I don't wannt a 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.

Now i can't climb the stairs
pieces missing everywhere
prozac painkillers.

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)

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

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 holy cow.

don't get my sympathy
hanging out the 15th floor.
you've changed the lock 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
you do it to yourself just you,
you and no-one else
you do it to 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
too cynical to speak
we are losing it can't you tell?
we scratch our eternal itch
our twentieth century bitch
and we are grateful for our iron lung.

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 w.a.s.t.e of time.
my iron lung.

and if you're frightened, you can be frightened, you can be, it's okay...

bullet proof..i wish i was

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

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

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

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 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.

coo...this is killing me!

sulk

you bite through
the big wall
the big wall
bites back
you sit there and sulk
sit there and bawl
you are so pretty
when youre on your knees
disinfected
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)

rows of houses all bearing down on me
i can feel their blue hands touching me
all these things into position
all these things will one day take control
and fade out again and fade out

this machine 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 position
all these things will one day swallow whole
and fade out again and fade out again

.iMMerse your soUL in LOVE.