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.........?
When I am king you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What's that.........?
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking squealing gucci little piggy
You don't remember, you don't remember
Why don't you remember my name?
Off with is 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 heeeeeeiiiiiiiiii. haaaaeeeeeeiiiiiii
Rain down
Rain down
Come on rain down.. on me
From a great height
From a great heeeeeeiiiiiiiiii. haaaaeeeeeeiiiiiii
Rain down
Rain down
Come on rain down.. on me
From a great height
From a great heeeeeeiiiiiiiiii. haaaaeeeeeeiiiiiii
(That's it sir,
You're leaving
The crackle of pig skin
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 folk 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.
I wish that they'd swoop down, in a country lane,
Late at night when I'm driving.
Take me onboard 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 me
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 alright.
Alright.
I'm just...
Uptight!
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 that 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 onto bottles
And when it comes it 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.
Oneday, 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.
You know,
You know where you are with,
You know where you are with
Floor collapses floating, bouncing back
And one day.... I'm gonna grow wings
A chemical reaction (you know where you are)
Hysterical and useless (you know where you are)
Hysterical and (you know where you are)
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 buzzeslikeafridge
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 that I can
It's not enough
I've given all that 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
FITTER
HAPPIER
Fitter, Happier more productive. Comfortable. Not drinking
to much. Regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week). Getting
on better with your accociate employee contemporaries. At
ease. Eating well (no more microwave dinners or 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 plug
hole). Keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now
and then). Will frequently check credits 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 to childish. At a batter 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 at 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.
Not antiboitics.
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 keep your toy in the basement
And if you get to far inside
You'll only see my reflection.
It's always better when the car is out
I am the pick in the ice
Do not cry out or hit the alarm
WE ARE FRIENDS TILL WE DIE
And either way you turn.. I'll be there
Open up your skull.. I'll be there
Climbing up walls
It's always better 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 tuck your kids up safe tonite
And shut the eyes in the cupboard
I've got the smell of a local man
Who's got the loneliest feeling
Either way you turn.. I'll be there
Open up your skull.. I'll be there
Climbing up walls.
NO SURPRISES
A heart that's full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you
Bruises that won't heal.
You were so tired unhappy
Bring down the government
They don't, they don't speak for us.
I'll take the quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
Silence
Silence
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
And such a pretty garden.
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please.
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
I't 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.. as called for me... by name
Nut 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's seen the sparks a-floin, no-one else would
know.
Hey man.... slowdown.. slowdowwwn.... Idiot..... slowdown..
slowdowwwwn....
Sometimes I get over charged, that't when you see sparks.
They ask where the hell I'm going. At a 1000 feet, per second.
Hey man.... slowdown.. slowdowwwn.... Idiot..... slowdown..
slowdowwwwn....
Hey man.... slowdown.. slowdowwwn.... Idiot..... slowdown..
slowdowwwwn....
