THE BENDS
Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now when I need you?
Alone in an aeroplane
Falling asleep beside the window pane
My blood will THICKEN.
I need to was 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 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
Where are you 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 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 breathe
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
Don't leave me high, don't leave me dry
Drying up in conversaton, you will be the one you 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've ever had, the best thing
that you've ever, ever had.
It's the best thing that you've ever, the best thing you
have 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
FAKE PLASTIC
TREES
Her Green plastic watering can
For her fake chinese rubber plant
In fake plastic earth.
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plants
Just to get rid of itself.
And 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.
And 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
And It Wears Me Out, it wears me out
It wears me out, it wears me out.
And if I could BE who you wanted
If I could BE who you wanted,
All the time, all the time, ohhh... ohh..
BONES
I son't wanna be crippled and crakcs
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 the feel it in your bones
(NICE
DREAM)
They love me like I was their 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 answer-phone.
She says she'd love to come help but
The sea would electrocute us all
nice dream, nice dream
nice dream, nice dream
Nice dream, if you think that you're strong enough
Nice dream, if you think that you belong enough
Nice dream, if you think that you're strong enough
Nice dream, if you think that you belong enough
(Now come home, now come home)
(Now come home, now come home)
nice dream, nice dream
nice dream, nice dream.
JUST
Can't get the sink off
He's been hanging round for days
Come like a comet
Suckered you but not your friends
One day he'll get to you
Teach you how to be a holy COW
You do it to yourself
You do
And that's what really hurts
Is you do it yourself
Just you
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself.
Don't get no 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 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 recieving pain
A lack of oxygen from my life support
My Iron Lung.
We're.. to young to fall asleep
To cynical to speak
We are loosing it, can't you tell?
We scratch.. our eternal itch
Out 20th century bitch
And we are grateful of our
Iron Lung.
Suck.. suck your teenage thumb
Toilet trained and dumb
When the power runs out, we'll just hum.
This.. is our new song
Just like the last one
At total waste of time.
My Iron Lung
(The headshrinkers they want everything)
(my uncle Bill, My belisha beacon)
And if you're frightened, you can be frightened
You can be X OK!!
Anf if you're frightened, you can be frightened
You can be X-OK!!
(The headshrinkers they want everything)
(my uncle Bill, My belisha beacon)
BULLET
PROOF..I WISH I WAS
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me.
Everyday, everyhour, wish that I was..
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 (slowdown, slowdown, slowdown)
Bullet Proof (slowdown, slowdown, slowdown)
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 in on the falling sky,
Blame in on the satellite, that beams me home.
The trouble words of a troubled mind, I try to understand
what is eating you.
I try to stay awake, but it's 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 in on the falling sky,
Blame in 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 in on the falling sky,
Blame in on the satellite, that beams me home.
SULK
You bite though the big wall, the big wall bites back.
You sit there and bawl, you are so pretty when you're on
your knees.
Disinfrected, eager to please.
Sometime 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 declere a holiday.
Fall asleep, drift away.
STREET
SPIRIT (FADE OUT)
Rows of houses
All bearing down on me
I can feel there blue hands touching me
All these things in all positions
All these things will one day swallow
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 will one day swallow
And fade out again... and fade out again
Immerse you soul in love
Immerse you soul in love.
