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 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 the 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 iwish 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. 
  
  

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 
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) 

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 is 
you do it to yourself just you, 
you and no-one else 
you do it to yourself. 
  
  

My Iron Lung

faith your driving me away 
you do it everyday 
you don't mean it but it hurts like hell 
my brain says im 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. 
  

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. 
  
  

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 withyou. 
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 

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 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 frution 
all these things we'll one day swallow whole 
and fade out again and fade out again 

Immerse your soul in love.