Lyrics:  The Bends:  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 its always here.

You can crush it but its 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 cam kiss it you can break all the rules but still everything is broken,

Everyone is broken.

Why can't you forget?

Lyrics:  The Bends:  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?

+ 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 weird,

Where are you now when I need you?

The 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 breathe,

I want to be part of the human race.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  Fake Plastic Trees

Her green plastic wateringcan for her fake chineserubberplant 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 polystyreneman 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.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  High & 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.

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.

Its the best thing that you ever had.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  Bones

I don't wannt a krippled kracked,

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.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  (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 my 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.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  My Iron Lung

Faith your driving me away,

You did 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.

Were 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 anddumb,

(whe n the powrr runs out we'll just humm),

This is our new s=ong,

Just like the last one,

A total w.a.s.t.e. of time.

My Iron Lung.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth,

Tearing up inside of me,

Everyday everyhour wish that I 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,

I could burst a million bubbles,

All surrogate and bullet proof.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  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 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.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  Sulk

You bite through the big wall the big wall bites back,

You sit there and sulk sit there and bawl,

You're so pretty when you're 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.

Lyrics:  The Bends:  Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Rows of houses all bearing down on me,

I can feel their blue hands touching me,

All these things in all positions,

All these things will one day take control,

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 into fruition,

All these things we'll one day swallow whole,

And fade out again and fade out again.

Immerse your soul in love.

Thom Yorke:  Voice, guitar, piano.

Jon Greenwood:  Guitar, organ, recorder, synthesizer, piano.

Ed O'Brien:  Guitar, voice.

Colin Greenwood:  Bass.

Phil Selway:  Drums.

'The Bends' credits:

Written by Radiohead.

Produced by John Leckie.

Mixing by Sean Slade & Paul Q. Kolderie, John Leckie & Radiohead.

Black Star produced by Radiohead with Nigel Godrich & John Leckie.

High & Dry produced by Radiohead with Jim Warren.

Engineered by John Leckie, Nigel Godrich, Chris Brown, Jim Warren.

With assistance from Guy Massey & Shelley Saunders.

Recorded at Rak, The Manor & Abbey Road.

Mixed at Fort Apache & Abbey Road.

Mastered and digitally edited by Chris Blair at Abbey Road.

Published by Warner Chappell Ltd.

All above lyrics Copyright © 1995 EMI Records Ltd.  All rights of the producer and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved.

"Sun goes down, God rest your soul."

Copyright © 2001 BJC.  All rights reserved.  [email protected]