Lyrics:  B-Sides:  A Reminder

if I get old
I will not give in
but if I do
remind me of this

remind me that
once I was free
once I was cool
once I was me

and if I sat down
and crossed my arms
hold me into
this song

knock me out
smash out my brains
if I take a chair
start to talk shit

if I get old
remind me of this
that night we kissed
and I really meant it

whatever happens
if we're still speaking
pick up the phone
play me this song

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Banana Co.

oh banana co.
we really love you and we need you
and oh, banana co.
we'd really love to believe you but
everything's burning down
we've got to put it out somehow

oh, she said no go
she said she'd like to
she's seen you but no, no go (banana co.)
she says if you die then we all do
and everything's underground
we gotta dig it up somehow

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Bishop's Robes

dressed in bishop's robes
terrifies me still
in bishop's robes

bastard headmaster,
I'm not going back

children taught to kill
to tear themselves to bits
on playing fields

dressed in bishop's robes
I'm not going back...

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Coke Babies

easy living, easy hold
easy teething, easy fold
easy listening, easy love
easy answers, to easy questions
easy rumble, easy fall
I get up on easy love
I get up on easy questions

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Faithless The Wonder Boy

i've had these jeans since i was born
and now they're ripped
and now they're torn
and all my friends have skateboards
i want the toys of other boys
i want a knife and a gun and things
but mum and dad will not give in

and i can't put the needle in

and now i know what it is
it's called disease and it's got my head
it always runs where i hide
too scared to talk too scared to try
too scared to know the reasons why
and all my friends say bye bye...

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  How Can You Be Sure?

seen all the good things and bad
running down the hill
all so battered and brought to the ground
I am happy again, I am drunk again
with all the money I owe to my friends

and when I'm like this
how can you be smiling, singing
how can you be sure?

if you walk out the door
will I see you again?
if so much of me lies in your eyes
I am hungry again, I am drunk again
with all the money I owe to my friends

when I'm like this
how can you be smiling, singing
how can you be sure?

i don't want you anymore...

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  How I Made My Millions

I was stronger
I was better
picked you out

now don't say a word
no don't yell out
never mind

let you out
led you back
stay on
sit down

let it fall
let it fall
let it fall
let it fall

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  India Rubber

did it all for you to see
you never wanted me that way
now the dogs have had their meat
I think I'll go plug in the mains

I tremble like a cloud
before you burn in hell
I'll suffocate myself
into your hair

will the sparrow make her smile
I'm instantly your biggest fan
how was I to know that you
practised it beforehand

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Inside My Head

what do you want from me now you got me
now my fingers bleed now they're staring at me
I'm coward now, I hold my peace

now you tie me up to your feather bed
and i twist and turn in a Chinese burn
you won't let go, you won't let go

you're inside my head

what do you want from me now you got me
now my energy you suck from me
and I'm holding on for dear life
quit smothering me, quit laughing at me
I've got a disease, an English disease
it won't let go, it won't let go

you're inside my head

whatever you put in that syringe
whatever you really fed to him
he's sitting there inside of me

and you bother me, you possess me
you're there again, ahead of me
and I won't let go, I won't let go

you're inside my head

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Killer Cars

too hard on the breaks again
what if these breaks just give in?
what if they don't get out of the way?
what if there's someone overtaking?
I'm going out for a little drive
it could be the last time you see me alive
there could be an idiot on the road
the only kick in life is pumping his steel

they wrap me up in the back of the trunk
packed with foam and blind drunk
they won't ever take me alive
cause they all drive...

don't die on the motorway
the moon would freeze
the plants would die
I couldn't cope if you crashed today
all the things I forgot to say
I'm going out for a little drive
could be the last time you see me alive
what if the car loses control
what if there's someone overtaking?

they wrap me up in the back of the trunk
packed with foam and blind drunk
they won't ever take me alive
cause they all drive killer cars

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Lewis (Mistreated)

bummed out again by an
early business friend
the smell of failure is thicker than
you think
don't do it
don't

changed shaped to fit
in the end you just feel sick
a million love songs
under anaesthetic
hey don't do it
don't

Lewis, save yourself the pain
you will never get there
Lewis, save yourself the pain it never
really mattered

we never noticed we never understood
he just got crushed to fit
he never even smelt
like it's the best
it's the best
it's the best day of your life

Lewis, save yourself the pain
you will never get there
Lewis, save yourself the pain
it never really mattered

oh mistreated a low corporate
(I don't want to talk about it)

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Lozenge Of Love

I am gone
everybody's raging
and these fruits
they still taste of poison

I won't be around
when you really need me
I can't sleep
why can't someone hold me?
I need warm
my restless body cracks and moans

I won't have the strength
when you really need me

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Lull

you stop the crowd
I cried out to break the spell
you wake and smile
I just snapped and lost control

distracted by irrelevance
the stress and the tension
the stress and the tension
I'm in a lull

there's nothing more dull
then talking about yourself
but what I meant to say
I'm sorry that I lost control

distracted by irrelevance
the stress and the tension
crawling through the keyhole
I'm in a lull

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Maquiladora

here it comes, here it comes
I can feel the hills exploding
exploding gracefully
burning up the freeway
here it comes
grass is green at the edge of the bubble
beautiful gets into beautiful trouble
and it seems to fall out of the sky and come down on you
oh baby burn

fast dies younger
burns rubber
useless rockers
from England
good times,
hide behind
just swallow your guilt and your conscience
blue and white birds stop and hide on the pedal
interstate 5 walk straight down the middle
and it seems to fall out of the sky and come down on you
oh baby burn

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Meeting In The Aisle

Instrumental.  No lyrics.

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Melatonin

don't forget that you are out son
now go back to bed

we just know that you'll do well
you won't come to harm

death to all who stand in your way
wake my dear

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Million Dollar Question

was always waiting for the crush
the car to drive right through the shops
to call in sick and late for work
and take a holiday

was always tangled up in knots
to keep myself from speaking up
but no one's  listening anyway
just trying to bribe me

and if it's all right, then what are we doing here?
and if it's all right, this place is gassed by fear
and if it's all right, I'll tell you 'cos you'll never understand
and if it's all right, I'll beg you, because I'm a begging kind of man

today I wrote a bad cheque
packed a bag and took a jet
but no-one's looking anyway
I hope they miss me

(sometimes I think maybe I'm making a big mistake)

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Mollasses

shake hands, genocide, molasses
jet powered caravans, molasses
I'm too good, you're stuck on
rent free earthquake zone, molasses

I need someone  else's glasses
starving waitresses in plasters
fat houseflies, genocide
we've been stitched up, molasses

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Palo Alto

In the city of the future
It is difficult to concentrate
Meet the boss, meet the wife
Everybody's happy
Everyone is made for life

In a city of the future
It is difficult to find a space
I'm too busy to see you
You're too busy to wait

But I'm okay
How are you?
Thanks for asking
Thanks for asking
I'm okay
How are you?
I hope that you are okay too...

Everyone of those days
When the sky is Californian blue
In a beautiful bombshell
I throw myself into my world
Two days, I've been kidding myself for so long...

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Pearly*

how do you get you teeth so pearly?
dew drop dentures
white-washed fences
she runs from the third world crying

vanilla (feel it crawl to me)
milkshakes (crawl back again)
hard rock (whatever you say)
cafes (it won't go away)
that's where (i feel it crawl to me)
she's got her (crawl back again)
sweet tooth (it won't go away)
for white boys (whatever you say)

she runs from the third world pearly

"darling use me..."

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Permanent Daylight

the easiest way to sleep at night is to
carry on believing that I don't exist
the easiest way to sell your soul is to
carry on believing that we don't exist
it must be hard with your head on backward

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Polythene (1 & 2)

go

tears of joy and carousels and all that you wanna be
just got paid and now your going out on Saturday
if I get scared I'll just call you

right, one, two, three, four

so sell your suit and tie and come and live with me
leukaemia schizophrenia polyethylene
there is no significant risk to your health
she used to be beautiful once as well

plastic bad, middle class, polyethylene
decaffeinated, unleaded, keep all surfaces clean
if you don't believe this, sell your soul
if you don't get into it, no one will

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Pop Is Dead

oh no, pop is dead
long live pop
it died an early death by back catalogue

and now you know it gets you nowhere
and now you know, you realize

oh no, pop is dead,
it just gave up
we raise the dead but they won't stand up
and radio has salmonella
and now you know you're gonna die
he left this message for us

so what pop is dead
it's no great loss
so many facelifts, his face flew off
the emperor really has no clothes on
and his skin is peeling off
oh no, pop is dead, long live pop
one final line of coke to jerk him off

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Punchdrunk Lovesick Song

I wrapped you inside my coat when they came
to firebomb the house
I didn't feel pain
cause no one can touch me
whenever I'm held in your spell

a beautiful girl can turn your world into dust

sell me a car that goes
sell me a house that stands up
I never cared before

I stood in front of your face
when the first bullet was shot.

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Stupid Car

it's funny how (I find it hard)
to drive your stupid car
it's funny how (I find it hard)
cause I never get that far
and you put my brain in overload
and I can't change gears
I cannot see the road

you got concrete eyes
and I cannot see your face
and I failed in life
cause you crushed me with you hands

and you put my brain in overload
I can't change gears
I cannot see the road

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Talk Show Host

I want to be someone else or I'll explode
floating upon the surface for the birds

you want me
fucking well come and find me
I'll be waiting
with a gun and a pack of sandwiches
and nothing

you want me
well come on and break the door down
you want me
fucking come on and break the door down
I'm ready...

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  The Trickster

lost on the mountains
rust in my brain
the air is sacred here
in spite of your claim
up on the rooftops
out of reach
trickster is meaningless
trickster is weak

he's talking out the world
hey! this is only halfway

I wanted you so bad
I couldn't say
all things fall apart
we want it all so bad
that we couldn't say
these things fall apart

truant kids - a can of brick dust worms
who do not want to climb down from
their chestnut tree
long white gloves
police tread carefully
escaped from the zoo
the perfect child facsimile is
talking out the world
talking out the world
hey! this is only halfway

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  Yes I Am

I resent you calling
I resent your voice
I resent that I
don't have a choice

anywhere I go
you are always there
outside the car
or in my hair

I think I've been here before
yes I've been here before
the last time you locked
all the doors

and I resent you calling
I resent your voice
I resent that I
don't have a choice

and yes I am
yes I am

I think I've told you once
I think I needed advice
you were such a help
that's very nice

I think I've been here before
yes I've been here before
but this time I kick
down your door

yes I am
yes I am

Lyrics:  B-Sides:  You Never Washed Up After Yourself

I must get out once in a while
everything is starting to die
the dust settles the worms dig
the spiders crawl over the bed

I must get out once in a while
I eat all day and I now I am fat
yesterday's meal is hugging the plate
you never washed up after yourself

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