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 dry as a bone

you can walk it home strait from school
you can kiss it you can break all the rules
Oh, all the rules
but still
everything is, broken
everyone is, broken
everyone is, everyone is, broken
everyone is, everything is, broken

why can't you forget?
why can't we forget?
why can't you forget?

The Bends

Ohhhhh
Ohhhhh

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 against the window pane
my blood will thicken

i need to wash myself again, to hide all the dirt and pain cuz
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?

and my baby's got the bends, i know
we don't have any real friends, no no no

i'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen,
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
and where are you?
brought in the CIA, the tanks and the whole marines
to blow me away,
to blow me sky high

and my baby's got the bends
we don't have any real friends

just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
i wish it was the sixties
i wish i could be happy
i wish i wish i wish that something would....ahhhh....

i wanna live, breathe
i want to be part of the human race
i wanna live, breathe
i want to be part of the human race, race, race, race

where do we go from here?
where are you now,
when i need you?

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 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

don't leave me high
don't leave me dry
don't leave me high
don't leave me dry

oh, it's the best thing that you ever had
the best thing that you ever, ever had
it's the best thing that you ever had
the best thing that you had has gone away

so don't leave me high
don't leave me dry
don't leave me high
don't leave me dry
don't leave me high

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 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
it wears her out
it wears her out
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
it wears him out
it wears him out
it wears..

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
but 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
Ohhahhhh

Bones

i don't wannt a be 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
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
when you've got to feel it in your bones
ahhhh
and i used to fly like peter pan
all the children flew when i touched their hands

they say you've got to feel it in your bones
they say you've got to feel it in your bones
ehhhehhh!

(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, nice dream, nice dream

i call up my friend the good angel
but she's out with
her ansaphone
she says she would like to come help but
the sea would
electrocute us all
nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream
nice dream (if you think that you're strong enough), nice dream (if you think you belong enough), nice
dream (if you think that you're strong enough), nice dream (if you think you belong enough)

nice dream, nice dream, nice dream, nice dream

Just

can't get the stink out
it's been hanging round for days
comes like a comet
suckered you but not your friends
one day he'll get to you
and 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 to yourself, just you
you and no one else
you do it to yourself
you do it to yourself

don't get my sympathy
hanging out the 15th floor
you've changed the lock 3 times
he still comes reeling through the door
one day i'll get to you
and 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
you do it to yourself

ahhhhh
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 yourselllllllf
you do it to yoursssselfff
whahhooo

self

(you do it to yourself)
(you do it to yourself)
(you do it to yourself)
(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 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
out twentieth century bitch
and we are greatful for out iron lung

suck, suck your teenage thumb
toilet trained and dumb
when the powrr runs out, we'll just hummm
this, this is our new song
just like the latest one
as total waste of time
my iron lung

and if you're frightened
you can be frightened
you can be, it's okay
and if you're frightened
you can be frightened
you can be, it's okay

Bullet Proof...I wish I was

limb by limb and tooth by tooth
tearing up inside of me
everyday, everyhour, with that i
was bullet proof

wax me
mold me, heat the pins
and stab them in
you have turned me into this
just with 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
and bullet proof
and bullet proof
and bullet proof
and bullet proof

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 satallite, 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 it's 58hrs since i last slept with you what are we coming to?
i just don't know anymore

blame it on the black star
blame it on the falling sky
blame it on the satallite, 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 it on the falling sky
blame it on the satallite, that beams me home

Ohhh, this is gonna break
Ohhh, this is gonna break

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 you're on your knees
disinfected
and eager to please

sometimes you sulk
sometimes you burn
god rest your soul
and 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

sometimes you sulk
sometimes you burn
god rest your soul
and when the loving comes and we've already gone
just like your dad
you'll never change

sometimes you sulk
sometimes you burn
god rest your soul
and when the loving comes and we've already gone
just like your dad
you'll never change

Street Spirit(Fade Out)

rows of houses, all bearing down on me
i can feel their, blue hands touching me
all these things will take possition, all these things will one day
slow

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

ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh

cracked eggs dead birds
scream as they fight for life
i can feel death, can see it's beady eyes
all these things into possition
all these things will one day swallow

and fade out again
and fade out again

ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh

immerse your soul in love
immerse your soul in love