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Come Home
Teenage Angst
Bionic
36 Degrees
Hang On To Your IQ
Nancy Boy
I Know
Bruise Pristine
Lady Of The Flowers
Swallow

COME HOME

Stuck between the do or die, I feel emaciated
Hard to breath I try and try, I'll get asphyxiated

Swinging from the tallest height, with nothing left to hold on to

Every sky is blue, but not for me and you

Come home
Come home

Come home

Come home

Glass and petrol vodka gin, it feels like breathing methane
Throw yourself from skin to skin, and still it doesn't dull the pain

Vanish like a lipstick trace, it always blows me away

Every cloud is grey, with dreams of yesterday

Come home
Come home

Come home

Come home

Come home

Come home

Come home

Come home

Always goes against the grain, and I can try and deny it
Give a monkey half a brain, and still he's bound to fry it

Now the happening scene is dead, I used to want to be there too

Every sky is blue, but not for me and you

Come home
Come home

Come home

Come home

Come home

Come home

Come home

Come home

 

TEENAGE ANGST

Shine the headlight, straight into my eyes
Like the road kill, I'm paralysed

you see through my disguise

At the drive-in, double feature
pull the lever, break the fever

And say your last goodbyes

Since I was born I started to decay
Now nothing ever ever goes my way

One fluid gesture, like stepping back in times
Trapped in amber, petrified

And still not satisfied

Airs and social graces, elocution so divine
I'll stick to my needle, and my favourite waste of time

Both spineless and sublime

Since I was born I started to decay
Now nothing ever ever goes my way

 

BIONIC

Harder faster, forever after
Harder faster, forever after

Harder faster, forever after

Forever after

None of you can make the grade
None of you can make the grade

None of you can make the grade

None of you can make the grade

Harder faster, forever after
Harder faster, forever after

Harder faster, forever after

Forever after

None of you can make the grade
None of you can make the grade

None of you can make the grade

None of you can make the grade

 

36 DEGREES

We were tight, but it falls apart as silver turns to blue
Waxing with a candlelight, and burning just for you

Allocate your sentiment, and stick it in a box

I've never been an extrovert, but I'm still breathing

Someone tried to do me ache (it's what I'm afraid of)

With hindsight, I was more than blind, lost without a clue
Thought I was getting carat gold, and what I got was you

Stuck inside the circumstances, lonely at the top

I've always been an introvert

Happily bleeding

Someone tried to do me ache (it's what I',m afraid of)

4 7 2 3 9 8 5 - I gotta breathe to stay alive
And 1 4 2 9 7 8 - feels like I'm gonna suffocate

14 16 22 - this skin that turns to blister blue

Shoulders toes and knees, I'm 36 degrees

Shoulders toes and knees, I'm 36 degrees

Shoulders toes and knees, I'm 36 degrees

Shoulders toes and knees, I'm 36 degrees

 

HANG ON TO YOUR IQ

Chinese masseuse, comes between us
Talks in haikus, plastic venus

Got a head rush, in her pocket

Two rubbers two lubes, and a sliver rocket

Hang on, hang on
To your IQ, to your ID

Hang on, hang on

To your IQ, to your ID

I'm lonely

Every morning, my eyes will open wide
I gotta get high, before I go outside

Roll another, for breakfast

Burning clouds around, and in my solar plexus

Hang on, hang on
To your IQ, to your ID

Hang on, hang on

To your IQ, to your ID

I'm lonely

Legs eleven, makes me stay up late
Two fat ladies on my back, and now it's 88

I'm a fool, whose tool os small

It's so minuscule, it's no tool at all

Hang on, hang on
To your IQ, to your ID

Hang on, hang on

To your IQ, to your ID

I'm lonely

Oh
 

NANCY BOY

Alcoholic kind of mood
Lose my clothes, lose my lube

Cruising for a piece of fun

Looking out for number one

Different partner every night

So narcotic outta sight

What a gas, what a beautiful ass

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal

Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal

Got the muse in my head she's universal

Spinnin' my round she's coming over me

Kind of buzz that lasts for days
Had some help from insect ways

Comes across all shy and coy

Just another nancy boy

Woman man or modern monkey

Just another happy junkie

Fifty pounds, press my button

Going down

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal

Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal

Got the muse in my head she's universal

Spinnin' my round she's coming over me

Does his makeup in his room
Douse himself with cheap perfume

Eye holes in a paper bag

Greatest lay I ever had

Kind of guy that mates for life

Gotta help him find a wife

We're a couple, when our bodies double

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal

Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal

Got the muse in my head she's universal

Spinnin' my round she's coming over me

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal

Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal

Got the muse in my head she's universal

Spinnin' my round she's coming over me


I KNOW

I know, you love the song but not the singer
I know, you've got me wrapped around your finger

I know, you want the sin without the sinner

I know

I know

I know, the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know, the last in line is always called a bastard

I know, the past will catch you up as you run faster

I know

I know

I know, you cut me loose in contradiction
I know, I'm all wrapped up in sweet attrition

I know, it's asking for your benediction

I know

I know

I know, the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know, the last in line is always called a bastard

I know, the past will catch you up as you run faster

I know

I know

I know, the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know, the last in line is always called a bastard

I know, the past will catch you up as you run faster

I know

I know

 

BRUISE PRISTINE

The means are right for taking, fade to grey
Trying to be ruthless, in the face of beauty

In this matrix, it's plain to see

It's either you or me

Bruise
Pristine

Serene

We were born to lose

Cast a line with velvet glove
Reading like an open book, in the hands of love

In this matrix, it's plain to see

It's either you or me

Bruise
Pristine

Serene

We were born to lose

The means are right for taking, fade to grey
Trying to be ruthless, in the face of beauty

In this matrix, it's plain to see

It's either you or me

Bruise
Pristine

Serene

We were born to lose

 

LADY OF THE FLOWERS

'Scuse me, I apologize
he likes your attitude, he tries it on for size

He spends the afternoon, between your thighs

How's that for gratitude, I apologize

It seemed to last for hours
It seemed to last for days

This lady of the flowers

And her hypnotic gaze

'Scuse me, I apologize
She's got vacuum cleaner eyes

Suck you in

She's got magazines, filled with pear pies

'Scuse me, I apologize

It seemed to last for hours
It seemed to last for days

This lady of the flowers

And her hypnotic gaze

She wears her tears on her blouse
Confused and racked with self doubt

She stole the keys to my house

And then she locked herself out

'Scuse me, I apologize
he likes your attitude, he tries it on for size

He spends the afternoon, between your thighs

How's that for gratitude, I apologize

It seemed to last for hours
It seemed to last for days

This lady of the flowers

And her hypnotic gaze

She wears her tears on her blouse
Confused and racked with self doubt

She stole the keys to my house

And then she locked herself out

She stole the keys to my house
And then she locked herself out

She lays me down
She lays me

 

SWALLOW

Confiscate
Razor blade

Confiscate

Hey

Marilyn

It kinda went like this

Stay with me

Stay with me

Stop

Stop stammering

I uh

I uh

I

Stop

I forgot where I put it

I can't remember where I put it

Swallow

Swallow

Hey

Hey

What

Marilyn

Yeah

I

I

Well I

Kind of

It kinda went like this

Kinda

Stay with me

Stay with me

Stop

Stammering

Stop stammering

I uh

I uh

I

I

I forgot

I forgot

I uh

I forgot where I put it

I can't remember where I put it

I put it

Swallow

Swallow

Marilyn

Marilyn

I

Well I

Stop

It kinda went like this

Stay with me

Stay with me

Stay with me

Stop

Stammering

Stop stammering

I uh

I uh

I

I

Stop

Stop

I uh

Forgot where I put it

I can't remember where I put it

Swallow

Marilyn

Where I put it yeah

I well

It kinda

Kinda went like this

It went

like this it

Stay with me

Stay

Stay with me

Stop

Stammering

Stop stammering

I uh

I uh

I (echo)