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
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

Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all wierd
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
'Cause 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?

My baby's got the bends
Oh no
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
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 planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
And where are 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
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 I want to live and breathe
I want to be part of the human race Race race race race

Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all wierd
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

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 the best thing
you have ever had is gone away

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 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
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
If I just turn and run
And it wears me out

It wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out

If i could be who you wanted
If i could be who you wanted all the time
All the time


Bones

I don't wanna 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
When you've got to feel it in your bones

Now I can't climb the stairs
Pieces missing everywhere
Prozac painkillers

When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones

I used to fly like Peter Pan
All the children flew when i touched their hands

You say you've got to feel it in your bones
You say you've got to feel it in your bones


[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 that she would love 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 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

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
I 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

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

(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

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

The headshrinkers
They want everything
My Uncle Bill
My Belisha Beacon
The headshrinkers
They want everything
My Uncle Bill
My Belisha Beacon

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 waste of time
My iron lung

The headshrinkers
They want everything
My Uncle Bill
My Belisha Beacon
The headshrinkers
They want everything
My Uncle Bill
My Belisha Beacon

If you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be
That's okay
But if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be
That's okay

The headshrinkers
They want everything
My Uncle Bill
My Belisha Beacon
The headshrinkers
They want everything
My Uncle Bill
My Belisha Beacon

Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
It's tearing up inside of me
Everyday, every hour 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
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 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 58 hours since that 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 satellite 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 satellite that beams me home


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
And 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

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

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


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 we'll one day swallow whole
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 frution
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again
And fade out again

Immerse your soul in love
Immerse your soul in love