PLACEBO
COME HOME
Stuck between the do or die
I feel emaciated
Hard to breathe 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 time
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
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 circumstance
It's 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
Someone tried to do me ache
It's what I'm afraid of
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I gotta breathe to stay alive
And 1 4 2 9 7 8
Feels like I'm gonna suffocate
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This skin that turns to blister blue
Shoulders toes and knees
I'm 36 degrees
Shoulders toes and knees
I'm 36 degrees
Shoulder 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 silver rocket
Hang on, hang on
To your IQ
To your ID
Hang on, hang on
To your IQ
To your ID
I'm lonely
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
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 is 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
I'm lonely
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' me 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' me 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 who 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' me 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' me 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 a 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
Encore, encore
Plus bas, plus fort
Encore
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 apologise
He likes your attitude
He tries it on for size
He spends the afternoon
Between your thighs
How's that for gratitude
I apologise
It seemed to last for hours
It seemed to last for days
This lady of the flowers
And her hypnotic gaze
'Scuse me
I apologise
She's got vacuum cleaner eyes
Suck you in
She's got magazines
Filled with hair pies
'Scuse me
I apologise
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 apologise
He likes your attitude
He tries it on for size
He spends the afternoon
Between your thighs
How's that for gratitude
I apologise
It seemed to last for hours
It seemed to last for days
This lady of the flowers
Her electronic haze
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
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
Well I
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?