Mechanical Animals
 
 

  • 01 THE GREAT BIG WHITE WORLD
   • 02 ROCK IS DEAD
   • 03 USER FRIENDLY
   • 04 FUNDAMENTALLY LOATHSOME
   • 05 COMA WHITE
   • 06 SPEED OF PAIN
   • 07 NEW MODEL
   • 08 I WANT TO DISAPPEAR
   • 09 THE DOPE SHOW
   • 10 POSTHUMAN
   • 11 DISASSOCIATIVE
   • 12 THE LAST DAY ON EARTH
   • 13 MECHANICAL ANIMALS
   • 14 I DON'T LIKE THE DRUGS (BUT THE DRUGS LIKE ME)
 
 
 

   THE GREAT BIG WHITE WORLD
   In space the stars are no nearer
   They just glitter like a morgue
   And I dreamed I was a spaceman
   Burned like a moth in a flame
   And our world was so fucking gone
   But I'm not attached to you now
   Nothing heals and nothing grows
   Because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors
   We used to love ourselves, we used to love another
   All my stiches itch
   My prescription's low, I wish you were queen just for today
   In a world so white what else could I say?
   And hell was so cold
   All the vases are so broken
   And the roses tear our hands all open
   Mother marry miscarry
   And we pray just like insects
   The world is so ugly now
   Because it's a great big white world and we are drained of our colors
   (chorus repeat)
 
 
   ROCK IS DEAD
   All simple monkeys with alien babies
   Amphetamines for boys
   Crucifixes for ladies
   Sampled and soulless
   Worldwide and real webbed
   You sell all the living
   For more safer dead
   Anything to be loved
   Rock is deader than dead
   Shock is all in your head
   Your sex and your dope is all that were fed
   So fuck all your protests and put them to bed
   God is on the T.V.
   1,000 mothers are praying for it
   We're so full of hope
   And so full of shit
   Build a new god to medicate and to ape
   Sell us ersatz dressed up and real fake
   Anything to be loved
   Rock is deader than dead (chorus repeat)
   God is on the T.V.
 
 
   USER FRIENDLY
   Use me when you want to come
   I've bled just to have your touch
   When I'm in you I want to die
   User friendly fucking dopestar obscene
   Will you die when you're high
   You'd never die just for me
   She says,
   "I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you
   'til somebody better comes along."
   Use me like I was a whore
   Relationships are such a bore
   Deleted the ones that you've fucked
   User friendly fucking dopestar obscene
   Will you die when you're high
   You'd never die just for me
   She says,
   "I'm not in love, but I'm gonna fuck you
   'til somebody better comes along."
 
 
   FUNDAMENTALLY LOATHSOME
   I want to wake up in your white, white sun
   I want to wake up in your world with no pain
   But I'll just suffer in a hope to die someday
   While you are numb all of the way
   When you hate it you know you can feel but
   When you love it you know it's not real
   No
   And I am resigned to this wicked fucking world
   On its way to hell
   The living are dead and
   I hope to join them too
   I know what to do and I di it well...
   When you hate it you know you can feel but
   When you love it you know it's not real
   No
   Shoot myself to love you
   If I loved myself I'd be shooting you
 
 
   COMA WHITE
   Something is cold and blank behind her smile
   She's standing on an overpass
   In her miracle mile
   (coma):
   "You were from a perfect world
   A world that threw me away today
   Today to run away"
   A pill to make you numb
   A pill to make you dumb
   A pill to make you anybody else
   But all the drugs in this world
   Won't save her from herself
   Her mouth was an empty cut
   And she was waiting to fall
   Just bleeding like a polaroid that
   Lost all her dolls
   (coma):
   "You were from a perfect world
   A world that threw me away today
   Today to run away"
   A pill to make you numb
   A pill to make you dumb
   (chorus repeat)
 
 
   SPEED OF PAIN
   They slit our throats
   Like we were flowers
   And our milk has been devoured
   When you want it
   It goes away too fast
   When you hate it
   It always seems to last
   But just remember when you think you're free
   The crack inside you fucking heart is me
   (thought, not spoken): I wanna outrace the speed of pain for another day
   I wish I could sleep
   But I can't lay on my back
   Because ther's a knife
   For everyday that I've known you
   When you want it
   it goes away yoo fast
   When you hate it
   It always seems to last
   But just remember when you think you're free
   The crack inside your fucking heart is me
   (thought, not spoken): I wanna outrace the speed of pain for another day
   Lie to me, cry to me, give to me
   I would
   Lie with me, die with me, give to me
   I would
   Keep all your secrets wrapped in dead hair
   I hope at least we die holding hands for always
 
 
   NEW MODEL
   I'm as fake as e wedding cake
   And I'm Vague and I know that I'm homopolitan
   Pitifully predictable
   Correctly political
   I'm the new, I'm the new, new model
   I've got nothing inside
   Better in the head and in bed
   At the office
   I can suck and I smile
   New, new, new model
   I can choke and diet on coke
   I'm Spun and I know
   That I'm Stoned and Rolling
   Lifelike and poseable
   Hopeless and disposable
   I'm the new, I'm the new, new model
   I've got nothing inside
   Better in the head and in bed
   At the office
   I can suck and I smile
   New, new, new model
   Don't let them know how far you go
   Or that you use you "lovers"
   Oh look, you're like a VCR
   Stick something in to know
   Just who you are you
   New, new, new model
 
 
   I WANT TO DISAPPEAR
   Look at me now I've got no religion
   Look at me now I'm so vacant
   Look at me now I was a virgin
   Look at me now grew up to be a whore
   And I want it
   I believe it
   I'm a million different things
   And not one you know
   Hey and our mommies are lost now
   Hey, daddy's someone else
   Hey, we love the abuse
   Because it makes us feel like we are needed now
   But I know
   I wanna disappear
   I wanna die young and sell my soul
   Use up all your drugs and make me come
   Yesterday man, I was a nihilist and now today
   I'm too fucking bored by the time I'm old enough
   I won't know anything at all
   Hay, and our mommies are lost now
   (chorus repeat)
 
 
   THE DOPE SHOW
   The drugs they say make us feel so hollow
   We love in vain narcissistic and so shallow
   The cops and queers to swim you have to swallow
   Hate today there's no love for tomorrow
   We're all stars now in the dope show
   There's a lot of pretty, pretty ones
   That want to get you high
   But all the pretty, pretty ones
   Will leave you low and blow your mind
   They love you when you're on all the covers
   When you're not then they love another
   The drugs they say are made in California
   We love your face
   We'd really like to sell you
   The cops and queers make good-looking models
   I hate today
   Who will I wake up with tomorrow?
   There's a lot of pretty, pretty ones (chorus repeat)
 
 
   POSTHUMAN
   She's got eyes like Zapruder
   And a mouth like heroin
   She wants me to be perfect like Kennedy
   This isn't god, this isn't god
   God is just a statistic
   God is just a statistic
   Say "show me the dead stars
   All of them sing."
   This is a riot
   Religious and clean
   God is a number you cannot count to
   You are posthuman and hardwired
   She's pilgrim and pagan
   Softworn and so-cial
   In all of her dreams
   She's a saint like Jackie O
   This isn't god, this isn't god
   God is just a statistic
   (chorus repeat)
   Coma white:
   "All that glitters is cold, all that glitters is cold."
 
 
   DISASSOCIATIVE
   I can tell you what they say in space
   That our earth is too grey
   But when the spirit is so digital
   The body acts this way
   That world aws killing me
   That world was killing me
   Disassociative
   The nervous systems down, the nervous systems down
   I know
   I can never get out of here
   I don't want to just float in fear
   A dead astronaut in space
   Sometimes we walk like we were shot through our heads, my love
   We write our song in space like we are already dead and gone
   Your world was killing me
   Your world was killing me
   Disassociative
   Your world was killing me
   Your world was killing me
   Disassociative
   I can never get out of here
   I don't want to just float in fear
   A dead astronaut in space
   The nervous systems down, the nervous systems down
   I know
 
 
   THE LAST DAY ON EARTH
   Yesterday was a million years ago
   In all my past lives I played an asshole
   Now I found you, it's almost too late
   And this earth seems obliviating
   We are trembling in our crutches
   High and dead our skin is glass
   I'm so empty here without
   I crack and split my xerox hands
   I know it's the last day on earth
   We'll be together while the planet dies
   I know it's the last day on earth
   We'll never say goodbye
   The dogs slaughter each other softly
   Love burns it's casualties
   We are damaged provider modules
   Spill the seeds at our children's feet
   I'm so empty here without you
   I know they want me dead
   I know it's the last day on earth (chorus repeat)
 
 
   MECHANICAL ANIMALS
   We were neurophobic and perfect
   the day that we lost our souls
   machines that wished they were human
   If they cry they will rust
   And I was a hand grenade
   That never stopped exploding
   You were automatic and as hollow as the "o" in god
   I am never gonna be the one for you
   I am never gonna save the world from you
   But they'll never be good for you
   Or bad to you
   They'll never be anything
   Anything at all
   You were my mechanical bride
   You were phenobarbidoll
   A manniqueen of depression
   With the face of a dead star
   And I was a hand grenade
   That never stopped exploding
   You were automatic and as hollow as the "o" in god
   I am never gonna be the one for you (chorus repeat)
   This isn't me I'm not mechanical
   I'm just a boy playing the suicide king
 
 
   I DON'T LIKE THE DRUGS (BUT THE DRUGS LIKE ME)
   Norm life baby "we're white and oh so hetero and our sex is missionary."
   Norm life baby "we're quitters and we're sober our confessions will be televised."
   You and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
   Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all
   I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
   I don't like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs
   Norm life baby "our god is white and unforgiving we're piss tested and we're praying."
   Norm life baby "I'm just a sample of a soul made to look just like a human being."
   Norm life baby "we're rehabbed and we're ready dor our 15 minutes of shame."
   Norm life baby "we're talkshown and we're poiting just like christians at a suicide."
   You and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
   Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all
   I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
   I don't like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs