The Bends

the bends

<01> 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.

why can't you forget?

<02> 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 aerolplane
falling asleep beside the window pane
my blood will THICKEN.

I need to wash myself again
to hide all the dirt and pain
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
we dont have any ral friends
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 words are coming out all wierd
where are you now when i need you?
they bought the CIA
the tanks and the whole marines
to blow me away
to blow me sky high.

i want to live and breath
i want to be part of the human race.

<03> high and dry

two jumps in a week
i bet you think that's pretty clever
don't you boy.
flying on your motorcycle.
wathcing all the ground beneath you drop.
you'd kill yourself for recognition.
kill yourself to never ever stop.
you broke antoher mirror.
you're turning into something you are not.

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.

it's the best thing that you ever had.

<04> fake plastic trees

her green plastic watering can
for her chinese rubberplant 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.

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.

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.

if i could be who you wanted all the time..

<05> bones

I don't want a 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.
Now i can't climb the stairs
pieces missing everywhere
prozak painkillersss.
when you've got to feel it in your bones.
and i used to fly like Peter Pan
all the children flew when i touched their hands.

<06> (nice dream).

they love me like i was their brother
they protect me
listen to me
they dug me my very own garden
gave me sunshine
made me happy. nice dream.

i call up my friend the good angel
but she's out with
her ansaphone
she says she would love to come help but
the sea would
electrocute us all. nice dream.

if you think that you're strong enough
if you think that you belong enough.

nice dream.

<07> just

can't get the stink off, he's been
hanging round for days.
comes like the comet, suckered you
but not your friends.
one day he'll get to you, teach
you how to be a holy cow.

don't get my sympathy hanging
out the 15th floor.you've changed the
locks 3 times. he still comes reeling
through the door.and soon he'll
get to you, 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.

<08> my iron lugn

faith your driving me away
you do it everyday
you don't mean it but it hurts like HELL
my brain says im recieving pain
a lack of oxygen from my life sup[poRT
my IrOn lUng.

weRe too young to fall asleep
too cynical to speak
we are loosing it can't you tell?
we scratch our eternal itch
our twentieth century bitch and we are gratEful for our
irOn lUng.

suck suck your teenage thumb
toilet trained anddumb
(whe n the powrr runs out
we'll just humm)
this this is our new s=ong
just like the last one
a total w.a.s.t.e. of time.
my
irOn lUng.

<09> bullet proof..i wish i was

limb by limb and tooth by tooth
tearing up inside of me
everyday everyhour 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.

so pay me money and take a shot
lead-fill
the hole in me
i could burst a million bubbles
all
surrogate
&
bullet proof.

<10> black star

iget home from work and you're still standing in your dressing
gown
well what am i to do?
i know all the things around our 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 58hrs since that i last slept with
you.
what are we coming to?
i just don't know anymore.

i get on the train and i just stand about now that i don't think
of you.
n keep falling over i keep passing out
when i see a face like you.
what am i coming to?
i'm gonna melt down.

<11> 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
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.

<12> 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 will one day take control
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.