1: 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 straight home 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?2: 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 against 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 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 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 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 and 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 race3: High & 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. 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.4: Fake Plastic Trees
HEr green plastiC wateringcan for her fake chineserubberplant 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..5: Bones
I don't wanna a be krippled kracked 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.6: 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. 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 you belong enough. nice dream.7: Just
can't get the stink off, he's been hanging around 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. 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.8: My Iron Lung
faith your driving me away you do it everyday you don't mean it but it hurts like HELL my brain says im receiving 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.9: 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
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 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. i keep falling over i keep passing out when i see a face like you. what am i coming to? im 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 into fruition all these things will one day swallow up 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 its beady eyes all these things into frution all these things will one day swallow up and fade out again and fade out again. immerse your soul in love