The mongrel cat came home holding half a head Proceeded to show it off to all his new found friends he said "i been where i liked i slept with who i liked she ate me up for breakfast and screwed me in a vice
and now i don′t know why i feel so tongue-tied"
i sat in the cupboard and wrote it down in neat they were cheering and waving cheering and waving twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis but it got edited fucked up strangled, beaten up used as a photo in Time magazine buried in a burning black hole in Devon
"i don’t know why i feel so tongue-tied
don’t know why i feel so skinned alive."
My thoughts are misguided and a little naive I twitch and i salivate like with myxomatosis you should put me in a home or you should put me down I got myxomatosis I got myxomatosis
"now no one likes a smart arse but we all like stars" that wasn′t my intention, I did it for a reason it must have got mixed up strangled, beaten up i got myxomatosis i got myxomatosis
I′m walking out in a force ten gale Birds thrown around, bullets for hail The roof is pulling off by its fingernails Your voice is rattlin′ on my window sill Yesterday′s headlines blown by the wind Yesterday′s people end up scatterbrain Any fool can easy pick a hole I only wish I could fall in A moving target in a firing range Somewhere I′m not Scatterbrain Somewhere I′m not Scatterbrain Lightning fuse, powercut Scatterbrain
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
No x42 I don′t know why you bother Nothing′s ever good enough for you. (By the way) I was there and it wasn′t like that. You′ve come here just to start a fight You had to piss on our parade You had to shred our big day You had to ruin it for all concerned In a drunken punch-up at a wedding Yeah Hypocrite opportunist Don′t infect me with your poison A bully in a china shop When I turn ′round you stay frozen to the spot You had the pointless snide remarks Of hammerheaded sharks The pot will call the kettle black It′s a drunken punch-up at a wedding yeah Oh no no
He′s bitter and twisted He knows what he wants He wants to be loved and he wants to belong He wants us to listen, he wants us to weep And he was a stupid baby who turned into a powerful freak
But how do you? How do you? How do you?
He lives with his mother But we show him respect He′s a dangerous bigot, but we always forget And he′s just like his daddy because he cheats on his friends And he steals and he bullies anyway that he can
Once again, she is smashing up her house again She is throwing things through windows She is mad at someone else again, It is now a broken home
Once again, I am so low with my only friend He is smashing up his house again You are throwing things at me again And I′m wrecked up all inside
Well if I stop that singing now and shout Well if I stop that singing to you friend Well if I stop that singing now and shout Someone is standing there
There I′m home, once the feet inside shout it out Once a beating when I make my way out Once a beating when I′m home inside There is nothing wrong at all
Well if I stop that singing now and shout Well if I stop that singing to you friend Well if I stop that singing now and shout Someone is standing there
Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights I′ll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a five I′ll lay down the tracks Sandbag and hide January has April showers And two and two always makes a five It′s the devil′s way now There is no way out You can scream and you can shout It is too late now Because you′re not there Payin′ attention Payin′ attention Payin′ attention Payin′ attention yeah I feel it, I needed attention Payin′ attention Payin′ attention Payin′ attention Yeah I need it, I needed attention I needed attention I needed attention I needed attention Yeah I love it, the attention Payin′ attention Payin′ attention Payin′ attention Soon oh I try to sing along But the music′s all wrong Cos I′m not Cos I′m not I′ll swallow up flies? Back and hide But I′m not Oh hail to the thief Oh hail to the thief But I′m not But I′m not But I′m not But I′m not Don′t question my authority or put me in the box Cos I′m not Cos I′m not Oh go up to the king, and the sky is falling in But it′s not But it′s not Maybe not Maybe not
Please forget the words that I just blurted out. It wasn′t me, it was my strange and creeping doubt. It keeps rattling my cage, and there′s nothing in this world will keep it down.
Even though I might, even though I try, I can′t Even though I might, even though I try, I can′t.
So many things that keep, that keep me underground. So many words that I, that I can never find. If you give up on me now, I′ll be gutted like I′ve never been before.
Even though I might, even though I try, I can′t Even though I might, even though I try, I can′t.
If you give up on me now, I′ll be gutted like I′ve never been before. Even though I might, even though I try, I can′t Even though I might, even though I try, I can′t. Even though I might, even though I try, I can′t Even though I might, even though I try, I can′t.
I will Lay me down In a bunker Underground I won′t let this happen to my children Meet the real world coming out of your shell With white elephants Sitting ducks I will rise up Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes Little babies eyes eyes eyes eyes Little babies eyes eyes eyes
Sit down, stand up Sit down, stand up Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up) Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up) Anytime (sit down) Anytime (stand up) Sit down, stand up Sit down, stand up We can wipe you out anytime (sit down, stand up) We can wipe you out (sit down, stand up) Anytime (sit down) Anytime Stand up (the rain drops the rain drops) Sit down (the rain drops the rain drops) Oh The rain drops x46
Bit me, bit me, bit me, oh I′ve got the poison, poison, poison now I′m standing in the hall kicking out the wall It′s all been said to comfort you
bangers in the mash people lose for cash ????
whatever turns you on whatever gets you off chief of police, the vice-chancellor ??? you′re dancing to my little red book
Bit me, bit me, bit me, oh I′ve got the poison, poison and I want more get you an armoured car they′re gonna throw a rock stare into the light the pyramid is power if you are on the top ????? if you stare into the dark, the dark will stare back back into your soul
I want to thank you, thank you, thank you all I′m having such a good time, a good time, had enough?
I′m taking you down I′m taking you down I′m taking you down when I go down I′m taking you down I′m taking you down I′m standing in the hall kicking out the wall Bit me, bit me, bit me, oh Bit me, bit me, bit me, oh I′ve got the poison
In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape Broken branches trip me as I speak Just cos you feel it doesn′t mean it′s there Just cos you feel it doesn′t mean it′s there There′s always a siren singing you to shipwreck (don′t reach out, don′t reach out x2) Stay away from these rocks we′d be a walking disaster (don′t reach out, don′t reach out x2) Just cos you feel it doesn′t mean it′s there (there′s someone on your shoulder x2) Just coz you feel it doesn′t mean it′s there (there′s someone on your shoulder x2) Feel it Why so green And lonely x3 Heaven sent you To me x3 We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen
Morning bell Morning bell I don′t know the killer Release me Release me
You can keep the furniture A bump on the head Coming down the chimney Release me Release me Please........ Release me Release me
Where′d you park the car? Where′d you park the car? Clothes on(?) with furniture And I might as well I might as well Sleepy jack the fire drill Run around around around around around....
Cut the kids in half (x3)
?? and everything starts to bleed And everybody lies to me And everybody talks to me When I am walking walking walking walking walking...
Everybody likes the rolls(?) And everybody starts to tease So tell your boy you′ll never believe And tell your boy you don′t believe Now tell your cousin I′ll tell you cuz I′m walking walking walking walking walking walking....
Everybody likes a roll (?) And everybody starts to twirl And then there And there really were people who frown on the world
In my mind. And nailed into my hands All the time Killing what I fed And everything I touch turns to stone. (all wrapped up in crinoline, all wrapped up in suger-coated) And everything I touch turns to stone. (all wrapped up in crinoline, all wrapped up in suger-coated)
I am fused Just in case I blow out I am glued Just in case I crack out And everything I touch turns to stone. (all wrapped up in crinoline, all wrapped up in suger-coated) And everything I touch turns to stone. (all wrapped up in crinoline, all wrapped up in suger-coated)
I feel better, I feel better now you′ve gone. I got better, I got better, I got strong. I feel better, I feel better now there′s nothing wrong. I got better, I got better, I got strong.
Tell me something, tell me something I don′t know, Tell me one thing, tell me one thing, let it go.
I got something, I got something heaven knows, I got something, I got something I don′t know
And the wise man say I don′t want to hear your voice And the thin man say I don′t want to hear your voice And they′re cursing me, and they won′t let me be And there′s nothing to say, and there′s nothing to do
And the mother say we spit on your son some more And the buildings say we spit on your face some more And the feeling is that there′s something wrong Because I can′t find the words and I can′t find the songs
I can′t afford to breathe in this time Nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand Hooked back up to the cathode ray I′m better off dead I′m better off dead I′m better off
Prove yourself Prove yourself Prove yourself
I wanna breathe, I wanna grow I′d say I want it but I don′t know how I work, I bleed, I beg and I pray But I′m better off dead I′m better off dead I′m better off
Genie let out of the bottle It is now the witching hour Genie let out of the bottle It is now the witching hour Murderers, you′re murderers We are not the same as you Genie let out of the bottle Funny how, funny how When the walls bend, when the walls bend With your breathing, with your breathing When the walls bend, when the walls bend With your breathing, with your breathing With your breathing They will suck you down to the other side x4 To the shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red Your alarm bells, your alarm bells Shadows blue and red, shadows blue and red Your alarm bells, your alarm bells They should be ringing x12 This is the gloaming Shadows blue and red Shadows blue and red Your alarm bells Your alarm bells Shadows blue and red Shadows blue and red We′re alarming We′re alarming And the walls bend, and the walls bend With your breathing, with your breathing And the walls bend, and the walls bend What is he doin′? what is he doin′? This is the gloaming x4 This is the
I do not Understand What it is I′ve done wrong Full of holes Check the pulse Blink your eyes One for yes Two for no
I have no idea what I am talking about I′m trapped in this body and can′t get out Ooooohhhh
Make a sound Move back home Get an invitation With the edges Sawn off
I have no idea what you are talking about I′m trapped in this body and can′t get out Ooooohhhh
Has the light gone out for you? Cause the light′s gone for me It is the 21st century It is the 21st century You can fight it like a dog And they brought me to my knees They got scared and they put me in They got scared and they put me in All the lies run around my face All the lies run around my face And for anyone else to see And for anyone else to see
Flies are buzzing around my head Vultures circling my bed Picking up every last crumb The big fish eat the little ones The big fish eat the little ones Not my problem give me some
You can try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough (x2)
This one′s optimistic This one went to market This one just came out of the swamp This one drops a payload Fodder for the animals Living on an animal farm
If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough (x2)
I′d really like to help you man I′d really like to help you man..... ????
If you try the best you can If you try the best you can The best you can is good enough If you try the best you can If you try the best you can ????
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,
You bite through the big wall, the big wall bites back You just sit there and sulk, sit there and bawl You are so pretty when you′re 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
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
Wakey wakey rise and shine it′s on again, off again, on again watch me fall like dominos in pretty patterns Fingers in the blackbird pie i′m tingling tingling tingling it′s what you feel now what you ought to, what you ought to reasonable and sensible dead from the neck up because im stuffed, stuffed, stuffed we thought you had it in you but no, no, no for no real reason
Squeeze the tubes and empty bottles take a bow take a bow take a bow it′s what you feel now what you ought to what you ought to an elephant thats in the room is tumbling tumbling tumbling in duplicate and duplicate plastic bags and duplicate and triplicate dead from the neck up guess im stuffed, stuffed, stuffed we thought you had it in you but no, no, no exactly where do you get off Is enough is enough is enough I love you but enough is enough, enough a last stop There′s no real reason
you′ve got a head full of feathers you got melted to butter
Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much, regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week), getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries , at ease, eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats), a patient better driver, a safer car (baby smiling in back seat), sleeping well (no bad dreams), no paranoia, careful to all animals (never washing spiders down the plughole), keep in contact with old friends (enjoy a drink now and then), will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall), favors for favors, fond but not in love, charity standing orders, on Sundays ring road supermarket (no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants), car wash (also on Sundays), no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate, nothing so childish - at a better pace, slower and more calculated, no chance of escape, now self-employed, concerned (but powerless), an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism), will not cry in public, less chance of illness, tires that grip in the wet (shot of baby strapped in back seat), a good memory, still cries at a good film, still kisses with saliva, no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick, that′s driven into frozen winter shit (the ability to laugh at weakness), calm, fitter, healthier and more productive a pig in a cage on antibiotics.
Drag him out your window Dragging out your dead Singing I miss you Snakes and ladders Flip the lid Out pops the cracker Smacks you in the head Knifes you in the neck Kicks you in the teeth Steel toe caps Takes all your credit cards Get up get the gunge Get the eggs Get the flan in the face The flan in the face The flan in the face Dance you fucker dance you fucker Don′t you dare Don′t you dare Don′t you flan in the face Take it with the love is given Take it with a pinch of salt Take it to the taxman Let me back let me back I promise to be good Don′t look in the mirror At the face you don′t recognize Help me call the doctor Put me inside Put me inside Put me inside Put me inside Put me inside I keep the wolf from the door But he calls me up Calls me on the phone Tells me all the ways that he′s gonna mess me up Steal all my children If I don′t pay the ransom But I′ll never see him again If I squeal to the cops No no no no no no no… Walking like giant cranes ah With my x ray eyes i strip you naked In a tight little world and why are you on the list? Stepford wives who are we to complain? Investments and dealers investments and dealers Cold wives and mistresses Cold wives and sunday papers. City boys in first class Don′t know we′re born little Someone else is gonna come and clean it up Born and raised for the job Someone else always does always pick it up Get over get up get over Turn the tape off. I keep the wolf from the door But he calls me up Calls me on the phone Tells me all the ways that he′s gonna mess me up Steal all my children If I don′t pay the ransom But I′ll never see him again If I squeal to the cops So I′m just gonna′
Come on, Come on You think you drive me crazy, well Come on, Come on You and whose army You and your cronies Come on, Come on Holy Roman empire Come on if you think Come on if you think You can take us on You can take us on
You and whose army You and your cronies
You forget so easy
We rise tonight We ride tonight Ghost horses x2 We rise tonight We ride tonight Ghost horses x3
When we realize we’re only to die then we’re out of here We’re just skirting on the surface We have only to click our fingers and we disappear We’re just skirting on the surface
Doll eyes trying to pull you through the ice Being drawn to the ledge When we realize that once we’re broken then nothing mends We’re just skirting on the surface
When we realize we’re only held in suspension Until someone comes along and shakes us And as the pattern lines cross their fingers like a web Will we die upon the surface?
Doll eyes trying to pull you through the ice Being drawn to the ledge When we realize that once we’re broken then nothing mends
While you make pretty speeches I′m being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance
And this just feels like spinning plates I′m living in cloud cuckoo land And this just feels like spinning plates My body is floating down the muddy river
Get yourself together Let the light pour in Pour yourself a hot bath, pour yourself a drink Nothing′s gonna happen without a warning Down is the new up What is up, buttercup Down is the new up, is the new up
Your services are not required Your future′s bleak, you′re so last week
Ladies and gentlemen, without a safety net I shall now perform a 180 flip-flop I shall now amputate, I shall now contort Because down is the new up What if I just flip-flopped? Down is the new up Down is the new up Down is the new up, is the new up
You′re on Candid Camera The chink in your armor Topsy turvy town, topsy turvy town Shake your pockets out Pass it on, pass it down Topsy turvy town, topsy turvy town
We′re rotten fruit We′re damaged goods What the hell we′ve got nothing more to lose One burst and we will probably crumble We′re backdrifting This far but no further I′m hanging off a branch I′m teetering on a breaker Honey sweets so fall asleep I′m backsliding You fell into our arms You fell into our arms We tried but there was nothing we could do Nothing we could do All evidence has been buried All tapes have been erased But your footsteps give you away So you′re backtracking Oh oh oh You fell into our arms You fell into our arms We tried but there was nothing we could do Nothing we could do You fell into our You fell into a We′re rotten fruit We′re damaged goods What the hell we′ve got nothing more to lose One burst and we will probably crumble We′re backdrifters
I don′t want to 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 Prozak painkillers
When you′ve got to feel it in your bones 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
Soul destroyed with clever toys for little boys It′s inevitable, inevitable, it′s a soul destroyed You′re free until you drop You′re free until you′ve had enough But you don′t understand You′ve no ripcord No ripcord, no ripcord, no ripcord
Aeroplane Do I mean what I mean? It′s inevitable, inevitable, oh aeroplane A thousand miles an hour And politics in power That you don′t understand You′ve no ripcord No ripcord, no ripcord, no ripcord
The answer to your prayers We′ll drop you anywhere With no ripcord
Are you hungry? Are you sick? Are you begging for a break? Are you sweet? Are you fresh? Are you strung up by the wrists? We want the young blood (la x8) Are you fracturing? Are you torn at the seams? Would you do anything? Fleabitten motheaten? We suck young blood (la x8) We suck young blood (la x8) Woah woah Won′t let the creeping ivy Won′t let the nervous bury me Our veins are thin Our rivers poisoned We want the sweet meat (la x8) We want the young blood La x8
Where do we go from here? The words are coming out all weird Where are you now, when I need you Alone on an aeroplane Fall asleep on against 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 But 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
Just lying in the 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
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
Just lying in the 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 wanna live, breathe I wanna be part of the human race I wanna live, breathe I wanna be part of the human race, race, race, race
Where do we go from here? The words are coming out all weird