Morning always seems too stale to justify
Lament blossoms, hours minutes of our lives
Broken thoughts run through your empty mind
At least a beaten dog knows how to lie
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep

A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
Endless hours in bed, no peace in this mind

No one knows the hell where innocence dies
Fragments crawling like cobwebs on stone
Blows away the safety only a sleeping pill knows
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep

A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety
I feel like I'm missing pieces of sleep

A memory fades to a pale landscape
You were an extinction, a desert heat
A blind illness of my anxiety

FROM DESPAIR TO WHERE [top]

I write this alone on my bed
I've poisoned every room in the house
The place is quiet and so alone
Pretend there's something worth waiting for
There's nothing nice in my head
The adult world took it all away
Wake up with same spit in my mouth
Cannot tell if it is real or not
I try and walk in a straight line
An imitation of dignity

From despair to where

Outside open mouthed crowds
Pass each other as if they're drugged
Down pale corridors of routine
Where life falls unatoned
The weak kick like straw
Till the world means less and less
Words are never enough
Just cheap tarnished glitter
I try and walk in a straight line
An imitation of dignity
A cripple walks in a straight line

An imitation of dignity

LA TRISTESSE DURERA [top]

Life has been unfaithful
And it all promised so so much
I am a relic
I am just a petrified cry
Wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir
The applause nails down my silence

La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh

I see liberals
I am just a fashion accessory
People send postcards
And they all hope I'm feeling well
I retreat into self-pity, it's so easy
Where they patronise my misery

La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh

I sold my medal
It paid a bill
It sells at market stalls
Parades Milan catwalks
The sadness will never go
Will never go away
Baby it's here to stay

La tristesse durera
Scream to a sigh, to a sigh

YOURSELF [top]

Your ritual everyday
A mild shower soak in aftershave
Best clothes do your best
Look in the mirror go on
Belittle yourself yourself yourself
Belittle yourself yourself yourself
You go on day after day
Dreaming on a lie
That you keep locked inside
Of yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Of yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Can you sleep tonight
Cast aside for some pouting young pup
Sink into a slurred veneer
Alcoholic haze so now
Least you can like yourself yourself
Least you can like yourself yourself
You go on day after day
Reservoirs of guilt
That your fixed grin always hides
And yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Of yourself
Yourself
Yourself
And yourself
Yourself
Yourself
Of yourself
Yourself
Yourself
You look at ad's all day
Everyone is perfect and you're so lame
Free scent burns your skin
But no smell can really cover sin
Too many teenage holes to fill
Too many teenage holes to fill
You go on day after day
Speak to your despised
Blanking your loved ones
And yourself
Yourself
Yourself
And yourself
Yourself
Yourself
And yourself

LIFE BECOMING A LANDSLIDE [top]

Childbirth tears upon her muscle
Very first second a screaming icon
Babies in time barely even recognise
Words that once stroked now bruising tired lips

My idea of love comes from
A childhood glimpse of pornography
Though there is no true love
Just a finely tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
Ice freezing nature dead
Life becoming a landslide
I don't wanna be a man

Everyday more numb to agony
This the howl this the sigh of the lonely
One day I realise oil on canvas
Can never paint a petal so so delicate

My idea of love comes from
A childhood glimpse of pornography
Though there is no true love
Just a finely tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
Ice freezing nature dead
Life becoming a landslide
I don't wanna be a man

My idea of love comes from
A childhood glimpse of pornography
Though there is no true love
Just a finely tuned jealousy

Life becoming a landslide
A mile empty inside
Life becoming a landslide
Desire on its knees

DRUG DRUG DRUGGY [top]

So much fun to be had in my head
No more sunshine
So much fun just lying in my bed
No more sunshine
I can't face the sunlight and the dirt outside
Wanna stay in 666 where this darkness don't lie

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
Need sensation like my baby
Show me your scars you're so aware
I'm not barbaric I just care

Drug drug drug
I need a reflection to prove I exist
No more sunshine
I am a victim of designer blitz
No more sunshine
Dance like a robot when you're chained at the knee
The C.I.A say you're all they'll ever need

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
Need sensation like my baby
Snort your lines you're so aware
I'm not barbaric I just care

Drug drug druggy
Got a feeling sweet like honey
Drug drug druggy
Need sensation like my baby

ROSES IN THE HOSPITAL [top]

Roses in the hospital
Try to pull my finger nails out
Roses in the hospital
I want to cling to something soft
Roses in the hospital
Progressing like a constant war
Roses in the hospital
There's no one to feel ashamed for

All we wanted was a home
Now we're so strung out we wanna own
Like a leaf in the autumn breeze
Like a flood in January
We don't want your fucking love

Roses in the hospital
Stub cigarettes out on my arm
Roses in the hospital
Want to feel something of value
Roses in the hospital
Nothing really makes me happy
Roses in the hospital
Heroin is just too trendy

All we wanted was a home
Now we're so strung out we wanna own
Like a leaf in the autumn breeze
Like a flood in January
We don't want your fucking love

Roses in the hospital
This century achieved so much
Roses in the hospital
To make a voice no voice at all
Roses in the hospital
Flowers cannot express the loss
Roses in the hospital
Torn reflections of burnt out trash
Of burnt out trash

Forever ever delayed
Forever ever delayed
Forever
Forever
Forever ever delayed

Independence is a game
Forever ever delayed
Credibility, I'm yawning

Forever
Forever
Rudi Rudi Rudi Rudi gonna fail
Forever ever delayed
Forever delayed
Forever
Forever
Forever delayed

The West scratches onto my skin
Forever delayed
Contagious like a suntan
We never felt any sun

NOSTALGIC PUSHEAD [top]

I am the raping sunglass gaze
Of sweating man and escort agencies
60's alienation the anthem of care
Now a knife constantly slashing eyelids

Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god
Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god

They dig the new scene and their parties
Where Stonehenge is worshipped and drugs a deity
Vicarious thrills re-run their youth-
We follow we have no voice the dead
Radio nostalgia is radio death
I wanna cover diamonds on my wife
Hardrock nostalgia the Stones on c.d.
Tranquillised icons for the sweet paralysed

Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god
Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god

So cool the new sound of the decade
Thinks it's so fresh not a post Elvis still
All taste is nothing-old pictures blow dried
Rebellion it always sells at a profit
I am a face of fashion in Soho Square
My tie is Paul Smith or Gaultier
My cheeks blood red as my favourite port
But hey cocaine keeps cholesterol at bay

Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god
Slavery to the beat
Slavery to the chord
Slavery to the pleasure
Slavery to the god
Some god

SYMPHONY OF TOURETTE [top]

Stutter stutter says the little boy
I wanna blow a hole in my head
I swear what this world wants to hear
Trapped in what we know as truth syndrome

Stutter stutter silence no friend
Children can be cruel she said
So I smashed her in the fucking head
Sorry dear that's the nature of Tourette

Stutter stutter nothing else but me
I twitch and turn while underneath
My contemporaries are so in control
Fuck you fuck you I grunt and groan

Stutter stutter can't keep it no more
Children can be cruel she said
So I smashed her in the fucking head
Sorry dear it's the nature of Tourette

Stutter stutter are your eyes closed
You know a hole through which you can fall
But I can't even be bothered to hang on
When you're this numb news don't register
I just opened my eyes

GOLD AGAINST THE SOUL [top]

Somebody told me to vote Conservative
Tragedy is not known under this dimmest of lights
Everybody feels sick by the courtesy of dismay
Was I schooled without direction

Gold against the soul
Rock'n'roll has a conscience
It supplies convenience
Gold against
Against the soul
Against the soul

Close the pits sanctify Roy Lynk an O.B.E.
Shareholding a piece of this fucking country
Fossilize-make Yorkshire into a tourist resort
And dream of new ways to humble the poor
Gold against the soul
White liberal hates slavery
Needs Thai labour to clean his home

Gold erodes
Erodes the soul
Erodes the soul

A 1000 Marlboro deaths ignored everyday
And who gives a shit about sexuality
Gold against the soul
Working class cliches start here
Either cloth caps or smack victims

Gold destroyed
Destroyed the soul
Destroyed the soul

SLASH N' BURN [top]

You need your stars, even killers have prestige
Access to a living you will not see
Twenty-four boredom, I'm convicted instantly
Gorgeous poverty of created needs

Slash n' burn
Kill to live
Kill for kicks
Third world to the first
Kill to live

Worms in the garden more real than McDonalds
Drain your blood and let the Exxon spill in
Look around here, you see nothing is very real
Chained to economy now famine has been

That's all you need

Madonna drinks Coke and so you do too
Tastes real good not like a sweet poison should
Too much comfort to get decadent
Politics here's death and God is safer sex

That's all you need

NAT WEST-BARCLAYS-MIDLANDS-LlOYDS [top]

Economic forecasts soothe our dereliction
Words of euthanasia, apathy of sick routine
Carried away with useless advertising dreams
Blinding children, life as automatons

Nat West, Nat West-Barclays-Midlands-Lloyds
Black horse apocalypse
Death sanitised through credit

Barclays iron eagle, "33 injection"
Sold to advertiser, computer execution line
They give then take away, repossess and crucify
The more you own the more you are, lonelier with cheap desire

Prosperity--exports for Pol Pot
Prosperity--Mein Kampf for beginners

BORN TO END [top]

Get some pain and I feel alive - born to end
Close my eyes overdose on hell - born to end
Get run over by no direction - born to end
Breathing dead and I'm born to end - born to end

Fall to the floor my baby, baby
I no longer believe
Fall to the floor my baby, baby
I've lost the love to sleep

H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying
Nagasaki dolls are burning

Europe freed by McDonald's and Levi's - born to end
Can't afford it so I hate it all - born to end
Images linger like repression - born to end
Concentration camps of our dreams - born to end

Fall to the floor my baby, baby
I no longer believe
Fall to the floor my baby, baby
I've lost the love to sleep

H-bomb the only thing that will bring a freedom to life
Underneath the blue skies beautiful empty dying
Nagasaki dolls are burning

Beg for mercy
Pray for war

MOTORCYCLE EMPTINESS [top]

Culture sucks down words
Itemise loathing and feed yourself smiles
Organise your safe tribal war
Hurt maim kill and enslave the ghetto

Each day living out a lie
Life sold cheaply forever, ever, ever

Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness
Under neon loneliness motorcycle emptiness

Life lies a slow suicide
Orthodox dreams and symbolic myths
From feudal serf to spender
This wonderful world of purchase power

Just like lungs sucking on air
Survival's natural as sorrow, sorrow, sorrow

All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us
All we want from you are the kicks you've given us

Drive away and it's the same
Everywhere death row, everyone's a victim
Your joys are counterfeit
This happiness corrupt political shit

Living life like a comatose
Ego loaded and swallow, swallow, swallow

YOU LOVE US [top]

We are not your sinners
Our voices are for real
We realised and won't be mourned
We gonna burn your death mask uniforms

We won't die of devotion
Understand we can never belong
Thrown some acid on the Mona Lisa's face
Pollute your mineral water with a strychnine taste

You love us
You love

Until I see love in statues
Your lessons drill inherited sin
Parliament's a fake life saver
You better wake up and smell the real flavour

You love us like a holocaust
Same P.R. problem as E.S.T.
You love us like a holocaust
Same P.R. problem as E.S.T.

[on heavenly version: from Lust for Life (Iggy Pop)]

Fall-out scream
Death melody
Maggots in your culture scene
Fall to pieces
When you can't buy
Hey passive electorate
Die, die, die!!!!!

LOVE'S SWEET EXILE [top]

Love's sweet exile

We blur into images of state coercion
Classified machines die misunderstood
City reflections pour out misery
We don't count 'cos we hate

Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave this country
Rain down alienation
Leave this country
Leave it

Despair seeps through and cuts our eyes
Unified collapse of everything inside
We understand but can't accept
You are not dead 'cos we hate

Our lives drift into a faceless sense of void
Everything of meaning becomes destroyed
There's too much concrete for us to breathe
We are kept down 'cos we hate

Love's sweet exile

LITTLE BABY NOTHING [top]

No one likes looking at you
Your lack of ego offends male mentality
They need your innocence
To steal vacant love and to destroy
Your beauty and virginity used like toys

My mind is dead, everybody loves me
Wants a slice of me
Hopelessly passive and compatible
Need to belong, oh the roads are scary
So hold me in your arms
I wanna be your only possession

Used, used, used by men

All they leave behind is money
Paper made out of broken twisted trees
Your pretty face offends
Because it's something real that I can't touch
Eyes, skin, bone, contour, language as a flower

No god reached me, faded films and loving books
Black and white TV
All the world does not exist for me
And if I'm starving, you can feed me lollipops
Your diet will crush me
My life just an old man's memory

Little baby nothing
Loveless slavery, lips kissing empty
Dress your life in loathing
Breaking your mind with Barbie Doll futility

Little baby nothing
Sexually free, made up to break up
Assassinated beauty
Moths broken up, quenched at last
The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by

You are pure, you are snow
We are the useless sluts that they mould
Rock n' roll is our epiphany
Culture, alienation, boredom and despair

REPEAT [top]

Repeat after me
Fuck Queen and country
Repeat after me
Death sentence heritage
Repeat after me
Death camp palace
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Repeat after me
Fuck Queen and country
Repeat after me
Royal Khymer Rouge
Repeat after me
Imitation demigods
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Repeat after me
Fuck Queen and country
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum
Useless generation
Dumb flag scum

TENNESSEE [top]

Your dream can never earn enough
Ultimate nihilistic love

Tennessee nights just zip code love
Always believe the comfort of strangers
Tennessee eyes graffiti once blue
Media sells a trace of hate

Our epitaph reads like your sin
Subvert, destroy, beat derelict

Tennessee nights just zip code love
Commanche becomes as maggot
Tennessee eyes orange once blue
Media sells a trace of hate

His pain forgets her agony
His heart P*M*R*C
His heart P*M*R*C
The white man is disease
His heart P*M*R*C

ANOTHER INVENTED DISEASE [top]

Drugs come out of boredom babe
U.N. exports it everyday
Their armies feed the ghetto lame
Government approve it just the same

Daylight bores the sunshine out of me
I need to feel alone amongst the weeds
Daylight bores the sunshine out of me
I need to feel, I need to feel,
I need to feel, I need to feel

We need and we will always need
Another invented disease
We need and we are taught to need
Another invented disease

Left alone in corporate slums
Where germs are free not Amex fun
Healthy bodies in empty minds
Only exist in advert time

Sunk deep in my TV
Maybe sucked the soul from within me

We need and we will always need
Another invented disease
We need and we are taught to need
Another invented disease

STAY BEAUTIFUL [top]

Find your faith in your security
All broken up at seventeen
Jam your brain with broken heroes
Love your masks and adore your failure

We're a mess of eyeliner and spray paint
D.I.Y. destruction on chanel chic
Deny your culture of consumption
This is a culture of destruction

Don't wanna see your face
Don't wanna hear your words
Why don't you just

Babes on the run with poisoned lips
Wrap your arms 'round this everlasting kiss
Clinging to your own sense of waste
All we love is lonely wreckage

Your school your dole and your checkbook dreams
Your clothes your suits and your pension schemes
Now you say you know how we feel
But don't fall in love 'cos we hate you still

Destroyed by madness
Destroyed by madness
Destroyed by madness
Destroyed by madness
Anxiety is freedom

SO DEAD [top]

Learn to sleep through misery
Never gonna wake feeling free
No one fucks as good as Marilyn
Plastic surgery sure cures your sins

You need a fix I'm your prostitute
Repression says depravity's cute
I'll feed you lines to make you smile
You're so easy to dehumanize

It's not that I can't find worth in anything
It's just that I can't find worth in enough
It's not that I can't find worth in anything
In your love

Pay for it
Pay for it
Degrade your senses till you hate me

Begging to be cool through nicotine
Decadence costs but she must be clean
Build up walls so you can't feel
When you get high `it's so unreal'

Days fade in and I need the night
I've seen your dumb face all of my life
Eyes close down, I don't wanna see
Broken communion of the twentieth century

It's not that I can't find worth in anything
It's just that I can't find worth in enough
It's not that I can't find worth in anything
In your love

Pay for it
Pay for it
You're gonna pay for my intelligence

Pay for it
Pay for it
Cos I'm a slut and you just suck

Pay for it
Pay for it
Degrade your senses till you hate me

Pay for it
Pay for it
We promote all sickness and disease
You're gonna pay for my intelligence
Cos I'm a slut and you just suck

You're so dead
You're so dead

SPECTATORS OF SUICIDE [top]

Obedience to the law is free desire
Under curfew from neon barbed wire
Wasting away this country, wearing like a born dead
Free heroin shots for those who never beg

Spectators of suicide
Democracy is an empty lie
Dead like our yesterdays tonight

The only free choice is refusal to pay
Life reduced to suicidal pain
Cigarettes a life-line, it's safety in death
Choking on the billboards, advertised and fed

Spectators of suicide
Democracy is an empty lie
Dead like our yesterdays tonight

You're gonna shoot us dead with decadence

DAMN DOG [top]

I can lick your face
I can bite it too
My teeth's got rabies
I'm gonna give it to you

Gotta taste for flesh
Gotta taste for danger
So I foam and chew
The hands of a stranger

Feed me, feed me
Can't you hear me howl
Feed me
Cos I'm a damned dog now

Feed me, feed me
Can't you hear me howl
Feed me
Cos I'm a damned dog now

CRUCIFIX KISS [top]

Christin me fuhrer nazarine
Believe in tomorrow not today
Give me all your possessions

Make poverty your perfect home
Allow your leaders to control you
Questions are now blasphemy

Why walk when you can crawl
Stay on your knees and kiss my feet
Censorship'll stop your excess though
Check your billboard for my tour

Listen to Luke sermon six
"And if one of the occupation troops forces you to carry his
Pack one kilometre then carry it two"

Be a tourist in the war zone
Interrogate scriptures and not your stinking home
That diet of bread and water's old

METHADONE PRETTY [top]

I am nothing and should be everything
You're methadone pretty, surrender in pity
Intentional destruction germ
Eats your thoughts and makes you happy

They wanna piece of your skin
Pump it safer than, than a suicide
Methadone Pretty
Methadone Pretty

Heart beats like a refugee machine
Pretty hostage mass, licensed to obey
Xerox days to acceptance
Decline accelerates into prejudice

They wanna piece of your skin
Pump it safer than, than a suicide
Methadone Pretty
Methadone Pretty

I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history
I accuse history, I accuse
I accuse history, I accuse
I don't need your history

Wreckage inside all that's real
Another bought product, no reality
Passive consumers with patrolled desires
Mindless countdown to retirement

They wanna piece of your skin
Pump it safer than, than a suicide
Gonna stay a terminal young thing
An never gonna be methadone pretty
Methadone Pretty
Methadone Pretty Methadone

CONDEMNED TO ROCK 'N' ROLL [top]

Always feeling torn and slow
Love song cull destroy poem
Misery and trauma making love
Best go shoot the fucking doves
The past is so beautiful
The future like a corpse in snow
I think it's all the fucking same
It's a life sentence babe

A line of vodka tears inside
A shot of boredom helps my mind
Staring through a thousand dead eyes
I guess my nerves are brutalised

Lips I kiss just another plague
Love can't fix the hole they made
Condemned to rock 'n' roll

No innocent exit when hope dies
And claustrophobia buys my mind
I ran to breathe contagious lies
No reason for just living life
Rip cord opens but my soul is cold
With you I never felt more alone
Skin never sweating dignity
Kept my line beneath ecstasy

This fragile prison of sanity
An ocean wave to death babe
Masochistic love going nowhere
You're nothing, pestilence, a seed

Oblivion's all we know

There's nothing I want to see
There's nowhere I wanna go
Condemned to rock 'n' roll

Sterile like a line of piss, motherfucker
Review with avant-garde lips, motherfucker

There's nothing I wanna see
There's nowhere I wanna go

DEMOCRACY COMA [top]

Sovereign fingers scrape our lives until we're bought
Screaming comatose with blackboard chalk
Siphoned minds suck a wallet full of love
Spitting out a language I don't wanna talk

Mother of the free she said that we'd breathe
Mother of the free but we just scream

To me the coronation's another auto-da-fe
Taught in schools to see her as a glorious being
I don't see happy homes but the Belfast wall
In Walkman sounds hear Sony control

Parliament mother of United Nations
Mother of history's dead sun, dead suns
DNA of restriction and law
Death, famine, spectacle and war

YES [top]

For sale? dumb cunt's same dumb questions · virgin? listen, all virgins are liars honey · and I don't know what I'm scared of or what I even enjoy · dulling, get money, but nothing turns out like you want it to · and in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything · for $200 anyone can conceive a God on video · he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock · tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want · I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thank you · puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies · can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out · I `T' them, 24:7, all year long · purgatory's circle, drowning here, someone will always say yes · funny place for the social, for the insects to start caring · just an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff · in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything · for $200 anyone can conceive a God on video · he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock · tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want · I eat and I dress and I wash and I can still say thank you · puking - shaking - sinking I still stand for old ladies · can't shout, can't scream, I hurt myself to get pain out · power produces desire, the weak have none · there's no lust in this coma, even for a fifty · solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment · the only certain thing that is left about me · there's no part of my body that has not been used · pity or pain, to show displeasure's shame · everyone I've loved or hated always seems to leave · and in these plagued streets of pity you can buy anything · for $200 anyone can conceive a God on video · he's a boy, you want a girl so tear off his cock · tie his hair in bunches, fuck him, call him Rita if you want · power produces desire, the weak have none · there's no lust in this coma, even for a fifty · solitude, solitude, the 11th commandment · don't hurt, just obey, lie down, do as they say · may as well be heaven this hell, smells the same · these sunless afternoons I can't find myself.

IFWHITEAMERICA... [top]

Images of perfection, suntan and napalm · Grenada - Haiti - Poland - Nicaragua · who shall we choose for our morality · I'm thinking right now of Hollywood tragedy · big mac smack: phoenix r: please smile y'all · Cuba, Mexico can't cauterize our discipline · your idols speak so much of the abyss · yet your morals only run as deep as the surface · cool - groovey - morning - fine · Tipper Gore was a friend of mine · I love a free country · the stars and stripes and an apple for mommy · conservatives say there ain't no black in the union jack · democrat say there ain't enough white in the stars and stripes · Compton - Harlem - a pimp fucked a priest · the white man has just found a new moral saviour · vital stats - how white was there skin · unimportant - just another inner-city drive-by thing · morning - fine - serve your first coffee of the day · real privilege, it will take your problems all away · number one - the best - no excuse from me · I am here to serve the moral majority · cool - groovey - morning - fine · Tipper Gore was a friend of mine · I love a free country · the stars and stripes and an apple for mommy · Zapruder the first to masturbate · the world's first taste of crucified grace · and we say there's not enough black in the union jack · and we say there's too much white in the stars and stripes · fuck the Brady Bill · fuck the Brady Bill · if God made man they say · Sam Colt made him equal.

OF WALKING ABORTION [top]

Life is dead weights, pendulum died · pure or lost, spectator or crucified · recognised truth acedia's blackest hole · junkies winos whores the nation's moral suicide · loser - liar - fake - phoney · no-one cares, everyone is guilty · fucked up - dunno why - you poor little boy · we are all of walking abortion · shalom shalom we all love our children · we are all of walking abortion · shalom shalom there are no horizons · Mussolini hangs from a butcher's hook · Hitler reprised in the worm of your soul · Horthy's corpse screened to a million · Tiso revised, the horror of a bullfight · fragments of uniforms, open black ruins · a moral conscience - you've no wounds to show · so wash your car in your 'X' baseball shoes · we all of of walking abortion · shalom shalom we all love our children · we are all of walking abortion · shalom shalom there are no horizons · little people in little houses · like maggots small blind and worthless · the massacred innocent blood stains us all · who's responsible - you fucking are · who's responsible - you fucking are · who's responsible - you fucking are · who's responsible - you fucking are · who's responsible

SHE IS SUFFERING [top]

Beauty finds refuge in herself · lovers wrapped inside each others lies · beauty is such a terrible thing · she is suffering more than death · she is suffering · she sucks you deeper in · she is suffering · you exist within her shadow · beauty she is scarred into man's soul · a flower attracting lust, vice and sin · a vine that can strangle life from a tree · carrion, surrounding, picking on leaves · she is suffering · she sucks you deeper in · she is suffering · you exist within her shadow · beauty she poisons unfaithful all · stifled, her touch is leprous and pale · the less she gives the more you need her · no thoughts to forget when we were children · she is suffering · she sucks you deeper in · she is suffering · nature's lukewarm pleasure.

ARCHIVES OF PAIN [top]

If hospitals cure · then prisons must bring their pain · do not be ashamed to slaughter · the centre of humanity is cruelty · there is never redemption · any fool can regret yesterday · nail it to the House of Lords · You will be buried in the same box as a killer, as a killer, as a killer · a drained white body hanging from the gallows · is more righteous than Hindley's crotchet lectures · pain not penance, forget martyrs, remember victims · the weak die young and right now we crouch to make them strong · kill Yeltsin, who's saying? Zhirinovsky, Le Pen, Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allit, Sutcliffe, Dahmer, Nielson, Yoshinori Ueda, Blanche and Pickles, Amin, Milosovic · Give them respect they deserve · give them the respect they deserve · give them the respect they deserve · give them the respect they deserve · execution needed · a bloody vessel for your peace · if man makes death then death makes man · tear the torso with horses and chains · killers view themselves like they view the world, they pick at the holes · not punish less, rise the pain · sterilise rapists, all I preach is extinction · kill Yeltsin, who's saying? Zhirinovsky, Le Pen, Hindley and Brady, Ireland, Allit, Sutcliffe, Dahmer, Nielson, Yoshinori Ueda, Blanche and Pickles, Amin, Milosovic · Give them respect they deserve · give them the respect they deserve · give them the respect they deserve · give them the respect they deserve.

REVOL [top]

Mr. Lenin - awaken the boy · Mr. Stalin - bisexual epoch · Kruschev - self love in his mirrors · Brezhnev - married into group sex · Gorbachev - celibate self importance · Yeltsin - failure is his own impotence · revol - revol · revol - revol · lebensraum - kulturkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila · Chamberlain - you see God in you · Trotsky - honeymoon, serenade the naked · Che Guevara - you're all TARGET now · Pol Pot - withdraw traces, bye bye · Farrakhan - alimony alimony · revol - revol · revol - revol · lebensraum - kulturkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila · revol - revol · revol - revol · lebensraum - kulturkampf - raus - raus - fila - fila · revol.

4st 7lb [top]

"I eat too much to live and not enough to stay alive. I'm just sitting in the middle, waiting." · Days since I last pissed · cheeks sunken and despaired · so gorgeous sunk to six stone · lose my only remaining home · see my third rib appear · a week later all my flesh disappear · stretching taut, cling-film on bone · I'm getting better · Karen says I've reached my TARGET weight · Kate and Emma and Kristin know it's fake · problem is diet's not a big enough word · I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view · I want to walk in the snow · and not leave a footprint · I want to walk in the snow · and not soil its purity · stomach collapsed at five · lift up my skirt my sex is gone · naked and lovely and 5st. 2 · may I bud and never flower · my vision's getting blurred · but I can see my rib's and I feel fine · my hands are trembling stalks · and I can feel my breasts are sinking · mother tries to choke me with roast beef · and sits savouring her sole Ryvitta · that's the way your built my father said · but I can change, my cocoon shedding · I want to walk in the snow · and not leave a footprint · I want to walk in the snow · and not soil its purity · Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat · all things I like looking at · too weak to fuss, too weak to die · choice is skeletal in everybody's life · I choose, my choice, I starve to frenzy · hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires · legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy · and I don't mind the horror that surrounds me · self-worth scatters, self esteem's a bore · I long since moved to a higher plateau · this discipline's so rare so please applaud · just look at the fat scum who pamper me so · yeh 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth · such beautiful dignity in self-abuse · I've finally come to understand life · through staring blankly at my navel.

MAUSOLEUM [top]

Wherever you go I will be carcass · whatever you see will be rotting flesh · humanity recovered glittering etiquette · answers her crimes with Mausoleum rent · regained your self-control · and regained your self-esteem · and blind your success inspires · and analyse, despise and scrutinise · never knowing what you hoped for · and safe and warm but life is so silent · for the victims who have no speech · in their shapeless guilty remorse · obliterates your meaning · obliterates your meaning · obliterates your meaning · your meaning, your meaning · no birds - no birds · the sky is swollen black · no birds - no birds · holy mass of dead insect · come and walk down memory lane · no one sees a thing but they can pretend · life eternal scorched grass and trees · for your love nature has haemorrhaged · regained your self-control · and regained your self-esteem · and blind your success inspires · and analyse, despise and scrutinise · never knowing what you hoped for · and safe and warm but life is so silent · for the victims who have no speech · in their shapeless guilty remorse · obliterates your meaning · obliterates your meaning · obliterates your meaning · your meaning, your meaning · no birds - no birds · the sky is swollen black · no birds - no birds · holy mass of dead insect · and life can be as important as death · but so mediocre when there's no air, no light and no hope · prejudice burns brighter when it's all we have to burn · the world lances youth's lamb-like winter, winter.

FASTER [top]

I am an architect, they call me a butcher · I am a pioneer, they call me primitive · I am purity, they call me perverted · holding you but I only miss these things when they leave · I am idiot drug hive, the virgin, the tattered and the torn · life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards · self-disgust is self-obsession honey and I do as I please · a morality obedient only to the cleansed repented · I am stronger then Mensa, Miller and Mailer · I spat out Plath and Pinter · I am all the things that you regret · a truth that washes that learnt how to spell · the first time you see yourself naked you cry · soft skin now acne, foul breath, so broken · he loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining · I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing · sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind · shadows aren't clean, false mirrors · too many people awake · if you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down · I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else · I am stronger then Mensa, Miller and Mailer · I spat out Plath and Pinter · I am all the things that you regret · a truth that washes that learnt how to spell, learnt to spell · so damn easy to cave in, man kills everything · so damn easy to cave in, man kills everything · so damn easy to cave in, man kills everything · so damn easy to cave in, man kills everything.

THIS IS YESTERDAY [top]

Do not listen to a word I say · just listen to what I can keep silent · the only way to gain approval · is by exploiting the very thing that cheapens me · I stare at the sky · and it leaves me blind · I close my eyes · and this is yesterday · someone somewhere soon will take care of you · I repent, I'm sorry, everything is falling apart · houses as ruins and gardens as weeds · why do anything when you can forget everything · I stare at the sky · and it leaves me blind · I close my eyes · and this is yesterday · I stare at the sky · and it leaves me blind · I close my eyes · and this is yesterday

DIE IN THE SUMMERTIME [top]

Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals · colour my hair but the dye grows out · I can't seem to stay a fixed ideal · childhood pictures redeem, clean and so serene · see myself without ruining lines · whole days throwing sticks into streams · I have crawled so far sideways · I recognise dim traces of creation · I wanna die, die in the summertime · the hole in my life even stains the soil · my heart shrinks to barely a pulse · a tiny animal curled into a quarter circle · if you really care wash the feet of a beggar · I have crawled so far sideways · I recognise dim traces of creation · I wanna die, die in the summertime · I have crawled so far sideways · I recognise dim traces of creation · I wanna die, die in the summertime.

THE INTENSE HUMMING OF EVIL [top]

You were what you were · clean cut, unbecoming · recreation for the masses · you always mistook fists for flowers · welcome welcome soldier smiling · funeral march for agony's last edge · 6 million screaming souls · maybe misery - maybe nothing at all · lives that wouldn't have changed a thing · never counted - never mattered - never be · arbeit macht frei · transports of invalids · Hartheim Castle breathes us in · in block 5 we worship malaria · lagerstrasse, poplar trees · beauty lost, dignity gone · Rascher surveys us butcher bacteria · welcome welcome soldier smiling · soon infected, nails broken hunger's a word · 6 million screaming souls · maybe misery - maybe nothing at all · lives that wouldn't have changed a thing · never counted - never mattered - never be · drink it away, every tear is false · Churchill no different · wish the workers bled to a machine.

PCP [top]

Teacher starve your child, P.C. approved · as long as the right words are used · systemised atrocity ignored · as long as bi-lingual signs on view · ten foot sign in Oxford Street · be pure - be vigilant - behave · grey not neon, grey not real · life bleeds, death is your birthright · P.C. she speaks impotent, sterile, naïve, blind, atheist, sadist, stiff-upper lip, first principle of her silence, of her silence · PCP - a P.C. police victory · PCP - a P.C. phyrric victory · when I was young P.C. meant Police Constable · nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference · liposuction for your bad mouth boy · cut out your tongue, effigies are sold · words discoloured, bow to the bland · heal yourself with sinner's salt · doctors arrested for euthanasia · kill smokers through blind vanity · if you're fat don't get ill · Europe's gravestone carved in plastic · P.C. she says inoculate, hallucinate, beware Shakespeare, bring fresh air, king cigarette snuffed out by her midgets, by her midgets · PCP - a P.C. police victory · PCP - a P.C. pyrrhic victory · when I was young P.C. meant Police Constable · nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference · P.C. caresses bigots and big brother, read Leviticus, learnt censorship, pro-life equals anti-choice, to be scared of, of feathers · PCP - a P.C. police victory · PCP - a P.C. pyrrhic victory · when I was young P.C. meant Police Constable · nowadays I can't seem to tell the difference · lawyers before love, surrogate sex · this land bows down to · yours, unconditional love and hate · pass the prozac, designer amnesiac.

THE EVERLASTING [top]

The gap that grows between our lives
The gap our parents never had
Stop those thoughts control your mind
Replace the things that you despise
Oh you're old i hear you say
It doesn't mean that i don't care
I don't believe in it anymore
Pathetic acts for a worthless cause

In the beginning
When we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
In the beginning
When we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
But now unforgiven
The everlasting everlasting

The world is full of refugees
They're just like you and just like me
But as people we have a choice
To end the void with all its force
So don't forget or don't pretend
It's all the same now in the end
It was said in a different life
Destroys my days and haunts my nights?

In the beginning
When we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
In the beginning
When we were winning
When our smiles were genuine
But now unforgiving
The everlasting everlasting
Now unforgiving, the everlasting everlasting

IF YOU TOLERATE THIS YOUR CHILDREN WILL BE NEXT [top]

The future teaches you to be alone
The present to be afraid and cold
So if I can shoot rabbits
Then I can shoot fascists

Bullets for your brain today
But we'll forget it all again
Monuments put from pen to paper
Turns me into a gutless wonder

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Yes if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next, will be next

Gravity keeps my head down or
Is it maybe shame
At being so young and being so vain
Holes in your head today but
I'm a pacifist
I've walked La Ramblas but not
With real intent

And on the street tonight an old man plays
with newspaper cuttings of his glory days

And if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next
Yes if you tolerate this
Then your children will be next, will be next

YOU STOLE THE SUN FROM MY HEART [top]

Drinking - water to stay thin
Or is it to purify
I love you all the same

But there's no ~ no real truce with my fury
You don't have to believe me
I love you all the same

But you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from
You stole the sun from my heart

You have - broken through my armour
And i don't have an answer
I love you all the same

I paint - the things i want to see
But it don't come easy
I love you all the same

But you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart

Think i'm - lost amongst the undergrowth
So much so i woke up
I love you all the same

But you stole the sun from my heart
You stole the sun from my heart

I have - i've got to stop smiling
It gives the wrong impression
I love you all the same

READY FOR DROWNING [top]

Here's a true story
Said someone to me yesterday
Said he'd heard it in a taxi
Must have had him at my mercy
Drown that poor thing
Put it out of its misery
Condemn it to its future
Deny its history-deny its history

So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning

Look through my venetian blinds
Dusting the past off of my mind
Seeing orange everywhere
I'd go to patagonia
But it's harder there
I'll do anything to prove i care
Fascinated by good destroyed by evil
What is there to believe in

So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We're not ready for drowning
So where are we going
We are not waving we are drowning

TSUNAMI [top]

For you my dear sister
Holding onto me for ever
Disco dancing with the rapists
Your only crime is silence

Can't work at this anymore
Can't move i want to stay at home
Tied up to all these crutches
Never far from your hands

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Can't speak, can't think, won't talk, won't walk

Doctors tells me that i'm cynical
I tell them that it must be chemical
So what am i doing girl
Cry into my drink i disappear

Eyes for teeth grating over me
Bring down the shadows of my mind
Sleep and breathe under our sheets
Inhale the anxiety in - between, in - between in - between, in - between

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Through september under the weather

In - between, in - between, in - between, in - between

Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Tsunami tsunami came washing over me
Take the GI's i will have the spies

MY LITTLE EMPIRE [top]

My little empire
Has risen and it's set
My little empire
Is as good as it can get
My little empire
Is coming around
My little empire
It don't make a sound

My royalty it does not exist
It is extinct for the eye to see
My ideology it is dead and gone
Almost forgotten for the eye to see

My litte empire
I'm sick of being sick
My little empire
I'm tired of being tired
My little empire
I'm bored of being bored
My little empire
I'm happy being sad

All of my sins are attempts to fill the voids
All of my voids they are filled with sin
All of my demons they are kept within
And all my violence it does not exist

My little empire
I'm happy being sad
My little empire
I'm fucked with being fucked
My little empire
I'm done with being dumb
My little empire
I'm happy being sad happy being sad happy being sad happy being sad

I'M NOT WORKING [top]

Petrified for the millionth time
Slowly my soul evaporates
No parachutes no dismal clouds
Just this fucking space

I know what's coming
I'm not working
I know what's coming
I'm not working

Sweating out intelligence
Like i don't know what it is
Clinging to the microwaves
And singing with the soundwaves

I know what's coming
I'm not working
I know what's coming
I'm not working

Delirium on helium
I am my own experience

I know what's coming
I'm not working
I know what's coming
I'm not working x4

YOU'RE TENDER AND YOU'RE TIRED [top]

You're so fragile tonight
Been up hurting all night
It's not trivial like they think

Yes you're desperate and you're hurt
Thought about it so many times
Too afraid to open your eyes
To see the sadness that's inside
Just sit back in and stop time

You're tender and you're tired
You can't be bothered to decide
Whether you live or die or just forget about your life

But it's too late to be real
No time to be strong enough
Just time to leave it all behind
Memory has become pain

Rebuild the void with flowers
Sad eyed destruction built around sand and sea
Yes you can build yourself around
Build yourself around me
Yourself around me

You're tender and you're tired
You can't be bothered to decide
Whether you live or die or just forget about your life
You're tender and you're tired
You can't be bothered to decide
Whether you live or die or just forget about your life
You're tender and you're tired
You can't be bothered to decide
Whether you live or die or just forget about your life
Drift away and die
Never say goodbye
Drift away and die
Never say goodbye
Drift away and die
Never say goodbye
Drift away and die

BORN A GIRL [top]

Do i look good for you tonight
Will you accuse me as i hide
Behind these layers of disguise
In the mirrors of my own happiness

I've loved the freedom of being inside
Need a new start and a different time
Something grows in the space between me
And it's twisting and changing this fragile body

And i wish i had been born a girl
Instead of what i am
Yes i wish i had been born a girl
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man

The censorship of my skin
Is screaming inside and from within
There's no room in this world for a girl like me
No place around there where i fit in

And i wish i had been born a girl
Instead of what i am
Yes i wish i had been born a girl
And not this mess of a man
And not this mess of a man (x4)

BE NATURAL [top]

Been natural
For once in my life
Now i'll have to swallow some pride
Know that i should never give advice
But it's too late now to say goodbye

Be natural don't want any friends
Be natural come on and hit me again
Be natural i'm repeating myself
Be natural is there anything else

Starbright keep me safe - today and tonight
No water tastes like lemonade s
Lowly slowly it starts to fade

Be natural with me tonight
Be natural put your fists in my eyes
Be natural so turn me to stone
Be natural just leave me alone

Grown up or backwards born
Into eternity and blackholes
Floating around up here on my own
Screaming at me
Forever unknown

Been natural
Been natural
Been natural
Been natural - is there anyone else

BLACK DOG ON MY SHOULDER [top]

There's a black dog on my shoulder again
Licking my neck and saying she's my friend
Solitude the one thing that i really miss
Guess my life is a compromise

There's a black dog on my shoulder again
I'm playing with it but it's gone to my head
Like carlitg's way there are no exit signs
Freeze me there until i am numb
My mouth is so dry
My eyes are shut tight
There's a black dog a coming tonight
Black dog's a coming tonight

My dilemma but not my choice
Winston churchill can you hear my voice
Melodrama there in my kitchen sink
Double vision the way it is

Am i coming home to you again
Or am i stupid just by design
Does it matter if you really ever know
This black dog is out of control
My mouth is so dry
My eyes age shut tight
There's a black dog a coming tonight
Black dog's a coming tonight

Am i coming home to you again
Or am i stupid just by design
Does it matter if you really ever know
This black dog is out of control

NOBODY LOVED YOU [top]

What's your story baby
No control of what i am saying
Winter leaves still make me believe
No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree

Never had the chance to take you home
Now there's no reason just another tomorrow
You keep giving me your free air miles
What would i give just for one of your smiles
Just for one of your smiles

Nobody loved you -
Nobody made you feel so alone
Nobody loved you -
No no nobody loved you -
Nobody made you feel so alone
Nobody loved you - no no

Let me turn down all these lights
And sit with me then you can hold me tight
Give me some more of your carrier bags
And let me dream of a new autumn light

Tell me your story baby
What's your poison and what is your honey
You've stopped me hurting but so much disorder
Winter flowers did you ever forgive her
Did you ever forgive her

Nobody loved you -
Nobody made you feel so alone
Nobody loved you - no no

Cherry blossom tree -
But at least you are free
Nobody loved you - like me

It's unreal now you're gone -
But at least you belong
Nobody loved you no - no

What's your story baby
No control of what i am saying
Winter leaves still make me believe
No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree
Just a cherry blossom tree

S.Y.M.M. [top]

20ft, high on Blackpool promenade
fake royalty second hand sequin facade
limited face paint and dyed black quiff
overweight and out of date
oh well
American trilogy in Lancashire Pottery
is so fucking funny, don't you know
all American trilogy in used up cars and bottled beer
all American trilogy the future's dead, fundamentally
it's so fucking funny, it's absurd
20ft, high on Blackpool promenade.

DESIGN FOR LIFE [top]

Libraries gave us power
Then work came made us free
What price now for a shallow piece of dignity?

I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my dirty face
To wear the scars
To show from where I came

We don't talk about love
We only want to get drunk

And we are not alarmed to spend
As we are told that this is the end
A design for life

I wish I had a bottle
Right here in my pretty face
To wear the scars
To show from where I came

KEVIN CARTER [top]

Hi Time Magazine, Hi Pulitzer prize
tribal scars in technicolour
bang bang club AK 47 hour
Kevin Carter
Hi Time Magazine, Hi Pulitzer prize
vulture stalked white
piped lie forever
wasted your life in black and white
Kevin Carter
the elephant is so ugly he sleeps his head
machetes his bed Kevin Carter kaffir lover forever
click click click click click
click himself under
Kevin Carter

ENOLA/ALONE [top]

The Statue of Liberty looks so solemn on the TV
100% risk of stepping outside
every second too precious to try
my heart aches for Enola
from my birth a relic to killer
but all I want to do is live
no matter how miserable it is
please sing to me a song Enola / alone
please take me on home Enola / alone
I walk in the grass and I feel some peace at last
I walk on the beach and for once I feel some ease
I'll take a picture of you
to remember how good you looked
like memory it has disappeared
naked and lonely within my fears
please sing to me a song Enola / alone
please take me on home Enola / alone

EVERYTHING MUST GO [top]

shed some skin for the fear within
is starting to hurt me with everything
freed from the memory
escape from our history, history
and I just hope that you can forgive us
but everything must go
and if you need an explanation
then everything must go
I look to the future it makes me cry
but it seems too real to tell you why
freed from the century
with nothing but memory, memory
and I just hope that you can forgive us
but everything must go
and if you need an explanation
then everything must go
freed us eventually just need to be happy, happy
and I just hope that you can forgive us
but everything must go
and if you need an explanation
then everything must go
and if you need an explanation
then everything must go

SMALL BLACK FLOWERS.. [top]

you have your very own number
they dress your cage in it's nature
once you roared now you just grunt lame
pace around pathetic pound games
wanna get out won't miss you sensaround
to carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks
wanna get out in here you're bred dead quick
for the outside
the small black flowers that grow in the sky
they drag sticks along your walls
harvest your ovaries
dead mothers crawl
here comes warden, Christ, temple, elders
environment not yours you see through it all
wanna get out won't miss you sensaround
carry your own dead to swing your tyre tricks
wanna get out here you're bred dead quick
for the outside
the small black flowers that grow in the sky
here chewing your tail is joy

THE GIRL WHO WANTED TO BE GOD [top]

there are no sunsets just silence
you could see that she was true and faithless
but see through the future and forget all the lies
black out the words for the blind have eyes
I am the girl who wanted to be God
there are times when you feel hopeless
just for one for no-one else we are blameless
the dawn is still breaking
it's heaven is so high
she told the truth, told the truth and then she lied
I am the girl who wanted to be God
hold me she said love me to death

REMOVABLES [top]

conscience binds you in chains
trail by stone hammer and nails
no-one made the holes but me
misery mourns to be devoured
killed God blood soiled unclean again
killed God blood soiled skin dead again
again everywhere again
all removables, all transitory
all removables, passing always
all removables, all transitory
all removables, passing always
never grown preserved gently
a bronze moth dies easily
unknown to others weak to me
broken hands never ending
aimless rut of my own perception
numbly waiting for voices to tell me
all removables, all transitory
all removables, passing always
all removables, all transitory
all removables, passing always
all removables, all transitory
all removables, passing always

AUSTRALIA [top]

I don't know if I'm tired and I don't know if I'm ill
my cheeks are turning yellow
I think I'll take another pill
praying for the wave to come now
it must be for the fifteenth time
I've been here for much too long
this is the past that's mine
I want to fly and run till it hurts
sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia
in Australia praying for the wave to come now
it must be for the very last time
it's twelve o'clock till midnight
there must be someone to blame
I want to fly and run till it hurts
sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia
in Australia.

INTERIORS [top]

who sees the interiors like young Willem once did
your beautiful triangle of distortion
now you seem to forget it so much
who sees the interiors like young Willem once did
say you can remember say where is the tomorrow
say where you are coming from
say what you have left us
are we too tired to try and understand
that nothing is nothing on that we depend
take my hand together and we will cry
it really makes no difference
to what you see inside to what you see inside
who sees the interiors like young Willem you once did
a beautiful landscape of your nation
another era is not forthcoming
who sees the interiors like young Willem once did
say you can remember say where is the tomorrow
say where you are coming from say what you have
are we too tired to try and understand
that nothing is nothing on that we depend
take my hand together and we will cry
it really makes no difference
to what you see inside to what you see inside

FURTHER AWAY [top]

the further away I get from you
the harder it gets for everyone else, for everyone else
the happier I am when I'm with you
the harder it gets when I am alone, when I am alone
the harder I try to learn something from you further away
the stiller the oxygen the harder you breathe
the draining away just like an old man's dream
just like an old man's dream
the simpler the answer the harder it can get
the circular landscape comes back only with regret
only with regret
the more estranged I feel from my youth further away
further away feel it fade into
your childhood further away
further away feel dazed and misunderstood
further away
further away feel it fade into your childhood further away
further away feel dazed and misunderstood
further away

NO SURFACE ALL FEELING [top]

embarrassed, possessed and so uncivilised
just take a look at the whites of my eyes
see me now and I will apologise
for me for you we knew they were lies
it makes me angry ashamed but really alive
it may have worked but at what price
what's the point in always looking back
when all you see is more and more junk
feel the guilt of a sinner
feel the cold of a winter
it was no surface but all feeling
maybe at the time it felt like dreaming
maybe richer maybe wiser
seems so easy to not go too far
beg me to stop hate my face I know
tell me forever just to go
just one thing before I get to sleep
nothing here but the stains on my teeth
no not blood just liquid from you
I only wish it was the truth
feel the guilt of a sinner
feel the cold of a winter
it was no surface but all feeling
maybe at the time it felt like dreaming

SUICIDE ALLEY [top]

I'm going down to Suicide Alley
'Cos the air I breathe tastes better down there
I'm going down to Suicide Alley
'Cos it seems as if it's the only place for me

And I'm going down to Suicide Alley
Where you can't get at me
And I'm going down to Suicide Alley
Where I can be what I want to be

You won't eat away at my mind
With your ideas of decency
I'll be in Suicide Alley
Being who and what I want to be

NEW ART RIOT [top]

Vintage aromas and vintage ideals
Old men greying to a dying country's needs
Waiting for a knighthood to while away the hours
Listen and learn now it's time to kill your betters
Museums are dead take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration Diktat
Hospital closure kills more than car bombs ever will
But it saves money because people are expendable
You cold shoulder insurgens yet love arms dealers
Everybody's taking drugs as it makes governing easier
Revolution soon dies sold out for a pay rise
China, Russia, England all washed up in power abuse
Terrorism is an excuse that the ruling class use
Wipe out aristocracy now kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
England makes judgements of old school propaganda
The only threat to heads is silenced by dumb pleasure
Museums are dead take a new art stance
Paint mass suicide on the aspiration Diktat

STRIP IT DOWN [top]

Ain't no fun at the government hall
Slicked back injustice sits nicely next to smiles
Paranoia at the heels of too much greed
Obedience an art form while the sad bleed

Success and love dictate while skin touches fashion
Consumerism beauty for cheap appeal
I don't wanna dance for people to watch
Smother my life in interest accounts

Outside life brings down genocide
And consumer self-hate leads to designer bullshit
Hate is are and we steal cars
Decaying flowers in the playground of the rich

You can launch sweetly and say nice things
But I ain't ever on the way up
My only way is down on disease that tries to suffocate
The pure ideals that turn to hate

LAST EXIT ON YESTERDAY [top]

Dance to the Valentine, anthems that kill
Valium veins and eyes that sink
Lying down I want, want a brainwash trip
Don't wanna wake next to your stretched skin
Your screaming so much that I feel sorry to breathe
I wanna feel cold and I wanna bleed your disease
Hold your head up and pray for the sun
But rain keeps pouring on and on
Loveless, aloneless, life that just impales
As backs break thorns dig deeper in
Baby can't have her little bit of love
Cos it's wrapped up inside her lover's gut
Lazy fat executive seller
Sway to the sound of another dead lover
So dull and tired, of his pretty face
Makes the truth seem easy but you've lost
Laugh at the TV, empty sell of life
Mundane exile it's not of your choice

TEENAGE 20/20 [top]

I wanna wake to a shot parade of wealth
And take a spray can to my useless vote
I don't like your city Dresden dance
I'm drowning in a manufactured ego-fuck

We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving
We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving
We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving

Speeding so lonely into wall after wall
Teenage 20/20 beat the in-call
Sick to the stomach of our fingertip scrawl
All your rebellion corporation owned

We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving
We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving
We're dead end dolls and nothing's moving

MOTOWN JUNK [top]

Never ever wanted to be with you
All you ever gave me was the boredom I suffocate in
Adrift in cheap dreams don't stop the rain
Numbed out in piss towns just wanna dig their graves

Motown, Motown Junk
I laughed when Lennon got shot
21 years of living and nothing means anything to me
Motown Junk a lifetime of slavery

Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
Stops your brain thinking for 168 seconds

I don't want cos I just get
All you slut heroes offer is a fear of the future
Past made useless cos I'm dying now
Communal tyranny a jail that bleeds our wrists

Motown, Motown Junk
I laughed when Lennon got shot
21 years of living and nothing means anything to me
Motown Junk a lifetime of slavery

Songs of love echo underclass betrayal
Stops your heart beating for 168 seconds
Stops your brain thinking for 168 seconds

A VISION OF DEAD DESIRE [top]

Primary prole MP judge general policeman
Figureheads sucked in as just another token
To sell your culture and tolerate another
Annihilation in the persuit of self-love corruption

Vision of dead desire - tune in reception control
Vision of dead desire - underclass coma zone

Don't pacify your life to suit dead law convention
White trash held up as just more gold chain icons
State fed lies charm empty eyes
Happy thoughts a unity death smile of acceptance

Vision of dead desire - mainline on a death fix
Vision of dead desire - bleed the thought of throwing bricks

Europe land, realise your thoughts
Kill all ruling class laws

SORROW 16 [top]

Cut your hair in front of business men
Kill yourself and censor health
Destroy words and ignore their truth
Wanna die and have never worked

I feel like falling
I feel like falling
I can't feel, no need to care
Narcotic of ambition poisoned my air
Wearing hate like you wear money
Spitting out Perrier and sucking down Vodka
Oh the road is beautiful
You live stoned on obedience
Your vanity kills people
Paint your ego in blood

The wall is a reason for you to believe
There's too many numbers for us to sleep
The wall is a reason for you to believe
There's too many numbers for us to sleep

WE HER MAJESTY'S PRISONERS [top]

Jewels drip red and I don't sound proud
Treason is ambition I want dead procession
All we got unholy left-overs of a compromise
Leaving us like butterflies trapped in frost
England's glory lives on in world wide genocide
So celebrate Buchenwald as Her Majesty's heir
Now an obsolete face on a currency of illusion
No matter what we own we can't buy freedom
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you
Throw myself against you cos you ain't frail
Underneath silk riches sixty six million giving slaves
This needle of religions gonna rust my skin
Tear out and exit obeyance of created sin
Faces pressed onto gates of anniversary torture
Without these fake images we'd never bow down
Don't need this history but we still accept
Conscripted into a past that invents our guilt
Ceremony rape machine
Love won't corrode you

STARLOVER [top]

Paint your lips, things fall apart
Flowers of hate caress my skin
Spend my time sucked up inside
Mutilation kick of all you believe in

Starlover you're just a souvenir
Starlover you're just another prayer
Starlover oh you touch me so
Feel like faces without kisses

Sterile wants spin in my head
Don't need culture, I spit it out
Twist and fall, wounds don't choke
Piss on records, wanna see you dead

A body voice born under torture
Leper cult disciples of a still born Christ
I worship stone so lance my eyes
Miles apart from anyone
Soma air waves of killing oxygen
We queue consuming anything
Hate all songs
Aesthetic slavery now

Starlover you're just a souvenir
Starlover you're just another prayer
Starlover oh you touch me so
A body voice born under torture

ITS SO EASY [top]

I see your sister in her
Sunday dress
She's out to please
She pouts her best
She's out to take
No need to try
She's ready to make

It's so easy, easy
When everybody's tryin' to
please me, baby
It's so easy, easy
When everybody's tryin' to
please me

Cars are crashin' every night
I drink n' drive
everything's in sight
I make the fire
But I miss the firefight
I hit the bull's eye every night

It's so easy, easy
When everybody's tryin' to
please me, baby
Yeah it's so easy, easy
When everybody's tryin' to please me
So easy
But nothin' seems to please me
It all fits so right
When I fade into the night
See me hit you
You fall down

I see you standin' there
You think you're so cool
Why don't you just
Fuck off

Ya get nothin' for nothin'
If that's what you do
Turn around bitch I got a use for you
Besides you ain't got nothin' better to do
And I'm bored

It's so easy, easy
When everybody's tryin' to
please me, baby
It's so easy, easy
When everybody's tryin' to please me
So easy
But nothin' seems to please me
It all fits so right
When I fade into the night
So come with me
Don't ask me where cause I don't know
I'll try to please you
I ain't got no money
But it goes to show
It's so easy

R.P. McMURPHY [top]

Straight jacket your own beauty
Because it's just a breakdown away
From the gutter to the jewel
A symbol sold in investment days
Defenceless as the pages you burn
A baby drowning under a profit curve
Money bruises the skin at birth

I just wanna lie down in my bed
Make myself different from the rest
Use a thought to put myself to sleep
Collapsing in the fields where it feels free
Where it feels free
R.P. McMurphy
No more pills and no more drugs

This country pisses debris
Like ugly people made pretty
Underneath cheap make-up
Deformed, disguised mind decay
Buy, consume, get more credit
Learn to serve a life sentence here
Style yourself in sterility

I just wanna lie down in my bed
Make myself different from the rest
Use a thought to put myself to sleep
Collapsing in the fields where it feels free
Where it feels free
R.P. McMurphy
No more pills and no more drugs

BORED OUT OF MY MIND [top]

I'm...I'm feeling too awake
I'm...I'm tired of what I see
Everybody's dreaming running for the scream
The media's stinking drunk nothing is at stake

All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
Words choked on my lies
Repeating love till they cry
All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
I'm bored out of my mind
And I'm too stoned lazy to see

The sun...the sun is leaving me
I can't...see it anymore
I tried everything to get along with you
The nights too lonesome when the heat doesn't care

All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
Words choked on my lies
Repeating love till they cry
All the faces I love
Their skin as soft as leprosy
I'm bored out of my mind
I'm too stoned lazy to see

UNDER MY WHEELS [top]

The telephone is ringing
You got me on the run
I'm driving in my car now
Anticipating fun
I'm driving right up to you, babe
I guess that you couldn't see, yeah yeah
But you under my wheels
Why don't you let me be

'Cause when you call me on the telephone
Saying take me to the show
And then I say, honey, I just can't go
Old lady's sick and I can't leave her home

The telephone is ringing
You got me on the run
I'm driving in my car now
I got you under my wheels
I got you under my wheels
I got you under my wheels
Yeah yeah
I got you under my wheels
Yeah yeah
I got you under my wheels

The telephone is ringing
You got me on the run
I'm driving in my car now
Anticipating fun
I'm driving right up to you, babe
I guess you that couldn't see, yeah yeah
But you was under my wheels, honey
Why don't you let me be, yeah yeah
I got you under my wheels
I got you under my wheels
I got you under my wheels
Yeah yeah

SUICIDE IS PAINLESS [top]

Through early morning fog I see
Visions of the things to be
The pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see that...

Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I'll someday lay
So this is all I have to say...

Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn't hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger
Watch it grin...

Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please

A brave man once requested me
To answer questions that are key
"Is it to be or not to be?"
And I replied, "Oh why ask me?"

Suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
And I can take or leave it if I please
And you can do the same thing if you please

NEVER WANT AGAIN [top]

I'm feeling sick with alcohol
I'm feeling numb with stupid pain
I smelt death all around our name
I feel the snakes crawling upon my skin
Everywhere, everywhere is on it's knees
I'm too scared and I'm too afraid

We'll go down, we'll go down together
And meet a few of you in hell
Burn on by our side and never want again

I get told I should be happy
I got no rights on how I feel
I lost my language easily
I saw the rain bleaching my way
My gut gets sick of all it's lies
Thrown all hope way outside

DEAD YANKEE DRAWL [top]

Bill and Ted and Wayne's World drawl
Just another dull fucking bore
Vietnam's cool now even Superman's believed
Hussein still in power as the media war retreats
Suck your honey until you choke
You are a mechanism of social control
Multinational aim of a one world culture
Turning one dollar into another and another

Dead Yankee Drawl hey we got your beat
Dead Yankee Drawl hey we love Oscar

Smothering injustice seen through starving eyes
Tearing down forests just to earn a buck
Killed off literature for sex and violence
Feed a generation the equivalent of silence
Dragged Jack down to self same bigotry
Passive acceptance of a consumer society
Fake sentiments tying up contracts
Making idols of guitars and haircuts
Multinational aim of a one world culture
Turning one dollar into another and another

Dead Yankee Drawl hey we got your beat
Dead Yankee Drawl hey we love Oscar

Smothering injustice seen through Red Indian Eyes
Silent race war of Hollywood lies
Lets go down to Greenwich Village and desecrate
The Noraid slogans that justify 6 counties hate
Lets go down Redondo beach and wax body company
Cos reality for T.V. is Disney not King, Rodney
Lets go down to Indiana Youth Centre quickly
Tyson's money ain't as free as Junior Kennedy's
Dead Yankee Dead Yankee Dead Yankee Drawl

HIBERNATION [top]

I got married cos you should
we both knew we should
you do at our age
this stage of our career
things get tight
a ring helps get a mortgage
to move out of daddy's home
get a bigger car
easy access to the city
I can read the papers in peace
and laugh at the homeless
I know my friends criticize
but we get by OK
so what if there's no emotion
we can wake up anywhere
there's never a row
no time for a kiss
when you've got schedules to meet
trivialities seem so cheap
this is above love
this is more than real
this is all there is
this is as good as it gets-
intense morality parades (and rates?)

PATRICK BATEMAN [top]

He's a real cool guy and he's a hero of mine
Travis, Rhinehart rolled into one cute son
Less than zero a grotesque nightmare
Subtlety disturbing like normal behaviour
I understand nothing and I cannot speak
I'd walk in the park but the trees are diseased
No sweetheart and I am too confused
I only love my watch and my snake skin shoes
I feel so small in the supermarket queue
People seem to laugh at my choice of food
My personality is held together with sellotape
A loose fit just like a numb junkies hate
I pretty my face with all this cream and stuff
Ugliness inside much harder to cover up
I lack the thought to care about politics
Just do what I like ain't that democratic
Genesis, Huey Lewis, Filofax, CD5
A backdrop to discuss over expensive wine
Didn't even know when or why I should stop
I feel so stupid like a joke that belongs
I guess all psychos are made out of money
I cannot be saved as liberals keep telling me
I don't wanna be understood I just wanna kill
Out of blandness I am your everyday thrill
Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
Therefore I must be God
I must, I must be God
I touched your lips but now I just paint
Surface reflection all I desired babe
I am melancholy, flower cutting through stone
I am a crime everybody has at home
Papers hate me but they need my behaviour
The dignity amongst Hollywood trivia
Escape is so cheap of alcohol and whores
Mines the sanity of exclusive gun laws
Art critics say porno's easily obscene
Late Show retards Dice Clay is true poetry
They've never tried living underneath the water
That's real end of the century nausea
Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
Therefore I must be God
I must, I must be God
Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
I fucked God up the ass
I fucked God up the ass
Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman

US AGAINST YOU [top]

From journalist to video to channel 4 TV
my life is fulfilled so adequately
I love my dealer and I travel the world
from freelance to new dance
and I expect on the world I am
from Cantonese food to fashionable friends
the list of invites never seems to end
so bomb London and it's MPs
John Major Virginia Bottomley
so bomb London its music and its culture
acidic wit, beauty and charm
it doesn't take much to twist my arm
free trip free drink it all goes down so so well
maybe a Sunday supplement will come up soon
a documentary on censorship sounds real cool
its easy to see that I went to public school
so bomb London and its MPs
John Major Virginia Bottomley
bomb London its music and its culture
so bomb London and its magazine
time-out face and id.
bomb London its music and its culture
you ain't ever been a racist
but Tyson was guilty, man
he was guilty

DONKEYS [top]

put some lipstick on
at least your lies will be pretty
a shadow on my face
and us donkeys wake up weary
sweating sickly donkeys don't allow their tears
no emotion never feel and drown themselves in whatever
find some meaning donkeys weight cracking a spire
sweetness bent double whole days making polite
never moving out of turn or ever trying to be natural
those with silence inside eyes bare piss holes in the snow
drained and burnt yellow and sunk in self-pity
Jerusalem saw off donkeys are only left with lies

COMFORT COMES [top]

Need someone to nurse me
Reach out for the first person I see
Comforts the helpless sole vanity
Caressing the broken heart of me

The difference between love and comfort
Is that comfort's more reliable and true
Brutal and mocking but always there
A crutch for emnity's saddest glare

I wish someone would hold me
Wrap their arms around a shrinking somebody
Comfort comes and ease me till the morning
Whispered words of sanctuary

Forgetting how I hate self-pity blonde
Comfort comes and smooths it over
Calloused hands turn a beautiful dress
Handcuffs now pearl bracelets

SOUL CONTAMINATION [top]

Everyone is staring with the glaze of obsession
Interlocking cartels bypassing the bone
The empty statement of artschool dissension
Institutionalised expression of mass control

And if when America flings in whole
Your pile of misery where centuries be
And he does win a holiday after a poll
One per cent interest stand up with glee

Soul contamination spreads the germs of finance
Making weak minds think this is what they want
Power facts are brutally sold to worn darkened skin
Arise the new scum arise to the sound of a drum

With your desk degrees in civil engineering
They're drawing up plans for a future for themselves
And sweet daddy buys up a university
On a mission tied next to suits

Soul contamination - die because you crossed by fire
Soul contamination - poverty expressed in your heart
Soul contamination - arise, surrender, burn
Soul contamination - do you rise up

ARE MOTHERS SAINTS [top]

If piss is yellow, than life must be grey
How come they smile when we throw it away
And if it is a colour than it must be sin
And you want to apologise but keep it all in

Why worship a god when a mother is a saint
Why worship stone
They give life and take it back
Spit you out but understand

And when their arms are dead how do they sigh
As gentle as the winter that fades by
And some kind of angel appears in their eyes
Or is it just the devil screaming inside

Why give into useless devotion
Truth and beauty, love and hate, mother and God
They give life and take it back
Spit you out but understand
Stay silent when you want to shout
Give when we piss it away

CHARLES WINDSOR [top]

Charles Windsor who's at the door
At such an hour who's at the door
In the back of an old green cortina
You're on your way to the guillotine

Here the rabble comes
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop off your head

Hundreds of bound big business men
Hacks from "the sun", military men
So many rich men weep in despair
On and on into Trafalgar square

Here the rabble comes
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop off your head

These once peaceful streets
The scenes of revenge you had not wished to see
Revenge is sweet to those who have never known anything sweet

Here the rabble come
The kind you hoped were dead
They've come to chop, to chop off your head

SCULPTURE OF MAN [top]

War censored, no blood on TV
Cheap entertainment
Sold like a new deodorant, world war three
A Sega dreamland, I'd take a whore to the funeral

Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man

Jesus descends, Dachau his father
Flanders is a corpse under flowers
There's more art in Burger King
Than the British museum today

Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man

Wills and Harry, dressed in drag
Standing over the
Sodomised body of their mother
Would make a beautiful poster in Athena

Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man
Sculpture of man

TOO COLD HERE [top]

Born in burial gowns, we say sex slowly
You soon wish you couldn't see at all
Tortured in the mind, six voices alone
Futile gestures and motionless groans
Everyone asks what's wrong, but what's right?
And a cute line makes everything uptight
To kill your dream before it's considered
To live in silence in this closet no vision

It's easier to make love to a stranger than to ask a friend to call
Suspicion knows nothing and is known for not much at all, much at all

Too cold here, ten years of bleeding inside
Always looked for walls to lean beside
Too cold here, ten years of bleeding, it's ice
Always looked for shade to cover your eyes

Self pity itself is so shallow
i am so sick in mind and body, heart cold as stone
Whisky my coral, my piece of mind
Hello Mr. Simpson you can clean my soul
Wake up sighing, mass for for the bleeding
Never share sadness mine a man prays painless
Coalescing mind, I hid in rooms,
Cannot give anything and never could

Prison it's only four walls but sometimes
the mind is the smallest prison of all,
I fear in there, I burn, I veer,
as a boy without touch feels
through his fall, through his fall.

too cold here, ten years of bleeding inside,
always looked for walls, to lean beside,
too cold here, ten years of bleeding, it's ice
always looked for shade, too cover your eyes.

LOVE TORN US UNDER [top]

Everything's moving as you climb up the walls
(Heaven's wearing as you climb on the walls?)
Asleep I daydreamed I could change it all
Running from something too painful to face
Epitaphs torn into bare foot soiled feet

Ecstacy's columns decay in to night
Underneath hope she loves sedatives (sadder to?) die
Wasting my time on the shackles of her love
At night complete love's torn us under
Love is dragging me under
Betray my other self
The lost hours are over

Gentlemen's left me, a cataracts past life
Searching for something I'm unable to find
To weak to render a sorrows daily grind
I find too much grief in her chest and her eyes

Memory cannot choose where it wants to be
Love this sex, true pity as mangled sheets
The tenderness that climbs in the mind
At night complete love's torn us under, love is dragging me under
Betray my other self, the lost hours are over

THE DROWNERS [top]

Won't someone give me a gun?
Oh, well it's for my brother,
Well he writes the line wrote down my spine
It says "Oh do you believe in love there?"

So slow down, slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, Sir we drown, stop taking me over

Won't someone give me some fun?
(and the skin flies all around us)
We kiss in his room to a popular tune
Oh, real drowners

Slow down, slow down, you're taking me over
And so we drown, Sir we drown,
stop taking me over!

MR CARBOHYDRATE [top]

They call me Mr. Carbohydrate
It's the only thing I can digest
Then I focus a general disinterest
Mass culture with all this stuff

They call me a boring fuckhead, say I might as well work in a bank
I tell them I wish I was, they tell me that I'm sick in the head
They say that I'm sick in the head

They call me Mr. Carbohydrate
They call me Mr. Inadequate
They call me Mr. Paranoia
They call me Mr. Hypochondria

Have you heard of Matthew Maynard
He's my favourite cricketer
I would rather watch him play than pick up my guitar
Than play with my guitar

People tell me I should get out more
But the TV is my best friend
Cynicism is the only thing that keeps me sane
Only thing that keeps me sane

They call me Mr. Carbohydrate
They call me Mr. Inadequate
They call me Mr. Paranoia
They call me Mr. Hypochondria

Sometimes I just sit in bed
and think about the day
when I can retire forgetting everything
I'll forgive everything
Forget everything
Forever, but not today
When I cannot, cannot see
No more yesterdays
No more yesterdays

DEAD PASSIVE [top]

She's so passive but she's looking good
He's so passive but he's looking good
They are together but really they're apart
They are together but do not belong
But do not belong

Yes ladies, and gentlemen, let's fall asleep to a plastic lullaby
The ballad of Katie and Johnny
The ballad of Adam and Naomi, the ballad of Michael and Helena
The ballad is forever changing

She's so passive but happy in her way
He's so passive but happy in his way
They do not think but sit and they pretend
They sit around and pray for it to end
Pray for it to end

Yes ladies, and gentlemen, let's fall asleep to a plastic lullaby
The ballad of Katie and Johnny
The ballad of Adam and Naomi, the ballad of Hugh and Elizabeth
The ballad is forever changing

I'm so passive
Hopeless fucking mess
We're so passive do our bit for charity
From Bosnia to London we do it all for free
We do it all for free

DEAD TREES AND TRAFFIC ISLANDS [top]

Paralysis through analysis
Yellow moral ugly decay
Silent fear seems to help me now
The sunshine it fades away
Symbols have now disappeared
How could this happen to me?
How could this happen to me?

But now, I feel so weak
Dead trees and traffic islands
never need
Is this
Is this my defeat
Expected to forget in our
Dead trees and traffic islands

Tolerance slips away
Body shrugs his eyes hollow once more
Hate the walls within my mind
Clandestine brave finish period
Lips still cryin such a sound
I show little defence

But now I feel so weak
Dead Trees and Traffic Islands
never need
Is this
Is this my defeat
Expected to forget in our Dead Trees and Traffic Islands

BRIGHT EYES [top]

Is it a kind of dream,
Floating out on the tide,
Following the river of death downstream?
Oh, is it a dream?

There's a fog along the horizon,
A strange glow in the sky,
And nobody seems to know where you go,
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?

Bright eyes,
Burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.

Is it a kind of shadow,
Reaching into the night,
Wandering over the hills unseen,
Or is it a dream?

There's a high wind in the trees,
A cold sound in the air,
And nobody ever knows when you go,
And where do you start,
Oh, oh, into the dark.

Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
bright eyes.

Bright eyes,
burning like fire.
Bright eyes,
how can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes.

HANGING ON [top]

Hold me down
I don't ever want to see the day
When my time will come
Is it ever gonna end

I'm not sure
(The wish that lasted the year ?)
Where do we go now
Another blackout

Hanging on to nothing, hanging on to nothing
Hanging on to nothing, hanging on to nothing

I'm not real
But I'd like to have a chance to feel
Before we reach the time
Is that what now is right

( I'm not sure ?)
( The wish that lasted the year ?)
Where do we go now
Another blackout

Hanging on to nothing (repeated x7)
Hanging on to nothing (repeated x7)
and nothing and nothing is nothing

BLACK GARDEN [top]

There's a little part of me
There's a little part of you
Remember the feeling
of frozen embryo

There's a bigger part of me
There's a bigger part of you
Remember the place where
You don't want to go

Welcome into your own black garden
It's full of life but still too frightening
Can't open my eyes this whiteness blinds
All this whiteness blinds

Watch the swallows cloud the sky
Watch the swallows slowly die
I used to throw stones
But now I have none

Waiting to be bread in the black garden
Waiting to be muted and then chosen
White trash you're a swinger
Ugly to the end
Ugly to the end

NO ONE KNOWS WHAT ITS LIKE TO BE ME [top]

To all the people who've hurt me
To all the life that has left me
To all the longing that lost me
To all the future that scares me

To all the words that have drained me
To all the questions that bored me
To all the people that believed me
To all the money that blinded me

No one knows what it's like to be me
No one knows what it's like to be me

To all the skies that have reached me
To all the oceans that drowned me
To all the rain that has soothed me
To all the sun that depressed me

To all the people who lived in fear
To all the life that is held so dear
To all the empty souls who still despair
I know it's the same for everyone

No one knows what it's like to be me
No one knows what it's like to be me
Doctor, dentist, housewife and thief
No one knows what it's like to be me

RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD [top]

Raindrops keep falling on my head
just like the guy who's feet are too big for his bed
nothing seems to fit
oh raindrops keep falling on my head keep falling

cos I just done me some talking to the sun
and I said I didn't like the way he got things done
sleeping on the job
Oh raindrops keep falling on my head keep falling

There's one thing i know
The blues they sent to meet me,
Won't defeat me,
It wont be long
Til happiness comes up to greet me
To greet greet greet me

But raindrops keep falling on my head
but that doesn't mean my eyes'll soon be turning red
cryings not for me
cos I ain't gonna stop the rain by complaining

because I'm free nothings bothering me
because I'm free nothings bothering me

SEPIA [top]

A framed adolescence,
Steeped in the history of you,
Stopped in there, so much for you,
Experience is lost on me,
I am melancholy eternally,
But I still smile so stupidly,
For the first time ever,
I don't understand my television,

And just like a moment in "Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid",
I'm perpetually stuck in a sepia film,
Bleeding inside I managed to keep it all in,

I've spoken so much rubbish,
Don't need no time at all,
Feelings are so fatal in the fall,
No you never kissed me,
Never felt anything for me,
Sepia thoughts deemed that I remember,
And they don't read in diaries
That I could never breathe, never breathe,

FIRST REPUBLIC [top]

You are so alone in
Kensington Palace
We should be content in
These damned terraces
Thank you for this view from
our council estates
I hope you have really
Guillotined your own head

I crown myself, myself a king,
And declare a first republic,
We wanna play, yes we wanna play,
In burnt out, palace ruins

You once gave us war
racism and slavery
cut out all our tongues
and fucked our industry
Now you've revealed something
You're human after all this
But let's clap our hands
And fuck our dear princess

PROLOGUE TO HISTORY [top]

were we the kinnock factor
am i talking private sector
do i think i'm shaun william ryder
or my former friend whose now undercover
he's gone and i'm no deserter
perhaps i'm hard all the same

today a poet who can't play guitar
tomorrow steve ovett has injured his calf
next year the world's greatest politician
yesterday the boy who once had a mission

i don't want to be
a prologue to history
a prologue

so i water my plants with evian
a brand new dyson that is decadent
read my papers and the business section
checkout the tessas and the pensions
phone my friends and they're alright
so i pray for the safety of the night

today a poet who can't play guitar
tomorrow steve ovett has injured his calf
next year the world's greatest politician
yesterday the boy who once had a mission

i don't want to be
a prologue to history a prologue

remember ethnic cleansing in the highlands
no one says a thing in the middle of en-ger-land
i'm bruised fruit but still taste so nice
but if you look at me you better look twice
i'm talking rubbish to cover up the cracks
an empty vessel who can't make contact

today a poet who can't play guitar
tomorrow phil bennett's playing outside half
next year the world's greatest politician
yesterday the boy who once had a mission

MONTANA/AUTUMN/78 [top]

luddite lover
forgiving father
unhappy forever
live it to where you can

those skies must drive you wild
this earth around you
this silence around you
be with the sky tonight

you've ruined more than you'll gain
know what you mean - but not what you do
nature will take care of itself
your ego will destroy itself

montana/autumn '78

your life into the future
maybe forty years
a life worth saving or lonesome ever more
the nothingness of truth
or everlasting youth
ideology or the ultimate thrill

you've ruined more than you'll gain
know what you mean - but not what you do
nature will take care of itself
your ego will destroy itself

MASSES AGAINST THE CLASSES [top]
Lyrics ©1999 Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.

the country was founded on the principle that the primary role of government is to protect property from the majority - and so it remains

hello it's us again we're still so in love with youand yes we mean it too yes we're so in love with you
hello it's us again you thought you were our friends success is an ugly word especially in your tiny world

the masses against the classes
i'm tired of giving a reason
when the future is what we believe in

we love the winter it brings us closer together so can you hurt us anymore
can you feel like it was before or are you lost forever more messed us and dead on alcohol

hello fond farewell my dear i hope you hear this nice and clear our love is unconditional our hate is yours to feed upon

the masses against the classes
i'm tired of giving a reason
when the future is what we believe in

we love the winter it brings us closer together

the masses against the classes
i'm tired of giving a reason
when we're the only thing left to believe in

we love the winter it brings us closer together

a slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown

CLOSE MY EYES [top]
Lyrics ©1999 Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.

I close my eyes and then I count to ten
shake some hands and then I feel ashamed
i'm in control but I am out of time
I lost the need for any desire
any desire

I had ambition but it slipped away
in holy goodness it is here to stay
it's not about us anymore
it's not about us, 'bout us anymore

I close my eyes and then I count to ten
I open them up and I shut them again
look at the crowd and then forget my part
back to memory and then back to the start
back to the start

back to some familiar song
back to reality, back to fuck all
it's not about us anymore
it's not about us, 'bout us anymore

close my eyes and then I count to ten
sign some papers and then they are my friends
attempt to make a bed, my skin aches
not even massage can make my body straight
my body straight
count to ten and pretend i'm home
just a job I get well paid for
it's not about us anymore
it's not about us, 'bout us anymore
I close my eyes
I close my eyes

I close my eyes
I close my eyes

ROCK & ROLL MUSIC [top]
Lyrics ©1999 Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.

just let me hear some of that rock and roll music
any old way you choose it
it's got a back beat, you can't lose it
any old time you use it
rock and roll music
if you want to dance with me
if you want to dance with me

i've got no kick against modern jazz
unless they try to play it too darn fast
and change the beauty of the melody
until they sound just like a symphony

that's why i go for that rock and roll music
any old way you choose it
it's got a back beat, you can't lose it
any old time you use it
rock and roll music
if you want to dance with me
if you want to dance with me

i took my loved one over cross the tracks
so she can hear my man await a sax
i must admit they have a rockin' band
man they were going like a hurricane

that's why i go for that rock and roll music
any old way you choose it
it's got a back beat, you can't lose it
any old way you use it
rock and roll music
if you want to dance with me
if you want to dance with me

way down south they gave a jubilee
the jockey folks they had a jamboree
they're drinkin' homebrew from a water cup
the folks dancin' got all shook up

and started playin' that rock and roll music
any old way you choose it
it's got a back beat, you can't lose it
any old time you use it
rock and roll music
if you want to dance with me
if you want to dance with me

don't care to hear 'em play a tango
i'm in the mood to dig a mambo
it's way to early for a congo
so keep a rockin' that piano

so i can get some of that rock and roll music
any old way you choose it
it's got a back beat, you can't lose it
any old time you use it
rock and roll music
if you want to dance with me
if you want to dance with me

Tennessee (I get low) [top]

[One Two
One Two Three Four]

They'd never beat that deeper in
'Cos I want her and she wants him
Tennessee nights just zip-code love
Take those pills and now she'll dream on
Tennessee's eyes orange once blue
Tennessee's gone and I get low
Tennessee's gone and I get low

Wet through the desert soaked to the skin
Gasoline I wear loose lines I kick
Tennessee nights just zip-code love
Take those pills and now she'll dream on
Tennessee's eyes orange once blue
Tennessee's gone and I get low
Tennessee's gone and I get low

And my heart's fucking gutted
And my money's on ice
And my money is running out
And my money is running out
And my money is running out

They'd never beat that deeper in
'Cos I want her and she wants him
[I'll never forget you, I'll never forget you,
I'll never forget you, I'll never forget you]
Wet through the desert soaked to the skin
[I'll never forget you, I'll never forget you,
I'll never forget you, I'll never forget you]
Gasoline I wear loose lines I kick
[I'll never forget you, I'll never forget you,
I'll never forget you, I'll never forget you]