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Pable Honey

You

you are the sun and moon and stars are you
and i could never run away from you

you try at working out chaotic things
and why should i believe myself, not you?

it's like the world is going to end so soon
and why should i believe myself?

you, me and everything caught in the fire
i can see me drowning, caught in the fire

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Creep

when you were here before
couldn't look you in the eye
you're just like an angel
your skin makes me cry
you float like a feather
in a beautiful world
i wish i was special
you're so fucking special

but i 'm a creep, i 'm a weirdo
what the hell am i doing here
i don't belong here

i don't care if it hurts
i want to have control
i want a perfect body
i want a perfect soul
i want you to notice
when i'm not around
you're so fucking special
i wish i was special

but i 'm a creep, i 'm a weirdo
what the hell am i doing here
i don't belong here

she's running out again
she's running out

whatever makes you happy
whatever you want
you're so fucking special
i wish i was special

but i'm a creep, i'm a weirdo
what the hell am i doing here
i don't belong here
i don't belong here

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How Do You?

he's bitter and twisted
he knows what he wants
he wants to be loved and
he wants to belong

he wants us to listen
he wants us to weep
he was a stupid baby
who turned into a powerful freak

but how do you?

he lives with his mother
but we show him respect
he's a dangerous bigot
but we always forget

and he's just like his daddy
because he cheats on his friends
and he steals and he bullies
anyway that he can

but how do you?

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Stop Whispering

and the wise man say 'i don't want to hear your voice'
and the thin man say 'i don't want to hear your voice'
and they're cursing me, and they won't let me be
and there's nothing to say, and there's nothing to do

stop whispering, start shouting
stop whispering, start shouting

and my mother say 'we spit on your son somemore'
and the buildings say 'we spit on your face somemore'
and the feeling is that there's something wrong
'cause i can't find the words, and i can't find the songs

stop whispering, start shouting
stop whispering, start shouting

dear sir, i have a complaint
dear sir, i have a complaint can't remember what it is

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Thinking About You

i've been thinking about you
your records are here,
your eyes are on my wall,
your teeth are over there
but i'm still no one
and you're now a star
what do you care

been thinking about you
and there's no rest
shit i still love you
still see you in bed
but i'm playing with myself
and what do you care
when the other men are far far better

all the things you got
all the things you need
who bought your cigarettes
who bribed the company to come and see you, honey

i've been thinking about you
so how can you sleep
these people aren't your friends
they're paid to kiss your feet
they don't know what i know
and why should you care when i'm not there

i've been thinking about you,
and there's no rest
shit i still love you
still see you in bed
but i'm playing with myself
and what do you care when i'm not there

all the things you got, shit you'll never need
all the things you got
i planning on to plead to please you

i've been thinking about you

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Anyone Can Play Guitar

destiny, destiny protect me from the world
destiny, hold my hand protect me from the world
here we are with our running and confusion,
and i don't see no confusion anywhere..

and if the worm does turn
and if london burns
i'll be standing on the beach with my guitar
i wanna be in a band when i get to heaven
anyone can play guitar
and they won't be a nothing anymore

grow my hair, grow my hair i am jim morrison
grow my hair, i wanna be wanna be wanna be jim morrison
here we are with our running and confusion
and i don't see no confusion anywhere

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Ripcord

soul destroyed with clever toys
for little boys
it's inevitable, it's inevitable,
it's a soul destroyed

you're free until you drop
you're free 'til you've had enough,
and you don't understand

no ripcord

aeroplane do i mean what i mean
it's inevitable, inevitable,
oh aeroplane

a thousand miles an hour
on politics and power
that you don't understand

no ripcord

the answer to your prayers
we'll drop you anywhere

no ripcord

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Vegetable

i never wanted anything but this
i worked hard, tried hard
i ran around in domestic bliss
i fought hard, died hard

everytime you're running over me
everytime you're running i get the feel

i never wanted any broken bones,
scarred face, no home
you words surround me and i asphyxiate
and i burn all hate

everytime you're running out on me
everytime you're running i can see

i'm not a vegetable
i will not control myself
i spit on the hand that feeds me
i will not control myself

the waters break, the waters run all over me
the waters break, the waters run
and this time you're gonna pay

i'm not a vegetable
i will not control myself
i spit on the hand that feeds me
i will not control myself

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Prove Yourself

i can't afford to breath in this town
nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand
hooked back up to my cathode ray
i'm better off dead

prove yourself

i wanna breath, i wanna grow
i'd say i want it but i don't know how
i work, i bleed, i beg, i pray
but i'm better off dead

prove yourself

but i'm better off dead
prove yourself
why?

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I Can't

please forget the words
that i just blurted out
it wasn't me it was
my strange and creeping doubt

it keeps rattling my cage
and there's nothing in this world
will keep it down.

even though i might
even thought i try
i can't

so many things that keep
that keep me underground
so many words that i
that i can never find

if you give up on me now
i'll be gutted like i've never been before

even though i might
even thought i try
i can't

if you give up on me now
i'll be gutted like i've never been before.

even though i might
even though i try
i can't

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Lurgee

i feel better
i feel better now you've gone
i got better
i got better, i got strong

i feel better
i feel better now there's nothing wrong
i got better
i got better, i got strong

tell me something
tell me something i don't know,
tell me one thing
tell me one thing and let it go

i got something
i got something heaven knows,
i got something
i got something i don't know

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Blow Out

in my mind
and nailed into my heels
all the time
killing what i feel
and everything i touch turns to stone

i am fused
just in case i blow out
i am glued
just in case i crack out
and everything i touch turns to stone
everything i touch turns to stone

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The Bends

Planet Telex

you can force it but it will not come
you can taste it but it will not form
you can crush it but it's always here
you can crush it but it's always near
chasing you home, saying

everything is broken
everyone is broken

you can force it but it will stay stung
you can crush it as dry as a bone
you can walk it home straight from school
you can kiss it you can break all the rules
but still

everything is broken
everyone is broken
why can't you forget?

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The Bends

where do we go from here
the words are coming out all wierd
where are you now when i need you
alone on an aeroplane
falling asleep beside the window pane
my blood will thicken

i need to wash myself again
to hide all the dirt and pain i'd be scared
that there's nothing underneath
and who are my real friends
have they all got the bends
am i really sinking this low

my baby's got the bends
we don't have any real friends

i'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
and i wish it was the sixties i wish we could be happy
i wish i wish i wish that something would happen

where do we go from here
the words are coming out all wierd
where are you now when i need you
they brought in the CIA
the tanks and the whole marines to blow my away
to blow me sky high

my baby's got the bends
we don't have any real friends
i'm just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
and i wish it was the sixties i wish we could be happy
i wish i wish i wish that something would happen

i want to live and breathe
i want to be part of the human race

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High and Dry

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

don't lead me high, don't lead me dry

drying up in conversation,
you will be the one who cannot talk
all your insides fall to pieces,
you just sit there wishing you could still make love
they're the ones who'll hate you,
when you think you've got the world all sussed out
they're the ones who'll spit at you,
you will be the one screaming out

don't lead me high, don't lead me dry

it's the best thing that you ever had,
the best thing that you ever, ever had
it's the best thing that you ever had,
the best thing you had has gone away

Don't lead me high, don't lead me dry

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Fake Plastic Trees

her green plastic watering can
for her fake chinese rubber plant
in the fake plastic earth
that she bought from a rubber man
in a town full of rubber plans
to get rid of itself

it wears her out

she lives with a broken man,
a cracked polystyrene man
who just crumbles and burns
he used to do surgery
for girls in the eighties,
but gravity always wins

it wears him out

she looks like the real thing,
she tastes like the real thing,
my fake plastic love
but i can't help the feeling
i could blow through the ceiling
If i just turn and run

it wears me out

and if i could be who you wanted,
if i could be who you wanted
all the time

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Bones

i don't wanna be crippled cracked
shoulders, wrists, knees and back
ground to dust and ash
crawling on all fours

when you've got to feel it in your bones

now i can't climb the stairs
peices missing everywhere
prozak painkillers

when you've got to feel it in your bones

i used to fly like peter pan
all the children flew when i touched their hands

you see, you've got to feel it in your bones

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Nice Dream

they love me like i was a brother
they protect me, listen to me
they dug me my very own garden
gave me sunshine, made me happy,

nice dream

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

nice dream

nice dream, if you think that you're strong enough
nice dream, if you think you belong enough

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Just

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

you do it to yourself you do
and that's what really hurts is
you do it to yourself just you
you and no-one else
you do it to yourself

don't get my sympathy
hanging out the 15th floor
you've changed the lock 3 times
he still comes reeling through the door
and soon he'll get to you
teach you how to get to purest hell

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My Iron Lung

faith you're driving me away
you doing it everyday
you don't mean it but it hurts like hell
my brain says i'm recieving pain
a lack of oxygen from my life support
my iron lung

were too young to fall asleep
too cynical too speak
we are loosing it can't you tell?
we scratch our eternal itch
our twentieth century bitch
and we are grateful for
our iron lung

the headshrinkers they want everything
my uncle bill
my belisha beacon
suck suck your teenage thumb
toilet trained and dumb
when the power runs out we'll just humm
this this is our new song
just like the last one
a total w.a.s.t.e of time
my iron lung
if you're frightened, you could be frightened
you can be, it's ok

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Bulletproof... I Wish I Was

limb by limb and tooth by tooth
tearing up inside of me
everyday everyhour wish that I was

bullet proof

wax me, mould me,
heat the pins and stab them in
you have turned me into this
just wish that it was

bullet proof

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

bullet proof

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Black Star

i get home from work and
you're still standing in your dressing gown
well what am i to do?
i know all the things around your head
and what they do to you
what are we coming to?
what are we gonna do?

blame it on a black star
blame it on a falling sky
blame it on a satellite
that beams me home

the troubled words of a troubled mind
i try to understand what is eating you
i try to stay awake, but it's 58hours
since that i slept with you
what are we coming to?
i just don't know anymore

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

blame it on a black star
blame it on a falling sky
blame it on a satellite
that beams me home
this is killing me
this is killing me

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Sulk

you bite through the big wall
the big wall bites back
you sit there and sulk
sit there and bawl
you're so pretty
when you're on your knees
disinfected eager to please

sometime you sulk
sometime you burn
god rest your soul
when the loving comes
and we've already gone
just like your dad
you'll never change

each time it comes
it eats me alive
i try to behave
but it eats me alive
so i declare a holiday
fall a sleep drift away

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Street Spirit (fade out)

rows of houses all bearing down on me
i can feel their blue hands touching me
all these things in all positions
all these things will one day take control

and fade out again and fade out again

this machine will will not communicate
these thoughts and the strain i am under
be a world child form a circle
before we all go under

and fade out again and fade out again

cracked eggs dead birds
scream as they fight for life
i can feel death can see it's beady eyes
all these things into frution
all these things we'll one day swallow whole

and fade out again and fade out again
.iMMersE your soUL in LOVE

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OK Computer

Airbag

in the nextworld war
in a jacknifed jaggernaut
i am born again
in the neon sign
scrolling up and down
i am born again

in an interstellar burst
i am back to save the universe

in a deep deep sleep of the innocent
i am born again
in a fast german car
i am amazed that I survived
an airbag saved my life

in an interstellar burst
i am back to save the universe

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Paranoid Android

please could you stop the noise
i'm trying to get some rest
from all the unborn chicken voices in my head

what's this

when i am king you will be first against the wall
with your opinion which is of no consequence at all

what's this

ambition makes you look very ugly
kicking squealing gucci little piggy

you don't remember, you don't remember
why you don't remember my name
off with his head, off with his head man
why won't he remember my name
i guess he does

rain down, rain down
come on rain down on me
from a great height, from a great height, height

that's it sir, you're leaving
the crackle of pig skin
the dust and the screaming
the yuppies networking
the panic, the vomit
the panic, the vomit
god loves his children
god loves his children

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Subterranean Homesick Alien

the breath of the morning
i keep forgetting
the smell of the warm summer air
i live in a town
where you can't smell a thing
you watch your feet
for cracks in the pavement

up above alien hover
making home movies
for the folks back home
of all things creatures
who look up their spirits
drill holes in themselves
and live for their secrets

they'er all uptight, uptight

i wish that they'd swoop down
in a country lane
late at night when i'm driving
take me on board
their beautiful ship
show me the world as
i'd love to see it

i'd tell all my friends
but they'd never believe me
they'd think that i'd finally
lost it completely
i'd show them the stars
and meaning of life
they'd shut me away
but i'd be alright

i'm just uptight, uptight

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Exit Music (for a film)

wake from your dreams
the drying of your tears
today we escape, we escape

pack and get dressed
before your father hears us
before all hell breaks loose

breathe, keep breathing
don't lose your nerve
breathe, keep breathing
i can't do this alone

sing us a song
a song to keep us warm
there's such a chill, such a chill

you can laugh
a spineless laugh
we hope your rules and wisdom choke you

now we are one
in everlasting peace
we hope that you choke, that you choke
we hope that you choke, that you choke

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Let Down

transport, motorways and tramline
starting and the stopping
taking off and landing
the emptiest of feeling
sentimental drivel
clinging onto bottles
when it comes it's so so, disappointing

let down and hanging around
crushed like a bug in the ground
let down and hanging around

shell smashed, juices flowing
wings twicth, legs are going
don't get sentimental
it always ends up in drivel

oneday, i am going
to grow wings, chemical reaction
hysterical and useless,
hysterical and

let down and hanging around
crushed like a bug in the ground
let down and hanging around

you know where you are with
you know where you are with
floor collapses floating
bouncing back and
you know where you are

oneday, i am going
to grow wings, chemical reaction
hysterical and useless,
hysterical and

let down and hanging around
crushed like a bug in the ground
let down and hanging around

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Karma Police

karma police
arrest this man
he talkes in maths
he buzzes like a fridge
he's like a detuned radio

karma police
arrest this girl
her hitler hairdo
is making me feel ill
and we have crashed her party

this is what you get
this is what you get
this is what you get
when you mess with us

karma police
i've given all i can
it's not enough
i've given all i can but
we're still on the payroll

this is what you get
this is what you get
this is what you get
when you mess with us

phew, for a minute there
i lost myself, i lost myself

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Fitter Happier

fitter, happier
more productive
not drinking too much
regular exercise at the gym
three days a week
getting better with your
associated employee contemporaries

at ease
eating well
no more microwave dinners and saturated fats
a patient better driver
a safer car
baby smiling in back seat
sleeping well, no bad dreams
no paranoia

carefull to all animals
never wash spiders down the plughole
keep in contact with your old friends
enjoy a drink now and then
will frequently check credit
at moral bank hole in wall

favours for favours
fond but not in love
charity standing orders
on sundays ring road supermarket
no killing moths or putting water on the ants
car wash also on sundays

no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows
nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
nothing so childish
at a better pace
slower and more calculated
no chance of escape

now self-employed
concerned but not powerless
an empowered and informed member of society
pragmatism not idealism
will not cry in public
less chance of illness
tiers that grip in the wet
shot of baby strapped in back sheet
a good memory

still cries at a good film
still kisses with saliva
no longer empty and frantic
like a cat
tied to a stick
that's driven into
frozen winer shit
the ability to laugh at weakness

calm
fitter
healthier
and more productive
a pig
in a cage
on antibiotics

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Electioneering

i will stop
i will stop for nothing
say the right things
when electioneering
i trust i can rely on your votes

when i go forwards
you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet

riot sheelds
voodoo economics
it's just business
cattle prods and the i.m.f
i trust i can rely on your votes

when i go forwards
you go backwards
and somewhere we will meet

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Climbing Up the Wall

i am the key to the lock in your house
that keeps your toys in the basement
and if you get too far inside
you'll only see my reflection
it's always best when the light is off
i am the pick in the ice
do not cry out or hit the alarm
we're friends till we die
and either way you turn, i'll be there
open up your skull, i'll be there
climbing up the walls
it's always best when the light is off
it's always better on the outside
fifteen blows to the back of your head
fifteen blows to your mind
so tuck the kids in safe tonight
shut the eyes in the cupboard
i've got the smell of a local man
who's got the loneliest feeling
that either way you turn, i'll be there
open up your skull, i'll be there
climbing up the walls

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No Surprises

a heart thats
full up like a landfill
a job that slowly kills you
bruises that won't heal

you look so tired, unhappy
bring down the government
they don't, they don't speak for us

i'll take a quiet life
a handshake some carbon monoxide

no alarms and no surprises
silent, silent

this is my final fit
my final bellyache with

no alarms and no surprises
please

such a pretty house
such a pretty garden

no alarms and no surprises
please

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Lucky

i'm on a roll,
i'm on a roll this time
i feel my luck could change
kill me sarah
kill me again with love
it's gonna be a glorious day

pull me out of the aircrash
pull me out of the lake
'cause i'm your superhero
we are standing on the edge

the head of state
has called for me by name
but i don't have time for him
it's gonna be a glorious day
i feel my luck could change

pull me out of the aircrash
pull me out of the lake
'cause i'm your superhero
we are standing on the edge

we are standing on the edge

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The Tourist

it barks at noone else but me
like it's seen a ghost
i guess it's seen the sparks a flowing
noone else would know

hey man,
slow down, slow down
idiot,
slow down, slow down

sometimes i get over charged
that's when you see sparks
they ask where the hell i'm going
at a thousand feet per second

hey man,
slow down, slow down
idiot,
slow down, slow down

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Kid A

Everything in its Right Place

everything
everything
everything
everything
in it's right place
in it's right place
in it's right place
right place
yesterday i woke up sucking on a lemon
yesterday i woke up sucking on a lemon
yesterday i woke up sucking on a lemon
yesterday i woke up sucking on a lemon
everything
everything
everything
in it's right place
in it's right place
right place
what is that she'd tried to say
what is that she'd tried to say
tried to say
tried to say
tried to say
to say
to say
to say

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Kid A

I sit away
I sit down away

We got heads on sticks
And you got them toothpicks
We got heads on sticks
But you go in circles

Stand and shout
Have no problems
Stand and shout
Have no problems

I am standing in the shadow
By the end of my bed

Rest until ??
Rest until we fall behind

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The National Anthem

everyone
everyone around here
everyone will stop here
what's going on?
what's going on?
everyone
everyone around here
everyone will stop here
everyone will stop the fear
what's going on?
what's going on?
everyone
everyone around here
everyone just stop here
what's going on?
what's going on?
what's going on?
what's going on?

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How to Disappear Completely

that man, that's not me
i go, where i please
i walk through walls
i float down the liffey
i'm not here
this isn't happening
i'm not here
i'm not here
i know what i've seen
you throw me out then send me back again
in a little while i'll be gone
the moment's already passed
yeah, it's gone
yeah, it's gone
yeah, it's gone
strobe lights and blown speakers
fireworks and hurricanes
i'm not here
this isn't happening
i'm not here
i'm not here
i'm not here

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Treefingers

Instrumental

Up

Optimistic

flies are buzzing round my head
flies are buzzing round my head
picking up every last crumb
the big fish eat the little ones
the big fish eat the little ones
not my problem give me some
you can try the best you can
try the best you can
the best you can is good enough
you can try the best you can
try the best you can
the best you can is good enough

this one's optimistic
this one went to my head
this one just came out of the swamp
this one drops a payload
fodder for the animals living on animal farm
you can try the best you can
try the best you can
the best you can is good enough
you can try the best you can
try the best you can
the best you can is good enough

id really like to help you now
id really like to help you now
but its just not convenient call me back some other time.
you can try the best you can
try the best you can
the best you can is good enough
you can try the best you can
try the best you can
the best you can is good enough

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In Limbo

i'm on your side
nowhere to hide
i'm lost at sea
?
nowhere to hide
you're living in a fantasy
you're living in a fantasy
you're living in a fantasy
i'm lost at sea
don't bother me
i've lost my way
i've lost my way
you're living in a fantasy
you're living in a fantasy
you're living in a fantasy *in this beautiful world
living in a fantasy world
living in a fantasy world
living in a fantasy world
living in a fantasy world
living in a fantasy world

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Idioteque

let me tell you that you're the first
i'll laugh till my head comes off
i'll swallow till i burst
i have seen too much
i have seen it all
ice age coming
ice age coming
let me hear both sides
ice age coming
ice age coming
throw me in the fire
throw me in the fire
this is really happening happening
this is really happening happening
take the money and run
mobile chirping

Up

Morning Bell

the morning bell
the morning bell
i don't know the killer
release me
release me
you can keep the furniture
a bump on the head
coming down the chimney
release me
release me
release me
release me
where did you park the car?
where did you park the car?
always the one ..?... with the furniture
well i might as well
might as well
sleeping ...?.. the fire drill
running around, around, around
cut the kids in half
cut the kids in half
cut the kids in half
and everything starts to bleed
and everybody lies to me
and everybody talks to me
when i am walking
walking walking walking walking
everybody lies to polls
and everybody starts to tease
so tell your boy you'll never believe
and tell your boy you don't believe
now tell your cousin
walking walking walking walking walking walking
everybody lies to polls
and everybody starts to tell
everyone wants to be there
everyone wants to be the same
walking walking walking walking walking walking

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Motion Picture Soundtrack

white wine and sleeping pills
help me get back to your arms
cheap sex and sad films
help me get (back) where i belong
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
stop sending letters
letters always get burned
it's not like the movies
they fed us on little white lies
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i will see you in the next life
beautiful angel
pulled apart at birth
limbless and helpless
i can't even recognize you
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i think you're crazy, maybe
i will see you in the next life

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Hidden Track

Instrumental

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Amnesiac

Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box

After years of waiting
Nothing came
As your life flashed before your eyes
You realize

I'm a reasonable man
get off, get off, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case

After years of waiting

After years of waiting
Nothing came
And you realize your looking, looking in the wrong place

I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

After years of waiting

I'm a reasonable man
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man,
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

I'm a reasonable man,
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case
I'm a reasonable man,
get off my case, get off my case, get off my case

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Pyramid Song

i jumped in the river and what did I see?
black-eyed angels swimming with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat

there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

i jumped in the river
black-eyed angels swimming with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat

there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

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Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors

There are barn doors
And there are revolving doors
Doors in the rudders of big ships
And there are revolving doors
There are doors that open by themselves
There are sliding doors
And there are secret doors
There are doors that lock
And doors that don't
There are doors that let you in and out
But never open
And there are trapdoors
That you can't come back from

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You And Whose Army?

Come on, come on
You think you drive me crazy
Come on, come on
You and whose army?
You and your cronies
Come on, come on
Holy Roman empire
Come on if you think
Come on if you think
You can take us on
You can take us on

You and whose army?
You and your cronies

You forget so easily
You ought to know
You ought to know
I'm so sad
I'm so sad
You ought to know
You ought to know
I'm so sad
I'm so sad
I'm so sad

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I Might Be Wrong

I might be wrong
I might be wrong
I could have sworn
I saw a light coming on

I used to think
I used to think
There is no future left at all
I used to think

Open up, begin again
Let's go down the waterfall
Think about the good times
Never look back
Never look back

What would I do?
What would I do?
If I did not have you?

Open up and let me in
Let's go down the waterfall
Have ourselves a good time
It's nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all

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Knives Out

I want you to know
He's not coming back
Look into my eyes
I'm not coming back

So knives out
Catch the mouse
Don't look down
Shove it in your mouth

If you'd been a dog
They would have drowned you at birth

Look into my eyes
It's the only way you'll know I'm telling the truth

So knives out
Cook him up
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

I want you to know
He's not coming back
He's bloated and frozen
Still there's no point in letting it go to waste

So knives out
Catch the mouse
Squash his head
Put him in the pot

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Morning Bell/Amnesiac

The morning bell
The morning bell
Light another candle and
Release me
Release me

You can keep the furniture
A bump on the head
Howling down the chimney
Release me
Release me
Please
Release me
Release me

Where'd you park the car
Where'd you park the car
Clothes are on the lawn with the furniture
Now I might as well
I might as well

Sleepy jack the fire drill
Round and round and round

Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half

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Dollars and Cents

There are many things
To talk about
Be constructive
Bear witness
We can use
Be constructive with your blues
Even when it's only warnings
Even when you're talking war games

Why don't you quiet down?
Why don't you quiet down?
Why don't you quiet down?
Quiet down!

You don't live in a business world
You never go out and you never stay
We'll have goals in a liberal world
Living in times when I could stand it, babe
It's all over baby's crying, it's all over baby
I can see out of here

All of the planet's dead,
All over the planet, so let me out of here
All over...

We are the dollars and cents
And the pounds and pence
And the mark and the yen, and yeah
We're going to crack your little souls
We're going to crack your little souls

We are the dollars and cents
And the pounds and pence
And the pounds and pence, and yeah
We're going to crack your little souls
Crack your little souls

We are the dollars and cents

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Like Spinning Plates

While you make pretty speeches,
I'm being cut to shreds.
You feed me to the lions,
a delicate balance

When this just feels like spinning plates.
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land.
And this just feels like spinning plates
Our bodies floating down the muddy river.

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Life In A Glass House

Once again, I'm in trouble with my old friend
She is papering the window panes
She is putting on a smile
Living in a glass house

Once again, packed like frozen food and battery hens
Think of all the starving millions
Don't talk politics and don't throw stones
Your royal highnesses

Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat
Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
But there's someone listening in.

Once again, we are hungry for a lynching
That's a strange mistake to make
You should turn the other cheek
Living in a glass house

Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
Well of course I'd like to stay and chew the fat
Well of course I'd like to sit around and chat
But there's someone listening in.

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B-sides

A Reminder

if i get old
i will not give in
but if i do
remind me of this
remind me that
once i was free
once i was cool
once i was me
and if i sat down
and crossed my arms
hold me until
this song
knock me out
smash out my brains
if i take a chair
start to talk shit
if i get old
remind me of this
that night we kissed
and i really meant it
whatever happens
if we're still speaking
pick up the phone
play me this song

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Banana Co

oh, banana co.
we really love you, and we need you
and oh, banana co.
we'd really love to believe you, but

everything is on the ground
we better dig it up somehow

oh, she said no go
she said she'd like to, she's seen you
but no, no go
she says if you die then we all do ,and

everything is burning down
we better dig it up somehow

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Coke Babies

easy living, easy hold
easy teething, easy fold
easy listening, easy love
easy answers, to easy questions
easy tumble, easy doll
easy rumble, easy fall
i get up on easy love
i get up on easy questions

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Faithless, The Wonder Boy

i've had these jeans since i was born
and now they're ripped, and now they're torn
and all my friends have skateboards

i want the toys of other boys
i want a knife and a gun and things
but mom and dad will not give in

no i can't put the needle in
i can't put the needle in
i can't put the needle in

and now i know just what it is
it's got disease and it's got my head
it always runs where i hide

too scared to talk, too scared to try
too scared to know the reasons why
and all my friends say bye bye

and i can't put the needle in
i can't put the needle in
i can't put the needle in

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How Can You Be Sure?

seen all good things and bad
running down the hill
all so battered and brought to the ground
i am hungry again, i am drunk again
all the money i owe to my friends
when i'm like this
how can you be smiling, singing
how can you be sure
if you walk out the door
will i see you again
if so much of me lies in your eyes
i am hungry again, i am drunk again
all the money i owe to my friends
when i'm like this
how can you be smiling, singing
how can you be sure i don't want you
i don't want you, i don't want you anymore

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How I Made My Millions

i was stronger
i was better
picked you out
now don't say a word
no don't yell out
never mind
let you out
led you back
stay on
sit down
let it fall

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India Rubber

did it all for you to say
you never wanted me that way
now the dogs have had their meat
think i'll go plug in the mains
i tumble like a clown
before your baying hounds
i supplicate myself
into your hands
when you spare a make-up smile
i'm instantly your biggest fan
how i was to know that
you practised it beforehand?
i tumble like a clown
before your baying hounds
i supplicate myself
into your hands

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Inside My Head

what do you want from me now you got me
now my fingers bleed, now they stare at me
i'm a coward now, i hold my peace
now you tie me up to your feather bed
and i twist and turn in a chinese burn
you won't let go, you won't let go
you're inside my head
what do you want from me now you got me
now my energy you suck from me
and i'm holding on for dear life
quit smothering me, quit laughing at me
i've got a disease, an english disease
it will not go, it will not go
you're inside my head
whatever you put in that syringe
whatever you really said to him
he's sitting there inside of me
and you bother me, you possess me
you're there again, ahead of me
and i won't let go, i won't let go
you're inside my head

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Killer Cars

too hard on the brakes again
what if these brakes just give in
what if they don't get out of the way
what if there's someone overtaking

i'm going out for a little drive
and it could be the last time i see you alive
it could be an idiot on the road
the only kick in life is pumping his steel

wrap me up in the back of the trunk
packed with foam and blind drunk
they won't ever take me alive
'cause thay all drive

don't die on the motorway
the moon would freeze, the plants would die
i couldn't cope if you crashed today
all the things i forgot to say

i'm going out for a little drive
and it could be the last time you see me alive
What if the car loses control
What if there's someone overtaking
wrap me up in the back of the trunk
packed with foam and blind drunk
they won't ever take me alive
'cause thay all drive
killer cars

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Lewis [mistreated]

bumped out again
buy early business friend
the smell of fear is
thicker than you think
don't do it, do it

change seem to fit
in the end you just feel sick
and then you choke on an anesthetic
don't do it, do it

lewis save yourself the pain
you'll never get there
lewis save yourself the pain
it never really matters here

we never noticed
we never understood
you just get crushed to fit
you never even smile
it's the best it's the best,
it's the best day of your life

lewis save yourself the pain
you'll never get there
lewis save yourself the pain
it never really matters here

i don't wanna talk about lewis

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Lozenge of Love

i am gone, everybody's raging
and these fruits, they still taste of poison
i won't be around
when you really need me
i can't sleep, why can't someone hold me
i need warmth, a restless body cracks some more
i won't have the strength
when you really need me

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Lull

you stop the crowd
i cried out to break the spell
you wake and smile
i just snapped and lost control
distracted by irrelevance
the stress and the tension
the stress and the tension
i'm in a lull
there's nothing but doubt
and talking, talking 'bout yourself
but what i meant to say
i'm sorry that i lost control
distracted by irrelevance
the stress and the tension
crawling through the keyhole
i'm in a lull

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Maquiladora

here it comes
here it comes
i can feel the hills exploding
exploding gracefully
burning up the freeway
here it comes
grass is green at the edge of the bubble
beautiful kids into beautiful trouble
well it seems to fall out of the sky
and come down on you
oh baby burn
the fast die younger
burns rubber
useless rockers from england
good times had by all
just swallow your guilt and your conscience
blue and white birds stepping hard on the pedal
interstate five runs straight down the middle
and it seems to fall out of the sky
and come down on you
oh baby burn

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Meeting in the Aisle

Instrumental

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Melatonin

don't forget that you are our son
now go back to bed
we just know that you are ours
you won't cry too hard
death to all who stand in your way
wave my arms you

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Million Dollar Question

was always waiting for the crush
the car to drive right through the shops
to call in sick and late at work
and take a holiday
was always tangled up in knots
to keep myself from speaking up
but no-one's listening anyway
just trying to bribe me
and if it's alright, then what am i doing here
and if it's alright, this place is gassed by fear
and if it's alright, i'll tell you, cos you never understand
and if it's alright, i'll beg you, cos i'm a begging kind of man
today i wrote a bad cheque
packed a bag and took a jet
but no-one's looking anyway
i hope they miss me
sometimes i think maybe i'm making a big mistake

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Molasses

shake hands, genocide, molasses
jet-powered caravans, molasses
i'm too good, you're stuck on
rent free earthquake zone, molasses
i need someone else's glasses
starving waitresses in plasters
fat houseflies, genocide
we've been stitched up, molasses

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No Surprises Please

He was sick of his clock stopping
"Wind it up," that girl said sleeping next to him

The watch stopped
The battery'd run down
He started his broken sentence, "no alarms..."

The watch stopped
The battery'd run down
He started his broken sentence, "no alarms and no surprises..."

He was sick of her excuses
To not take off her dress when bleedin' in the bathroom

He was sick of his clock stopping
"wind it up"

No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises
No alarms and no surprises please..

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Nude

don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
you paint your smile
and fill the holes
but there'll be something missing
and just when you find it, it's gone
just when you feel it, you don't
you got to
she kisses you with tongues
and pulls you to the bed
don't go, you'll only want to come back again
so don't get any big ideas
they're not going to happen
you'll go to hell
for what your dirty mind is thinking
and now that you found it, it's gone
now that you feel it, you don't
you got to feel it

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Pearly*

how'd you get your teeth so pearly
dew-drop dishes
white-washed faces
she runs from the third world
pearly
vanilla (feel it crawl to me)
milkshakes (crawl back again)
from hard rock (whatever you say)
cafes (it won't go away)
that's where (i feel it crawl to me)
she got her (crawls back again)
sweet tooth (it won't go away)
for white boys (whatever you say)
she runs from the third world
pearly
hurts me
darling hurts me

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Permanent Daylight

the easiest way to sleep at night
is to carry on believing i don't exist
the easiest way to sell your soul
is to carry on believing we don't exist
it must be hard
with your head on backwards

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Palo Alto

in a city of the future
it is difficult to concentrate
meet the boss, meet the wife
everybody's happy
everyone is made for life
in a city of the future
it is difficult to find a space
i'm too busy to see you
you're too busy to wait
but i'm okay, how are you?
thanks for asking, thanks for asking
but i'm okay, how are you?
i hope you're okay too
everyone one of those days
when the sky's california blue
with a beautiful bombshell
i throw myself into my work
i'm too lazy, i've been kidding myself for so long
i'm okay, how are you?
thanks for asking, thanks for asking
but i'm okay, how are you?
i hope you're okay too

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Polyethylene

tears of joy, now, scare ourselves of all that you want to be
just got paid and now you're going
how inside you please
if i get scared i'll just call you
and i miss your glow as i unsettle
oh, but i'll always feel, i will always feel
one, two, three, four
so sell your sin inside,
and come and live with me
leukemia, schizophrenia,
polyethylene
there is no significant
risk to your health
she used to be beautiful
once as well
plastic bag, middle class,
polyethylene
decaffeinate, i'll let it
keep all surfaces clean
if you don't believe me,
sell yourself
if you don't get into it,
no one will

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Pop is Dead

oh no, pop is dead, long live pop
it died an ugly death by backcatalogue
and now you know it gets you nowhere
and now you know you realise
oh no, pop is dead, it just gave up
we raised the dead but they won't stand up
and radio has salmonella
and now you know you're gonna die
he left this message for us
so what pop is dead, it's no great loss
so many facelifts, his face flew off
the emperor really has no clothes on
and his skin is peeling off
oh no, pop is dead, long live pop
one final line of coke to jack him off
he left this message for us
he's dead, he's dead, pop is dead

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Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong

i wrapped you inside my coat
when they came to firebomb the house
i didn't feel pain, 'cause no-one can touch me
now that i'm held in your spell
a beautiful girl
can turn your world into dust
sell me a car that goes
sell me a house that stands
i never cared before
a beautiful girl, a beautiful girl
can turn your world into dust
a beautiful girl, a beautiful girl
can turn your world into dust
i stood in front of her face
when the first bullet was shot

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Stupid Car

it's funny how
to drive your stupid car
it's funny how
'cause i never get that far
and you put my brain in overload
and i can't change gears
i cannot see the road
you got concrete eyes
and i cannot see your face
and i failed in life
'cause you crushed me with your hands
and you put my brain in overload
i can't change gears
i cannot see the road

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Talk Show Host

i want to
i want to be someone else
or i'll explode
floating upon the surface
for the birds
the birds

you want me?
fucking well come and find me
i'll be waiting
with a gun and a pack of sandwiches
and nothing
nothing

you want me?
well come on and break the door down
you want me?
fucking come on and break the door down
i'm ready

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The Trickster

rust in the mountains
rust in the brain
the air is sacred here
in spite of your claim
up on the roof tops
out of reach
trickster is meaningless
trickster is weak

he's talking out the world
this is only halfway

i wanted you so bad
and i couldn't say
all things fall apart
we wanted out so bad
these things fall apart

he's talking out the world
this is only halfway

truant kids a can of
brick dust worms who do not
want to climb down from the
chestnut tree
long white gloves police
tread carefully escaped
from the zoo
the perfect child facsimile

he's talking out the world
this is only halfway

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Yes I Am

i resent you calling
i resent your voice
i resent that i don't have a choice
anywhere i go
you are always there
outside the car
or in my hair
i think i've been here before
yes i've been here before
the last time you locked
all the doors
and i resent you calling
i resent your voice
i resent that i don't have a choice
and yes i am wary
i think i've told you once
i think i needed advice
you were such a help
that's very nice
i think i've been here before
yes i've been here before
but this time i kick
down your door
yes i am wary

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You Never Wash Up After Yourself

i must get out once in a while
everything is starting to die
the dust settles, the worms dig
spiders crawl over the bed

i must get out once in a while
i eat all day, and now i'm fat
yesterday's meal is hugging the plates
you never wash up after yourself

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Bishop's Robes

dressed in bishop's robes
terrifies me still
in bishop's robes
bastard headmaster
i'm not going back
children taught to kill
to tear themselves to bits
on playing fields
dressed in bishop's robes
i'm not going back

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Demos

Give It Up

She said she wanted more of that stuff
The stuff that makes your heart go pitter-pat
The stuff that makes everything turn blue and green
She said that she preferred it like that

Give it up Hey!
Give it up oo-oh!
Give it up, hey!

She said that ??????????????
Too many people starving and fighting
Too many salesmen, too many factories
But she likes getting high cos it's pretty

Give it up Hey!
Give it up oo-oh!
Give it up, hey!
Give it up Give it up Hey!
Give it up oo-oh!
Give it up, hey!

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Nothing Touches Me

nothing touches me man
these walls are three feet thick
wouldn't take one of them little drills to get through it
i try to make her listen
when i turn away she's split
i try to make her listen
when i turn away she's split
she went...

nothing touches me
nothing touches me now
nothing touches me man
no matter how you split

sticks and stones can get through bones
so i've given up looking out of it
i try to make her listen
when i turn away she's split
i try to make her listen
when i turn away she's split
she went...

nothing touches me now

laugh if you can, if you can, if you can, at me now .

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Phillipa Chicken

i got wings, i got arms, i got shrinks
i got bombs, i got guns, i got brains
so there's no point in your warbird
she's no point in denying
i got guns, i got bombs, i got brains
and i won't fall for you
take me up to a warmer place
i got eggs, i got feathers, i got brains
and there's no point in your warbird
she's no point in denying
i got guns, i got bombs, i got brains
and i won't fall for you, or you
i got brains, i got feathers, i got hands
i got friends, i got ammo, i got plans
so there's no point in your warbird
she's no point in denying
i got guns, i got arms, i got plans
and i won't fall for you
and i won't fly for you

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What Is That You Say?

No longer caught up
Big church wall
Makin' some noise with a pair of drums
Lying your thoughts out over the sky
Spinning around as you gaze at the sun

(What is that you say?)
Why don't you talk to me?
(What don't you talk to me?)
What is that you say?
(What is that you say?)
Wrapping your fingers 'round my neck

I see the grass is still when we made our beds
I see the thin weed boy ride at this edge
I see the holy Jesus and the Pharoah and the Venus
And the ghost of you and me
Gagged and given up for dead

(What is that you say?)
Why don't you talk to me?
(What don't you talk to me?)
What is that you say?
(What is that you say?)
Wrapping your fingers 'round my neck

There's something up there but I
Don't know what the hell it is
There's something up there
As you guessed
Like the sun

(What is that you say?)
Why don't you talk to me?
(What don't you talk to me?)
What is that you say?
(What is that you say?)
Wrapping your fingers 'round my neck

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New and Unreleased

Alligators in New York Sewers

There's a little child
Running round this house
And he never leaves
He will never leave
And the fog comes up from the sewers
And glows in the dark

Baby alligators in the sewers grow up fast
Grow up fast
Anything you want it can be done
How did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Somethings will never wash away
Did you go bad? Did you go bad?


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Big Boots

drift all you like
from ocean to ocean
search the whole world
drunken confessions
and hijacks and films
just make you one alone
if you come home
i'll bake you a cake
made of velvet eyes
i wish you could see me
just when i kill
you're my man-o-war
you're my man-o-war
and the worms will eat you whole
my love
so unplug your phones
stop all the chatter
it all comes flooding back
from poisoned clouds
to poison the world
you're my man-o-war
you're my man-o-war
and the worms will eat you whole
my love
and the worms will eat you whole
you whole
my love

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Big Ideas

Don't get any Big Ideas
they're not gonna happen
You paint your house white
and feel the noise
but they'll be something missing

And now that you've found it, its gone
And now that you feel it, you don't

She stands stark naked and she beckons you to bed
don't go, you'll only want to come back again

So don't get any Big Ideas, they're not gonna happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking

And now that you've found it, its gone
And now that you feel it, you don't

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Egyptian Song

i jumped in the river
black-eyed angels swimming with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat

there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

i jumped in the river
black-eyed angels swimming with me
a moon full of stars and astral cars
all the figures i used to see
all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat

there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

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Follow Me Around

I see you in the dark
falling down the fast lane
calling out to me
oh that's where i'll be
crawling out to me
crawling out to me

you follow me around
you follow me around
you follow me around
you follow me around

even when your coming down
and i'll take you for a walk
then i can see you
I'm feeling it coming down

you follow me around
you follow me around
you follow me around
you follow me around I feel it
I feel it

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I Promise

i won't run away no more, i promise
even when i get bored, i promise
even when you lock me out, i promise
i say my prayers every night, i promise
i don't wish that i'm strict, i promise
the tantrums and the chilling chats, i promise
even when the ship is wrecked, i promise
tie me to the rotten deck, i promise
i won't fool around no more, i promise
even when i get bored, i promise
even when you lock me out, i promise
i say my prayers every night, i promise
i won't fool around no more, i promise

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Knives Out

I want you to know
He's not coming back.
He's bloated and frozen.
Still theres no point in letting it go to waste.

So knives out
Cook him up
don't look down
shove it in your mouth

If youd been a dog.
They would have drowned you at birth.

So knives out
Catch the mouse
squash his head
put him in the pot

So knives out
Catch the mouse
don't look down
shove it in your mouth

I want you to know
he's not coming back
look into my eyes
it's the only way you'll know im telling the truth

So knives out
catch the mouse
squash his head
put him in the pot

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Last Flowers Till the Hospital

Temporarily Unavailable

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Life in a Glass House

Once again, she is smashing up her house again
She is throwing things through windows
She is mad at someone else again,
It is now a broken home

Once again, I am so low with my only friend
He is smashing up his house again
You are throwing things at me again
And I'm wrecked up all inside

Well if I stop that singing now and shout
Well if I stop that singing to you friend
Well if I stop that singing now and shout
Someone is standing there

There I'm home, once the feet inside shout it out
Once a beating when I make my way out
Once a beating when I'm home inside
There is nothing wrong at all

Well if I stop that singing now and shout
Well if I stop that singing to you friend
Well if I stop that singing now and shout
Someone is standing there

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Lift

this is the place
sit down
you're safe now

you've been stuck in a lift
we've been trying to
reach you, thom
this is the place
it won't hurt,
it will not hurt
a smell of recognition
a face you barely loved
empty all your pockets
because it's time to go home
this is the place
remembering all the things
you always see
you've been stuck in a lift
in the belly of a whale
at the bottom of the ocean
a smell of recognition
a face you barely loved
empty all your pockets
cos it's time to go home
a smell of recognition
a face you barely loved
empty all your pockets
because it's time to go home
today is the first day
of the rest of your days
so lighten up squirt

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Man-O-War

Drift all you like
From ocean to ocean
Search the whole world
But drunken confessions
And hijacked affairs will
Just make you more alone

If you come home
I'll bake you a cake
Made of all their eyes
I wish you could see me
Dressed for the kill
What a nasty surprise
What a nasty surprise

So unplug your phones
Stop all the taps
It all comes flooding back
From poisoned cloud
To poisoned dwarf
What a nasty surprise
What a nasty surprise

And the worms will come for you
Big boots
Yeah the worms will come for you
Big boots

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Nothing at All

I might be wrong
I might be wrong
I could have sworn
I saw a light coming on

I used to think
I used to think
There is no future left at all
I used to think

Start again begin again
Let's go down the waterfall
Have ourselves a good time
It's nothing at all
Nothing at all

What would I do?
What would I do?
If I did not have you?

Start again begin again
Let's go down the waterfall
Have ourselves a good time
It's nothing at all
Nothing at all
Nothing at all

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The Thief

Temporarily Unavailable

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True Love Waits

i'll drown my beliefs
to have you be in peace
i'll dress like you
to wash your swollen feet
just don't leave, don't leave
and true love waits
it haunted all our days
and true love wins
on lollipops and hate
just don't leave, don't leave
i'm not living
i'm just killing time
your tiny hands
your crazy kiss and smile
just lonely, longing

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You and Whose Army

Come on, come on
You think you drive me crazy
Come on, come on
You and whose army?
You and your cronies
Come on, come on
Call your own empire
Come on if you think
Come on if you think
You can take us all on
You can take us all on

You and whose army?
You and your cronies

You think it's so easy
We want to know
We want to know
I'm so sad
I'm so sad
I'm so sad..

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Wicked Child

come to me for I am a wicked child
????
I am a wicked child
I am a wicked child
I am the devil's son and I wish I could be good
keep you satisfied
I wish I could be good
I wish I could be good
come to me for I am a wicked child
????
I am a wicked child
I am a wicked child
I am a wicked child
I want to be dead (?)
I want to be dead (?)


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Baby's on Fire

baby's on fire
better throw her in the water
look at her laughing
like a heifer to the slaughter
baby's on fire
and all the laughing boys are bitching
waiting for photos
oh the plot is so bewitching

rescuers row row
do your best to change the subject
blow the wind blow blow
lend some assistance to the object
photographers snip snap
take your time she's only burning
this kind of experience
is necessary for her learning
if you'll be my flotsam
i could be half the man i used to
they said you were hot stuff
and that's what baby's been reduced to.

juanita and juan
very clever with maracas
making their fortunes
selling second-hand tobaccos
juan dances at chico's
and when the clients are evicted
he empties the ashtrays
and pockets all that he's collected
but baby's on fire
and all the instruments agree that
her temperature's rising
but any idiot would know that

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El President

it came from the skies
it burst through the gates
with no mercy or disguise
with their hearts set out in flames
i know i've seen the master plan

well i'm just a man
i am just a man
i'm not giving in
all the people understand
cos they all fell down and prayed
i know, i've seen the master plan

they've killed the president
they've killed the president

it came from the skies
it came from the skies
in all shades of green
we can always justify
you can measure up your dreams
i know i've seen the master plan

they've killed the president
i'm just a man...

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Rabbit In Your Headlights

i'm a rabbit in your headlights
scared of the spotlight
you don't come to visit
i'm stuck on this bed
thin rubber gloves
she laughs when she's crying
she cries when she's laughing
fat bloody fingers
are sucking your soul away
i'm a rabbit in your headlights
christian suburbanite
washed down the toilet
money to burn
fat bloody fingers
are sucking your soul away
"if you're frightened of dying and then you're holding on
you'll see devils tearing your life away
but, if you've made your peace
then the devils will be angels
freeing you from the earth..."
white worms on the underground
caught between stations
butter fingers
i'm losing my patience
i'm a rabbit in your headlights
christian suburbanite
you got money to burn
fat bloody fingers
are sucking your soul away...

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I Have Seen It All

Bjork
I've seen it all
I have seen the trees
I have seen the willow leaves dancing in the breeze

Thom
I've seen a man killed by his best friend
And lives that were over before they were spent

Thom & Bjork
I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be
I've seen it all there is no more to see

Bjork
You haven't seen elephants, kings or Peru

Thom
I'm happy to say I had better to do

Bjork
What about China? Have you seen the Great Wall?

Thom
All walls are great if the roof doesn't fall
The man you will marry, the home you will share

Bjork
To be honest, I really don't care
??

Thom
You've never been to Niagara Falls?

Bjork
I have seen water
It's water, that's all

Thom
The Eiffel Tower
And the Empire State

Bjork
What else was a sigh
and what ails the state

Thom
Your grandson's hand
As he plays with your hair

Bjork
To be honest, I really don't care

Thom & Bjork
I've seen it all
I've seen the dark
I've seen the brightness in one little spark
I've seen what I choose and I've seen what I need
And that is enough
To want more would be greed
I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be
I've seen it all there is no more to see

Thom
You've seen it all and all you have seen
You can always review on your own little screen
The light and the dark the big and the small
Just keep in mind you need no more at all

Thom & Bjork
You've seen what you were and know what you'll be
You've seen it all there is no more to see

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Untogether

I was friendly with this girl who insisted on touching my face
She told out-rageous stories, I believed them
til the endings were changing from endings before
She's not touching me anymore...
Untogether. I couldn't help him, I got hard.
You can try your whole life, but you can't save the unsaveably
Untogether.
I was shipwrecked with this frog who was constantly testing my faith.
He made outrageous demands, I ignored him,
til I strapped on my bird feet and surfed into shore
He's not touching me anymore.
Untogether, I couldn't help him, I got hard.
You can try your whole life,
but you can't change the unchangeably
Untogether.
Now this bird nests on my back, keeps me turning and straining to see.
We threw out-rageous parties, we were golden.
Now the bird keeps her distance, and I keep my spleen.
Sometimes there's no poison like a dream.
Untogether, I couldn't help it, it got hard.
You can dry your eyes,
but you can't hold the impossibly
Untogether.

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2HB

Oh, I was moved by your screen dream
Celluloid pictures living
Your death could not kill my love for you
Take two people romantic
Smoky nightclub situation
Your cigarette traces a ladder

Here's looking at you kid
Celebrate years
Here's looking at you kid
Wipe away tears

Long time since we're together
Now I hope it's forever
Ideal love flies away now
White jacket black tie wings too
You gave her away to the hero
Words don't express my meaning
Notes could not spell out the score
But finding not keeping's the lesson

Here's looking at you kid
Hard to forget
Here's looking at you kid
At least not yet

Your memory stays
It lingers ever
Will fade away never

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Bitter-Sweet

Well, this is such a sad affair
I've opened up my heart so many times
But now it's closed
Oh my dear
Every salted tear
It wrings
Bitter-sweet applause
But when the show's in full swing
Every once in awhile
High stepping chorus lines
Mean I'm forgetting

Mein lullaby - liebchen
How rich in contrast
Love can be
Sometimes I'm quite amused
To see it twist and turn
To taste both sweet and dry
These vintage years
Lovers you consume, my friend
As others their wine

Nein - das ist nicht
Das ende der welt
Gestrandet an leben und kunst
Und das spiel geht weiter
Wie man weiss
Noch viele schoum....weidershen

And now, as you turn to leave
You try to force a smile
As if to compensate
Then you break down and cry

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I'll Wear It Proudly

I hate these flaming curtains they're not the color of your hair
I hate these striplights they're not so undoing as your stare
I hate the buttons on your shirt when all I wanna do is tear
I hate this bloody big bed of mine when you're not here

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Well I finally found someone to turn me upside down
And nail my feet up where my head should be
If they had a King of Fools then I could wear that crown
And you can all die laughing because I'll wear it proudly

Well you seem to be shivering dear and the room is awfully warm
In the white and scarlet billows that subside beyond the storm
You have this expression dear no words could take its place
And I wear it like a badge that you put all over my face

Chorus

I'll wear it proudly through the dives and the dancehalls
If you'll wear it proudly through the snakepits and catcalls
Like a fifteen year old kid wears a vampire kiss
If you don't know what is wrong with me
Then you don't know what you've missed

We are arms and legs wrapped round more than my memory tonight
When the bell rang out and the air outside turned blue from fright
But in shameless moments you made more of me than just a mess
And a handful of eagerness says "What do you suggest?"

Chorus

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Ladytron

You've got me girl on the run around run around
You've got me all around town
You've got me girl on the run around
And it's getting me down, getting me down

Lady if you want to find a lover
Then you look no further
For I'm gonna be your only
Searching at the start of the season
And my only reason
Is that I'll get to you
I'll find some way of connection
Hiding my intention
Then I'll move up close to you
I'll use you and I'll confuse you
And then I'll lose you
But still you won't suspect me

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Nobody Does It Better

nobody does it better
makes me feel sad for the rest
nobody does it half as good as you
baby you're the best

i wasn't looking but somehow you found me
i tried to hide from your love light
but like heaven above me, the spy who loved me
is keeping all my secrets safe tonight

and nobody does it better
sometimes i wish someone would
nobody does it half as good as you
why'd you have to be so good

the way that you hold me, whenever you hold me
there's some kind of magic inside you
that keeps me from running, but just keep it coming
how'd you learn to do the things you do

and nobody does it better
makes me feel sad for the rest
nobody does it quite the way you do
baby, baby
baby you're the best

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Rhinestone Cowboy

I've been walking these streets so long
singing the same old song
I know every crack in these dirty sidewalks of Broadway
where hustle's the name of the game
and nice guys get washed away like the snow and the rain

there's been a load of compromising
on the road to my horizon
but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me

like a rhinestone cowboy
riding out on a horse
in a star spangled rodeo
like a rhinestone cowboy

getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
and offers coming over the phone
well I really don't mind the rain
and a smile can hide all the pain
but you're down when you're riding the train
that's taking the long way
and I dream of the things I'll do
with a subway token and a dollar tucked inside my shoe
there'll be a load of compromising
on the road to my horizon
but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me

like a rhinestone cowboy
riding out on a horse
in a star spangled rodeo
rhinestone cowboy

getting cards and letters from people I don't even know
and offers coming over the phone

like a rhinestone cowboy
riding out on a horse
in a star spangled rodeo
like a rhinestone cowboy

getting cards and letters from people I don't even know

like a rhinestone cowboy

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Union City Blue

oh ho what are we gonna do?
union union union city blue
tunnel to the other side
it becomes daylight
i say he's mine
oh power, passion plays a double hand
union union union city man
arrive climb up four flights to the orange side
rearrange my mind
in turquoise union union union city blue
skyline passion union city blue
power, passion plays a double hand
union union union city man
i say he's mine
i have a plan
i say he's my union city man
oh oh what are we gonna do?
union union union city blue

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Wish You Were Here

so, so you think you can tell heaven from hell,
blue skies from pain
can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
a smile from a veil?
do you think you can tell?

and did they get you to trade your heroes for ghosts?
hot ashes for trees?
hot air for a cool breeze?
cold comfort for change?
and did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?

how I wish, how I wish you were here
we're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl,
year after year running over the same old ground
what have you found?
the same old fears

wish you were here...

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Sing a Song For You

in my heart is where I long for you
in my smile I search for you
each time you turn and run away I cry inside
my silly way, just too young to know any more
in my world the devil dances and dares
to leave my soul just anywhere
until I find peace in this world
I'll sing a song everywhere I can
just too young to know any more
the wind covers me cold
the starry skies all around my eyes
far behind the city moans
well worthy of the people there
oh, the psalms they love to hear
so let me sing a song for you
just to help your day along
let me sing a song for you
one I've known so very long
oh, please could you find the time..

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Wonderwall

today is gonna be the day
that they're gonna throw it back to you
by now you should've somehow
realized what you gotta do
I don't believe that anybody
feels the way I do about you now

backbeat the word was on the street
that the fire in your heart is out
I'm sure you've heard it all before
but you never really had a doubt
I don't believe that anybody
feels the way I do about you now

and all the roads we have to walk along are winding
and all the lights that lead us there are blinding
there are many things that I would like to say to you
but I don't know how

because maybe..
you're gonna be the one who saves me?

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