All Radiohead Lyrics as one sentence
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 you me and everything caught in the fire and I can see me drowning caught in the fire 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 you say the world is going to end so soon and why should I believe myself hey the sun and moon and stars are yeah but I won’t share myself with you you to me ooh 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 very 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 very 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 the door she’s running she run run run run run whatever makes you happy whatever you want you’re so very 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 he’s bitter and twisted he knows what he wants he wants to be loved and he wants to belong he wants you to listen he wants us to weep and he was a stupid baby who turned into a powerful freak but how do you how do you how do you he lives with his mother but we show him respect he’s a dangerous bigot but we always forget and he’s just like his daddy ’cause he cheats on his friends and he steals and he bullies any way that he can but how do you how do you how do you and the wise men say I don’t want to hear your voice and the thin men 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 some more and the buildings say we spit on your face some more 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 doesn’t matter anyway doesn’t matter anyway 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’ve got all the things you need who bought you 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 been thinking about you and there’s no rest should I still love you still see you in bed but I’m playing with myself what do you care when I’m not there all the things you’ve got she’ll never need all the things you’ve got I’ve bled and I bleed to please you been thinking about you 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 world does turn and if london burns I’ll be standing on the beach with my guitar I want to be in a band when I get to heaven anyone can play guitar and they won’t be a nothing any more 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 and if the world does turn and if london burns I’ll be standing on the beach with my guitar I want to be in a band when I get to heaven anyone can play guitar and they won’t be a nothing any more soul destroyed with clever toys for little boys it’s inevitable inevitable it’s a soul destroyed you’re free until you drop you’re free until you’ve had enough and you don’t understand no ripcord no ripcord no ripcord no ripcord aeroplane do I mean what I mean oh it’s inevitable inevitable oh aeroplane a thousand miles an hour on politics and power that she don’t understand no ripcord no ripcord no ripcord no ripcord the answer to your prayers we’ll drop you anywhere no ripcord no ripcord no ripcord no no no no ripcord oh yeah 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 out of here everytime you’re running I get the fear I never wanted any broken bones scarred face no home your 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 veg’table 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 veg’table I will not control myself I spit on the hand that feeds me I will not control myself I can’t afford to breathe in this town nowhere to sit without a gun in my hand hooked back up to the cathode ray I’m better off dead I’m better off dead I’m better off prove yourself prove yourself prove yourself I want to breathe I want to 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 I’m better off dead I’m better off prove yourself prove yourself prove yourself I’m better off dead I’m better off dead I’m better off prove yourself prove yourself prove yourself prove yourself woh 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 and even though I might even though I try I can’t even though I might even though I try I can’t soon your 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 and even though I might even though I try I can’t even though I might even though I try I can’t if you give up on me now I’ll be gutted like I’ve never been before and even though I might even though I try I can’t even though I might even though I try I can’t even though I might even though I try I can’t even though I might even though I try I can’t I 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 in my mind and nailed into my heels all the time killing what I feel and everything I touch all wrapped up in cotton wool all wrapped up and sugar coated turns to stone and everything I touch all wrapped up in cotton wool all wrapped up and sugar coated turns stone I am fused just in case I blow out I am glued just because I crack out everything I touch turns to stone everything I touch all wrapped up in cotton wool all wrapped up and sugar coated you can force it but it will not come you can taste it but it will not form you can crush it but it’s always here you can crush it but it’s always near chasing you home saying everything is broken everyone is broken you can force it but it will stay stung you can crush it as dry as a bone you can walk it home straight from school you can kiss it you can break all the rules but still everything is broken everyone is broken everyone is everyone is broken everyone is everything is broken why can’t you forget why can’t you forget why can’t you forget where do we go from here the words are coming out all weird where are you now when I need you alone on an aeroplane fall asleep on against the window pane my blood will thicken I need to wash myself again to hide all the dirt and pain cos I’d be scared that there’s nothing underneath but who are my real friends have they all got the bends am I really sinking this low my baby’s got the bends oh no we don’t have any real friends no no no just lying in the bar with my drip feed on talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen I wish it was the sixties I wish I could be happy I wish I wish I wish that something would happen where do we go from here the planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear and where are you they brought in the cia the tanks and the whole marines to blow me away to blow me sky high my baby’s got the bends we don’t have any real friends just lying in the bar with my drip feed on talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen I wish it was the sixties I wish I could be happy I wish I wish I wish that something would happen I wanna live breathe I wanna be part of the human race I wanna live breathe I wanna be part of the human race race race race where do we go from here the words are coming out all weird where are you now when I need you two jumps in a week I bet you think that’s pretty clever don’t you boy flying on your motorcycle watching all the ground beneath you drop you’d kill yourself for recognition kill yourself to never ever stop you broke another mirror you’re turning into something you are not don’t leave me high don’t leave me dry don’t leave me high don’t leave me dry drying up in conversation you’ll 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 on you you’ll be the one screaming out don’t leave me high don’t leave me dry don’t leave me high don’t leave me dry oh 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 have had has gone away don’t leave me high don’t leave me dry don’t leave me high don’t leave me dry don’t leave me high don’t leave me high don’t leave me dry a green plastic watering can for a 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 it wears her out it wears her out it wears her out she lives with a broken man a cracked polystyrene man who just crumbles and burns he used to do surgery on girls in the eighties but gravity always wins and it wears him out it wears him out it wears him out it wears him out she looks like the real thing she tastes like the real thing my fake plastic love but I can’t help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling if I just turn and run and it wears me out it wears me out it wears me out it wears me out and if I could be who you wanted if I could be who you wanted all the time all the time I don’t want to be crippled and cracked shoulders wrists knees and back ground to dust and ash crawling on all fours when you’ve got to feel it in your bones when you’ve got to feel it in your bones now I can’t climb the stairs pieces missing everywhere prozac painkillers when you’ve got to feel it in your bones when you’ve got to feel it in your bones and I used to fly like peter pan all the children flew when I touched their hands when you’ve got to feel it in your bones when you’ve got to feel it in your bones 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 nice dream nice dream I call up my friend the good angel but she’s out with her answerphone she says she would love to come help but the sea would electrocute us all nice dream nice dream nice dream nice dream nice dream nice dream nice dream if you think that you’re strong enough if you think you belong enough if you think that you’re strong enough if you think you belong enough just as well just as well just as well nice dream nice dream nice dream nice dream 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 and teach you how to be a holy cow you do it to yourself you do and that’s what really hurts is that you do it to yourself just you and no-one else you do it to yourself you do it to yourself don’t get my sympathy hanging out the 15th floor you’ve changed the locks three times he still comes reeling through the door one day I’ll get you and teach you how to get to purest hell you do it to yourself you do and that’s what really hurts is that you do it to yourself just you you and no-one else you do it to yourself you do it to yourself you do it to yourself you do and that’s what really hurts is that you do it to yourself just you you and no-one else you do it to yourself you do it to yourself yourself yourself faith you’re driving me away you do 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 we’re too young to fall asleep to cynical to speak we are losing it can’t you tell we scratch our eternal itch a twentieth century bitch and we are grateful for our iron lung the head shrinkers they want everything my uncle bill my belisha beacon the head shrinkers 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 hum this this is our new song just like the last one a total waste of time my iron lung the head shrinkers they want everything my uncle bill my belisha beacon the head shrinkers they want everything my uncle bill my belisha beacon and if you’re frightened you can be frightened you can be it’s okay and if you’re frightened you can be frightened you can be it’s okay the head shrinkers they want everything my uncle bill my belisha beacon limb by limb tooth by tooth tearing up inside of me every day every hour I 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 was bullet proof so pay the money and take a shot lead-fill the hole in me I could burst a million bubbles all surrogate and bullet proof and bullet proof and bullet proof and bullet proof I get home from work and you’re still standing in your dressing gown well what am I to do I know all the things around your head and what they do to you what are we coming to what are we gonna do blame it on the black star blame it on the falling sky blame it on the satellite that beams me home the troubled words of a troubled mind I try to understand what is eating you I try to stay awake but its 58hours since that I last slept with you what are we coming to I just don’t know anymore I get on the train and I just stand about now that I don’t think of you I keep falling over I keep passing out when I see a face like you what am I coming to I’m gonna melt down you bite through the big wall the big wall bites back you just sit there and sulk sit there and bawl you are so pretty when you’re on your knees disinfected eager to please sometimes you sulk sometimes you burn god rest your soul when the loving comes and we’ve already gone just like your dad you’ll never change each time it comes it eats me alive I try to behave but it eats me alive so I declare a holiday fall asleep drift away sometimes you sulk sometimes you burn god rest your soul when the loving comes and we’ve already gone just like your dad you’ll never change sometimes you sulk sometimes you burn god rest your soul when the loving comes and we’ve already gone just like your dad you’ll never change rows of houses all bearing down on me I can feel their blue hands touching me all these things into position all these things we’ll one day swallow whole and fade out again and fade out this machine 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 position all these things we’ll one day swallow whole and fade out again and fade out again immerse your soul in love immerse your soul in love 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 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 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 how can you be sure I don’t want you how can you be sure I don’t want you how can you be sure I don’t want you I don’t want you I don’t want you anymore I don’t want you I don’t want you anymore did it all for you to say you never wanted me that way now the dogs have had their meat I 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 too hard on the breaks again what if these breaks 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 it could be the last time you see me alive there could be an idiot on the road the only kick in life is pumping his steel they wrap me up in the back of the trunk packed with foam and blind drunk they won’t ever take me alive cause they all drive killer cars 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 could be the last time you see me alive what if the car loses control what if there’s someone overtaking 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 fast toyota 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 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 I want to I want to be someone else or I’ll explode floating upon the surface for the birds the birds the birds you want me well fucking well come and find me I’ll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches and nothing nothing 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 I’m ready I’m ready I’m ready I’m ready in the next world war in a jack knifed juggernaut 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’m amazed that I survived an airbag saved my life in an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe in an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe in an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe please could you stop the noise I’m trying to get some rest from all the unborn chicken voices in my head what’s that i may be paranoid but not an android what’s that i may be paranoid but not an android when I am king you will be first against the wall with your opinion which is of no consequence at all what’s that i may be paranoid but no android what’s that i may be paranoid but no android ambition makes you look pretty ugly kicking and squealing gucci little piggy you don’t remember you don’t remember why don’t you remember my name off with his head man off with his head man why don’t you 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 rain down rain down come on rain down on me from a great height from a great height height rain down rain down come on rain down on me that’s it sir you’re leaving the crackle of pigskin the dust and the screaming the yuppies networking the panic the vomit the panic the vomit god loves his children god loves his children yeah 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 aliens hover making home movies for the folks back home of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets they’re all uptight uptight uptight uptight uptight uptight I wish that they’d sweep 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 the meaning of life they’d shut me away but I’d be alright alright I’d be alright I’m alright I’m just uptight uptight uptight uptight uptight uptight uptight uptight uptight wake from your sleep 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 and you can laugh a spineless laugh we hope your rules and wisdom choke you and now we are one in everlasting peace we hope that you choke that you choke we hope that you choke that you choke we hope that you choke that you choke transport motorways and tramlines starting and then stopping taking off and landing the emptiest of feelings disappointed people clinging on to bottles and 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 twitch legs are going don’t get sentimental it always ends up drivel one day I’m gonna grow wings a chemical reaction hysterical and useless hysterical and let down and hanging around crushed like a bug in the ground let down and hanging around let down let down let down you know you know where you are with you know where you are with floor collapsing falling bouncing back and one day I’m gonna grow wings a chemical reaction you know where you are, hysterical and useless you know where you are, hysterical and you know where you are, let down and hanging around crushed like a bug in the ground let down and hanging around karma police arrest this man he talks 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 for a minute there I lost myself I lost myself phew for a minute there I lost myself I lost myself for a minute there I lost myself I lost myself phew for a minute there I lost myself I lost myself fitter happier more productive comfortable not drinking too much regular exercise at the gym 3 days a week getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries at ease eating well no more microwave dinners and saturated fats a patient better driver a safer car baby smiling in back seat sleeping well no bad dreams no paranoia careful to all animals never washing spiders down the plughole keep in contact with old friends enjoy a drink now and then will frequently check credit at moral bank hole in the wall favors for favors fond but not in love charity standing orders on sundays ring road supermarket no killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants car wash also on sundays no longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate nothing so childish - at a better pace slower and more calculated no chance of escape now self-employed concerned but powerless an empowered and informed member of society pragmatism not idealism will not cry in public less chance of illness tires that grip in the wet shot of baby strapped in back seat a good memory still cries at a good film still kisses with saliva no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick that’s driven into frozen winter shit the ability to laugh at weakness calm fitter healthier and more productive a pig in a cage on antibiotics this is the panic office section nine-seventeen may have been hit activate the following procedure I will stop I will stop at nothing say the right things when electioneering I trust I can rely on your vote when I go forwards you go backwards and somewhere we will meet when I go forwards you go backwards and somewhere we will meet ha ha ha riot shields voodoo economics it’s just business cattle prods and the IMF I trust I can rely on your vote when I go forwards you go backwards and somewhere we will meet when I go forwards you go backwards and somewhere we will meet 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 you know 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 lock the kids up safe tonight put the eyes in the cupboard I’ve got the smell of a local man who’s got the loneliest feeling that either way he turns I’ll be there open up your skull I’ll be there climbing up the walls climbing up the walls climbing up the walls a heart that’s 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 of carbon monoxide with no alarms and no surprises no alarms and no surprises no alarms and no surprises silent silence this is my final fit my final bellyache with no alarms and no surprises no alarms and no surprises no alarms and no surprises please such a pretty house and such a pretty garden no alarms and no surprises no alarms and no surprises no alarms and no surprises please 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 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 I’m your superhero we are standing on the edge we are standing on the edge it barks at no-one else but me like it’s seen a ghost I guess it’s seen the sparks a-flowin no-one else would know hey man slow down slow down idiot slow down slow down sometimes I get overcharged that’s when you see sparks they ask me where the hell I’m going at a 1000 feet per second hey man slow down slow down idiot slow down slow down hey man slow down slow down idiot slow down slow down 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 into 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 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 more dull then talking about 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 don’t forget that you are our son now go back to bed we just know that you’ll do well you won’t come to harm death to all who stand in your way wake my dear how’d you get your teeth so pearly dew-drop dentures 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 use me darling use me darling use me go 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’ll miss your glow as I unsettle oh and I’ll always feel I will always be right one two three four so sell your suit and tie 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 unleaded keep all surfaces clean if you don’t believe this sell your soul if you don’t get into it no one will 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 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 let it fall let it fall let it fall kid a kid a kid a kid a everything everything everything everything in its right place in its right place in its right place in its right place yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon everything everything everything everything in its right place in its right place in its right place right place there are two colours in my head there are two colours in my head what what is that you tried to say what what was that you tried to say tried to say tried to say tried to say tried to say everything in its right place I slip away I slipped on a little white lie we’ve got heads on sticks you’ve got ventriloquists we’ve got heads on sticks you’ve got ventriloquists standing in the shadows at the end of my bed standing in the shadows at the end of my bed standing in the shadows at the end of my bed standing in the shadows at the end of my bed the rats and children follow me out of town the rats and children follow me out of their homes come on kids everyone everyone around here everyone is so near it’s holding on it’s holding on everyone everyone is so near everyone has got the fear it’s holding on it’s holding on it’s holding on it’s holding on it’s holding on that there 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 in a little while I’ll be gone the moment’s already passed yeah it’s gone and I’m not here this isn’t happening I’m not here I’m not here strobe lights and blown speakers fireworks and hurricanes I’m not here this isn’t happening I’m not here I’m not here flies are buzzing round my head vultures circling the dead picking up every last crumb the big fish eat the little ones the big fish eat the little ones not my problem give me some you can try the best you can if you try the best you can the best you can is good enough if you try the best you can if you try the best you can the best you can is good enough this one’s optimistic this one went to market this one just came out of the swamp this one dropped a payload fodder for the animals living on animal farm if you try the best you can if you try the best you can the best you can is good enough if you try the best you can if you try the best you can the best you can is good enough I’d really like to help you man I’d really like to help you man nervous messed up marionettes floating around on a prison ship if you try the best you can if you try the best you can the best you can is good enough if you can try the best you can if you try the best you can dinosaurs roaming the earth dinosaurs roaming the earth dinosaurs roaming the earth lundy fastnet Irish sea I got a message I can’t read another message I can’t read being the first in the Irish sea I got a message I can’t read another message I can’t read I’m on your side nowhere to hide trapdoors that open I spiral down you’re living in a fantasy world you’re living in a fantasy world 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 world you’re living in a fantasy world you’re living in a fantasy world this beautiful world lundy fastnet Irish sea I got a message I can’t read another message I can’t read who’s in a bunker who’s in a bunker women and children first and the children first and the children I’ll laugh until my head comes off I’ll swallow till I burst until I burst until I who’s in a bunker who’s in a bunker I have seen too much I haven’t seen enough you haven’t seen it I’ll laugh until my head comes off women and children first and children first and children here I’m alllowed everything all of the time here I’m allowed everything all of the time ice age coming ice age coming let me hear both sides let me hear both sides let me hear both ice age coming ice age coming throw it on the fire throw it on the fire throw it on the we’re not scaremongering this is really happening happening we’re not scaremongering this is really happening happening mobiles skwrking mobiles chirping take the money run take the money run take the money here I’m allowed everything all of the time here I’m allowed everything all of the time here I’m allowed everything all of the time here I’m allowed everything all of the time the first of the children 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 I wanted to tell you but you never listened you never understand I wanted to tell you but you never listened you never understand cos I’m walking walking walking the lights are on but nobody’s home everybody wants to be a the lights are on but nobody’s home everybody wants to be a slave walking walking walking the lights are on but nobody’s at home everybody wants to be a everyone wants to be a friend nobody wants to be a slave walking walking walking red 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 will see you in the next life 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 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 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 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 easy we ride tonight ghost horses I might be wrong I might be wrong I could have sworn I saw a light coming home 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 and 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 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 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 there are better things to talk about be constructive bear witness we can use be constructive with yer blues even he turn the water blues even you turn the water green why don’t you quiet down why don’t you quiet down why don’t you quiet down why don’t you quiet down ??? he never gos and he never stays ??? better in times when I could stand back all over the neighbors maybe if I can see out here all over the clovers all over the clovers let me out of here alloverallovelloverallover why don’t you quiet down why don’t you quiet down why don’t you quiet down why don’t you quiet down we are the dollars and cents and the pounds and pence the mark and the yen we are going to crack your little souls we are going to crack your little souls we are the dollars and cents and the pounds and pence and the pounds and pence we are going to crack your little souls we are going to crack your little souls 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 once again I’m in trouble with my only 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 someone’s 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 someone’s listening in you’re being took for a ride plain old and lazy please keep moving better keep moving don’t fall asleep at the wheel I’ll wait for you but you never came please keep moving better keep moving please keep moving better keep moving kinetic kinetic kinetic I was born for your magazines for your magazines I am trapped in the society page of your magazines of your magazines I don’t know what it means do you see light at the end of the tunnel at the end of the tunnel do you see light at the end of the tunnel at the end of the tunnel at the end of the tunnel I want to see you smile again like diamonds in the dust the amazing sound of the killing hordes the day the banks collapse on us cease this endless chattering like everything is fine when sorry is not good enough sit in the back while no-one drives so glad you’re mine I wanna be in the wallpaper or run away to the foreign legion I wanna be in the wallpaper or run away to the foreign legion and as the tanks roll into town as the tanks roll into town a little bit of knowledge will destroy you a little bit of knowledge will destroy you as the tanks roll into town as the tanks roll into town a little bit of knowledge will destroy you a little bit of knowledge will destroy you I dont know why I feel so tongue-tied I dont know why I feel so skinned alive hold you till the arms are sore until you cannot feel it any more hold you till the arms are sore until you find an open door I built you up to pull you down tie you to your feet and watch you drown a little bit of knowledge will destroy you a little bit of knowledge will destroy you I built you up to pull you down tie you to the stake and watch you crying out I dont know why I feel so tongue-tied I dont know why I feel so skinned alive I’ll find another skin to wear I’ll find another skin to wear 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 you don’t wanna talk to me you don’t wanna say the words you try to get off the hook you try to get off the hook sprawling on a pin hanging off the hook trying to get yourself away trying to get yourself away there’s no use dwelling on on what might have been just think of all the fun you could be having we know the way you talk we know what you want we know what you want what you really wanted take a look around there’s candles on the cake on what might have been the road you should have took mistakes mistaken there’s no use dwelling on no use dwelling on it’s such a beautiful day it’s such a beautiful day find yourself a go and get some rest it’s such a beautiful day it’s such a beautiful day go up to the mic go up to the mic go and get some rest I’ll drown my beliefs to have you be in peace I’ll dress like your niece to wash your swollen feet just don’t leave don’t leave I’m not living I’m just killing time your tiny hands your crazy kitten smile just don’t leave don’t leave and true love waits in haunted attics and true love lives on lollipops and crisps just don’t leave don’t leave just don’t leave don’t leave are you such a dreamer to put the world to rights I’ll stay home forever where two and two always makes up five I’ll lay down the tracks sandbag and hide january has april’s showers and two and two always makes up five it’s the devil’s way now there is no way out you can scream and you can shout it is too late now because you have not been paying attention I try to sing along I get it all wrong ezeepeezeeeezeepeeezee not I swat em like flies but like flies the burgers keep coming back not maybe not all hail to the thief but I am not don’t question my authority or put me in the dock coz I’m not go and tell the king that the sky is falling in when it’s not maybe not ahh diddums sit down stand up sit down stand up walk into the jaws of hell sit down stand up walk into the jaws of hell sit down stand up anytime sit down anytime stand up sit down stand up sit down stand up we can wipe you out anytime sit down stand up we can wipe you out sit down stand up anytime anytime stand up sit down the rain drops I sucked the moon I spoke too soon and how much did it cost I was dropped from moonbeams and sailed on shooting stars maybe you’ll be president but know right from wrong or in the flood you’ll build an ark and sail us to the moon sail us to the moon sail to the moon we’re rotten fruit we’re damaged goods what the hell we’ve got nothing more to lose one gust and we will probably crumble we’re backdrifters this far but no further I’m hanging off a branch I’m teetering on the brink oh honey sweet so full of sleep I’m backsliding you fell into our arms you fell into our arms we tried but there was nothing we could do nothing we could do all evidence has been buried all tapes have been erased but your footsteps give you away so you’re backtracking ah ah ah you fell into our arms you fell into our arms we tried but there was nothing we could do nothing we could do you fell into our ah you fell into a we’re rotten fruit we’re damaged goods what the hell we’ve got nothing more to lose one gust and we will probably crumble we’re backdrifters something for the rag and bone man over my dead body something big is gonna happen over my dead body someone’s son or someone’s daughter over my dead body this is how I end up getting sucked in over my dead body I’m gonna go to sleep let this wash all over me we don’t wanna wake monster taking over tiptoe round tie him down we don’t want the loonies taking over tiptoe round tie them down may pretty horses come to you as you sleep I’m gonna go to sleep let this wash all over me there’s a gap in between there’s a gap where we meet where I end and you begin and I’m sorry for us the dinosaurs roam the earth the sky turns green where I end and you begin I am up in the clouds I am up in the clouds and I can’t and I can’t come down I can watch but not take part where I end and where you start where you you left me alone you left me alone x’ will mark the place like parting the waves like a house falling in the sea I will eat you all alive I will eat you all alive I will eat you all alive I will eat you all alive there’ll be no more lies there’ll be no more lies there’ll be no more lies there’ll be no more lies are you hungry are you sick are you begging for a break are you sweet are you fresh are you strung up by the wrists we want the young blood are you fracturing are you torn at the seams would you do anything flea-bitten moth-eaten we suck young blood we suck young blood won’t let the creeping ivy won’t let the nervous bury me our veins are thin our rivers poisoned we want the sweet meats we want the young blood genie let out the bottle it is now the witching hour genie let out the bottle it is now the witching hour murderers you’re murderers we are not the same as you genie let out the bottle funny ha ha funny how when the walls bend when the walls bend with your breathing with your breathing when the walls bend when the walls bend with your breathing with your breathing with your breathing they will suck you down to the otherside they will suck you down to the otherside they will suck you down to the otherside they will suck you down to the otherside to the shadows blue and red to the shadows blue and red your alarm bells your alarm bells to the shadows blue and red to the shadows blue and red your alarm bells your alarm bells should be ringing this is the gloaming in pitch dark I go walking in your landscape broken branches trip me as I speak just because you feel it doesnt mean it’s there just because you feel it doesnt mean it’s there there’s always a siren singing you to shipwreck don’t reach out don’t reach out steer away from these rocks we’d be a walking disaster don’t reach out don’t reach out just because you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there there’s someone on your shoulder just because you feel it doesn’t mean it’s there there’s someone on your shoulder there there why so green and lonely heaven sent you to me we are accidents waiting waiting to happen we are accidents waiting waiting to happen I will lay me down in a bunker underground I won’t let this happen to my children meet the real world coming out of your shell with white elephants sitting ducks I will rise up little babies’ eyes eyes eyes eyes little babies’ eyes eyes eyes eyes little babies’ eyes eyes eyes eyes little babies’ eyes eyes eyes eyes eyes eyes no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no I don’t know why you bother nothing’s ever good enough for you I was there and it wasn’t like that you came here just to start a fight you had to piss on our parade you had to shred our big day you had to ruin it for all concerned in a drunken punchup at a wedding hypocrite opportunist don’t infect me with your poison a bully in a china shop when I turn round stay frozen to the spot you had to piss on our parade you had to shred our big day you had to ruin it for all concerned in a drunken punchup at a wedding the pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks the pot will call the kettle black in a drunken punchup at a wedding no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no the mongrel cat came home holding half a head proceeded to show it off to all his new found friends he said I been where I liked I slept with who I liked she ate me up for breakfast and screwed me in a vice and now I don’t know why I feel so tongue-tied I sat in the cupboard and wrote it down in neat they were cheering and waving cheering and waving twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis but it got edited fucked up strangled beaten up used as a photo in time magazine buried in a burning black hole in devon I don’t know why I feel so tongue-tied don’t know why I feel so skinned alive my thoughts are misguided and a little naive I twitch and I salivate like with myxomatosis you should put me in a home or you should put me down I got myxomatosis I got myxomatosis now no one likes a smart arse but we all like stars that wasn’t my intention I did it for a reason it must have got mixed up strangled beaten up I got myxomatosis I got myxomatosis I don’t know why I feel so tongue-tied I’m walking out in a force ten gale birds thrown around bullets for hail the roof is pulling off by its fingernails your voice is rapping on my window sill yesterday’s headlines blown by the wind yesterday’s people end up scatterbrain then any fool can easy pick a hole i only wish I could fall in a moving target in a firing range somewhere I’m not scatterbrain somewhere I’m not scatterbrain lightning fuse powercut scatterbrain drag him out the window dragging out your dead singing I miss you snakes and ladders flip the lid out pops the cracker smacks you in the head knifes you in the neck kicks you in the teeth steel toe caps takes all your credit cards step up get the guns get the eggs get the flan in the face the flan in the face the flan in the face dance you fucker dance you fucker don’t you dare don’t you dare don’t you flan in the face take it with the love its given take it with a pinch of salt take it to the taxman let me back let me back I promise to be good don’t look in the mirror at the face you don’t recognize help me call the doctor put me inside put me inside put me inside put me inside put me inside I keep the wolf from the door but he calls me up calls me on the phone tells me all the ways that he’s gonna mess me up steal all my children if I don’t pay the ransom but I’ll never see him again if I squeal to the cops walking like a giant crane and with my x ray eyes I strip you naked in a tight little world and are you on the list stepford wives who are we to complain investments and dealers investments and dealers cold wives and mistresses cold wives and sunday papers city boys in 1st class don’t know we’re born just know someone else is gonna come and clean it up born and raised for the job oh I wish you’d get up go over get up go over and turn this tape off I keep the wolf from the door but he calls me up calls me on the phone tells me all the ways that hes gonna mess me up steal all my children if I don’t pay the ransom but I’ll never see him again if I squeal to the cops I know what you’re thinking but I’m not your property no matter what you say no matter what you say move along there’s nothing left to see just a body nothing left to see a couple more for breakfast a little more for tea just to take the edge off just to take the edge off move along there’s nothing left to see just a body pouring down the street move along theres nothing left to see just a body nothing left to see move along mother mary come for me for I am a wicked child I have sinned and I am so confused for I am a wicked child I am a wicked child I am the devil’s son and I wish I could be good I walk the crooked mile yeah I wish I could be good I wish I could be good if I could have kept on the straight and narrow if I could have kept on the straight and narrow but god broke your heart god broke your heart now I wake up in the night he’s tugging at my arms and legs like I was a marionette send baby Jesus to radiate his lie to radiate his lie blow into this paper bag go home and stop grinning at everyone blow into this paper bag go home and stop grinning at everyone it was nice when it lasted but now it’s gone it was nice when it lasted but now it’s gone blow into this paper bag take your armor off you’re not under attack take your armor off you’re not under attack come on come on blow into this paper bag go home and stop grinning at everyone blow into this paper bag go home and stop grinning at everyone they were honeybees on a blade of grass take your armor off you’re not under attack blow into this paper bag blow into this paper bag.
January 15th, 2007 at 10:55 am
you’re my hero. forreals.
January 15th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
there is no way i’m gonna read this whole thing