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
and i wish i was special
you're so very special
but i'm a creep, i'm a weirdo
what the hell i'm 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...etc

she's running out again,
she's running out
she's run, run run,
whatever makes you happy
whatever you want
you're so very special
i wish i was special
i don't belong here.

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 [x2]
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 you're looking,
Looking in the wrong place

I'm a reasonable man
Get off my case [x2]
I'm a reasonable man
Get off my case [x2]
I'm a reasonable man
Get off my case [x3]

After years of waiting
You're a reasonable man
Get off our case [x3]
I'm a reasonable man,
Get off my case [x3]

I'm a reasonable man,
Get off my case [x3]
I'm a reasonable man,
Get off my case [x3]

I jumped in the river, what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
All the things 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 into the river
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the things 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 are barn doors
And there are revolving doors

Doors on the rudders of big ships
We 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
But they 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 all on
You can take us all on

You and whose army?
You and your cronies

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

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
And never look back
Never look back

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

Open up, 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've 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 

Morning bell
Morning bell
Light another candle
Release me
Release me

You can keep the furniture
A bump on the head
Coming down the chimney
Release me
Release me
Yeah..
Release me
Release me

Where'd you park the car?
Where'd you park the car?
Clothes are all over the furniture
And I might as well
I might as well
Sleepy jack the fire drill
Run around around around around around..

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

There are things to talk about 
Be constructive 

There are weapons, we can use 
Be constructive 
With your blues 

Even when they tore the wall down 
Even when they tore the wall down 

Why don't you quiet down? 
Why won't you quiet down? 
Why don't you quiet down? 
Why won't you quiet down? 
?? 
We are the dollar and cents 

Why do we play these foolish games?
Only consolations
You feed me to the lions
I didn't need at all

And this just feels like spinning plates
I'm living in cloud cuckoo land
And this just feels like spinning plates
My body is floating down the muddy river 

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 

Kid A, Kid A, Kid A, Kid A
Everything, everything, everything, everything..
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
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..
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 is that you tried to say?
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 slipped away
I slipped on a little white lie

We got heads on sticks
You got ventriloquists
We got heads on sticks
You got ventriloquists

Standing in the shadows at the end of my bed (x4)

Rats and children follow me out of town
Rats and children follow me out of town
Come on kids... 

Everyone
Everyone around here
Everyone is so near
What's going on?
What's going on?

Everyone
Everyone is so near
Everyone has got the fear
It's holding on
It's holding on

It's holding on (x3) 

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

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.... 

I'm the first in the Irish Sea
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 (x3)
This beautiful world I'm the first in the Irish Sea
Another message I can't read 

Who's in bunker, who's in bunker?
Women and children first
Women and children first
Women and children
I'll laugh until my head comes off
I swallow till I burst
Until I burst
Until I..

Who's in bunker, who's in bunker
I've seen too much
I haven't seen enough
You haven't seen enough
I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children..

Here I'm alive, everything all of the time
Here I'm alive, 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 me in the fire
Throw me in the fire
Throw me in the..

We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening
We're not scaremongering
This is really happening, happening

Mobiles working
Mobiles chirping
Take the money and run
Take the money and run
Take the money..

Here I'm alive, everything all of the time
Background:
The first of the children 

Morning bell
Morning bell
Not another encounter
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 all ?? with the furniture
Now I might as well
I might as well
Sleepy jack the fire drill
Run around around around around around....

Cut the kids in half (x3)

The lights are on but nobody's home
Everybody wants to be a
The lights are on but nobody's home
Nobody wants to be a slave
Walking walking walking walking.......

The lights are on but nobody's home
Everybody wants to be a
Everyone wants to be a friend
Nobody wants to be a slave
Walking walking walking walking...,,,,,

Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get 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


Early version has a second verse:
Beautiful angel
Pulled apart at birth
Limbless and helpless
I can't even recognize you

I think you're crazy, maybe (x6)

I will see you in the next life 
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 

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? 

The bends

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 

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 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 

Fake plastic trees

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 

Bones

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 

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, 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 

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
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. 

My iron lung

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 OK 
And if you're frightened 
You can be frightened 
You can be, it's OK

The head shrinkers 
They want everything
My uncle Bill 
My Belisha beacon 

Bullet proof...I wish I was

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 

Black star

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

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

the troubled words of a troubled mind i try to understand what is eating you.
i try to stay awake but its 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. 

Sulk

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 

Street spirit

Rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me 
Hold these things into position 
All these things will want this world 

And fade out again and fade out 

This machine will, will not communicate 
These thoughts and the strain I am under 
Be a world child form a circle
Before we all go under 

And fade out again and fade out again 

Cracked eggs, dead birds 
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see it's beady eyes 
Hold 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.