ALL THE LYRICS FROM THE OFFICIAL ALBUMS

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.

everything is broken

why can't you forget?

back to the start

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

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 the 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 i 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 me 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 i could be happy i wish

i wish iwish that something would happen..

i want to live and breath

i want to be part of the human race.

back to the start

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

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.

it's the best thing that you ever had.

back to the start

Fake Plastic Trees

her green plastic wateringcan

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 and 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.

if i could be who you wanted all the time..

back to the start

Bones

I don't wannt a 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

pieces missing everywhere

prozak painkillersss.

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.

back to the start

(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 ansaphone

she says she would love to come help but

the sea would

electrocute us all. nice dream.

if you think that you're strong enough

if you think you belong enough.

nice dream.

back to the start

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.

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.

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.

back to the start

My Iron Lung

faith your driving me away

you do it everyday

you don't mean it but it hurts like hell

my brain says im receiving pain

a lack of oxygen from my life support

my iron lung.

we're too young to fall asleep

too cynical to speak

we are losing it can't you tell?

we scratch our eternal itch

our twentieth century bitch

and we are grateful for our iron lung.

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 w.a.s.t.e of time.

my iron lung.

back to the start

Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was

limb by limb and tooth by tooth

tearing up inside of me

everyday everyhour wish that i was bulletproof.

wax me

mould me heat the pins

and stab them in

you have turned me into this

just wish that it was bulletproof.

so pay me money and take a shot

lead-fill

the hole in me

i could burst a million bubbles

all surrogate & bulletproof.

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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 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 58hrs

since that i last slept withyou.

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.

back to the start

Sulk

you bite through

the big wall

the big wall

bites back

you sit there and sulk

sit there and bawl

you are so pretty

when youre 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.

back to the start

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

rows of houses all bearing down on me

i can feel their blue hands touching me

all these things will one day take control

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 frution

all these things we'll one day swallow whole

and fade out again and fade out again

Immerse your soul in love.

back to the start

Airbag

In the next world war

in a jack knifed juggernaut

I am born again in the neon sign

scrolling up and down an airbag

saved my life in an intastella burst

I am back to save the universe!!

in a deep deep sleep

of the innocent (completely terrified)

I am born again

in a fast german car

I'm amazed that I survived

an airbag saved my life

back to the start

Paranoid Android

Please could you stop the noise i'm trying to get some REST?

from all the unborn chicken voices in my head

huh? what's that??

When i am king you will be first against the wall

with your opinion which is of no consequence at all

huh? what's that??

ambition makes you look very ugly

kicking squealing gucci little piggy

you don't remember

why don't you remember my name?

off with his head

off with his head

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 graeeaa haaaeeeeeiii. haaaaeeeeeiiii

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, yeah!

back to the start

Subterranian Homesick Alien (Uptight)

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 wierd creatures

who lock up their spirits

drill holes in themselves

and live for their secrets

they're all up-tight.

I wish that they'd swoop down in the country lane

late at night when i'm driving

take me onboard their beautiful ship

show me the weird 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'll be alright.

I'm just up-tight.

back to the start

Exit Music (For A Film)

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.

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...

back to the start

Let Down

Transport motorways and tramlines

starting and then stopping

taking off and landing

the emptiest of feelings

disappointed people clinging onto bottles

and when it comes its 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 going to 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 again

you know

you know where you are with

you know where you are with

floor collapses floating

bouncing back

and one day (you'll know where you are)

I am 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

back to the start

Karma Police

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.

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

back to the start

Fitter, Happier

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 wall)

favours for favours

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

back to the start

Electioneering

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,

somewhere we will meet.

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,

somewhere we will meet.

back to the start

Climbing Up The Walls

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 my head,

fifteen blows to your mind.

So tuck the kids in safe tonight,

shut the eyes in the cupboard,

do not cry out or hit the alarm,

you'll get the loneliest feeling

That either way you turn, I'll be there,

open up your skull, I'll be there,

climbing up the walls.

back to the start

No Surprises

A heart that's full up like a landfill

a job that slowly kills you

bruises that won't heal.

You were so tired, happy,

bring down the government,they don't, they don't speak for her.

I'll take the quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide.

No alarms and no surprises,

No alarms and no surprises,

No alarms and no surprises,

Silent.

Silent.

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, such a pretty garden.

No alarms and no surprises,

No alarms and no surprises,

No alarms and no surprises please.

back to the start

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,

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...

back to the start

The Tourist

It barks at no-one else but me

like it's seen a ghost

I guess its seen the sparks a flowing

no-one else would know

sometimes i get overcharged

that's when you see sparks

you ask me where the hell I'm going??

at a thousand feet per second

hey man slowdown. idiot slowdown.

back to the start

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

back to the start

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

And 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

She's running out again

She's running out ....

Run...

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.

back to the start

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?

back to the start

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

But 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

And my mother say we don't love you son no more

And the buildings say we spit on your face somemore

And the feeling is, that there�s something wrong

Because I can't find the words and I can't find the songs.

Stop whispering. start shouting

Dear Sir, I have a complaint can't remember what it is

Doesn't matter anyway

back to the start

Thinking About You

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

Why 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?

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 why should you care, when the other men are far far better

All the things you got

That you never need

All the things got

Are planning to bleed to please you

Been thinking about you

back to the start

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

back to the start

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 until you've had enough

And you don't understand

You've 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

And no ripcord

The answer to your prayers

We'll drop you anywnere

With no ripcord.

back to the start

Vegetable

I never wanted anything but this

I tried hard, worked hard

I ran around in domestic bliss

I fought hard, died hard

Every time you're running over me

Every time 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

I never wanted any broken bones

Scarred face, no home

You words surround me and I asphyxiate

And I burn all hate

Every time you're running out on me

Every time you're running I can see

The waters break, the waters run all over me

The waters break, the waters run

And this time your gonna pay

back to the start

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

Why?

back to the start

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

back to the start

Lurgee

I feel better, I feel better now you've gone

I feel better, I feel strong

I got better, I got 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

back to the start

Blow Out

In my mind

And nailed into my heels

All the time

Killing what I feel

And everything I touch turns to stone

All wrapped up in cotton wool, all wrapped up and sugar coated.

I am fused

Just in case I blow out

I am glued

Just in case I crack out

And everything I touch turns to stone

Everything I touch turns to stone

back to the start