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 around

Saying everything is broken
Everyone is broken

You can force it but it will stay strong
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 broken
Everything is broken

Why can't you forget me?
Why can't you forget me?
Why can't you forget me?

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 why it really hurts, is
You do it to yourself
Just you
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
Changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door
And soon he'll get to you
And teach you how to get to purest hell

You do it to yourself, you do
And that's why it really hurts is
You do it to yourself
Just you, you and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
Self

Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now when I need you?
Alone on an aerplane
Falling asleep beside the window pane
My blood'll thicken
I need to wash myself again to hide all the the dirt and pain
'Cause I'd be scared but there's nothing underneath
Who are my real friends?
Have they all got the bends?
Am i really sinking this low?

Baby's got the bends, oh no
We don't have any real friends, no no no

Lying in a bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties
I wish we could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

Where do we go from here?
The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
And where are you?
Brought in the CIA
The tanks and the whole marines to blow me away
To blow me sky high

Baby's got the bends
We don't have any real friends

Lying in a bar with my drip feed on
Talking to my girlfriend waiting for something to happen
I wish it was the sixties
I wish we could be happy
I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen

I want to live, breathe
I want to be part of the human race
I want to live, breathe
I want to 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

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 receiving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support
My iron lung

The headshrinkers
They want everything
My uncle bill
By belisha beacon

We're way too young to fall asleep
Too 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 headshrinkers
They want everything
My uncle bill
By 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 headshrinkers
They want everything
My uncle bill
By belisha beacon

And if you're frightened
You could be frightened
You can be
It's OK
And if you're frightened
You could be frightened
You can be
It's OK

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth, tearing up inside of me
Every day, every hour
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, take a shot
Lead-fill the hole in me
I could burst a million bubbles
All surrogate and bulletproof
And bullet proof

FAKE PLASTIC TREES

The green plastic watering can
For a fake chinese rubberplant
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 for girls in the eighties
But gravity always wins

And it wears him out
And it wears him out
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 turned and ran

And it wears me out
It wears me out
It wears me out

If I could be who you wanted
if I could be who you wanted all the time

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

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

Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite
That beams me home

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

Blame it on the black star
Blame it on the falling sky
Blame it on the satellite
That beams me home

I don't want to 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
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 ansaphone
She says that 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)
Nice dream (If you think you belong enough)
Nice dream (If you think that you're strong enough)
Nice dream (If you think you belong enough)

(Now come on
Now come on
Now come on)

Nice dream
Nice dream
Nice dream
Nice dream