'Placebo'

1) Come Home
Stuck between the do or die
I feel emaciated
Hard to breathe I try and try
I'll get asphyxiated
Swinging from the tallest height
With nothing left to hold on to

Every sky is blue
But not for me and you
Come home come home
Come home come home

Glass and petrol vodka gin
It feels like breathing methane
Throw yourself from skin to skin
And still it doesn't dull the pain
Vanish like a lipstick trace
It always blows me away

Every cloud is grey
Dreams of yesterday
Come home come home
Come home come home
Come home come home
Come home come home

Always goes against the grain
And I can try and deny it
Give a monkey half a brain
And still he's bound to fry it
Now the happening scene is dead
I used to want to be there too

Every sky is blue
But not for me and you
Come home come home
Come home come home
Come home come home
Come home come home
2)Teenage angst
Shine the headlight
Straight into my eyes
Like the roadkill
I'm paralysed
You see through my disguise

At the drive-in
Double feature
Pull the lever
Break the fever
And say your last goodbye

Since I was born I started to decay
Now nothing ever ever goes my way

One fluid gesture
Like stepping back in time
Trapped in amber
Petrified
And still not satisfied

Airs and social graces
Elocution so divine
I'll stick to my needle
And my favourite waste of time
Both spineless and sublime

Since I was born I started to decay
Now nothing ever ever goes my way
3) Bionic
Harder faster
Forever after
Harder faster
Forever after
Harder faster
Forever after
Forever after

None of you can make the grade
None of you can make the grade
None of you can make the grade
None of you can make the grade

Harder faster
Forever after
Harder faster
Forever after
Harder faster
Forever after
Forever after

None of you can make the grade
None of you can make the grade
None of you can make the grade
None of you can make the grade
4) 36 Degrees
We were tight
But it falls apart
As silver turns to blue
Waxing with a candlelight
And burning just for you
Allocate your sentiment
And stick it in a box
I've never been an extrovert
But i'm still breathing

Some tried to do me ache
Some tried to do me ache
Some tried to do me ache
It's what i'm afraid of
Some tried to do me ache
It's what i'm afraid of

With hindsight
I was more than blind
Lost without a clue
Thought I was getting carat gold
And what I got was you
Stuck inside the circumstances
Lonely at the top
I've always been an introvert
Happily bleeding

Some tried to do me ache
Some tried to do me ache
Some tried to do me ache
It's what i'm afraid of
Some tried to do me ache
It's what i'm afraid of

Four seven two three nine eight five
I gotta breathe to stay alive
And one four two night seven eight
Feels like i'm gonna suffocate
Fourteen sixteen twenty-two
This skin that turns to blister blue
Shoulders toes and knees
I'm Thirty six degrees
Shoulders toes and knees
I'm Thirty six degrees
Shoulder toes and knees
I'm Thirty six degrees
Shoulders toes and knees
I'm Thirty six degrees
5) Hang on to your IQ
Chinese masseuse
Comes between us
Talks in haikus
Plastic venus
Got a headrush
In her pocket
Two rubbers two lubes
And a silver rocket

Hang on hang on
To your iq to your id
Hang on hang on
To your iq to your id

I'm lonely I'm lonely
I'm lonely I'm lonely

Every morning
My eyes will open wide
I gotta get high
Before i go outside
Roll another
For breakfast
Burning clouds around
And in my solar plexus

Hang on hang on
To your iq to your id
Hang on hang on
To your iq to your id

I'm lonely
I'm lonely
I'm lonely
I'm lonely

Legs eleven
Makes me stay up late
Two fat ladies on my back
And now it's 88
I'm a fool
Whose tool is small
It's so miniscule
It's no tool at all

Hang on hang on
To your iq to your id
Hang on hang on
To your iq to your id

I'm lonely
I'm lonely
I'm lonely
I'm lonely
Oh
6) Nancy boy
Alcoholic kind of mood
Lose my clothes
Lose my lube
Cruising for a piece of fun
Looking out for number one
Different partner every night
So narcotic outta sight
What a gas
What a beautiful ass!

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

Kind of buzz that lasts for days
Had some help from insect ways
Comes across all shy and coy
Just another nancy boy
Woman man or modern monkey
Just another happy junkie
Fifty pounds
Press my button Going down

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

Does his makeup in his room
Does himself with cheap perfume
Eyeholes in a paper bag
Greatest lay i ever had
Kind of guy who mates for life
Gotta help him find a wife
We're a couple
When our bodies double

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me

And it all breaks down at the role reversal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
} Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
And it all breaks down at the first rehearsal
Got the muse in my head she's universal
Spinnin' me round she's coming over me
7) I know
I know you love the song but not the singer
I know you've got me wrapped around your finger
I know you want the sin without the sinner
I know I know

I know the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know the last in line is always called a bastard
I know the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know I know

I know you cut me loose from contradiction
I know I'm all wrapped up in sweet attrition
I know It's asking for your benediction
I know I know

I know the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know the last in line is always called a bastard
I know the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know I know

I know the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know the last in line is always called a bastard
I know the past will catch you up as you run faster
I know I know
8) Bruise Pristine
The means are right for taking
Fade to grey
Trying to be ruthless
In the face of beauty
In this matrix
It's plain to see
It's either you or me

Bruise
Pristine
Serene
We were born to lose

Cas 'n' lie with a velvet glove
Reading like an open book
In the hands of love
In this matrix
It's plain to see
It's either you or me

Bruise
Pristine
Serene
We were born to lose

Encore [echo]
Encore [echo]

Means are right for taking
Fade to grey
Trying to be ruthless
In the face of beauty
In this matrix
It's plain to see
It's either you or me

Bruise
Pristine
Serene
We were born to lose
9) Lady Of The Flowers
'Scuse me
I apologize
He likes your attitude
He tries it on for size
He spends the afternoon
Between your thighs
How's that for gratitude
I apologize

It seemed to last for hours
It seemed to last for days
This lady of the flowers
And her hypnotic gaze

'Scuse me
I apologize
She's got vaccum cleaner eyes
So cute
She's got magazines
Filled with hair styles
'Scuse me
I apologize

It seemed to last for hours
It seemed to last for days
This lady of the flowers
And her hypnotic gaze

She wears her tears on her blouse
Confused and racked with self-doubt
She stole the keys to my house
And then she locked herself out

'Scuse me
I apologize
He likes your attitude
He tries it on for size
He spends the afternoon
Between your thighs
How's that for gratitude
I apologize

It seemed to last for hours
It seemed to last for days
This lady of the flowers
Her electronic haze

She wears her tears on her blouse
Confused and racked with self-doubt
She stole the keys to my house
And then she locked herself out

She stole the keys to my house
And then she locked herself out
She lays me down
She lays me

10) Swallow
Confiscate
Razor blade
Confiscate
Hey
Marilyn
It kinda went like this
Stay with me
Stay with me
Stop
Stop stammering
I uh
I uh
I
I
Stop
I forgot where i put it
I can't remember where i put it
Swallow
Swallow
Hey
Hey
What
Marilyn
Yeah
I
I
Well
I
Kind of
It kinda went like this
Kinda
Stay with me
Stay with me
Stop
Stammering
Stop stammering
I uh
I uh
I
I
I forgot
I forgot
I uh
I forgot where i put it
I can't remember where i put it
I put it
Swallow
Swallow
Marilyn
Marilyn
I
Well
I
Stop
It kinda went like this
Stay with me
Stay with me
Stay with me
Stop
Stammering
Stop stammering
I uh
I uh
I
I
Stop
Stop
I uh
Forgot where
I put it
I can't remember where
I put it
Swallow
Marilyn
Where i put it yeah
I well
Well
I
It kinda
Kinda went like this
It went
Like this it
Stay with me
Stay
Stay with me
Stop
Stammering
Stop stammering
I uh
I uh
I [echo]

'Without You I'm Nothing'

1) Pure Morning
A friend in need's a friend indeed
A friend with weed is better
A friend with breast and all the rest
A friend who's dressed in leather
A friend in need's a friend indeed
A friend who'll tease is better
Our thoughts compressed
Which makes us blessed
And makes for stormy weather
A friend in need's a friend indeed
My Japanese is better
And when she's pressed she will undress
And then she's boxing clever
A friend in need's a friend indeed
A friend who bleeds is better
My friend confessed she passed the test
And we will never sever
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Pure morning
Pure morning
Pure morning
A friend in need's a friend indeed
A friend who'll tease is better
Our thoughts compressed
Which makes us blessed
And makes for stormy weather
A friend in need's a friend indeed
A friend who bleeds is better
My friend confessed she passed the test
And we will never sever
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Day's dawning, skins crawling
Pure morning
Pure morning
Pure morning
A friend in need's a friend indeed
My Japanese is better
And when she's pressed she will undress
And then she's boxing clever
A friend in need's a friend indeed
A friend with weed is better
A friend with breast and all the rest
A friend who's dressed in leather

2) Brick Shithouse
Meet The Brick Shithouse
Kiss the Brick Shithouse X6
Meet The Brick Shithouse
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?
Lay him down, lie on
Lay him down
Now your ###### went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching, when he's around.
Now your ###### went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching
Meet the Brick Shithouse,
Kiss the Brick Shithouse,
Meet the Brick Shithouse,
Kiss.
Lay him down, lie on
Lay him down
Now your ###### went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching, when he's around.
Now your ###### went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching when he's around
When you come you never make a single sound,
I'll be watching, when he's around,
When he's around, when he's around,
He's around.
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?
Lay him down, lie on
Lay him down
Now your ###### went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching, when he's around.
Now your ###### went and put me in the ground,
I'll be watching when he's around
When you come you never make a single sound,
I'll be watching, when he's around,
When he's around, when he's around,
He's around.
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?
Don't you wish you'd never met her ?

3) You Don't Care About Us
If it's a bad day, you try to suffocate.
Another memory, scarred.
If it's a bad case, then you accelerate,
You're in the getaway car.
You don't care about us oh oh
You don't care about us oh oh
You don't care about us oh oh
You don't care about us.
If it's a bad case, you're on the rampage.
Another memory, scarred.
You're at the wrong place, you're on the back page,
You're in the getaway car.
You don't care about us oh oh
You don't care about us oh oh
You don't care about us oh oh
You don't care about us.
It's your age,
It's my rage
It's your age,
It's my rage
It's your age,
It's my rage
You're too complicated, we should separate it.
You're just confiscated, you're exasperating.
This degeneration, mental masturbation.
Think I'll leave it all behind
Save this bleeding heart of mine
It's a matter of trust X4
Because
You don't care about us X4
It's your age,
It's my rage
It's your age,
It's my rage

4)Ask For Answers
Time to pass you to the test
Hanging on my ######'s breath
Always coming second best
Pictures of my ######'s chest
Get through
This night
There are no second chances
This time
I might
To ask the sea for answers
Always falling to the floor
Softer than it was before.
Dog boy, media whore
It's who the hell you take me for.
Give up
This fight
There are no second chances
This time
I might
To ask the sea for answers
These bonds are shackle free
Wrapped in lust and lunacy
Tiny touch of jealousy
These bonds are shackle free
Get through
This night
There are no second chances
This time
I might
To ask the sea for answers
These bonds are shackle free
These bonds are shackle free
These bonds are shackle free
Get through
This
There are no second chances
This time, this
To ask the sea for answers

5) Without You I'm Nothing
Strange infatuation seems to grace the evening tide
I'll take it by your side
Such imagination seems to help the feeling slide
I'll take it by your side
Instant correlation sucks and breeds a pack of lies
I'll take it by your side
Over saturation curls the skin and tans the hide
I'll take it by your side
Tick, tock x3
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tock
I'm unclean a libertine
And every time you went your spleen
I seem to lose the power of speech
You're slipping slowly from my reach
You grow me like an evergreen
You've never seen the lonely me at all
I...
Take the plan, spin it sideways
I...
Fall

Without you, I'm nothing
Without you, I'm nothing
Without you, I'm nothing

Take the plan, spin it sideways
Without you, I'm nothing at all

6) Allergic (To Thoughts Of Mother Earth)
Any means in your horizon
Heaven in a tourniquet
The afterlife to keep your eyes on
Bitter pill you take you take today
With expert levitation forward
Polished to the nth degree
It takes it's smile from every children
You take the beating
Any means in your horizon
Every mink walks two by two
We gamble to be born again
You know I never wanted to
With expert levitation forward
Polished to the nth degree
It takes it's smile from every children
You take the beating
The light divining, the light defining
The light divining, the light dividing
Don't let me down
Let me-he
Let me down
Don't let me
Don't let me down
Let me-he Let me down
Let me

Don't let me down
Let me-he Let me down
Don't let me
Don't let me down
Let me-he
Let me down
Let me
The light divining, the light defining
The light divining, the light deviding

7) The Crawl
It takes the pain away
That could not make you stay
It's way to broke to fix
No glue, no bag of tricks
Lay me down
The lie will unfurl
Lay me down to crawl
Your smile would make me sneeze
When we were siamese
Amazing grace in here
I'd pay to have you near
Lay me down
The lie will unfurl
Lay me down to crawl
Don't go and lose your face
At some strangers place
And don't forget to breathe
And pay before you leave
Lay me down
The lie will unfurl
Lay me down to crawl

Lay me down
The lie will unfurl
Lay me down to crawl

8) Every Me Every You
Sucker love is heaven sent
You pucker up, our passion's spent
My hearts a tart, your body's rent
My body's broken, yours is spent
Carve your name into my arm
Instead of stressed, I lie here charmed
'Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Sucker love, a box I choose
No other box I choose to use
Another love I would abuse
No circumstances could excuse
In the shape of things to come.
Too much poison come undone
'Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every me, me
Sucker love is known to swing
Prone to cling and waste these things
Pucker up for heavens sake
There's never been so much at stake
I serve my head up on a plate
It's only comfort, calling late
'Cause there's nothing else to do
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every me, me
Every me and every you,
Every me, me
Like the naked leads the blind
I know I'm selfish, I'm unkind
Sucker love I always find
Someone to bruise and leave behind
All alone in space and time
There's nothing here but what here's mine
Something borrowed, something blue
Every me and every you
Every me and every you
Every me, me
Every me and every you
Every me, me (x4)

9) My Sweet Prince
Never thought you'd make me perspire
Never thought I'd do you the same
Never thought I'd fill with desire
Never thought I'd feel so ashamed
Me and the dragon can chase all the pain away
So before I end my day
Remember
My sweet prince, you are the one
My sweet prince, you are the one
Never thought I'd have to retire
Never thought I'd have to abstain
Never thought all this could back fire
Close up the hole in my vain
Me and my valuable friend
Can fix all the pain away
So before I end my day
Remember
My sweet prince
You are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one X5
Never thought I'd get any higher
Never thought you'd fuck with my brain
Never thought all this could expire
Never thought you'd go break the chain
Me and you baby
Still flush all the pain away
So before I end my day
Remember
My sweet prince
You are the one
My sweet prince
You are the one X9
My sweet prince
My sweet prince

10) Summer's Gone
Kitty your face so forsaken
Crushed by the way that you cry
Kitty your face so forsaken
What a surprise
You try to break the mould
Before you get too old
You try to break the mould
Before you die
Kitty your heart that it racing
Stung by the love in your eye
Kitty your heart that is racing
What a surprise
You try to break the mould
Before you get too old
You try to break the mould
Before you die
Kitty your face so forsaken
Crushed by the way that you cry
Kitty your face so forsaken
Say goodbye
Sing for your ###### like blood from a stone
And sing for your ###### who's waiting at home
If you sing when you're high and you're dry as a bone
Then you must realise that you're never alone
And you'll sing with the dead instead
.......instead

You try and break the mould,
Before you get too old
You try and break the mould,
Before you die
Sing for your ###### like blood from a stone
And sing for your ###### who's waiting at home
If you sing when you're high and you're dry as a bone
Then you must realise that you're never alone
And you'll sing with the dead instead
...... instead

11) Scared Of Girls
An introverted kind of soul
The earth did open
Swallow whole
Careening X4
Her next of kin who lived in sin
Was asking
God to let her in
Careening X4
I'm a man, a liar
Get into your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it X3
An extroverted kinda girl
Did tour the world with MC5
Careening X4
Her younger sister, had a blister
Where I kissed her on her thigh
Careening X4
I'm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it
I'm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it X3
I'm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it
I'm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
I got a place inside it
I'm a man a liar
Guaranteed in your bed
I gotta place it on the rack
Got a place inside it X3

12) Burger Queen
Slightly bemused by his lack of direction
Hey you, hey you
Came to this world by caesarean section
Hey you, hey you
Chooses his clothes to match his pallid complexion
Hey you, hey you
Now it takes him all day just to get an erection
Hey you
Things aren't what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things aren't what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Goes out to cruise and to meet his connection
Hey you, hey you
He never scores he just gets an infection
Hey you, hey you
He dreams of a place with a better selection
Hey you, hey you
Still it takes him all day just to get an erection
Hey you
Things aren't what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things aren't what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things aren't what they seem
Makes no sense at all
Things aren't what they seem Luxemburger Queen
He's a Burger Queen
Slightly bemused by the total rejection
Hey you, hey you
Came to this world by caesarean section
Hey you, hey you
Dreams of a place with a better selection
Hey you, hey you
Dreams of a face that is pure perfection
Hey you
Things aren't what they seem Luxemburger Queen
Luxemburger Queen
Luxemburger Queen
He's a Burger Queen

13) Evil Dildo
(The voices you hear were taken from Brian's answer machine)
Hey motherfucker, I'm after you.
I know where you live.
I will fuck you up the ass and I will sneak into your room and cut your cock off.
And stuff it in my mouth and chew it up with my little teeth.

'Blackmarket Music'

1) Taste In Men
Come back to me awhile
Change your style again
Come back to me awhile
Change your taste in men
It's been this way since Christmas Day
Dazzled, doused in gin
Change your taste in men
Come back to me awhile
Change your style again
Come back to me awhile
Change your taste in men
I'm killing time on Valentine's
Waiting for the day to end
Change your taste in men

Come back to me awhile
Change your style again
Come back to me awhile
Change your taste in men
It's been this way since Christmas Day
Dazzled, doused in gin
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men
Change your taste in men

2) Days Before You Came
Days before you came
Freezing cold and empty
Towns that change their name
And a horn of plenty

Days before you came
Counting breaths inside me
Even crack cocaine
Couldn't start to hide me
Won't you join me now
Baby's looking torn and frayed
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade
Won't you join me now
Baby's looking to get laid
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade

Days before you came
It always seemed enticing
To be naked and profane
There is no denying
Days before you came
Thunderbolts and lightning
Each day a brand new vein
Each tourniquet colliding
Didn't what you anyway
Didn't what you anyway
Didn't what you anyway
Didn't what you anyway

Won't you join me now
Baby's looking torn and frayed
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade
Won't you join me now
Baby's looking to get laid
Join the masquerade
Join the masquerade
Days before you came
Days before you came ...

3) Special K
Coming up beyond belief
On this coronary thief
More than just a leitmotif
More chaotic, no relief
I'll describe the way I feel
Weeping wounds that never heal
Can the savior be for real
Or are you just my seventh seal?

No hesitation, no delay
You come on just like special K
Just like I swallowed half my stash
I never ever want to crash
No hesitation, no delay
You come on just like special K
Now you're back with dope demand
I'm on sinking sand
Gravity
No escaping gravity
Gravity
No escaping ... not for free
I fall down ... hit the ground
Make a heavy sound
Every time you seem to come around

I'll describe the way I feel
You're my new Achilles heel
Can this savior be for real
Or are you just my seventh seal?

No hesitation, no delay
You come on just like special K
Just like I swallowed half my stash
I never ever want to crash
No hesitation, no delay
You come on just like special K
Now you're back with dope demand
I'm on sinking sand
Gravity
No escaping gravity
Gravity
No escaping ... not for free
I fall down ... hit the ground
Make a heavy sound
Every time you seem to come around

No escaping gravity
No escaping gravity
No escaping gravity
No escaping gravity
Gravity
Gravity
Gravity
Gravity

4) Spite & Malice
Revolution, dope, guns, fucking in the streets
Revolution, dope, guns, fucking in the streets
Aces take your time
Queens are left for dead
Jacks can stand in line
And touch themselves instead
Aces take your pity
And keep it warm in bed
Aces take your time

Cut the deck
The queens left for dead
Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed
Jack is all tragic when he stands alone
Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck
Ace take your chances
Queen wish you luck

Aces take your time
Draw your final breath
Jacks are feeling fine
They've clubbed themselves to death
Aces take your pity
You sleep with it instead
Aces take your time

You can play your card, I'll hold onto mine
Tied up in the reasons, Ace take your time
Looks turn to ######s, flames into fires
Jack loves his tragedy, Queen her desires
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Wrap me in your trauma and I may just give you mine
Queen take your chances
Ace take your time

Dope, guns, fucking in the streets (Revolution)
Everything will blow tonight
Either friend or foe, tonight

Cut the deck
The queens left for dead
Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed
Jack is all tragic when he stands alone
Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck
Ace take your chances
Queen wish you luck

Dope, guns, fucking in the streets (Revolution)
Everything will blow tonight
Either friend or foe, tonight

5) Passive Aggressive
It's in your reach
Concentrate
It's in your reach
Concentrate
If you deny this
Then it's your fault
That God's in crisis
He's over

It's in your reach
Concentrate
It's in your reach
Concentrate
If you deny this
Then it's your fault
That God's in Crisis
He's over

Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space, find me space

It's in your reach
Concentrate
It's in your reach
Concentrate
If you deny this
Then it's your fault
That God's in Crisis
He's over

Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
It falls apart
It falls apart
Falls apart

Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
Every time I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space inside your bleeding heart
It falls apart
It falls apart
Falls apart

6) Black Eyed
I was never faithful
And I was never one to trust
Borderlining schizo
And guaranteed to cause a fuss
I was never loyal
Except to my own pleasure zone
I'm forever black-eyed
A product of a broken home

I was never faithful
And I was never one to trust
Borderline bipolar
Forever biting on your nuts
I was never grateful
That's why I spend my days alone
I'm forever black-eyed
A product of a broken home (Broken home)
Black-eyed
Black-eyed ...

I was never faithful
And I was never one to trust
Borderlining schizo
And guaranteed to cause a fuss
I was never loyal
Except to my own pleasure zone
I'm forever black-eyed
A product of a broken home (Broken home)
Black-eyed
Black-eyed ...

7) Blue American
I wrote this novel just for you
It sounds pretentious but it's true
I wrote this novel just for you
That's why it's vulgar
That's why it's blue
And I say, thank you
And I say, thank you

I wrote this novel just for Mom
For all the mommy things she's done
For all the times she showed me wrong
For all the time she sang god's song
And I say thank you Mom
Hello Mom
Thank you Mom
Hi Mom

I read a book about Uncle Tom
Where a whitey bastard made a bomb
But now Ebonics rule our song
Those motherfuckers got it wrong
And I ask
Who is uncle Tom?
Who is uncle Tom?
Who is uncle Tom?
You are

I read a book about the self
Said I should get expensive help
Go fix my head
Create some wealth
Put my neurosis on the shelf
But I don't care for myself
I don't care for myself
I don't care for myself
I don't care

I wrote this novel just for you
I'm so pretentious, yes it's true
I wrote this novel just for you
Just for you
Just for you

8) Slave To The Wage
Run away from all your boredom
Run away from all your whoredom and wave
Your worries, and cares, goodbye
All it takes is one decision
A lot of guts, a little vision to wave
Your worries, and cares goodbye

It's a maze for rats to try
It's a maze for rats to try
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die

Sick and tired of Maggie's farm
She's a bitch, with broken ###### to wave
Your worries, and cares, goodbye

It's a maze for rats to try
It's a maze for rats to try
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die
It's a race, a race for rats
A race for rats to die
A race for rats to die
A race for rats to die
Burn away
Run away
Run away ...

9) Commercial For Levi
You're the one who's always choking Trojan
You're the one who's always bruised and broken
Sleep may be the enemy
But so's another line
It's a remedy
You should take more time

You're the one who's always choking trojan
You're the one who's showers always golden
Spunk & bestiality well it's an Assisi lie
It's ahead of me
You should close your fly

I understand the fascination
The dream that comes alive at night
But if you don't change your situation
Then you'll die, you'll die, don't die, don't die
Please don't die

You're the one who's always choking trojan
You're the one who's always bruised and broken
Drunk on immorality
Valium and cherry wine
Coke and ecstasy
You're gonna blow your mind

I understand the fascination
I've even been there once or twice or more
But if you don't change your situation
Then you'll die, you'll die, don't die, don't die
Please don't die
Please don't die
Please don't die
Please don't die

10) Haemoglobin
I was hanging from a tree
Unaccustomed to such violence
Jesus looking down on me
I'm prepared for one big silence

How'd I ever end up here
Must be through some lack of kindness
And it seemed to dawn on me
Haemoglobin is the key

Haemoglobin is the key
To a healthy heart beat
Haemoglobin is the key
To a healthy heart beat

At the time they cut me free
I was brimming with defiance
Doctors looking down on me
Breaking every law of science
How'd I ever end up here?
A latent strain of color blindness
Then it seemed to dawn on me
Haemoglobin is the key

Haemoglobin is the key
To a healthy heart beat
To a healthy heart beat
To a healthy heart beat
To a healthy heart beat

Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground

As they drag me to my feet
I was filled with incoherence
Theories of conspiracy
The whole world wants my disappearance
I'll go fighting nail and teeth
You've never seen such perseverance
Gonna make you scared of me
Cause haemoglobin is the key

Haemoglobin is the key
To a healthy heart beat
To a healthy heart beat
To a healthy heart beat
To a healthy heart beat

Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground
Now my feet don't touch the ground

11) Narcoleptic
Slip and stumble at my first offences
It's not treason, it's no lie
You talk in paragraphs
I write my sentence
It's not treason, it's no lie

It seemed a place for us to dream
It seemed a place for us to dream

Crush and crumble under your defenses
It's not treason, it's no lie
You frame the photograph
I sit on fences
Change of season, love can die

It seemed a place for us to dream
It seemed a place for us to dream
It seemed a place for us to dream
It seemed a place for us to dream

If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner
If we tear out the tumor
It's later, never sooner

It seemed a place for us to dream
It seemed a place for us to dream

You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
Wake up
Wake up
Wake up

It seemed a place for us to dream
It seemed a place for us to dream

You'd better keep it in check
Or you'll end up a wreck
And you'll never wake up
And you'll never wake up
And you'll never wake up
And you'll never wake up
Wake up

12) Peeping Tom
I'm careful not to fall
I have to climb your wall
'Cause you're the one
Who makes me feel much taller than you are
I'm just a peeping tom
On my own for far too long
Problems with the booze
Nothing left to lose

I'm weightless ... I'm bare
I'm faithless ... I'm scared

The face that fills the hole
That stole my broken soul
The one that makes me seem to feel much taller than you are
I'm just a peeping tom
On my own for far too long
Troubles with the gear
Nothing left to fear

I'm weightless ... I'm bare
I'm faithless ... I'm scared
I'm weightless ... I'm bare
I'm faithless ... I'm scared

With every bet I lost
And every trick I tossed
You're still the one who makes me feel much taller than you are
I'm just a peeping tom
On my own for far too long
Problems with the booze
Nothing left to lose

I'm weightless ... I'm bare
I'm faithless ... I'm scared
I'm weightless ... I'm bare
I'm faithless ... I'm scared
I'm weightless ... I'm bare
I'm faithless ... I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm scared
I'm scared

13) Black Market Blood
Wasted face that swallowed time
With Armageddon crawling
She's insane, this friend of mine
And she's always bawling
Hear her calling
Hear her calling you
Hear her calling
Hear her calling you

There's a place within her mind
With rains already falling
She's insane, this friend of mine
And she's always bawling
Hear her calling
Hear her calling you
Hear her calling
Hear her calling you

She's preparing for the flood
The deluge and the sliding mud
She's preparing for the flood
Running on black market blood
Black market blood

Wasted face that swallowed time
With Armageddon crawling
She's insane, this friend of mine
And she's always bawling
Hear her calling
Hear her calling you
Hear her calling
Hear her calling you

She's preparing for the flood
The deluge and the sliding mud
She's preparing for the flood
Running on black market blood
Black market blood
Black market blood
Black market blood
Black market

Sleeping With Ghosts - 2003

Bulletproof Cupid

(Instrumental)

English Summer Rain

Always stays the same, nothing ever changes,
English summer rain seems to last for ages.
Always stays the same, nothing ever changes,
English summer rain seems to last for ages.


I'm in the basement, you're in the sky,
I'm in the basement baby, drop on by.
I'm in the basement, you're in the sky,
I'm in the basement baby, drop on by.


Always stays the same, nothing ever changes,
English summer rain seems to last for ages.
Always stays the same, nothing ever changes,
English summer rain seems to last for ages.


I'm in the basement, you're in the sky,
I'm in the basement baby, drop on by.
I'm in the basement, you're in the sky,
I'm in the basement baby, drop on by.


Hold your breath and count to ten,
And fall apart and start again,
Hold your breath and count to ten,
Start again, start again
Hold your breath and count your step,
And fall apart and start again,
Start again... (x13)


Always stays the same, nothing ever changes,
English summer rain seems to last for ages.
Always stays the same, nothing ever changes,
English summer rain seems to last for ages.


Hold your breath and count to ten,
And fall apart and start again,
Hold your breath and count to ten,
Start again, start again
Hold your breath and count to ten,
And fall apart and start again,
Old your breath and count to ten,
And start again, and start again,
Start again... (x16).

This Picture

I hold an image of the ashtray girl,
As the cigarette burns on my chest;
I wrote a poem, that described her world,
That put our friendship to the test.
And late at night while I was on all fours,
She used to watch me kiss the floor.
What's wrong with this picture?
What's wrong with this picture?


Farewell the ashtray girl,
Forbidden snowflake,
Beware this troubled world,
Watch out for earthquakes.
Goodbye to open sores,
To broken semaphore,
You know we miss her,
We miss her picture.


Sometimes it's faded,
Disintegrated,
The fear of growing old.
Sometimes it's faded,
Assassinated,
The fear of growing old.


Farewell the ashtray girl,
Angelic fruitcake,
Beware this troubled world,
Control your intake,
Goodbye to open sores,
Goodbye and furthermore,
You know we miss her,
We miss her picture.


Sometimes it's faded,
Disintegrated,
The fear of growing old.
Sometimes it's faded,
Assassinated,
The fear of growing old.


Hang on, though we try, it's gone.
Hang on, though we try, it's gone.


Sometimes it's faded,
Disintegrated,
The fear of growing old.
Sometimes it's faded,
Assassinated,
The fear of growing old.
Can't stop growing old (x5).

Sleeping With Ghosts

The sea's evaporated,
Though it comes as no surprise.
These clouds we're seeing,
They're explosions in the sky.
It seems it's written,
But we can't read between the lines.


Hush, it's okay, dry your eye
Dry your eye,
Soulmate dry your eye,
Dry your eye,
Soulmate dry your eye,
'Cause soulmates never die.


This one world vision
Turns us in to compromise.
What good's religion,
When it's each other we despise.
Damn the government,
Damn their killing,
Damn their lies.


Hush, iIt's okay, dry your eyes.
Dry your eyes,
Soulmate dry your eyes,
Dry your eyes,
Soulmate dry your eyes,
Cause soulmates never die.
Soulmates never die
Never die
Soulmates never die
Never die...
Soulmates never die (x4).

The Bitter End

Since we're feeling so anesthetised
In our comfort zone,
Reminds me of the second time,
That I followed you home,
We're running out of alibis
From the second of May;
Reminds me of the summer time
On this winter's day.


See you at the bitter end (x 2)


Every step we take that's synchronized,
Every broken bone
Reminds me of the second time,
That I followed you home,
You shower me with lullabies,
As you're walking away,
Reminds me that it's killing time
On this fateful day.


See you at the bitter end (x 4)
From the time we intercepted
Feels a lot like suicide...

Slow and sad, getting sadder
Arise a sitting mine
*See you at the bitter end*
I love to see you run around
And I can see you now
Running to me
###### wide out
*See you at the bitter end*
Reach inside
Come on just gotta reach inside
Heard your cry
Six months time
Six months time
Prepare the end
See you at the bitter end.

Something Rotten

It seems we're here
I miss you something rotten
The stinks are here
It's guaranteed all's forgotten
Down here
Down here it's clear that your uncut
Don't fear
Don't fear, keep all this forgotten
Face down
Face down
Face down, I miss you something rotten
Face down
Face down, this crown is broken rotten.


Down here, down here, I know it's not, it's all forgotten
Down here, down here, face down, I miss you something rotten
Down here, down here, it stinks, it stinks of something rotten
Don't fear, don't fear, keep all this forgotten
There's something rotten down here.

Plasticine

Beauty lies inside the eye of another youthful dream
That doesn't sell it's soul for self-esteem
That's not plasticine
Beauty lies inside desire and every wayward heart redeemed
That doesn't sell it's soul for self-esteem
That's not plasticine


Don't forget to be the way you are (x4)


The only thing you can rely on is that you can't rely on anything
Don't go and sell your soul for self-esteem
Don't be plasticine


Don't forget to be the way you are (x4)
And don't forget to be the way you are (x4)
The way you are (x4.)

Special Needs

Remember me when you're the one who's silver screen
Remember me when you're the one you always dreamed
Remember me when everyone's noses start to bleed
Remember me, special needs


Just 19 and sucker's dream I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 and dream obscene with six months off for bad behaviour


Remember me when you clinch your movie deal
And think of me stuck in my chair that has four wheels
Remember me through flash photography and screams
Remember me, special dreams


Just 19 this sucker's dream I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 and dream obscene with six months off for bad behaviour
Just 19 and sucker's dream I guess I thought you had the flavour
Just 19 and dream obscene with six months off for bad behaviour
Remember me...

I'll Be Yours

I'll be your water bathing you clean
The liquid piece
I'll be your ether you'll breathe me in
You won't release
Well I've seen you suffer
I've seen you cry the whole night through
So I'll be your water bathing you clean
Liquid blue


I'll be your father, I'll be your mother,
I'll be your lover, I'll be yours
I'll be your father, I'll be your mother,
I'll be your lover, I'll be yours


I'll be your liqour bathing your soul
Juice that's pure
And I'll be your anchor you'll never leave
Shores that cure
Well I've seen you suffer
I've seen you cry for days and days
So I'll be your liqour demons will drown
And float away


I'll be your father, I'll be your mother,
I'll be your lover, I'll be yours...
Yours...

Second Sight

Walk away to save your face
You never were a genius
Walk away to save your face
You let it come between us
Walk away to save your face
You never were a genius
Walk away to save your face
You never were, you never were


Yes it's just the second night
That I would break back nights for you
Yes i know you're the jealous type
'Cause I'm cursed with second sight so


Walk away to save your face
You never were an actor
Walk away to save your face
Here comes the morning after
Walk away to save your face
You never were an actor
Walk away to save your face
You never were, you never were


Yes it's just the second night
That I would break back nights for you
Yes i know you're the jealous type
'Cause I'm cursed with second sight so (x3)


Walk away to save your face
You never were a genius
Walk away to save your face
You let it come between us
Walk away to save your face
You never were a genius
Walk away to save your face
You never were, you never were


Yes it's just the second night
That I would break back nights for you
Yes i know you're the jealous type
'Cause I'm cursed with second sight so
Walk away (x8) (you never were...)

Protect Me From What I Want

It's that disease of the age,
It's that disease that we crave,
Alone at the end of the race,
We catch the last bus home.


Corporate America wakes,
Coffee republic in case,
We open the latch on the gate
Of the hole that we call our home.


Protect me from what I want,(x3)
Protect me, protect me.


Maybe we're victims of fate,
Remember when we'd celebrate,
We'd drink and get high until late,
And now we're all alone.


Wedding bells ain't gonna chime,
With both of us guilty of crime,
And both of us sentenced to time,
And now we're all alone.


Protect me from what I want,(x3)
Protect me, protect me.
Protect me from what I want,(x3)
Protect me, protect me.

Centrefolds

Come on Balthazar I refuse to let you die
Come on fallen star I refuse to let you die
That's wrong and I've been waiting far too long
That's wrong I've been waiting far too long
For you to be... be me... be… be mine
For you to be mine… be mine… for you to be mine
And it's wrong, I've been waiting far too long
That's wrong, I've been waiting far too long
For you to be... be me... be


All the centrefolds that you can't afford
Have long since waved their last goodbyes
All the centrefolds that you can't afford
You've long since faded from their eyes
So be... be mine (x 2).