Radiohead Lyrics

Radiohead Lyrics by Albums

2006-03-13T07:29:00.000-08:00

Hail to the Thief [2003]
01 2+2=5
02 Sit Down, Stand Up
03 Sail to the Moon
04 Backdrifts
05 Go to Sleep
06 Where I End and You Begin
07 We Suck Young Blood
08 The Gloaming
09 There There
10 I Will.
11 A Punchup at a Wedding
12 Myxomatosis
13 Scatterbrain
14 A Wolf at the Door

Amnesiac [2001]
01 Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box
02 Pyramid Song
03 Pull Pulk Revolving Doors
04 You And Whose Army?
05 I Might Be Wrong
06 Knives Out
07 Morning Bell
08 Dollars & Cents
09 Hunting Bears
10 Like Spinning Plates
11 Life In A Glass House

Kid A [2000]
01 Everything In Its Right Place
02 Kid A
03 The National Anthem
04 How To Disappear Completely
05 Treefingers
06 Optimistic
07 In Limbo
08 Idioteque
09 Morning Bell
10 Motion Picture Soundtrack

OK Computer [1997]
01 Airbag
02 Paranoid Android
03 Subterranean Homesick Alien
04 Exit Music (For A Film)
05 Let Down
06 Karma Police
07 Fitter Happier
08 Electioneering
09 Climbing up the Walls
10 No Surprises
11 Lucky
12 The Tourist

The Bends [1995]
01 Planet Telex
02 The Bends
03 High & Dry
04 Fake Plastic Trees
05 Bones
06 [Nice Dream]
07 Just
08 My Iron Lung
09 Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was
10 Black Star
11 Sulk
12 Street Spirit (Fade Out)

My Iron Lung [EP] [1994]
01 My Iron Lung
02 The Trickster
03 Lewis (Mistreated)
04 Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
05 Permanent Daylight
06 Lozenge Of Love
07 You Never Wash Up After Yourself
08 Creep (Acoustic)

Pablo Honey [1993]
01 You
02 Creep
03 How Do You?
04 Stop Whispering
05 Thinking About You
06 Anyone Can Play Guitar
07 No Ripcord
08 Vegetable
09 Prove Yourself
10 I Can't
11 Lurgee
12 Blow Out

Hail to the Thief [2003]

2005-10-20T09:04:00.000-07:00

2 + 2 = 5
Are you such a dreamer ?
Tp put the world to rights ?
I'll stay home forever
Where two & two always makes up five
I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag & hide
January has April's showers
And two & two always makes up five
IT'S THE DEVIL'S WAY NOW
THERE IS NO WAY OUT
YOU CAN SCREAM & 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
Eezeepeezeeeezeepeeezeee
NOT
I swat em like flies but
Like flies the buggers
Keep coming back
NOT
Maybe not
"All hail to the thief"
"But I'm not!"
"Don't question my authority or put me in the dock"
Cozimnot
Go & 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
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 (stand up)
Sit down, stand up
Anytime (sit down)
Sit down, stand up

We can wipe you out (sit down, stand up)
We can wipe you out anytime (sit down, stand up)
Anytime

Stand up, sit down
Anytime
The rain drops (repeated)

Sail To The Moon
Sail to the Moon
I sucked the moon
And sailed on shooting stars
I spoke too soon
I was dropped from moonbeams
And how much did it cost?
Maybe you'll
You'll build an Ark
Be president

Or in the flood
But know right from wrong
And sail us to the moon
Sail to the moon
Sail us to the moon

Backdrifts
We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell we've got nothing more to lose
One burst and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifting
This far but no further
I'm hanging off a branch
I'm teetering on a breaker
Honey sweets so fall asleep
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
Oh oh oh
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
You fell into a
We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell we've got nothing more to lose
One burst and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifters

Go To Sleep
Something for the rag and bone man
Over my dead body
Something big is gonna happen
Over my dead body
Someone saw someone's daughter
Over my dead body
This is how I ended up sucked in
Over my dead body
I'm gonna go to sleep
And let this wash all over me
We don't really want a monster taking over
Tip toeing, tying down
We don't want the loonies takin' over
Tip toeing, tying down our arms
May pretty horses
Come to you as you sleep
I'm not gonna to sleep
And let this wash over me

Where I End And You Begin
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 and cant take part
Where I end and where you start
Where you, you left me alone
You left me alone
X'll mark the place
Like the parting of the waves
Like a house falling in the sea
In the sea
I will eat you alive [x4]
There'll be no more lies [x4]
I will eat you alive [x4]
There'll be no more lies [x4]
I will eat you alive [x4]
There are no more lies [x4]
I will eat you alive [x3]

We Suck Young Blood
are you hungry?
are you begging for a break?
are you sick?

are you sweet?

are you fresh?
are you strung up by the wrists?
are you fracturing?

would you do anything?
we want the young blood
flea-bitten? motheaten?
are you torn at the seams?

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

The Gloaming
Genie let out the bottle
Genie let out the bottle
It is now the witching hour
It is now the witching hour

Murderers you're murderers
We are not the same as you

Genie let out the bottle
Funny haha funny how

When the walls bend
When the walls bend
With your breathing
With your breathing
When the walls bend

With your breathing
When the walls bend
With your breathing

With your breathing
They will suck you down
They will suck you down
To the otherside
They will suck you down
To the otherside
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
Should be ringing
Your alarm bells

This is the gloaming

There There
In pitch dark
I go walking in your landscape
Broken branches
Trip me as I speak

Just cos you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there
Just cos you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there

There's always a siren
Singing you to shipwreck
(Don't reach out, don't reach out
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
Don't reach out, don't reach out)

Just cos you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there
(Someone on your shoulder
Someone on your shoulder)
Just cos you feel it
Doesn't mean it's there
(Someone on your shoulder
Someone on your shoulder)
There there!

Why so green and lonely?
Lonely, lonely

Heaven sent you to me
To me, to me

We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen

We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen

I Will
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 baby's eyes eyes eyes eyes
Little baby's eyes eyes eyes eyes
Little baby's eyes eyes eyes

A Punchup At A Wedding
no x42
i don’t know why you bother
nothing's ever good enough for you.
(by the way) i was there and it wasn't like that.
you’ve come 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 punch-up at a wedding
yeah
hypocrite opportunist
don't infect me with your poison
a bully in a china shop
when i turn ‘round you stay frozen to the spot
you had the pointless snide remarks
of hammerheaded sharks
the pot will call the kettle black
it’s a drunken punch-up at a wedding yeah
oh no no

Myxomatosis
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 like
She ate me up for breakfast
She screwed me in a vice
But now
I don't know why
I feel so tongue-tied
I sat in the cupboard
And wrote it down real neat
They were cheering and waving
Cheering and waving
Twitching and salivating like with myxomatosis
But it got edited f**ked up
Strangled beaten up
Used in 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
Yeah no one likes a smart ass but we all like stars
But 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

Scatterbrain
I'm walking out in a force ten gale.
birds thrown around, bullets for hail.
yesterday's headlines blown by the wind.
your voice is rapping on my window sill
the roof is pulling off by its fingernails.

yesterday's people end up scatterbrain.
a moving target in a firing range.
somewhere I'm not
then any fool can easy pick a hole. (I only wish I could fall in)
lightning fuse
somewhere I'm not
scatterbrain.
powercut.
scatterbrain.
scatterbrain

A Wolf At The Door
Drag him out your 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
Get up get the gunge
Get the eggs
Get the flan in the face
The flan in the face
The flan in the face
Dance you f**ker dance you f**ker
Don't you dare
Don't you dare
Don't you flan in the face
Take it with the love is 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
No no no no no no no:
Walking like giant cranes ah
With my x ray eyes i strip you naked
In a tight little world and why 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 first class
Don't know we're born little
Someone else is gonna come and clean it up
Born and raised for the job
Someone else always does always pick it up
Get over get up get over
Turn the 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 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
So I'm just gonna'

Amnesiac [2001]

2005-10-20T09:03:00.000-07:00

Packt Like Sardines In A Crushed Tin Box

Packt like sardines in a crushed tin box

After years of waiting nothing came
As your life flashed before your eyes
You realise

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 realise 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)

Pyramid Song

I jumped in the river and 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 was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

Pull Pulk Revolving Doors

There are barn doors
And there are revolving doors

Doors on 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
But there are trapdoors
That you can't come back from

You And Whose Army?

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
We ride tonight
We ride tonight
Ghost horses
Ghost horses
Ghost horses
We ride tonight
We ride tonight
Ghost horses
Ghost horses
Ghost horses..

I Might Be Wrong

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

Knives Out

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

The morning bell
The morning bell
Had a null 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 alone with the furniture
Now I might as well
I might as well

Sleepy jack the fire drill
Running around around around...

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 singer
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 singer
Walking walking walking...

Dollars & Cents

Dollars and cents

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 dollars and cents and the pounds and pence. we're gonna crush your
Little soul. crush you little soul.

Hunting Bears

Instrumental

Like Spinning Plates

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

Life In A Glass House

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
Only only only only only only only only only only....
There's someone listening in

Kid A [2000]

2005-10-20T09:02:00.000-07:00

Everything In Its Right Place

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

I've got two colours in my head
I've got two colours in my head
What was 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...

Kid A

I slipped 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
Rats and children follow me out of town
Rats and children follow me out of town
Come on kids

The National Anthem

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
What's going on?
What's going on?

What's going on?
What's going on?
What's going on?

How To Disappear Completely

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

Treefingers

(Instrumental)
Optimistic

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
And now this messed up millionaire
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 ruling the earth
Dinosaurs ruling the earth
Dinosaurs ruling the earth

In Limbo

Being the first in the 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
You're living in a fantasy

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
You're living in a fantasy
You're living in a fantasy
This beautiful world

Being the first in the Irish Sea
I got a message I can't read
Another message I can't read

Idioteque

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 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 it in the fire
Throw it in 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 alive
Everything all of the time
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time

Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time
Here I'm alive
Everything all of the time

The first of the children

Morning Bell

The morning bell
The morning bell
Had a null 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 alone with the furniture
Now I might as well
I might as well

Sleepy jack the fire drill
Running around around around...

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 singer
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 singer
Walking walking walking...

Motion Picture Soundtrack

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

OK Computer [1997]

2005-10-20T09:00:00.000-07:00

Airbag

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

Paranoid Android

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, what's that

When I am king you will be first against the wall
With your opinion which is of no consequence at all
What's that, what's that

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
Kicking 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

(repeats 3rd time, underneath vocals are:)
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

Subterranean Homesick Alien

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

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 all right, all right
I'm all right, all right

I'm just uptight, uptight, uptight, uptight

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
We hope that you choke, that you choke

We hope that you choke, that you choke

Let Down

Transport, motorways and tram lines
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
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

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
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself
And for a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself

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
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

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
When I go forwards, you go backwards, and somewhere we will meet

Riot shields, voodoo economics, it's, 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
When I go forwards, you go backwards, somewhere we will meet

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
So 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

Climb up the walls. climb up the walls

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

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 wreck, cause I'm your superhero
We are standing on the edge
The head of state is calling my name but I, I don't have time for you
It's gonna be a glorius day, I feel my luck could change
Pull me out of the aircrash, pull me out of the wreck, cause I'm your superhero
We are standing on the edge, we are standing on the edge

We are standing on the edge

The Tourist

It barks at no-one else but me like it's seen a ghost
I guess it seen the sparks, a flowing 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
You ask me where the hell I'm going at thousand 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

The Bends [1995]

2005-10-20T08:59:00.000-07:00

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 straight home from school.
you can kiss it you can break all the rules
but still everything is broken,
everyone is broken.
why can't you forget?

The Bends

where do we go from here?
the words are coming out all wierd
where are you now when i need you?
alone on an aeroplane
falling asleep against 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 this 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
i wish that something would happen

i want to live and breathe
i want to be part of the human race

High & 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.

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.

Fake Plastic Trees

HEr green plastiC wateringcan for her fake chineserubberplant
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 polystyreneman 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..

Bones

I don't wanna a be krippled kracked
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.

[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.

Just

can't get the stink off,
he's been hanging around 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 locks 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.

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 sup[poRT
my IrOn lUng.

weRe too young to fall asleep
too cynical to speak
we are loosing 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 anddumb
(whe n the powrr runs out we'll just humm)
this this is our new s=ong
just like the last one
a total w.a.s.t.e. of time.
my
irOn lUng.

Bullet Proof..I Wish I Was

limb by limb and tooth by tooth
tearing up inside of me
everyday everyhour 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.

so pay me money and take a shot
lead-fill
the hole in me
i could burst a million bubbles
all
surrogate
&
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 58hrs 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?
im gonna melt down.

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.

Street Spirit (Fade Out)

rows of houses all bearing down on me
i can feel their blue hands touching me
all these things in all positions
all these things will one day take control
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
all these things into frution
all these things we'll one day swallow whole
and fade out again and fade out again.

My Iron Lung [EP] [1994]

2005-10-20T08:57:00.000-07:00

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.. to young to fall asleep
To cynical to speak
We are loosing it, can't you tell?
We scratch.. our eternal itch
Out 20th century bitch
And we are grateful of our
Iron lung.

Suck.. suck your teenage thumb
Toilet trained and dumb
When the power runs out, we'll just hum.
This.. is our new song
Just like the last one
At total waste of time.
My iron lung

(the headshrinkers they want everything)
(my uncle bill, my belisha beacon)

And if you're frightened, you can be frightened
You can be x ok!!
Anf if you're frightened, you can be frightened
You can be x-ok!!

(the headshrinkers they want everything)
(my uncle bill, my belisha beacon)

The Trickster

Rust in the mountains
Rust in the brain
The air is sacred here
In spite of your claim
Up on the roof tops
Out of reach
Trickster is meaningless
Trickster is weak
He's talking out the world
Talking out the world hey
Hey
Hey
This is only halfway
Hey
Hey
Hey
This is only halfway

I wanted you so bad
And I couldn't say
All things fall apart
We wanted out so bad
We couldn't say
These things fall apart
We're talking out the world
Talking out the world
Hey
Hey
Hey
This is only halfway
Hey
Hey
Hey
This is only halfway

Truant kids- a can of brick dust worms
Who do not want to climb down from
Their chestnut tree
Long white gloves
Police tread carefully
Escaped from the zoo
The perfect child facsimile
It's talking out the world
Talking out the world

Lewis (Mistreated)

Bummed out again by your only business friend
The smell of fear is thicker than you think
Don't do it
Don't jump

Changed shape to fit
In the end you just feel sick
A million love songs under anaesthetic
Hey don't do it
Don't jump

Lewis
Save yourself the pain
You'll never get there
Lewis
Save yourself the pain
It never really mattered

We never noticed
We never understood
He just get crushed to fit
He never even smelt out the best
It's the best
It's the best day of your life

Lewis
Save yourself the pain
You'll never get there
Lewis
Save yourself the pain
It never really mattered
No
I swear
I swear
I swear

Oh
Mistreated
A low corporate
Mistreated
A low corporate

I don't wanna to talk about it
I don't wanna to talk about it
I don't wanna to talk about Lewis, Lewis, Lewis
I don't wanna to talk about Lewis, Lewis, Lewis

Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong

I wrapped you inside my coat
When they came to fire upon the house
I didn't feel pain
Cause no one can touch me
Now that I'm held in your smile

A beautiful girl
A beautiful girl
Can turn your world into doubt
Sell me a car that goes
Sell me a house that stands
Oh
I never cared before
I never cared before
I never cared before
Before
Before
Before

A beautiful girl
A beautiful girl
Can turn your world into doubt
A beautiful girl
A beautiful girl
Can turn you world into doubt
Yeah
I stood in front of her face
When the first bullet
Was shot

Permanent Daylight

Loose ropes still tied knots
I can't believe that I returned
Loose threads still they sew
It's just I can't believe that we returned
Let's get out
Out
Will you come out with me?

Lozenge Of Love

I am gone
Everybody's waiting
And these fruit
Just a twist of poison
I won't be alone
When you're running in me
I can't stay
Like I'm somewhere always
I need more
A restless body cracks and rolls
I won't have the strength
When you're running in me

You Never Wash Up After Yourself

I must get out once in a while
Everything is starting to die
The dust settles
The worms dig
Spiders crawl over the bed

I must get out once in a while
I eat all day and now I'm fat
Yesterday's meal is hugging the plates
You never wash up after yourself

Pablo Honey [1993]

2005-10-20T08:09:00.000-07:00

You

You are the sun the moon and stars
ah you... and I could never run away from you

You try but what could get out of things?
and why should I believe myself?

It's like the world is gonna end so soon
and why should I believe myself?

Yeah...

You, me, and everything
caught in the fire
I can see you drowning
caught in the fire
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 fuckin' 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 fuckin' 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 again,
She's running out
She's run run run running out...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fuckin' 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.
How Do You?

His banner is twistin'
He knows what he wants
He wants to be looked at
He wants to be loved
He wants us to listen
He wants us to leave
And he was a stupid baby
Turned into a powerful freak

How do you?
How do you?
How do you?

He's just like his mother
But we showed him respect
He's a dangerous bigot
But we always forget
And he's just like his daddy
Cuz he cheats on his friends
And he steals anybody's
Any way that he can

How do you?
How do you?
How do you?

Stop Whispering

And the wise man said "I don't wanna hear your voice"
And the thin man said "I don't wanna hear your voice"
And they're cursing me
And they won't let me be
There's nothing to say
And there's nothing to do

Stop whispering, start shouting
Stop whispering, start shouting

And my mother said "Let me spit on you son some more"
And the [? building ?] said "Let me spit on your face some more"
And the feeling is
That there's something wrong
Cuz I can't find the words
And I can't find the song

Stop whispering, start shouting
Stop whispering, start shouting

They said, "I have a complaint
"Can't remember what it is
"That's why I'm here"

Stop whispering, start shouting
Stop whispering, start shouting

Thinking About You

Been thinking about you, the way I cut your hair
Your eyes are on my wall, your teeth are over there
But I'm still no one, and you're my star
What do you care?

Been thinking about you, and there's no rest
Should I still love you, still see you in bed
When I'm playing with myself?
What do you care when the other men are far, far better?

All the things you got,
all the things you need
I bought you cigarettes,
and pried the company to come and see you, honey

I've been thinking about you, so how can you sleep?
Those people aren't your friends, they're paid to kiss your feet
They don't know what I know.
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
When I'm playing with myself?
What do you care when I'm not there?

All the things you got
that you'll never need
all the things you got
I bled and I bleed to please you

Been thinking about you...

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

As the world 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 there won't
be an [?] 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

As the world 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 there won't
be an [?] anymore

No Ripcord

Soul destroyed with clever toys for little boys
It's inevitable, inevitable, it's a soul destroyed
You feel it till you're dry
You feel it till you've had enough
And you don't understand

No Ripcord, no ripcord
No Ripcord, no ripcord

Airplane, do I mean what I mean
It's inevitable, inevitable, oh airplane

A thousand miles an hour
The politics of power
See you don't understand

No Ripcord, no ripcord
No Ripcord, no ripcord

la la la la...

The answer to your prayers
[ ?? ]

No Ripcord, no ripcord
No Ripcord, no ripcord

Vegetable

I never wanted anything like this
I worked hard, tried hard
I ran around [? a molested place ?]
I fought hard, died long

Every time you're running out of here
Every time you're running I get the fear

I never wanted any broken bones
Scarred face, no home
Your words surround me and asphyxiate
And I burn all hate

Every time you're running out on 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

The waters spray, the waters roll all over me
The waters spray, the waters roll on this tired [?]

I'm not a vegetable
I will not control myself
I spit on the hand that feeds me
I will not control myself

Prove Yourself

.
I can't afford to breathe in this town
Nowhere to sit with out a gun in my hand
Look 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 say I want it but I don't know how
I look, I bleed, I beg and pray

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...

I Can't

Please forget the words that I just blurted out
It wasn't me, it was a strange and creepy doubt

They keep drivin' in my cage
There's nothing in this world to keep the time

Even though I might,
Even though I try,
I can't

See the things that keep, keep me uninvolved
Silly words that I, that I can't live without

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

Lurgee

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, let it go

I got something,
I got something heaven knows

I got something,
I got something I don't know

Blow Out

In my mind [ ?? ]
All the time killin' what I feel
And everything I took

All I took while she [ ?? ]
All I took while she was crying

Just a start...

And everything I took

All I took while she [ ?? ]
All I took while she was crying

I infuse just in case I blow out
I am plain just in case I crack up

Everything I took turns to stone

All I took while she [ ?? ]
All I took while she was crying