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+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 stone
+You can crush it as dry as a bone
+You can walk it home straight from school
+You can kiss it, you can break all the rules
+All of the rules
+But still
+
+Everything is broken
+Everyone is broken
+Everyone is, everyone is broken
+Everyone is, everything is broken
+
+Why can't you forget?
+Why can't you forget?
+Why can't you forget?
+
+Where do we go from here?
+The words are coming out all weird
+Where are you now when I need you?
+Alone on an aeroplane
+Falling asleep against the windowpane
+My blood will thicken
+
+I need to wash myself again
+To hide all the dirt and pain
+'Cause 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, oh no
+We don't have any real friends
+No, no, no
+
+Just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
+Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
+I wish it was the '60s, I wish I could be happy
+I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen
+
+Where do we go from here?
+The planet is a gunboat in a sea of fear
+And where are you?
+They brought in the CIA
+The tanks and the whole marines
+To blow me away
+To blow me sky high
+
+My baby's got the bends
+We don't have any real friends
+
+Just lying in a bar with my drip feed on
+Talking to my girlfriend, waiting for something to happen
+I wish it was the '60s, I wish I could be happy
+I wish, I wish, I wish that something would happen
+
+I wanna live, breathe
+I wanna be a part of the human race
+I wanna live, breathe
+I wanna be a part of the human race
+Race, race, race
+
+Where do we go from here?
+The words are coming out all weird
+Where are you now when I need you? 
+
+Two jumps in a week, I bet you
+Think that's pretty clever, don't you, boy
+Flying on your motorcycle
+Watching all the ground beneath you drop
+You'd kill yourself for recognition
+Kill yourself to never, ever stop
+You broke another mirror
+You're turning into something you are not
+
+Don't leave me high
+Don't leave me dry
+Don't leave me high
+Don't leave me dry
+
+Drying up in conversation
+You 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
+
+Don't leave me high
+Don't leave me dry
+Don't leave me high
+Don't leave me dry
+
+Oh, it's the best thing that you've ever had
+The best thing that you've ever, ever had
+It's the best thing that you've ever had
+The best thing you've had has gone away
+
+So don't leave me high
+Don't leave me dry
+Don't leave me high
+Don't leave me dry
+Don't leave me high
+Don't leave me high
+Don't leave me dry
+
+Her green plastic watering can
+For her fake Chinese rubber plant
+In the fake plastic earth
+That she bought from a rubber man
+In a town full of rubber plans
+To get rid of itself
+
+It wears her out, it wears her out
+It wears her out, it wears her out
+
+She lives with a broken man
+A cracked polystyrene man
+Who just crumbles and burns
+He used to do surgery
+For girls in the eighties
+But gravity always wins
+
+It wears him out, it wears him out
+It wears him out, it wears
+
+She looks like the real thing
+She tastes like the real thing
+My fake plastic love
+But I can't help the feeling
+I could blow through the ceiling
+If I just turn and run
+
+And it wears me out, it wears me out
+It wears me out, it wears me out
+
+If I could be who you wanted
+If I could be who you wanted all the time
+
+All the time
+All the time
+
+
+I don't want to be crippled and cracked
+Shoulders, wrists, knees, and back
+Ground to dust and ash
+Crawling on all fours
+
+When you've got to feel it in your bones
+When you've got to feel it in your bones
+
+Now I can't climb the stairs
+Pieces missing everywhere
+Prozac, painkillers
+
+When you've got to feel it in your bones
+When you've got to feel it in your bones
+
+And I used to fly like Peter Pan
+All the children flew when I touched their hands
+
+Listen, you've got to feel it in your bones
+Listen, you've got to feel it in your bones 
+
+They love me like I was a brother
+They protect me, listen to me
+They dug me my very own garden
+Gave me sunshine, made me happy
+
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+
+I call up my friend, the good angel
+But she's out with her answerphone
+She said that she'd love to come help, but
+The sea would electrocute us all
+
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+Nice dream (If you think that you're strong enough)
+Nice dream (If you think you belong enough)
+Nice dream (If you think that you're strong enough)
+Nice dream (If you think you belong enough)
+
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+Nice dream
+
+Can't get the stink off
+He's been hanging 'round for days
+Comes like a comet
+Suckered you but not your friends
+
+One day he'll get to you
+And teach you how to be a holy cow
+
+You do it to yourself, you do
+And that's why it really hurts
+Is that you do it to yourself, just you
+You and no one else
+You do it to yourself
+You do it to yourself
+
+Don't get my sympathy
+Hanging out the fifteenth floor
+You've changed the locks three times
+He still comes reeling through the door
+
+One day I'll get to you
+And teach you how to get to purest hell
+
+You do it to yourself, you do
+And that's why it really hurts
+Is that you do it to yourself, just you
+You and no one else
+You do it to yourself
+You do it to yourself
+
+You do it to yourself, you do
+And that's why it really hurts
+Is that you do it to yourself, just you
+You and no one else
+You do it to yourself
+You do it to yourself
+Self 
+
+Faith, you're driving me away
+You do it every day
+You don't mean it, but it hurts like hell
+My brain says I'm receiving pain
+A lack of oxygen
+From my life support, my iron lung
+
+We're too young to fall asleep
+Too cynical to speak
+We are losing it, can't you tell?
+We scratch our eternal itch
+Our twentieth century bitch
+We are grateful for our iron lung
+
+The headshrinkers, they want my everything
+My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon
+The headshrinkers, they want my everything
+My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon
+
+Suck, suck your teenage thumb
+Toilet trained and dumb
+When the power runs out, we'll just hum
+This, this is our new song
+Just like the last one
+A total waste of time, my iron lung
+
+The headshrinkers, they want my everything
+My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon
+The headshrinkers, they want my everything
+My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon
+
+And if you're frightened
+You can be frightened
+You can be, it's okay
+And if you're frightened
+You can be frightened
+You can be, it's okay
+
+The headshrinkers, they want my everything
+My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon
+The headshrinkers, they want my everything
+My uncle Bill, my Belisha beacon
+
+Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
+Stirring up inside of me
+Every day, every hour
+Wish that I was bulletproof
+
+Wax me, mould me
+Heat the pins and stab them in
+You have turned me into this
+Just wish that it was bulletproof
+Was bulletproof
+
+So, pay me money and take a shot
+Lead-fill the hole in me
+I could burst a million bubbles
+All surrogate and bulletproof
+
+And bulletproof
+And bulletproof
+Bulletproof 
+
+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 it's 58 hours
+Since that I last slept with you
+
+What are we coming to?
+I just don't know anymore
+
+Blame it on the black star
+Blame it on the falling sky
+Blame it on the satellite
+That beams me home
+
+I get on the train and I just stand about
+Now that I don't think of you
+I keep falling over, I keep passing out
+When I see a face like you
+
+What am I coming to?
+I'm gonna melt down
+
+Blame it on the black star
+Blame it on the falling sky
+Blame it on the satellite
+That beams me home
+
+Ah, this is killing me
+Ah, this is killing me 
+
+You bite through the big wall
+The big wall bites back
+You sit there and sulk
+You sit there and bawl
+You look so pretty
+When you're on your knees
+Disinfected
+And eager to please
+
+Sometimes you sulk
+Sometimes you burn
+God rest your soul
+When the loving comes but we're already gone
+Just like your dad, you'll never change
+
+Each time it comes
+It eats me alive
+I try to behave
+But it eats me alive
+So I declare a holiday
+Fall asleep, drift away
+
+Sometimes you sulk
+Sometimes you burn
+God rest your soul
+When the loving comes but we're already gone
+Just like your dad, you'll never change
+
+Sometimes you sulk
+Sometimes you burn
+God rest your soul
+When the loving comes but we're already gone
+Just like your dad, you'll never change
+
+Rows of houses, all bearing down on me
+I can feel their blue hands touching me
+All these things into position
+All these things we'll one day swallow
+
+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 its beady eyes
+All these things into position
+All these things we'll one day swallow whole
+
+And fade out again and fade out again
+
+Immerse your soul in love
+Immerse your soul in love