THE BENDS (Radiohead)
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:
You can force it but it will stay stung
You can crush it as dry as a bone
You can walk it home straight from school
You can kiss it you can break all the rules
I still...
Everything is ... broken
Everyone is ... Broken
Everyone is
Everyone is ... broken
Everyone is
Everythin' is ... broken
How can't you forget?
How can't they forget?
How can't you forget?
Where do we go from here?
The words are comin' out all weird
Where are you now, that I need you?
Alone on an airplane
Falling asleep against the window pane
My blood will thicken
I need to wash myself again
To hide all the dirt and pain
'cause I've been scared
That there's nothin' underneath
Who are my real friends?
Have they all got the bends?
Am I really sinkin'
This low
And my baby's got the bends
Oh no
We don't have any real friends
No no no
Just lyin' in the bar with my drip feet on
Talkin' to my girlfriend ; I'm waiting for something to happen
And I wish it was the sixties Iwish 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
But where are you?
They bought in the CIA
The tanks and the whole marine to blow me away
To blow me sky high
And my baby's got the bends
We don't have any real friends
Just lyin' in the bar with my drip feet on
Talkin' to my girlfriend ; I'm waiting for something to happen
And I wish it was the sixties Iwish 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 (2X)
Where do we go from here?
The words are coming out all weird
Where are you now, that 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, you'd 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
(bis)
Dryin'up in conversation , you will be the one who cannot talk
All your insides fall to pieces, you just sit there and wish you can 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
Chorus
Oh..it's the best thing that you've ever had
the best thing that you've never ever had
it's the best thing that you've ever had
the best thing you would have is gone away
(CHORUS)
Fake plastic tree
Her green plastic wateringcan
For her fake chinese rubberplant
In the fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plans
To get rid of itself
It wears her out
It wears her out
It wears her out
It wears her out
She lives with a broken man
A cracked polystyrene man
Who just crumbled and burns
He used to do the 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
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
BoneS
I don't wAnna be a criPpled cracked
Shoulders wrist knees and back
Ground to dust and ash
CrawliNg on all fours
when you got to feel it into your bones
(bis)
Now I can cLimB the stairs
PiecEs missing everywhere (!)
Prozak painkillers...
when you got to feel it into your bones
(bis)
I used to fly like Peter Pan
All the children flew when I touch their hands
They say you got to feel it into your bones
(bis)
(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
(3 X)
I call up my friend the good angel
But she's out with
Her ansaphone
She says that she'd love to come help but
The sea would electrocute us all
Nice dream
(6x)
Nice dream
(4X)
Nice dream
(4X)
Just
Can't get the stink off
It'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 what really hurts you
You do it to yourself, just you
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself
Do it to yourself
Don't get my sympathy
Hangin' at the fifteenth floor
You've changed the locks three times
He still come reeling through the door
One day he'll get to you
And teach you how to get to purest hell
CHORUS
Solos
CHORUS
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 receiving pain
A lack of oxygen
From my life support: my iron lung.
We're too young to fall asleep
Too cynical to speak
We are losing it, can't you tell
We scratch our eternal itch
Our twentieth century bitch
And we are greateful for our iron lung.
The headshrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My belisha beacon
(2X)
Suck, suck your teenage thumb
Toilet trained and dumb
When the power runs out, we'll just humm.
This, this is our new song
Just like the last one:
A total waste of time, my iron lung
The headshrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My belisha beacon
(2X)
But if you're frightened
You can be frightened
You can be it's ok
(2X)
The headshrinkers
They want everything
My uncle Bill
My belisha beacon
(2X)
Bullet proof... I wish I was
Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me
Every day every hour
I 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 I ... was bullet proof
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 ... and bullet proof
And bullet proof
Bullet proof
Bullet proof
Black star
I get home from work and you're still standin' 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
CHORUS
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
CHORUS
Street spirit (fade out)
Rows of houses > all bearing down on me
I can feel there > blue hands touching me
All of those things in their position
All of those things will one day swallow whole
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 of those things in their position
All of those things will one day swallow whole
And fade out again
And fade out again
IMMerSE YouR Soul In loVE
IMMerSE YouR Soul In loVE