radiohead the bends

The Bends

1. Planet Telex
2. The Bends
3. High And Dry
4. Fake Plastic Trees
5. Bones
6. (Nice dream)
7. Just
8. My Iron Lung
9. Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
10. Black Star
11. Sulk
12. Street Spirit (fade out)

Planet Telex (top)

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 home straight 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 (top)

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 beside 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 the 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.

I want to live and breath
I want to be part of the human race.

High And Dry (top)

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 (top)

Her green plastic watering can
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 (top)

I don`t want to 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
Prozac painkillers.

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) (top)

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 (top)

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,
Teach you how to be a holy cow.

Don`t get my sympathy
Hanging out the 15th floor.
You`ve changed the lock 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 (top)

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 support
My irOn lUng.

Were 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 grateful for
Our IrOn lUng.

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 w.a.s.t.e of time.
My IrOn lUng.

The headshrinkers
They want EVERYTHING
My uncle Bill
My Belisha Beacon

Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was (top)

Limb by limb and tooth by tooth
Tearing up inside of me
Everyday every hour 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 (top)

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?
I`m gonna melt down.

Sulk (top)

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) (top)

Rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things will one day take control
And fade out again and fade out

This machine 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 fruition
All these things we`ll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again

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