Radiohead - Ive Seen It All Lyrics

How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out, then you cut the string

How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You still reel me out and then you cut the string

You used to be alright
What happened?
Did the cat get your tongue
Did your string come undone
One by one
One by one
It comes to us all
It's as soft as your pillow

You used to be alright
What happened?
Etcetera, etcetera
Fads for whatever
Fifteen steps
Then a sheer drop

How come I end up where I started?
How come I end up where I went wrong?
Won't take my eyes off the ball again
You reel me out, then you cut the string

Are you such a dreamer
To put the world to rights?
I stay home forever
Where two and two always makes up five

I lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has april's showers
And two and two always makes up five

Its the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can scream it, you can shout
It is too late now

Because

You have not been paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention

You have not been paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention

You have not been paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention

You have not been paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention
Paying attention

I try to sing along
But the music is all wrong
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not
I swat 'em like flies but like flies the bugs keep coming back, not
But I'm not

All hail to the thief
All hail to the thief

But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not
But I'm not

Don't question my authority or put me in the box
'Cause I'm not
'Cause I'm not
Oh go and tell the king that the sky is falling in

When it's not
But it's not
But it's not
Maybe not
Maybe not

Oh, I was moved by your screen dream
Celluloid pictures living
Your death could not kill my love for you
Take two people romantic
Smoky nightclub situation
Your cigarette traces a ladder

Here's looking at you kid
Celebrate years
Here's looking at you kid
Wipe away tears

Long time since we're together
Now I hope it's forever
Ideal love flies away now
White jacket black tie wings too
You gave her away to the hero
Words don't express my meaning
Notes could not spell out the score
But finding not keeping's the lesson

Here's looking at you kid
Hard to forget
Here's looking at you kid
At least not yet

Your memory stays
It lingers ever
Will fade away never

This is just a nightmare
Soon I'm gonna wake up
Someone's gonna bring me 'round

Running from the bombers
Hiding in the forest
Running through the fields
Laying flat on the ground

Just like everybody
Stepping over hills
Running from the underground

This is your warning
4 minute warning

I don't wanna hear it
I don't wanna know
I just wanna run and hide

This is just a nightmare
But soon I'm gonna wake up
Someone's gonna bring me 'round

This is your warning
4 minute warning

no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no
i don't know why you bother
nothing's ever good enough for you
i was there and it wasn't like that
you came 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 punchup at a wedding.

hypocrite opportunist
don't infect me with your poison
a bully in a china shop
when i turn round stay frozen to the spot.

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 punchup at a wedding.

the pointless snide remarks
of hammerheaded sharks
the pot will call the kettle black

in a drunken punchup at a wedding.
no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

If I get old
I will not give in
But if I do
Remind me of this

Remind me that
Once I was free
Once I was cool
Once I was me

And if I sit down and cross my arms
Hold me to this song

Knock me out
Smash out my brains
If I take the chair and start to talk shit

If I get old, remind me of this
That night we kissed and I really meant it
Whatever happens, if we're still speaking
Pick up the phone, play me this song

Above the traffic noise and fires
Can you hear me?
I'm standing right next to you
As the crowds pour out on a cold cold night
There's a place we can go
There's a place where we both can hide

And we'll stay quite still
We won't make a sound
We'll turn out the lights

Then we'll leave and disappear into the night
We turn out the lights
We just want a simple life
We turn out the lights
Please turn out the lights

On down the road we walk alone
Can you see me?
I'm scared that I'm losing you
As the crowds press on through the cold cold night
There's a place we can go
There's a place where we both can hide

And we'll stay quite still
We won't make a sound
We'll turn out the lights

Then we'll leave and disappear into the night
We turn out the lights
We just want a simple life
We turn out the lights
Please turn out the lights

All the faults we made, I'd make them all again
I gave my promise and the life we have is sacred
I wouldn't lie to you
I could not lie to you
Turn up, we'll leave the noise behind
So turn out the lights
Please turn out the lights

Drag him out your window
Dragging out the dead
Singing: I miss you
Snakes and ladders
Flip the lid

Out pops the cracker
Snaps 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 fucker
Dance you fucker
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 'em again
If I squeal to the cops

Walking like giant cranes
Ah, with my X-ray eyes I strip you naked
In a tight little world
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 just know
Someone else is going to come and clean it up
Born and raised for the job
Someone always does
I wish you'd get up, get over
Get up, get over
And turn your 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
And I'll never see 'em again
If I squeal to the cops

So I'm just gonna

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfarre blowing to the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run in the nineteen seventies.

I was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement when the sun burst thru the sky.
There was a band playing in my head and I felt like getting high.
I was thinking about what a friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Thinking about what a friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying and colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's silver seed to a new home.

In the next World War
In a jackknifed 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

In an interstellar burst
I am back to save the universe

And you're invited to
The chance of a lifetime interview

Slow down and breath
Slow down you're terrified to speak
All eyes on you

And you're embarrased too
Afraid of the light
That shines on you

So frail and small
So scared you're terrified by all
The eyes on you
All eyes on you

I am the next act
waiting in the wings
I am an animal
trapped in your hot car
I am all the days
that you choose to ignore

You are all I need
You are all I need
I am in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds

I am a moth
who just wants to share your light
I'm just an insect
trying to get out of the night
I only stick with you
because there are no others

You are all I need
You are all I need
I'm in the middle of your picture
Lying in the reeds

It's all wrong
It's all wrong
It's all wrong
It's all right
It's all right
It's all right
It's all wrong
It's all right
It's all wrong
It's all right

Morning bell
Morning bell
Light another candle and
Release me
Release me

You can keep the furniture
A bump on the head
Howling down the chimney
Release me
Release me
Yeah...
Release me
Release me

Where'd you park the car?
Where'd you park the car?
Clothes are on the lawn with the furniture
And I might as well
I might as well
Sleepy jack the fire drill
Run around around around around around..

Cut the kids in half
Cut the kids in half

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.

And if the world does turn and if London burns,
I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar.
I want to be in a band when I get to heaven,
anyone can play guitar and they won't be a nothing any more.

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.

And if the world does turn and if London burns,
I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar.
I want to be in a band when I get to heaven,
anyone can play guitar and they won't be a nothing any more.

Are you lonely?
Are you living on the seat of your pants?
Are you happy?
Wipe that smile off your face
Are you someone?
Kiss my pinball eyes
Are you lonely?
Are you broken all in a vice?

Try what you shouldn't say
And I'll help you

Here's the detective
He's in charge of your case
Here's the detective
And he's hoping to waste my name

And he's trying what is in his arm, but I don't mind
He's trying what is in his arm, but I don't mind

The strength for living, losing
No one inside of my head

Are you crazy?
Are you blessed in bed in his arms?
Mister Mobley [?]
Will you cry us a play in here?
Are you happy?
Crossed legs

Try what you want from me
I'll spin it back
Soft as a denim hand
Spit it back

This world
[?] one and it hurts [?]
On a nose

I wanna know
what you think about your future
Can you tell me what you think,
what you think about your life?

I wanna know
what you think of me, your friends
I wanna know
how you come to be alive

Saw you
take it all
Looking greater
some way 'round
You went there, took it all
And all time now
take the fall

I wanna know
how you feel when you wake up
I wanna know
how you feel when you sleep
I wanna know
what you dream into this world
Where you gonna go
What are you gonna achieve?

When you say
"Want to get"
All your friends say
"Well he's so high"

I'm gonna kick you off your cloud
Want to know
If you want to see the shit
or see my soul

Wants to get between yourself
and I know your reasons
You could always be an astronaut
Well you could be an astronaut
Well you see this world as it had been made
Nowhere I'm too safe now
Where you sing you do it all
You're looking greater when you go
I wanna know
How you feel in this life
I wanna see
How you look when you gonna meet my wife
You could do it better with vibe
You could do it better when you run
When you're losing all your friends
Because you're just fucking stoned
Why would you take it all?
Why would you never take the fall
Who do you think you are
so fucking cool
I think you're nothing more
than a fool

So sad I'd like to make you dare to say
Once to go
But you're already way to drunk and sad
I won't be dared to close your soul
And this water looks like anything
Well this water looks like everything
Down to decide there is not too far to say
Down to the side there is not too far to say

I wanna know
I wanna go to you
I wanna know
I wanna go to you
I wanna know
I wanna go to you

You said once or twice
You said I'm going to try this once or twice
You said I'm never gonna be, be addicted
Well you never said you were gonna be so dickhead

Wants to get it on herself
Somewhere I will find it
Well you could be an astronaut
Well you can be an astronaut

Well you're cool enough to be my friend
Well you're cool enough to be my friend
Just don't get to
I don't get to high

I wanna know
I wanna go to you
I wanna know
I wanna go to you
I wanna know
I wanna go to you
I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna go to you
I wanna know
I wanna go
I wanna know
I wanna go

Pararara-pa-pa-pa
Pararara-pa-pa-pa
Pararara-pa-pa-pa

(Attention) I wish we'd spin in the eye to (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
A smiling brotherhood (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
(Attention) The unacceptable face of (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
The door selling the good (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
(Attention) A spontaneous feeling (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
The joy of the uprising (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
(Attention) An action with some meaning (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
A brief release of hope (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)

Yeah if we stand up they'll
Pull us down again

I wish we'd spin in the eye to
A smiling brotherhood
The unacceptable face of
The door selling the good
(Attention) A spontaneous feeling (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
The joy of the uprising (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
(Attention) An action with some meaning (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)
A brief release of hope (Pararara-pa-pa-pa)

Yeah if we stand up they'll
Pull us down again

Pararara, pa-pa-pa, pararara, pa-pa-pa
(Attention)
Pararara, pa-pa-pa, pararara, pa-pa-pa, pararara, pa-pa-pa
(Attention)
Pararara, pa-pa-pa, pararara, pa-pa-pa, pararara, pa-pa-pa

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell, we've got nothing more to lose
One gust and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifters

This far but no further
I'm hanging off a branch
I'm teetering on the brink
Oh honey sweet
So full of sleep
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

Ah ah ah
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, ah
You fell into a

We're rotten fruit
We're damaged goods
What the hell, we've got nothing more to lose
One gust and we will probably crumble
We're backdrifters

Oh, Banana Co.
We really love you
And we need you
And oh, Banana Co.
We'd really love to believe you

But everything's underground
We gotta dig it up somehow
Yeah, yeah

Oh, she said: No go
She said she'd like to
She's seen you
And oh, Banana Co.
She knows if you die then we all do

And everything's burning down
We've gotta dig it up somehow
Yeah, yeah

Everything's burning down
We gotta put it out somehow
Yeah, yeah

you bit me, bit me, bit me, oh
you bit me, bit me, now I want more

I'm standing at the hall
I'm puking at the wall
it's all in sound to the conger eel

the bangers in the mash
the negatives for cash
you're either in the club, baby, or you're not

whatever turns you on
whatever gets you up
chief of police or vice-chancellor

lord and lady bla bla
the vicar and the judge
you're all dancing to my little red book

because you bit me, bit me, bit me, oh
I got the poison, poison, and now I want more

if you are on the top
then it is a long drop
the pyramid is power
we're changing by the hour

if you are on the top
then it is a long drop
if you stare into the dark
the dark will stare back
back into your soul

I'm taking you down, I'm taking you down
I'm taking you down when I go down
I'm taking you down, I'm taking you down
I'm standing in the hall, I'm puking at the wall

because you bit me, bit me, bit me, oh
the poison, I got the poison, I got the poison now
I got the poison

This town don't feel mine
Fast to get away
Far

I dressed you in her clothes
Now drive me
Far away, away, away

It feels good to know you're all mine
Now drive me, So
Far away, away, away

Far
Away
I don't care where Just far
Away
I don't care where Just far
Away
I don't care where Just far
Away
I don't care

Don’t play your rock’n’roll to me
That ain’t the way it’s meant to be
I ain’t so blind that I can’t see
Just let it lie, let it be

So don’t play your rock’n’roll, no
Don’t play your rock’n’roll, no
Don’t play your rock’n’roll to me

Well, I know you think I'm crazy to keep hanging’ round
But I was sort of hopin’ you’d change from the girl I found
But your words just sound like rock’n’roll lines to me
And they’re just about as burnt out as a worn out forty-five
And you can’t expect them to keep our love alive

So don’t play your rock’n’roll to me
That ain’t the way it’s meant to be
I ain’t so blind that I can’t see
Just let it lie, let it be

So don’t play your rock’n’roll, no
Don’t play your rock’n’roll, no
Don’t play your rock’n’roll to me

Well, I guess you had me fooled for a while
With your come on looks and your Mona Lisa smile
But your rock’n’roll is getting out of time for me
Go sing your lines to someone else, cause someone else may be
The fool you always thought you saw in me

So don’t play your rock’n’roll to me
That ain’t the way it’s meant to be
I ain’t so blind that I can’t see
Just let it lie, let it be

Don’t play your rock’n’roll, no
Don’t play your rock’n’roll, no
Don’t play your rock’n’roll to me

Just let it lie, let it be
Don’t play your rock’n’roll, no
Don’t play your rock’n’roll, no
Don’t play your rock’n’roll to me

Just let it lie, let it be

Don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
You paint your house white and feel the noise
But there'll be something missing

And now that you found it, it's gone
Now that you feel it, you don't
I'm not afraid

She stands stark naked and she beckons you to bed
Don't go you'll only want to come back again

So don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna happen
You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking

And now that you found it, it's gone
And now that you feel it, you don't
I'm not afraid

Dressed in Bishop's robes
Terrifies me still
In bishop's robes
Bastard headmaster

I'm not going back
I'm not going back
I'm not going back

Children taught to kill
To tear themselves to bits
On playing fields
Dressed in bishop's robes

I'm not going back
I'm not going back
I'm not going back

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

Too late, this is killing me
Too late, this is killing me

Open your mouth wide
The universal sigh
And while the ocean blooms
It's what keeps me alive
So why does this still hurt?
Don't blow your mind with whys

I'm moving out of orbit
(Turning in somersaults)
Turning in somersaults
(A giant turtle's eyes)
A giant turtle's eyes
(And jellyfish float by)
And jellyfish float by

It's what keeps me alive

In my mind and nailed into my heels.
All the time killing what I feel.

And everything I touch
[All wrapped up in cotton wool]
[All wrapped up and sugar coated]
turns to stone.

And everything I touch
[All wrapped up in cotton wool]
[All wrapped up and sugar coated]
turns stone.

I am fused just in case I blow out.
I am glued just because I crack out.

Everything I touch turns to stone.
Everything I touch
[All wrapped up in cotton wool]
[All wrapped up and sugar coated]

I do not
Understand
What it is
I've done wrong

Full of holes
Check for pulse
Blink your eyes
One for yes
Two for no

I have no idea what I am talking about
I am trapped in this body and can't get out

You killed the sound
Removed backbone
A pale imitation
With the edges sawn off

I have no idea what you are talking about
Your mouth moves only with someone's hand up your ass

Has the light gone out for you?
Because the light's gone out for me
It is the 21st century
It is the 21st century
It can follow you like a dog
It brought me to my knees
They got a skin and they put me in
They got a skin and they put me in
On the lines wrapped round my face
On the lines wrapped round my face
And for anyone else to see
And for anyone else to see

I'm a lie

They've seen it coming
They've seen it coming
They've seen it coming
They've seen it coming

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

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

Stay in the shadows
Cheer at the gallows
This is a round up

This is a low flying panic attack
Sing a song on the jukebox that goes

Burn the witch
Burn the witch
We know where you live

Red crosses on wooden doors
And if you float you burn
Loose talk around tables
Abandon all reason

Avoid all eye contact
Do not react
Shoot the messengers

This is a low flying panic attack
Sing the Song of Sixpence that goes

Burn the witch
Burn the witch
We know where you live
We know where you live

This is why events unnerve me
They find it all a different story
Notice whom four wheels are turning
Turn again and turn towards this time
All she asks the strength to hold me
Then again the same old story
World will travel oh so quickly
Travel first and towards this time

Oh I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows It's got to be this time
Watching her, these things she said,
Times she cried, to frail to wake this time

Oh I'll break them down, no mercy shown
Heaven knows It's got to be this time
Avenues all lined with trees
Picture me and then you start watching
Watching forever, forever
Watching love grow, forever
Letting me know, forever.

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 with the covers up
I am the pick in the ice
Do not cry out or hit the alarm
You know 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 your head
Fifteen blows to your mind
So lock the kids up safe tonight
Shut the eyes in the cupboard
I got the smell of a local man
Who's got the loneliest feeling

That either way he turns
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there
Climbing up the walls

Climbing up the walls
Climbing up the walls

Sleight of hand
Jump off the end
Into a clear lake
No one around

Just dragonflies
Fantasize
No one gets hurt
You've done nothing wrong

Slide your hand
Jump off the end
The water's clear
And innocent

The water's clear
And innocent

Easy living, easy hold
Easy teething, easy fold
Easy listening, easy love
Easy answers to easy questions
Easy tumble, easy doll
Easy rumble, easy fall
I get up on easy love
I get up on easy questions

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
I wish I was special
You're so fucking 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 wanna 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 fucking 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
Oh, oh

She's running out the door
She's running out
She run, run, run, run
Run

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fucking 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

Wish that I could come out of the phone
Superhero powers
Burst out of the sand
In a bunch of flowers
You just say the word that I wish it comes
With a long and winning handsome smile
Wish we could connect
Step into the void
Of the diving board
Blend into the light
Down the cable lines
Roll onto the earth
Reforming on the wind
Two places at once
Taste the air with you
Undo all the ties
Wish that I could flip one of those lies
Lift this all away
See that stretchy smile, go
Right across your

Face
Cut a hole
Cut a hole
A hole
A hole

I will leave the wallpaper life
And run away to the foreign legion
I will leave the wallpaper life
And run away to the foreign legion

And as the tanks roll into town
As the tanks roll into town
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you

As the tanks roll into town
As the tanks roll into town
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you

I don't know why I feel so tongue-tied
I don't know why I feel so skinned alive

Run until your lungs are sore
Until you cannot feel it any more
Run until your lungs are sore
Until you find an open door

I'll build you up to pull you down
Tie you to your feet, and watch you drown
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you
A little bit of knowledge will destroy you
I built you up to pull you down
Tie you to the stake, and watch you burning in hell, in hell...

I don't know why I feel so tongue-tied
I don't know why I feel so skinned alive
I'll find another skin to wear
I'll find another skin to wear

trying to sing but it doesn't come off that well
trying to build a wall that is high enough
so we're boiling over
oh we're boiling over

trying to see your eyes, trying to sing his songs
trying to run but he follows you up a hill
so we're boiling over
oh boiling over
your love owns
your love owns

no more conversation
no more conversation
you should've took me out when you had a chance
you should've took me out when you had a chance
i run to nobody
??
don't turn away
don't turn away
??

we're really lonesome
we're turning away
we're really lonesome

Dreamers
They never learn
They never learn

Beyond the point
Of no return
Of no return

It's too late
The damage is done
The damage is done

This goes
Beyond me
Beyond you

A white room
By a window
Where the Sun comes through

We are
Just happy to serve
Just happy to serve you

Then in your life, there comes the darkness
There's a spacecraft blocking out the sky
And there's nowhere to hide
You run to the back and you cover your ears
But it's the loudest sound you've ever heard
And are we trapped? Rag-doll, cloth people
We are helpless to resist
Into our darkest hour

But it was just a laugh, just a laugh
Just a laugh, just a laugh
Even at this angle
And so we crumble
A ten ton head, made of wet sand
This dread circumference
You gotta be kidding me
The grass grows over me
Your face in the glass, in the glass
It was just a laugh, just a laugh
It's whatever you say it is
Split infinity

And into your life, there comes a darkness
And a spacecraft blocking out the sky
And there's nowhere to hide
You run to the back and you cover your ears
But it's the loudest sound you've ever heard
Into your darkest hour

When you've had enough of me
When you've had enough of me
Sweet times

When you've had enough of me
When you've had enough of me
Sweet times
Sweet times
Sweet times
Sweet times

Now as I go upon my way
So let me go upon my way
Born of a light
Born of a light

The wind rushing round my open heart
An open ravine
In my spirit light
Totally alive
In my spirit light

Through an open doorway
Across a street
To another life
And catching my reflection in a window
Switching on a light
One I didn’t know
Totally alive
Totally released

Waking, waking up from shutdown
From a thousand years of sleep
Yeah you, you know what I mean
You know what I mean
You know what I mean

Standing on the edge of you
You know what I mean
You know what I mean
You know what I mean
Different types of love
Different types of love
Different types of love
Are possible
Are possible
Are possible
Are possible

There are better things to talk about
Be constructive
Bear witness we can use
Be constructive with your blues

Even when it's only warnings
Even when you turn the water green

Why don't you quiet down
Why don't you quiet down
Why don't you quiet down
Why don't you quiet down
Quiet down

You don't live in a business world
You never go out and you never stay
We all have goals in a liberal world
Living in times when I can stand it babe

It's all over baby's crying
It's all over, baby, I can see out of here

All over the planet's dead
All over the planet, so let me out of here
All over the world

(Why don't you quiet down)

We are the dollars and cents
And the pounds and pence
And the mark and the yen
And yeah we're gonna crack your little souls
We're gonna crack your little souls

We are the dollars and cents
And the pounds and pence
And the pounds and pence
And yeah we're gonna crack your little souls
We're gonna crack your little souls

We are the dollars and cents

Get yourself together
Let the light pour in
Pour yourself a hot bath
Pour yourself a drink
Nothing's gonna happen without a warning

Down is the new up
What is up, buttercup?
Down is the new up
Is the new up

(Won't you be my girl?)
(Won't you be my girl?)
Your services are not required
(Won't you be my girl?)
Your future's bleak
(Won't you be my girl?)
You're so last week

Ladies and gentlemen
Without a safety net
I shall now perform a 180º flip-flop
I shall now amputate
I shall now contort

Because down is the new up
What if I just flip-flopped?
Down is the new up
Down is the new up
Down is the new up
Is the new up

(You crawled off and left us)
(You crawled off and left us)

Caught on candid camera
The chink in your armor

(You bastards, you bastards)

Topsy turvy town
Topsy turvy town

(You crawled off and left us)
(You crawled off and left us)

Shake your pockets out
Pass it on, pass it down

(You bastards, you bastards)

Topsy turvy town
Topsy turvy town

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
And somewhere we will meet
When I go forwards you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet

Riot shields, voodoo economics
It's just business, cattle prods and the I.M.F.
I trust I can rely on your vote

When I go forwards you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet
When I go forwards you go backwards
And somewhere we will meet

(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
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place

There are two colours in my head
There are two colours in my head
What, what is that you tried to say?
What, what was that you tried to say?
Tried to say, tried to say?
Tried to say, tried to say?

Everything
Everything
Everything
Everything

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

And 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

I've had these jeans since I was born
And now they're ripped and now they're torn
And all my friends have skateboards

I want the toys of other boys
I want a knife and a gun and things
But Mum and Dad will not give in

And I can't put the needle in
Can't put the needle in
Can't put the needle in
No I can't put the needle in
Can't put the needle in
Can't put the needle in

And now I know just what it is
It's got disease and it's got my head
It always runs where I hide

Too scared to talk, too scared to try
Too scared to know the reasons why
And all my friends say bye bye

And I can't put the needle in
Can't put the needle in
Can't put the needle in
No I can't put the needle in
Can't put the needle in
Can't put the needle in

A green plastic watering can
For a fake Chinese rubber plant
In a fake plastic earth
That she bought from a rubber man
In a town full of rubber plants
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 80's
But gravity always wins

And 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

And if I could be who you wanted
If I could be who you wanted
All the time
All the time

One two three four

Wakey, wakey
Rise and shine
It's on again, off again, on again
Watch me fall
Like dominoes
In pretty patterns
Fingers in the blackbird pie
I'm tingling tingling tingling
It's what you feel now
What you ought to, what you ought to
Reasonable and sensible
Dead from the neck up
Because I'm stuffed, stuffed, stuffed
We thought you had it in you
But no, no, no
For no real reason

Squeeze the tubes and empty bottles
Take a bow take a bow take a bow
It's what you feel now
What you ought to
What you ought to
An elephant that's in the room is
Tumbling tumbling tumbling
In duplicate and triplicate
Plastic bags and
Duplicate and triplicate
Dead from the neck up
Guess I'm stuffed, stuffed, stuffed
We thought you had it in you
But no, no, no
Exactly where do you get off
Is enough is, enough is enough
I love you but enough is enough, enough
A last stop
There's no real reason

You've got a head full of feathers
You got melted to butter

You are not mine
And I am not yours.
And that's okay.

Please don't judge me.

Fitter, happier, more productive
Comfortable
Not drinking too much
Regular exercise at the gym
Three 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 the wall
Favours for favours
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

There's a little child
Running round this house
And he never leaves
He will never leave
And the fog comes up from the sewers
And glows in the dark

Baby alligators in the sewers grow up fast
Grow up fast
Anything you want it can be done
How did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?
Somethings will never wash away
Did you go bad?
Did you go bad?

I see you in the dark
Corner of the street
Comin' after me, yeah
Headlights on full-beam
Comin' down the fast lane
Comin' after me

You follow me around
You follow me around
You follow me around
You follow me around

Blowin' holes in everythin'
Thatcher's children
See you on the way back down
Drooling looney tunes
Movin' in a swarm
Movin' in a swarm

You follow me around
You follow me around
You follow me around
You follow me around

Yeah
Yeah

Nowadays I get panicked
I cease to exist
I have ceased to exist
I feel absolutely nothin'
The words are out of ink
The words you know are out of ink

You follow me around
You follow me around
You follow me around
You follow me around

Yeah
Yeah

You really messed up everything
You really messed up everything
If you could take it all back again
Strike up what's in the box
Why should I be good if you're not?
This is a foul tasting medicine
A foul tasting medicine
To be trapped in your full stop

Truth will mess you up
Truth will mess you up
Truth will mess you up
Truth will mess you up
Truth will mess you up
(All the good times)

Truth will mess you up
Truth will mess you up
(All the good times)
Truth will mess you up
Truth will mess you up
(All the good times)
Truth will mess you up
Truth will mess you up
(All the good times)
Truth will mess you up
Truth will mess you up

When you take me back
Take me back again
Take me back
Take me back again
You really me-
Really mess-
You really messed up
You really messed up
You really messed up
You really messed up this time

You really messed up
You really messed up
You really messed up
You really messed up this time

I know what you're thinking
But I'm not your property
No matter what you say
No matter what you say

Move along, there's nothing left to see
Just a body, nothing left to see

A couple more for breakfast
A little more for tea
Just to take the edge off
Just to take the edge off

Move along, there's nothing left to see
Just a body, pouring down the street

Move along, theres nothing left to see
Just a body, nothing left to see

Move along

She said she wanted more of that stuff
The stuff that makes your heart go pitter-pat
The stuff that makes everything turn blue and green
She said that she preferred it like that

Give it up (x3) Hey!
Give it up oo-oh!
Give it up, hey!

She said that ??????????????
Too many people starving and fighting
Too many salesmen, too many factories
But she likes getting high cos it's pretty

Give it up (x3) Hey!
Give it up oo-oh!
Give it up, hey!
Give it up
Give it up (x3) Hey!
Give it up oo-oh!
Give it up, hey!

(Don't haunt me, don't hurt me)
(Don't haunt me, don't hurt me)

Gather up the lost and sold
In your arms, in your arms

Gather up the pitiful
In your arms, in your arms

What seems impossible
In your arms, in your arms

I think I have had my fill
In your arms, in your arms

(Don't haunt me, don't hurt me)
(Don't haunt me, don't hurt me)

I think I should give up the ghost
In your arms, in your arms

(In your arms, in your arms)

Hey it's me
I just got off the train
A frightening place
The faces are concrete grey

And I'm wondering, should I turn around?
Buy another ticket
Panic is coming on strong
So cold, from the inside out

No great job
No message coming in
And you're so small
Glassy-eyed light of day
Glassy-eyed light of day

The path trails off
And heads down a mountain
Through the dry bush, I don't know where it leads
I don't really care
And the path trails off
And heads down a mountain
Through the dry bush, I don't know where it leads
I don't really care

I feel this love to the core
I feel this love turn cold

Over here
Come slowly
Come slowly to me

I've been waiting
Patient
Patiently

I didn't care
But now i can see

That there's a way out
That there's a way out
That there's a way out

Something for the rag and bone man
"Over my dead body"
Something big is gonna happen
"Over my dead body"

Someone's son or someone's daughter
"Over my dead body"
This is how I end up getting sucked in
"Over my dead body"

I'm gonna go to sleep
Let this wash all over me

We don't wanna wake monster taking over
"Tiptoe round tie him down"
We don't want the loonies taking over
"Tiptoe round tie them down"

May pretty horses
Come to you
As you sleep
I'm gonna go to sleep
Let this wash
All over me

You know you should
But you don't
You know you should
But you don't

You got some nerve
Coming here
You got some nerve
Coming here

Good morning Mr. Magpie
How are we today
They've stolen all my magic

I am the only one that got through
The others died wherever they fell
It was an ambush
They came up from all sides
Give your leaders each a gun and then let them
Fight it out themselves

I've seen demons coming up from the ground
I've seen hell upon this Earth
The next will be chemical
But they will never learn

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

I don't wanna be your friend
I just wanna be your lover
No matter how it ends
No matter how it starts

Forget about your house of cards
And I'll do mine
Forget about your house of cards
And I'll do mine
And fall off the table
Get swept under

Denial
Denial

The infrastructure will collapse
From voltage spikes
Throw your keys in the bowl
Kiss your husband goodnight

And forget about your house of cards
And I'll do mine
Forget about your house of cards
And I'll do mine
Fall off the table
Get swept under

Denial
Denial
Denial
Denial

(Your ears should be burning)
Denial
Denial
(Your ears should be burning)

Seen all good things and bad
Running down the hill
All so Battered and brought to the ground
I am hungry again
I am drunk again
With all the money I owe to my friends

When I'm like this
How can you be smiling and singing?
How can you be sure?
How can you be sure?

If you walk out the door
Will I see you again?
If so much of me lies in your eyes
I am hungry again
I am drunk again
With all the money I owe to my friends

When I'm like this
How can you be smiling and singing?
How can you be sure?

I don't want you anymore
I don't want you
I don't want you
I don't want you anymore

He's bitter and twisted, he knows what he wants.
He wants to be loved and he wants to belong.
He wants you to listen, he wants us to weep.
And he was a stupid baby who turned into a powerful freak.

But how do you?
How do you?
How do you?

He lives with his mother, but we show him respect.
He's a dangerous bigot, but we always forget.
And he's just like his daddy, 'cause he cheats on his friends.
And he steals and he bullies, any way that he can.

But how do you?
How do you?
How do you

I was stronger
I was better
Picked you out
Now don't say a word
No don't yell out
Never mind
Let you out
Led you back
Stay on
Sit down
Let it fall
Let it fall
Let it fall
Let it fall

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

[Instrumental]

Mother Mary come for me
For I am a wicked child
I have sinned and I am so confused
For I am a wicked child
I am a wicked child

I am the Devil's son
And I wish I could be good
I walk the crooked mile
Yeah I wish I could be good
I wish I could be good

If I could have kept on the straight and narrow
If I could have kept on the straight and narrow
But God broke your heart
God broke your heart

Now I wake up in the night
He's tugging at my arms and legs
Like I was a marionette
Send baby Jesus
To radiate his lie
To radiate his lie

Im Looking at you for a minute 900 people die
Im Looking Away BECAUSE! I did And you can't
Why? Becuse im looking back

Im citizen insane
Im citizen insane
Im a citizen now

Look OUT! Danger is coming in
How could I. It is cold what is
Near? Look OUT Danger Through me
In the pool no one in but me

Im citizen insane x2
Im a citizen now x4
Worry!!!!!

Please forget the words that I just blurted out,
it wasn't me, it was my strange and creeping doubt,
it keeps rattling my cage.
And there's nothing in this world will keep it down,

and even though I might, even though I try, I can't.
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't.

Soon your things that keep, that keep me underground,
so many words that I, that I can never find.
If you give up on me now,
I'll be gutted like I've never been before.

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

If you give up on me now,
I'll be gutted like I've never been before.

And even though I might, even though I try, I can't
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't,
even though I might, even though I try, I can't.
Even though I might, even though I try, I can't.

You're the light wiping out my batteries
You're the cream in my airport coffies
I don't know why I stick with you
If I had a choice

Like lambs into the slaughter
Like cows to the (thorn) storm above : can't hear that word

You're the genie of my lamp
I could have in anyone

But one day I froze up
But one day I froze up
But one day I froze up
But one day I froze up
Like this...

Oh, little boy...
Little boy, little boy
Oh, little boy...
Little boy, little boy

If you try to strangle a skylark
Try cut it up, to see how it works
Stalactites and stalagmites
Rows of never open doors

Cos one day I froze up
Cos one day I froze up
Cos one day I froze up
Cos one day I froze up
Like this...

I might be wrong
I might be wrong
I could've 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 and 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

Keep it moving
Keep it moving

I won't run away no more, I promise
Even when I get bored, I promise
Even when you lock me out, I promise
I say my prayers every night, I promise

I know which side I’m spread, I promise
The tantrums and the chitty-chat, I promise
Even when the ship is wrecked, I promise
Tie me to the rotting deck, I promise

I won't run away no more, I promise
Even when I get bored, I promise
Even when the ship is wrecked, I promise
Tie me to the rotting deck, I promise

I won't run away no more, I promise

You can keep what you want
I want none of this
They're just bad memories
I don't want

Am I sunshine
You can pack it all up
And be gone
And be gone

If it matters to you
You can sell it all out
If the price feels right
I won't judge

If you get off your knees
You'll be out on a breeze
Take a lesson from me
Don't get stuck on a dream

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 babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes
Little babies' eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes

I've seen it all
I have seen the trees
I have seen the willow leaves dancing in the breeze

I've seen a man killed by his best friend
And lives that were over before they were spent

I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be
I've seen it all there is no more to see

You haven't seen elephants, kings or Peru

I'm happy to say I had better to do

What about China? Have you seen the Great Wall?

All walls are great if the roof doesn't fall
The man you will marry, the home you will share

To be honest, I really don't care
??

You've never been to Niagara Falls?

I have seen water
It's water, that's all

The Eiffel Tower
And the Empire State

What else was a sigh
and what ails the state

Your grandson's hand
As he plays with your hair

To be honest, I really don't care

I've seen it all
I've seen the dark
I've seen the brightness in one little spark
I've seen what I choose and I've seen what I need
And that is enough
To want more would be greed
I've seen what I was and I know what I'll be
I've seen it all there is no more to see

You've seen it all and all you have seen
You can always review on your own little screen
The light and the dark the big and the small
Just keep in mind you need no more at all

You've seen what you were and know what you'll be
You've seen it all there is no more to see