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POLYTHENE GIRL

I wish that I could touch the sky
Elevate me...
I hope that I don't burn my eyes
As I drift free...
Prechorus:
Don't think that I can help myself

Guess it's true

Refrain:
Polythene, polythene girl
Wrap me up in a cellophane world
Polythene, polythene girl
I'm breaking the seal, never thought I would

I wish that I could heal myself
Addicted to you...
Wrap me up in cotton wool
Just to feel new...

But it's true

Refrain
Polythene...

Suffocate... elevate... (2x)
But it's true

Refrain

Polythene

MY PERFECT DAY

Got this dagger in my back
The blade inside me burning
Change these colours in my head
Turn to face the real thing

Pré-Refrain:
So what about me? (I can't take it)
What I wan to be (I won't make it)
What about me? (I can't take it)
Hear me when I speak (I won't make it)

Refrain:
But sometimes I feel it, you know how it is
Wake up in the morning and everything fits
I'm still hoping tomorrow feels like this
My perfect day

Twist inside me, feel it break
The rubber band keeps turning
See the tracks worn in my face
Hallucinate, I'm burning

Pré-Refrain + Refrain

My perfect day, my perfect day

I can't believe this anymore
I just don't see this anymore
I'm stepping out into the rain
Again

See my satellite in space
Sending back the weather
Try to find myself some space
Move on up the ladder

Pré-Refrain

(I can't take it)
It's what I wanna be? (I won't make it)
What about me? (I can't take it)
Hear me when I speak (I won't make it)

Refrain

My perfect day

Refrain

My perfect day, my perfect day

CEMENT

It's funny how I watch the day go by
I'm sitting watching TV, talk shows high
There's banging on the walls, my head aches
I'm drinking out the world that I hate
I had a big car, new clothes, everything
I've had a watch engraved in Switzerland
Today I saw her buying a magazine
It's time to get myself some therapy

Pré-Refrain:
How can I stop this, how can I stop this
How can I stop this disease?

Refrain:
She's got a new dress on (I'm in cement)
Sit's by her radio (I'm in cement)
She's got those X-ray eyes (I'm in cement)
Don't know which way to go (I'm in cement)

It's funny but I dream for yesterday
I'm blistered by the burns that life has made
I'm staring out behind the window shade
I see her face across the street again

I'm in quicksand, sinking in again
I've got concrete shoes and I can't swim

How can I stop this, how can I stop this
How can I stop this disease?

Refrain

She's got a new dress on (I'm in cement)
She's got a new dress on (I'm in cement)

I don't know what to do, but I know that I must pull through
I can't keep watching you

Pré-Refrain + Refrain

She's got a new dress on (3x)
She's got a new dress on... yeah!

HIGH

Guess I'm stuck in a dream
Surrounded by coloured leaves on the ground
As I stare at the trees
I see one fall down on my hand
As I start to explore
I can't ignore a man
He turned his head around
His face was all worn by the sun

Refrain:
I'm going out for a while
So I can get high with my friends (I will)
I'm going out for a while
Don't wait up, 'cause I won't be home... today

Drifting down a road
Losing myself in a dream
Feel my hands getting cold
Sat in a boat on a lake

Refrain

Today, today (today)

Climbing up, trying my best, as I sink (Today, today, today...)

Lying back on the floor
Reaching up high into space
See myself in a glass
I'm counting the lines on my face... again
Counting the lines on my face

Refrain

Today, today, today, today (I'm going out for a while)
Today, today, today, today... (So I can get high with my friends)
Today, today, today, today (I'm going out for a while)
Today, today, today, today(Don't wait up, 'cause I won't be home)... today

CRASH

I put my best foot first and it got burnt
Communication always hurts
I got myself so deep inside a hole
I taste the air go thin as I get
Old... old...(I don't think so)
As I get old... old... (I don't think so)

Refrain:
She's my hands, she's my hands
Picks me up when I crash down
Build me wings so I can glide
She's my novocaine ride (novocaine)

Pick up the pieces of my world
Glue them together, I wish I could
I can't believe it as the picture fades
Just like a TV, but the sound remains
...ains (I don't think so)
...ains (No I don't think so)

Refrain

Feel it, as I shake
Shatter, illusions fade
Taste my bitter tears
Cut my heart with shears

I don't think so
Aaaah, aaaah, aaaah (I don't think so)
As I get eeee, eeee (I don't think so)

Refrain

She's my hands, she's my hands
Picks me up when I crash down
Ooh, ooh
Novocaine

RADIATION

Pull back my skin
Look deep within
Transparent grins
The more you kill me
Prechorus:
Just see how it is
Just see how it really is

Refrain:
There's radiation in my head
Can't you see I'm going mad?
(The more you give yourself away, the more it burns and breaks away) See the colour of my skin
(You hear me breathe a little more, and see me walk into the storm)
Turning blue as I breathe in (The more you give...)
There's radiation in my head, head...

Suffer for life
My soul divides
I'm reaching high
But no-one sees me

Pré-Refrain + Refrain

Get it out (3x)

Trapped in my shell
My fingers melt
All by myself
I'm all by myself

Pré-Refrain + Refrain

(...yourself away, the more it burns and breaks away)]

Radiation, radiation, oh yeah
(You hear me breathe a little more, and see me walk into the storm)
(The more you give yourself away, the more it burns and breaks away)
See the colour of my skin
Turning blue as I breathe in
(You hear me breathe a little more, and see me walk into the storm)
(The more you give...) There's radiation in my head

SUFFOCATE

Show it to me one way
I've gotta see it all
Scientific radar
Reaching through the storm

There's gotta be hope
As people move on...and on
There's gotta be hope
We've gotta keep on believing

Refrain:
It's time to give it everything
A world unite, let us in
Hear me, hear me cry
Suffocate, let 'em die
A better life, say goodbye
But hear me, hear me cry

I see everything silver and gold
Way up, I'm reaching out
Clouds white as snow

There's gotta be hope
As people move on, and on...and on

Refrain

Hear me cry...
Why don't you hear me?
Why don't they hear me?
Suffocate, let 'em die
A better life, say goodbye
But hear me, hear me cry

Give, give enough
I care

DESCEND

Sitting back I only wish, today would turn out fine
I wash away the stain, the poison in my eyes
What do you recommend? I feel my life descending
I'm falling out of reach, catch me as I bleed
Again

I'm not insane
Can't reach the pain

Refrain:
If I could be all by myself
I could be me
If you could see, live with my pain
The thoughts that I keep

I hate the way they are, their patronising thoughts
Trying to get inside my head, as the questions I have read
But one thing makes it hard, feel so fragile as I cry
So confused yet so alive, so abuse the system

Lied
You lied

Refrain

Yeah, yeah... (alone, alone, alone...)

Hands appeared around my neck
Felt so hard to breathe, I stared
As my focus turned to haze, I could see them

Refrain

Yeah, yeah... (alone, alone, alone...)
Yeah, yeah... (alone, alone, alone...)

(Descend, descend...)

STEREO WORLD

Staring at the ideal world
The bubble begins to break
Gazing at the ceiling cracks
The more the picture fades
It's just that I can't see
When I'm down like this
I just feel the weight
As I try to resist

Refrain:
It doesn't matter when I can dream...away
Life in a stereo world
Something happens I drift away...away (away)

Floating out of sync again
Reaching for a cloud
Levitated high I'm free
Turning myself around
Just as I feel fine
It begins to break
Now the pain is here
What a big mistake

Refrain

It just explodes as I drift in
A thousand hands caress my skin
I feel so free as it begins...

Doesn't matter when I can dream away
Life in a stereo world
Something happens I drift away...away
It really feels too good (Feels so good)
Away...away... (Life in a stereo world)
Away...away (Feels too good)
Life in a stereo world
Stereo world
Stereo world (It feels too good)
Stereo world (Life in a stereo world)
Stereo world
Stereo world (Feels so good)
Stereo world (Life in a stereo world)
Stereo world
Stereo world
Stereo world (It feels so good)
Stereo world (It really feels so good)

CHANGE

Looking through my window-shade
Stare at streets that bare no name
Now it all looks strange to me
Yesterday seems like a dream
But I often try too hard
To break the routine of my day
Turn around, see what I see
Can't help wishing it would

Refrain:
(Change) Change again
Change again (change), unchain myself, I will

See the faces in the crowd
Busy streets they move around
Underground seems such a drag
Waiting still and then we

Refrain

The more I see, the more it hurts (change, change again)
The more we change, it all seems worse (change again)
The more I see, the more it hurts (unchain myself, I will)
The more we change, it all seems...

Till tomorrow
Till, till tomorrow comes

As it drags me there I feel
A sense of urgency unveil
What's in store for us today?
Read the papers, drift away (drift away)

Oh how how I hate to feel this way (change, change again, change again)
The more I wait, the less you change (change again, unchain myself, I will)
The more I see, the more it hurts (change, change again)
The more we change, it just seems worse (change again)
The more I see the more it hurts (unchain myself, I will)
The more we change, it all seems...

TANGERINE

Tangerine, turning green
Cellophane, window pane
Socialise, paralyed
Plastic faces suck me dry

Tangerine, tangerine
Tangerine, tangerine

Refrain:
I know, it's sad
Life's just a piece of fruit
Touch down, new ground
Stop living on the moon
x2

Twenty-eight, suffocate
Take a ride, see me fly
Detonate, feel it break
See myself disintegrate

Tangerine, tangerine
Tangerine, tangerine

Refrain

See it as I climb
The rains burns in my eyes
So catch me as I fall
Away...

Tangerine, tangerine
Tangerine, tangerine

Refrain

Tangerine, tangerine
Tangerine, tangerine

Refrain

I know it's sad

FORGIVE

Shoot holes in me
Then you watch, as I bleed
Sticks, sticks and stones
Break my bones, as I speak
Leave me to burn, as I melt
In my pain
Watch as I drown
In the tears we have made

Refrain:
'Cause we've got to forgive
We've got to forget
Things are changing at last
I hope for the best
But I don't understand
I'm just a man
I'm still trying to see

Love, love is hate
Can't separate how it is
Deep in a grave
Can't pretend when it's real

Refrain

See a way, move away, see a way
Will I ever be saved for this?
Will I ever be clean?

Shoot holes in me
Then you watch, as I bleed
Sticks, sticks and stones
Break my bones, as I speak

Refrain x2

'Cause we've got to forgive
We've got to forget

20TH CENTURY TRIP

Ocean blue, deep and cool
Rain on me, kiss the sea
Clouds in space, the earth rotates
Satellite ship, 20th century trip